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That bow is very impressive.

Went for an 8km walk today which dusted off the legs. My boyfriend caged in one of my plant shelves because that flipping squirrel keeps digging into my plants. I planted some cathedral bell seeds and put a pot over the pot but he managed to dig a hole in there regardless.

I also dusted off my ponies. When we reno the house, I want to look at better shelving/display options for them.

Thanks for the link!

I only remember one episode (where they tickled a spider) of the original MLP. I did have a wide collection of the ponies though. Love FiM, but I hate the pony toys. Cutie marks only on one side, AJ never has her hat, wrong eyes (I prefer the eyes of the older ponies instead of just a stamp), horrible colouring (purple Luna, pink Celestia) and the horrible hair. We can land a man on the moon, but can't give Pinkie her curls. (Plus my 25 year + ponies still have their curls, Hasbro can make show appropriate Pinkie hair.)

My boyfriend got me two, one being an European one (shiny lavender coat, pink hair with the yellow ribbon). She was quite expensive, so now I feel like a "real" collector.

Hahaha, the jays are being really greedy this morning so I've put some food for the juncos in my plant cages with a corner up. I was sitting watching them and that f squirrel came, dug into my plants and crawled in the cage under the corner flap. I went out there to scare him and didn't realize the door didn't close after me so Bones came out and was like "WOW MOM THANKS !" for catching him a squirrel. Needless to say the squirrel was not impressed. I let him out and took Bones back to the house and then realized my other cat escaped too. Found her a few minutes later thankfully.

The Easter Bunny left two eggs for us at our door this morning. :3

I've had a really tedious week and today was just the cherry. My math teacher was really blase about a bunch of my questions and a tow truck ran over one of my flower pots at work. The half wine barrel flower pots. Just a really frustrating day.

When I got home, there was a raven outside. I gave him some suet and he seemed happy. Of course I didn't have my camera with me. He flew away and I got my camera and took some pictures and of course I run out of room. Took eight minutes to get the folder off my camera and onto my laptop. That cheeky squirrel was exceptionally cheeky. I grind the nuts up so the juncos can eat them and she was going for the container of nuts instead of the few nuts I put out just for her. One of the chickadees landed on my hand to get some food too.

I learned that by properly combining modern fertilizers produced in factories with organic fertilizers like crop rotation featuring things like legumes & clover, one can sometimes get the the best of both worlds (both the productivity essential to feed the world that comes with modern fertilizers and the lack of nitrogen pollution that comes with organic fertilizers).

I also learned that the biggest obstacle to decreasing nitrogen pollution in China is the lack of agribusiness. Peasant farmers with tiny plots of land are still so terrified of the starvation they experienced from communism and uneducated that they overuse modern fertilizers by an enormous percentage.

I also learned that one if the biggest farming problems in sub-Saharan Africa is the depletion of soil quality caused by farming without being able to afford modern fertilizers. The nitrogen is being used up faster than it is replaced & so every harvest is less productive than the last.

All this information sure would come in handy in an apocalypse!

Our little organic market now has dried nettle. I bought some and made a tea. I really missed nettle tea.

Haha, awesome!

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Today I started the thirty day squat challenge. You start by doing 50 squats and increase by five each day, with rest on the fourth. (So tomorrow is 55 squats, and then 60, 65, etc.) I've been doing 30-60 squats the last week so I'm thankful I'm in a bit of shape before hand.

Also got a stand up bike pump. Might ride our bikes to work tomorrow.