Antique photo of three people posing with bicycles at the Stonehenge archaeological site. On the left is a couple and on the right is a solo man. They're right up at the base of the stones; there are no fences or barriers to keep them and their bikes at a distance.
Cyclists at Stonehenge
ca. late 1890s
a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers
thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool
important mini thread
question:
a family I know paid rent for their immigrant neighbor as he was out of work for during the ICE surge.
he still needs help. he is a contractor. the family needs an urgent bathroom repair and can't afford his rent this month. BUT he has the skills to do it.
could we crowdfund this?
it's a big ask—$7,000. and no one, neither the family or the contractor, can be public. so i guess I would make the fundraiser?
$5,000 of the $7,000 is labor, and would pay his rent for his family of 5 for almost 3 months.
it feels like a good opportunity to help two families.
If you want to contribute: www.paypal.com/pool/9owqDRD...
The floodgates are about ready to open here-- BirdCast is predicting hundreds of millions of birds will be moving above the continental US in the next two nights, coming my way. I've already picked up three warbler species on my #TenMinMerlin this week! Gonna see more of that pink-orange soon 🤞
they often want you to get your hormones tested which *only* give you a snap shot of that a moment when blood was drawn. the levels can vary greatly even throughout the day, let alone points in cycles.
guidelines say now to treat symptoms but docs mostly don't want to.
no. trying to navigate this without insurance rn. nearly impossible.
if the person is insured there are some online prescribers who will accept most insurance. without i'm looking at hundreds of dollars a month in appts and scripts.
most IRL docs think it's unnecessary & aren't current with info.
pls stop passing on the right. it's not safe. for anyone, especially you.
NO
roger:
what to have for lunch. hmnmmmmmmm.
two leeks sprouting up in a messy garden
wild leeks appear!!!
i didn’t have problems at ALL until perimenopause hit :(
it is entirely possible for you to do this in your space. it is one of my projects for the year i think.
also i’m allergic to “adhesive” generally. but these weird lil units didn’t irritate me at all, and after 36 hours basically pulled a completely underground, very painful zit out without me having to do anything?
(this would have retreated & reemerged, maybe for years, had i not intervened!!!)
i was given zit patch things free with purchase (well it was a warranty replacement for a purchase and i still came with extras!!) and i’m here to say: they fucking work
you can't run around planting trees, usually. BUT you can run around dropping seed bombs.
seed bombs full of native-ish plants that are declining (or from surrounding areas to facilitate climate migration of fauna in the case of the -ish). you don't need permission to help spread seeds we impeded.
this is iowa. but it’s a good pocket prairie guide.
earth day, ime, has always been about what you, an individual can do.
so that’s how i approached this conversation and when i was growing up the msging has been “plant a tree”
and that’s good but not universally applicable to individuals and the natural spaces they control.
and my original skeet is more about recognizing and working within the limitations of the area/region as well as the physical space.
i’m replacing elms w/hazelnuts bc the resistant elms i tried to plant kept dying from extreme wind. (four of them, one year after the other, limb by limb, it was sad)
parks are different - there is more space and control. there isn’t going be a developer coming into a park to build out, sooner rather than later in the vacant lot owners wishes.
we should be replacing lost trees. we should be reforesting places where there is space. for sure. that’s systemic IMO
as well as the animals that impact them. (not saying the trees/the larger animals aren’t impacted too…but not at the rate of the smaller plants/animals. the bigger the more ability/resources to recover)
i default to the prairie and bee nerds i am surrounded by and rely on their knowledge/expertise.
but for a long time trees dominated the saving the earth narrative and proponents of prairie restoration struggled to be heard and that’s how we ended up with the honey vs native bee narrative & wild bee losses
but the things we do to lawns impact trees WAY less than grasses/flowers/“weeds”
i’m pretty enmeshed in the plant & invert worlds and i see a lot of all of it now so can’t say.
i’m thinking probably too much about my childhood in ND and being handed a half dead stick on arbor day and being unable to dig a deep enough hole to plant it properly bc the ground was still frozen.
clime from warmer ones surrounding it.
this isn’t as popular of an idea as it should be. since we know animals are shifting their native ranges already.
i will challenge this by saying: native ranges for fauna are changing. they will continue to shift. we should be planting ahead of them, so they can survive when they get here.
we should be shifting with them. i’m not talking about planting eur-asian natives. but like, species that survive our…
and again, it takes decades usually for that benefit to come into play. not that we shouldn’t be thinking of the future. but we can’t lose more invertebrates now bc the future needs them too
