The good news - Incensorial is back this season! (I know a few of you, like me, have lamented its disappearance.)
The bad news - no Broken Rosary 👎 I'm glad I hoarded a couple from last year.
The other holiday candles sound terrible; I will be stocking up on Incensorial but that's about it.
We now continue with our regular programming (in which Boy Smells 2.0 continues to be a huge disappointment).
This picture was taken from the High Line in Manhattan, around 25th St, looking west towards Jersey City. I’m trying to figure out what the tall churchy/mosquey looking building with the dome and turrets is - the one on the Jersey side circled in red. Looks like it should be in the Heights, but I’m not super familiar with that neighborhood and I can’t think what it could be? Locals/geographers, please help!
These sprouted up all on their own in the empty tree well in front of my house…today I staked them up and decided to treat them as an official crop. Thought at first they were eggplants, but one fell off and ripened and it’s definitely a tomato.
I’m sure a raccoon probably ate leftover lasagna out of somebody’s trash and pooped there, but let me imagine it’s just a mysterious blessing from the old gods, ok?
For years now I haven’t been able to enjoy my tiny yard in the summer, because the second I step outside I get chomped to smithereens by these damn skeeters! I just went out to try and garden coated in the most chemically horrible Deep Woods Super Sonic Repels Everybody Off spray, and they didn’t care one bit, bit my poor legs up anyway. For prevention/elimination, I’ve been trying these all-natural “mosquito dunks” and they don’t work at all, plus raccoons eat them.
I really don’t want to resort to some kind of chemical killer (don’t think it would work anyway given the context), but I’m desperate. Any advice or suggestions on strategies people have used that worked? Maybe an old-school zapper? For context I have no standing water around or anything (except my mosquito dunk bucket), but my yard is quite shady if that matters).
I don’t care about fireworks; I’m just excited for some tall-masted wind-powered seafaring maritime action! Trying to decide on the best spot for viewing. Wish there was a shady spot on the water but can’t think of one - maybe that tree-lined pier in Hoboken but I’m sure it will be jammed.
Anyone know if JC in particular (or LSP) is making any special arrangements for crowds coming to the waterfront to watch the ships? I really want to see them, but thinking it might just be a crazy free-for-all of people jamming up the waterfront. Is there a local plan, or are my suspicions probably correct?
I have an 18-year-old cat (neutered male), and I adopted a new cat a few weeks ago (3-year-old spayed female). My old cat has always been very friendly with other cats, and when the new cat got here he was good, very interested in her, sniffing and cautiously approaching. She was understandably nervous, a bit of hissing and yowling. But not too serious, and I felt like with time they’d both settle in. And they were…slowly but surely they could sit on the couch together, and they even both slept peacefully in my bed together just a couple of nights ago. Now just today, all of a sudden, my old boy has started attacking her, running at her with claws flying, and of course she reacts badly, screaming and fighting back, and finally retreating to the basement (her safe place). I have no idea what suddenly changed or why my old guy got so agitated all of a sudden. I don’t want to have to keep them separated but I’m worried he’s just going to keep tormenting her. Any advice is welcome, thanks!