Chem Krush by IC Collective

It's sunny outside but not quite nice. It's cold. Twenty-six degrees, not unheard of for the middle of March in Missouri but we were starting to get used to having some warmer weather. If you don't believe me, ask the daffodils.

In a matter of half a day, we went from warm breezes (gusts) to a line of thunderstorms that were spinning out small tornadoes from Arkansas up to Chicago, to an inch of rain, and then to snow. That makes nearly five inches of rain this month, most of in the last ten days.

There is water in the ductwork below the basement floor in one corner of the house again, for the second spring in a row, only our second spring in this house. I have taken measures to try to keep the water out. It seems like it's a matter of finding the water outside the house, and redirecting it before it can trickle in/pool at that corner of the house. Tales of the Underground, Tales from the Aqueduct.

The Chem Krush is just fine. In previous sessions it felt heavy to me, for a sativa. But those were five o'clock or six o'clock smokes with alcohol involved. I had about a quarter of a gram of grind in this bowl.

There are birds around. White-throated sparrows, Downy woodpeckers, White-breasted nuthatches, Mourning doves, Eastern bluebirds, Tufted titmice, House Finches, Hairy woodpeckers, Red-bellied woodpeckers, Dark-eyed Juncos, Northern cardinals, and an Eastern Phoebe looking for a place to put her nest. All are winter residents except for the Phoebe.


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Super Boof Gummies from Lost Farms

Took a Lost Farm Super Boof live resin gummy half an hour ago at the Chiricahua travel stop along I-10 halfway between Las Cruces and Deming, headed west. My head was already a little tight from dehydration, vodka, maybe the bowl of Strawberry Pines last night, maybe not.

My wife is driving. The trains are running. It's not as hazy now as it was east of the mountains east of Las Cruces. The air over White Sands and Alamogordo was thick. We stayed at the Pine Springs Inn in Ruidoso Downs last night. Like Brook says, the place is a step back in time.

If I had to do it all over again I might give more thought to geology. Rocks. I like rock, and rocks, more and more. I appreciate them. They're part of the earth, a really important part but rocks aren't asking anything from anyone. They're useful. Erosion control, minerals, structural support, roads, drainage. It feels good to be in a place where rock is of interest. In such a place, you will probably find some other beauty. Rocks are possessed of such an unassuming richness.

What's new in geology these days? Looking for lithium for our batteries, looking for rare earths for our phones. Cracking rock open to get at nat gas to power our AI, our social media. Breaking rocks, breaking into the earth so that we can grow closer to our computers and to our phones. To power the new intelligence. To make our lives easier. Progress through powdered rock. Rare earth, it's always been such a powerful phrase. Metals, minerals, like time buried in the ground. Find it, you find a little bit of extra time, while the machines do the work we get to...


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Kush Sorbet from Abundant Organics

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Kush Sorbet, the second time. 18:01.

Workable. A little fruit. Maple syrup flavor. Smooth smoke, not a spitter. None of that gas/earth/burnt whatever, chems. Maybe that smoothness is the kush, the sorbet.

The Kush Sorbet has carried. 20:55. It never carried me away but it's buzzy—a headband effect, my ears slightly ringing. Newly adopted dog has me worn out but also feeling some warm and fuzzies.

A one-joint night so far. If I fall asleep after reading a few pages, OK. The Kush Sorbet is solid, strong. Not a high-deas strain. An indica, I guess. Was happy on the couch, with Nora. Two TV programs after a pasta bake and some snacks. Ready for sleep. Maybe get some hypnagogic imagery with my eyes closed. That ringing in the ears; after a blast. 21:00...


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Tropical Z by Connected (Encore)

Fairly baked, mostly baked, 50% baked on Trop Z and white wine. Ready to burn another something or other but that just means the Trop Z is working. I gotta let it run a bit.

This Trop Z I smoked was pretty old. It's almost Christmas and I opened this jar here in Tucson/Catalina Foothills back in March! But it was still tasty, with that orange rubber and menthol flavor. Score another win for some of the older flower. I already wrote a review of Tropical Z for this site (link here) but this last bit has kept so well (in the desert) and it still delivers a lift so I'm going to do a curtain call, an encore, a Trop Z Redux...


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Sunset Sherbet by Good Green

Smoked a Sunset Sherb joint. .4 grams. This time I felt the bite. Which is to say the smoke gets all up in my head and starts my mind going like a hamster on a wheel.

There is less alcohol in my system than what is normal for me for this time of day. The emotions are flooding. I am letting what annoys me take over my entire mindset and well-being. This is the bite. I have noticed recently that Group Texts are staging a social media coup of my phone. I am not on Facebook. I used to use Instagram but I quit it early 2024. I am not on Twitter or X or whatever they're calling it these days. I've never used TikTok; never will.

I have this blog, and another blog (JBR.com) and I use Spotify, if that counts as social media. But now my Messages app seems like a backdoor means for sudden social media-like twisters to work their way into my awareness. Larger and larger groups of people. Reactions to this or that. Today, a poll. I'm not cut out for this kind of communication anymore. I'm just not interested. When it comes to texting I find myself ready to go back to the days of dumb phones.

Opting out of these conversations (even though I never opted in) seems harsh. But I also dislike feeling like I need to have a reason to "leave." Now I'm feeling this textbook Sherb bite and the bite is taking me right into this confused, ambivalent headspace. Into the Complaint Zone. Rant and rave. Wasting time, wasting thoughts! Any more to have my peace it feels like I have to throw up walls and then I feel guilty.

My wife is headed out of town but I don't want to go anywhere. I'm happy at home with Nora, who is otherwise partial to my wife, even shadows her. Now that I'll have a chance to bond a bit with the dog, in my wife's absence, I don't imagine I'll want to do anything else. Solitude, if and when I can get it, is a rarity. A scarcity. I won't give it up so easily.

The Sunset Sherb once again has me putting pen to paper. I have finished a beer but I don't have any vodka in me (yet). Perhaps this allows the bite to set harder, truer. So I try to write the bite away. Just putting this mini-diatribe on paper has me feeling better, calmer. I should try to move onto some other topic. And steer clear of the vodka for at least another hour. 17:01...


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Go Betty Go, Watermelon Sativa Taffy by Betty’s Eddies

Whew, I have caught a fine writing jag from that green Betty's Eddies sativa taffy. I might have to get more of these, and use them to write with on a day such as this, stuck at home, and not yet gotten around to drinking.

The other component of our "home gym" is a stationary bike that has been in my family for a quarter of a century. With my brother's help I hauled it out of the basement there one night last year, with my brother's help. Drove it on over to Missouri. It lives now in our dining room. An odd place perhaps for an exercise bike but I use it and I when I use it I can look out the window at the birds visiting the feeders. Getting a proper amount of exercise is worth a lot to me; worth a heck of a lot more than the way a room might look.

I have done 12 minutes of rowing and 18 minutes of cycling. I'm not pushing the pace. I feel a little funny with the Covid tingle/current running through my blood along with the THC from the Betty's Eddie. Add to that some endorphins from the exercise—a strange concoction. I know where my aches are. Both cannabis and Covid are so adept at conveying to me where in my body lies the inflammation of the day. I have to stop and think about it, and feel it, be mindful. Then, there it is. Like a bird hiding in tall grass. Ah yes. The middle of my back, my calves, my knees. They are barking at me, squawking, asking me to consider their plight. Behind my left shoulder. My feet, the bottoms of my feet.

As I was coming down with this batch of Covid, the feet were the first place in my body that stood out as being unexplainably sore. We were up in Hastings, MN, visiting my buddy from college and his wife. Ain't it grand to get sick in someone else's house? We stopped in Iowa City, IA, on the way, stayed in a hotel. I ran four miles on the treadmill in the gym there, at an incline for half of that time. I felt good, I was humming. We walked a lot around Hastings, went out on foot a couple of times a day, just tooling around. The second morning of our Hastings stay I began to think my feet felt really sore but I stored the thought away. We had a whole 'nother day to enjoy, during which I felt less and less myself, more and more sick.

Anyway! These Betty's Eddies are just fine! Each taffy is 10 mg THC, 2.5 mg THCV. Sativa is a fair classification. Don't take one of these if you are about to try to sleep! By no means are these effects unique in the world of cannabis edibles but they allow for a thorough and unhurried sativa high—without much of a head-rush, freak-out, mind-scraping bite. The exercise probably helped me through that initial phase of the high; the high probably helped me through some of the exercise. Maybe this is why some people like to get a little high and then do their exercise. Generally, that is not my approach. But it worked well for me today.

These effects are as strong and appropriate for pen-to-paper as any flower effects I have experienced. Without having to smoke to get the effects. I'm mainly a flower guy but if I couldn't smoke for some reason, these watermelon Betty's would be a staple in my rotation...


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Rum Pie by Curio

'Twas given me by a friend last night around a small outside fire. Pre-roll. This was before the snow.

Curio says this Rum Pie strain leans sativa but most of the references online classify it as a 60/40 indica. The genetics are intriguing: Mandarin Cookies x (I-95 x Chemdog).

Whenever I see Mandarin Cookies in a lineage I get interested. I went through an eighth of Mandarin Cookies earlier this year, a most enjoyable experience. It created that "baked" effect by which I am relaxed, curious, carefree, open. I have not seen straight-up Mandarin Cookies since but if I see it listed as a strain's parent I'll give that strain a try.

I also know I-95 x Chemdog—as a parent, not as a standalone strain. It's one of the parents of 91 Bacio, a Fig Farms creation. The Chemdog in this cross is ChemD. I-95 is Triangle Kush x (Legend OG x Stardawg IX2). It's the phenotype of Stardawg named after Corey Haim. Source: Seedfinder, link here.

I was always curious why it was named after Corey Haim. The best explanation I found is on the Greenpoint Seeds site. (Link here.). Top Dawg seeds created Stardawg. Greenpoint worked it further. They say the phenotype was named after the tragic child star because it is the "black sheep" of the Star Dawg family. As they put it, "The moniker suggests a strain that is 'too much for most to handle.'"

Anyway, this post is about Rum Pie so let's get this thing back on track! If you can't tell I am slowly becoming quite baked, my mind happily drifting from one curiosity to another.

This is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Five inches of wet snow fell early this morning. After a pleasant evening around the small bonfire last night, we awoke this morning into a totally transformed winter landscape—surreal.


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Crazy Hazy by Island

This was the only purchase of Island bud I have made. They shorted me. I weighed it out to 3.4 grams. I haven't avoided Island; they just weren't on the Beyond/Hello menu that much in 2025. I haven't ventured out to any other Illinois dispensaries but I know they are out there (Shiloh, Collinsville, Troy). I also buy in Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona, so I am trying here and there throughout the year.

The Crazy Hazy was nice looking bud. It was a strain that I found pleasant to grind up. It had that feel of being "right." So I'll see how the effects are on this, my last or penultimate joint from the eighth. I will try to use the effects as motivation to do something useful. Crazy Hazy was dubbed a sativa on the dispensary menu but my sources for lineage online indicate it as an indica. For what that is worth! The breeder is Archive Seed Bank (link to Seedfinder page here). They spell the Hazy with another "e" i.e. "Crazy Hazey."

The lineage is unusual. One parent is an unknown strain called Big Sur Holy Weed. I have an image of the 1970s in my mind, VW buses and the West Coast. The other parent is Face Off OG x Moonbow #75. I have tended to like Face Off crosses/descendants. Animal Face being one, Do-Si-Dos being another.

Anyway, I am feeling the need to get up and make some preparations for the continuing cold and the oncoming snow. It is going to snow tonight, tomorrow, and on into Sunday. Only five inches if we are lucky...


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