Ooo, unscented Febreze. I despise the artificial scents of things. The fake florals are nauseating.

Ok, I guess I'm really not swimming tonight: one storm cell just reversed direction and is coming back. Whole pattern has gone all swirly.

I finally managed to get my hands on the unscented Febreeze at Target recently. I am violently allergic to the standard Febreeze scent.

Is it really truly unscented? That would be great. Regular Febreeze makes me feel like something with claws is trying to get out of my sinuses.

So I've found some 2nd hand Fluevog boots for $70 US, but the shipper says it's going to cost $50 US to ship them to me from Montana. WTF?

Zen, I have the unscented stuff and it doesn't leave a smell. But I think it took two applications to get the slight funky smell out of my sofa.

My 3rd-floor apartment has a small (10' x 8') wooden deck, made (I think) of pine. I done use it much -- it's pretty old, and is showing its age. When I first moved in, almost seven years ago, I noticed some patches of moss and decided to let them grow, see what happens. There are also some patches of lichen, which I decided to let grow, see what happens.

Today I noticed a new volunteer. One of this Spring's maple seeds found just the right spot between two planks -- and germinated: [link]

I think I'll let it grow, see what happens.

Even though I'm about to watch the first season finale for the first time tonight, I don't want to join that group, right? I am skeptical of people who self-identify as intellectuals.

It can give you a false positive, but I think that's a good instinct in general. I think saying the group was for intellectual discussion rather than being for intellectual people having the discussion would make me feel better about it.

Good luck with the change, Sail!

Ooh, I am definitely taking note of that vanilla extract idea. I like the smell of vanilla and what with on thing and another there are always less pleasant scents here and there that I can't seem to entirely get rid of.

Oh, that looks familiar, dcp. On the deck at our old house, I had to police the boards about twice a month, pulling up grass and tree volunteers. We had huge willow oaks and resulting drifts of the flowers in spring, and the leaves in fall. Invariably, some seeds would take root. We had pecans, too, and between the tiny acorns and the pecans, dozens of resident squirrels who took the deck as a bridge between trees, stopping to drink at one of the fountains. I had to police my planters, too, or I'd have had an entire oak and pecan forest.

Cool, dcp. Best case scenario - treehouse!

My sister has gone on her Facebook to say she doesn't like what Caitlyn Jenner has done, but she at least prefaced it with "I know it's not PC." So while it's a sad statement, she knows she can't blithely assume it will be a popular statement. Our relationship is not such that I'm comfortable with challenging her, so I'm going to pretend I didn't see it. If she ever says anything directly, however, things will be different.

For what it's worth, I think she's coming from a place of bafflement, there in her rural corner of conservative Pennsylvania, not hatred.

Oh my God, Febreez makes me want to claw my sinuses out of my head. It is horrible.

I assume in scented Febreez is alcohol and water, which is what I use on costumes.