Laughing so hard my face hurts and my shirt is wet from laugh crying tears of joy. You're welcome.

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Behold the majesty of my luscious meat

Of course it makes more sense for Joe Holleman to write about St. Louis City Mayor Cara Spencer moving to Compton Hts and near The Carnahans, Lewis Reed, Brian Wahby,... (but forget to mentioned that) instead of finding out Mayor's role in awarding contract to murder-for-hire suspect.

Good evening. 🌱 Nandina domestica 'Heavenly bamboo' www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/... at Springfield Mo Botanical Gardens. Native to Japan, China, India, invasive. Please do not plant. They are gradually getting rid of invasives but some donors and long time volunteers are resistant.

New Gardening & Nature blog post. St. Louis area focus (Missouri & Illinois) but also useful for Zones 6a, 6b, 7a 🌱 Garden & Nature Events & Classes, many virtual 🌱 Native Plants, Houseplants, Vegetable Gardening 🌱 Garden Advice, How To 🌱 Hikes, Birding 🌱 Outdoor Volunteer Opportunities

🚨 I accidently read/clicked so you don't have to. It's Joe Holleman fawning over St. Louis Mayor. Usually, he is gushing over MAGA electeds. There was no warning label (byline) in the Bluesky post but it turns out there is one on the Post-Dispatch website.

I would have thought being the Chief of Police of a complex mid-size city was full time but, alas. Maybe he can help bus tables at Crown Candy, too. 🤔

All because no one read the judge's order entirely or ignored the Jan 22nd date for St. Louis City Sheriff's removal. Old enough to remember when proponents of reforms like nonpartisan elections and ward reduction promised a more professional Board of Alders would result. 🤦‍♀️

Keep in mind they need reasonable suspicion to pull you over & questions should relevant to that & even then, you don't have to talk to them. A prolonged stop needs probable cause, and they must identify that probable cause. Seldom can they do that and usually www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

🧐 It's currently 76° on our side of the lake in this storm's path.

#TransparencyWin Illinois General Assembly Edition

1:45 pm Today, Tuesday, Jan 6, St Louis City Board of Public Service www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event... 🔸Director of Public Utilities, emergency $8,205: Digitization, "Preservation of Fragile Historical Record Drawing" 🔸People's Health Centers, 5635 Delmar: new 3-story bldg, parking, sidewalks,...

Good afternoon. Peaceful hideaways at 🌲 Dwarf Conifer Garden, Springfield Mo Botanical Garden During most of the year, there's water via James River running under that little bridge on the left 🫶 Saw someone taking photos of a couple, two brides, last year at the park bench w/ arbor on right

St. Louisans, you know you want Girl Scout Cookies Lily is selling again this year

“People care and they want to have a say,” Farrar says. “When I was at that event, it became very clear how little they were involved and how passionate they are to be involved moving forward. We were infuriated by the lack of answers, and the lack of answers was fueled by purposeful secrecy.”

St. Louis City Mayor Cara Spencer is hiring an Education Advisor (cough cough) which turns out to be another comms position in Room 200, generate positive PR for mayor 🤦‍♀️ $85,000 www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/d...

#TransparencyFail No Way To Run A Govt #395712 😠 St Louis City Board of Alders continues to fail at syncing the various locations they post meetings Today's Closed Meeting is posted to City of St. Louis website landing page and Alders page BUT NOT Public Meetings Calendar- Exec Order 60 violation

Speaking of legal matters, maybe Alders could make some inquiries as to how everyone- including Mayor, Comptroller, Board Prez- associated with St. Louis City contracting for services from a murder-for-hire suspect in Illinois managed to miss the murder-for-hire part.

Some Native Seeds available to Bluesky accounts 🌱 Blue Wild Indigo 🌱 Partridge Pea 🌱 Lanceleaf Coreopsis 🌱 Purple Coneflower 🌱 Western Sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis) 🌱 Prairie Blazing Star) 🌱 Long-headed Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)

#TransparencyFail No Way To Run A Govt #395711 10 am Today, Tuesday, Jan 6th, St Louis City Full Board of Alders www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event... 😠 Appears this 99% Closed Meeting is about Alders botched attempt to hire interim Sheriff & order Special Election to fill vacancy not yet a vacancy 🤦‍♀️

7 pm Wednesday, January 7th, Bellefontaine Cemetery & Arboretum Zoom class 🌱 Natural Landscape Design Register bellefontainecemetery.org/event/natura... Also see...

A collection of 500+ frightening videos taken during January 6th attempted coup d'etat at US Capitol. These videos foretold in graphic detail what we should have expected from Trump Family & Friends Grift Inc under failed checks & balances- a world targeted by a mob full of hate, unfettered by laws.

Good morning. 🌱 Alstroemeria for Twelfth Night and the start of Mardi Gras Season 🟣 Purple flowers for justice 🟢 Green leaves for faith 🟡 Gold flowers for power Laissez les bons temps rouler!

More of the Canadian Geese today at Springfield Mo Botanical Gardens. Most walkers were avoiding paths, keeping a good distance from the geese.

As expected, extra super bullshit response from US Senator Eric Schmidt to my email on Venezuela. Video is blocked on the account that I used. I now have to unsubscibe to a MAGA newsletter that I never subscribed to. All I did was email my congresspeople.

St Louis City Mayor Cara Spencer, Comptroller Donna Baringer, and Board President Megan Green were represented on a committee that reviewed bids for the Goodfellow site work and recommended S. Shafer Excavating get the job, the company run by Sammy J. Shafer Jr., accused of murder for hire.

Good evening. "Let there be Peace on Earth" obelisk at The Peace Garden at Springfield Mo Botanical Gardens. It's inscribed in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.

Oh fuck me It's for February when we moved our New Mexico & Arizona trip

Fucking fuck.

Local residents, along with community organizations and government institutions, are uniquely positioned to coordinate disaster preparation decision-making, as well as address immediate community needs and supplement official response efforts following a disaster," the study read.

Good afternoon. Canadian Geese at Drummond Lake, Springfield Mo Botanical Gardens. They are extra super noisy and poopy.

At the salon in Springfield Mo, I am told there was also a gas war between pumps at Rapid Roberts and Walmarts- $1.94-$1.95 I have human eyebrows again Thank you for caring

As expected, bullshit response from US Senator Hawley to my email on Venezuela.

The City Of St. Louis Affordable Housing Commission meets Tues. at 11:30 AM. Zoom. You MUST tune in live. #AHCstl meetings are not posted on YouTube. Details: www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event... ➡️ Vote on awards from FY2026 Affordable Housing Trust Fund. ➡️Public comment. Register by 9 a.m. Tuesday

The Gas War in Pittsburg Mo is over. Gas is now $2.25 at both places.

DMs are fixed for seed asks. Sorry about the confusion. Some Not Natives available 🌱 Achillea filipendulina ‘Parker’s Variety’ (Iran, Yarrow) 🌱 Lobularia maritima ‘Carpet of Snow’ (Mediterraneum, Alyssum, seed tape) 🌱 Thunbergia alata (Africa, Black-eyed Susan Vine)

The local paper of record finally picked up this story, so maybe there's hope it'll report on the St. Louis City's contract with murder suspect's company (S. Shafer Excavating) St. Louis Post-Dispatch article via Wayback Machine archive.today/2026.01.05-1...

One would think that SLDC had tightened up its vetting of contractors and developers, but LCRA’s decision to contract with S. Shafer Excavating Inc. indicates otherwise. #LCRAstl

Good morning. 🌱 Thanksgiving Cactus flowering for its third consecutive month.

Ed Martin is exactly the kind of mean, not very smart asshole from Missouri that we expected to end up in Trump Family & Friends Grift Inc.

Vegetable, Herb, Fruit Seeds available 🌱 Basil, Italian 🌱 Borage 🌱 Burgundy Okra 🌱 Melon, Charentais (France) 🌱 Melon, Ha’Ogen (Israel) 🌱 Lettuce (seeds & seed tape) 🌱 Radish, French Breakfast (seed tape) 🌱 Squash, Crookneck 🍅 Tomato, Abraham Lincoln 🍅 Tomato, Brandywine

For St. Louis 👧🏾 🧒 kids ages 2-5 2 pm Tuesday, January 6th, @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social event at Grand Glaize Branch 🌵 Cactus Makes Perfect Includes make & take cactus puppet craft Presented by @mobotgarden.bsky.social Register www.slcl.org/events/cactu...

Good evening. Lots of drama at the feeders today. Weekly Gardening & Nature update is not getting done tonight. Mentally, emotionally exhausted from blogging on the St. Louis Shafer Excavating Contract & Murder For Hire story.

This was not easy to write. Kept adding and deleting details about Sarah Shafer, perhaps just months away from being Portia Rowland's widow or herself being the victim. The murder case never came up at the St. Louis City meeting where the murder suspect's company received nearly $6.7M contract.

You laugh. But totally believable.

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

#stl protest Sunday Jan 4, Tamm overpass I-64/40 (2pm):

Good afternoon. 🌱 Italian Arum www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/... up the road under a tree at a lake house empty for many years and falling apart. Have never seen their white flowers or the cool red orange berry spike at this location.

Some Native Seeds available in our Bluesky giveaway 🌱 Angelica atropurpurea (Purplestem Angelica) 🌱 Carex cherokeensis (Cherokee Sedge) 🌱 Cladrastis kentukea ‘Perkins Pink’ (Yellowwood) 🌱 Eryngium ravenelii ‘Charleston Blues’ (Rattlesnake Master) 🌱 Liatris micropephala (Smallhead Blazing Star)