The more I research and learn, the more my first question is "what does (thing) look like to you?" Mentoring, support, advocacy, etc. What are you expecting to receive? Follow up questions: what do you get? What do you provide? 🤔

My husband is just fantastic at pictures. The monarchs haven't left yet. I need to print these pictures and hang them in my walls for peace. 🥰 🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Jfc. How many times can it be said until us white people fucking understand: sure, not all white people. But *too many* white people voted that they were okay with this! If it wasn't you, awesome, fucking scroll on, and then go talk to the fucking white people in your orbit that *did*.

The monarchs are very happy with my flowers right now. I probably have 30+ enjoying my mystic spires salvia, mistflower, and agastache! #NTexas #gardening 🌱

The world is spinning out of control faster and faster, I'm surrounded by trauma I can't fix, and I'm trying to figure out how to be a functioning and empathetic partner, parent, teacher, friend, and human... I'mma go sit in my garden in the morning and breath. Until then... 🍸 and 📺.

With the husband, just supervised an 8 year old doing homework and writing an "essay"while teaching the 12 year old to make her favorite dinner. Two hours later, we haven't eaten yet and I'm exhausted, and the big one still needs to be picked up from evening band practice. 😭

Ooh. Hotel Rwanda. I suggest it to everyone, but can never, ever sit down and watch it again.

@notyournegro.blacksky.app This is the last one I saw about Jay. Apologies if you've been tagged in this already, or if it doesn't answer your question.

Past me is always so optimistic about what I'm going to be willing to make for dinner any given day (I plan out my menu two weeks in advance for grocery shipping). Tonight is fried chicken and I'm just...

In other news, I have to replace all of my brakes on my van tomorrow. Just me and a YouTube video. I've done it once before, but that was just the front brakes, two years ago, with husband here for moral support. 😬 I got this! 💪

🌱 I love community plant groups. I got a free crepe myrtle (I absolutely love them) that a lady had already spent three years growing and tending. She just flat out didn't have room for it. Don't worry, it will be lovingly tended in my yard. 🥰 #gardening #NTexas

🌱 No pictures cause I'm lazy, but the fall green beans have started to pop! And for first time, I've done a fall planting of tomatoes (pulled the spring determinates when they were done, planted new in July). The Celebrity plants are growing like crazy, the Roma... not so much. 😬 #gardening #NTexas

Read the short thread, but I keep telling this to my students (and children). "I'll have a calculator everywhere I go!" Yeah, but if you don't know what you are doing in the first place, GIGO will bite you in the ass.

This whole discourse is fascinating, with the differences between ACS certs and RSC certs (right?), but also got me thinking (and beating my head against the wall) about horizontal and vertical alignment of the chemistry curriculum (focused in the US).

Logged on, saw posts with 3 elected officials saying the dumbest shit ever, logged back off.

September 1 - fall is here! 😂 (Ignore the fact that in North Texas, temps are in the upper 80s and lower 90s.)

🌱 I finally pulled all of my pepper plants and sowed green beans today. Some general clean up in the garden beds, as well as talking to my apple tree to try to figure out what's wrong with it. Getting beds ready for leafy greens in the next couple of weeks! #gardening #NTexas

I do love making recipes from scratch, although boxed meals for convenience definitely have their place. Tonight: red beans and rice, and mac and cheese for the crazy kiddos that don't like red beans and rice. (S/o to 12 yo that made the mac and cheese from scratch in the instant pot!)

The gulf fritillary butterflies have now found my garden, along with the bumblebees. 🥰 🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Cucumbers and okra, it never fails. I swear I checked all the okra plants yesterday, where was this one hiding?!

It's the small things that I enjoy: there's a cardinal couple that live in the woods behind my house, and they really enjoy my bird feeder and bird bath. It's fun to watch them, especially amidst all the sparrows, doves, and finches. I'm sad the eastern bluebirds from last year didn't come back.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness:

The fall semester is about to ramp up. The emails are starting, but I'm desperately clinging to summer and ignoring them. Next week, I'll be pissed at myself as I try to get everything done in the last week before the semester starts.

@mollybatkinson.bsky.social is this what y'all were talking about? This is fascinating!

🌱 It's too hot to plant anything now, and we are in the "let's just survive the summer" part of the year. Fall veggies are in and covered with shade cloth, native plants are doing their thing, so what do I do? Start planning for more beds. Cardboard and mulch time! #gardening #NTexas

It's 93*F, feels like 100, and I'm trying to muster the energy to go outside and cook smash burgers on the Blackstone.

I should only plan out my garden bed extensions in July and August (North Texas), not April. Maybe that will encourage me to keep it reasonable in size. 🤣 🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Aw, the bumblebees have finally found my flowers! ☺️🐝🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Kid #1 moved out of the tiny house in the backyard, so kid #2 is going to move in. We never finished the inside with kid #1 😬 so we are doing that now. I have learned, and had reinforced, that I do not like hanging or patching drywall. And whoever thinks it's an "unskilled" job can eat shit.

It's rare that I can get all five of them in one picture, but I'm definitely a dog person. 😁

🌱 The summer heat is most definitely here. I need to put up my shade cloth. I also put up 12 more pints of pickles and have pretty much come to the end of the cucumber vines. I'm going to pull those soon, let the bed rest for a little bit, then sow winter squash. #gardening #NTexas

I have lived in Texas and Louisiana for like 96% of my life, yet the summer heat takes me by surprise every single freaking year.

🌱 Cucumbers are hiding from me. 🤦‍♀️ Apple for scale. #gardening #NTexas

10 qts of red sauce (from 25# of tomatoes), 12 pints of pickles (I'm the only one in the house that eats pickles), an abundance of jalapeno and wax peppers, and I say to new gardeners: have a plan for produce that you grow! 😂 🌱#gardening # NTexas

I've been getting weird vibes from the account, so it's nice to read more in-depth about it, and realize it's not just me.

Question for #gardening feed, specifically those that attempt pumpkin vines in a raised bed: how big is your raised bed, does it contain the vines, and what do you do to keep them contained, if not? Context: raised bed that is 3'x6', wrapped in chicken wire to keep chickens and dogs out. 🌱 #NTexas

It sucks when the weather and my stupid body limit how much I can get done at one time, but I really do love working outside in my yards, building things, planting things, and planning for next steps. 🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Besides the mosquitos 🙄, it's the time of year for the best evenings in North Texas right now.

🌱 hot day working in the garden (but downright pleasant if you are sitting in the shade!). I finally moved my last raised garden bed because I harvested all of the onions this morning. Emptied my compost bin into the "new" bed so it can do its thing between now and next spring. #gardening #NTexas

🌱 The front garden bed, which I spend hours watching due to the hummingbirds, regular birds, butterflies, bees, and other flying things. It brings me peace.

Okay 🌱, onion question. This is only my second year growing onions. I know I'm supposed to wait until the leaves flop over and begin to yellow before pulling. One or two of the onions have done so, but these aren't ready to harvest yet, right? #gardening #NTexas

What in the absolute fuck...

As much as I love to see hummingbirds at the feeders (3, at last count!) it makes me even happier to see them at the flowers in my garden. 🌱 #gardening #NTexas

Presented here without comment, otherwise I'll burst into flames. 🤬 www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #chemsky

There's so many things they don't tell you about having kids (I have a whole damn list). The latest is how hard it is when your adult child has a problem that you just can't fix. 💔

🌱 I think it's time to thin the cucumbers, but I really don't wanna. 😭 #gardening #NTexas

Look, I grew stuff! 🌱 Sugar snap peas. Should I leave them on a little longer before harvesting? My hand for scale. #gardening #NTexas

🌱 Now taking donations so I can go the local Master Gardeners sale on Saturday. I swear, so many places check my pay schedule before setting up their sales. 🤣#gardening

🌱 I have tiny sugar snap peas, tiny banana peppers, tiny tomatoes, and tiny peaches! 🥰 #gardening #NTexas

Having a crawfish boil with friends and family, even with torrential rain before it, was just what I needed today. 🥰