Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Just saw a Hooded Warbler in the same spot along the creek near my house where I saw one previous years. I assume it’s the same male. Welcome back buddy! 010
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Big ol’ predatory diving beetle larvae may be my favorite larvae. Caterpillars are great but they don’t stalk and hunt salamanders. 020
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Can you explain to my toddler that he needs to wait until after state testing ends to be sick? 110
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026One of the best parts of becoming a more experienced gardener is having the confidence to buy 20 plants without a real plan and get them all in the ground in a 6 hour span 020
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026We just got a nearly $7300 check from Duke Energy for connecting our rooftop solar battery system to the grid. Our house will be a reserve for peak demand times. We’ll see how this goes! 372
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Uh oh I went to the Native Plants sale at the NC Botanical Garden and left with a new garden worth of plants. Gotta redo the bed that was torn up when we did work on our house last year 130
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My grandma had dementia and it’s absolutely wild to hear Trump’s pauses and repetitions and looking at others for validation that he’s doing a good job at conversation. Sheeeeesh 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026See the NC Department of ED AI guidance sent out this time last year. All funded by Big AI companies. 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Could I have a bigger crush on the man? (Yes) but my god 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Me. Every time. Pay us sustainable wages that make it worth it to stay. Yes, current teacher training is inadequate but, even if it were, the wages are even less so. 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Very local, uncontroversial take. The Safari Eatz food truck is killing it. Also the Downtown Cary Park is incredible. 020
Reposted by Jess W-Gjonty @jontyscorner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026No problem! This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across. 11368138
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I shut a kid down so fast today when he just wanted to voice his opinion that he didn’t believe the Artemis II mission was real. One thing I have learned is that extremely online upper middle class middle school boys absolutely are disinformation agents and they have a lot of social power. 261
Reposted by Jess W-GAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026My kids have no memory of any politics but those of this hateful fucking bastard. May they live long enough to see something better. 1750770
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026New handlebar grips on the bike I bought with waitressing money in 2005. The saddle is overdue for replacement but maybe duct tape instead for fun? 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 01/04/20262 years in a PhD program on a prestigious fellowship. Switched to a teaching master’s. Recently took the LSAT twice to see how I would do (quite well) and if I want to do law school (No. I am 39 and have a toddler.) Still expect to do a doctorate. Maybe an EdD or and education PhD. 100
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026What’s the first $1,000+ damage out toddler will cause? Just this evening he was throwing landscaping rocks near our 8’ glass back door and scraped his wooden toy kitchen across the wood floor today. Door is ok. Floor scratch isn’t through the polyurethane. 010
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Sometimes I get annoyed at my stupid neighborhood or roll my eyes at my neighbor. Then I remember a drunk neighbor in Somerville who tried to break into our apartment while threatening to kill his wife. Or I remember how awful a solid 75% of our contractors and neighbors were in St. Louis. 100
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026We got solar + battery storage two months ago. I cannot overstate how cool it is to see our house essentially not use any grid power for days on end. Our (evil monopoly) utility is soon going to start paying us to occasionally draw from our battery AND cut us a $7500 check. 040
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The most egregious version of mom Emailing the teacher to get her kid a better grade 010
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Charging up my house battery because I can and that is so cool 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Ugggghhhhh no school tomorrow because of storm risk. Ugggghhhj 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I drive very few daily miles due to my one mile commute and ten minute drive to daycare every afternoon. If I did not have a tiny 17 year old paid off Toyota that needs almost no maintenance and I get gas every 6 weeks or so, I sure as hell would be buying an EV right now. 030
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I taught my 8th grade science students about offshore oil rigs and tankers and the Strait of Hormuz this week. They were horrified seeing footage of current events this week. The conversations were important and the kids were deadly serious. Treat 14 year olds like they can handle big things. 050
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026We got solar panels and a backup battery this winter and it’s humming along beautifully and I am so glad to not own a house built in the 1930s anymore. 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Osprey are back!!! Just saw one dive and catch a fish in a retention pond 010
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The toddler is still awake. It is 10:02 pm. Wpuvjsnwpeonxmvmgkgiwkqpalsbdznzmmtgnfbfbxnsjajrtmgmdmxmxmxndnddn 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Whatever awful consequence I can think of, I want worse to happen to them. No.’worse. More suffering. In public. 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Doing my part to keep the local art gallery open and the local woodworking scene alive 010
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This is not a brag. I live in Chapel Hill but have no tie to UNC or Duke so the Duke UNC game is a complete surprise to me every year. It explains why Franklin St was so busy last night. 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The people who owned my parents’ new house planted English Ivy. Recently. Whyyyyyy 110
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Immigrant family tenant farmer who left school after eighth grade to support his family, lied about his age to join the Army in WWII, then gear smith WWII Navy and electrical engineer 130
Reposted by Jess W-GShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school 140233575882
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Small potatoes but I’m helping my parents get bids from contractors a la @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and, yesterday, a painter found out I’d lived in St. Louis and spent five minutes trying to get me to give him a racist reason to explain why St. Louis is so violent (his take). 110
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Saw it at 3 am when the toddler woke up. Guillotines now 000
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Oh no I looked at the internet again and the people are idiots 020
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026We got a local measles outbreak email from daycare. Goddamnit. Vaccinations are required at our daycare with no exceptions. Guess what? I work at a school! Where many kids have exemptions! 020
Jess W-G @frogsandgrubs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Why does absolutely no one knock before trying to open a bathroom door in a restaurant these days. Wtf. 110