A heavy thunderstorm before dawn this morning filled various standing vessels; I see by the previously empty birdbath outside the kitchen window that there was about 1" of rainfall. That's good enough so later this afternoon I can till those veggie beds. (Yesterday I finished a writing project instead of gardening).

This morning I tipped a new bag of the regular "sensitive stomach" grain free dog food into the food bin, after finishing the last batch that I had mixed with a small bag of food from Aldi. The blue heeler has been turning up her nose at this regular stuff, so today I'll run by Aldi for another bag of their grain free food to mix in. Juicing it keeps her interested (but it leads to flatulence, the reason we get the special brand). This batch is a crossroads - decide to go with a bigger bag of the usual grain-free brand, different flavor, that makes her stinky, or keep adding to the less-stinky smaller bag and she's again stinky. First World Problems.

Testing the new dishwasher detergent, a powder that is packaged in a cardboard box. Using it volume-wise 1:1 it doesn't seem to clean as well; will adding more make a difference, or will I return to the Costco brand that comes in a plastic bin and continue to cut it out of the polyvinyl alcohol plastic case? Scientists testing assumptions about biodegradability. There are so many of these pod things around, will my not using them make any difference? This may be a real world illustration of "exercise in futility." How much trouble am I willing to go to? The boxed detergent costs less and it doesn't take any time at all to add a scoop to the dishwasher dispenser. But I may have to rinse more before putting dishes in the machine.