I Am Muttsterion!!!

Everyone has something that makes them happy right? Well let me tell you about my happiness. Take a second of your life to let me show you my happiness..

This is my happiness and I would die for him any day

earlier my husband opened our snack cabinet and something fell out and he put it back and then a second later i heard him say very quietly “no, it chose me” and then he took it and walked away

obsessed with how this bird is called the purple indigobird…how did he meet the qualifications

this is who youre asking to work 40hrs per week btw

bitches be like I can't stand her fake ass!!

Smell of Winter by Marko Zoranovic

World’s first neutering [x]

I have a client who was diagnosed with literal LIVER CANCER, aka one of the deadliest, and normally so hard to treat. Famously killed David Bowie and Alan Rickman both.

He was given MONTHS to live, but then ended up being one of the first people in the state to get a state of the art infusion therapy for his cancer.

It’s been over a year, and his tumors have shrunk so much they are no longer detectable.

That used to be UNHEARD OF.

Federal funding is the only reason that happened.

Like Jesus Christ.

Another complaint we get is that when we plant trees, we only plant small trees which isn't equivalent to the ones we chop down. And it's like... the trees are small because they're younger. I promise if you go to the older parts of town you'll see that they do not stay small.

Do they... do they not realize that trees grow? That the act of them growing is what makes them establish root systems that prevent erosion? That them growing is what enables them to absorb carbon dioxide? The growing is what makes them useful!!! And as a fun bonus- young, healthy trees are far less likely to drop a branch on your head!

There's a lot of work that goes into these kinds of evaluations that I don't think people really understand. Like there's a lot of older trees in our uptown area and we love them very much, but they present a hazard to the man-made structures because they were planted with limited knowledge of how to keep them healthy while sharing space with brick.

Tree boss explained it to me once that the older trees have a black mold problem because they just kinda planted them. Because of this, they're root bound. Root bound trees get mold and rot. Sure enough- a big storm happened this summer and one of those trees that looked healthy on the outside came down, hit the roof of city hall, and you could see the decay inside.

There is a way to plant trees near streets and businesses so that the roots run under the structures and I think that he called it a 'root shelf.' But the people who planted those trees didn't have that knowledge, so we try to replace them with proper techniques when we have the opportunity.

But unfortunately, in order to do it properly for the health of the trees and the structures, we have to plant a sapling instead of an adult tree.

A lot of the time, I hear people talking about 'old growth trees' and how they can't stand to see us cutting them down. But the majority of these trees aren't old growth- they're maybe 50-75 years old and weren't planted with the future in mind. So sometimes we cut down an older tree that looks 'fine' from the outside, but the soil sucks or there's an infestation or the storm damage is worse than it looks from the outside.

I once saw Tree Boss just... push an adult tree down by leaning on it and the inside was fuckin' paper.

And its like... welcome to City Planning: where we fix the problems made 50 years ago by people who meant well.

Something I discovered recently;

Trees and shrubs tend to become root bound when they're planted in good soil. It seems counter-intuitive, but it actually makes a lot of sense.

You see, when you plant something, you're supposed to dig a hole and fill it with nutritionally rich soil. You give the plant plenty of food because you want it to grow fast. So why not give it a head start?

But a few years in, the plant starts to fail. If you dig it up, you'll find a tight bundle of roots filling the hole you dug. Your plant has become root bound. It's the same thing that happens when you leave a plant in a pot for too long. The roots circle around and become dense.

That's a problem for two reasons. One, dense roots are more vulnerable to infection. Two, the roots don't cover enough ground. That means less access to nutrients and water deep underground.

This happens because the plant was buried in rich soil, but is surrounded by "regular" soil. So instead of radiating away from the plant, the roots stay where the easily accessible nutrients are. It never acclimates to its new soil and rot settles in.

Tldr; we know so much more about plants than we used to. We made a lot of mistakes that now need to be fixed!

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If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

me: i will support anyone's identity!

someone: what if someone wants to identify as/with a rock?

me: then i say rock on! ^o^ /hj

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