I’ve lived her nearly 17 years, and every summer a been a funnel web weaver has set up house in this same spot in the frame of my patio window. It’s right under the patio light, so it’s a perfect spot.
It’s been raining on and off all day, so the web is bedazzled with raindrops.
The girls are still working hard.
And this is why it’s called flame-leaf sumac.
The girls are still at it.
It rained, so the flowers are happy, and my little zinnia is unfolding its petals.
Look how cute it is!
A crow.
Honeybees on flame-leaf sumac. They swarm the sumac flowers every year. It only lasts a couple of days, so it’s easy to miss if you aren’t paying attention.
And video I uploaded to Instagram.
I was starting to think my surprise lilies weren’t going to bloom this year. I lost a couple, I think, but this one is doing okay.
It’s starting to look like a baby flower!
Evernote released another update that made it completely unseeable to me. Not even the web client worked. So I spent way too much time today trying to decide if a Zotero will do what I need.
I spent the rest of the day cleaning up some entries in the FamilySearch tree and adding my sources to them, then got on Facebook and saw yet another post in the Ancestry user group scolding people who don’t have public trees. Some people believe they are entitled to others’ research. If you don’t agree, you’re some kind of asshole and don’t belong on Ancestry.
Not gonna lie. While I do have a public tree, it there are no Ancestry documents linked to it. I uploaded a gedcom, so there are sources (including notes and transcripts), but no pretty pictures and no easy way to click and look at a document image. My tree also won’t generate tree hints. That’s a feature.
The information is there, and it’s well sourced, but I want no part of spoon feeding it to people who believe they’re entitled to it.
Basically I’m over people today.
Zinnia progress is slow, but sure. It looks like it’s actually going to be yellow, with a pink center.
I also have one surprise lily. I had a bunch last year, and there were several bunches of leaves in the spring, but so far only one flower stalk has popped up.
Almost!
red paper boat 