Saw a bumper sticker: “Vintage Tesla: Pre-Madness edition”. That inspired me to go check: #Tesla’s stock price is down 20% this year. No crash, just a long, slow decline. When gas prices are shooting up and an EV maker isn’t profiting, it gives me an optimistic feeling.

TIL about Smigus Dyngus Day. Usually, being raised Presbyterian means I missed out on the fun, but this time I’m going to say it saved a lot of hassle. (N.B.: the Wikipedia page omits to mention that none of the people involved is sober.)

“…seo reade netele ðe þurh ærn inwyxð…” This field was fallow last summer, so it’s got all kinds of flowers now. This is purple deadnettle, invading the field just as the old guy said. It’s an important ingredient of the charm to cure elf-shot. #OldEnglish #bloomscrolling

A weed with tiny purple flowers, against a backdrop of green grass and vetch.

New acronym just dropped. EMPANADA: Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything (h/t Rayne at emptywheel.net)

At the #NoKings rally a Labrador retriever(mostly) is carefully examining all the signs people are carrying. Her owner says she can’t read, but I’m not sure. That breed is pretty smart.

I have just discovered that my wife keeps incense sticks and 4th-of-July sparklers in the same drawer. There is no way this could go wrong. #organized

I hired a crew from the garden center to prune my apple tree. A pair of mockingbirds just lighted on the upper branches, and then changed their minds quickly. #gardening

I’m glad somebody explained truck-packing practices to me because without that, getting this hardware in this box wouldn’t make any sense at all. #FedEx

A couple of curtain hooks, maybe five inches long, are sitting next to the box they were delivered in, which is about 30 inches long.

All summer, I was gardening and mowing and weed-whacking and I never had a hint that all those #wasps were there. That’s what I call good neighbors.