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amazon_syren) wrote2021-05-31 07:38 pm
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Five Questions for Spring
Hat tip to metawidget for this little game.
1) What are you doing this spring that you weren't doing 1 year ago?
Book-keeping for a baptist church.
2) What pandemic precautions are you still taking?
Uh... most of them, I think?
I double-mask when I'm at the grocery store / lcbo / pharmacy / workplace, I limit my contact with people outside of my bubble to one-on-one hangouts, outdoors, and try to have at least a few days between one and the next. I'm (hurrah!) working from home as much as possible.
3) What's a safety rule that's very important to you?
"Make sure you know what you're putting in your mouth"
combined with
"Test it on yourself before you feed it to someone else"
It's like the Wayward Children rule, but for foraging.
4) What plants are blooming where you live?
Crane's bill, chives, wild geranium, hostas are just getting started, guilder rose (high bush cranberry) so probably some of the other elder flowers as well, lily of the valley, raspberries are starting to hint at blooming, honey suckle all over the place, solomon's seal, roses are just-just-just getting started. Giant Hog Parsley (or something like it) which means gout weed and yarrow won't be to much longer. Irises, though they're nearing their end. Ox-eye daisies. Some wood violets still hanging on. Mustard and garlic mustard. Wild (and domestic) phlox. A few lilacs still hanging on. There were wild (feral?) strawberries blooming a week ago, but they may be done now.
Despite all that, it still feels like we're in the between times - spring blooms are mostly done, and summer blooms are not quite here yet.
5) What was your most memorable summer job?
Eugh.
Look, that's probably the door-to-door census person. It was a crap job that technically paid less than minimum wage back when minimum wage was ~$8/hr. It's memorable because it was stressful and involved badgering strangers for personal information. I am 100% glad that they switched to just mailing the freaking things out.
metawidget for this little game.1) What are you doing this spring that you weren't doing 1 year ago?
Book-keeping for a baptist church.
2) What pandemic precautions are you still taking?
Uh... most of them, I think?
I double-mask when I'm at the grocery store / lcbo / pharmacy / workplace, I limit my contact with people outside of my bubble to one-on-one hangouts, outdoors, and try to have at least a few days between one and the next. I'm (hurrah!) working from home as much as possible.
3) What's a safety rule that's very important to you?
"Make sure you know what you're putting in your mouth"
combined with
"Test it on yourself before you feed it to someone else"
It's like the Wayward Children rule, but for foraging.
4) What plants are blooming where you live?
Crane's bill, chives, wild geranium, hostas are just getting started, guilder rose (high bush cranberry) so probably some of the other elder flowers as well, lily of the valley, raspberries are starting to hint at blooming, honey suckle all over the place, solomon's seal, roses are just-just-just getting started. Giant Hog Parsley (or something like it) which means gout weed and yarrow won't be to much longer. Irises, though they're nearing their end. Ox-eye daisies. Some wood violets still hanging on. Mustard and garlic mustard. Wild (and domestic) phlox. A few lilacs still hanging on. There were wild (feral?) strawberries blooming a week ago, but they may be done now.
Despite all that, it still feels like we're in the between times - spring blooms are mostly done, and summer blooms are not quite here yet.
5) What was your most memorable summer job?
Eugh.
Look, that's probably the door-to-door census person. It was a crap job that technically paid less than minimum wage back when minimum wage was ~$8/hr. It's memorable because it was stressful and involved badgering strangers for personal information. I am 100% glad that they switched to just mailing the freaking things out.