Notices by Tellio (tellio@mastodon.social), page 16

@dogtrax Great kidz. I remember how substituting salt for sugar was my kids fav 1.1.1.1 joke. Every single time.

@Tdorey I think you might call this feature "pump down the jams".

@dogtrax
We are just hyphae
in the rhizosphere,
our filamentous selves
trembling
in the fungal quiet ion cascades that roll over us
like tides in the dirt.

#smallpoems

In the glamor of the pre-dawn I hear the phoebes sing just as they did nearly 29 years ago when my daughter was born upstairs in our home. We named her Phoebe because they sang her name all night long and well into the morning and then proclaimed her after she was born. Now, every spring, as they sing and then nest, I am reminded of my youngest daughter. https://goo.gl/2HcSek5 #smallstories

@dogtrax Easter Bunny taunter. Better hope God isn't a bunny. No hollow chocolate bunnies for you.

@StuC Thanks, Stu.

@dogtrax We try.

In memory of Eli E. Elliott Jr., my father http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2018/03/29/eli-e-elliott-jr-rest-in-peace-dad/

I am watching the nasty weather outside: 40 degrees F, old rain, gusting wind. I have to feed the sheep and I dinna wanna do it.

My memory spins to the summer: climbing atop a noisome diesel tractor I mow the field's margins stirring up ground nests of yellow jackets. As I duck low branches I feel a "watchdog" of ticks fall on me and assassin bugs and blister beetles all aflutter on my clothes and skin.

Nastiness becomes a happy obstacle.
#smallstories
https://youtu.be/nUwctZnrLGQ

I am watching the nasty weather outside: 40 degrees F, old rain, gusting wind. I have to feed the shee[ and I dinna wanna do it.My memory spins to the summer: clamboring atop a noisome diesel tractor I mow the field's margins stirring up ground nests of yellow jackets. As I duck low branches I feel a "watchdog" of ticks fall on me and assassin bugs and blister beetles all aflutter on my clothes and skin. The nastiness becomes a happier form of struggle.A happy obstacle. https://youtu.be/nUwctZnrLGQ

@TheGibson In Kentucky?

@TheGibson Yes. Small sheep farm near Mammoth Cave. Teaching at WKU. First grandbaby just arrived 9 weeks ago.

@dogtrax And the dice we toss are increasingly 'loaded' toward extremis because of human 'dominion'. Loading the climate dice...and that game is finite.

@dogtrax Turn your spring into strings. Recycle your strings? Hang some lengths of pipe from them and make a windchime. It would be cool if the the tone of the chime was the same as the string. That way they would always be blowin' in the wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDdLgBO0Nw