.Behind the Redwood Curtain.

Just someone too old to be bloggin' but still at it. Lots of rambling, and photos of my garden, my food, my animals and anything else I find interesting.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships

[redwoodmagpie]

Me often.

[redwoodmagpie]

Yall the pile of shit for camping for 2 nights is larger than the pile of stuff for our week long vacation. 🫣

[redwoodmagpie]

Thinking back on April Fools day my freshman year of college when my one friend who didn’t get picked for on campus housing made a fake email and sent me the denial letter she got from housing (along with some note of we made a mistake).

But I immediately noticed it was from a hotmail account, and all of my friends were down watching the series finale of LOST so I couldn’t tell them about it.

Cue me forwarding the email to the actual housing department and my friend getting in HELLA trouble because the IT department had me send them server info and they were able to trace it back to her so she got to have a meeting with housing and all sorts of people and essentially was told You fuck up like this again and we’ll kick you out.

And that’s why I always tell my students, jokes are supposed to make people laugh and feel silly. If a joke makes someone feel bad, it’s not a joke it’s just mean.

[redwoodmagpie]

Camping is such a fucking pain in the ass. Especially for only 2 nights.

Pack up your entire life and then do it again, but dirty.

Also camping with kids adds in the extra fun of, how much clothes do you need? What will the temperature be? Will you be warm enough at night, and cool enough during the day?

Adam is going to be annoyed with the clothes situation but I’m all about being prepared 🫣🤷🏼‍♀️

We’ve got pumpkin bread and pancake mix for breakfast, sandwich stuff for lunch, Friday night we’ll reheat the kebab meat and make pita sandwiches and Saturday we’ll reheat the meatballs in tomato puree and make meatball subs.

It will be fun but also January me should not have agreed to this.

[redwoodmagpie]

To do:

Bake pumpkin bread

Make meatballs

Make doner kebab meat and slice up all the veggies

Cut up melon

Pack mine and the girls’ clothes

Laundry

[redwoodmagpie]

After making funny face pancakes I cleaned my house, because we’re going on a trip this weekend and my friend/coworker’s 27 year old brother is watching my house and Trixie so I want to just keep up the clean energy I’ve been putting into it since summer started.

I really need to mop and I might tomorrow because M is going to my parents’ all day but baby A has her 9 mo check up at 11 which is just a really annoying time for an appointment.

We went to the library too.

Now I have to get A back to sleep because the air conditioning set off the smoke detector by her room and scared the poop out of her (literally and figuratively 🤣)

[redwoodmagpie]

Mine and M’s pancakes from this morning. She requested I make our first ones “creepy” I was attempting somewhat of a vampire face for them (my friend said M’s looks like Jigsaw).

Her second pancake she wanted a tiger which I think I fully accomplished.

Also always so enamored with the fluffiness of this recipe.

[redwoodmagpie]

Cosmos, Foxglove, Blackeyed Susan, Shasta Daisy, garden pic, Yarrow & Lavender, Oregano blooms, Bee Balm, Bachelor Button and more Cosmos.

[redwoodmagpie]

Obligatory I watched fireworks and took a photo for the people.

[redwoodmagpie]

Terrible photo because I used Adam’s phone, but the man bought me pink blueberries because he needed to know what they tasted like and didn’t want to be the asshole who just opens the clamshell in store for a sample.

[redwoodmagpie]

Got up at 8, fed the baby. Put her back to sleep (my girl loves her beauty rest okay?) and went to the kitchen to make some GF cornbread muffins (from a box because sometimes I cross contaminate my sugar jar and I don’t want to be responsible for making my mom sick.)

Then I ate breakfast with M because she woke up at 915.

Once I finished breakfast I proceeded to vacuum my entire house (except my bedroom because sleeping baby), wipe down the kitchen and bathroom counters, do a load of blanket laundry and clean up the dining room table because that’s been craft time area and although we can eat around the chaos I don’t expect guests to. I also ran the dishwasher on a short cycle so it’s pretty much empty tonight.

Baby finally woke up at 1130ish…

My town does fireworks on the third so that’s why people are coming tonight, and now my house is clean for the weekend.

[redwoodmagpie]

Seeing if we can make some sugar crystals

[redwoodmagpie]

This is 36!

[redwoodmagpie]

Ordered some quick dry swim shorts for wearing while kayaking and a knock off rumpl blanket for camping next weekend

[redwoodmagpie]

Used the petals from the plant press and made paper today

[groovysarity]

[ralfmaximus]

I unironically use most of these words. Daily.

And yes, I am a gangster pirate scientist from the 1920s.

[justanothermiddleagedchick]

Shenanigans is my favorite word

[redwoodmagpie]

Going on a group camping trip that one of my mom friends has planned.

It’s our families, plus my neighbor’s family and one more family that I’ve met but don’t know very well.

Today my friend was asking the group about group meals and Adam was like NO🙅‍♂️ because to us it’s easier to just worry about our own food.

So I said Sorry going to be a black sheep and not participate in group meal. I blamed Adam being picky. 😅

Where we’re camping is completely leave no trace, no trash of any sort, so I’d rather precook as much as possible so we have less garbage to take out at the end of the day. And not spend money feeding others. 😬🫣