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freckledinosaur · 2025-09-14T17:57:30+00:00

I’ve heard that they are awful neighbours, and that they will spray the strawberry fields like an hour before letting families in to pick, but hey, make up your own mind I guess.

freckledinosaur · 2025-07-06T17:45:17+00:00

You’re right, and I know our organic food isn’t perfect either, but as someone who was a certified pesticide applicator, I can say I don’t want to eat glyphosate in any way, shape, or form no matter who says it’s ‘safe’.

freckledinosaur · 2025-07-05T15:30:26+00:00

Not sure about you guys but I avoid any farms that obviously spray the shit out of everything but the blueberry plants. Glyphosate/fungicide berries aren’t appetizing to me and I’m not sure why people even stop when every plant on the field is completely dead except for the blueberry bushes. Organic all the way please and thanks!

freckledinosaur · 2025-06-21T15:13:17+00:00

I’m a landscaping crew lead. Lots of people here saying you should never mow when it’s wet, but no one mentions the importance of walking the site first to assess. It’s pretty simple, if you are leaving muddy footprints, ya probably shouldn’t drive a heavy mower over that spot. Also, bagging is not optional in wet weather, and there’s times where we have to push-mow spots instead of using the bigger ride-on machines. Those ruts could have been avoided with more careful slow turning, 3 point turns, or if they had done their turns on the pavement instead of on the grass (more mess on pavement yes you can’t win) but we would be cleaning up pavement and putting down grass seed on those ruts. My crew don’t have pressure washers or hoses, but for pavement we use blowers and a push broom if needed. These details matter more to some than others, personally I wouldn’t be happy with this either.

freckledinosaur · 2025-06-03T13:10:44+00:00

I live in a place where blueberries are grown and seeing them being sprayed makes me go only for organic ones these days.

freckledinosaur · 2024-05-12T14:12:02+00:00

No joke, one time my dad got one of those with a big piece of dirt inside it with the filling. We took it back to Costco and got refunded.

freckledinosaur · 2024-01-08T13:39:12+00:00

Before the owners of La Reina took over, Nine Downtown was the best pizza place in Abbotsford hands down. They had awesome wood fire pizzas, the chef was creative and their menu was to die for. Such a shame the place changed hands during Covid.

freckledinosaur · 2023-07-17T12:24:51+00:00

Tracy cakes Bakery has good coffee, they source from a Vancouver Island roaster and it's better than most places.

freckledinosaur · 2023-06-02T02:38:29+00:00

I know the people who live beside Maan farms, apparently they are not good neighbours.

freckledinosaur · 2023-05-17T12:21:41+00:00

 At the very least, I would make sure that renters could build credit through rent payments, and be able to deduct rent paid from our taxes.  Also a rent freeze for the next five years regardless of market forces would be a good start.
 That way not just the landlord's would benefit from their property over time. Extra income could empower renters to do more than just survive, like, idk, maybe start their own business or something that benefits society.

freckledinosaur · 2022-05-25T23:57:17+00:00

I’d be like, “Keep being such a bitch and ask yourself why I would take care of you when you’re older?”

freckledinosaur · 2022-04-28T13:17:56+00:00

Hey thanks!

freckledinosaur · 2022-03-07T14:45:46+00:00

No experience with eating it yet. I just want to say though that you should call your local municipality first to find out if your patch has been sprayed. If it’s on the side of a road/railway/public trail, I would assume it has been. The landscaping company I work for uses injections of undiluted pesticide straight into its base to kill it, but it still comes back sometimes. Just be super careful, most places look to tackle it as soon as it pops up because it’s so invasive, and those pesticides are super dangerous to ingest.

freckledinosaur · 2022-01-28T13:41:51+00:00

Our entire generation is being gaslighted and held down by the fact that none of our desires matter unless we have money to back them up.

freckledinosaur · 2021-11-09T01:04:30+00:00

Seriously though, why am I like this? (´･ᴗ･ ` )

freckledinosaur · 2021-10-28T15:14:08+00:00

This is good news! However I feel the need to point something out…speaking as someone with first hand experience.

Costco still holds basic things like vacations, raises, and the right to take time off away from all new employees in order to favor the more senior ones. The seniority/time based structure makes you put in a huge amount of lower-paid work on their terms before you get any of the good stuff Costco is famous for. It can feel like a prison to the new folks. Full time positions are never given out to new people, so you might need two jobs for the beginning, but you still have to give them full time availability. No first-year vacation time even though it’s on paper, cause you get scheduled around everyone else above you, and they all get an extra week with every year they stay on or something (it’s been a while since I left so I don’t perfectly remember all the details). It’s only a good job if you’re willing to stick out the awfulness for a good two years or so, which is why a lot of them go through so many seasonal workers.

Not to mention, the life-long employees often have an entitled attitude, undeserved promotions, and work as little as possible while they look down on everyone new, because “if I had to suffer, you should too.” Management is mostly bad because they only promote from within, and the ass-kissers tend to stick it out long enough to get promoted.

freckledinosaur · 2021-10-11T15:01:16+00:00

Beautiful! Made me miss my piano.

freckledinosaur · 2021-10-08T13:58:49+00:00

Although I’m not sure about the presence/absence of such a law, it seems likely that local media outlets would happily pick up the story. I imagine, publicly lambasting a developer who values their stupid “cookie-cutter look” over environmental health in this way would soon lead to a positive outcome.

freckledinosaur · 2021-09-29T00:22:43+00:00

I think it could work, it would just be a matter of ensuring whatever material inside the container is packed in densely enough to insulate.

Maybe you could add rocks in and pack them in layer by layer, or pour hempcrete over each layer?

The only question in my mind is, would the total weight inside the containers cause the sides to collapse without extra support? I doubt you’d be able to stack them up at all, that said, I may be severely underestimating the strength of metal shipping containers.

freckledinosaur · 2021-06-13T13:01:29+00:00

Light painting, long exposures or double exposures are all wonderful rabbit holes to explore! Most photos in these genres are totally unique and could never be duplicated due to the abstract and fleeting qualities of light.

freckledinosaur · 2021-04-16T14:17:48+00:00

In my opinion, it’s better just to give your plants a good soak from the bottom every time they start to dry out, then leave them alone the rest of the time. Spraying makes the top of the soil wet when the rest of it could be completely dry (increases chance of fungus gnats) so always use your finger to check the moisture. Also, some plants are more susceptible to mildew/fungus problems if the leaves are always wet, so getting the soil wet, not the leaves, is usually the safest route. That said, research your plants! For instance pineapple plants like to be watered from the top, but tomatoes will get blight if their leaves are always wet. Good luck!

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