The Adventures of Fast Turtle, Baby Bug & the Pickle

American exceptionalism & weddings

breana — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:20:52 +0000

I think the author of Weddings to Die For outlines a very cogent argument that “COVID weddings” are just the latest incarnation of American exceptionalism that, largely, does not care about who it damages in pursuit of individual happiness. Here’s the thesis to her argument:

“The very stories America tells about itself encourage us all to be selfish, to shift the costs of our actions onto others.”

Weddings are a particularly sharp example to use because of the associations we have around love and marriage, and because of the super-hyped expectations of what one’s wedding day represents.

School, Day 2

breana — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:12:00 +0000

My door signs….we will see how effective they are.

First Day of School!

breana — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:06:00 +0000

All virtual. Not what we hoped for back in May, but we are making the best of it.

End of the day…

Third grade for the Pickle

Baby Bug is in 8th grade!

And sophomore year for Fast Turtle…

Day 112: Lettuce Say Goodbye…

breana — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:19:52 +0000

Bye bye, red romaine. You’ve gone bitter and I need to tear you out. But you provided many salads over the past two months!

Towers of red romaine

Still waiting on tomatoes to ripen….very impatient gardener here.

I accidentally left the “gate” on the small side garden open and the deer feasted.

Day 101: ThunderGarden

breana — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:03:00 +0000

So evidently it is true that thunderstorms are good for your garden – after two days of thunderstorms interspersed with beautiful sun, there’s a very visible difference in the garden!

garden magic

Day 88: If My Son…

breana — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:57:10 +0000

I would. And every mother should be outraged.

Day 85: How Does Your Pandemic Garden Grow?

breana — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 01:58:06 +0000

Coming back home after a couple days absence, I was thrilled to see how well the garden was doing. And promptly spent two hours in the sun weeding.

Everything growing well in the original garden!

I’m amazed at how well all the tomatoes we started from seeds are doing. We have three groups of tomatoes – the largest ones of course are the ones we bought, but the second and third we propagated in our kitchen window box.

Round 2 tomatoes growing strong

I’m especially shocked that our newest transplants appear to have all – or nearly all – survived the transplant process. They looked terribly sad for the first couple days, but I’m tentatively optimistic that most of them are going to make it now..

Baby tomato transplants seem to be doing well…

#30DaysofSalad is Back!

breana — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:22:42 +0000

Day 77: How did we get here?

breana — Thu, 28 May 2020 12:13:12 +0000

“The number of confirmed virus deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 100,000. The United States has had 28 percent of global deaths despite having only 4 percent of the world’s population.” Link.

Day 76: Lake at sunrise

breana — Thu, 28 May 2020 00:12:05 +0000

Someone (Turtle!) wanted to get up to see the sunrise…so we all got up. It wasn’t spectacular as sunrises go, but the lake in the early morning has its own undeniable beauty. Water like glass and the fog creeping in…