Today I worked from home and felt a bit stir-crazy. My phone said it felt like 100 F out, and there was not only a heat advisory but an air quality warning as well due to the now annual wildfires in Canada. People always used to say up north you are stuck inside in the winter, but at least you can go out in the summer, unlike down south, where it's reversed. However, it's becoming so the only time you can be outdoors around here is May and October.
One kind of cool thing did happen today: I ate the fruit from my rick rack cactus. It was tart and delicious, light green and full of seeds like a kiwi fruit. (Longtime readers may remember that over twenty years ago I grew a tiny pineapple and ate that, so this isn't my first homegrown fruit.) I did manage to save a few seeds and have planted them, but I don't have high hopes. The cactus itself is kind of struggling now, and AI said it might have been getting too much light in the southern-facing window, so I have moved it to the plant room with eastern-facing windows and plant lights on the ceiling. I'm not sure how much I trust AI, after trying to find a song from sixteen years ago. The only thing I remembered about the singer was that he was a big fan of Michael Jackson and that he was a Virgo, so I put those two facts into AI and got a lot of garbage results of famous singers (this guy is kind of obscure) who I know are, say, a Taurus or a Libra. Regardless of what you think of astrology, it is just a fact that someone either is or isn't a particular sign, so if AI can't get that right, how can I trust it with plant questions? Am I overwatering or underwatering? Giving it too much or too little light? Does it need more room in the pot or should it be rootbound? Now I don't know if I can trust AI with any questions about plant care. My poor Norfolk pine is slowly dying, and I have no idea what to do. I feel so bad.
In case you haven't had enough of train graffiti, here are some screen shots from the videos that guy always posts on social media of the train that goes through our neighborhood. These are older ones I forgot to post before. How did I miss this one?
These may be in reverse order, but does it really matter? They're beautiful in any order.
