Recipe: "Lentils with Bacon"

How to make lentils magically delicious: just add bacon! :D We made this for supper Sunday night.

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Magpie Monday

dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday today with a theme of "problems and solutions."  Leave prompts, get ficlets! 

Monday Update 8-9-21

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Birdfeeding
Watch "No Evil"
Birdfeeding
Community Building Tip: Swimming Hole
Promoting Heritage Months
Recipe: "Cooling Cucumber-Tomato Salad"
Birdfeeding
Squirrel Parkour
Birdfeeding
Moment of Silence: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Coping Skills: Friends and Family
Birdfeeding
Poem: "Like Love Letters in the Sand"


Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well.  I am still writing.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"Rainshadow Road" belongs the Daughters of the Apocalypse series. It introduces Maggot to the Clearwater Caravan.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira comforts her mother after the breakup.


It rained last night and this morning. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a small flock of house finches, a few mourning doves, and a squirrel. Currently blooming: violas, spiderwort, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, morning glories, nasturtium, cup plant, black-eyed Susan, Queen Anne's lace, petunia, zinnias, marigolds, naked ladies, sunchokes, purple penstemon. Blackberries are ripe.

Poem: "A Beautiful Reminder"

This poem is spillover from the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from ng_moonmoth, wyld_dandelyon , and Anonymous. It also fills the "change across time" square in my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by ng_moonmoth. It belongs to An Army of One series.

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Poem: "Family Stories Are Stranger Than Fiction"

This poem is spillover from the July 6, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from kelkyag. It also fills the "Pretty Paper" square in my 7-1-21 card for the Winterfest in July Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Monster House series.

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Western False Asphodel

... turns out to be carnivorous.  It traps insects with sticky sap on its stalks. 

There is so much of the world out there, just waiting to be noticed.

Now, if I were going to look for more carnivorous plants, I wouldn't necessarily start looking for features that suggest predation.  I'd look at the environment: most carnivorous plants live in bogs or other nutrient-poor environments.  So just start checking all the plants there.  Do they have some other obvious food source?  Certain plants rely on the manure of traveling animals, for instance.  If not, check the plant for features that might snare and kill prey.  I'd be very suspicious of anything that traps insects instead of repelling them.

Climate Change

... is getting worse faster than some people expected. You can download the full report here.

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Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny, warm, and muggy.

I fed the birds.  I've seen house finches and doves.  A wren was shrieking at me when I went outside.

Poem: "Fall Down Seven Times"

This poem is spillover from the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Shirley Barrette. It also fills the "hand feeding" square in my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Broken Angels and Gentle Soul threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Poem: "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk"

This poem is spillover from the August 3, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It also fills the "memories / nostalgia" square in my 8-2-21 card for the August Intimacies Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Iron Horses thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes anticipated death, disinterest in conventional medical care, discussion of death, confusion over cultural beliefs, references to cultural oppression, frank discussions of caregiving, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before moving onward.

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Notes for "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk"

These are the notes for "A Body Taking a Mind for a Walk."

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