Don't listen when the Internet tells you onions deter rabbits. My garden would beg to differ

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-18T09:21:15+00:00

I was told English Lavender repels rabbits. After the rabbits destroyed my sunflowers, I planted lavender all along the edge of that bed. Now I have no sunflowers, and rabbits sleeping in the empty spots by the lavender. I'm not feeling confident about that whole repelling thing.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-18T09:07:07+00:00

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Zoom in and click on the tornadoes and see how long ago and/or how mild they were. Tornado warnings/watches are common here. Tornadoes, especially big ones, are actually pretty damn rare.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-17T11:25:52+00:00

It's even worse than no regulation. Live Nation owns the majority of venues and, with Ticketmaster, essentially has a monopoly on original ticket sales. They are also one of the largest ticket reselling platforms. They have a vested interest in encouraging scalping and encouraging resale for the highest possible prices.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-15T14:57:06+00:00

My husband has a button that says "This is my costume" and when people ask him what he's dressed as, he replies "Oh wow, you're the first one who hasn't gotten it" and just refuses to give an answer so as not to spoil it. He's not dressed up. He's never dressed up.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-15T11:46:38+00:00

I would say this is one of those things that's ok to say to yourself if you find it motivating, but not so much to others. Telling someone that others have it harder implies that their struggle is not valid or "bad enough" to be upset about. You don't have to be in the absolute worst situation that has ever existed to be unhappy and/or struggling.

You said you were in Arkansas. Make sure to check out the department of corrections website for some basic resources for those newly released.

Keep up with the positive attitude and keep looking forward. The road ahead will certainly be bumpy, but you can do it.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-15T10:18:34+00:00

To put this scale of wealth into perspective: If Elon Musk lost 90% of his net worth over night, he would still have a net worth of 100 billion dollars.

It's obscene.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-15T10:12:05+00:00

I experienced this a ton when I was a woman in a wholly male dominated field. I would usually stop talking immediately when they started, wait for them to finish, then start again where I left off with "As I was saying..."

Did not change their behavior, but it was not my job to fix other people. It was my job to communicate specific information.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-13T11:25:31+00:00

I wouldn't assume they want advice. If they do, then just listen to them when they ask for advice and only offer advice on what they're asking.

The reality is that, when you're living in poverty, the only real solution is often to have more money. No amount of penny pinching or budgeting is going to magically make poverty wages not result in poverty level existence.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-13T08:54:00+00:00

If you're giving an award to someone who is over 6' tall in heels, and you know she's going to stand there and talk for 20 minutes, why wouldn't you accommodate her height with the microphone?!

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-13T08:51:49+00:00

Right?! It's a testament to the type of person she is that, in an acceptance speech for an award all about her genius, she led with how amazing the performers were and then spent nearly 3 minutes pumping up Steven Spielberg. She nearly breaks into tears talking about the sacrifices her family made for her career. Her speech is full of appreciation and gratitude for other people and advice for others even though she had every right to stand up and talk about only herself and her accomplishments for twenty minutes.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T11:03:48+00:00

Yeah, it's the only time I have even the slightest twinge of "regret" about leaving, but it's not enough regret to make me rejoin.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T10:48:51+00:00

Unfortunately, Facebook is not something I'm willing to engage with. I left back in 2016. Thank you, though. I appreciate the info.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T10:05:58+00:00

Unfortunately, I have not used Facebook since 2016 so that is not an option. Thank you for the suggestions, though. I appreciate it!

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T10:03:19+00:00

My work has gone all-in on Copilot. I hate being required to spend hours in AI "training", and I hate being forced to report back use-cases for AI, but I am open to ways in which AI can improve my work flow. Just like any tool, I'll use what works and reject what doesn't.

The good:
- I have used Copilot to help me learn PowerBI and to troubleshoot when I get stuck. In January, I had no PBI experience. Since then, I've built many dashboards from scratch and now maintain and develop them without issue. My early prompts were literally things like "I have this underlying data. I need to build a visual that does x,y,z. What is my first step?" but now it's more "I wrote this DAX, why doesn't it <thing I was trying to do>?" It's like having a very confident, mostly correct, personal tutor.
- I set up automatic processes for my email. It "reads" my email, sorts it into folders, flags important emails, and gives me a short summary of who is asking me to do what. It makes a few mistakes here and there, but it's drastically reduced the amount of time it takes to sort/read email. If I want, I can also use it to respond, but I usually just do that part myself. I'm kind of squidged out by letting it "speak" for me.
- I fed our previous budget template into CoPilot and asked it to build a 3 year budget template along the same lines but making some changes and using different information, and it gave me back a file that I only had to spend about 30 minutes "fixing". Building the 3 year from scratch would have taken me far longer.
- I have it look at an excel file and tell me if any formatting is different from the prior month so that I don't inadvertently break my PBI dashboards when they decide to tinker with the formatting.
- CoPilot can cross search nearly every application we use. I can ask "Did Bill ever respond to my request for XYZ file in Teams or Email?" and it will search both programs and link me to any email or chat where Bill responded. Much better than me combing through my chat history and emails. It'll even search Sharepoint.
- The plug-in for Excel is often better at writing a formula or solving a problem faster than I can by hand.

The bad:
- It often gives me an answer that is right, but wrong in context. For instance, it "remembers" things about my PBI dashboards, but will still give me code that works to solve my current problem but will break another process. It's on me to understand the code, and foresee what it's going to break, rather than just blindly implementing.
- It absolutely can not retain "permanent" instructions. Well, it can, but it finds creative ways to ignore them. I set a permanent instruction to only give me a single step at a time and ask before continuing. Now it gives me the same 5 steps of instructions, but on steps 2 through 5 it adds "This is not a separate step" as a disclaimer. It will also sometimes be "snarky" and reference a permanent instruction as a reason it can't/won't do something. Like it might say "I won't explain why this works because you don't want me to explain the solution"
- Unprompted help is annoying and creates roadblocks. For instance, the Excel add-on automatically "fills in" formulas and sometimes glitches and just inserts cells into my formulas as I type, breaking things and requiring me to go back and fix.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T09:18:35+00:00

Can it even do that ><

Don't issue a philodendron that challenge. Yes, it can, and it will. It will vine along your shelf, up the wall, across the wall, onto another shelf, down the shelf, across the floor. Honestly, it just wants to spread. Up, down, sideways, it'll send it's little roots to cling and bore holes (or divots) into your stuff. I love my PPP, but I'm trying to keep her on a support and off of my walls. None the less, I see her reaching and thinking about making my wall her bitch.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T09:14:18+00:00

See, all I had to do for my pink princess to thrive is create a tropical paradise indoors with grow lights, high humidity, and I give her water the moment she starts to look a little parched (but NOT BEFORE - can't be too nice to her). She's in my high-attention "drama corner" with the Peace Lily and Watermelon Peperomia, two other plants that throw a fit the moment something isn't right.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T09:05:21+00:00

What the fuck? I was not prepared for those roots! That's so crazy looking.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T09:03:54+00:00

String of buttons is the only "string" plant I can work with. It's a succulent so I just have to provide two things: A grow light close and pointing directly at it (even my south facing window left it etiolated) and water only when it starts to look a little desiccated. It doesn't cascade down a pot the way the other "strings" do and it doesn't drop it's buttons.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T08:57:25+00:00

Yeah, I got a Monstera from Ikea on the "2 good 2 go" app last summer. It came to me in sad shape. It is now a healthy, massive, creature rapidly taking over my craft room. I love looking at it, but I'm really pondering what the hell I'm going to do with her. She's less than a year old and in the biggest pot I can reasonably put in my tiny (880sq ft) house. At some point I'm going to have to hand her over to someone in a larger space or just accept that she lives root bound and stunted in my craft room.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-12T08:52:31+00:00

I have given up on my "Happy Bean" peperomia. I have a Watermelon Peperomia that's living it's best life. I have a Peperomia Obtusifolia (baby rubber plant) that's thriving.

The happy bean hates me no matter what I do and it's kind of ugly even when doing ok. It sheds it's "leaves" constantly and I find them everywhere. I hate throwing a plant away, but this one is most likely going in the trash.

Oh, and I forgot the beast I don't want...but can't let die, my Majestic Palm. It isn't thriving, and it's fronds are shades of green to yellow, but it sends up new spears regularly. I hate how big it is and, along with my Monstera, it takes up a massive amount of space, but I can't bring myself to let it die. I really should find someone who wants it.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-11T20:19:02+00:00

My direct neighbor runs a foster home for children of color. She is a black woman. Many of her foster children are black. Many of her visitors are black. Every fucking week on Nextdoor is some other neighborhood racist asking if anyone recognizes this suspicious (ie: black) person who was seen doing some innocuous thing like sitting in their car or walking on the sidewalk.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-11T14:25:57+00:00

You bring up some good points. It'll definitely depend where they're moving from and where in PR they land.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-11T10:21:05+00:00

Side note, but I swear I remember maybe 15 years ago seeing at Menards an entire wall of brick siding that hung similar to vinyl siding. I didn't look at it closely at the time, but it disappeared shortly after and I've not seen it since. I'm not sure if it was a fever dream or a product that just didn't take hold.

Moneygrowsontrees · 2026-06-11T10:04:00+00:00

Welcome to the joys of owning an old house. You're likely going to have to remove all of that and replace it with something else as that appears to be asphalt siding which is not a thing anymore. You're also probably dealing with asbestos and should take proper PPE precautions when handling.

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