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Thursday Seeds | Start Again
Walking on the beach yesterday, I’m looking for horseshoe crabs. They are usually on south beach. Not this time, not a one. The water is clear, the waves are gentle, the weather is just about perfect. I’m on a mission. I need to get to the pier, walk it, then run toward north beach to see the turtles. I do so. Not much going on at the pier. The plenty is fisherman with poles. The fish, not so much. The waves are nice enough for surfing but it’s noon and that’s sort of too late for that sort of thing. Early birds get the best waves. I move to the…
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Thursday Seeds | Stitch Up the Platform
There’s been a storm! good rain. Big lights in the form of lightening! CRACK! The tree trunk is split. One half to the ground. Other half still standing. Water flows to the hole. “What do you need down there?” “Can I help?” water asks. [Ominous Silence] a series of beeps so subtle. Can you hear them? What are they saying? “Can you hear me?” “Do you care?” In Words call and return fashion. Water responds: “yes.” “We need.” “We need.” “We need.” to to to …. “Stitch up the platform to save the…
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Do we know why she did it? No.
The post below is what I wrote after reading about the marine biologist on site that was unable to “save” this whale from breach. Evidently, she took a lot of criticism from folks not understanding why she couldn’t save this amazing soul washed up on the beach. If she could have, I know that she would have. You don’t get in that line of study without love of the sea marine life. So what happened and why? One of her educated opinions was that it was an end of life move to beach. So to put this mindset into perspective, if we equate it to humans in the Inuit race,…
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Thursday Seeds | Dependencies in the plan
You create a plan. The project is great! It’s going to work and then the wheels come off. Delayed dependencies in your plan necessitate the need to do some extra planning. If you are trying to cut your lead time on a project, this is a good place to do some brainstorming. Did your predictive model come true or no? Did the forecast delay things due to weather or a cycle in the production that was not for seen? Was there a forecast at all? Some forecasting is only as good as the data given and even with smart Ai, it might not be enough to rely very heavily on…
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Thursday Seeds | Witch’s Butter
The list of plants that I want to grow. It’s changing and it’s really much the same. Catmint and Saffron Crocus are on the list. They are already in the ground. These others? Tansy is good for repelling a lot of bugs, ticks and fleas being among them. There are other ones that I’d like to grow. On the inside, there are propagations that are going on. Spider plants and pothos are easy ones and as they grow, there is a need to either get more pots and plant or give these lovelies away to others. I call it Amish plants and usually it’s given to those that have birthdays.…
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ABG visit: cinnamon and vanilla
They live together… symbiotically. 🌱
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Thursday Seeds | The Cat
I’ve posted before about the book by Blake Snyder, “Save the cat.” It’s a great book about writing and understanding of story from the inside out. This past weekend, I had a taste of that story in the literal sense. I had a cat that I could not find. He was last reported up a tree. Chased there by a neighbor’s dog. Jack, the cat, has done this before. His flee mechanism is to go UP. Dogs can’t get you when you are up. The only problem is getting down again. Just weeks ago, this happened. He was up a smaller tree and had to figure out how to get…
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Today’s bird spring time snaps
Red bellied woodpecker, house finch, female bluebird
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Walkabouts in springtime…
Something had me out and about in the woods this weekend. These were the snaps along the way. #Silverlinings
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Thursday Seeds | Sketches with no pencil
A sketch with no pencil is what, a finger painting? And what would be so bad about that? This one, a set of dolphins was done with iPad; procreate looking very much like pastels. There are sketches of my kid’s over painted fingers placed on a page to be decorated later. I may dig that out for you to see. No one would really know that was what was going on but me, unless I tell you. Does it change how you look at the sketch? Maybe. I call small autobiographic notes and posts here a sketch too. A “what if” story that may or may not be taken seriously…
