From a local gardener:

This tick has been on display for us to show people for a while. After months in a sealed container without any additional feeding, she laid eggs. This demonstrates how long a tick can remain dormant and how many eggs one female can lay. Remember, ticks become active again in the fall, so continue with preventive measures.

If you encounter a small pile of jelly-like balls in your garden, act immediately! These are tick eggs and they're set to hatch soon.

Either set them on fire or destroy them by soaking in isopropyl alcohol. Be sure to wear gloves if you handle the nest, as it contains hundreds of tick eggs that will hatch in a few weeks. I believe it's important to share this post because tick bites can be dangerous.

Stay safe and informed to protect yourself and your garden from these tiny but dangerous creatures!

The St Louis Fed is opining on dating apps now 🙃

Hunger games

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Take a rest between the two.. ☯️

We should have listened more carefully back when computers still screamed while connecting to the Internet.

Just dropped my toothbrush charger in the toilet AMA

LMFAO 😂 Probably should have. My own experience this last almost year has probably been more harmful than a deep fried Twinkie.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is the most widely misread poem in all of poetry.

Most people think the point of the poem is that you should take the road less travelled, march to beat of your own drummer, etc.

This is a misreading.

First of all, we are repeatedly told that the two roads looked basically the same.

Some lines:

“Then took the other, as just as fair"

"Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,"

"And both that morning equally lay"

20 line poem, about 25% of them devoted to sameness of the paths.

It matters that he took one and not the other only because choices beget choices (and, importantly, foreclose others) and this is life.

We then tend to ascribe meaning and narrative retrospectively to those choices.

The traveler laments that he can’t take both paths, have all the experiences, NOT foreclose certain choices by making others:

“And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler”

“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence,” the traveler tells us. And when he does, he will ascribe meaning to his choices. He will say he took the one less travelled (even though they were the same) and it really DID make all the difference, as he says, because by making that choice he definitionally could not make the other.

Twins versus rays

Prisms

Unified souls

Cosmic Encounters

Cadence don’t care

We do what we want

Sun-forgivable

Moon/ Beams

Agape built me

Corn fed on midnight stars

Well water

City Parks

Systemic racism

Poverty

Butter and grits

Homemade biscuits & sausage gravy

Peppered with bacon grease

So enjoy your popcorn

It’s all fine

- I am hungry now 🤣

It really does. When the light comes on it brings me back to my younger years driving worse vehicles, and having to get towed. Awful feeling.

Thankfully in this case it’s a catalytic converter failing, so while not ideal, not a show stopper!

GM Dear Ones!

Nothing like a check engine light to keep you humble.