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hisstogramma

@hisstogramma@m.ai6yr.org

Botanist. Gardener. Beginning birdwatcher. Mama. I ❤️native plants and wild places. COVID + safety. #RarePlants #restoration #NativePlants #Birds.

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ai6yr, to random
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🤔

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr having had IVs, I wouldn’t be terribly excited about getting unnecessary ones

ai6yr, (edited ) to Cats
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Logging onto the Fediverse every day, I think of my friends and their cats and wonder: "I wonder if they have a cute cat photo today, or if they are in the ER having been viciously mauled by the cat for foolishly trying to trim their nails/brush them?"

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr i do the one nail per day method. Kind of how i cut my kid’s hair when he was little and very busy. One snip a day and eventually it equals a haircut.

ai6yr, to random
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Huge number of Monarch butterfly caterpillars in my backyard at the moment.

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr Nice! I’ve got these pipevine swallowtails. I wish i could trade you some!

hisstogramma, to gardening
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The pumpkin patch with a few dahlias and sunflowers mixed in. All done in pots - using about 25% compost to improve water holding capacity. Dahlias especially need more than just potting soil.

White dahlia

ai6yr, to Cat
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I missed this... Vermont State University Castleton has given a cat an honorary Doctorate.

https://www.wshu.org/2024-05-15/max-the-cat-honorary-doctorate-vermont-state-university-castleton

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr love this!! Maybe UCD could bestow such an honor on Cheeto — the beloved campus cat.

ai6yr, to random
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Hmm, one wonders if this is "Jan. 6" style popcorn or prior-to-2016 standard patriotic popcorn?

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr i remember seeing freedom fries 🤢

hisstogramma, to random
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Some level 10 cuteness. My neighbor’s last litter of canine companion puppies. About five weeks old now.

Close view of a five week old golden lab puppy, sticking his paw out
Close view of a sleeping five week old black lab puppy, sticking his tongue out
Close view of a sleeping five week old golden lab puppy

hisstogramma, to random
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A story in 3 photos. A super cool chicken farm with a roadside egg, honey, and butter stand. Pay $0.25 for chicken feed. Happy chickens break out of the ranch (plus some sparrows) and come on over for snacks. Brilliant marketing department.

A gumball machine except filled with chicken scratch
Three Happy chickens at the roadside stand eating corn from the gumball machine

hisstogramma, to Bloomscrolling
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CNPS vernal pool workshop today at Jepson prairie. Stunning flowers and several rare plants. My boots were yellow at the end of the day from the goldfield pollen.

Vernal swale with yellow flowers called goldfields
Boots that were yellow with goldfields pollen
Vernal pool in a green grassland with bright yellow and blue flowers

hisstogramma, to random
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My favorite wreath that I made today. Cedar rose cones and blue berries.

ai6yr, to random
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Hmm... incoming maybe for California -- at least, the computer models are definitely spitting out heat for the Central Valley and Northern California

hisstogramma,
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@MsMerope @ai6yr ugh. A 2.5-hour outdoor high school graduation in the heat again

hisstogramma, to random
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This handsome fellow is a stray that shows up at dark for 2 or 3 dinner servings. My other kitties are mostly fine with him with just a few paw slap fights. Tried finding his people but no luck. I’m thinking we might be his people now. He won’t let me pet him yet - but I’ll keep trying. His name for now from my son is “orange kitty”

hisstogramma, to random
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Tulip planting over the break. About 2,000 going in. These are pre-chilled, thankfully, because the beer fridge would not hold all of these.

ai6yr, to random
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The other night:

Me: "I think there's something alive in that box!"

My son: "You're imagining things!"

Me: " I hear something"

(we check box, take it outside... nothing)

Today: "rustle, rustle"

(looks UNDERNEATH THE BOX)

(large Jerusalem cricket trapped in the tape holding the box shut!!! Had to put it out of its misery... but it's been here for a week 😬 )

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr awww. And ick.

hisstogramma, to Flowers
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Black-eyed susan flowers from my summer garden. An old fashioned favorite. black-eyed susan, ,

Many black-eyed susan flowers in a summer garden. Flowers have large, reflexed yellow petals with a brown center.

ai6yr, to beer
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Googles "recipes that use cheap beer"

(after figuring out it is near useless for slug trapping, and mostly just good for keeping the Wood Rat happy).

#beer

hisstogramma,
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@ai6yr my mom used to use it as a hair conditioner rinse - maybe it strips out mineral deposits or something

hisstogramma, to random
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TurboTax is the devil. Never ever again will I use that awful mess of buggy code.

hisstogramma, to random
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A favorite from my childhood. Fry Bread. New Mexico - near the Jemez Pueblo. Made by hand - the baker was taught by her mother and she’s teaching her daughter.

hisstogramma, to gardening
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This was supposed to be a pumpkin. Hmmmm. I was waiting to see if it would round out but nope.

hisstogramma, to baking
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More pie practice. All butter crust. Apple pie on the left and blackberry on the right. Next time I’ll try a lattice crust. I cooked both fillings before putting them into the bottom crust to deepen the flavor and avoid soggy bottoms.

Homemade blackberry pie with little hearts cut out from the dough

hisstogramma, to HikingPics
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Mountains in New Mexico near Jemez Springs. Quaking aspens, cottonwood, and wild rose, turning the first yellow and red.

Meadow with narrow river meandering through it. Quaking aspens, cottonwood, and wild rose, turning the first yellow and red.
Wild rose with colorful red rose hips in a high mountain meadow in New Mexico.

hisstogramma, to hiking
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Subalpine meadow walk today in lower carpenter valley near Truckee. Area protected by a land trust, thankfully.

Prosper Creek
Sierra lily
Mountain meadow with a picnic table in the front

hisstogramma, to gardening
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The first of the dahlias are coming up. This year I remembered to pinch out the plants to make them bushier so I get more flowers and they aren’t so tall. I will still need to stake them though. #dahlia #gardening

Black pots at the edge of the garden with dark green leaves

hisstogramma, to Bloomscrolling
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Showy roadside wildflower displays along the Lake county Napa line in the hot interior coast ranges. These are called farewell-to-spring because they bloom at the tail end of spring. #bloomscrolling #NativeFlowers

Beautiful pink and white flower being held in someone’s hand
Beautiful pink flower with a deep red center being held in someone’s hand with grasses in the background
The stem of a Beautiful pink flowers being held with non-native grasses in the background

hisstogramma, to random
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Little free library used for puzzles in our town. It is surprisingly busy! Puzzles and audiobooks are my evening guilty pleasure in the winter.

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