Can verify that this variant of COVID is stabbing soar throat pain.

Do not like.

Oh yuck, msbelle. That sounds awful.

Shir, it is impressive that the author of the text stream can keep a sense of humor despite the extreme frustration and uncertainty.

Also, Florida's solution to securing migrants is to build “Alligator Alcatraz”, tent cities in the Everglades because the threats from wildlife will keep them from escaping.

What the fuck, Florida.

Not a genuine question. Just...of course. This is the stupidest timeline.

I am endlessly jealous of people in California who can just walk outside and pick an avocado from their own magical avocado tree.

I was out in Napa for a wedding once and there were fig bushes everywhere and I just kept eating them. Like, dust them off on my shirt and om nom nom. Sun warmed perfectly ripe figs, magnificent. We're waiting for our table at a restaurant and I've started my appetizer. I was, like, forty.

Getting an extra day sitting at the cabin while I wait for FedEx to bring me the car keys that my sister accidentally took home with her this morning.

That's a good sister!

I'm so sorry, msbelle.

I heard about that Alligator Alcatraz thing. Just. Argh. What Dana said

I was out in Napa for a wedding once and there were fig bushes everywhere and I just kept eating them. Like, dust them off on my shirt and om nom nom. Sun warmed perfectly ripe figs, magnificent.

JZ usually took advantage of the sun warmed figs along her way to start the day at RenFaire. One of her favorite memories of Faire life.

I rented a room in a house for a while that had an enormous fig tree in the yard. So many figs. I tried so many recipes up to and including fig jam and was not really able to use them all up. It's amazing I still like them, but I do.

We did have an avocado tree, as well as oranges, grapefruit, lemons, pineapples, and ackee! (as well as lots and lots of coconuts) The avocados are super frustrating because they take forever to ripen.

my son hasn't had power for 2 days now

Yikes!

Power was out at my place from 0230 to 1530 last Saturday. High temperature outside reached 94℉. When the temperature inside my apartment reached 84℉ I gave up and went out for a large iced lemonade and an hour's drive out on the highway in my air-conditioned car. I was very happy to find power restored when I got back. It took six hours for the air-conditioning to get my apartment back down to 72℉.

I want to make a diamond avocados are too tight joke but I actually don’t care for avocados so that would not affect me at all. I gather others feel differently.

I am still sat at the cabin, waiting for the keys that were supposed to be here by noon. Which would be fine except that the dog has a vet appointment at 4:30 and I have a fancy dinner tonight. The vet appointment is nearly an impossibility at this point. The fancy dinner TBD.

Just to bring this post full circle:. It is a hot new Oaxacan restaurant and I imagine dinner will actually feature plenty of avocado. So my sister, one of those oddball avocado lovers, may be the ultimate winner in all of this. The dinner is already paid for so somebody should go.