It's beautiful! I love the poppy seeds!

I made a thing...   This is an obviously imperfect, but smells amazing, Challah. Obviously there are 2, and I apologise because it is Monday, but I need it for a gift for tomorrow. 

Its hot and damp here.  Everything is growing like a jungle.  Last year we had to wait forever to get tomatoes. Now we have more tomatoes already then I know what to do with, and way too many green beans.     Right now I am getting ready for the big Independence Day festivities.  Lots of food to prepare, and also planning to attend the annual evening testicle.  This year, I'm going as my new girlfriend's date (although almost all of my partners are going).  She just received a promotion, too, and is now a private first-class.  Really proud of her!  Its also cool to have positive trans visibility, another example of a trans girl doing public service.

Good morning   wow what crazy weather we are having. Heat wave on the east coast and Midwest  extreme fires in the south west.  (I pray for the firefighters that lost their lives and their families) and snow in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.     I don’t think our drought is over but we have been getting rain.   i read a couple of articles about the unusual geology and geography we have,  examples for the east coast include visible signs of the ice age in the Maritime provinces of Canada as well as Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.  Not to mention the Great Lakes.  megalodon teeth found as far north as Calvert Cliffs Maryland.  Parts of the East Coast that appear to be land but are nothing more than floating islands or sand bars. Swamp land that isn’t land at all but floating grass and vegetation.   And of course Florida is nothing more than a coral formation that turned into land with sand and decaying vegetation.  But I think the thing most people would be surprised about is all the earthquakes we get.  Occasionally, one is bad enough to cause real damage, but one quake right here in South Carolina was the worst one ever on the North American continent.  We all know about the ones in Alaska and California but no one realizes that the East has a fault line that is active and a few hundred years ago had the worst one.     lesson for today.

Oh, fab, thank you!  I think the kids want to go to the oldest zoo the world, see a classical concert and eat Wiener schnitzel, but I am hoping not to miss something awesome that I don't know about yet.  We are going in the school holidays. Usually, I plan and know and such, but THIS trip, we didn't know what travel activity we wanted to do for the summer holidays, and this is what my daughter picked. 

We travel but I tend not to "advertise" it.  When I was there in the winter I found Vienna to be lovely.  Salzburg too.  I was ill the day we were in Linz but I'm told it was interesting.

Life will go one, you'll remember.

Yes!  I believe some reptiles also do this as well.   I also recently came across a video on Tiktok about a chimp named "Donna" who scientists believe is trans (ftm).  I've attached the video.    I feel like there's probably a lot more instances in nature we just don't know about yet, but I hope we come across more!  9dadeb9d968b8eb57aac232843f58aa6.mp4

I had a great time at Pride functions.  One picture is taken in our farm’s ATV during the Princeton Pride parade.  The second is of a Pride conference for the NJ Department of Agriculture.      Hugs,   Charlize

Pride celebrations tend to be a little later up here in the Great White North.  The larger towns up the valley had theirs this past weekend.  Our local Pride celebration runs this coming weekend.  We had a fine time at a queer elders' coffee house event on Saturday: reconnected with an old trans friend, and met some new gay and lesbian friends.  I have my pride flag flying on the garage.  (Note to self: remember to change it for the Canadian flag for July 1st, then change it back.)  We'll be attending (possibly marching in) the Pride parade on Saturday.   The fact that I can do this and still be on good terms with the neighbours brings me joy.  And the fact that I and my elder friends can live as ourselves as examples for younger LGBTQ+ folks brings me even greater joy.

Shock has hardly worn off loss.

How do you handle the loss of someone who turns away from you?

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Born on my birthday May 29 but in the year 1983, Anika Nilles came bursting, literially, on the music scene this year as the irreplaceable replacement for Neil Peart in Rush. She has not only place Neil's place but managed to add her own drumming touches to Neil's work and the public and reviewers have embraced her. What an impossible task to take on, and yet she has managed to do it. Anika is a drummer, composer and teacher and released 3 albums with Nevel from 2017 through 2025. She has been drumming since the age of six and has a technique that mainly uses quintuplets and sextuplets over a 4/4 beat.