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[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It's kind of crazy. Some of the single little Clover shoots are 3 ft tall. I've never seen Clover grow so tall

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We live smack dab in the middle of the forest. Most of our neighbors are animals. The few snakes that come around are tiny little garter snakes and Forest mulch snakes. But they've been here longer than we have so they can go wherever they like.

 

a young brown bunny sitting on a path in a clover patch.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I hadn't thought of day of the triffids in almost 30 years... And now looking it up it seems I missed a 2009 movie. Superb!

Thanks for the catalyst that lead to me not having to decide what to watch tonight :)

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the note.

It should also be noted that while they are invasive, they have been established (in my part of Canada) since at least the early 1700s. I wouldn't go importing mullein and planting them on purpose, but I will also not destroy them on my own land. They are like a mini-ecosystem all of their own. And when the bees are done with the clover they can be found on these mullein more than any other plant in our 'yard'.

And while technically invasive, they are neither aggressive nor hard to manage ( if you are not trying to manage a million square KM of national Park ;) )

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This mullein is now over 6 feet tall. It is my favorite wild plant by far.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

In which way am I complaining? I am explaining why calling a valid solution a bandaid might be construed as belittling their very real knowledge of this process. And how that is a regular pattern in a lot technical fields.

And don't give me this shit about 'I'm not the person you were talking to' This is an open forum not a direct/private message.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

You can't expect people who are knowledgeable about this stuff to just forever accept that someone asks for advice, gets told the solution, and then ignores/belittles the person with knowledge.

This is our daily life experience. We get hired to be experts, and get told by non-experts that our solutions are not tenable every single day. Only for that solution to eventually be accepted when the user in question figures out their idea was not useful and the expert was correct.

We have to put up with it at work, we are not obliged to accept it here.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 days ago

That the folks in IT have any sway over microsoft or facebook's ui plans.

NO Karen, I can not make Teams go back to the way it used to be. No matter how many times you ask.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

A leftist who can't see how the tea party emboldened and created the proto-maga movement just in time for Trump to take it over.

I will once again call bullshit.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (7 children)

You are cute. How far into the shit-filled rabbithole do I have to go into libertarianism before I find your specific flavour of bullshit? Somewhere between rand paul and ayn rand? Or do we go deeper?

Libertarians man. What a fucking joke.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (9 children)

ideas that are objectively similar to maga bullshit.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use one from a random site I googled last year when I was playing with a rope style bubble wand.

Credit to - https://rainydaymum.co.uk/bubble-mix-just-like-your-mom-made/

* 2 cups Washing Up Liquid (dish soap in the USA my sister-in-law recommends Dawn Dish Soap)
* 1 tablespoon of glycerin
* Few Drops of vegetable oil
* 1 cup Warm Water
[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I'm no lightologist - But I think the two different colors and inversion is seeing the reflection on the outside of the bubble on one hemisphere, and THROUGH the bubble to the inside surface of the opposite side.

So very cool.

Bonus pics from the same session:

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Taken near Danford Lake, Quebec.

 

I'm looking for a set of motorcycle saddlebags in the style of vintage horse riding gear.

Example below, but my 'perfect' version is quite a bit darker:

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Taken in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Taken near Danford Lake, Quebec.

 

Taken near Danford Lake, Quebec.

 

Taken Near Danford Lake, Quebec

 

I rode most of my life without a windshield, but when I bought my Indian it had a windshield on it that I swore I would tear off the second I got home.

But then I realized that after an hour plus ride my eyes had not watered once, my ears weren't having ghost ringing, and my arms were just not tired....

When I picked up this bobber I knew I would want a windshield. I have been riding it for a month or two without a shield now, and I have to wear earplugs so that the wind noise doesn't make my tiniitus go nuts. Today was the first real ride with the screen on. And holy cow. I love this bike even more now.

Details: It is a madstad 20inch touring screen made for a triumph speedmaster. I modified it to fit the bobber by drilling some new holes, but otherwise I used the hardware and fasteners that came in the kit.

I can post some pics of the fitment if there is interest.

 

But how could I resist? I took the bobber out for a little off-roading down a goat trail that runs by the swamp/lake near our place, and the scenery was so fitting that I hopped off and snapped some pics.

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