*snort* I love the internet. Not only is my old "cooking video" still up, the whole blog is still there. I only bought Bob the replica skull a couple of years ago, forgot there was once a Bob who was a lower quality Halloween decoration lost in a move several years before. Here are two drawings titled "Bob" about a decade apart. (Yes, all skulls are Bob.)
Oh. If you want to tell what's poison ivy and oak a little better, here's the page Bob the elder is from.
https://dryadintheelm.wordpress.com/wild-foods-and-foraging/the-poisoned-three-poison-ivy-poison-oak-and-poison-sumac/
@tippitiwichet just FYI, some people react to Virginia creeper sap the same as to poison ivy. fun, huh?
@AskTheDevil @tippitiwichet i'm violently allergic to poison ivy, but i don't get it very often despite it being all over the place here. the berries are a very high value food for birds... so, lots of it around
@redenigma @AskTheDevil Wow, useful berries? I'll have to remember that when see it and think of the "forest wisdom", the stuff "plants teach us", the thing that combines metaphor with wisdom but is... well as unreliable as metaphors can be. I heard "poison ivy teaches us to be aware of our surroundings", and will now alter that to "poison ivy feeds birds, and teaches us to be humble, not everything on the planet is for us to learn fucking lessons by".
@redenigma @AskTheDevil Don't get me wrong. Absolutely do not read the above and think I'm not into metaphors from nature for wisdom. Fucking love that shit.
@tippitiwichet @redenigma See, I thought the itchy stuff was maybe nature's way of saying "stop fucking touching me".
@AskTheDevil @redenigma But that philosiphy won't work for human-centric mindsets. You have to make sure you include our egos in philosophies or they will never catch on.
@tippitiwichet @redenigma I will take that advice to heart.