This is Carl. He lives in the giant pothos plant growing out of one of my living room aquariums. Carl has been offered a private luxury residence on the covered porch many times, but always returns to the great indoors. Carl knows what’s up.
Where you live/grew up, what is the word for the natural path between two points that often goes near a more formal walkway/sidewalk?
The formal English word is “desire path” which always gave me the ick. In german it was technically “Trampelpfad” (trampel path) but colloquially in the areas I grew up it was usually Gänsenpfad (goose path) or “Ziegenpfad” (goat path), usually dependent on which small livestock was more common to the region. #linguistics
As a caregiver of two adults with mobility devices, one of the things I love about the county where I live is the abundance of conservation parks with accessibility features.
On the downside, they’re not fully accessible. 😕 1/2
Many of the paved paths and boardwalks are not wide enough for two wheelchairs (or a wheelchair and a stroller) to comfortably pass each other. Which means that sometimes I have to disengage one electric wheelchair and manually backup or manoeuvre to the nearest passing area, without losing track of the person with the walker. 🙃 2/2
@mycrowgirl ugh yeah… there’s this one spot near me where there is an enormous gap between the pavement and a foot bridge. The pavement settled right there and now I can’t get over that without pulling the wheelchair backwards over that spot (and it’s a big enough drop that going down it can cause the person in the chair to fall forward)
I hadn't seen our resident otters in a while, which was giving me a sad. Today, while doing dishes, I looked up and saw two adults and three wee pups!
Apparently Emmett found a missus and started a family! We have an old cattle pond at the north corner of our property and that bank has been Emmett's preferred potty area... as you can see by this picture, he's passing that tradition on to his family :D Potato quality pic through dirty window, but glad I managed to grab the camera in time!
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In the Ozarks for the eclipse. Met this friendo at the campground yesterday! It had a nest right over a campsite around the bend from us. It had brought a snake-snack for its bebeh birbs! Couldn’t get focus on the nest without encroaching on someone’s campsite, but this one did not mind striking a pose.