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 Bits of real life stuff, got some eggplant, mizuna and basil seeds in the mail, and have planted the basil in the garden along with lettuce, amaranth spinach (new, trying it) and two types of beans.  Started cucumber and the eggplant in a few cups inside - hope they will germinate.  Very likely going to buy a tomato plant or two or three.  I haven't seen any movement on the cucumber, turnip greens or carrots that I planted outside, although I have watered them here and there.  I have to figure out where to put the green mizuna - I bought red mizuna a few months ago and it is already planted and coming up, along with kale and arugula. 

 I harvested strawberries, kale and dandelion (a variety of the dandelion that I had planted last year from an Italian variety packet).  I also accidentally pulled up one of the Hamburg Parsley, and processed that and put it in with my arugula that was left because it is so spicy.  That parsley has been growing out there year after year for three or four years now from the first time I planted it.

Something bit me on the shoulder while I was out there and it puffed up quite a bit - but it has gone down now with some anti-itch stuff put on it.  

I hope that we can get the semi trucks to show up at work - so many of them are just bailing on their appointments it is terrible.  It might just because they have chosen not to work Mondays but I really wish they would tell me that on Friday instead of saying 'sure we'll be there' and then cancelling at 9 am on Monday.  This is the second Monday in a row that multiple companies have bailed - I thought it was about Easter, and now I'm thinking it is just that over the weekend they get time to either find a better bid to go on or they just don't want to get up and do anything yet until Tuesday.

 Charlotte had found herself something in the woods and rolled in it - got herself the second bath in as many weeks.  My sense of smell is oversensitive after being out in the garden and digging things up.  I dislodged a large frog and a large more-sluggish-than-usual skink type salamander.  I saw some morning glory coming up there, and maybe some of last year's packet of zinnia that I had scattered.  There is a blackberry cane in the middle of the garden - in a place I don't till up anymore, and it is covered in flowers - I think I'll let it go to fruit.  But I'll have to trim it out and a few small trees that are started as well.  I couldn't find the red-veined sorrel at all, where it had been coming up for a few years in a row.

Studying French-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-French.  Made kale, yellow summer squash, cabbage and onions for a vegetable side-dish tonight, with olive oil and Tuscan seasoning in it.  Before I went to sleep yesterday I had recorded coordinates on sixty named/marked points in the Minetest Luanti Asuna world - and there are quite a few more I hadn't gotten around to yet.  I've already gotten quite tired tonight, though, and am headed off to bed.