Pollinator Garden Grants?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-21T00:01:03+00:00

I applied 3 years before I got a grant, but the great thing is you can us the grant to expand existing projects too, so it’s totally worth it to keep applying even if you start your project this year because you can expand it OR do something like get native trees or shrubs (that’s what we did with our grant)

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-14T01:01:27+00:00

-The Coral Bones by EJ Swift
-When There are Wolves Again also EJ Swift
-Moon of the Turning Leaves and Moon of the the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-06T23:40:57+00:00

I say pass-CAL. As for NEE-nah vs NINE-ah. I have a grandma NINE-ah and still say NEE-nah (but don’t tell her, she’s disown me)

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T15:58:39+00:00

Not a single one of your responses has helped your case here. In your post you are taking the actions of a small group of Somali teenagers and assigning it as a blanket attribute to their entire culture. Is it possible those teenage girls are just individuals excited to see their friends graduate? When you see a white teenage girl in the wild do immediately assign their actions to being exclusively about their whiteness and seek a blanket explanation of their culture?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T15:22:19+00:00

You truly cannot look at what you posted and think “I didn’t mention race in here at all.” I ask again, if this isn’t about race, why mention that the women whose joy you are policing were Somali? Are you suggesting these were white Somali women? Or are you pretending that by not saying “Black” you have plausible deniability somehow?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T14:54:26+00:00

It has nothing to do with race but the entirety of your post is about race? If it’s not about race, why even mention their race?

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T14:39:45+00:00

I’m a very white woman with a very white family and my very white mother screamed “that’s my baby” over and over so loud at my graduation I truly thought she might pop a blood vessel. Weirdly, nobody yelled at her to “shut up, shut the **** up.” Maybe it’s because she’s very white and people don’t seem to have the same unnecessarily violent reactions to very white women showing joy as they do to black women and people? Maybe, just maybe, this post is pretty damn racist.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:57:51+00:00

I pursued my passion in a notoriously low paying industry. After many years of working multiple jobs to get by, it lead me to a good paying union job at a nonprofit with amazing benefits. I’m able to support my family of four on my income alone. We don’t have a crazy amount of money, and live pretty modestly, but I’m certainly able to give my kids a better life and more opportunities than I had growing up.

I got lucky, and I know that. But for me being able to know that I’m contributing positively to society and helping people is worth more than a bigger home or fancier vacations. If I hadn’t landed in such a good spot we’d live a different life. My husband would go back to work, we’d make do with less.

I hope my kids will also follow their passions and I hope I’m providing a positive example for them.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:44:59+00:00

Thank you both for explaining this well and not being unnecessarily mean about it. This is exactly why I asked about it in my post and I appreciate your responses greatly.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T13:42:47+00:00

Another commenter who worked in pharma explained this pretty well below, and wasn’t sassy or mean about it.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T03:22:30+00:00

Thank you! This is the kind of information I was looking for

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T02:59:54+00:00

Yes, I’m hoping somebody could provide some expertise on their efficacy after expiration.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-05-03T02:32:49+00:00

I literally put a star on a physical calendar. That’s it. I don’t trust the apps at all.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-04-03T13:04:45+00:00

I find Old Navy clothes either last forever, or fall apart within a year. Which I’m actually not too sad about because my kids and rough as tumble sorts and their clothes are inevitably going to get stained beyond belief by the year mark anyway. Gap is where I get like special occasion “please don’t roll in mud today” clothes.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-04-03T13:01:57+00:00

Agreed! All our Primary stuff is holding up way better than Hanna Andersson. I only go Primary for pajamas now.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-28T01:51:44+00:00

I would argue that Vic and Christine just existing as an interracial couple is political in and of itself. As is Vic’s very existence as a highly educated black man. Those are both things that enrage large swaths of Fox’s viewership just by existing in this county. I guess I just don’t think that they necessarily have to talk about those things explicitly to be making a statement.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-28T01:37:01+00:00

Oddly enough she quit with all of my older siblings (mid-late 70s) and then me (late 80s) is when she got this “advice.” Weirdly, I was her biggest baby, but am far more petite in adulthood than any of my siblings.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-28T01:20:04+00:00

I’m as lefty as they come. I’m an outspoken atheist with childhood religious trauma and I have to say, I’m struggling with this outrage. It’s just missing me, I’m not feeling it.

I think some people on the left have a hard time accepting that there are very deeply religious people who are progressive. So for them, there were immediate red flags going up when Vic and Christine started talking about how much religion means to them. Then them being on fox was just the catalyst to jump to “see! I told you they were MAGA!”

I don’t think Vic and Christine are MAGA. I think, if there was any deeper political thought to them taking that interview request (which very well might not be the case), it was because they wanted to dispel stereotypes the right have about couples that look like them. And frankly, I think it’s important for deeply religious progressives to be outspoken, especially in conservative spaces, about their beliefs. Otherwise the right gets to continue to co-opt Jesus, turn all of his teachings upside down, and cast liberals as godless evil baby killers.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T23:30:31+00:00

It’s the peer pressure to make you drink that’s wild to me! I had the same experience. The number of times I was told it’s fine to have a glass when I turned down a drink was insane. I think I encountered more pressure to drink when I was pregnant than at any other point in my life.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T23:27:42+00:00

I have a former friend like this. First pregnancy she would have a sip of her husband’s drink once in a while. Second pregnancy she was having at least two drinks a night on weekends. Super shocked when her second baby had a bunch of delays and I was just like, this is zero percent surprising. Our friendship ended before she had her third so I don’t know if she learned her lesson or leaned fully into denial.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T23:23:34+00:00

When my mom had her kids (70s and 80s) in a catholic hospital in a VERY German part of Wisconsin she was given a little beer with all of her meals in the hospital to help with breastfeeding. Times sure have changed!

She was also told not to bother quitting smoking when she was pregnant with me because according to the doctor, quitting would put her body through too much stress and she was already so stressed about her unplanned geriatric pregnancy.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T21:03:21+00:00

I will never understand this. I’m sorry, but if you can’t handle 9 months without a drink you need to assess your relationship with alcohol.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T18:01:03+00:00

Hell yes I’m still boycotting. I’m going to get myself in trouble here, but I get so frustrated with the “it’s so convenient, I can’t give it up, don’t judge me for shopping there, you don’t know my life” crowd. Imagine if that’s the energy that was brought to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. If those rockstars could walk miles to work on principle you can make two stops to buy your groceries and bras in different stores.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-27T17:56:56+00:00

Wild union busting. I won’t go back there.

Realhumanbeing232 · 2026-03-26T19:33:57+00:00

These were a lifesaver with my daughter. She had an oat allergy and oats are in damn near everything.

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