The personal blog of Rachael Worthington. Covers slice of life, crafting, plants, and whatever has caught my attention that day!
It's damn hot, so you're not getting much, but I took this time-lapse of my betta while I was working, because I was trying to figure out what he may be doing lurking in a particular corner and fussing at something, he's a very mischievous man, it seems. Still no clue what he's been poking at, but if you've ever had someone tell you "bigger tanks are wasted on bettas", well. Bloo lives in a 5 gal,…
I've now gotten a good nights sleep and recovered from dehydration and overstimulation, so I can tell you all, that Seattle's new addition to the Aquarium is beautiful, and amazing. I could've stayed in there all day just watching the giant reef tank! All the following pictures are different views into the same tank , which was just... extra special, I think. So much was going on in different…
Fear me, for I am now 43! The original plan was for John's sister & her kids to hop a bus up towards our place, and go to the zoo, but they were out and about this morning, and declared it Too Hot for an outside activity day (today had a high of 84F). So, we hit up the Seattle Aquarium, instead. The boys just did NOT have the energy to really do One More God Damn Tourist Thing, AND they had gone…
One more day of being 42. I'm feeling all kinds of ways about it. On one hand, I feel... normal, healthy, thriving, in my lane, and whatnot. But also, like, holy shit, middle age snuck up on me, and I am not impressed. I kind of have to remind myself that there's no 'dignified adult' police, come to enforce how to be a 43 year old woman. So If I want to go to the zoo for my birthday? I'm going to!…
...somewhere... Here, though, it's 12:45. Don't tell the blog-every-day police!! Which there definitely are, unlike the knitting police, gardening police, or any other hobby nay-sayer-enforcement. Right. I could've done something useful with my evening... Instead, I staked my gladioluses (gladioli?), went out and had a beer and chicken tenders for dinner with my husband, and then curled up to play…
A horse of a different color, today. I tanked out about midnight last night, which is extremely odd for me, and slept through to two in the afternoon, today. I woke up just long enough to send an email to work that I wouldn't be working today, and crashed out. I am now dealing with the Sleep Hangover, aka my brain-meds were late and my head is not happy. But, the world goes on, and so must I! So,…
I'm not feeling great, so I snagged some pics of things I'm excited about on my plant rack, and gonna leave it at that. Tomorrow will be better! Apparently its much easier to grow when you're not being strangled by bindweed. This little guy is so damn cute, and always makes me happy! It gets pride of place at the very top of the ping rock! The light's are distorting the color a bit, he's really a…
I have very little fear in life, of doing much of anything. I'm smart, I'm coordinated, I have youtube, what could possibly go wrong? I've fixed plumbing that way, and learned about various gardening things, and generally me and my hand tools get a lot done with very little. So, today, when I realized that my aquarium lid not sitting in the right spot due to the plant pots I'd hung in the corner…
Quick and dirty one, today, because it has Been A Monday, but I'm pleased to report that I finally read the eleventy docs for paginating an index , and understood them! As with a lot of their docs, it took me a couple tries. Tech writing is a hugely under-valued skill in the world. The right combination of enough words to be clear, and not too many to lose your reader, and solid examples, is…
...aka, it's Plant Chore Sunday! ...Kind of. Really it's "go plant-shopping to fill in some holes in my aquarium, and while I'm out, stop by the hardware store for some weed-killer and a rescue orchid, and oh, those african violets need some attention" day. But that's a lot to say, so Plant Chore Sunday it is. So first of all, my aquarium is just getting over an intense war with algae. (No, I'm…