HeyJaredUnSupervisable: Priscilla’s Substack
One day, while complaining to a friend about my boss at the part-time job I’d taken in retirement, she told me to tell him I was “unsupervisable,” and suddenly my whole out-of-step-with-the-world life made sense.
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The Apple Thief (opens the original)
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I planted two apple trees a couple of years ago. They are supposed to be compatible for cross-pollinating, but this was the first year there were any apples, and only one tree produced.All summer long, I’ve been watching the sixteen Gala apples plump up. I figured they’d be enough for a pie, maybe two if I was lucky. They were spotty and scabby, because of course they are organic, but I figured peeled and cored for a pie they’d be fine.Thanks for reading UnSupervisable: Prisc
Stillpoint (opens the original)
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It’s that time of year when I feel most like a fraud. Everyone is hauling in their garden produce, and asking me how my garden is. Now is when I have to admit I’m not just the poorest gardener there is. I’m a non-gardener. My flower beds have been taken over by Bishop’s weed and I have just surrendered to the vegetative chaos. My vegetable garden never even got started this year. By the time I remembered to weed the strawberry patch, the bugs had gotten all the strawberries.Still, I have been fr
Almost August (opens the original)
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The other morning Gracie and River were doing their regular morning chase around the yard. Gracie was in the lead, zigging and zagging, to stay ahead of River. River was cutting corners to try and catch-up, when Gracie switched directions and almost ran headlong into the black locust. She stopped just in time and managed to scoot around it avoiding being caught by River. It helps that she has no tail. He grabs for her, but there’s nothing to latch onto and she slips his grasp.<a class="image-lin
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