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Indigo Bunting! Foraging in the Violets #birdCallOut
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Papa Cardinal was out and about too! He and his mate have three nestlings in one of our arborvitaes that we think will fledge soon too, they're about four or five days younger than the wrens based on when we first heard peeping. We dump a lot of fall leaves in the once-was-a-garden above the driveway wall as part of our effort to tamp down invasives there, and it's a really good spot for caterpillar hunting hehe
The Heat, I Am Become Slug
all the commencement speech talk is making me think grimly again of Bill Nye doing my (tech institute) class' speech, which I was over the moon about until he got up there and stolidly refused to acknowledge that a full quarter of the students in front of him were art and design students and not engineers lol
our violet lawn is the comfiest lushest damn thing and I will defend it until the day I die
getting my chakras realigned via Catbird song
The “I Squawked and Made My Previously Unknown Presence Known the Second Ashley Hit the eBird Checklist Stop Button” Wall of Annoyance
ohhhh me lawd we just witnessed a hilarious baby cardinal flying lesson
lying in the violets watching the chimney swifts >>>>>>
Sisyphus except he’s pulling shotweed
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he jumps off for a snack and a couple minutes' breather and then gets right back to it
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(obviously we have been watching this instead of doing any work) (days we both work at home are very dangerous)
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(we call the two parent wrens The Krakens, and it's been apparently the same couple since we moved in almost three years ago. they love our screened porch and are the only birds who know how to get comfortably in and out, but during the winter we have to periodically Release The Krakens if snow builds up in their door gap)
stapling a sign that says "I Am Queen of the Tangent, Please Bear With Me" permanently to my forehead
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@vapaad I got a picaridin cream for my kid last year and that shit SLAPS. now I use it on myself too lol
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@nathanlovestrees their saline wipes are load-bearing infrastructure in my household and I was dumbfounded to discover they make this too for some reason lmao
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@vapaad omg absolutely, I love this! I was so excited to learn about it after we had some Spray In Mouth Incidents lmao oy 🤦🏼♀️