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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

aw that does sound amazing. this whole chat makes me want to travel, camp, hike, explore-- so ready for spring... sleep well, fren!

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

oh my. it is well past my bedtime. I have enjoyed this chat vet much, Nimblenewt! Talk again soon!

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

big truck go vrooom. ha i dont think I've ever seen a newt in the wild. Those are neat critters. Where is the lichen that you see it when you rake? It has fallen from the trees? Oh it's growing on rocks?! We don't have any rocks here. all flat. just sand. our rocks are all very very tiny and old.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

probably loblolly in that area, they're a pioneer species and don't require fire to germinate--we dont burn often enough for that to be a thing here. Beeches are mature/climax trees. Pines grow superfast so that's what the paper mills plant in GA after logging, usually planted in straight rows

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

so practical. I used to rake the leaves into my beds but then I saw a luna moth hanging out on the one maple in my front yard. So now I only rake and mow when the city threatens to fine me. My street doesn't have drains, so that's not the issue here. sandy, flat, sea level. Rain soaks in fast.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

no beeches here micro-locally that I have noticed, will keep an eye now tho. What do you like about them? We are mostly in oak country. interesting thing I just learned about beeches-- "Highly vulnerable to fire and only found on areas that have not burned in a long time". hunh.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

like, baby eat some Max-C and let the bees live please

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

OMG ARE YOU MY BEST FRIEND i have a small bog garden and last simmer I started plugging all my Sarracenias with dollar weed to save the bees! I rescued 6 bees from one trap, they were all stacked up on each other-- i stuck in a blade of grass so they could crawl out and it was so distressing to me

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

also idk if it'd be juicy. i think they'd be more crunchy. low body fat, so busy all the time. but juicier than a mantis, I guess. juiciness is relative. it's a state of mind.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I wrote a strongly worded letter to Code Enforcement today bc they keep insisting that I rake my leaves. But there's BUGS in them there leaves! That's free organic tree food! seriously explained how trees work to another grown ass human being. It's wild.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I believe I have heard tales of just such a thing. I ... don;t know who's team I'm on there. Can we just... eat some aphids and get along?

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Your side of the world is very different from mine. I just took a little jaunt around your island via Google Maps. Such a lovely place! This coast has been colonized and degraded for so long. Just little pockets of nature left, in between the Walmarts. I have to fight my city over fallen leaves.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"a tuxedo decorated by a peacock" HA! i love that. also imagining "tons"-- I get excited if I see 3 at once.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I imagine extension offices are more active/valued somewhere more rural/agrarian. But alas, this is a tourist town. We'd get 1-2 calls/emails per 4-hour shift if we were "busy." Also, the pandemic was a thing during that time, so maybe that affected our traffic. We did try tho, we did try

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Rufous is a pretty one, nice! Mine are Ruby-throated. I googled and 10 different hummingbirds came up for North America, I had no idea there were so many-- most of them are over on your side, of course!

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

oh! i love that! A hummingbird claims my yard every summer, chases off all intruders--turf wars over the salvia! the drama! I did not realize they eat aphids. how did i not know that. I have never seen a hummer nest... That's a goal.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Well, there are also a couple of expert extension employees with horticulture degrees, who we'd go ask if we were stumped, but yeah--at least here in my state, it's mostly well-to-do retiree ladies doing their best to embrace the "new" sustainable gardening methods, bless

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

ha! I had never heard of 'em either until I used a zoom lens and an app to ID them. But they definitely school like fish, you can herd them with a stick. Still lots of lichen in the nearby maple, but probably not PNW-level lichen--you live in fern-moss-lichen heaven

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

oh! I get huge hornworms on my tomatoes-- parasitic wasps did their thing last year and it was sooo wicked! I'm learning to step back and just see who shows up to feast on the pests y'know? I think my garden is robust enough now to attract a healthy balance--island greenhouses maybe different tho ha

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The same mulberry once had a herd of tree cattle roaming about the trunk,so that's how I learned about them... the mealies arent an issue with it right now, but the edges of my garden always seem to get attacked in late summer. I assume somebug is out there keeping them in check naturally, eh

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I really started this whole convo bc I want more mantids in my garden, i just love them so much. There's been at least one walking stickbug hanging out by my back door for several years now, we always have a great time looking at each other and I want more of that.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

oh yeah- I volunteered in the local extension office when I did the Master Gardener program during COVID. Calls & emails are handled by vols here, so I know they'll just look it up on the university website and send me a link, ha. but yes, great place to learn abt the smaller guys in my eco-system

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

That's a good lead-- There's a native plant shop here that would be good to ask. I ordered lady bugs from Amazon once, and I definitely don't want to do that again! But yeah, like you said, maybe what I saw on the mulberry wasn't mealies at all, but beetle larvae.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

this is all very helpful, thank you so much! I'm on the opposite side of the continent from you, in the coastal Carolinas. When you said the only predator was the Pacific Wren, I thought maybe they wouldn't work here, but maybe there'd be something else in their inventory for me.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

neat! Can I ask where you ordered these guys from? I need mealybug control ...and I would also like to get a Carolina mantid egg sack, but all I found last year when I was looking were the exotics.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

i was goofing around and forgot to add the good hashtags #fungusfriends #mycology #goblincore

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 17: once upon a time in the not-too-distant post-human future when sentient pots roam the earth and a vase falls in love with a mushroom... (details in ALT) #20pots #pottersofbluesky #dontsleepontheALT

ok so hear me out... right. The year is like, 2150 maybe. Shortly after we began putting AI into literally EvErYtHiNg, humans went extinct (no one was surprised.) Our self-repairing pots with AI-injected glazes have now become self-aware and have been evolving their forms independent of human functional needs. They develop their own dreams and culture, their own desires and beauty standards. After all, what is a handle if there is no hand to hold it, eh? (This is what I think about when I pot. It's sort of my thesis...)

This ceramic vase fell in love with a turkeytail mushroom and they joined forms in holy matrimony. Small light brown vase with turkeytail mushrooms arcing out from the top and sides in rippled ridges like pleated collars edged in white. There's a soft sheen of lavender on the fungal growths, and the interior is pale blue with a light flecking of brown. The vase is lifted on 3 leaf-form wedges that overlap the body. All the rusty iron oxide I used completely burned out in the kiln, but I am still so very pleased with this piece.

Thanks for reading the ALT!

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 16: butterfly samurai #20pots #pottersofbluesky

Tall ceramic vase, body is a mottled black/brown and the form is curvy with two small rounded ridges at the bottom topped with a spherical form. Three vertical, identical fins run the full length of the body, lifting it off the surface on pointed feet. The fins have organically curved edges and cutouts, and pointed spikes at the top echoing the feet, and somehow resembling both butterfly wings and a Klingon weapon. It could, in fact, very well be a Klingon ritual vessel of some kind. It is beautiful and dangerous. The fins are glazed in light blue and splotches allowing the golden buff/speckled brown clay body to show through.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 15: small pot with large wings and fiddlehead feet a bit blurry, but I just could not get a better shot of this one, whomst i love so very much, it is one of my faves #20pots #pottersofbluesky

Small ceramic pot, a bud vase perhaps-- coffee-brown body, with a waist dividing it into 2 bulbous forms. Three wing shapes extend outward, cut from slabs, a it butterfly-like, but with more curves, evenly spaced around the form. The wings are lightly glazed with splotchy pale blue and white, with brown speckles from the clay body showing through. It is elevated on three coiled spirals, a bit fiddle-head shaped and creamy white with brown speckles. This is the baby, tomorrow I will post the badass Mama pot.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Sir you apparently have not been giving them bananas. My raccoons are very mindful, very demure. They are rude to the cats tho.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

i got this one from my *plumber *not a euphemism

Card with illustration of toilet, with tiny red, pink & white heats spilling out of it onto the floor, next to the words "We're overflowing with love for you"

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

woops this is supposed to be Day 14.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

‪One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 13: spaghettio grenade #20pots #pottersofbluesky

Small lidded spherical ceramic jar, with a peg-lug on top to remove lid. Lid and body meet in a wavy line. The glaze is turquoise blue in the recesses and yellow on the raised bits. Sporadic clusters of red donut shapes embellish the body-- these are the "Spaghettios" from the title. I've been told it looks like an alien egg, and I totally get that. Curly wild grape twig in foreground for ambience.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

was it... */a strongly worded/* letter? and to whom did you send it? do you feel like that's going to work? bc I sure as shit do not.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

omgYES. I had not put all the signs together, but now that you mention it, YES.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

oh for sure--and if he was writing today, Frog and Toad would embrace being the iconic gay duo that they are, can you imagine

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Video meeting with head of IT today about adding new resources to the intranet. Went to share my screen and guess what came up, go on ---guess. source in alt

Cat, being held up to display his undercarriage. He is black, with white markings on his chest resembling a white shirt with a black tie. His ears indicate that he is unhappy at being handled in such a disrespectful and undignified manner. Someone is 'bout to get fired. From this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/sfpywm/bear_has_a_suit_and_tie_pattern_on_his_fur/#lightbox

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ah, thanks! I like to make it worth the click. Sometimes I put in a little something extra, as a treat.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

i wish i looked this good in horizontal stripes

Toad in his bathing suit, in which he looks AWESOME

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

this is the one where they body shame Toad and I am sad for him

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Andrea Smart @spicynoodlez11.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s already been a long week, so take a moment to enjoy the lichen community growing on this 2-centimeter long twig section. You deserve it. #Lichen #FungiFriends #Moss #ISeeMoss #LichenSunscribe #Nature #Photography #Macro #PNW #Breathe #GoOutside #Notice

A 2-centimeter section of a twig with at least 5 types of lichen and a few tufts of moss growing together. Two types of light, leafy green lichens and deep green moss are on top, splotches of bright yellow candleflame lichen are interspersed throughout, and a lovely patch of several rim disc lichen spots with gray centers and white rims. Some light green oak moss antlers hang from the bottom of the stick.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 13: lichen handled vase #20pots #pottersofbluesky

Dramatically lit stoneware vase. Hand-carved fans of lichen arc out from either side, casting a jagged and pierced shadow. The foot flares out with organic fluting at the base. The vase is a light golden tan with dark brown speckling and a bit of green washed in the recesses of the lichenform handles. Am proud of myself for finally showing some restraint in my glaze choices, but I think this piece would rather be matte.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

i think it's lovely against that yellow-ish clay body. it is kinda of neither here nor there, though-- like too neutral to deserve the name purple, but too saturated to be neutral? it wants something else.

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angie the mossopod @mossopod.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

thanks! such a great resource, a little ray of light in these dark times, ha

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