Live Stoner Chat Live Stoner Chat - Oct-Dec '25

[Olderfart]

The trip was alright .....roads were plowed but a little slippery. I have to go back once more in a month just to check on the bursa that has been bothering me a bit. Wearing a compression stocking has almost fixed it so she just wants to double check. A second blizzard rolling through today so will be an indoor Christmas baking kind of day. I masked up for the hospital trip because there are sick people everywhere with the flu bug that is hitting the country. Fingers crossed that I avoided it..............

This year's flu season is just getting warmed up, it looks like it is going to be a doozy. The main circulating strain has several mutations which seem to be making it better at escaping this year's vaccine, and maybe also more severe. You were smart to mask up, flu is airborne, very bloody contagious, and the hospitals are starting to feel the strain.

 

[Mara Cachafa]

Thanks for the solidarity @Frankthetank. My time "away" was good for me, I got my education in there (GED, AA, BA). I was on a bad track, so maybe jail was a rescue.

 

[Frankthetank]

was on a bad track,

I know this sentiment well my friend

 

[Cobstopper]

Had to back off the DLI a bit due to Zep starting necrosis. PSP had one dot on a large fan leaf but otherwise handled it well.
Daddy doesn’t like to see his girls suffer.

 

[Olderfart]

For some of our Native American and First Nations tribes crows and ravens have spiritual significance as guides and harbingers, and are treated like family.

The crows where I used to hunt deer led me to more than one. They apparently learned to associate peeps with rifles with gut piles. Any time I heard a crow having a hissy fit, I would always check it out, and at least twice that I recall, the crow was making a racket sitting on a branch near the deer, and hung around until I had left the gut pile. Birds in the crow family have smarts that are easily underestimated.

They are also very effective at teamwork. I studied sea lions years ago. I lived on a pupping colony during the spring when pups were all born. When the afterbirth appeared, the crows were keen on getting at it, they seemed to figure that it was some kind of delicacy. But immediately after the birth, the cow was super protective of both the pup and the afterbirth, at least that is what the behaviour appeared like. What the crows would do is one of them would tease and distract the cow's attention away from the afterbirth while the other crow sneaked in there and grabbed a beak full. After a bit, they would share by changing places. This was a regular pattern where I studied, not just a one off. I suspect that the technique gets passed along through observation and learning from other birds.

If you want to get more fascinating examples, google Indonesian Crow intelligence. Some of the things these birds can do bends my brain.

 

[Frankthetank]

Had to back off the DLI a bit due to Zep starting necrosis. PSP had one dot on a large fan leaf but otherwise handled it well.
Daddy doesn’t like to see his girls suffer.
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Have you considered supercropping?

 

[Frankthetank]

 

[Dab]

Had to back off the DLI a bit due to Zep starting necrosis. PSP had one dot on a large fan leaf but otherwise handled it well.
Daddy doesn’t like to see his girls suffer.
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Looks like too much N to me dark leaves with k and ca deficiency

 

[Frankthetank]

 

[Cobstopper]

Have you considered supercropping?

First weeeeeed and now this. This ain’t no Feel Good Friday for me.