apparently i can't be let out unsupervised

[the_siobhan]

Welp, who has two thumbs and managed to twist their ankle on a piece of uneven sidewalk and go completely ass over teakettle. No major injuries, just some scraped up palms and a few bruises. And I lost my phone in the process, but a neighbour picked it up and dropped it off at the house.

Weirdly the side of my upper ribcage hurts? Maybe I jammed something under it when I landed? No idea. Guess I'll figure it out if I have a bruise there tomorrow.

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I have a lot of plants in my office, both because it's the brightest spot in the house and also because it's one of the few spaces they are safe from the predations of the criminal mastermind Dr River Song. (Many of them are poisonous to cats) The plants make lots of babies as plants are prone to do, so I put the extras in my Little Free Library for neighbours to take.

Occasionally I get presents back. A couple of days ago somebody put a package of sunflower seeds in there along with some small clay starter pots. I tried planting sunflower seeds in the yard last time and the squirrels ate them all, so next time around I'll start them in the pots inside first.

I miss being able to dig around my yard this summer, but we're completely cut off from the back of the house until the kitchen reno is done. Next summer I will plant a kajillion tomato plants and I'll be in my happy place.

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[houseof9cats]

My sunflowers get eaten by all kinds of guys. I have to protect mine with a 2-foot tube of chicken wire or plastic fence. (Trying to phase out the use of plastic fence, but it's cheaper.) Pots sound like a good option. Haven't tried it yet!

/infodump XD

[cornerofmadness]

ouch sorry you fell. Hopefully you're not hurt too badly

[elusis]

We built Produce Jail for the kitchen garden. The squirrels can still get at the strawberry patch along the side of the house, but with the addition of a janky lettuce creche next to our hydrangeas, our loss rate on the produce has gone way down.

Rub some diclofenac gel on that ribcage if you have it.

[cincinnatus_c]

This year chipmunks decapitated every one of my sunflower seedlings, which I had started indoors to try to protect them from chipmunks, I'm pretty sure because decapitated sunflower seedlings are excellent chipmunk drinking fountains.

[greylock]

Weirdly the side of my upper ribcage hurts?

Pulled a rarely used muscle while reacting? IDK if it's just me, but I find pain in the ribcage is often inexplicable and lingers.

The plants make lots of babies as plants are prone to do

Not in this house.I can't keep anything alive indoors, much less propagate.

I fucking love sunflowers. I plant them every year or so, and for the weeks they flower they make me so happy. I didn't know you could start them in pots. I should try that. I think I missed plant season this year.

[armiphlage]

Squirrels eat everything I plant too.

[ysilme]

Ouch, that's no fun. Hope the bruises won't be too bad!
But how sweet to get something back in your Little Free Library! We're always having so many sunflower seedlings that we're removing them as weeds - we bird-feet all through the year, but often magpies drive the smaller birdies away and then throw out a large amount of the sunflower seeds, so the ground below the bird feeder is always a tapestry of seedligns. And then two of our cats like to snack on sunflower seeds, too, but don't digest them, so we have seedlings come up about everywhere... XD

[the_siobhan]

I love my neighbourhood just for things like this. We have at least four of the Little Free Libraries within a couple blocks of my house.

You having to weed your sunflowers is hilarious given how much people complain about not being able to grow them.

[the_siobhan]

Pulled a rarely used muscle while reacting?

I'm hoping so.

[the_siobhan]

Does produce jail work? I should look into something like that - I don't mind so much if the critters take a few tomatoes, it's the taking of a single bite out of every tomato that pisses me off.

[the_siobhan]

I had so much trouble getting out of bed this morning. O_o

But it seems to hurt less once I got up and started moving around, so hopefully just a pulled muscle.

[the_siobhan]

I completely blanked on the co-writing last weekend, but I'm going to do a session tonight and tomorrow night. You free either night?

[cornerofmadness]

here's hoping that's all it is. if I can help (I was a foot/ankle surgeon) let me know

[the_siobhan]

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Oddly the ankle that started the fall in the first place is absolutely fine.

[cornerofmadness]

it might not feel like it now but that IS a good thing. Ankles are tricky little buggers

[greylock]

I get that pain after vomiting, and a few years back I got a swift kick in my side during a tickle war that hurt for weeks after, so, sides are weird.

[greylock]

But, you're fuelling them up to sploot.
So, really, everyone wins. Except you.

[elusis]

We built a... very big jail. (Full enclosure about 10x14, 7 feet high I think?)