Whatcha doin?!?

Been a busy couple weeks. Been tending to my expanding pollinator garden. My bottle brush is growing back nicely and I have new milkweed plants, including Florida native swamp milkweed which is growing waaaay taller than advertised. Got new seeds sewn and already some caterpillars! It's a full time job being a bug daddy.

I got back from my movie marathon day. Mortal Kombat II was cheesey, but was cool overall. Backrooms had an interesting premise, however it kept itself too vague to make full sense of. Like it hints that multiple people are having a form of mass psychosis. That each person in the movie is battling their inner self which is warping the universe they live in. However it reaches a point where random stuff is happening for random reasons and just expecting the individual to make their own conclusions. Something, something, people have their own sense of reality that they're trapped in, but unknowingly forcing others outside themselves to navigate the maze of that person's thoughts and actions while dealing with their own delusional dealings. At some point it wouldn't have hurt the narrative to provide a bit more context. Otherwise it was different from most horror movies to an extent...or not...now that I think about it. Felt like that dinner table scenario was lifted from Resident Evil 7. Then there were the hallway scenes that were like a live action F.E.A.R. Finally I saw He-Man. As before with Mortal Kombat it had a lot of cheese. Arguably they could have done less self aware internet humor. Though it was a genuine delight to see Skeletor working a corporate job for 30 seconds. That got a laugh out of me! One thing it really should have cut out was the cursing. I was surprised something aimed at kids had curse words every other sentence. I know adult fans might find it funny to see child hood characters cursing like YouTube celebrities, yet it was kinda disappointing to resort to that type of humor given the source.

Tending to my garden. I got another batch of milkweed sprouts coming in and several of my monarch caterpillars have gotten bigger! Here's hoping my increased amount of milkweed plants keeps them fed. Also found a butterfly laying more eggs.

Been majorly reworking my garden to accommodate my new butterfly nursery. The milkweeds I got from my neighbor have seeded and spread. Now I've been having about 80sh endangered monarch caterpillars in my backyard. Essentially I have become a bug daddy the same way many people become cat parents. They just showed up and now they live here. XD

Finally getting some fun time at the Outer Banks North Carolina visiting family. Got to swim in the super chilly ocean and enjoying the lush scenery.