more red knitting

christmas is coming the goose is getting fat

please put a penny in the old man's hat

seriously though everyone is going to get socks, and I am waaay ahead of the game it's not even septemmmber

seedlings planted

witchy stuff (lemon mint, valerian, chamomile, echinachea)

edible stuff (beefheart tomatoes, mini tomatoes, two types of eggplants, white onions, little turnips, mustard, globe artichoke)

Pluuus my rhubarb is already showing and I still have carrots and beets and sugar snap peas and swiss chard and calendula and nasturtium and spaghetti squuuasshh~ to sow directly in the ground and I should get some more greens and herbs and brocolli and cauliflower and bell peppers and blackberries to go with the raspberries and strawberries that always pop up! Also leeks! Shallots!

Gonna build some raised beds for these suckers next aww yeahh, gonna have the biggest baddest garden on tha block! But how to keep out kittens...

ALSO DEAR DIARY: GOT ACCEPTED INTO IMCA AWW YEAHHH

mini dino leg

 

Just set this sucker up to mummify in cornmeal for a month. My entire art practice -- dead birds. Dead birds everywhere.

poor mister crow

I went out for a run around 11 last night, apparently showing a characteristic disregard for self-preservation, and spotted this gorgeous guy on a lawn, a block from my house. An entire, intact crow carcass, couldn't have been dead more than a day.

It looks like he (she?) died from a head wound; it's the only source of trauma I can see. I didn't have gloves when I went to collect him though (more disregard for self-preservation?) so I haven't handled him thoroughly, he could be wounded beneath his wings or something. But I'm only interested in the skeleton, especially the skull (!!). Gonna bury him for a few months in a decay cage, dig him back up before the ground freezes. If that's not enough time I'll have to wait for the spring thaw.

As far as I can tell it's not illegal for me to possess him, luckily, since crows seem to be one of the only birds not protected by the Migratory Birds Convention Act nor by federal/provincial legislation. He'll be good company for my chicken bones.

chicken bones

I've been collecting chicken bones; picking the carcass and boiling the skeleton. 

No idea what I'll do with em.