My parents are so sweet

My parents are leaving today after a very nice, short-but-sweet visit. We walked through the city and went out for some delicious meals. They also brought me tasty things.

Tomatoes from the garden. There were tiny cherry tomatoes, but they were so small and delicious I ate them like candy and now they're all gone. I shall have to cook something tasty from the rest.

Assorted hot peppers, which I put in my copper bowl. Don't they look pretty? I'm not too big into spicy foods, so I'd love to give these to people who will enjoy them. Residents of Gloucester, you are going to get a bunch.

And glass milk bottles! Aren't they charming? I got a bee in my bonnet recently about how much I'd like to keep milk in bottles rather than the plastic jugs, so Mom brought me a couple!

I'm such a vessel-and-crockery dork. If the copper molds on the walls didn't make me official an old lady, that has got to clinch it.

Gangbusters on Hipster Feminist

I have been really into doing @HipsterFeminist recently. I have felt very interested in my joke Twitter feed lately and as such have devoted some real thought to it. And the followers are slowly climbing, I now am up to 63. What I'm especially pleased with is that I've had several days' worth of tweets written in advance for a while now. I've been able to come up with several at once that I'm happy with, so I've saved them as drafts to deploy each successive day. For a while there I'd open my account up in the morning and stare at the blank box, struggling to think up even one for that morning. Now I have a backlog of decent ones-- right now I'm ahead by a week and have been able to keep about that far ahead for a while --so I can go a few days without coming up with a good one if need be. Amusingly, my most popular (at least, most retweeted) tweet ever was the one from August 24th, "I'd go lesbian for Andrej Pejic. Or stay straight. Whatever." A lot of his fans found that and liked it, apparently; I even got a follower or two from it. I'll have to make him the subject of further jokes if they go over that well.

So I'm having fun with it. Still waiting for it to go viral, heehee, but in the meantime I'm just enjoying doing it, and I'm glad there are people out there who get a laugh from it.