#i like pruning trees

[definegodliness]

Behold! My pear tree vision.

And Peps!

[magiefish]

You know, as a classics student I have to say that todays episode was very Daphne core. I approve.

Still gross as hell though.

[fluentisonus]

rip jvj i would have loved to see you learn about secateurs which were apparently invented within the (broad) time frame of the book

[squidpro-quo]

17 and 18? :0

Thanks for the ask!!

17. talk about your writing and editing process

so much waffling over word choice, it's ridiculous.

usually it starts with a scenario i want to happen, either it's missing from canon or some character deserves angst, and then it's a fight to see how little i can build around the scene while still maintaining the feeling. and so much rewriting, so many different starts to a scene or just different scenes that never survive. sometimes i'm too wired from actually finishing something to edit before posting, sometimes i hate it so much that i leave it for a few months or a year and then come back to try again and rewrite pieces until it feels like it halfway works. nothing is safe even if i write linearly, i fiddle with things at the beginning if something needs foreshadowing or a theme needs to be consistent and anything can change until it's finished

18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

unfortunately i just delete everything that's not posted >.<;; during the process there's plenty though, so here's one from an unpublished Hidden Region fic:

“See, this is why I like you two. Two peas in a pod, why worry about yourself when you can worry about the other instead? Out of sight, never out of mind. He’s looking for you.” Tenn smiles, disappearing into the maze of gears to the window on the other side of the tower, where Ryuu’s chains don’t let him reach. “If I didn’t know how generous I’m being by helping, I’d feel concerned at how he’s driving himself into the ground.”

[kihaku-gato]

Severe leg/hand strain, as well as injury falling down a tall step ladder aside, I did damn good with pruning this year.

The current calving crisis and looming field seeding/cultivating season has been making things all the more exhausting, and I still have to get the pruned branch debris collected for removal from the orchard, but I still gotta pat myself on the back for working as hard as I have despite the setbacks.

I may actually consider mom's idea of getting a battery powered hand pruner though, to lessen the strain in the future.

[salon-maiden-anabel]

i need to hibernate till indigo disk release so I can go insane over carmen and kieran lore for my verse.

[aflockofseacows]

Welp, started harvesting the third apple tree, nicknamed the wall de pommes.

I couldn't finish before dusk. I can optimistically say I've picked 2/3rds of them. They taste really good. Best ones so far, imo. Quite sour and crisp.

[fcktaken]

mosses and lichen on apple tree

[xcziel]

oh my god there is some plant in my yard that just goes ham with the burrs

went out to do some clean up since it's overcast and i wanted to put out my little pumpkin hoard but didn't put my hair up - big mistake. big. huge.

those little fuckers are stubborn

however

behold my bounty lol

[kissayoubasard]

gratefulness sounds tacky and deceitful when youre not doing well mentally but now that im better. i Am grateful for a lot of things, actually.

it's hard to remember on bad days but i think if i make it a habit it would help me a lot.

[celamity]

Pruning the top of my apple tree at the very wrong time of year due to wind storm

[asmuchasidliketo]

#i would never #but the urge is there. #also please stop putting walnuts in my flowerpots (tags on the above post)

That last tag brought back memories ��

So, this is the house I grew up in

And this is the walnut tree who sits in the center of the garden

He's approximately 90 years old in this picture and the line that you can see near the middle of the pic is a bed side rail, 6 feet long, trying to stop a branch from collapsing on the ground.

(and yes, he's leaning a lot: he grew all of his main branches on one side because that's where the light was. I chose the worst angle when taking the picture)

To give you an idea of how many walnuts a mature tree in great soil, with plenty of water, can produce in a year, picture one (1) adult human going around it and picking off all the nuts on the ground (after rolling them under their shoe to take off as much of the husk as possible).

Let's say that it takes about one hour to do this, slowly walking around the tree. It's a cool day in October, vaguely cloudy. Now and then, a nut falls on you.

By the time you get back where you started, you would swear there are as many nuts on the ground as when you began picking them.

The annual crop wouldn't be counted in liters, or even gallons. You would need a bathtub.

The squirrels LOVED us.

And every spring we had to pluck the lawn empty of baby walnut trees.

It's a good thing I have kittens because they're really scratching the itch in my brain that tells me I should grab any slow-moving squirrel

He just seems too snatchable

[savageboar]

i am very pleased with how much the hornwort, sagittaria, and creeping jenny are taking off in there.

[turtlesandfrogs]

What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

[oddestishottest]

04/27/25

[bsotted]

re: those tags

like when i tell u catholic guilt and generational repression is alive and well in new england. includign and maybe even especially among the agnostic bc that's when it's the most prevailing in the sense that it goes especially un-deconstructed when its just cultural, social, when it isn't handed down trhough literal firsthand institutional dogmatic indoctrination, but the schoolyard kind. when i try to tell ppl i the matt damon/ben affleck thing makes perfect sense actually and try to connect the dots to nathaniel hawthorne and herman melville i sound like charlie day but i'm begging please listen. have u ever heard chris fleming describe what it's like to grow up in massachusetts