The nutrients Venus flytraps receive from insects allows them to blossom, and create seed. They bloom far above their deadly traps, to ensure the safety of their pollinator friends, only taking the lives they need to as they dance the dance of survival for those who fit.
Their niche is delicate, the balance of their environment is easily damaged, but their strategy still shows remarkable adaptability and resilience, even cooperation. (thread)
#gardening #biology #CarnivorousPlants

Oh look, a post about my coloring book.

https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/04/11/coloring-book-update/

You have said something that gives someone hope. You have done something that makes someone smile, even years later. You are remembered. You have warmed someone's heart.

#coping #mentalhealth #activism
https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/02/09/you-have-done-good-yes-you-i-mean-it/

Some of my plants, some of my art.

#gardening #carnivorousplants #art

Oyster mushrooms are growing in the outside bins better than they are in the indoor bin on cardboard, where it has been taken over by wet bubble disease. The pink spawn seems healthy, so far, but I decided to grab a bucket of it and bury it in nearly every pot or bin in the garden, just in case.
#gardening

It's weird how I'm joking, and yet she's learned what a spore was today, and a bit more about vaccines.

Today's botany lesson.

You wanna talk about pride? I can't tell you how proud I am of my trans girl. She started hanging out with the little girls when she was in preschool, they would paint her nails and fix her makeup, and I would pick her up and she'd be in a play princess dress, asking to wear the ladybug next. Evidence faded over the years, I quietly waited and made sure anyone who said she was too effeminate because I was a single mom was silenced. That egg didn't crack until she was 18, and I was so proud.

Joe's been a little worried about me homeschooling, so I was pretty smug when I told him the news that our school district is facing some drama with illiteracy rates and a whistleblower got fired, is suing. Apparently the kids aren't being taught phonics, just to memorize words, and they often memorize what the teacher says instead of focusing on the word and associating it with its meaning. My baby is learning phonics :).

Cool, the Washington Post is running a sale and I've officially finally bought a paper subscription for the first time in my life, so I'm an adult now.

Crossing my fingers at Oklahoma school system. They got a lawsuit going on because their plan for employee wages was so low it was illegal. I grew up knowing our teachers were some of the lowest paid in the nation, "good" teachers went elsewhere. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized the ones who stayed had a driving passion to teach us critical thinking skills (for some reason). Oklahoma might be shooting themselves in the foot. Revolutionaries work cheap.

Great advice for calming irate customers down. Check out the emotional maturity on this teenager! Makes sense. This teen grew up to travel rural Oklahoma with her planetarium, combating science deniers (flat earthers must love planetariums) using patience and frequently recommending Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World. She promises she will read a book they recommend if they read one she recommends, then gives out her email so the conversation can continue.

Only jumped at loud sounds three times today. Do not feel the same stepping outside. And this is even with no one getting hurt. Just a bunch of bullies with an assault rifle making sure a community is on edge this fireworks filled holiday weekend. Two am. Am awake. Kind of want to punch a gun lobbyist in the face.