DriftlessRoots

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I'm a #nature, #gardening and #food enthusiast externalizing the internal monologue. #bees #bumblebees #butterflies #birds #food #sewing #cooking #gardening #words. Midwest USA, USDA Zone 5a/b 🐝🌳 🦅 🌎🏳️‍🌈
We’re at that time of year when there are feathered fledglings about. Bless their dorky, awkward little hearts. 🐦 #birds #summer #wisconsin #NewLife

"Esser works one-on-one with some students having a tough day or who need extra assistance. He plows in a special way so kids can play on a mountain of snow, retrieves balls from the rooftop and raises money for the local education foundation."
https://www.wpr.org/news/mr-peanuts-beloved-cross-plains-custodian-retires

#SchoolDays #Wisconsin #retirement

‘The king of Park Elementary’: Beloved Cross Plains custodian retires after 61 years

Rodney Esser, better known as "Mr. Peanuts," has worked at Park Elementary since 1965.

WPR
How to protect yourself from ticks

I spend a lot of time outside, sometimes face-down in the weeds trying to get a photograph of something small. So I have some opinions about tick prevention and thought I'd share. Ixodes scapularis Spray or soak shoes, socks, pants, shirts, hairband, hat, etc., with permethrin (buy online or a

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The weather finally got hot and sticky and now I’m seeing a lot of HVAC vans around the neighborhood. Coincidence? #summer #wisconsin #weather #ShouldHaveHadThatServicedEarlier
The next quilt HAS to be machine quilted so I've got to get this sorted out somehow.
Kind of a disappointing end to my latest quilt. I had to resort to hand quilting it because after struggling through a multitude of settings with three different walking feet on two different machines I couldn't get it to stop bunching up after behaving nicely for long stretches. And then there was the random thread breaking. Second image shows the look I was going for on my test piece, though with not as many lines. #quilting #sewing #menwhoquilt #mensewtoo #bleh
Just blocked an account following me with no posts and probably really no real threat. But did a reverse image search on the profile pic and found 30+ social media accounts active in the last few months with the same pic and all different names. I've got a few more suspicious ones to investigate. Anyone else running into this?
Wishing Sir #DavidAttenborough a very happy one hundredth birthday. 🎂 what a life!!
I don’t want to go home but I’m ready to go home. Its as simple as that. #CostaRica #Travel #Nature #PuraVida