LallyLuckFarm

@LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org

Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.

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LallyLuckFarm,

I’m sorry, I guess? They’re so much faster to nick small plants than pruners, and I work with plants and dirt all day.

LallyLuckFarm,

💕 just finished a basket of raspberry leaves for tea, though the nails did get a quick scrub first. It’s important to have clean pruners!

LallyLuckFarm,

One heckuva worm there, but I’m dying at those toenails

LallyLuckFarm,

No worries! I was enamored myself!

LallyLuckFarm,

Right?

just found out my foster, chuck, has some pretty serious surgery on the way (beehaw.org)

he’s got hip and knee problems, so he’s being referred to an orthopedic surgeon. i think it may be why he was dropped off at the shelter in the first place (the former family may have realized how expensive it would be to get him healthy again). fingers crossed we can get a treatment plan started next week. ❤️‍🩹

LallyLuckFarm,

It’s awesome what you’re doing for Chuck! If he hasn’t been taught any low key games, this is a great time to teach him some so there are familiar activities he can do while recuperating. Hide and seek with treats hidden for him to sniff out can be a good way to exercise his brain and tire him out, though use caution if he’s highly food motivated. Three card monte/the shell game is another good one to practice, which you and he could play without him having to move much at all except to point at the shell with the treat.

LallyLuckFarm,

That’s good to hear, and hopefully he’ll get to play fetch in comfort again soon!

LallyLuckFarm,

This Saturday marks the annual get together for my mother’s side of the family, always held at my grandparent’s old house, which happens to be in the next town over from where my wife and I live (everybody else travels for hours). It’s always nice but stressful at the same time, with ~20 additional people who each have expectations of you. This week is all about making it look like we don’t have a million irons in the fire.

LallyLuckFarm,

I was using Jerboa for most things but using the progressive web app as well. Sync is my preferred method for browsing and commenting at this point, but I’m still using the PWA for mod responsibilities and submissions (though I think LJ expects to have submissions working soon and 🤞 mod tools aren’t far behind). It’s fair to say that Sync is my preference due to comfort but the amount of customization is what makes it so comfy in the first place.

Questions about exercise and limited mobility

I’ve got a wedding to prepare for in a few months, and, let’s not gild any lilies, I’ve gotten pretty fat since I injured my right knee and hip and lost a lot of mobility. I get around with a cane most days, and running/jogging (which I used to do a lot of) is now no longer possible (although I can use an eliptical)....

LallyLuckFarm,

Speaking as someone who’s had ovulsion fractures in both hips and spent a year in PT from a rotator cuff injury in my shoulder, get yourself some resistance bands. They’re great for low/no impact exercises, can be used for a wide variety of regimens, and take up next to no space when stored. They’re usually sold in incremental sets such as 2/5/10/20 lbs of resistance, so you can do things like using a 2 and a 5 lb band to get 7 lbs of resistance if ten is too strenuous. They’re inexpensive as well, but don’t cheap out on them because it absolutely sucks to have one snap on you. There are plenty of 15 minute workout videos available online to help you find the exercises that target what you want to work on, too.

LallyLuckFarm,

I’ve seen some other folks that use that or left over sticker backing as transfer paper, it’s pretty cool.

LallyLuckFarm,

Hey thank you, that’s very kind of you to say!

I’m working with a soldering iron looking one from wellington with a temperature control on the base. It’s not too bad, but I am curious to see what a more expensive model feels like.

Lots and lots of little circles, that’s the trick as I understand it. The nub that’s a short, even 45° wedge is usually what I lean on most for filling areas but I’m slowly expanding my skill. A lower temperature and twice as many tiny circles can get things really even.

LallyLuckFarm,

Nope, everything was burnt in. I did go around with a small round point nib to do the outline of the lettering, though. There’s some stain post burn, “golden oak” to bring some brightness and warmth back to the wood, and they’ll each get a urethane seal as well.

LallyLuckFarm,

I agree with @Seathru that it looks like a Canna lily. It’s going to be gorgeous.

LallyLuckFarm,

My wife and I have what we call “bad communication days” from time to time, where each of us is stressed to the point that we’re less able to pick the right words for how we’re feeling or interpret things charitably. They suck, and I’m sorry that you’re in the thick of one (though I’m hoping that things will be better for you today).

Some things that have helped us keep our communication healthier in stressful events include

“X makes me feel” statements being rarely used. Instead of putting the onus of our emotions on the other with that sort of phrasing, we use “when x happens I feel y” to acknowledge that they’re our feelings about an event or statement and not something we’ve been forced to feel.

“Could you rephrase that, I don’t think I understood it the way you meant it” is something we both use when we feel ourselves getting elevated in conversation. It’s a more positive response than other options if there’s accusatory language, snide remarks, information that’s glosses over, or if we’ve just taken a statement really poorly and want to steer the conversation back to “respectful” territory.

Sometimes it takes us a few days to reach a point where we’re able to have the meta conversation about a previous one. That’s okay, and imho better to wait to have a truly positive talk than risk yet another bad one that’s based on rehashed fights. For us, that sounds like “we had a rough day the other day, but I’m at a place where I’ve been able to collect my thoughts so I can talk about them. I hope you’re getting there too, and I’ll be ready when you are. I love you.”

For what it’s worth, she works in a GI office and says that many of the practice’s patients that have this kind of procedure see improvements in their quality of life, especially if the condition hasn’t progressed to the point of an ostomy being needed. She’d like me to stress that she’s not a clinician and isn’t familiar with his case so she’s speaking in general, but we’re both hoping he and you will feel better soon.

LallyLuckFarm,

I’m really glad to know that today has been better, and I hope it’s the start of some more great times between you two as health and moods improve!

LallyLuckFarm,

Relevant link for anyone wondering what the libertarian party can do for them.

LallyLuckFarm,

Hah our pup loves to get in my nice leather chair after getting soaked too. To heck with his spot on the couch with the towels!

LallyLuckFarm,

The moviefone guy, when I’m on the phone. People are genuinely surprised I’m a person who’ll respond and not a practiced recording. I may have used the skill to avoid taking phone calls when working corporate jobs…

In text, I’m not consciously aware of influences that may be being channeled. Sometimes I’ll consciously choose “exasperated teacher” tone to type things out but that’s more a combination of all the educators I’ve frustrated over the years than one standout inspiration.

How's your garden doing? What did you learn this year?

This was only my second year gardening, and first year with my own yard 😤 Everything is in containers. I struggled a lot with figuring out a good place to put containers that got enough sunlight. I was trying to avoid the front yard because I was worried about car exhaust and grossness getting onto veggies, but when I finally...

LallyLuckFarm,

We have some “Chicago hardy” dogs that supposedly came from ones around here which comes back even though we’re apt to see lower cold temps than you’re likely to see. You should totally give it a try, just remember that “Chicago hardy” encompasses a number of different cultivars. Maybe try reaching out to your area master gardener program to see if a member has some they do cuttings of for fundraisers, or try searching your area on a site like PermaPeople to see if someone is growing them locally. Varieties shipped to you from other regions may be like rolling the dice but something grown in your region should give you a higher likelihood of success.

LallyLuckFarm,

Here’s some thanks for considering the birds, and my hope that you’re feeling well again before long so you can play in the garden.

LallyLuckFarm,

Yep, you got it! Many Rubus family plants will self propagate when their growing tips reach the ground by sending out new roots from the point where it contacts. With a little extra soil or fine mulch like chunky sawdust or fine wood chips and a weight, you can even get a whole cane to root out. Once you see a few roots at a length of an inch or so they’ll generally be able to support themselves when cut into individuals and transplanted.

What kind of discussions are y'all interested in having?

Although I don’t fully agree with the sentiment expressed by this thread, it did get me thinking about leaning even further into contributing to an environment I’d like to participate in. I personally much prefer dedicated discussion threads to discussing news stories myself and reading through the comments it seems like...

LallyLuckFarm,

I hope I can offer some of my experience, if just for some flavor in the spectrum of how some people approach the lives of creatures which sustain some of us.

We raise ducks on our property - they’re wonderful for our gardens given our location, they help to sustain the pond ecosystems we have where we live, and due to the forestry industry in our area there aren’t many native nesting ducks to fulfill the roles they play. There are serious…population pressures… in duck society which makes some form of population control necessary for the health of the flock to continue. Rather than wild predatory action (which we protect against) taking a portion of them, we can manage the population in a way that keeps more of them living without suffering that can also help to feed our neighbors in town. Our goal is for them to be able to live the best life a duck could want, with one bad hour at the end.

I cannot express to you my sorrow any time any duck loses its life. There have been accidents as new mothers have reacted to the new lives around them, and injuries incompatible with life, which have been my responsibility to resolve with the least amount of suffering possible. It is heart-rending, and it crushes me.

We’re fortunate enough to have met other folks who have similar relationships and outlooks for the types of animals they raise. We’re even more fortunate that those people in our community can provide that food that comes from their management practices to us and our neighbors locally. There’s never been a better time for people to support the kinds of agriculture they agree with by connecting with farmers who share their values and are in their communities; I feel confident saying that we should all be doing that to the extent we can.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/4af1a0cf-1c3b-4348-ad79-80122bacc2d0.webp this is me and Mira, the duckling I raised after his mother kicked him out of the nest. He came everywhere with me - to landscaping gigs, to the neighbors, on shopping trips where I could get away with it, you name it. Attempts to reintegrate him to the rest of the flock ended with peeping (eventually hissing) and running behind me to hide. His life was cut short during an outbreak of avian influenza and I still get emotional about him years later, and I have that level of attachment to all of them.

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