No, certainly not. We need and want you here, advocating for a better future alongside us and organizing with those around you for change 💕
Yes, but those skills of effective communication are able to be universally applied, even in private conversation. The fact that it's a positive environment and one focused on constructive feedback is why I feel that it might be an avenue for OP
Try finding an open club with Toastmasters and go practice speaking and communicating with folks who are also there to practice speaking and communicating. That kind of space alone may give you the chance to see differences between their interactions and yours, but it's an incredibly helpful group for so many people who struggle with their communication in everyday life.
That. Sounds. Awesome!
As a broad rule of thumb, any bulbs can be planted during the fall - onion sets and garlics do very well for us when planted this way in usda zone 5 / Trewartha Dca. The same goes for things like daffodils, irises, and other bulbing plants. Trees, shrubs, and perennial herbaceous plants will also benefit from fall planting, and come into the following growing season with a more extensive root system for it. We've also had success with things like kale, chard, and other hardyish cut-and-come-again leafy greens, so that might be worth experimenting with.
True summer veggies - peppers, tomatoes, anything that melts at the first frost - I don't start until late winter or early spring (and those are started inside). Annual summer flowers get pretty much the same treatment, especially any that have a relatively short time to maturity. You could work those seeds into areas during the fall, but you'll have a wider range of results and less direct control (but chaos gardening is cool).
My wife has gotten used to this but some of the neighbors still judge a bit. Then again, we're the house with the hummingbirds and tons of other nesting migratory birds as well as the house with lightning bugs
Fixed 
I once heard about a movie wherein people forgot about her...
Fwiw I laughed at the pH joke without any concept of who that person is, so I agree with you 
Hah that's what I get for being a hermit in the woods
[Image description: our Australian shepherd gently and respectfully sniffs our newborn as I hold her for the introduction]
Sudo has been absolutely wonderful towards her - he'll come give the top of her head a small kiss when she gets fussy and then backs off to let us take care of the cause. I'll try to catch his =/ face the next time I tell him it's his turn to change the diaper
Hey folks! I am at the hospital with my wife waiting for our child to be born and my wife would like memes. Lots of memes. Stupid ones, funny ones, all manner of memes to distract her and produce happy hormones in her brain. Puns and dad jokes are also very welcome
ETA: seriously, thank you everyone! She's gotten some really hearty chuckles out of this and it's definitely helped keep her mood afloat.
ETA2: y'all are the best, li'l Juniper Mayhem joined us after 24 hours of labor and our sanity would have been in tatters if it weren't for all of you 
[Image description: a two panel meme. In the top panel, a person labeled "my customers" asks the question "how do I keep bugs off my plants?" In the bottom panel, a person labeled "me, a native plant nursery owner" says "that's the neat part, you don't"]
[Image description: a very fuzzy, day old yellow duckling warms up in my hand on a chilly morning.]
This little nugget decided to spend a few extra minutes in my hand after we found its mother. The temperature was hovering around 60F which is a little too chilly for a duckling this young.
[Image description: several ducklings inspect my toes for caterpillars, occasionally grabbing the toes instead]
One of them found an inchworm on my foot the other day and now whenever I stop moving they go nuts trying to find more. It's cute until one grabs a toe or the hairs and does a death shake.
[Image description: eight raspberry cuttings showing the stages of root development at their growth tips, with the leftmost cutting showing almost no root and progressing to the rightmost which shows a cluster of roots and upward growing leaves]
I'm giving a talk next month about reproducing plants asexually and am working on images for the slide deck. Figured I may as well share some of the images here too as it might help some folks who are interested in doing this. Questions and feedback are encouraged and appreciated, they'll help to make the presentation even more informative.
[Image description: week old ducklings pile on top of one another, almost managing to be nestled under their watchful mother. One duckling is jumping to reach the top of the bunch.]
There's always at least one in every clutch that seems to prefer being the last one to the party just to be top cuddler.
I harvested a dozen Hungarian Wax peppers this morning and that one (!) plant can now stand under its own weight again. We have a whole slew of tomatoes currently ripening on the vine so hopefully I can make some sauces and salsa this week. We got a food processor recently and I'm dying to try out more modes.
The bees are going crazy in one of our self seeding salad patches. We have four of these now, though two are newer and were planted later to stagger the harvest schedules and provide fresh greens for longer.
Here's a view of the permanent raised bed near the northern boundary of our property. Native Echinacea (purple coneflower) is growing next to a native Rudbeckia (the yellow coneflowers), with black elder, bee balm, and others growing in the background. To the right is the only patch of grass I mow with any regularity, as it's a shared boundary with our neighbor and their kids have been a little too helpful with the mower in the past.
Speaking of seeds, we have a whole bunch of seeds forming on New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus and also my favorite plant) planted all over the place. These plants have a mechanism for seed dispersal that creates pressure behind the seeds as they ripen, which then releases and jettisons the seeds with force. It can be difficult to time seed collection with this kind of adaptation, but luckily a neighbor has some tulle she's looking to offload so I'll be making some small pouches to tie around the seed heads. I collected a ton of seeds from our Russian sages yesterday as well, but those are much easier to time - the flowers will brown and dry, at which point you can gently shake the seeds out into a container.
What's growing on with you all?
Posts about be(e)ing kind to animals are always welcomed here! If any of you have the means to donate, please consider doing so! If you have other charity drives to help different veterinarian offices in the area impacted by Helene, message us and we'll see about getting a stickied thread going for the remainder of hurricane season so everyone can contribute in a way they can in an area that needs it
