I get lots of hints to guide me, I just need to make sure I listen 
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Clever girl. I need to drop some plant-related hints.
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You just missed the perfect tagging opportunity to do just that. You deff need to get better 
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Darn it! Missed my chance!
Speaking of plants, one of my fiddle leaf fig trees got infected and is about to die. So this might be the perfect weekend to replace it.
Oh! I have to show you my monstera!
I wasn’t sure if this thing would ever grow because I propagated it for about 2 months and then potted it. But it didn’t do a single thing for 8 more months — zero growth. But this middle leaf popped up in April and now it’s huge!
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That’s awesome, it is very satisfying when a new leaf comes out.
Our one in the lounge room is a little out of control
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Looks like a happy plant! 
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If you look hard enough, the green plant is wearing a dress and is pole dancing with the brown stick thingy.
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Good call. When I finally learn how to use moss poles, I’m going to envision that every time.
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A Squirrel Infestation, a New Friend, and a Jacked Up Neck
Word of warning: never let a squirrel problem get out of hand. It can sneak up on you so gradually that you don’t realize how bad it is until massive damage is done.
A congregation of squirrels has been gathering on (and in) our porch for months. We’d see them on occasion scurrying around; they were so cute that at first we didn’t mind them.
But then we realized they were living inside our columns, which were completely open on top and hollow on the inside. This of course lead to scratches and chew marks everywhere. So we talked to Jack about it but didn’t prioritize this as a project for him. I don’t know… maybe their destruction was so gradual that we were blind to it?
But this weekend something clicked and I finally got fed up enough to tackle the problem.
This picture doesn’t do justice to how gross it was. I must’ve taken it after scrubbing their grime off.
So first we started with evicting them out their home. We used two different types of squirrel spray: an herbal one and a predator pee. And we basically poured them down into the columns to give them a day to escape.
Then the next day I started the clean-up and the close-up process. But my step ladder wasn’t quite tall enough, so I strained the heck out of my neck craning it upward to seal the top of the columns, clean them, and repaint them.
The thing is, Jack had a good permanent solution for it, but I couldn’t wait any longer. So I jerry rigged the dumbest thing to go on top.
You know those reusable eco-friendly grocery bags made of a tarp-like material? I covered the columns with that and a staple gun. And I spackled on top of it, then painted it.
This is before painting them. No idea if it’ll work. A neighbor told me there are probably dying babies inside the columns.
Great. 
And honestly even though they’re cleaned and painted, they still don’t look great if you really look closely. Those a-holes mangled the siding. They even chewed into random corners of our porch for funsies.
So while I was in the middle of all that, a guy drove by and asked if he could help. I told him I was almost finished but needed someone to power wash the house as thoroughly as possible. So he did that yesterday, and now he’s going to paint some ugly areas of our exterior. I’m grateful for anyone willing to get on a ladder and do hard labor because that’s not my favorite place to be.
Hot take: Maintaining a house is harder on the body than weight training. I need chiropractic care and a massage therapist and maybe a regular therapist for the dead babies inside my porch columns.
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Damn squirrels,
Okay……
So between you and Chris who’s the better marksman 
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Dani is now, but I’m not sure if she has the heart to put a pellet in their little cute heads.
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So eloquently put. It’s like Bridgerton meets Dirty Harry.
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Well I’m already a squirrel baby murderer soooo…
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Fun fact:
A group of squirrels is called a “scurry”.
Sometimes I hate that the English is so dumb, but I’ve grown to appreciate some of it’s ridiculous nuances.
Another fun fact about squirrels:
They make excellent target practice for up and coming shooters.
and they taste like KFC if you fry the legs up in butter with salt/pepper
Story time?
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Wish I’d known this. Woulda come in handy when I was yelling at them. They were all probably laughing at me for calling them the wrong thing.
A small part of me thought, “if Bidenflation continues to worsen, this squirrel problem could quickly become a squirrel solution.”
Oh, basically just this:
The day after I staple-gunned the eco-friendly grocery tarp bag to the top of the columns, a few squirrels showed up all alarmed and pooped on my fresh paint. Squirrels have a way of weaponizing their feces.
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I’ve had squirrel before and it was stringy and had an unpleasant aftertaste.
rabbits (wild or bred), Cui (hamsters bred for food) and rats bred for consumption taste better
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Main lifts:
Leg Press
DB Incline Bench
Pump: cable row, arnold press, EZ bar bicep curls, tricep pulldowns
Gym Smells
There is a person in our gym whose smell makes an instant impression. So if you’re working out in the same area, people walking past will suddenly turn their heads and assume you’re the assailant.
And also you can’t inhale near this person without thinking of rotting onions. I’ll be the first to admit though, this is not the worst smell.
On that note, it’s not the new sweat that stinks. Studies confirm fresh male sweat is an aphrodisiac. What truly stinks is the bacteria and its poop that festers after a bit of time. And then when you re-wear previously sweaty gym clothes, and get it wet with brand new sweat, you reactivate the bacteria poop stink to the highest degree.
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Good to know! I’ll jot it down for future reference.
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I trained in a gym in the UK about 20 years ago and we had one member who had a particularly bad smell. Ended up asking the gym owner to have a word with them, which he did in his usual bulldozer style. It didn’t really work at first but then the gym owner followed this member spraying them with body spray every time they came to the gym for a few days, and this did the trick.
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That’s wild!
Honestly though, if someone’s working super hard, I wouldn’t want him or her to get embarrassed or discouraged. So I just do my best to minimize time spent in the same area. It did cause me to reduce the amount of sets I’d planned to do yesterday, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing. (It was the heaviest I’ve ever gone on leg press.)
Sometimes teen girls will come into the gym in the summer with heavy perfumes and body sprays, and just the irritation of breathing in those phthalates makes me wish they had body odor instead.
In my unpopular opinion, bacteria poop beats layers of toxic perfume.
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