Better Than a Master of One

main | Ripley | 21+ | hey i'm a goth cowboy from the midwest and i love learning about everything. not entirely sure what'll be on this blog, other than nature stuff and farm stuff. i had 2 old mares - Glory and Smokey. | my other blogs are majorcharacterundeath and magpiecoded

[dykeofalltrades]

im also

@majorcharacterundeath

@magpiecoded

ko-fi

emergency backup bluesky is @/majorchrctrundeath

[howldean]

“june is over so now it’s gay wrath month” blah blah reminder that july is disability pride month and is often ignored and disregarded!! funnel that wrath into advocating for your disabled peers and amplifying their voices

[lonelywoodland]

[lindagoesmushrooming]

Hygrophorus hypothejus

[maureen2musings]

Morning fog over Dolomites

harry.lenz

[kap-wa]

Old Growth by Mitch Epstein (2021–2023)

[dykeofalltrades]

various wildflowers. wish id taken a picture of the wild bergamont

[dykeofalltrades]

help me and my friend help these dumped dogs

about a week ago, my friend found 2 dogs that had obviously been dumped. one is a puppy we've tried all the local rescues and none can really help us. i live out of city limits so i cant even take them to the pound. we're going to rehome them, but we need to pay for some things in the mean time. we're both disabled and have already spent money on them we cant rly spare

below the cut is a list of stuff we need to pay for sorted my urgency. ill be calling around to vets' offices on pricing and update then. heres my ko-fi

urgent

dog food

rabies vaccines

need soon

distemper / parvo vaccine

whatever vaccines im forgetting

actual vet appointment

heart worm test

dewormer (heart worm test required)

would be nice

pro grooming

toys

harnesses instead of collars

[expressions-of-nature]

Chuya River, Russia by Andrey Polyakov

[herpsandbirds]

Golden-shouldered Parrot aka Antbed Parrot (Psephotellus chrysopterygius), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in the southern Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia. 

L - male, R - female

ENDANGERED.

These parrots excavate tunnel nests in termite mounds.

photograph by Jan Wegener

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

My print shop: INPRNT

[dykeofalltrades]

help me and my friend help these dumped dogs

about a week ago, my friend found 2 dogs that had obviously been dumped. one is a puppy we've tried all the local rescues and none can really help us. i live out of city limits so i cant even take them to the pound. we're going to rehome them, but we need to pay for some things in the mean time. we're both disabled and have already spent money on them we cant rly spare

below the cut is a list of stuff we need to pay for sorted my urgency. ill be calling around to vets' offices on pricing and update then. heres my ko-fi

urgent

dog food

rabies vaccines

need soon

distemper / parvo vaccine

whatever vaccines im forgetting

actual vet appointment

heart worm test

dewormer (heart worm test required)

would be nice

pro grooming

toys

harnesses instead of collars

[dykeofalltrades]

the "Exotic Marble" picture of Jupiter. originally taken by JunoCam on September 12, 2019, with post-processing done by Prateek Sarpal. i'm putting the original post on Mission Juno in the source. it's more popularly taken from nasa.gov and reuploaded with that caption (it is uploaded to several [thing].nasa.gov pages w the same caption. the jpl.nasa.gov links to the JunoCam page, at least)

[clickerpunk]

Please tell us more about the forest paddock! How it's set up, feeding and watering, poop removal etc. I'm interested in alternative ways of keeping horses , like track systems, and I'm intrigued by Rudi's situation

Sure! Basically since Rudi has EMS and had laminitis last year, grass is pretty much off the table for her.

So our solution this year was to put the easy keepers who needed to loose weight in a chunck of forest we fenced in.

Up here they have a straw bed on the top, and an automatic waterer down the hill closest to the stable. We hang weighed up small hole hay nets once a day. The rest of the time they forage for leaves from the trees and straw.

I have a gps tracker on Rudi so i can monitor her movement, and they consistently move about 7-8km every day. In comparison, when they are in their winter paddock she only moves about 4-5km a day.

Poop we havent really done anything about, it's quite a good sized area so it's not much of a problem to leave it.

It has worked SO well, they have lots of shade, shelter from rain and not a lot of bugs. So it really has been an optimal way of keeping them!

[dykeofalltrades]

i really liked keeping my horses in the woods, too! keeps them fit, mentally and physically. the only problem i ever had was they trampled or ate anything that wasnt thorny, so now the woods r full of wild roses, honey locusts, and hedge apples. it was managable until i couldnt rotate pastures

[teaboot]

I live in the northwest coast of Canada so we walk everywhere and do stuff outside in the rain and swim in whatever lakes and rivers we find so imagine my smug sense of Canadian superiority when I met a USAmerican Midwesterner who was horrified at the very thought

And then I went to the USAmerican Midwest

And I understood

[teaboot]

What I mean to say is that it's very easy to delude yourself into believing you are more in tune with your environment when your environment is not actively hostile to your existence in every conceivable way

[teaboot]

BC, Canada:

Rains frequently, but the worst is like standing under a bathroom shower. Genuinely inhospitable rainstorms are uncommon.

Along the coast, it's pretty easy in most areas to walk to at least one store, or else there's usually a bus or shuttle available. There are sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere.

It's a temperate boreal rainforest, so while there are many freshwater lakes and rivers, they're usually pretty cold. The biggest danger is typically getting caught in a strong current, and the most dangerous animals in swimming distance are on land.

Earthquakes happen almost every day, but the vast majority go unnoticed. Buildings are designed to withstand bigger seismic activity, so unless it's a 5 or higher it just kind of feels like having low blood sugar for a second. There are no tornados

Rural Illinois, USA:

One minute it's sunny, then ten minutes later that distant smudge on the horizon has swallowed the entire sky in black clouds and the water is coming down like waterfall and you literally CANNOT SEE. Then there's a crash like cymbals and you need to get indoors because the thunder and lightening are on TOP of you

No sidewalks until you are in the smack dab center of town, which is a three hour walk or twenty minute drive from wherever you are.

There aren't many natural bodies of water other than small ponds and creeks, and because the environment is so much warmer, those are filled with snapping turtles that can grow bigger than a nine year old child and water snakes that are incredibly venomous. These are paired with leeches and mosquitos for that sweet umami flavor.

Sometimes Jupiter, Lord of the Heavens decides to jam his finger into the side of your house just to fuck with your whole shit and throws your truck a thousand yards into the nearest church

[horce-divorce]

"I would never jeopardize the beans" pales in comparison to it's newest successor, "beans r not woke. How could u do this?"

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

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