GM 🫩 I call this one: the empty chair 😪

How coincidental that the most beautiful sunrise I’ve ever witnessed happened on the same day God started calling my grandmother home. Of all the grandchildren, I probably spent the most time with her. She taught me to garden, to cook, to play a mean game of Scrabble. I’ll never forget when she downloaded Words With Friends on her iPad and played a 99-pointer on me and sent a single chat message that just said “Waha” 🤣 Now you know who raised me to be a menace. As kids we spent every Friday night at her house having dinner with my aunts and uncles, watching the Dinosaurs show and catching fireflies. When my daughter was born we would sit on her porch and rock for hours, just chatting, playing Phase 10, and looking through old photo albums. I remember how much she loved to read - especially Tom Clancy - and how she would do the crossword, jumble, and cipher in the local paper every day. I remember how she wrote letters to inmates at the jail encouraging them to take a second chance at a fresh start. She was genuinely one of the best people I’ve ever known. As we gathered around her bedside tonight for the last time, I found I had the least to say. After all, what was left unsaid? Not much. Instead, we played her favorite song and took turns making jokes so that we could see her laugh just one more time. As she started drifting out, I kissed her forehead and told her, “See you on the flip side. Love you.” I’m forever grateful to have her as my Mamaw, and I will carry her in my heart always.

Video version of the sunrise rainbow… 😍😍😍

Sunrise rainbow! 😍

The moments before dawn are so interesting. The still cool air smells different at this time of day. There’s one early bird screeching against a background of eerie silence. Even the bugs and frogs are quiet now. This might be my favorite hour.

Salad, anyone? #gardening

GM 👽 a girl can hope

A simple meme offering

GM 😎 I’m working on a new project this year - gonna try for a July 1 launch. It’s … drumroll, please… my first book!!! 🥹 can’t wait to share more. Working on the landing page now. It’s starting to feel real!

Yall. YALL. This is how crazy this censorship is on tiktok. I responded to a comment from my friend who I know IRL and she had described a dream experience where she was flying but also diving in the water and so I replied something to the effect of “so you’re amphibian” and my comment was considered a violation lmfao and my appeal was denied! Even though I put the 🥰 emoji in the comment!! 🤣🤣🤣 out of control.

This is worth a watch for sure:

This dog… 😄

The absolute best thing about being a gardener with ADHD is when you forget that you planted something and then realize it’s thriving in spite of you 😅 for me it’s the creeping thyme today! Looking like a royal carpet.

Irises… equally trippy…

Wisteria is so neat. It’s like if grapes and orchids had a baby. 😆

GM 🍓 Monday mini harvest… I have to say, planting my garden in the open area where the hawks fly over and incidentally guard it is working out great 😆

GM! Happy Easter 🐣 the birds are singing up a storm right now! Look how many different ones were identified by my Merlin bird listener.

Lol all the folks screaming at Bobby Kennedy today because how DARE he try to find the cause of autism… But I’m REALLY gonna laugh when we all find out that FDR caused autism by outlawing high CBD hemp which used to pass beneficial cannabinoids off to us every single day through the dairy cows 🐄 and the latest research shows that CBD has a prosocial effect on autists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯