Everything Movies Silently said, and also, it’s regional! So Kentucky has this incredibly blue-green (blue grass) grass, but even if you plant the same seeds in say, western Kansas?* It’s going to be less vivid.
Like this is a spring prairie:
*and one shouldn’t, because it’s a HUGE water hog.
![A calendar of events August 25 - September 25 (9-25) to work on being the person Dolly Parton wanted all of us to be.
8-25: Donate to the Imagination Library.
8-26: Mend something in honor of the Coat of Many Colors.
8-27: Draw something. Create art. Be comfortable with the risk of being bad at it.
8-28: Find something in your community that needs your time & attention and commit to an hour per week or month.
8-29: Take your time on something you usually hurry through.
8-30: Read something that's not on infinite scroll (book, magazine, ebook)
8-31: Remind someone you love that you love them.
9-1: Donate what you can afford to a school music program including instruments you don't use*. Make sure it's in working order, or coordinate with the school and shop first
9-2: Sing a song.
To yourself, to a child, to a pet. But sing. Find your voice, use it.
9-3: Prepare today's meals mindfully, being aware of food insecurity & waste. Have a potato if you can.
9-4: Mourn a beloved gone too soon.
Sit with your grief & feel it. If you can visit a grave, do so. In honor of Steel Magnolias
9-5: If you're the project manager in your house, take today off. If you are the managed, do your chores without being told. In honor of 9 to 5
9-6: Make amends for something you need to fix. Say sorry, do something to repair some of the damage, in honor of the [no longer Dixiel] Stampede.
9-7: Slay a personal demon. Do the thing you've been avoiding. Fix a thing that causes anxiety. In honor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9-8: Appreciate nature in whatever place you can. Be mindful of the life in the place you are.
9-9: Choose where your roots are (need not be familial/ geographic) and connect with your world as a product of history
9-10: Locate a Little Free Library and if you have a book to spare, leave one, or take one if you don't.
9-11: Defy a stereotype today.
(If you're in the US, consider gracefully abstaining from the annual wound re-opening.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddkwwmygvai35ieoxu53ge6h/bafkreigomyuda5lu6wadmz67w3sdl7eumjwm2yti5vyi2aub7bprr7qj2u)
![A post from on here that I anonymized because making a foolish statement shouldn’t be life-altering. The post reads:
“Each individual almond requires one gallon of water, more or less. [Shrug emoji]”
This statement, by the way, is false. Every *tree*, all trees, from mesquite to oak, need about 10 gallons of water per inch of trunk diameter. An acre of almond orchard uses a little more water than an acre of soybeans, at 2.6 acre feet per acre. Pistachios need about 3, walnuts need just under 3, etc. A single head of lettuce needs 3.5 gallons. All food is WATER.
Almonds aren’t measured in bushels per acre like soybeans, but in pounds, and almonds run about 2300 pounds per acre, so with 140 trees on average per acre, each tree is producing about 16 pounds of almonds. So at the most ridiculous math, that single almond (which average just under 1 gram, but let’s be generous and say there are 30 almonds in an ounce because there are 30 grams in an ounce) then that single almond is using less than a gallon of water (.78 gal)
BUT. Soybeans get pulled up and their plant matter gets (hopefully) composted, but more likely gets trashed in some way, meaning any carbon sink in the leaves, pods, and roots is totally wasted. Trees are permanent carbon sinks that permanently and year round convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and lock away carbon, and release cooling moisture to keep the surrounding community cooler and in better condition. A community with orchards has cleaner air, cooler nights, less salt intrusion in the aquifer, and more space and access for non-human species to thrive. The benefits of orchards of all species go FAR FAR beyond the caloric output they provide.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddkwwmygvai35ieoxu53ge6h/bafkreicotqlbzeig4ngl7zrfcn7qf3kic3w4yxjmjg5dqa6ab3hptczu7q)
