New instance so I guess new intro? I haven't done one in years, so here goes...

Dad x2 (teen and a toddler 😳) Happy and devoted husband to @jillianmarisa. Liberal. Enthusiastic Missouri Master Naturalist and somehow President of the KC chapter. 🤷‍♂️

Tootin' since 2022. Mastodon made me a Linux-using, #fedifirst, FOSS evangelist.

I dig: Conservation + naturalist topics, photography (mostly birds these days) postcards 'n travel. Leader @ a Conglom-O Corp thankfully doing tech that isn't evil.

Washed up travel influencer. I still help run @AirlineReporter & host a Mastodon community of travel/airplane geeks @ AvGeek.Social.

Growing a family, chickens and multiple gardens while renovating my childhood home: Grandpa's 1960 house here in beautiful Lee’s Summit, MO, US (KC-metro)

#Missouri #KC-ish #Travel #Postcards #DadOps #CorpLife #Gardening #Zone6B #introduction

Between 8 AM and 1 PM, the squirrel managed to pull out three sunflower seedlings and chew off the top of another sunflower seedling.

This is the third group of sunflower plantings in the past week a squirrel has damaged through chewing or pulling out the plants.

#gardening #Zone6b

First flower on my Homemade cucumbers!

#gardening #Zone6b

Dinner tonight included first-of-year pesto made from our homegrown basil.

#gardening #Zone6b #GrowYourOwn

🚨 run-on alert 🚨

I guess we're at that point in the season where I defer watering because it's supposed to rain but nature delays or cancels the rain so my plants get stressed OR I am mistrusting of the forecast and go ahead and water, only for the rain to show up on schedule.

#Gardening #Zone6B #KC #Missouri #Summer #Runon

Last night something chewed off the tops of all but one of the scarlet runner beans that germinated two days ago. ☹️

But didn't touch the bush bean seedlings in grow bags less than 15 feet away.

#gardening #Zone6b