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Oregon #healthcare worker hoping to retire in a few years to my #permaculture farm.

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2024-11-28 00:11:12

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I found you and followed you.

2024-11-26 23:29:22

Sigh... I have probably should not have purposely chosen small servers when I migrated here. Beekeeping.ninja is closing - no fault of theirs - due to time and money constraints. (The prior server apparently had some kind of meltdown over moderation.) So I am moving again. I think I'm going to ohai.social, which is a bigger and hopefully stable, server. #mastodonmigration

2024-11-26 22:44:33

A short on the decline of a major starch and wood crop in the last century, and how quickly we forget. Also, we can grow it again:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/chestnuts-roasting-while-the-worlds?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1783367&post_id=152198026&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=80a45&triedRedirect=true

2024-11-26 14:07:28

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also we tend to feed all the feral cats and have too many dogs on the bed to leave room for people.

2024-11-26 03:17:02

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yes. I love reading that Trump’s team will bankrupt social security and Medicare the year I hoped to retire.

2024-11-25 04:41:41

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ver quick learner. One toy at a time.

2024-11-25 04:41:17

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for example, I would give him an octopus and call it that over and over while playing. If there were two toys with similar names I would pick a new name for one, so if he had a dog first, his hog would have to be a pig. It took some discipline on my part, too… I couldn’t just start calling the pig piggy.

2024-11-25 03:29:01

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mom thought maybe he’d catch clues from my eyes,so then I would studiously avoid looking anywhere near it,or facing it, or even looking like I was watching him hunt.

2024-11-25 03:27:30

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my smartest dog was a standard poodle. I bought dozens of dog toys, children’s dolls and stuffed animals. I taught him their names. I’d close him up in Mom’s bedroom (before she moved in with me) and hide whatever it was anywhere in the house, including upstairs, in the shower, etc., or I’d leave a door cracked to outside and he’d look there, too. He’d run around sniffing wildly and would bark and spin when he found it. I wish I had a video. He was amazing.

2024-11-24 16:50:22

#SilentSunday #PNW
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/538/955/140/131/590/original/6425eea41d735cbc.jpeg

2024-11-24 04:31:53

Today when I was designing my next portable chicken pens, which will be narrower and lighter than the current one, I wanted to calculate the height of the roof triangle. I asked my computer the central height of a triangle with 5’ sides and AI said ONE FOOT! 🤪

2024-11-24 04:11:02

I know this game is over, but couldn’t resist:
A hungry boy named Elliot
Whose tale I’m compelled to telliot
All of the food
So very rude
Elliot had to smelliot.
#limerickaconfession
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/535/965/403/781/293/original/5280060af0cf1cc1.png

2024-11-23 02:47:27

Walking with a splintered under gland.
#upcomingholidaystressasong

2024-11-22 04:12:40

There once was a dog named Eleanor
Who hated her bath and pedicure
Will never get wet
What a sourpuss pet.
She’ll run away to Ecuador!
#limerickaconfession
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/524/647/792/435/722/original/981cc50c843c77cd.png

2024-11-22 04:04:59

There once was a dog named Elliot
Who wished this bed was a chariot.
He’d take his bone
Far from home.
Elliot may be an idiot!
#limerickaconfession
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/524/617/546/113/412/original/e8815bed1c71285b.mp4

2024-11-21 13:59:16

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a man who in every painting I have seen, was wearing what could arguably be called a dress.

2024-11-21 03:56:50

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wish I could read the names!

2024-11-19 04:59:54

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the photo shows a woman smelling basil or mint, which have medicinal qualities. So do rosemary, lavender, and various pine/spruce/cedar terpenes. They all have mucus-thinning and antiviral properties. My grandparents knew to put strong smelling stuff in a bowl of hot water, place a towel over their heads, and lean over to breathe in as long as possible. Good medicine.

2024-11-19 03:59:37

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thanks for linking Seth Abramson’s thread in this.

2024-11-19 03:50:31

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he is often rude to her on the show, interrupting her (and sometimes others) while he blabs on and on…

2024-11-18 19:37:07

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is he the Leppard who eats faces? 😂

2024-11-17 21:59:08

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Yesterday afternoon I hand dug out the creeks/ponds a bit more to help with both water retention and movement. The clay was very wet and stuck to the shovel, and I was forced to either lift up or bend down while digging. My back is still sore today but I'm glad I did it. 5" of rain expected by Saturday night.
By Thursday or Friday I expect to see creeks overflowing onto the roads.
#permaculture #floods

2024-11-17 21:55:07

When I moved the chickens' portable pen this morning I had the distinct feeling I was being watched. I looked around. To my left there was a black male feral cat sitting watching me in the wet grass. Behind me there was a calico male standing on what was supposed to be a duck house. To the right the buck goat was sticking his tongue out at me through the fence. It was raining, so no camera/phone in my pocket.
#animals #permaculture

2024-11-17 17:30:49

Rolling Stone: "In October 2023, then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Ok.) accused Gaetz of bragging about sleeping with young women on the floor of the House of Representatives.
“We had all seen videos … of the girls that he had slept with,” Mullin told CNN last year. “He’d crush ED [erectile dysfunction] medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.” (On Wednesday, now-Sen. Mullin said he “completely” trusts Trump’s decision to nominate Gaetz.)

2024-11-17 17:21:12

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"There is a bigger game afoot, though, than the current attack on the Department of Education. As Thomas Jefferson recognized, education is fundamental to democracy, because only educated people can accurately evaluate the governmental policies that will truly benefit them." -Heather Cox Richardson

2024-11-17 16:34:15

Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans established Federal funding for education in 1953 after Russia beat us to space, concerned that our students weren't learning enough. Ever since Reagan campaigned on defunding education, Republicans have been working to make our students stupid so citizens will agree with them that our education department is incompetent. Why? Because Republicans want federal funding to support all white, all Christian schools.

2024-11-17 16:08:06

Department of Government Efficiency, eh? A long way of saying we will save money if we don't pay anyone what they were promised. 3 lawsuits against Muskrat:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-lawsuits-america-pac_n_67351000e4b0958bad3dffd3?9p=&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2024-11-15 03:33:25

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misplaced tribalism, which (like religion) is almost predetermined by family and location of birth.

2024-11-15 03:23:32

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as a permaculturist I feel this. I am interested in self sufficiency tools and books, not doomsday prepped stuff. I’m also not a hippie, and I don’t want ads for incense and flowered bell bottoms.

2024-11-15 03:00:30

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I will contue to vote D up and down the ticket because there really isn’t any other choice. But winning an election requires so much goddamn money no one normal can win. You just about have to be willing to take money from anyone who offers it… including billionaires and big corporations, who then own you.
*except Jeff Merkley.

2024-11-15 02:49:11

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isn’t it beautiful? 🥰🥰
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/484/686/342/348/408/original/34facefb159adc30.png

2024-11-14 13:52:59

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couldn’t someone have tripped over TFGs feet and accidentally pushed him towards the fire? All that hairspray and makeup would act like an accelerant.

2024-11-14 03:22:27

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same for Or and Wa. The eastern portions are less populated so they can’t outvote the blue I-5 corridor.

2024-11-13 13:07:45

I pass a winery sometimes that went out of business. They ripped out all trees to plant rows and rows of trellised grapes, which I guess the couldn’t keep up with. Wine grapes are a hell of a lot of work. So then they ripped all the grapes and trellises out, too. This one tree, just outside their fence, continues on living.
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/475/782/627/999/841/original/bb96cb52cc8e8638.png

2024-11-13 05:04:30

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let us vow to be like that tree, blooming and fruiting despite hard conditions on a steep, rocky hillside.

2024-11-13 05:01:11

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some seedlings apples are quite good, actually, especially for cooking, loooonnnggg storage, and cider - how our ancestors mostly ate them. But seedlings take forever to bear. If the trees you wonder about are 40’ tall, they could well be seedlings. Do you know how to look for graft unions?
I personally am fascinated by apples… so many tastes, textures and smells from a fruit everyone thinks they know.

2024-11-12 02:47:19

Trump picked Homan for the border. You know, the guy, who along with Miller, honestly believed children should be placed into concrete and barbed wire cages away from their families. The guy who when asked if there was a way to deport the children without taking them from their families said yes, to send the whole family “back,” including the citizen husband or wife, including family born here.
It is going to get real. 1 out of 20 people living in the US. #immigration #border

2024-11-12 02:39:02

This little guy was really trucking across the concrete floor of my gym (ok, my storage with some gym equipment I only use when it’s too wet out).
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/467/656/372/265/347/original/17969127b91af3c0.mp4

2024-11-11 05:15:43

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and as far as the people who voted for Trump, I think some of them are also intellectually lazy, not bothering to look past social media for their news. But the rest don’t want a black woman in any leadership position, much less president.

2024-11-11 05:13:19

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I know 3 people who admitted to not voting at all. One didn’t know Biden wasn’t still in the race. The other two claimed to care about Gaza but somehow didn’t know that Harris favors a two state solution and Trump favors Netanyahu killing more brown people so he can build a West Bank hotel. I am having a hard time processing that these people don’t LOOK intellectually lazy.

2024-11-11 04:36:18

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those might be “transcendent crabs.”

2024-11-11 03:58:18

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Maria will have to work much harder when her coworkers start disappearing but the same amount of crop needs picking.

2024-11-11 03:17:41

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did you happen to try one? I am sort of specializing in tiny flavor bombs, and some crabs are fantastic.

2024-11-11 03:15:43

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I’ve accidentally started a soup kitchen for feral cats.

2024-11-10 04:36:42

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and then I hope their children are very angry and vote blue for the rest of their lives.

2024-11-10 04:05:57

#ImAtTheAgeWhere I remember waiting in line with our ‘66 Caprice on fumes during a trip to Maine. Carter was president, Dad was driving, and we almost had to push the car a couple times. I think gas was .25 when we left and double that on our way back. Dad was pissed but we had to get home. Dad got an economy car shortly after and gave the gas guzzler to me.

2024-11-07 05:21:51

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I took my husband to Rocky Horror Picture Show at a dinner theater for his last birthday and we both thought it was way better than stuff.

2024-11-07 04:39:31

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I get virtually all my own clothes from thrift stores, but I have never been brave enough to do that for gifts, even if I could find a whole outfit for less than one part.

2024-11-07 04:26:26

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My big goal right now is to work on fireproofing it with waterworks. Sounds easy, right? Just rent a backhoe! My land is hilly and I already put in multiple fences, so actually I am most digging by shovel. Exercise is healthy, right?
This also improves wildlife habitat.
I also grow a lot of fruit and nut trees and a very few annual vegetables.
Keeps me out of trouble and gives me something to be hopeful about when I get off work.

2024-11-07 04:01:12

I am DONE with big corporations that fund right wing politicians. I always said I was done before, but still sometimes shopped at Amazon, Home Depot, LL Bean, and a few others. I think I need to look up Kroger because they own almost all the groceries and bought Vitacost, too. I know these corporations won’t miss me, but I am angry enough to completely pull the plug now.

2024-11-07 03:28:22

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my sentiments almost exactly.

2024-11-05 03:54:25

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in a job interview where I was grilled by 8 people, they asked how I get over unreasonably angry customers. I said eat. They laughed and asked the same question. I said I eat. Very sternly and seriously they asked again. I asked if the customer was always right. They said yes. I said there is nothing else to do in that situation but eat.

2024-11-05 03:34:41

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where could you have gone where there aren’t any possums and skunks?

2024-11-02 03:20:21

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🖐🏼🤚🏼 Both hands up! That was me, wondering what school system produced Dan! Then I was horrified about Palin, who proved her own “lipstick on a pig” comment. And now we get Vance.

2024-10-31 01:35:03

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I boosted because it’s important, but I am hoping to find another article that isn’t behind a Post paywall.

2024-10-30 02:48:12

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They seem to think if they get close enough his rich white man lifestyle and lack of consequences will somehow rub off on them. I really don’t understand why they think this because a lot of his enablers are in prison.

2024-10-30 01:48:37

I have a Decker Rat Terrier and he gets cold just like the little ones. But when he gets under the covers, I usually end up with cold feet. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

2024-10-29 02:35:30

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in a community of government employees in northern Virginia in the 1970s, we all took civics classes! I haven’t heard of anyone taking civics in public school since I moved away. I think it’s essential that all Americans understand how their government is SUPPOSED to work,and that they learn to appreciate it when it does, and to take responsibility for it.

2024-10-27 14:36:19

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Also arrested, yet to be charged on crimes against people: Dieter Klofkorn of AZ, for setting file to a mailbox that contained 20-ish ballots and Jeffrey Michael Kelly, also of AZ, for shooting up a DNC office 3 times. The latter also posted bags of white powder with razor blades on signs with anti- democrat messaging in a senior community. These people are violent AND crazy.
_Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/p/arizona-men-arrested-for-separate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2024-10-27 14:29:57

Wonkette breaks the shocking news that Trump's son in law Jared invested his $$$$$ from the Saudis in a business that plans to build resorts in areas devastated by wars in the Middle East. We are so surprised he is using this money for things we find despicable! Good on Wyden and Raskin for calling for an investigation!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/happy-anniversary-jared-and-ivanka?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2024-10-27 14:24:09

Politicus USA reports of MAGAs arrested after threatening election workers and officials:
Teak Brockbank of CO, who threatened death to multiple people, including a judge, and who possessed illegal firearms; Brian Jerry Ogstad of AL, who sent violent direct messages to Phoenix election staff; Richard Glenn Kantwill of FL, who sent well over 100 threats to election workers, some while pending charges for previous threats; John Pollard of PA, who threatened to skin an election worker. #FAFO

2024-10-27 14:11:44

the Bulwark:
"Following Trump’s 2016 victory, the Post leaned hard into its role as a guardian of democracy. This meant criticizing, and reporting aggressively on, Trump, who responded by threatening Bezos’s various business interests.
And that’s what this story is about: It’s about the most consequential American entrepreneur of his generation signaling his submission to Trump—and the message that sends to every other corporation and business leader in the country. In the world." #newspapers

2024-10-27 03:02:01

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you can spot non-locals by their umbrellas!

2024-10-26 23:10:03

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and so many people fail to realize: maybe Biden/Harris haven’t figured out how to work with both Congress and Israel, but Trump ADMIRES Netanyahu, and would give him whatever he wants if elected. There’s a big difference between wanting a 2 state solution and supporting dictatorship.

2024-10-24 02:56:10

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make a lot of pumpkin bread and freeze it. Make pumpkin curry. Parcook a lot and then scoop out seeds, cut off the skin, and cut into chunks to freeze. Keep some in an unhedged garage or covered front porch for a couple months if it’s cool enough. Enjoy!

2024-10-24 02:53:46

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all of those are delicious!

2024-10-24 02:46:52

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Hey, I keep dreaming I’m late for math class and can’t find an unplugged, not overflowing toilet to pee in. I’m long out of high school and college. Maybe if I go to the local college and find a functional bathroom I can pee in, the dreams will stop for me, too! #dreams

2024-10-24 02:41:03

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the clump of trees to the right look like an evil bunny with its head looking down.

2024-10-23 01:36:17

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if you scroll way down, there’s also an article about a 1000 year old seed the scientists were able to sprout and grow into a tree!

2024-10-21 03:32:13

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“cocknitive decline!” 🤣

2024-10-21 01:53:59

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My ballot arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I live in Oregon.

2024-10-21 01:51:53

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My coworkers and I tracked our steps in September. We ranged from a low of 1000-5000 steps for two people up to 7000 - 16000 for me, but I live on a farm and walk a lot at home. Most of my coworkers were getting about 5000 steps. This wasn't a challenge; there weren't any prizes.

2024-10-21 01:36:15

In 1769 Benjamin Franklin said there were 3 ways a nation could become wealthy: "The first by War... this is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture, the only Honest Way."
from Founding Gardeners.

2024-10-21 01:21:22

I am reading a book called Founding Gardeners, and I am delighted to know that Washington kept himself sane even as 32,000 British troops arrived in New York, and through 8 years of grueling war, by dreaming of trees and shrubbery! When he was finally able to go home, the first thing he did was an act of defiance: he planted only natives on his mile long drive.
He was in a hurry, and probably still mad; he had to replant most of them. #permaculture

2024-10-20 03:28:59

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I’m not liking this because I want it to happen. I’m liking it because most of the red states depend on handouts from blue states. Texas, for example, gets a lot of Federal government assistance.

2024-10-20 03:16:45

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thank you! Vindman is a good man.

2024-10-20 01:51:16

Did you know you can grow a perfectly fine apple from seed? A lot of people say you can't, and it's true that if you grew it *entirely* as a seedling, you'd wait a long time to find out if you liked it or not. But you can take a parent apple you like and plant the core, then graft seedlings onto an existing tree. Here's a guy who had fun with the name of an apple he grew from seed - and likes. #orchard #permaculture
https://skillcult.com/biteme

2024-10-17 03:11:58

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thank her for us!

2024-10-17 02:00:33

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No offence to blow up dolls, but she sure looks like one.
Nevertheless, I hope she’s right and they all move to Russia.

2024-10-17 01:52:28

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I’ve had 3, one of which was disastrous. I needed a d and c, 13 pints of blood in a year because apparently the d and c wasn’t complete, and LOTS of hormones. I was always sick. I finally passed additional tissue naturally over a year later. I very nearly died and left my 2 children motherless. I was without insurance and didn’t have great medical care, but at least no one was AFRAID to help me, or it could have been worse. Is this what Republicans really want?

2024-10-16 12:55:42

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The US could be similarly violent and hated worldwide if Trump wins, because he’s also not a fan of NATO, he carries grudges, and he seeks a distraction from his own crimes - much like Netanyahu. The government of Israel and the military leaders are the problem, not the entire citizenry.

2024-10-15 01:20:10

Got oddly shaped and corky apples and pears? It was probably caused by stink bugs.
https://extension.usu.edu/planthealth/research/cat-facing-insects#:~:text=Cat-facing%20insects%20are%20sporadic%20pests%20in%20orchards%2C%20but,of%20fruit%20causing%20unsightly%20dimpling%2C%20deformity%2C%20and%20scarring.
#orchard #permaculture

2024-10-13 03:46:09

I didn’t take a photo, but I was amused to find LOTS of the feral cats’ food buried in the herb garden near the front door. Guess the acorn woodpeckers were helping me diversify by planting cat food seeds. 🤣. #gardening. #permaculture

2024-10-10 12:43:58

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how about also from billionaires’ private jets and space craft? While explaining that this consumption is NOT to be admired and envied because it is hastening the destruction of the planet?

2024-10-09 02:40:43

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The description of the geological makeup is: quaternary age alluvial deposits: alluvium, colluvium, river and coastal terrace, landslide, glacial, eolian, beach, lacustrine, playa and pluvial lake deposits, and outburst flood deposits from Missoula and Bonneville floods.
Cool, huh? Look up your property!
#oregon #permaculture

2024-10-09 02:38:57

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which led me to this discussion of alluvium vs colluvium:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-colluvium-and-how-is-it-different-from-alluvium.html

2024-10-09 02:28:27

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Which led me to this article about massive ice age floods:
https://thatoregonlife.com/2024/08/missoula-floods-oregon/#:~:text=The%20Missoula%20Floods,%20a%20series%20of%20cataclysmic%20events%20during

2024-10-09 02:27:37

Looking up rock on my property ,using:
https://www.oregon.gov/dogami/geologicmap/Pages/index.aspx#:~:text=From%20columnar%20basalts%20along%20the%20Columbia%20River%20to%20the

2024-10-08 04:40:35

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how about bleach?

2024-10-06 03:32:21

Andrew Millison made a great YouTube of this pond on Don Tipping’s property. It’s uphill from some fruit trees and seed trials. To water, he just opens a valve and the water zig zags throughout the landscape. #permaculture.
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/258/353/501/458/432/original/d9637eb88bfb0088.png

2024-10-06 03:12:49

Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds explaining to a group attending a weekend class on seed saving how he selects dahlias. He finds a characteristic he likes, in this instance, a frizzy orange mop of a flower, and removes those farthest from that ideal in the first trial, getting more and more selective with each trial. He yanked half a dozen “perfectly good” pinkish dahlias clean out of the ground while in this field. #permaculture. #gardening
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/258/272/064/261/012/original/d887a519ecdc1e25.png

2024-10-04 02:32:48

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I can’t edit the alt text. It’s supposed to say couple, but autocorrect keeps changing couple to cougar. Grrrrrrr. #autocorrect

2024-10-04 02:29:14

I found an acorn woodpecker stash. #birding #foodstorage
https://beekeeping-cdn.autonomy.ninja/media_attachments/files/113/246/782/251/582/478/original/d38873c72a52d90b.mp4

2024-10-03 02:33:58

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after choosing the orange one, I will serve him these strength-enhancing fungi cookies in a seed casing basket. #fungi
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2024-09-28 06:32:25

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what kind of fine do you think we can charge God? Do we ask for little to avoid breaking the greed commandment or do we ask a lot because we know He’s got all the resources? 🤔

2024-09-28 06:24:00

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did it ever occur to them what a problem it would be for the same woman to appear in public with another man now? Even if he is her legit husband? 🤪

2024-09-27 03:35:47

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I worry so much about people on oxygen.

2024-09-26 16:23:39

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excellent idea.

2024-09-26 03:48:35

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for more about this, read Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Sinard.

2024-09-22 03:51:42

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Oh, no! That was an emerald ash borer! I was too busy admiring it to kill it.