Monday Update 3-22-21

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Poem: "A Long Strange Road"
Poem: "Better Than Their Neighbors Think"
Birdfeeding
Coconut Wok Recipes
Poem: "Type Integrity"
Poem: "To a Syrian in Vermont"
What crowdfunding projects are you backing?
Poem: "Genderdancing"
Genderbending Beyond the Binary
Community Building Tip: Share Ideas
Birdfeeding
Poem: "The Things We Never Saw Coming"
Creative Jam
Poem: "Relationships of Substance and Depth"
Poem: "Stabbing Things into Existence"
Birdfeeding
Multigrain
Neurodiversity Resources
Birdfeeding
Self-Awareness Question: Culture
Hard Things


The half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics went well.  I still have some pool poems to post.

Computer turnover is slogging along.  We the software more-or-less usable, but hardware is still noisy and the whole is still tiring and uncomfortable.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"The Hobbomak" launches the Bear Tunnels series. Emma and Jesse discover an unusual chamber underground.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira's father dumps her mother on Yule.

"The Best Understanding of Their Differences" is now complete.  Calliope and Vagary clean up after the waterfight.


The weather is milder here. The ground is still muddy; we've had some rain and some sun. I've been doing advance yardwork.  Leaves are off the daffodil and tulip beds.  I'm picking up stray flowerpots and pulling weeds.  Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of sparrows, a large flock of grackles, a large flock of mourning doves (including courtship behavior), four eastern towhees (3 males and 1 female), several house finches, several dark-eyed juncos, a pair of cardinals, a Bewick's wren, a downy woodpecker, a brown-headed cowbird, two rabbits, and two squirrels.

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly cloudy, breezy, and mild.

I fed the birds.  Today I've seen sparrows and doves.  I saw an eastern towhee with mate, and then two more males.  This is odd because they're supposed to be pretty territorial, but they weren't even squabbling as much as the sparrows.  They were just all scratching around for seeds under the hopper feeder.  Towhees like brushy yards with a layer of litter on the ground where they can forage, so this is a good place for them.  :D 

I dug up more weeds under the forest garden.  I'm a little more than halfway around it now.  Progress.  I disturbed a lot of ladybugs.  It's warm enough for them to start crawling around.  Here we have lots of leaf litter, bark mulch, loose bark, and other places they love to hide, so we have a LOT of ladybugs.  \o/

Earlier I walked around the yard taking pictures.  Given the mostly cloudy sky, I'm not sure how well they turned out.

EDIT 3/22/21: I went back out and dug up more weeds.

EDIT 3/22/21: I went back out and dug up more weeds.

Poem: "The Contrast of Light and Dark"

This poem came out of the January 2021 crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "when the world is mud-luscious" square in my 1-3-21 card for the Fresh Starts Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with ng_moonmoth, fuzzyred, and zianuray. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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