Monday Update 6-15-26

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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Today's Cooking (strawberry banana bread)
Space Exploration
Today's Cooking (crockpot chicken & black-eyed peas)
Birdfeeding
Politics
Climate Change
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Philosophical Questions: Change
Economics
Review: Taste of Home Grand Prize Winners
Today's Adventures
Wildlife
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 6-12-26: Mystery
Conservation
Recipe: "Chicken and Peas Stir-Fry"
Music
Space Exploration
Birdfeeding
Community Thursdays
Storm Damage
Upcycling
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Cuddle Party

Food has 25 comments. Poem: "Walnut Park" has 46 comments. Early Humans has 22 comments. Safety has 86 comments.


"Let's Go on This Journey Together" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. It needs $151 to be complete. Linus struggles to deal with a broken arm.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships" belongs to Polychrome Heroics and needs $35 to be complete. Josué reads a funny poem to Maria-Vera.


The weather has been variable here. It has rained several times and was cooler today. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a male and a female cardinal separately, and a fox squirrel. I've heard bobwhite quail but haven't seen any. Fireflies are swarming. Currently blooming: pansies, violas, sweet alyssum, marigolds, honeysuckle, snapdragons, lantana, million bells, blue lobelia, petunias, portulaca, nemesia, fan flowers, wild chives, firecracker plant, pineapple sage, yucca, Asiatic lilies, daylilies, snowball viburnum, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, spiderwort, narrow-leaved mountain mint, elderberries, golden rain tree. Green fruit: tomatoes, cucumbers. Pink fruit: blackberries. Ripe fruit: mulberries, black raspberries.