I have my windows open. It is 72 degrees. In Michigan. In November. It is supposed to be 76 Monday.
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It’s about that here too. I have Boy Kitty out on the back deck with me in the kitty playpen and he is loving it. (Girl Kitty was out briefly too but got super squirrelly and started biting the playpen so she lost privileges. I think she doesn’t like all the honking horns.)
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I dropped off a whole shitload of surplus produce from my garden and CSA, stuff I don’t really like, to the mutual aid food drive and they were super excited to get it. Win-win!
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Same here but it doesn’t feel victorious lol it’s creepy! I’ll take it, for sure, but I’d better have spring by May 1st 
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Industry Virtual Camp complete…only ~60 kids for this one, but high school and early college so our workshops were correspondingly more complicated/involved (and this was the first year for this one so my volunteers didn’t have years of experience backing them up). It went really well, though, and now I’m going to go become unconscious for a bit.
ETA: And apparently we got a new president-elect while I was running workshops–nice! 
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A few years ago we had 70s in November and we were eating a locally grown watermelon that day!
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Tonette V’ctor:
I am doing a tiny patron drive with the Instagram followers of my business page where I draw really terrible pictures of their pets if they become a patron of our local mutual aid group.
It’s hilarious and I just got my first person! 
they are so bad and precious. And I’m stoked.
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Shooting lasers at the leaf? 
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Pardon me, you must not understand my immense artistic abilities.
Those are not leaves, but in fact, feathers.
And lasers, yes.
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I apologize. 
I see now that they are indeed feathers.
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Today my IRA is at the highest it has ever been.
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I had to pull all the tomatoes last weekend because it got down to the 20s. Decided to try the ripen-in-a-paper-bag trick. This so far has netted me probably 30-40 more ripe tomatoes (mostly cherry sized), including 4 good-sized Cherokee Purples that I thought were goners.
(TC: Of the 3 bags I ended up with, 2 bags are fine but the biggest one got super moldy and disgusting so I had to compost the whole thing. Yuck. But last year this happened to ALL the bags so I ended up with nothing. It is going better this year!)
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Oh wow.
I’m about to google this!!
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It’s super simple - put tomatoes in paper bag, it works best if one of them is at least starting to ripen (this is where I think I failed last year, they were all green), fold over the top, put somewhere that is warmish, don’t forget about them 
. I put mine in a kitchen cabinet, because kitties.
Also, if you have any that are turning colors only at the bottom of the tomato, turn them upside down and set them somewhere warm-ish. This makes the… whatever chemical causes tomatoes to ripen? flow to the unripe part more quickly. Gravity! Science!
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WHOA. Science AND magic.
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Stick an apple in there to super charge it. Ethylene producing hack.
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Or banana
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It’s raining 
the smell of rain in the desert is like the best smell ever
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The mesquite smells great after a rain!
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