Dandelyon's Worlds

Festival of the Living Rooms 25 was a lot of fun. I sang a bunch of songs, did a bit of hosting, and a lot of co-hosting (watched to let people in, managed to mute a few people who didn't realize they were unmuted, reminded a few people to unmute when it was their turn, pretty normal stuff.) I really love the zoom filks, especially this one, where there's concerts that I can do other things during as well as open circles. I definitely want them to continue!

I also managed to schedule just about everything from this FAWM into my Patreon, so there's public lyric posts and members-only audio posts from now to midsummer. I know I didn't manage to post everything from last FAWM there, so I'll be checking to see what I posted and what I didn't, and adding more posts as time goes on.

I also made some mental notes about songs that I want to record. Maybe I can manage another short album or two before the next Bandcamp Friday. Let's see--ah, here's the schedule for 2025: May 2nd, August 1st, September 5th, October 3rd, and December 5th. I'll have to think about what's the best way to remind myself of those dates, so I'm not trying to get stuff ready for publishing the night before, like I did this month!

The kittens are getting big, especially Ri, who is already huge at a little over 8 months. I got a care credit card, and got Donnflaith's sugery done, but have not heard back about the pathology of the mass they removed from her neck. I've got my fingers crossed about that.

I finally got some tomato seeds into little pots into a mini plastic greenhouse. For the first batch, I grabbed two ziplocks full of dirt that I'd pressed moldy tomatoes into to dry during a recently-past summer. (Since I learned that tomato seeds don't germinate well unless they are "seasoned" by sitting in spoiled tomato juice or pulp, I just take the tomatoes from my garden that start to spoil and press them into a pot with dry dirt and let the tomato remains dry there.) So I put a tablespoon of that dirt onto each pot, which may be way too many seeds, but I can thin or separate them, watered it and set the flat onto a heating pad and under a "dome". I'll also plant some tomato seeds from seed packets, and some Italian peppers, and some cayenne, and then think about what else would be worth planting indoors.

I will be experimenting with setting the seedlings in front of a fan this year, so hopefully they'll grow stronger stems and leaves, which should help when I transplant them into my garden. I was gifted some bookshelves last year, from a friend's parents' basement, so it will be a little easier to organize the seedlings. (I got some grow lights to hang from the bottoms of the shelves; I should take pictures to share once I get stuff set up.)

I know there's more stuff I haven't talked about here, but I'm sleepy and have stuff to do tomorrow, so I should sign off. See you around!