I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.
I'm so tired :blobcattired: Starting to feel a little sick, I think the hospital experience from past week and a festival after that was maybe a little overload :battery_empty:
Our tent was quite large but I'm 1.96 meters so not large enough unfort :blobcatgiggle:
Luckily we're back with the boiis again :meow:
Time for some sleeeeeps! :stux: :sleep:
Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :cat_hug_triangle: ❤️ :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts:
@msquebanh It looks like it's safe to say it's been over 200 years. As early as the US war of independence, when black soldiers who fought against it were granted freedom in Canada after the British lost.
Lots of very unfair laws, enacted by popular demand, too.
Even for much of last century there were heavy restrictions on black and chinese immigration, for purely racist reasons.
Even British citizens got refused entry for not being white.
Here is my small nervous Formica subsericea. These are black field ants, you can tell them from carpenter ants because they are shiner, only come in one size (no majors with big heads) and their thorax has a dent rather than a hump. They also move differently from carpenter ants which tend to be more deliberate and less spastic.
Today I gave them fruit flies and they have eagerly piled them up in front of the queen. Who looks like she just wants to go to sleep.
#Shrimp & #Chayote#Stirfry - simple, yummy & healthy dish. I use extra garlic in mine & eat it with steamed rice but it's great on its own.
Chayote is also known as vegetable pear or christophine. Peel the skin off before cooking as it's tough/not fun to chew. A #vegetable that's used in lots of #AsianCooking. Fab source of vitamin C, dietary fibre & potassium.
Both to be thankful you don't have to eat any emergency things, which are in that category for good reason, and that you know you can still fall back a little before hunger becomes a real threat.
I remember talking to people who lived through the 1944/45 famine, and the tastes they talked about weren't very fun.
A lot of "safe" things are impossibly bitter, for example.
#CowParsnip is the ONLY #Heracleum species that's native to #NorthAmerica. There's many look-a-likes including the very toxic giant hogweed. I don't recommend trying to #forage & harvest them unless you're very experienced with identifying differences because it's dangerous to do so.