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th0tcrates · 2 years

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Hey!

I have seen your pretty flower photos for a while and i was wondering, which plants/flowers do you like the most? Also do you know a interesting flower fact?

And how are the bunnies in your garden?

🥹🥰😘

(You always make me smile) I love all flowers!! I get unreasonably excited about flowers in general.. it’s hard to have a favorite but I particularly love keeping plants that are fragrant, perennial, or edible (or, in some cases, exciting combinations of the three)

Here’s where it gets good: my fun facts also run into lots of my favorite flowers!

Order Rosales contains 9 families and more than 7,500 species which include familiar friends like roses, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, mint, cannabis, apples, cherries, plums, and figs! (and hawthorns, don’t eat those)

Now admittedly taxonomy is just a structure we use to categorize things that exist- it is imperfect BUT helpful in forming understanding of relations, similarities, and differences between organisms

So back to Order Rosales! This order is often characterized by perfect flowers with petals in groups of five, simple (often saw edged) leaves with stipules (where more leaf stalks can come out), abundant pollen and nectar, thorny or hairy stems, and often bear fruit.

A particularly fun aspect of many/most/(maybe all?) plants in Order Rosales is that they can be cloned from cuttings!

There are many methods of cloning from cuttings (and I am NOT an expert) but in simple terms, this means a cutting of a plant can generate roots when removed from the mother plant and then grow as a healthy, fully functional, genetically identical independent plant.

Uh oh, that got long 😝 oops, I get excited about plants lol

I know nobody asked, but here’s a picture of my cloner. Right now is mostly full of baby pothos and spider plants (and a spring of mint):

(not pictured: the aquarium pump is behind the milk jug, I can do a cloner appreciation post if people want to make their own)

I really love many plants in Rosales, and enthusiastically keep many of them including a gorgeous Mirabelle plum tree that I inherited and love with all my heart

Thanks for asking about the buns! Most of the babies born in May have grown up and dispersed from the nest, we have somewhere between 4-8 that live permanently around, although now that the semester is over I’m usually getting up too late to see them in the mornings.

Mostly we see them in the evening, but sundown is nearly ten most nights so I’ve been lazy about pics

Haha wow this became a novel… if you made it this far, this post brought to you by the lovely @apple-chips-art, Order Rosales, and the beautiful buns! Thanks for reading, stay tuned for a post on how to fill your home with plants when you’re flat stinking broke 💚💛💚

#my asks #sweet asks #plants #order Rosales #th0t speaks #filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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I noticed that I've started getting wrinkles, a little around my mouth but mostly around my eyes

It's made my eyes so much more expressive, I put on mascara today and almost knocked out my interview panel

I have never had so much confidence in my life, my smiles have so much more power (even behind a mask)

This is awesome

#th0ts #th0t speaks #filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #aginggracefully #cottage witch #eclectic witch #wrinkles #happy #cottagecore #cottage garden #mosscore

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th0tcrates · 2 years

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my brain is hot and full of bees

#shut up th0t #th0t speaks #filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #depression #anxiety #chronic illness

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th0tcrates · 2 years

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sometimes I fuck up a social situation so badly that it burns until the day

#shut up th0t #th0t speaks #filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #depression #anxiety #chronic illness #insomnia

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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like I can reject the idea of perfection while still trying for it anyhow

stuff can be two things

#filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #th0t speaks #chronic illness #chronic pain #I'm still trying #some days are bad #but today was better #and that's awfully nice #depression #anxiety

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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Ok guys I've been a teacher for nearly ten years in a shitty ass district and I HAVE FEELINGS about literacy (and a tremendous amount of experience supporting it in struggling readers)

What I'm saying is that my asks and DMs are FREE and OPEN to: anyone who struggles to read and needs to ask a question, wants to try strategies to improve their comprehension, or get short-long term tutoring help

I am not fucking kidding I will help you read and I will be there until you don't need me anymore

#filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #th0t speaks #reading #literature #literacy #books #teacher #please share if you have a friend who needs help #everyone should get to be able to read with confidence

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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I'm In A Mood so here's a contrast post to my prior ramble.

What My Life Used To Be Teaching Middle School In One Of The Worst Districts In The United States (some highlights):

- the first classroom I ever taught in was also the same room I tripped as an eighth grader and split my head open. None of the fixtures had been updated. It had the same exact desks (it certainly still does today)

- the second classroom I had was about 3/4s of a block away from a skate park that was in the news pretty often for who was bleeding that day. We heard gunshots enough to recognize them distinctly from other banging sounds. My students saw people die a few times a year

- one of our kids was hit by a car and killed in the crosswalk fifty feet from my third classroom

- among my students I had a disappearance and two suicides.

- a teacher I was trying to support through her first year also committed suicide. These losses occurred over three years.

- two live shooter lockdowns, two more lockdowns due to nearby criminal activity

- acid sludge leaking up into the building from the pipes (the fumes were hell)

- fifteen year old textbooks (with assurances from the district that They Would Not Be Buying More)

- no heat (three weeks at a stretch)

- no AC (during hundred degree weather) three years running

- the year the building got mold so we had class In The Same Room while they removed parts of the walls and floor under a scaffold

- the teachers who stormed out and retaliated when we started a GSA club and approached the school about Safe Zones

- the year we got brand new chairs that literally fell apart with kids sitting in them (which we spent the next three years picking up pieces of and trying to replace, a bit at a time, from salvage)

Poverty is no fucking joke, kids. This list isn't exhaustive, I'm just getting too sad to keep going. I think a lot about the fact that my life is only soft and beautiful now Because I Moved The Fuck Away.

Conditions back there are only getting worse. I don't have any grand or even good conclusions. I feel guilty for leaving. I think it would have killed me.

So stay safe, hang on tight to your darlings, and Please Be Fucking Nice To Each Other.

#th0t speaks #and like i'm a teacher i'm supposed to teach hope #im sad and angry #i'm tired #and i'm really trying my best #but life is so much better now #but only for me #filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #last post about my past probably

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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I don't feel good 👏👏👏 👏👏

#filter th0t speaks if you don't want to see this shit #th0t speaks

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th0tcrates · 3 years

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I understand now that the horrible fucking pain in my chest when I feel this way is just my vagus nerve responding blah blah blah

Its real fucking helpful and constructive let me tell you