The bees are finding a lot of yellow pollen today, no idea what is is, no bees in the trees here. Easily 90-100 bees per minute with pollen.

#beekeeping #bees #pollen #pollinators #YellowPollen #March18 #beehive

The first radish is up, it's a French breakfast heirloom. They were planted 13 days ago along with the sugar snap peas, arugula, spinach, beets, and other radish types.

There have been 58 (F) growing degree days based on a 43F base mean temp here this year, which is more of a fruit tree blossom thing at that base temp, but it's what I keep track of. Accumulated degrees above that daily mean temp base.

#gardening #radish #GrowYourOwn #GrownFromSeed #Spring #March18 #garden

Heute ist der Tag der politischen Gefangenen. Unsere Grüße gehen raus an alle die sich trotz Risiko für #Feminismus, #Ökologie, #Humanismus und etwas besseres als den #Kapitalismus einsetzen. Die Herrschenden machen heute keinen Hehl daraus, wohin die Reise geht: Neue #Polizeigesetz|e, Angriffe auf die #Sozialsysteme, #Meinungsfreiheit und #Pressefreiheit, #Gewerkschaftsfreiheit, mehr #Bundeswehr im Inland, mehr #Überwachung, mehr Macht für die #Konzerne. Zunehmend gilt auch in #Europa, was in den Ländern, die unseren Wohlstand mit Ausbeutung und Umweltzerstörung erarbeiten müssen schon lange gilt: Wer meckert, sitzt. Unterstützt Organisationen wie uns aber auch Gefangenenorganisationen wie die Knastgewerkschaft GGBO https://ggbo.de/ die @RoteHilfe (hat auch wieder nen Konto) oder das ABC (hat dank @glsbank immer noch kein Konto - #Debanking),

Das wichtigste ist: Vergesst die Leute nicht, die sitzen. Reicht Hände über die Mauern, macht denen die Hölle heiß, die soziale Bewegungen hinter Gittern sehen wollen!

@debankingstoppen

#Repression #TagDesPolitischenGefangenen #march18

March 18

This day in history:

• 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
• 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
• 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
• 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Births:

• 1969 – Michael Bergin, American actor
• 1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)

Deaths:

• 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
• 1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• 1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)

Holidays:

• Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia)
• Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia)
• Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Random Article of the day:

Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux

The Red Marconi and Jalapeno peppers, or chilies, are getting their first true leaves. The California Wonder 300 are all up 100% from last years bought seed, 100% dud on saved seeds. I'll have to make sure to grow one of them well into a non green color for seeds.

#gardening #peppers #ChiliPeppers #chilli #GrowYourOwn #GrowLights #garden #March18 #CCBYNCND

The local deer that's been around a year or two in the winter and spring. It acts different and is always ... by itself. 🤣 It loves the Euonymus bushes. I always thought the long tips just had some winter kill until I realized something was eating the leaves.

#nature #deer #MuleDeer #wildlife #BackyardDeer #March18 #euonymus #CCBYNCND

14 years since the #Syrian Revolution.

I walked through war, exile, and loss. I lost my home, my father, and my dreams but never my belief that freedom is worth everything.

Was it worth it? Yes. Because today, I breathe freedom. Today, I feel human.

#Syria #March18 #Freedom
https://youtu.be/FqIYTEtkwBw

March 18

This day in history:

• 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
• 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
• 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
• 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.

Births:

• 1989 – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1075 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
• 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (d. 1898)

Deaths:

• 978 – Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
• 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
• 1582 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)

Holidays:

• Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia)
• Ordnance Factories' Day (India)
• Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)

Random Article of the day:

Lithuania women's national basketball team

The Lithuania women's national basketball team (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinė moterų krepšinio rinktinė) represents Lithuania in international women's basketball competitions. They are regulated by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Lithuania.
The team is currently ranked 31st in the FIBA World Rankings.

#wikipedia #March18 #Lithuaniawomen'snationalbasketballteam