My favorites! Dad referred to calves as Williams. So seeing little "Willie's" or Williams running with their tails as white flags is enough to make me pull over to watch for awhile.

Thank you Pat!

How dare they float and fish without you! Those pelicans, like helican!

Ooops! Maybe better something showy than a slower leak. More posts, please!

When my MIL was in early stages of dementia, she brought 3 avocados to our house because they were on sale and she thought I liked them (I never used them then). I was dumbfounded but accepted them, mystified that after more than 30 years of knowing me she would have made that assumption.

I don't have the exact quotation, but it brought comfort to my brother. When a man's father dies he feels the full force of the wind in his face. Peace to you.

This content is why I follow you. When people posted their cats with your book and you posted Carla often. This. Thank you.

Love my 2 burner induction. I never hear anything but the fan that runs when its on. Cat sleeps through it.

Nothing personal, but it's greater to be an Iowa Stater.

The family farmers regenerating the soil of America's heartland ...

The family farmers regenerating the soil of America's heartland
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Well executed design features! She's a lucky one to have a sewist in the family! I would have been proud to wear that one!

This is pretty amazing and spot on.bsky.app/profile/scifri.bsky.soci...

Tall corn contest Iowa State Fair, 16 foot tall corn plants with yellow and red ribbons awarded.

Look what you can accomplish when yield isn't the only thing discussed in agriculture.

Possibly the carbon capture pipeline going through Iowa, stopped at South Dakota due to legislation blocking it, and up to North Dakota. Iowa’s Republican Governor just vetoed a bill passed that would have stopped it in Iowa.

At least they are mainly white animals and not black woolies unless you, of all people, have chosen to go slightly against the norm (a friendly poke, Jon). I worry more about black Angus cattle in the coming hotter and hotter years to come. You need the solar to make ice to keep cool. Sigh.

Your post makes me think of the beneficial use of sheep to graze within solar panel installations and animal survival going forward in the hotter years to come. Ugh. Thanks for complicating things in my brain.

I feel so seen! So girls who eventually make up the difference and excel in math may also deserve to be studied in depth to find out how and why. Too late for me, but I'm glad to see it wasn't just me.

Love this

And @mushroomjenja.bsky.social

Tiny round brown mushroom next to acorn for scale.

Stick with brownish black gloss of jelly fungus that looks like raisins.

Yellow spots on green leaf, fungus releasing spores on backside.

I've always been a mycologist at heart with limited coursework in it 50 years ago, but @lukelukeluke.bsky.social and @tanukisrevenge.bsky.social and others have me looking harder to get in on the fun. Found some jellies and a tiny brown one. Some chickens harvested to eat and share with friends.

Looks like the butterflies are on a sheer overlay. What a bold fabric for the day! So many ideas for what to do with a piece like that.

Was the seed incorporated in any particular way? I have a 40 year prairie planting on a former corn field that's being taken over by brome slowly. We hand scattered locally collected seed and have added some in the years since.

Is the dormant fire mainly in late fall?

Wood lily blooming already?

Brome or other?

What? No rotary dials? These new fangled things.

An orange cat is stretched on his back on the floor with his front paws curled like a bunny and his back paws curled and folded together. He is smiling

Pulling out all my best moves to distract you from that thing I did

I'll second this, Jason. I watch for your posts here to help stay current. Missing what you did on X with space station visibility and storm tracking.

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Possibly the most powerful, breathtaking haiku I've ever read.