Ohio Waterfalls Travelog #17
Hocking Hills State Park · Sun, 19 Apr 2026. 12pm

It's time to catch up on delayed blogs from our Ohio trip earlier this week! This is the first of probably seven in the backlog.

Our hiking yesterday (Saturday) was a matter of, "How many hikes can we do before it starts to rain?" The answer was three. But the answer was also and it's gloomy the whole time. While we were doing the hikes I thought to myself, "Some of these dry-ish waterfalls would look better right after the rain vs. before it." Well, today that opportunity came around! In addition to raining yesterday afternoon it rained again before dawn this morning. So this morning (Sunday) we went back to one of yesterday's dry-ish falls to see it again in the wet!

Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

First up today: Ash Cave. Recall from yesterday, there's a short, easy trail up the bottom of the gorge. It leads straight to this huge cave. Yes, this is a "cave" in Ohio terminology. I'd call it more of a hollow. But it is darn large, at over 90' tall.

A creek spills over the lip of Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

A creek spills over the lip of Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

And yes, a creek pours over the lip of the cave/hollow, creating a beautiful 90' waterfall. It's flowing a bit more today than yesterday though not by much. I guess either a prolonged rain is needed to make it fuller, or one needs to catch it sooner after the rain stops.

A creek spills over the lip of Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

Does this picture, above, look similar to the one before it? That's kind of on purpose. I made the latter picture with my Fujifilm X-T3 interchangeable lens camera, the former with the built-in camera on my iPhone 16 Pro. What's the difference? I welcome you to make your own observations; here are a few of mine.

It used to be that my Fuji would take a way better picture, much richer in color, than my iPhone. That still happens in some situations, but fewer and fewer with each new generation of camera in the iPhone.

One big difference in favor of the Fuji is that I have strong creative control over the picture captured by the camera. I used a neutral density lens filter to capture a long-exposure picture that creates that silky, motion-blur effect on the falling water (latter pic). The tradeoff of purposefully allowing motion blur, though, is that the trees in the background get blurry because they're waving in the breeze.

One area where modern cellphone cameras excel is in computational photography. They use their powerful onboard processors to capture and combine multiple exposures at different gain levels to create a single image with superior dynamic range. You can see that in how the shadows of the cave are brighter and the sky overhead is blue, not washed-out white, in the iPhone image.

There are other pluses and minuses for each camera. These are the few that apply in a scene like this.

Then there's this picture:

A creek spills over the lip of Ash Cave in Hocking Hills State Park (Apr 2026)

As we climbed around the trail that leads behind the falls and up the other side of the cave, we stopped to rest a while at a bench. While Hawk sat for her rest, I stood the whole time for mine, making pictures. Yes, photography is how I rest when I'm hiking. 😂 I thought that I'd get the best pics from this vantage point with my Fuji camera, but instead the one I liked best, which I'm showing here, is from my iPhone. Why? The computational photography = dynamic range advantage won.

From here, instead of going back down to the gorge trail and retracing our steps out, we continued up around the ridge of the canyon. From this point we were over half way up the climb already so we figured why not finish it. 🤣 Alas, while it was a different stretch of trail, the views were not as good from the tree-lined ridge as they were from the creek below.

grrlpup

crocheted dog amigurumi, light brown and medium brown with embroidery-thread nose. The dog is a bit lumpy and haphazard, and sits on a sunny windowsill.

This is Oscar the dog, whom I finished making last night. Oscar’s kit was a Christmas 2024 present. Oscar has been sitting around in pieces on the dining room table for a long time; the crocheting of Oscar seems like a distant memory. It’s the sewing I just finished up.

I crocheted an ear in the wrong color, so decided one leg could be a different color than designated in the pattern as well, and it would all come out right.

I hadn’t crocheted since maybe age 9, so I was pleased to learn the basics again (in an age of free online videos made for left-handers). Will I make another amigurumi? I’m enamored of the backpack charms I’ve seen in Portland and Japan, so maybe an onion charm, in honor of Harriet the Spy.

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tozka

1. I am currently on an island, the Isle of Wight.

2. Today I finished reading We Bought an Island, which I LOVED. It's a memoir of two sisters who bought an island off the Cornwall coast in the 1960s and turned it into (basically) an artists' retreat. This book is focused on them finding the island and moving in, and all the people they meet. It genuinely made me laugh out loud several times, to the point where it's coming home with me because I know I'll want to reread it later. Luckily I have the small pocket-sized paperback version; if I have to I can just put it in my coat pocket.

I desperately want to read the sequel, which talks about their life on the island after moving in, but I may have to resign myself to reading the PDF on Archive.org as the local used bookshop doesn't have a copy. I can always order one on eBay if I want to later, too.

3. While looking for Tales From Our Cornish Island (that's the sequel) at the local used bookshop, I found a different book about living on an island: Herm, Our Island Home, which I of course bought. This one is about a family (6 kids, 2 parents) living on an island 3 miles from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, around the same time period as the sisters on their island, actually.

4. I enjoy reading about people on islands, and I enjoy visiting islands. If I were going to live on an island, I'd prefer a larger one. But then I've never been enamored with small-town life, tbh. I prefer mid-sized places.

5. I re-watched Muppet Treasure Island the other day and then read Robert Louis Stevenson's fascinating Wikipedia page; I'd no idea that he'd written travel memoirs, nor spent the last years of his life writing from and about Samoa (an island nation).

6. Other islands I've been to: the UK (of course), Madeira Island, São Miguel Island, Barbados, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Manhattan Island.

7. Private artificial islands creep me out, especially when they're populated by billionaires. Public artificial islands are, I suppose, fine.

8. I just found this Wikipedia list of fictional islands and it's made me think back to how many of my favorite books as a kid were set on islands, or involved islands, most of them only lightly inhabited. They do make for interesting story settings...

9. "Let's all go to Gullah Gullah Island!"

technoshaman

I'm thankful four (ahem):
1. Being out of the blast radius
2. Homemade sausage (and getting it right)
3. Endings
4. Generosity
5. Old-school nursing
6. Getting the secret code
7. Young musicians playing old music

Current Mood: thankful
Current Location: The Wizard's Tower
Current Music: Make Me an Offer - Mary Spender

oursin

Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says - and I am getting out a whole school of, er, perhaps not codfish, something more sustainable and perhaps with nasty spines, for Reform UK, who prate on

Reform leader Dan Thomas told BBC Wales there were "some museums that take a very niche view on our past that may talk about slavery, without the whole picture of the fact that the British empire was the first to abolish slavery, and that other countries have done it for, you know, millennia".

I am pretty sure that back in the early C19th the ancestors, whether actual or in general leanings, of Reform UK, would have been screaming loudly at the very thought of abolishing slavery and denouncing Wilberforce as WOKE. But now they are able to claim abolition as Great Achievement of the British Nation.

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I do wonder whether fellow Esperantists actually read these, it sounds niche to the point of eccentricity, not that that was exactly uncommon in those circles: Why Was the Discovery of the Jet Stream Mostly Ignored? Maybe because it was published in Esperanto:

The somewhat eccentric Ooishi was not only the director of Japan’s Tateno atmospheric observatory but also the head of the Japan Esperanto Society, proponents of the artificially constructed language, created in the 1870s as a means of international communication. Ooishi announced his discovery of the swift, high-altitude river of air in the Tateno observatory’s annual reports, which he published in Esperanto. Not surprisingly, his research was ignored[.}

On the other hand, would they have gained much traction beyond Japan anyway - observatory annual reports hardly usual scientific journals mode of dissemination.

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Urban life: The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions - do wonder if there is a slightly condescension of posterity going on in the assumption of 'the elite aesthetics and values of its ‘natural’ middle-class constituency'.

At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

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Tourist finds rare chunk of oldest sea crocodile - actually turns out she was an amateur fossil hunter on a guided walk along the Lyme Regis shore, although she had no idea just how rare a find she'd made (She Was No Mary Anning...)

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I like this: The Destructive Myth of “Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone”.

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Title: Castling
Author:

kat_lair
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (books)
Character: Radagast the Brown
Tags: Drabble, Character Study, Post-Canon
Rating: G
Word count: 100

Summary: In Mirkwood, the morning comes softly.

Author notes: Spring defiance from under the crushing forces of capitalism = a drabble a day in April. This one for verdande_mi who prompted 'a morning break among the trees', which made me think of Mirkwood and its guardian...

Castling on AO3

( Castling )

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petra

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill + ... well really I would take just about any fictional or fictionalized city, so that's why I feel comfortable floating it as a possibility for Yuletide.

The original inspiration was "The Pushcart War set in Gotham City." I would take just about any year setting. The OG era. The social media version, complete with vigilantes with pea pin shooters.

jadelennox suggests that Alfred and General Anna are old besties, and I concur.

But, in the grand tradition of my Yuletide requests, typing this up makes me realize how much I want this story in any fictionalized 'verse of which I am sufficiently knowledgeable.

The Rivers of London take sides! You know Lady Ty is for the truckers.

Mountie under suspicion! Benton Fraser seen with pea-tack shooter! Claims it is reusable straw. Is Big Red Green?

Mélusine + trucks. Not necessarily including our protags from canon; the city is sufficiently a character to count for my purposes.

The Slow Horses investigate the pea-tack problem with their usual bumbling flair.

The Pushcart War was part of what spurred the Earth of the Expanse to implement UBI. Eh? Ehhhhh?

Manchester in 1973 is not maybe the best place, but London in 1981? Give me the Alex Drake peapin saga.

Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler III vs. trucks? :D If Palpatine can find time to reproduce, so can Throat.

Current Mood: inspired
Current Music: Life is like a hurricane / Here in Duckburg

bluapapilio

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Some dreams, some dreams never die
Some dreams, they go on forever
Some dreams, they are just a lie🎤
A Flock Of Seagulls - Some Dreams

Current Mood: hungry

rachelmanija

A science fiction novella about aliens, communication, and certain dark topics which are spoilery to mention. Though if you read the blurb for this book, it very strongly implies those topics and the specific shocking twist that involves them. It reminded me of China Mieville's Embassytown, though the latter benefited from its longer length.

Ro's species, along with some others, can jump into the minds of Star Eaters, the mysterious species that alone can mine the mineral that enables space travel. Ro is told that doing so is the only way to study them, and while jumping into their bodies extinguishes their minds, they are extremely long-lived beings and their minds definitely come back, so Ro is only doing the equivalent of causing a day-long blackout. The Star Eaters were apparently once enslaved, but now work voluntarily; communication with them is difficult and puzzling. Once you jump in, you're stuck for the rest of your life, but Ro is such a curious and skilled linguist that he's willing to give up everything to understand this oddly mysterious race. (I guess the possessing being's mind is supposed to only live for its species's normal lifespan? This is not explained.)

If you've read much science fiction, or many books in general, you have probably already figured out what's really going on. In fact it's so obvious that it seems strange that it takes the characters so long to do so, but of course no one knows exactly what story they're in.

Everything involving alien communication is great. But the plot is so predictable and grim that I didn't enjoy the book much.

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Today is cloudy, mild, and wet. It's raining lightly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

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Current Mood: busy

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The One You Can’t Forget

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Most days Rebecca Lindt feels like an imposter…

The world admires her as a survivor. But that impression would crumble if people knew her secret. She didn’t deserve to be the one who got away. But nothing can change the past, so she’s thrown herself into her work. She can’t dwell if she never slows down.

Wes Garrett is trying to get back on his feet after losing his dream restaurant, his money, and half his damn mind in a vicious divorce. But when he intervenes in a mugging and saves Rebecca―the attorney who helped his ex ruin him―his simple life gets complicated.

Their attraction is inconvenient and neither wants more than a fling. But when Rebecca’s secret is put at risk, both discover they could lose everything, including what they never realized they needed: each other

She laughed and kissed him. This morning she’d melted down. But somehow this man had her laughing and turned on only a few hours later. Everything inside her felt buoyed.

She felt…light.

She’d forgotten what that felt like.

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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert is $2.99 and another KDD! I mentioned this non-fiction in a previous Get Rec’d. I love a niche history deep dive.

A “wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking” look at romance, courtship, and other intimacies behind closed Medieval doors (Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR).

Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated.

The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern women. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so.

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Sexy foods and how to have them
All you need to know for your wedding night, and well as insider medical advice
How to get pregnant (and how not to), and more

“Quite compelling and hilariously funny. I have been chuckling out loud and my husband says he thinks he ought to read it if it’s such a tonic. God forbid!” —Susanna Newstead, author of the Savernake Novels

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Change of Plans

Change of Plans by Dylan Newton is $1.99! This is book three in the Matthew Brothers series and features a hero with a below‑the‑knee amputation and a chef heroine raising her three nieces. I’ve heard good things about Newton’s contemporaries, but they seem to fly under the radar.

In this charming romantic comedy, a hometown hero comes to the rescue of a chef unexpectedly left to care for three little girls—who may end up saving him too.

When disaster strikes and chef Bryce Weatherford is given guardianship of her three young nieces, her life goes from cooking with fire…to controlling a dumpster fire. Five‑year‑old Addison refuses to remove her fairy wings, eight‑year‑old Cecily won’t bathe, and tween June is majoring in belligerence. With all this chaos, Bryce jettisons hope for a life outside of managing her family and her new job.

It’s been years since Ryker Matthews had his below‑the‑knee amputation, yet the phantom pain for his lost limb and Marine career haunts him. To cope, he focuses on his vehicle restoration business. He knows he’s lucky to be alive. Yet, “lucky” feels more like “cursed” to his lonely heart.

When Ryker literally sweeps Bryce off her feet in the grocery store’s baby aisle, they both feel sparks. But falling in love would be one more curveball neither is ready to deal with… or is it exactly the change of plans they need?

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Kitty Norville Box Set: Books 1-3

Kitty Norville Box Set by Carrie Vaugn is $6.99! This set collects books 1-3 in the urban fantasy series. Did any of you read these books? If so, let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Kitty Norville isn’t just a radio DJ, she’s a werewolf and despite her best efforts, keeping that a secret is harder than you would expect in this bind-up of three complete books that are “fresh, hip, [and] fantastic” (L. A. Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress Legends series).

KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station and a werewolf in the closet. Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew.

KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON: Celebrity werewolf and late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen, but when she’s invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of the country’s supernaturals, her face gets plastered all over national TV. Before long Kitty’s inherited a brand-new set of friends and enemies. Kitty quickly learns that in this city of dirty politicians and backstabbing pundits, everyone’s itching for a fight — and she’s about to be caught in the middle.

KITTY TAKES A HOLIDAY: After getting caught turning into a wolf on national television, Kitty retreats to a mountain cabin to recover and write her memoirs. When werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O’Farrell, Kitty’s lawyer, slung over his shoulder, and a wolf-like creature with glowing red eyes starts sniffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive…

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Titre : Contes du Yemen
Auteures : anonymes, collecté par Fatima al Baydani
Langue : traduction française de l'arabe
Type : contes
Genre : /

1ère parution : 2008
Édition : L'école des loisirs
Format : medium poche, 10 contes/120 pages, illustré n&b

(d'après l'étiquette de prix ça viendrait de Boulinier ? mais alors ça fait un paquet d'années
que je l'aurais ?)

Des variations sur les déshérités qui triomphent, certains schémas que je n'avais pas encore plus, un ou deux pas très intéressants en soi, mais ce sont à la fois les différences culturelles et les thèmes communs transcendaux qui sont intéressants à comparer ?

bluapapilio

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Season 1: The Man Who Grants Wishes

A boy named Riku is able to have a nice birthday party thanks to 'Daddy Long Legs', but that night he sees something when he's walking around at night.

We meet the vice-captain of Frostheim Touma (stylized as Tohma). The leader Jin hasn't shown his face in a while. A gossiping girl says that there's no point going for Jin because he has Tohma. "There seems to be an unshakable bond of trust between them." I guess 'Jin's friend' disgraced himself so Tohma took his place. 🤔

MC looks around and finds a damaged and unused Church. The area is called Cathedrale Terminate and it was recently vacated, it looks like someone rampaged. 🤔

Kaito trying and failing at being smooth. *smh*

It's cool that the looks and surroundings of each house is different, even the weather changes a lot in Jabberwock.

Luca has a brother that likes shortbread biscuits.

MC's first day of classes. Ghouls are considered anomalies. 'Demonic pacts, possessions and curses are all categorized as anomalies'.

Students can choose one artifact to 'license' for use. MC already has her ring so she can't. Luca picked out twin swords. Kaito's is a bow. I wanted to see what MC would try with her artifact...

Professor Moby is too much for me;;

There are pink doves called 'Like Doves' that appear to show that someone is thinking about how much they like you?? "It's kind of like the bird version of someone swiping right on you."

MC and Kaito exchange numbers but not Luca and MC?

Corenlius called MC to his office. Ghouls have been abusing Mesmer Matches on missions. They were using them on the inspector and covering up details related to investigations, geezus. And now MC has to deal with it?! At least her memory can't be wiped. Not only that, the ghouls keep destroying the anomalies that are needed for research. MC has the biggest stake in them being captured alive. Man, the bad ghouls are not going to be happy about her at all. :/

Of course Frostheim is going to be her first mission partner. 😭

MC goes to meet the leader of Frostheim Jin. Tohma is telling him about a 'corpse walking around involving a high-rank anomaly.', and Jin isn't feeling well.

Well as expected the meeting did not go well, he tried to erase her memories and then threatened her.

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poetry

Autobiographical

Did u hear about the Rose that grew from a crack
in the concrete
Proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet
Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams
It learned 2 breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
When no one else even cared!

- Tupac Shakur

canyonwalker

Thursday morning was my first weigh-in in a week. I'm tracking my weight since starting Ozempic medication April 11. Daily weigh-ins are my intent. But with traveling to Ohio this past week I ddn't have a rek. As of Thursday morning last week right before we left I'd done pretty well, weight-wise. In my first 4 days on the pill I lost 6 pounds! And now comes the reality check a week later, after a week of travel.

I gained 2.5 pounds. That was as of my weigh-in Thursday morning. Understanding that weight can fluctuate over the course of a few days, especially since I tend to retain weight while flying, I figured I'd take my Friday morning weight as more representative. Result? Lower, but I'm still 1 pound up from a week ago.

Next Trip, Pack the Scale?

Checking my weight daily serves two purposes. First, it's a measurement of progress. Second, it's an indicator of when I should correct course. Weight bouncing up? I'll think about times the previous day when I could have made choices to consume fewer calories and I'll keep that in mind to make such tradeoffs the day ahead.

Could I pack my scale to take with me when traveling? Sure! "Pack a scale in the suitcase" is not completely nuts. I mean, it depends on the size and weight of the scale. The new scale I bought two weeks ago is actually very svelte. Even if I pack it in the box it came in (for safer travel) it's still smaller than most boxed board games.

There was at least one trip, years ago, when we did pack our scale. Hawk was trying really hard to lose weight at that time and needed the daily weigh-ins for the reasons mentioned above.

That trip we also packed our blender. Hawk used it to make diet-friendly smoothies. We were traveling by car on that trip, so packing the bathroom scale and kitchen blender wasn't crazy. And packing a blender was arguably less... outré... than buying a blender on vacation only to throw it away after a few days. Though that was a financially reasonable decision... and it gave us a trip to one of the last remaining real K-Mart stores, where I bought a nice Virgin Islands shirt I still own and enjoy wearing.

...Which is all a long way of saying maybe next trip I will pack the bathroom scale.

prettygoodword

adret (a-DRAY) - n., the sun-facing side of a mountain.

So in the northern hemisphere, the southern slope. In Chinese, this is the yang (in the sense of sunny/bright) slope, as opposed to the yin (shaded/dim) slope, and it's also applied to river-banks -- yes, as in yin-and-yang. Adret comes to us from French, from Provençal adreit, from Old Provençal adreg/adret, from a(d)-, on + dreit, good/suitable (from Latin dīrēctus, direct/straight, cognate of adoit), referring originally which side is good for vineyards.

---L.

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Kea must solve a murder to save her community.

The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe

greenstorm

I planted the first seeds yesterday: the fava mix I've been shepherding since the beginning, a pink hybrid radish called Orient Ruby, and Olympia spinach. Both big radishes and spinach are sensitive to daylength, which often means they can't grow well in spring here: by the time the soil is thawed, the days are too long for them and they bolt.

I don't do any gardening for certainty. I do it to learn the plants.

In any case, I planted them in the upper field in one of the bays between baby apple trees and covered them with frost cloth. Instantly Little Bear and Hazard came and played in the frost cloth; Bear absolutely adores going under fabric and skulking. I'd forgotten about that. Last year he would run straight through the relatively lightweight cloth.

Next is grain and peas. I haven't grown peas much, but I'm trying for more diversity than just tomatoes this year. Last year the fennel, kohlrabi, and broccoli were such successful additions that I'm following that path a little more. I also have a bunch of old soup peas, of course, I can't remember the provenance of the oldest ones but still. And I want to plant my dwarf soup peas again if the seeds will sprout.

I got this out to write because it occurs to me that I don't do art about things, for the most part. If we're going to consider pottery art and gardening not-art, I still do them both in order to be inside the thing I'm doing. Everything is aligned: mind, body, that whole subconscious apparatus that figures out how to interact with the physical world and performs the calculations necessary to throw a ball, the discernment apparatus and the appreciation one. Everything works together in one direction.

I have done pottery about wildfires. I have and will do it about The Waste Land. And I will eventually do it about Avallu. Those are important things.

So you'd think I'd do pottery about the garden. I don't. My experience of the garden might inform my pottery but it's not a thing I alchemize into some body of work. I'm not sure why that is.

bluapapilio

Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I read 11/12 on my last board, dropping one. I don't feel like doing much but reading again right now...

Avatar:

Tanjirou
Skill: Move 2 extra tiles once (trap tile if I roll Even)

Roll #1:

A 2, prompt: based on a novel etc - Men of the Harem.

Roll #2:

A 1, prompt: animal on the cover - Cardcaptor Sakura.

Roll #3:

A 4 and the trap tile, trying skill, I rolled odd so it didn't work. Went back and rerolled a 1 lol. Prompt: contemporary - A Story Concerning Sweets.

Roll #4:

A 3, prompt: roommates - Ouji-sama Nante Iranai.

Roll #5:

A 6, prompt: reincarnated into another world - The Villainess Flips the Script.

Roll #6:

A 2 and the generate from CR tile. #23 is Ghost!. I know I restarted this manga but I must not have been doing my boardgame yet then.

Roll #7:

A 1, prompt: sci-fi element - Dr. Stone.

Roll #8:

A 2, prompt: disliked genre. For manga that's horror, harem and kind of mecha. I feel like I'm cheating but B-EYES happens to have the horror tag even though it's not the kind of horror I dislike.

Roll #9:

A 3, prompt: highest rated on TBR - Reunion.

Roll #10:

A 5, prompt: game elements - The Gamer.

Roll #11:

A 5 and the trap tile, no skill left to use. Went back and rerolled a 6. Prompt: demons/youkai. Natsume Yuujinchou.

Roll #12:

A 5, prompt: costume on cover - Nee, Onnanoko ni Shite Ageru.

Roll #13:

A 3, prompt: friends to lovers - 40 x 40 Chikuwa Kaigi.

Roll #14:

A 1, prompt: versatile/switching - Chika-chan to.

Roll #15:

A 3, prompt: romance element, urgh this prompt is useless that could mean anything. Let's do Jibaku Shounen: Hanako-kun.

Roll #16:

A 5 and finally the end, reward is Witch Hat Atelier.

~Manga TBR List~

[Reverse Harem/Politics] Men of the Harem
[Magical Girl] Cardcaptor Sakura
[GL/Slice of Life] A Story Concerning Sweets
[GL/School Life] Ouji-sama Nante Iranai
[Villainess/Romance] The Villainess Flips the Script
[BL/Supernatural] Ghost! / Eerie Queerie
[Sci-Fi/Adventure] Dr. Stone
[Action/Psychological] B-EYES
[BL/Romance] Reunion
[Game/Action] The Gamer
[Fantasy/Slice of Life] Natsume Yuujinchou
[BL/Romance] Nee, Onnanoko ni Shite Ageru
[BL/Romance] 40 x 40 Chikuwa Kaigi
[BL/Romance] Chika-chan to
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canyonwalker - Twice in Two Days: Ash Cave. Camera Comparo.
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tozka - regarding islands
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petra - Yuletide request #1 for 2026
bluapapilio - 🔊 Daily music
rachelmanija - The Language of Liars, by S. L. Huang
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
smartbitches_feed - Non-Fiction, a Boxed Set, & More
malurette - [livre] Contes du Yemen
bluapapilio - Game Check-in: "Tokyo Debunker" season 1 ch. 1-9
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canyonwalker - Weigh-In After a Week: Traveling on the Pill
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james_davis_nicoll - The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe
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Twice in Two Days: Ash Cave. Camera Comparo.

Meet Oscar

regarding islands

Thankful Friday (FOUR! Ah! ah! ah! ah!)

Friday er several, things noted

🎧 Audiobook Check-in: "Free Fall"

Spring Drabble 24/30: LOTR, Castling

Yuletide request #1 for 2026

🔊 Daily music

The Language of Liars, by S. L. Huang

Birdfeeding

Non-Fiction, a Boxed Set, & More

The One You Can’t Forget

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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

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Change of Plans

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Kitty Norville Box Set: Books 1-3

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[livre] Contes du Yemen

Game Check-in: "Tokyo Debunker" season 1 ch. 1-9

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Weigh-In After a Week: Traveling on the Pill

Next Trip, Pack the Scale?

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The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe

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April Manga TBR 8

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