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Susan Ramirez
@boxofdelights@wandering.shop
mastodon 4.7.3"Books, plants, and babies, that's all you care about," my kid said to me once. And really the only rejoinder I could make was "...dogs?"
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Olympic sleeping champion. 10/10 for style.
#DogsOfMastodon
Spot the #bunny
This Caryopteris x clandonensis got planted a few weeks ago, and is being watered regularly, so maybe it is a cool spot? Anyway, the bunny did not care that I walked right up to it and took a picture. "I'm invisible. Well, maybe I'm not invisible, but I'm not moving."
#gardening
A bed of tomatoes, kale, and basil.
Bonus firecracker penstemon.
Sleeping dogs
My sidewalk strip is xeriscape, but the plants are enjoying the 2.5 inches of rain. It's on a steep slope, which made it a nuisance to mow when it was grass and weeds, but now it means that even with clay soil it has adequate drainage.
#gardening #ResilientGardening #xeriscape #NativePlants #SidewalkStrip
#Penstemon feeding the #bees and #peony feeding the #ants
A teenager asked me for recommendations to get into science fiction. I know she reads fantasy, but I guess they are different genres to her.
She said someone told her she should read Dune, and I said nooooo, you should not read Dune. I suggested Murderbot. What else should I recommend?
#Bookstodon #BookRecommendations #ScienceFiction #AskFedi
Rebuilding the #compost bins. I emptied the oldest in this set of six bins, then put it back together. The cardboard around the edges is just to keep the compost in the bin. The sticks are to keep channels open for air to get inside the compost. (Also, I had to cut down a small self-sown crabapple and I had a lot of sticks.) Then I turned the two bins behind this one into this one. They had both shrunk down a lot, so almost all their contents fit into this.
I will fight you
These are the plants that still need planting. Usually Mother's Day weekend is safe to plant tomatoes and basil, but this year, after a warm dry winter we got some overnight frosts in May.
The tiny plants on the right are three Phacelia and three penstemons, leftover from Xeriscape Demo Garden because they are too small to go in the ground yet. The tray of mixed perennials on the left is my haul from the Spring Creek plant sale.
Must be spring, because the vultures are back. The lilacs and one of my little cherry trees are starting to blossom.
I got a postcard from nantucketlit.com/postcards with a poem by @asakiyume@wandering.shop
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), two pie cherries (Prunus cerasus "North star' and Prunus cerasus 'Montmorency'), and an amsonia jonesii in bloom. Forecast of 27 degrees tonight, so there may be no pie cherries for me this summer.
#BloomScrolling #gardening #GardenInventory #NativePlants #phenology
#Spring cleanup at the #Xeriscape Demonstration Garden. The dark purple Pasque Flower is Pulsatilla vulgaris, introduced from Eurasia. The light purple is Anemone patens or Pulsatilla patens, native to North America.
More snow than we've had all winter!
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@asakiyume The postcard was so pretty I gave it to my daughter. She really likes it, picture and poem both. She said she wants to put it on the wall but she can't decide which side to face out.
It is a good deed to let children know that not everyone agrees with their parents about anything.
Reading: When Franny Stands Up, by Eden Robins
Just finished: A Wizard of Earthsea, the graphic novel edition, by Ursula K. Le Guin and Fred Fordham. I liked seeing what Earthsea looked like. The dragons, birds, boat, seascapes and landscapes are. really beautiful. But a lot of the pictures are really dark, especially the interior scenes. Read with good lighting.
Up next: What We Are Seeking, by Cameron Reed, of course! But first The Frozen River for book group.
#bookstodon #wwwwednesday
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@derekheld @tinker
I signed up for CERT this spring too! I wish my city followed your schedule, though. Ours is one weekend, 5-9 Friday, 9-5 Saturday and Sunday.
I just... don't do eight-hour days anymore. But I worry a lot about wildfire, so I will grit my teeth and get through the training.
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@TheEddieShow@beige.party I think the whiskers are very dependent on getting enough protein in your diet. One of my dogs had really breakable whiskers and toenails when I got her, but they've gotten much stronger over the years.
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@aredridel I believe that our current system of schooling for children is what makes everyone grow up believing that that is just what life is like: forced to do dehumanizing, isolated, meaningless work, while not being given the agency to make smart and empowered decisions about how the work gets done.
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@purple I take one of the sides off the old bin, and use a shovel to toss it into the new bin. It is hard work, so I don't do it as often as I should!
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@davidculley Is it The Attack of the Clones? These guys all have the same face, am I right?