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)
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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
The coyote babies are back!!! And my window is too dirty to get good shots! 😅 There’s a pack that lives in the pastures around our home and it’s a joy each year to hear the yip yodels of the smols as they mature into big yotes. We don’t see them often but once in a while they will gambol and play in our back yard. We have a fence along that part of the land just to keep neighbouring cattle from wandering in, but maintain loads of access points for wildlife to travel as freely as possible.
Wild bees, honey bees, bumbler-bum bees, wasps, flies, smol beetles, and flutterers of all kinds just go nuts over this Bidens pilosa black-jack plant.
> Is it considered a weed? Yes.
> Are the seed cypselae hella annoying? Also yes.
> Will I yoink this 1 meter wide clump out of my front yard? Absolutely the f not.