Southeastern Fires

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3-20-26

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They cooked up a Kimbo

3-20-26

GM

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🎃Spring 🌸 Gardening 👩‍🌾 2026 is Mandatory #Homework

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🎃Spring 🌸 Gardening 👩‍🌾 2026 is Mandatory #Homework

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🎃Spring 🌸 Gardening 👩‍🌾 2026 is Mandatory #Homework

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🎃Spring 🌸 Gardening 👩‍🌾 2026 is Mandatory #Homework

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Water the babies! 💧💦🍇🍓🫐🍋🍊🌶🍆🥒🥬🥦🌽🥕🍒🍑🥭🌱
🎃Spring 🌸 Gardening 👩‍🌾 2026 is Mandatory #Homework

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Like Boss says

Rationing is a Myth




Be Selfish!!!!

Hoarding is a Myth!!!!

Hoarding is a myth, Hoarding myth is used so Goverments can have someone to blame and not acknowledge that rationing must take place due to a break down in the supply chain.

Boss

Task A

Keep food prepping

Do it for funsies
1. Go to Twitter.
2. Write: Shortage stock up
3. Read "Top" tweets, see date.
4. Sort by "Latest", read tweets.
5. Analyze Intel.
6. Draw a hypothesis for the next 6 months.

Task B

Take the #GoodwillChallenge.

Go check out your local Goodwill, Salvation Army, or locally owned and operated thrift store to hunt down SHTF supplies.

See what you can find to put your upcycling skills to the test. Can you repurpose what you find?

This will be an important skill to cultivate in the event of an emergency or a supply chain collapse.

Take the challenge and practice now while you have time.

People in Hurricane areas know this too well

You might have a generator but you hook it for some lights and the fridge. If its really powerful maybe AC or fans, but the little electric appliances cannot be used

Things like pressure cooker that can be place over charcoal

Cast irons, mason jars, hunting knifes, books, electronics,

#HOMEWORK

https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190

Spring Gardening Jobs 🌸

Here is a shorter, more concise version that keeps the essence, poetic tone, depth, and key seasonal tasks:
Spring arrives not with certainty, but through negotiation—fragments of thaw, green shoots testing the ground. The air softens then sharpens; light stretches, yet cold lingers. The garden stirs, not all at once, but enough to signal change. To enter it now is to feel quiet urgency: everything beginning, nothing guaranteed.
The first task is attention. Touch the soil, test its texture, temperature, and drainage. Many gardeners run a quick soil test early on, amending pH or nutrients as needed. When it yields under your fingers, fold in dark, living compost and rebuild tired beds. Pull back mulch in spots to warm the soil for early sowings.
Sowing begins with cool-season crops—peas, spinach, radishes, carrots, beets, lettuce, Swiss chard—pressed or scattered while the air still bites. Indoors, start tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and eggplants under grow lights. Harden them off gradually as days lengthen, exposing them briefly to wind and sun.
Restraint shapes spring’s rhythm. Frost waits to punish haste, so cover tender starts on cold nights and watch forecasts closely. Patience is rewarded; assumption punished.
Clear winter remnants—cut back collapsed stems and sodden leaves, but leave some debris for overwintering insects. Return the rest to compost. Pull early weeds while small, hoe lightly to disrupt others.
Divide overcrowded perennials—hostas, daylilies, coneflowers—giving each clump space to thrive. Plant new bareroot perennials or strawberries now. Set supports early: stakes, trellises for peas, beans, climbers. Inspect and repair irrigation so young roots never go thirsty.
Water is both gift and duty—monitor uneven rains, avoid drowning or starving new life. Weeds surge first; lift them young. Pests arrive—aphids, slugs—met carefully to preserve balance.
The garden awakens with bees, birds, the scent of turned earth and opening green. It is not summer’s fullness, but unmistakably alive.
Spring is promise held in fragile balance: abundance in its infancy. It teaches attention, timing, restraint. Prepare, sow, wait, adjust. Accept that some will fail, others surge, and no season follows the plan exactly. In that uncertainty lies a sharp, quiet joy.
Even without a garden, spring invites you: notice what returns, begin before you feel ready, tend the small and uncertain, trust it may grow. Spring is not given; it is built, moment by moment, through presence and care. In answering, you join the slow act of renewal.

Spring Activities for Kids 🌱

Garden volcano 🌱
Rain color trails 🌧️
Soil life search 🐛
Seed sprouting test 🌱
Mud track study 🐾
Simple bird feeder 🐦
Flower pattern study 🌼
Sun warmth test 🌞
Twig building challenge 🌿
Seed drop experiment 🍃
Rain path maze 🌧️
Wind spinner 🍃
Grass slide test 🌱
Water soak test 💧
Bubble air study 🫧
Dissolving sugar test 🍬
Plant breathing test 🌿
Leaf sounds 🎶
Magnet soil test 🧲
Mini weather journal 🌦️
Paper glider test ✈️
Stone balance ⚖️
Floating test 🚢
Decomposition jar 🍂
Puddle reflection study 🌧️
Cloud watching log ☁️
Leaf rubbing art 🍃
Stick bridge build 🌿
Pebble sorting test 🪨
Shadow tracking test 🌞

Seasonal Treats 🌱

Strawberries 🍓 Cherries 🍒 ,
Carrots 🥕 Radishes 🫜 Pineapple 🍍 Mango 🥭

Caring for Birds in Spring

Spring repairs what winter took. The air grows dense with sound. Motion returns in quick flashes—brief flights, abrupt calls, relentless shuttling between earth, limbs, and air. Winter’s quiet surrenders to pressure. Nothing lingers. For birds, spring isn’t soft; it’s exacting. Territories need defending. Nests require construction. Chicks demand feeding. Every moment is measured.
Caring for birds in spring starts with recognizing the change: energy moves from mere endurance to creation. Food stops being just sustenance—it turns into building blocks for new life. Insects take priority. Caterpillars, grubs, beetles—tender, packed with protein, endlessly available. These nourish growing nestlings and help adults recover from long journeys. Seeds remain useful, particularly at the season’s start, but nature’s own output now drives success. What flourishes dictates what families can be raised.
Water turns dynamic. Beyond drinking, it supports bathing, preening, and feather care during nonstop activity. A shallow, frequently refreshed basin attracts constant visits—swift arrivals, energetic splashes, rapid exits. With birds clustering more during breeding, water becomes a gathering place. It must stay clean, accessible, and reliable.
Shelter takes on new purpose. Places that conserved warmth in winter now cradle life. Dense shrubs, thick hedges, tree holes, untouched brush piles—these transform into nesting locations. Disruption carries heavier weight now. Pruning, clearing, or rearranging can destroy eggs, expose vulnerable young, or break ongoing cycles. What appears messy is functioning exactly as needed. Spring favors leaving things alone, but the payoff shifts—from survival to thriving.
Roosting fades into nesting. Building supplies travel—twigs, stems, plant fibers, mud. Birds transport, assemble, refine. Spaces cease to be communal. Territories contract. Personal distance grows. Flocks dissolve into defended borders. Song defines them. Persistent, loud, assertive. Not ornament—announcement.
Bird activity spreads wider. Some arrive back from far away. Others migrate through quickly, chasing warmth and resources. Group timing loosens. Coordinated flocks give way to individual loops—tree to soil, feeder to nest, back again. This isn’t aimless drifting. It’s labor.
Spring bird support isn’t hands-off. It’s active assistance. Protein sources ready. Water kept fresh. Shelter left intact. Habitat permitted to operate without disruption. The process is already underway. Meddling risks more than neglect ever could.
The result shows clearly. Purposeful flight routes repeating. Voices stacking across dawn light. Motion without pause. To care for birds in spring means staying steady amid the rush. The birds answer not with calm, but with persistence. And that is plenty.

Today’s Misson
Become Ungovernable
#homework #ungovernable

You will need

Salt/Spice/Parmesan Shaker 🫙🧂
Transportation 🚴 🛹 🏃

Seeds:
01 Larkspur
02 Cornflower
03 Marigolds
04 Poppies
05 Corncockle
06 Nigella
07 Cosmos
08 Gentiana
09 Amaranth
10 Mullein
11 Morning Glory
12 Blacked Eye Susan
13 Cat Mint
14 RudBeckia
15 Coreopsis
16 Ox-eye Daises
17 Zinnia
18 Common Agrimony
19 Cone Flowers
20 Chives
21 Clarkia
22 Phacelia
23 Four O'Clock
24 Purple Chinese Houses
25 Frying Pans
26 Lace Flowers
27 Borage
28 Forget me Not
29 Fox Glove
30 Viper's Bugloss
31 Knap Weed
32 Sneezer Weed
33 Sweet Rocket
34 Malva
35 Butter Cup
36 Cilantro
37 Fennel
38 Lemon Balm
39 Mint
40 Chervil
41 Parsley
42 Borage
43 Calendula
44 Lettuce
45 Radishes

Today’s Misson
Start them young
Become Ungovernable
#homework #ungovernable