Me.

I had moss rose reseed itself three years in a row after I planted it in containers on a concrete patio through two of our hottest summers and only sort of occasionally actually bothered watering it. This year I actually put it out next to the garden and watered it daily (and even occasionally fertilized it) through the height of summer along with everything else and it EXPLODED.

Like, this plant went apeshit. It got so big it overflowed the pot and pieces fell off of it into the pot next to it... where they grew roots and became their own plant.

That's why there are two pots of identical pink flowers in this picture.

So.... yeah! Fuck only knows what's going to happen NOW.

In other news! My bee balm came back. My artimisia survived the winter and is restarting itself. My purple sage survived. I expect my moss rose to return because that stuff is unkillable. My gargantuan lantana monster had evidently put down like six inch deep wood roots holy fucking shit, so I had to get those out.

We will see if my morning glory bush (not the vine jfc no) seeds from last year come up this year. I am planting crocuses. Not a bad start!

This is why we can't have nice things.

Take a wild guess precisely where in central Indiana we are right now.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Take a wild guess precisely where in central Indiana we are right now.

Going door-to-door is exhausting again. I used to be fine when I got home, but lately I haven't been eating like I should and it's fourteen degrees outside. I used to be wiped out when I got home, and then I was fine after a couple months. Now I'm tired again, and I think it's the super-extra calories to stay warm combined with not getting enough calories.

This is the real problem, though. This is the thing which makes me want to stick a pen in someone's eye. The next person who tells me they can't talk because it's too cold out, and then closes the door in my face, is getting my boot through their window. Except not, because I need those.

But seriously. My god, people. What the fuck is wrong with you. I had a woman ask me, "Do you know how cold it is out there?" I grinned and said, "Yeah! I do!"

What the shit. What the shit. No, I've been out here for four hours and have somehow failed to notice the drop in ambient temperature YOU OBLIVIOUS SACK OF SHIT WHAT.

Lots of love to the people who offer hot chocolate, though. You guys are amazing, and every single one of you is a big god-damned hero.

I don't know if you heard about this, beloved readers, but I thought it would entertain you.

See, there were Christians pushing each other to pray for rain at the DNC.

"Focus on the Family is asking for "abundant, torrential" downpours to flood Denver and silence Senator Obama when he accepts the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on August 28."

Evidently rain of "Biblical" proportions to flood out the liberals would show them that God is displeased with their war on his poor marginalized believers in this country that has so little tolerance for them. Never mind that rain of Biblical proportions would kill lots of people. The point is to show that nasty liberal candidate that God is a republican. You can check out the video here.

Well, there was a flood of sorts.

No, really!

There was a sprinkler malfunction that flooded part of the Pepsi Center..

The sprinkler was located on the club level in a skybox which had recently been renovated to host a news crew. It appears the skybox belongs to Fox. ...All of the equipment in the skybox had to be removed quickly due to the possible electrical issues. No one was injured.

Oh yes. Oh ho ho ho yes.

Fundies may not have a great sense of irony, but someone up there sure does.

I don't know how many of you have seen these home videos from the tsunami, but a couple of them are really... I don't know. They're on ebaumsworld, so God only knows what site they really came from, but I was sent this link and thought I'd pass it along.