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I will hyperfocus.
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I talk about my mental health.

In this broken ship, onward I go.

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2026-01-29 17:33:07 GMT

I just had a call about a Complicated matter of a Thing I've neglected. I was quite nervous (hello social anxiety).
The person on the line also looked a little nervous. Their day hadn't been so good. On top of that, they didn't know the answer to my problem. We need more calls.
But they were also very kind.
The feeling I have now is, everyone has many problems, we are all here just trying our best. And within that context, kindness helps so much.
#kindness

2026-01-23 18:55:19 GMT

Friends, with this picture I announce the #bloomscrolling season open in my garden.
Sending peace to all of you that need it.
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2026-01-18 17:17:07 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2026-01-10 21:37:41 GMT

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... and best of all, in the sunny locations the radishes grew quite a lot! As you can see, the variety that made it was the Daikon type. We've been having many tasty soups these winter. The roots are quite strong, but the leaves are so good. Even Little Kid (who is not very adventurous in trying new flavors) gave them a try.
I don't know. The thought that came to me was, maybe give your seeds a chance, the real ones and the metaphorical ones.
#gardening.
#seeds
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2026-01-10 21:34:07 GMT

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Against common advice for root plants like radish, I transplanted the sprouts to the best of my ability. I have limited garden space now, but every potential space received a radish sprout. I didn't have high expectations, but, again, I gave them a chance.
They grew.
Most of them had only leaves. I thinned those and made delicious radish leaf soup. Others started to form actual radishes.
#gardening
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2026-01-10 21:31:47 GMT

I've been wanting to share this.
Last year I found some 2020/2021 radish seeds while doing some cleanup. Yes, they were bought as lockdown-inspired gardening. The radishes were varieties I was not familiar with, and both @npub1h20…yt3h and I had tried to grow them with no success.
I decided to give them one last chance and dumped them all in the ground at the same time.
In an incredible stroke of good #ChaosGardening luck, all of the seeds from one of the two varieties germinated.
#gardening
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2025-12-31 00:56:20 GMT

During our short trip to Tacoma, WA, we fortuitously ran across this view.
May the skies be blue and your paths filled with unexpected beauty in the coming year.
#pnw
#tahoma
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2025-12-28 20:28:47 GMT

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Now I'm hearing of bringing back MTV, what is this, are we going back to the 90's? (quietly cheering while eyeballing the cassette player)
https://topspicy.social/@meljoann/115796849396089863
#note123s…ax7w

2025-12-28 16:37:19 GMT

I'm dusting off the very old laptop to access the CD reader to rip some CDs
What is going on, is this the 2000's?

2025-12-12 17:04:08 GMT

With the major floods in Washington State, I'm thinking of the incredible relevance that third places, the places that are not home and not work, have in emergency response.
Schools and churches serving as shelters. The State Fair grounds hosting evacuated farm animals. Community Colleges hosting the coordinating and logistics teams of the Red Cross.
Preserving third places is seeming very important for #ClimateAdaptation.

2025-12-11 04:05:07 GMT

This is the Snohomish River at the Lowell Riverfront Trail. The water is almost to the edge of the bank, which is at the same level of the trail. The rail line sits only a few feet above.
Water was moving really fast and carrying quite a few logs.
When I took this picture, the river was at 27' based on measurements a bit upstream. The river is predicted to reach 32' tomorrow.
#WAwx
#flood
#rivers
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2025-12-06 03:01:20 GMT

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Light train to catch the
One-track train to go check out
Mini trains
To cheer little ones
#Seattle
#trains
#ModelTrain
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2025-12-05 22:46:33 GMT

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Grading is done, homeschool completed, other appointments taken care of, and now we follow the blackbird into the forest.
Today is the kid's turn, so it is not so much a forest but an afternoon filled with trains. Small and big, the trains await for us.

2025-12-05 15:49:44 GMT

I have to sit down for work, but what I really want to do is to follow the yellow-beaked black bird into the forest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9NAm-ZPEIk

2025-12-03 02:18:20 GMT

Hahaha I didn't know this book existed. I just got it at one of the little libraries. That's awesome.
If you have not seen these books before, they are board books meant for little kids, where the authors use beautiful felt figures to reproduce classic books or movies, reducing them to the most essential by using only one word per page.
Every now and then I get obsessed with Jane Austen, so the book is going right in my collection.
#JaneAusten
#bookstodon
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2025-11-23 04:48:09 GMT

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The grafted apple trees are ready for winter!
The tree-guard covers are meant to prevent grazing from squirrels. I'm glad to have these put in place as I already saw a squirrel eating the tips of the branches from the established trees.
#gardening #apples #grafting
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2025-11-13 00:34:52 GMT

#WaterfallWednesday
This is an urban waterfall that collects street runoff water in Everett and diverts it to a wetland where the water can slow down and get filtered before entering the Snohomish River. I took this picture shortly after a heavy downpour.
The waterfall structure is part of a pedestrian bridge over the railroad.
#pnw
#UrbanRunoff
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2025-11-12 04:20:21 GMT

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you saw them life?! :blobaww: Lucky indeed! I hear you, I was quite sad when he passed.
I was living in South America at the time so my chances to ever see them were nil.

2025-11-12 02:25:39 GMT

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Here is the picture. An incredibly peaceful beach at the Kukutali preserve, in the Swinomish reservation. According to their website, it is the first park in the US that is co-owned and jointly managed by a tribe and a state.
We saw lots of native plant restoration, and the most protected areas were closed to the public. At dusk, we heard one (or more?) owls.
#pnw
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2025-11-12 02:13:41 GMT

We were in a relatively remote area today, and a bit late getting out of the trail. Being late is usual for us: the other day we ended up walking like a mile after dark, with flashlights. We didn't want to repeat that so we hustled the kids and managed to get out before it was fully dark. Yay!
Later I came here to upload a picture of the hike, and saw all the excited talk about the aurora forecasted for tonight 🙃
We were so close to being in a good place to watch it! Oh well.

2025-11-11 06:51:59 GMT

#TuneTuesday #IsThisEmo
In Spite of Me -by Morphine
From an album called Cure for Pain, so yeah, pretty sad all around.
"For a long time, I thought that you'd be coming back to me,
Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel, so cruel"
https://youtu.be/jJX6tQ9DRtw

2025-10-18 17:25:23 GMT

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Update: final harvest from the squirrel-proofed apple trees. We got 4.5 kg (~9lb). It's incredible :blobcataww:
The Kid, who grew up knowing our trees would produce a max of 5 apples, has been exclaiming in disbelief every time he looks at them.
Besides the intense grazing pressure from the squirrels, the trees are small, as they were planted by the previous owners in a not-great location (by a fence, in a semi-shaded area). And yet. Look at how much they can do!
#gardening
#apples
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2025-10-11 16:14:43 GMT

Sometimes I look around the world and despair a little. But I also make a point not to let small things go unnoticed. Or the decades-long changes.
When I moved to Seattle in the mid 2000's, there was no train, no protected bike lanes, no pedestrian streets. Now there are some.
Yesterday I dropped some food at a food pantry -it was fully stocked. Same with the Little Libraries, on a constant rotation of books.
Like Cohen said. It's through the cracks that light gets in.
#LightGetsIn

2025-10-04 21:26:01 GMT

We're taking the ferry today, a small adventure as a reward from having our flu shots, and I was happily reminded that kids ride the WA state ferries for free. In fact, kids have been riding all public transport for free since 2021.
I take the bus often and it's great to see packs of middle schoolers happily getting on the bus. I just forget ferries are also public transit.
https://wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2024/fare-free-transit-programs-boost-youth-ridership-public-transportation-statewide
#ClimateAction
#PublicTransportation
#pnw

2025-10-03 01:42:17 GMT

The Kid invented and built this space vehicle in LEGO and he wanted me to share it. He tells me it's a Space Scooter that has everything to support a person's life, including food, water, a cyanobacteria tank to provide air, a wastewater recycling system, solar panels, a battery, an antenna and a space probe launching system. He wants to know if anyone knowledgeable in #SpaceTravel has ideas on how to improve its life support systems. He also wants to know what you think. 🙂
#lego
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2025-09-24 23:10:55 GMT

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For reference, this is how I protected them:
https://social.coop/@marsiposa/115158484343611203
Now, time to enjoy them!
4/end

2025-09-24 23:08:09 GMT

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I also got some ugly ones.
Some of the plastic covers didn't ventilate well, sometimes collecting water from the rain and leading to rot. It was also more difficult to do daily checks to monitor for ripeness. One of the apples fell from the branch into the plastic cover, and I didn't notice until today.
Strawberry containers kept being the most useful to protect apples while maintaining ventilation.
All in all, I think it was a successful experiment.
#apples
#gardening
#UrbanGarden
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2025-09-24 22:57:08 GMT

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This was the Most Beautiful winner.
I instinctively polished the apples while telling my son that my mom had learned to polish them from her mom.
2/
#apples
#heritage
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2025-09-24 22:52:13 GMT

Oh my gosh, look at this year's apples from my trees! :blobcataww:
I've successfully tricked the squirrels. :blobcatgoogly:
The last two years we'd gotten zero apples, maybe one. The year prior to that 2 tiny meager and green apples that were hiding in a shaded spot. This is a dream.
1/
#apples
#gardening
#UrbanGarden
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2025-09-18 00:43:46 GMT

I recently finished this course from Penn State Extension on Water Bath Canning.
I had already some knowledge, but it was nice to learn the science behind many of the "must do" of the recipes. The course format includes many short videos illustrating how to handle the jars during the different parts of the process. This would have been very helpful when I was a beginner, but it was still great as a refresher.
https://extension.psu.edu/home-food-preservation-water-bath-canning-online
#canning
#FoodPreservation

2025-09-06 17:17:01 GMT

Jeez, now even backyard fruit comes wrapped in plastic 😒
Just kidding! It's my squirrel-proofed tree, and it's working 😀
I used all sort of containers, and the top winners are strawberry containers and clear-plastic cherry bags. With those, there is no need to make holes for ventilation and they can be easily closed around branches. They also work where there is a cluster with more than one apple.
1/2
#gardening
#apples
#UrbanGarden
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2025-09-04 14:10:35 GMT

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Update to the apple tree grafting class I took earlier in the year: all trees survived the summer and put in some length!
(The arrow in the picture marks the place where the grafting took place).
They are for now in the garden, waiting for the follow-up class to learn how to keep them for the winter and transplant them to a more permanent location.
I love apple trees 💜
#apples
#grafting
#gardening
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2025-09-03 01:29:58 GMT

I've just been biten in a toe by a ladybug larvae that had sneaked in the house with some farm produce 😳
It actually hurts a little.
@npub1ttk…q03v now I know it's not only the adult ones :blobcatscared: 😅
#NatureIsLit

2025-08-24 16:42:58 GMT

So many huckleberries!
I got the plant at a native plant sale 9 years ago. It barely measured 2 in (5 cm). I honestly forgot about it, until years later the Kid read about the existence of huckleberry pie.
While figuring out where to go picking... I recalled I had one plant in the backyard! We got a handful of berries that year. I could not see how to get enough for a pie!
The plant has since then put a couple feet in height... and many many more berries 😊
#gardening
#NativePlants
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2025-08-24 00:19:47 GMT

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:blobcataww: I had never seen baby cacti! They are adorable!

2025-08-23 18:51:25 GMT

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🙁 oh no, I see.
Lots of work and not the joyful type. Glad you were able to get it all done.

2025-08-23 18:31:01 GMT

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oh no... I missed this, what happened? 😬

2025-08-19 20:26:52 GMT

I had never been to Hood Canal and it's such a beautiful and peaceful place. I also learned it's not a canal, but a fjord of the Salish sea.
It's original name was Tuwaduq sidaqʷ, "the Twana people's saltwater".
#pnw
#sunset
#fjord
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2025-08-16 16:25:48 GMT

I was having a conversation with the Kid which reminded me of this.. when we go on urban-industrial "hikes", I really put faith on trains doing what they are meant to do, that is: staying on their tracks.
I have no idea what Hot Molten Sulfur is, but I'm pretty sure I don't want it spilling out of that tank.
And yes, the picture was taken from a trail that goes just next to the track, a favorite trail among the train enthusiasts of the family.
#pnw
#trains
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2025-08-10 16:27:51 GMT

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this is neat! Thanks! 😀
The LEGO and wooden-train enthusiasts in my house are very happy to learn this.
And yes, we still have Duplos!

2025-08-10 15:21:51 GMT

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woah you can run blocks on BRIO track? Awesome. What blocks are those?
As soon as my kids are up, I'll show them this 😃
Being able to run block-built trains on wooden-train track would actually solve some of my parenting problems 😅

2025-08-09 20:56:26 GMT

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Continuing from last week, more river talk! This time thinking about flooding in general, not only in the context of a tsunami.
This thread started because the tsunami alert for the Skagit River showed a risk extending further inland than the risk for the Snohomish River. But the Skagit river itself floods periodically, and what I find interesting is the response from Mount Vernon to address the flood risk. This response may be worth considering in the context of #ClimateAdaptation. #pnw
6/n

2025-08-03 23:14:41 GMT

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.. and here are the pictures of the rivers, first the Snohomish, as seen from the Langus Riverfront trail, just behind Everett. Then, the Skagit, as seen from the Skagit Riverwalk in Mount Vernon.
5/n
#pnw
#rivers
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2025-08-03 21:26:58 GMT

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While I'm not sure if the size of the rivers is relevant for what happens during a tsunami, I think it's worth noting the differences in size. I knew the Skagit River was larger, but I had not realized how much. According to the video I posted, the Skagit delivers half of all the fresh water in the Puget Sound! 😮
Wikipedia tells me the Skagit discharges an average of 468 m3/s of water, whereas the Snohomish only does 273 m3/s.
Pictures to follow in a bit, to see how this looks irl!
#pnw
4/n

2025-08-03 20:56:52 GMT

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pointed out it might be a problem of topography, and they were onto something. These topographic pictures show how the area around the mouth of the Skagit is much lower in elevation than around the mouth of the Snohomish. In fact, I5 lays at only ~20 ft above sea level between Mount Vernon and Burlington! Much of the surrounding area is equally low (or lower).
#pnw
3/n
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2025-08-03 20:33:16 GMT

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First, what I got wrong.
I thought maybe more water was entering from the ocean through Deception pass, which is closer to the Skagit river.
But I was mistaken. Even though water enters Deception Pass *very fast*, most of the ocean water enters through the South, through Posession Sound, which is closer to the Snohomish river.
The video linked shows this using the Puget Sound model (which is a really cool model to check out in real life):
https://youtu.be/OEQP5BwVh7A?t=181
#PugetSound
2/n

2025-08-03 20:21:02 GMT

With the tsunami advisory a few days back, I got interested in the differences between two nearby rivers: the Skagit and the Snohomish.
Both rivers end in Puget Sound, in the Whidbey basin, but the Skagit had a tsunami risk that went much more inland than the Snohomish. I was curious about that, and in trying to understand the reason, I learned a few things.
#pnw
1/n

2025-08-02 17:12:52 GMT

New thing I'm trying to deter squirrels, as suggested by @npub1ttk…q03v
So far it's working!
I don't buy much prepackaged food, so I've slowly been adding these to the tree. I have 7 protected apples right now, which, if they make it to the end of the season, it would be 7 times more apples than what the squirrels left untouched the past two years!
#gardening
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2025-07-12 17:55:07 GMT

I found an old picture that illustrates how much bigger and interesting an area becomes once you plant other things instead of lawn. Besides the vertical layers, you also get nooks with different environments, and so much color!
We started de-lawning this area on the spring of 2015. Now I have lavender, blueberries, lingonberries, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, sage, lovage, curry-herb, parsley and others (and lots of pollinators).
This is one of my happy places.
#gardening #noLawn
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2025-07-12 00:05:36 GMT

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haha yes!! I also wanted to ID it, but the problem is that I ran very quickly inside, and didn't want to go outside again to check out the wasp closer 😂 but yes, the behavior and color pointed to a mud dauber, and I was able to confirm it a couple of days later when I saw it again. Ours is black, though!

2025-07-11 19:26:41 GMT

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I saw something like that in my yard two years ago, and honest, I was scared for hours.
I'm [irrationally] afraid of spiders, and the way my brain interpreted the situation was: "spiders are the scariest thing, this entity downed a spider of its own size and it's carrying it away in its jaw :blobcatscared: this entity must have utmost power". 😅

2025-07-04 21:22:42 GMT

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After half day of work, the June produce is picked and most of the overgrowth under control.
There were some losses in areas that needed more watering than what I instructed my helper while I was away (RIP salad veggies and squashes).
Seeing together what I'd otherwise picked little by little makes me happy. And hopeful. All of this considering that, foreseeing my trip, I had planted fewer plants, and none of them got any care beyond watering.
#gardening
#GrowYourOwn
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2025-07-04 18:53:30 GMT

Look what my garden did while I was away! :blobcataww:
#gardening
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2025-07-04 13:19:00 GMT

I had not been in my garden for a month, and I just peeked out the window and everything is so... oversized...? :blobcatscared:
I have a lot of work 😅
Also, I had never seen a celery go to flower, it's actually pretty (and also as tall as me).

2025-06-07 02:38:46 GMT

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oof ☹️
I feel bad for the kids.
How are you holding up? I start feeling bad at 150.

2025-06-07 01:36:17 GMT

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😟 that does not sound good at all.
What level of bad air quality are you at?

2025-05-30 15:25:00 GMT

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thanks! Ours grew upright the first year, but this year is all splattered! I wonder if it will have new growth at the center 🤔
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2025-05-30 13:47:16 GMT

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oh, nice! 🙂
It's so exciting when new plantings start flowering.
Do you know if they need to be prunned? I've been meaning to look into that... Ours is growing in a funny way, and I'm wondering if I'm supposed to trim it at the end of the season.

2025-05-30 13:29:59 GMT

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I have those too!
How long ago did you plant them?

2025-05-29 06:28:58 GMT

I don't recall if I posted this already.. but there is a beach, in Washington State, where old toys go to play.
#pnw
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2025-05-29 00:06:50 GMT

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that's a great picture! I love blue eyed grass, and I find it difficult to photograph 🙂

2025-05-14 22:26:24 GMT

The nootka roses are flowering!
We planted them many years ago, in a bare area with terribly bad soil, consisting mostly of gravel. And yet, they grew. They had mostly vegetative growth, but this year they have so many flowers!
From a barren alley-side, to a perfumed corner full of color and pollinators 🥰
#NativePlants
#pollinators
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2025-05-09 15:32:01 GMT

Hello #gardening people, do you use any coverings for your strawberries to deter animals from eating the fruit?
I have strawberry plants in pots. This year, the weather has been good and we have lots of flowers. While I appreciate the local fauna, I'd like to be able to taste the strawberries as well 🙂
We have mostly raccoons, squirrels and birds.

2025-04-27 21:30:58 GMT

This is how last year's de-lawning effort is going.
The area is ~1.5 × 1.5 m. My son started it by planting a dwarf rose in a corner. I built from there to include some blueberries, lingonberry, strawberry, camassia, chives and yarrow. They seem to be getting along. That part of the yard now has a sweet scent, and it is occasionally visited by assorted bees and bumbles.
#gardening
#noLawn
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2025-04-21 22:31:31 GMT

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our school and our library (in WA State) recommended "Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids" by Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Not exactly a history textbook, but it shifted at a deep level my son's understanding of the Native American people from "lived in the past" to "people whose history extends to the present moment" (our family is not Native American).
It has short stories that can be read independently, but they connect across as a whole.
https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/ancestor-approved-intertribal-stories-for-kids

2025-04-12 17:53:20 GMT

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All finished! Five baby grafted trees getting ready for some healing time in cold storage.
The grafting ended up being a bit higher than ideal, but I'm happy with how the cuts turned out.
The varieties include things like Nova Easygrow and Northern Spy :blobcatcool:
#FruitTree #grafting
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2025-04-12 15:29:14 GMT

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I'm all ready to go. Wish me (and the trees) good luck :blobcatscared:
#FruitTree #grafting
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2025-04-12 14:04:28 GMT

Starting day 2 of the grafting class!
Today we work with the actual plants :blobcataww:
There are a hundred or so of participants, I'm happy imagining all those baby trees being planted in a month or so.

2025-03-01 17:37:59 GMT

The warm snap after the cold snap really got the garlic growing! The tips were barely poking out of the ground a week ago. Now they are almost 10 cm tall!
#gardening
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2025-02-21 18:26:32 GMT

I'm positively surprised with these leeks. I planted them last fall and they overwintered quite well (with Seattle mild weather, in a sheltered area of the garden).
We had a cold snap with lows in the mid 20's, and they looked sad for a few days. But as soon as the cold snap ended, they bounced back right away. I'm looking forward to seeing them grow. I have not planted leeks in a very long time.
#gardening
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2025-02-05 05:10:53 GMT

Hi! I’m Mar.
#introduction
I’ve been around Mastodon for over a year. This is my third account. If my name looks familiar to you, we may have interacted before!
I like #gardening and music (although my brain currently doesn’t let me listen to much). I used to be a scientist, but now my #neurodivergent self is mostly experimenting out with different ways of living. In particular, I’ve been slowly approaching #permaculture.