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MonarchLady

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Retired Park Naturalist/Educator, #MonarchButterfly #Milkweed #OldPeopleOfMastodon #pollinatorGarden #NativePlants #nature #TuxedoCats located in Ohio. White, female, straight, married 54 years, 2 sons, 1 grandson, atheist, Democrat, disabled by lumbar stenosis but still walking. Once a Girl Scout, always…..

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GottaLaff , to random
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Via Emptywheel:

Putin gets his first choice!!!

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Sen JD Vance departs home in Motorcade reports Forbes

MonarchLady ,
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@GottaLaff Ashamed my hometown has produced this ______. I really can't find a word strong enough.

MonarchLady , to random
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@futurebird love your posts. I watched an uprooted anthill reorganize itself yesterday. Fascinating to watch how they organized to save their eggs and pupae and get them to a safe place nearly two feet away in a hole in a wall. Unfortunately I doubt the queen was with them and I wonder can they make a new one and rebuild the colony. Big black ants.

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little turtle, biiig turtle!

#TurtleTuesday

a very large adult snapping turtle sleeping on a log in the sun. they are partially obscured by a part of the log in the foreground but their tail spikes are just peaking up over it. their shell is dull but very large and smooth, their head is enormous and they have lots of extra bumpy skin on their neck
the same large adult snapper as previous image but awake and from the other side to show off their very large legs and tail with incredible dinosaur spikes on it. as well as their large lower beak spike on their mouth

MonarchLady ,
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@loren At my park, I put ours on the copier and kept records. Some did show up repeatedly. Visitors got in on the fun and brought them in. We returned each one to its found location after copying. Some ladies got a special visit with our nature center educational turtle Don Juansta. Even the rangers were pimping for him, picking ladies off the road on rainy days. Don was always willing to oblige them as he'd gotten desperate enough he was humping the toes of peoples' hiking boots!

MonarchLady ,
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@loren I only saw your last comment and didn't see the picture. Yeah, Don was a box turtle. I've handled snappers before (with a great deal of respect!) but nope, not going on the copier! They're too damn fast to be that friendly with!

loren , to random
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who taught those turtles to box?

MonarchLady ,
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@loren They have LIDS like boxes. For some reason, that saying always tickled the kids I took on nature hikes.

MonarchLady , to random
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Newborn Cardinal in our front porch hanging basket. Only 1.

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Well, the day started with a flooded basement and ended with a tornado warning. In between we installed a new sump pump and dried out half a dozen sopping wet Boy Scout troop sleeping bags. Tips for surviving a wet basement: Pack totes so that they won't overturn if they float off. Don't store them under anything else; if they can't float free, they'll overturn. Don't stack them; they'll overturn. Never put up on single 8" concrete blocks what can be put up on TWO 8" concrete blocks.

MonarchLady OP ,
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@dillyd Oh, yeah, this happens fairly regularly. We've been here since 1989. My husband got careless with his Boy Scout troop supplies, that's all.
I should point out that the contents of overturned totes generally get sucked into a sump pump when the power turns back on. And that wet tissue paper is heavy enough to crush rare German glass Xmas ornaments. We learned that the first year we flooded.

GottaLaff , to random
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📌 Via Scott MacFarlane:

We are expecting Senator Duckworth to attempt to get unanimous consent on her bill to protect IVF at about 5p today

GOP objection is anticipated

MonarchLady ,
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@GottaLaff GOP has taken an absolutist position; gonna be fun to see how they try to parse "an embryo is an embryo, period" to allow IVF. Watch them squirm. Rub their noses in it, Tammy!!!

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