Notices by DeeAnn Little (chillicampari@layer8.space)

Season change preparations:

✅ Shoes and boots waxed (one boot needs a shoemaker repair from a broken beer bottle on the street), sandals cleaned and boxed away.

✅ Rain jackets sorted (one needs patching, ripped it on the train last year).

✅ Hackenporsches/shopping trolleys repaired (one needs replacement wheels and new rods at some point but can still do light loads for now).

☑️ Seed pod collection (still have some stragglers outside that need to fully ripen).

❌ One umbrella is missing.

✅ Outdoor plant dormancy box remained in apartment/local storage so should be an easy transfer.

✅ Slow cooker/Crockpot tested and working well.

☑️ Spin dryer moved from long-term storage (still needs inspection, cleaning and placement).

❌ Still have some very delayed plant repottings and preparation for giving away.

✅ Umbrella found! ☂️

❌ Clean and repair elliptical trainer.

❌ Redo grow light setup to accommodate indoor Fall/Winter seedlings.

☑️ Worktable 2 in progress (50% complete). This one will have a portable monitor on it so I can watch video tutorials along with whatever project I am doing.

✅ Most thicker bedding washed, air dried and ready for use when needed (too large for the spin dryer and it's good to use the remaining warmer days for this).

✅ Worktable 2 is up and used it to help mend the rain jacket ✅ that had a hole in it. I don't sew very often anymore and this repair job won't win any awards (I might redo it later to smooth out the puckering) but it should hopefully hold for a while. I watched a couple of video tutorials for guidance as I did it.

I know organizing things like this is really easy for some people but for me, it isn't. I am actually feeling a bit accomplished with this especially with how hard it is to focus in general right now so I'm sharing it and hoping I can keep it this way for at least a while.

One technical culture shock I still run into having moved from the US to Germany about 10 years ago is that there are still things/companies here that use the "queue and batch" processing method for things like SIM activation. Other things like bank transfers are pretty great, but for my phone company switchover to a 5G provider I still had a few hours of wondering if things would actually work (it did eventually, rollover was probably around midnight).

@killyourfm 👀

It's not very warm yet here on the Denmark coast so we have a little fireplace.

@tpheine Auf dein Wohl!

I don't have a BlueSky account but I am half-tempted to start one to address some misinformation (GenX, cultural wedging) making the rounds that takes literally seconds to disprove.

I will just say that many to most schools in the US in the 1980s were able to watch live television broadcasts in the classroom and often did when there were important things happening. Even the small town schools generally had access to live television, the same as at home.

@morph yep! It's like a living Gelbsticker.

@olena thank you, it's pretty neat! As the weather gets warmer it should make thinner and stickier leaves. It doesn't make the large dew beads like Drosera but when you look really close you can see them. @morph

The first Pinguicula (Butterwort) flower for this season is here.

#BloomScrolling #CarnivorousPlants #SavageGarden #florespondence #plants @plants

Without my glasses I thought that this was some weird dirt clump on the floor that I was about to sweep up, until I saw it moving (very slowly, I don't think it can fly right now). It's having a drink of sugar water from a jar lid and hopefully it'll perk up.

#bees #bee #bugstodon #insects #pollinators

Update, it has finished drinking and it's just hanging out here. I think it might stay tonight. The larger carnivorous plants are not very active yet, but I closed the door to the room they are in, just in case.

Just cross-linking another update since I broke the threading https://layer8.space/@chillicampari/114310392579944291

It's waking up a lot more but too cold tonight to let it go outside. It's also too early for good flowers as most of mine are only budding and it's the carnivores ones anyway but I read they also like basil so I offered it one. The paper towel is a walkway so it doesn't fall in the gap between pots. The pot is too smooth to get back down to the floor though.

It got back down again from the basil pot but it was pretty difficult so I made a ramp with an #openSUSE stuffed Geeko as it should have a good texture for grip and a spare headphone ear cushion for stability for the next time.

#bee #bees #insects #bugstodon #plants

Okay this is probably my last update tonight since it is late here but the bee ramp mostly works, though it needed some adjustments and now both the basil and the sugar water should be easier to reach. Good night little bee, I hope you make it.

Good news! The bee is fine and went on its way today. It followed me around last night so ended having to close all doors to the hallway. It still wasn't ready to fly yet so later I gently moved it to a cardboard box with the sugar water and brought it to the balcony for warming up in the sunshine. After a little while it started a flight check.

https://spectra.video/w/sJmFVigUC2tSRzFq2B44wz