Spoonie lifehack: if you have one of those instant read thermometers for cooking, use it to figure out your optimal bath temperature and then flawlessly achieve it forever.
Many people suggest around 105F/40.5C but I aim for 110F/43C when I have joint pain.
Something that helped me to process a divorce and then later to transition into long covid and disability life is a dance theatre performance I saw in 2016. I mention this because it is streaming on Marquee.
It’s about trauma and grief, so use your judgement. But even now i exhale so much tension when I remember that second half, how the giant pillar is still there on stage.
Can someone please put this iconic Jenny Holzer text on an n95 and sell it to me? Thanks
An old practice from AIDS movements that I think we should try out for this pandemic: at the beginning of events, inviting audiences to call out the names of people who aren’t here because of the virus. Covid deaths, long covid, people sick today, immuno-inaccessible events, caregivers, etc. It’s so hidden, people think they don’t know anyone despite the huge numbers.
Welcome back, Few-Flowered Shooting Stars / Primula pauciflora! This one brings all the bumblebees to the yard, for “rumble pollination” 🥵
Unsolicited tea recommendation for goth tea lovers, tarot readers, and people who like whiskey in their tea… This Murchie’s number is smoked black tea with roses and fruit (strawberry and black currant). Tea is usually cosy or maybe herbal– this one is moody and horny. I’m having it while weeding the garden on a Saturday afternoon and it is intensely not the right tea for this despite being very delicious 😂
This touristy English-style tea shop went full Wouldst Thou Like To Live Deliciously?
I don’t want gardening to be a reason I hate other creatures so I am trying to cultivate more positive feelings about squirrels.
Firstly, is there some reason we are so sure that when squirrels plant seeds it is an accident? This person observed that squirrels did a better job of growing trees than humans did 😂
Maybe the squirrels are right and I should convert my asparagus patch to an oak tree surrounded by peanut plants.
Lotta people are suggesting governments should employ open source maintainers and I support that but I need you to know that they will make the open source maintainers use SharePoint
Having successfully sprouted native plants from seed using the very easy method in this podcast episode, I can now recommend a listen. Got me thinking about supporting local genetic diversity of each native plant species, not just a diversity of species.
Heather McCargo from The Wild Seed Project on Cultivating Place
Plus if you start native plants from seed you get to see their tiny baby form ❤️
This is a Nootka Rose / Rosa nutkana that sat outside in its pot all winter and popped up in March.
Sometimes it is hard to guess whether a sprout is your intended plant or a weed, but this one is recognizable even when still tiny. A little Western Red Columbine / Aquilegia formosa that sat unattended outside all winter and started slowly growing itself in February.
Yarrow started coming up in December and hasn’t stopped. It’s one of those plants that really loves life. Hopefully it will stay this happy once i transplant it into my lawn 🌱
Great Camas / Camassia lechtlinii has been making me emotional by self-seeding all over my garden after its first year of blooming, but it did come up really well in outdoor trays as well. It’s like it was meant to grow here or something.
Last baby photo for today: this is a wildflower from the prairies (not my region) that I am growing because it’s so pretty. Prairie Smoke / Geum triflorum. It was described as non-invasive here in the PNW and I would believe it– suuuuper tiny seedlings sprouted outdoors in February, but sparsely and they have been growing very slowly.
How patient-led research could speed up medical innovation, with examples from long covid and ME/CFS, including Solve M.E., PLRC, and MEAction
Of course they mention the speed of patient-led research, but I also love to see the recognition that patients help design better experiments and especially better controls. It’s hard to control for dynamic conditions and lack of diagnostic lab tests, but patients have expertise.