Blue blood
1 July 2025 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI went sleeveless due to the heat for the first time this summer (something I can only risk when I know I'm going to be indoors all day) and managed to display an impressive blue tracery of veins underneath the aristocratically pale and translucent skin thus revealed ;-)
Although I really don't understand how I also manage to have freckles on my *shoulders*, which have literally never been exposed to sunlight in over a year and which I go to enormous lengths not to get burnt. The freckles on my forearms (my substitute for tanning; too many redheads on both sides of the family) have now got to the point of nearly joining up despite my care not to expose my arms to the sunlight, and have progressed well above the elbow by some unknown means...
I came home today to enjoy cool rooms at 'only' 82F (behind closed curtains) after working in temperatures of over 90 degrees all day :-( I don't feel like going out anywhere in this 'lovely' weather.
My first poached-egg flower has now come out :-)
Unfortunately I think the ants have transferred their base of operations to the miniature rose pot, where I keep finding the main stem sheathed in earth (presumably from their excavations?) to a height of several inches, with frenetic activity going on around the pot. I daren't empty out the pot to locate and remove the nest for fear of killing off the rose and/or the fragments of the yellow poppy that have reappeared, but on the other hand I'm worried that the ants will end up doing just that :-(
Although I really don't understand how I also manage to have freckles on my *shoulders*, which have literally never been exposed to sunlight in over a year and which I go to enormous lengths not to get burnt. The freckles on my forearms (my substitute for tanning; too many redheads on both sides of the family) have now got to the point of nearly joining up despite my care not to expose my arms to the sunlight, and have progressed well above the elbow by some unknown means...
I came home today to enjoy cool rooms at 'only' 82F (behind closed curtains) after working in temperatures of over 90 degrees all day :-( I don't feel like going out anywhere in this 'lovely' weather.
My first poached-egg flower has now come out :-)
Unfortunately I think the ants have transferred their base of operations to the miniature rose pot, where I keep finding the main stem sheathed in earth (presumably from their excavations?) to a height of several inches, with frenetic activity going on around the pot. I daren't empty out the pot to locate and remove the nest for fear of killing off the rose and/or the fragments of the yellow poppy that have reappeared, but on the other hand I'm worried that the ants will end up doing just that :-(