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jeanoappleseed

@jeanoappleseed@vivaldi.net

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#Gardening, #UrbanFarming, #Dogs #Wildlife #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 #ESL
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jeanoappleseed, to random
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Good morning fr . Another hot day in the making with 🌞 & 32°c (90°F) but nice and cool for now

About to get going with more pruning in the garden before it gets too hot. Here is what is left of a small aka , a pungent herb that adds great flavor to Indian curries. Made sure to leave the berries as I’ve promised them to a neighbor who wants to grow his own. The black ones are ripe. Will be working on the overgrown guava tree next.

jeanoappleseed, to gardening
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Working under the orange tree today, building up the using pieces from the vine I’m pruning. Beautiful cool morning but warming up to a high of 27°c (81°F) later.

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Saint Johns River Sailing

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jeanoappleseed,
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@RiversideBryan very beautiful shot

jeanoappleseed, to random
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It looks like our basset, Frida, has a tumor in the throat. Starting with some testing, then probably xrays/MRI/Biopsy & we're really hoping for the best, but the Dr warned to be prepared for bad news. So a bit in shock.

It's cool & cloudy today so I then went to check on Andy to figure out if he needs food today or wants to graze outside his area, but given the lack of sun, he was still cold I think & not too interested in anything. He just wants to lounge in whatever UV he can find. Love him

Frida, our basset, sitting on the bed earlier after the vet visit. Bedroom clutter in the background and black and white checkered comforter under Frida

JoscelynTransient, to random
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Welp, looks like I'm out of a job again in 3 months 😅​😖​

The contract for the program I work for won't be renewed. We've been putting in so much effort for outreach and other things, but the grantmakers apparently expected us to have the numbers of a well-established crisis hotline that's been running for years and is already well known, rather than a brand new one that only got included on our website like last month?

Well, stressful life events for me always happen in threes - breakup, moving, and now lost job! Funnily enough, I get this kind of thing like once a year or more, I swear. I want a year where I only have one major life event some day. 😅​

When I told my wife just now, she burst out laughing, "Joscelyn! Why you do you have such terrible luck?!"

jeanoappleseed,
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@JoscelynTransient OMG. I’m so sorry. I don’t know how you deal with this. You must teach the rest of us. I hope things stabilize for you again soon. Omg.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Shunned nazi social media platforms wouldn't be a threat to elections since NO ONE but nazis would be patronizing them.🙄

jeanoappleseed,
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@StillIRise1963 Lost 10k followers but I no longer volunteer contents to the Nazi Numero Uno.

jeanoappleseed,
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@StillIRise1963 ✊🏻

beaveinflow, to random

We had an aurora show in the backyard last night and I’m pretty sure this is how the aliens get here.

A man standing on a dock admiring an aurora filled night sky.
A sky full with auroras over a pond at night.

jeanoappleseed,
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@beaveinflow wow! I haven’t seen those in 40 years, where I grew up. You’re so lucky.

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Old Southern Live-Oak • Bowden Road

jeanoappleseed,
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@RiversideBryan it’s gorgeous. And huge. What an amazing tree. I’d that moss on its branches?

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@theautisticcoach I’m dealing with a lot of anxiety and depression atm. I would like to interact with other autistic people. Maybe your upcoming Autumn workshops are the solution. I've been hoping to find some kind of group, support group, group therapy, not sure exactly, but interacting with people realtime, face-to-face. I’m not truly that social, but I do love people. I'm just not interested in partying and small talk the way a lot of people are. @actuallyautistic

jeanoappleseed, to Depression
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When , , & take over & I'm over-worked/whelmed, finding what's going on can be tricky. Doing my neighbor's yard while still having a 7-year health-related work backlog is the obvious reason. But last week was ok! Why more stress now? Well, even though I really enjoyed myself, the fact I dog-sat was one of many items that added to my weekly load even if it only involved feeding/playing once/day for 3 days. It was one of the double-edged swords this week.

jeanoappleseed, to random
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Struggling a lot atm. I feel overwhelmed doing stuff that others wouldn't do in a way they wouldn't do it (so I feel stupid). I’m . Slowly, patiently & methodically, I’m clearing my neighbor’s property of overgrowth. It's not my job but it HAS to be done. My neighbor is 80 & poor and her at-home adult kids have too many issues. Trying to show goodwill but also strike the iron while it's hot bc I have permission especially that she evicted her drug-dealing son 5 mo ago.

Young, but very tall volunteer trees that will grow into huge trees, right on the very edge of the neighbor's property line, threatening our retaining wall, only a few feet from our foundation. A number of these young trees were (not cut) much higher than our roof with branches growing above our house
Branches, mostly olive, growing theourhg an old rusty chainlink fence
Branch growing over and absorbing the metal links of the chainlink fence

ScottSoCal, to actuallyautistic
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@actuallyautistic

Conducted an experiment today, in asking for accommodation.
Hubs does his laundry Saturday, and I do mine on Sunday, but that means I'm cooking my lunches and doing laundry on Sunday - stressing me out. He's off on Friday, so I said dealing with both laundry and cooking each Sunday is stressful, and I'd like him to do his laundry on Friday. I'll do mine on Saturday.
He agreed. No argument, no hassle, he just agreed. Experiment successful.

jeanoappleseed,
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@ScottSoCal Perfect! @actuallyautistic

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jeanoappleseed,
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@roknrol Great explanation. It's like I often go to social events not because I'm in the mood, but because if I don't go a few times in a row, I stop being invited and am liable of losing the friendship. That's often why I participate in social events. But I'd prefer doing it when I really feel like it and not have cancellations held against me. @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

jeanoappleseed,
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@neuralex Interesting analogy because I also mask when I speak: I change words or pronunciation to suit who I'm speaking with. What you describe happens to me and I don't know how to deal with it. It's like I'm not an adult like others around me. It's like a sudden disconnect AND that's what there's a connection in the first place. Sometime it doesn't work at all. @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

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@theautisticcoach Masking means trying to be like the other adults in the room. Masking means avoiding subjects I get very excited about in order to avoid monologuing. People don't always mind and it's not necessarily boring, but people often tease me about my behavior. They mean it nicely, like it's cute or fun(ny), but I don't like it because I'm not trying to be cute or funny. People will say I remind them of Robin Williams or…, but I'm not trying to be funny or like him… @actuallyautistic

jeanoappleseed,
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@roknrol Fortunately, I no longer work, as hard as it was both on myself and my marriage to stop working way before my retirement (49) without an income of my own. The company… One year it was all drama with a guy getting so drunk he forced one of the executives (asset management) to drink a shot. Literally. It went so nuts that the head of HR was running after him down the street and tore her "cinderalla gown.” Not my scene… @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

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@roknrol Sorry, but what is fomo? I should be able to tell, but I can’t. Apologies… @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

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@fictionalbutnot Thank you. I think you're right and I think I suffer from FOMO as well. And a LOT! I was told repeatedly by my parents as a kid (because I was not very social) that I would end up alone and it's what I fear though I'm not sure why because I so much prefer being alone. Except for that FOMO and ending up alone... whatever that was supposed to mean… @roknrol @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

jeanoappleseed,
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@sentient_water Great video. I thought I’d thought this through, the solitude thing but this actually helped a lot give me a broader context @fictionalbutnot @roknrol @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

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@sentient_water I spend time alone but rarely feel lonely though I yearn to share more of what interests me with compatible people. I find most people are interested in things that are of little concern to me (like their hobbies) @fictionalbutnot @roknrol @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

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@Vincarsi What you say here resonates with me. The way I was taught to be, including religion, charity, goodwill, etc. didn't prepare me for the real world and put me in a position where I could be exploited, though my Dad was terrified of exploitation (he was abused by clergy plus had polio as a child) so I had a lot of mixed messages that made things very confusing and difficult to figure out. So I was taught fear & in a way it worked. It was just very unhealthy. @CynAq @actuallyautistic

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    jeanoappleseed,
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    @amyfou omg. Poor little thing. Glad it all went ok. I met someone with a golden near the mountains here and her dog had anaphylactic shock from the anti-venom and almost died following a rattlesnake bite. We’re 3 miles from there so no snakes here normally thankfully though one never knows.

    cohanf, to animals
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    1/ Still emotionally bruised from sending the who moved in here in early summer off to a new home yesterday (see yesterday's post) got some of the last photos edited. Heard the young woman who took him is so I hope that means it's going well.
    We took turns hanging out with him yesterday, with me he strolled down to the woodcutting area, smelled some squirrel dens, and laid around looking beautiful.

    looking through a pile of wood debris, over the head and shoulders of a black cat on the other side, looking away. The light is hitting the backs of his ears, and they are shining. He's looking across a shaded area strewn with spruce needles and various twigs.
    a black cat stands looking intently into the entrance of a squirrel burrow, on soil covered with dry twigs and the squirrel's spruce scale debris (left after it opens the cones to get the seeds). He is partly obscured by green and bluish vegetation and hanging dead spruce branches. His tail is straight up, disappearing into the leaves.

    jeanoappleseed,
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    @amyfou After the Mom left, not knowing how to attract the cats to be captured, I recorded them because they were meowing a lot. Then I used to meowing to attract them into my house, by leaving my computers by the window playing on a loop. It was a desperate move, but it actually worked.

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    @amyfou It was tough because those kittens were anything but friendly. And we lived downtown Toronto and if they got scared they'd run onto the street. I did get all of them, but it was quite traumatic, if not for them, for me, because they were so terrified. But a neighbor helped me

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