Hey #garden people! Adaptive Seeds has seed #garlic in stock today, but it’ll sell out fast. They have some very cool rare varieties! I’m getting Yuggoth, Polish White, and the red shallots.
nostr:npub14t56ew703uxuns8mqz2kjh63ngd7sq2s3cgan2j5x49cmj627ngqwaap6k wait, don’t the hairless ones actually need help getting clean?
nostr:npub1a8nm9m3648w6c3fla34pfhxrg2374qgkrsmlh6205x5vyfgmegmqmswstl did she get a spider? That’s so cool!
The thing that really struck me when FB showed me that pic from 2018 was just how fundamentally indefensible the entire town is. It’s far from the only California town with that problem, there’s plenty of scholarly words about wildland/urban interface fires, but I don’t particularly mean bottlenecks at evac routes. I mean on a house by house level, there are so many properties that cannot be rebuilt to code, that cannot be accessed by larger fire apparatuses (is that *really* the right plural or is autocorrect fucking with me?), that just can’t be rebuilt.
It happened, too. The CZU fire in 2020 was The Big One. The firefighters barely managed to save 2/3 of the town when the weather finally broke. SO many people who’d been hanging on, living gloriously weird lives in a beautiful place, they lost everything.
America is so cruel.
It was such a great place to live when we believed in the climate. When we lived at that house, there was the Bear fire six miles (iirc) from our house.
(It was arson. This absolutely psychotic looking tweaker was living at a property with a bunch of other tweakers where they’d strip stolen cars and twitch. He got in a fight with somebody else and set the goddamn forest on fire. When they arraigned him, he pointed at the DA and mouthed “you’re next” 😂 He got 27 years in jail and I can’t say I’m unhappy about that.)
We loaded our go bags, but we didn’t evacuate. I honestly can’t remember what I was feeling, but I almost always dissociate through really stressful situations.
The Bear fire started about a week after the Camp fire destroyed Paradise. The Camp fire was still burning when that fucker set our forest on fire. What the fuck, y’all.
Anyway, we told ourselves that our fire was different, because there wasn’t an evac order for our area, because redwoods live in a temperate rainforest where it rains a lot, because there hadn’t been a really big fire there for a hundred years.
(You may note some extremely dangerously wrong conclusions. Herd mentality is *wild* when it works.)
nostr:npub1zt30rymrqvm3vtdxq4wnknpsy6arkzcttkehwqttympk7ww7ezfqqg0v09 nostr:npub1h67sgsdmw973xd57e68r9x45tas69rcnr65xpa0tqcskn8dgpmaqefvwx3 I've gotten a lot better since taking up beekeeping... if you don't smash the bugs, typically they won't bite you back.
nostr:npub1esha7f4m7zfc7rlyg7ufeysw8prq76f6edjr7ajh686raeeg5gsqkt5fqz nostr:npub1h67sgsdmw973xd57e68r9x45tas69rcnr65xpa0tqcskn8dgpmaqefvwx3 wasps are much less likely to attack you if you gently shoo them, too.
Six years ago, in Boulder Creek CA. We lived in a surprisingly normal-looking house in a tiny group of houses on the other side of this bridge. If you didn’t like this bridge, or your gps had misled you, there was another bridge over the same creek like a quarter mile away - the road definitely went through someone’s back yard if you went that way.
The surprisingly normal looking house was a rental, by a widower who’d moved in with his new partner. Back when he’d lived there with his family, he’d hand-dug a tiny basement under the house, set it up as a movie room, and hidden the entrance behind a bookcase in the garage. It was still a quite normal house for BC, all things considered.
One of the neighbor houses was located on the other side of a seasonal creek from its driveway, so they hiked across with their stuff. Another neighbor house was red tagged, then sold to a nice fellow who probably had his life ruined when he found out it had absolutely no septic and not enough footage on the lot to put anything in. It was a tiny cabin, from the summer cabin sundowner days - back at the turn of the 20th, BC was turned from a logging town to a “summer cabins for the whites of Oakland” town, and it really showed.
nostr:npub1zt30rymrqvm3vtdxq4wnknpsy6arkzcttkehwqttympk7ww7ezfqqg0v09 nostr:npub1h67sgsdmw973xd57e68r9x45tas69rcnr65xpa0tqcskn8dgpmaqefvwx3 I did that in the garden the other day (had a giant spider hitchike on my head and then run down my shirt). I did not strip down though, just let it scurry away (didn't want anything to do with me, either!). Giant orb weaver.
nostr:npub1esha7f4m7zfc7rlyg7ufeysw8prq76f6edjr7ajh686raeeg5gsqkt5fqz nostr:npub1h67sgsdmw973xd57e68r9x45tas69rcnr65xpa0tqcskn8dgpmaqefvwx3 im yodeling in panic for you, friend 🥹
nostr:npub1zt30rymrqvm3vtdxq4wnknpsy6arkzcttkehwqttympk7ww7ezfqqg0v09 Eeek! I'd be more worried about the spider. The neighbor can mind their own business.
nostr:npub1h67sgsdmw973xd57e68r9x45tas69rcnr65xpa0tqcskn8dgpmaqefvwx3 she did! She was politely headed the other way when I stopped keening and looked around 😂
nostr:npub1ugly4qdf0h323qvmepxa2msemal32h6en5u43gr7llfmuksmrfaqtkyvd7 I was so unbelievably proud of my phone last night. I typoed “fucking” pretty badly and it fixed it to the swear!
nostr:npub14t56ew703uxuns8mqz2kjh63ngd7sq2s3cgan2j5x49cmj627ngqwaap6k ocarina brings all the colts to the yard
PROS: neither the spider nor I was harmed when they ran down my shirt because I stripped down to my bra yodeling
CONS: pretty sure the neighbor saw the entire thing
The plain ones and the fun one 😂
#sewing
nostr:npub1eyk5ayndqmzh05hyt55qjdzmjqzm5fveayesknejz6cxrdgtuc8qgjhpk4 that’s really impressive, Gma! When I was a teenager I worked with my dad doing home repairs, exactly that kind of stuff, and it’s not at all as simple as it looks. Y’all did a great job! Go team!
nostr:npub1shuv04vv3zxuvdmyg62vfa0d4gh6zsl5czxdfv98z7lyh094lw0q3m235l I absolutely love gay military fashion. That’s going to be stunning!
nostr:npub1l6v7tsve90dd9cq7q5ej0ajvttd5fj4g7gtv047s2phlk74tlx3sy86ylr last year’s tomatoes never got big enough to need support 😂 I’m a very new gardener! I don’t remember what my parents did in my childhood garden, because I was too scared of tomato hornworms to go near those plants. It’s all new!
nostr:npub1zt30rymrqvm3vtdxq4wnknpsy6arkzcttkehwqttympk7ww7ezfqqg0v09 nostr:npub1pur6x55dmyqencc3e97n0jv8j2820063q2rk0vgzzq0g4lxk5arsu4z24k this appears to be a nutrient issue, not likely salt as salt blocks in bedding would be very minimal. If corn was in this soil it tends to be nutrient intensive, when I have planted beans in the same soil with corn, this is what happened, it helped to do mixed plantings of a variety of plants.
nostr:npub1ha4x0gpje553c8ykm3jye29pmha0qe4nz87q7lpnfrmjkcdr0syqevpc4p nostr:npub1pur6x55dmyqencc3e97n0jv8j2820063q2rk0vgzzq0g4lxk5arsu4z24k but the corn sprouted to less than 6” and then quit trying and died! Thank you for the reassurance about the salt, that’s a relief at least.
nostr:npub1y6ymns8d6v8uqx5gxd22gkg9d3rn4txee97d9krqa8kj32tp2vcsr6f7dk it’s so very hard to lose them. Hugs.
nostr:npub1ugly4qdf0h323qvmepxa2msemal32h6en5u43gr7llfmuksmrfaqtkyvd7 your style has a weird ability to draw me out.
I can very often sense the big thought that’s in the room, the one the other person is trying to put into words. It’s not very far out, it’s more like telepathy than foresight. It was much easier to ignore when I was crazier. Now that I’m less tormented by autoimmune shit and past trauma, it’s so fucking clear now.
It absolutely derails everything if you respond to the thought before the person says it 😕