i changed this from trees to dirt bc a lot of people thought trees were supposed to be watered which i didnt expect and turns out some people actually water dirt for some reason so im just going to delete this post
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I have to water my dirt so my chickens can eat all the bugs from within yikes
im such a night owl tbh and i love the sunset but…..nothing compares to sunrises honestly. like mornings can be so amazing. at the crack of dawn when literally NOBODY is up,,and theres just birds chirping & ur cat chirping bc she wants to eat the bids lol. like rn the sky is pink and blue and there such a thick fog that i cant see past the second line of trees…..like its just me + miss mitten rn. and the birds haha. i can hear the turkeys up in their roost REAL loud and i think theyre pissed off bc literally as i was typing this a HUGE one flew straight over my head and they finally stopped squawking. and miss mitten is so energetic and she’s sniffing all the flowers and racing around the lawn. ive literally never seen anything so precious. and the flowers on the almond tree are starting to fall…theyre pink and they look like cherry blossoms and miss mitten likes to play under the tree and when the petals fall on her head she bats at them and alsghlkfcldfns i could never find the words to describe how much i honestly love mornings
update: tHREE (3) FAT CHICKADEES JUST LANDED IN THE ALMOND TREE NEXT TO ME AND STARTED SINGING IM L I V I N G ALSO MISS MITTEN IS STALKING AROUND IN THE TULIPS AND CHIRPING
Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.
Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees.
As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.
On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.
But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:
I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be
I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.
I need to be more like tree
I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.
what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?
Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).
As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “
including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”
It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.
Shit’s tight yo.
Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.
Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.
For instance, instead of saying “Sharon that makes you look like a fat cow”, try saying “perhaps vertical stripes would be more flattering to your figure”.
Chipmunks eat a wide variety of wildlife like frogs, mushrooms, birds, eggs, plants nuts and seeds. In the autumn, the chipmunks begin to gather their winter food stash, which they store in their burrows to last them until spring.
Thank you for your precious comments.
The Wildcat was a damn solid aircraft (as evidenced by its roughly 1:1 kill ratio to Japanese Zeroes) and its incredible durability and firepower really made it shine compared to the Zero. Oh, the Zero could (literally) fly loops around it in the vertical and (narrowly) out-turn it (at the cost of abysmal roll performance) but while that’s fine and dandy for 1v1 combat, air combat is all about teamwork between numbers of aircraft. Aces tend to come in one of three varieties:
1. Those who live for pr-getthisfuckingweebshitout of here
Ahem.
1. Dead-eye deflection shooters.
2. Men who can fly like a motherfucking mongoose.
3. The strategist/hunter.
Yeager’s an example of #1 and #2, which is why he was such a good ace. #1 is enough to make a man an ace on its own; air to air gunnery is hard. #2 produces men who can latch onto someone’s ass and blast them from 50 yards, and fuck the fancy shooting. And #3 is exemplified by the Red Baron; Richthofen illustrates the point of air combat here. As his comrade Oswald Boelcke summarized, “I fly close to my main, aim well and then of course he falls down.” To these pilots, setting up that shot is all that matters, and that’s a simple matter of positioning before launching the attack. To quote Ritchofen, “
When I have shot down an Englishman my hunting passion is satisfied for a quarter of an hour.” These men don’t go out looking for fair fights, or duels - they go out hunting. And there’s a reason pilots like this have mostly written the book on how air combat is fought. For every Yeager or Anderson there’s two dozen average pilots - and even an average pilot can blast the ass right off the Baron should the Baron plop it inside their gunsight. The Japanese based their air combat doctrine/strategy mainly on this kind of self-directed dueling bullshit; when the fight started they just peeled off after whatever the hell they wanted. Many of them went so far as to remove the radios from their aircraft (!) to lighten their weight even more. The aircraft still draws the same kind of pilot; if you play Aces High you can see guys sitting on the tarmac emptying their 7.7mm guns to lighten the bins even more before sortieing. Americans placed far more emphasis on fighting as a team, in numbers, and that gave the advantage to the Wildcat.
And then there’s the attack planes. To be blunt, American ones were better - in my humble opinion, a big contributor to victory at Midway was that America had the better weapons system in the SBD Dauntless than the Japanese Val. This webpage might seem to be polished, but the author makes his points very accurately: http://divebombingnavy.blogspot.com/ As the author notes, the SBD had split-flap dive brakes, rather than a dive break flap that dropped below the wing (creating some lift as well as drag) and a fixed landing gear. Both these affects kept the dive path shallower than 65 degrees. The SBD, with its retractable gear and split flaps, could push to 70 degrees (the lift of the wings themselves prevented a steeper dive.) Yes, that makes a difference, a significant one when it comes to dive bombing accuracy. The SBD was also much more durable, faster, had a better range and could lug twice the maximum bombload. It even had superior gunpower, with two fixed-fifties forward and two .30 cals rearward (to one rearward 7.7mm and two fixed forward 7.7mms on the Val.) It was simply a superior weapon.
Much the same can be said of the torpedo plane lineup - B5N versus TBF Avenger. The Avenger was a massive, high-powered aircraft with an obscene paylaod (2,000 pounds to the B5Ns 1,760 or so) more strongly built and with a notably superior defensive armament - it had a fucking powered turret for rear-quarter defense, plus a dorsal gun. The B5N only had a single dorsal gun - and a .30 cal, at that. Oh, and the Avenger was faster, too.
The Japanese really, really, really should not have fucked with the United States, and it’s a testament to the murderous bat-shit fucking insanity of their leadership and (to an extent) their culture that they actually did.
What in your opinion would have changed had I think the Ki-84 made it into the same kind if production scale as the Zero? Do you think it was well matched enough to have made a difference? (Its been a while since ive been around this kind of stuff, i may not have the right designation. I know the US codenamed it Frank)
after laying in the grass for about an hour staring at the autumn leaves and laughing at how blue the sky is, i have some insight to share:
why the fuck do you people buy red cars like i had no idea how bright and obnoxious they looked
there are BERRIES on the trees. like bright red. id never noticed them because they blended in. a new problem has arisen now: how the fuck do you people keep yourselves from trying to eat them they’re so tempting looking
the fallen leaves are so beautiful and colorful and you all are heathens for stepping on them just to hear the crunchy sound they make
