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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 18/08/2026

Too many to eat, not really enough to bother canning

About a dozen medium-sized tomatoes. Most in a basket with a cucumber. To the side, a small bowl of sliced cucumber and a cut tomato. A bunch of basil sits next to the basket

Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 14/08/2026

Almost time to start canning. There are 12 in this pic. Not showing is the sliced one on the side that boyo is eating for 2nd breakfast.

A dozen ripe tomatoes and a bunch of basil.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 01/08/2026

Because I had wanted lemongrass, I got some from grocery store then threw some in a vase. This is 2 weeks later. I need to pot these up.

Glass vase with two lemongrass stalks. The lemongrass has roots and new leaf growth. To the right is a pot with a small bay tree. To right is a pot of lettuce.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 01/08/2026

This cucumber doing interesting things

Cucumber growing in a circle. It's against a trellis and in shade under a canopy of leaves.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 20/07/2026

These cucumbers went from "are these quite ready?" to giant in about 2 days.

Two cucumbers a foot-long or more with a cluster of green tomatoes in the foreground. The picture was taken beneath the canopy of tomato and cucumber vines. Everything is in shade.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 18/07/2026

This is how you tell. The reddish purple color at the base.

Base of a grass cluster. The stalks are reddish purple and thin in comparison to West Indian lemongrass, used in Asian cooking which is green at the base and thicker.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 16/07/2026

Based on the varieties available from the nursery where I bought the cucumber plant, I believe this is "sushimi"

Slices of cucumber in a small container. The slices are nearly seed-free.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 14/07/2026

These were supposed to be pickling cucumbers. Methinks they were mislabeled.

Two long, thin cucumbers. One is about a foot long, the other around 10 inches.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 14/07/2026

I wore this today to work. It dealt well with walking in nearly 90° & subway mugginess. Sharing in case anyone is looking for office dresses that handle the summer weather. Dress is linen. Removeable slip is polyester. www.uniqlo.com/us/en/produc...

Linen Blend Tiered Dress blue with white oun stripes. Model is 5'8" wearing size S.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 10/07/2026

This is crazy good for the sweet tooth & not so terrible for the diet I'm on. 😋

A small number of dried apricots, fresh pecans, and a square & half of dark, low-sugar chocolate piled up in a white bowl.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 05/07/2026

More garden pics! Eggplant, cucumber, and okra flowers. So pretty! Believe it or not, a few of these eggplants are ready to be picked. This is "patio baby," and they mature at 2-3" long.

Around 8-10 small eggplants with a quarter for scale to show largest is nearly 3 inches long. The top of the plant has pale purple flowers.

In dappled shade of cucumber and tomato leaves, a small cucumber is in focus with open yellow flower at the end.

Pale yellow okra flower with small leaves and buds adjacent.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 03/07/2026

Sooo hot. Yes, weather app, it makes sense to have an illustration of a white dude in winter/fall clothing. /sarcasm

Screen cap of weather app showing 100° and Sunny. Feels like is 103°. Extreme heat warning until Saturday at 8pm. The app developers have, for some reason, decided that an illustration of a white dude wearing long pants, long sleeve shirt, with headphones and looking at his phone is a good UX decision when it's sweltering out.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 03/07/2026

Picked a few things from the garden. Not a lot of cucumber or tomato, yet. So this is appetizer-sized cucumber, tomato, basil from garden with mozzarella.

Dish with small mozzarella balls and sliced cucumber & tomatoes with basil leaves.

Produce picked from garden spread put in table. A few collard leaves, sprigs of thyme, dill, Thai basil with flowers, parsley, and sweet basil. There is one red tomato and two small and long cucumbers.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 03/07/2026

Garden looking good! I've already harvested tomatoes, lettuce, collards, and herbs (parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, basil, dill, oregano, and tarragon). And I started some bok choy from kitchen scraps (produce from Costco) I am a big proponent of at least trying to grow your own herbs!

Collage of garden, clockwise from top left, marigolds, cucumber, blooming dill, Thai basil, bok choy, cluster of green tomatoes, sweet basil, parsley, blooming lavender, several small eggplants, and another cluster of tomatoes

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 22/06/2026

Another visitor. The critters sure like my yard.

Young groundhog on patio next to a pot with lemongrass. The groundhog is surrounded by mullberries it has been eating like nature's vacuum.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 15/06/2026

Love how they didn't bother giving the stadium a name. 🤣

Directions on floor of subway. It's a purple arrow with icon of 6 the text says, "Stadium Trains." In smaller text, beneath; "FiFA. We are Boston"

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 31/05/2026

Eating healthy is so yummy and can be super easy. Yummy lentil soup & a simple salad.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 24/05/2026

This doesn't look like much, but this series outline is the result of hours of working through timeline & plot issues. I was stuck for a couple of YEARS because of the day job(s) & extended family stresses. But I finally figured it out in a way that makes me incredibly happy.

Screen cap of a PDF navigation area with 5 thumbnails. The five pages show an outline in tables. The text is illegible.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 16/05/2026

Had to move most of the sage and all of the lavender out of the garden. They had grown into large bushes & were taking up at least a quarter of the garden!

Large sage and lavender plants with pavers around them. They're outside a garden surrounded by a black iron fence. The garden is two raised beds. The left side is in distance & has some plants. The right is empty. A garden gnome peeks out between the sage and lavender. House is in background of the garden.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 06/05/2026

Space Grit is back up on Kobo & available through Kobo Plus! eeeeeeeee!!! www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

Stylized text reads Space Grit. L.A. Philbin writing as Ella Drake. New York Times & USA Today best selling author. Below text is a row of 8 covers. 5 covers are behind three prominent ones: Black Ice Heart, Willing Skin, and Killer Mate.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 04/05/2026

My new covers/selling direct books have started trickling in on Kobo.

List of Space Grit books by L.A. Philbin and Ella Drake. Including Black Ice Heart, Freeker, Willing Skin, and Breaking the Admiral. All are available on Kobo Plus.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 02/05/2026

Woot! It shouldn't really have taken long, but I had to edit the files a bit.

Screenshot of "kobo writing life" screen with one ebook in the dashboard. The ebook is "Black Ice Heart" by L.A. Philbin writing as Ella Drake. The cover has a couple in front of a space background.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 25/03/2026

When people talk about Thoreau & share images of Walden Pond, they never show pics of how most locals view Walden. Pic from newengland.com/travel/massa...

Crowded beach with many families and swimmers. Many sunbathe on sandy beach. Life guards sit in tall chairs under large umbrellas. Trees are in the background.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 05/03/2026

Okay. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't draw, really ever, and I never use digital drawing tools. I followed a how-to-draw for this 🤣 But drawing on the Supernote felt good! The image isn't all that clear. But I did a thing!

Pic of an eink tablet with drawing app icons to the left and a pencil drawing of a horned dragon head on screen.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 04/03/2026

Look what FedEx just brought me! Super excite!!!

Supernote Nomad propped on the box it came in.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 15/10/2025

Cleaning out some office stuff—and I'm nowhere near done—found this. I don't even remember. Did i get a PAN pin? Was there one? I worked hard to get "status" in RWA. And now? I don't know what to do with this pin. I don't regret the work. And the org did help me in meaningful ways.

A lapel or badge pin with RWA *PRO spelled out in engraved font.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 08/08/2025

The rib roast side of Costco's large pork loin. Vacuum sealed with butter, salt, pepper, and herbs from garden: sage, rosemary, and thyme. Putting it in the freezer to sous vide later.

Pork loin in vaccum sealed plastic bag. A bunch of herbs, rosemary, sage,ans thyme, are on top.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 08/08/2025

These bees are all over my flowering oregano. www.sharpeatmanguides.com/sweat-bees

Small bee with metallic green head and black and yellow striped abdomen.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 07/08/2025

I swear, y'all. I did not buy white eggplant seeds. It's like I'm growing eggs

A white eggplant that appears a heck of a lot like an egg.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 28/06/2025

Some of my dried lavender flowers. Need to finish these up & store them. Smells awesome!

Close up of a bunch of dried lavender buds. Some are more open than others, showing more purple. Others are closed, green, and cylindrical.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 24/06/2025

I don't understand this cover change. bpl.overdrive.com/media/424805...

Shades of Honor from the Vorkosian Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, which is a space-set scifi. Cover has two puppets on a white background. The puppets are made of solid blocks. One is red. The other, blue. The red puppet is holding scissors

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 21/06/2025

I haven't dried culinary lavender before. A little goes a long way, so this is plenty. I'll probably add it to loose leaf tea. Anyone done this before? Do I just dry them a few days then store the flowers?

Flowering lavender bush spilling over raised bed garden. Radish greens and basil in background.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 21/06/2025

Um. Does vanilla pudding expire? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Two boxes of Royal vanilla pudding boxes. One is angled to show expiration date July 20, 2012.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 07/05/2025

This update is so irritating. Top right, I can't even read the battery indicator. The weather is now in a terrible rectangular bubble when it didn't have a container before & was just part of the background. (Yeah, I traveled to Somerville to grab food today)

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 02/05/2025

Got a lot in here! Basil, onion, cucumber, okra, eggplant, sage, lavender, Thai basil, thyme, garlic, rosemary, tomatoes, and parsley.

Two raised garden beds, just planted. Small plants and seedlings.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 29/03/2025

I get so much joy watching little seedlings sprout. These are cucumber.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 22/03/2025

I always get too much, but I managed to get everything 8 want to get the garden started except Thai basil.

Rosemary, thyme, sweet basil & culinary sage plants. Seed starter tray. Garlic bulbs. And a stack of seeds: cucumber, dill, okra on top.

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Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖 @laphilbin.com · 17/02/2025

At the bottom of screen, there are overdrive links for browsing. But also, the books show on my shelf while they're checked out.

Kobo screen with shelves. Percentage read for recent books and collections for My Books and the Psy-changeling series. Also links to Overdrive borrows and holds.

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