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I've got American Chestnut trees on my mind again. One of the worst things to ever happen was the chestnut blight to come over to the states.
There’s a baby american chestnut at the place where I work :3
There has been a breeding program running for some time to create blight-resistant American chestnut trees. It is very likely that sometime soon in the future, they will return to our forests again…
I grew up helping my dad collect American Chestnut catkins and burrs for the local chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation so their researchers could use the materials to develop new hybrids or strains that are blight resistant. So happy to see people talking about this! I wanted to reblog and link to the ACF website so people who want to get involved can. Volunteers are always needed to go out into woods and catalog any wild trees, collect samples, and plant new generation saplings either on the lands ACF owns or on your own land (though you have to buy the saplings and they’re not cheap, it’s one of the ways the program generates funding). I have such fond memories of going out with my dad on those collection trips and on the yearly sojourn to the local orchard to plant new saplings developed by the scientists.
My ego has never recovered since i was a cashier and a middle aged woman at the next register leaned over to tell me my bone structure was “exquisite”
This was in 2017 and no one told me!! Her name is Pearl :)
Well i think it’s great
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Lying on the floor rolling around like a water buffalo waiting for the laminator to heat up
Lying on the floor in the fetal position for my gf to come picj me up from work bc my head n tummy hurt
Vintage Sheffield Strawberries Enamelware // SidebustShellieBee
Lying on the floor rolling around like a water buffalo waiting for the laminator to heat up
“Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being, but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.
Indeed when I reflect on the loveliness of your most joyful speech and aspect, I am utterly depressed, for I find nothing now that I could compare with your love, sweet beyond honey and honeycomb, compared with which the brightness of gold and silver is tarnished. What more?”
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