*grumble grumble* stupid eastern time people not thinking of us stupid pacific time people when planning webinars.
8am is not an appropriate time to be learning about ecological restoration.
*gulps tea like it's oxygen*
LifeLabs needs a better appointment system. Not the fault of the front line staff but what a fucking mess.
Wish we had an alternative, but nope.
Our local conservation association is doing an excellent job of World Oceans Week this week. Every day at noon they are doing short webinars.
Yesterday: QENTOL, YEN, the W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians. They are working to protect Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea.
www.qentolyen.com
Today's talk will be by a biologist telling us about kelp forest restoration.
I am so thankful to be able to access these wonderful speakers.
sunshinecoastoceanfestival.ca/kelp-forest-...
I pulled so many slugs off my baby pole beans this morning.
One plant is entirely gone. The other 7 are mostly fine.
Going to replant a seed where the one is gone. Going to figure out a cloche situation today. They just need some help while they are still small.
Sigh.
We took everything except appliances out of our garage yesterday. Cleaned everything. Sorted it and put it all back inside.
We got about 3/4 through the sorting before it was too hot, so we still have work to do.
I feel like I've been hit by a truck, whee. Getting old is a privilege but also OW.
You know what’s worse than the DOJ allowing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to go through?
The DOJ allowing pedophile-pimp Ghislaine Maxwell to go to a federal camp so she won’t expose that Donald Trump raped children.
*looks at my beautifully written to do list for the day*
Maybe I could just play video games instead?
I mean.. the ADHD meds are making it easier every day to get stuff done, but also: I don't waaaaaaaaaanna.
Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966.
Measles eradicated in the US in 2000.
Both are back because of this science denying administration.
Maybe now is a good time to discuss how MSG, monosodium glutamate, is actually partly responsible for the proliferation of the upscale taste we call "umami," and that anti-MSG pearl-clutching, none of whose health effects are borne out by scientific study, is really just weird anti-Asian sentiment.