The faculty deserve so much better. Without y’all, there wouldn’t be students or a university. I can’t believe that leadership cannot see and accept this key piece of information. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Love a good 🌱 joke

How long did you potate in the water bottle before planting in the soil? I’m hoping to give some slips to some coworkers and wondering how long that takes vs just putting them in a paper cup with dirt to take to them.

I also learned you can make your own cranberry sauce throughout the year and same effects! It’s lurvely! 💜

This isn’t the feel-good story it might be meant to be… it’s awful these people have to experience this, especially people who were following the rules only to have the rules do an abrupt about-face

And there’s something inherently satisfying about a gif you can totally hear 🎶

A terrarium with a Venus fly trap, a pitcher plant, and a silver squill to start with, and hoping the combo of succulent soil for the silver squill and some sand and sphagnum moss for the carnies will create the proper humidity for everyone to get along 🤣

Top-down view of the inside of the terrarium with a Venus fly trap, a pitcher plant, and a silver squill to start with 🤣

Got everyone situated in the terrarium for now. I suspect the silver squall will eventually be moved out since they are a succulent and will want dry soil, but it can live here for the time being. They’re in a cactus/succulent soil so hoping they will enjoy cohabitation with fly catchers 😹

A smol pitcher plant and a Venus fly trap

A plant tag for carnivorous plants calling the bowl filled with a pitcher plant and a Venus fly trap “Little pot of horrors”

Found these guys marked down at a garden center and figured why not try and keep them alive. Cleaning out an old aquarium to see if we can create the proper humid terrarium habitat for them

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Totally woke and not just 2am insomnia 💜😅

B L E P

I'm nostalgic for a time when presidents were decent human beings, were kind to children and didn't abuse them

Purple columbine at the base of a tree surrounded by iris greenery

So glad my columbine keeps coming back in this one spot under the tree in the front yard. Probably because my dogs can’t trample them like the ones in the back yard 😅 🌱

A hardback library copy of the William Gibson book “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

I love it when I find gems in the library bookstore of donations & hardback discards (hoping this was a library discard that was replaced with a softcover version or interlibrary loans to make room on the shelf for additional books)! @greatdismal.bsky.social #booksky

Growing sweet potato slips from a couple Japanese sweet potatoes and a standard orange US variety

Mine are also potating slips in a bin of dirt

We must keep our frog friends healthy even when we aren’t financially wealthy 🫘 🍝

A comic panel in the style of “Where’s Waldo” with the caption “Where’s Janet?” The chancellor of UIS, Janet Gooch, has been nowhere to be found and refuses to meet with union faculty who are requesting a nearly 3% raise, a standard COLA, whereas her offer is an insulting 1%. She says she cares about the students and the university yet refuses to invest in those instructors meant to lead those students in their studies.

The faculty remain on strike at UIS. It’s been two weeks and Gooch’s parking space remains empty. There’s speculation she isn’t even in the state but actually went to DC, so who’s stalling in the salary negotiations?

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman.

Yes, that's the point.

It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

And if you’re particularly frugal and can store it, cook dried beans and measure out and freeze in ziploc bags or containers to make your own can-sized portions.

Yes!
Usually do a can of drained black beans and either navy beans, cannellini beans, or kidney beans and a can of tomato sauce with whatever seasonings and pour over cooked pasta.

We have been the beans & rice or beans & spaghetti family for so long that now my adolescents don’t really like meat anymore if I get chicken or pork. Only meat they’ll eat without hesitation is tuna or salmon. 🙃

Different varieties of sweet potatoes sprouting slips for planting next month

One of the Japanese sweet potatoes continuing to create slips that are even starting to root themselves!

Sweet potatoes continue to potate nicely!
#veg #veggro 🌱

"Mar-a-Lago face" and "a face leopards will love to eat" are the same face.

That sounds excellent for you and your meowjesty 😻

How long of a warranty? 😅

State higher education budget chair calls the UIS faculty strike "unnecessary" Rep. Lashawn Ford said he is urging the UIS chancellor to settle the strike, which is nearing a third week.

When a state rep calls for the chancellor to come to the table and meet the reasonable demands of the faculty, it goes to show where & who the roadblock is…

I showed a TED Talk in group today 😅