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There are so many weird, wild and amazing (even funny) creatures in our wonderful world.

Candy, crumpets or just a cup of coffee. Did you cook or bake or just fake it? Post something for us to enjoy with you.

Please post you funny, beautiful, silly or weird pet pictures.

"I hope you are blessed with a heart like a wildflower.

Strong enough to rise again after being trampled on.

Tough enough to weather the worst of the summer and even able to grow and flourish in the most broken of places."

"*Live like a wildflower.

Search for sunshine.

Grow after the rain.

Embrace your uniqueness.*"

Wildflower season creates a mesmerizing burst of color across the entire country. Go state to state in time to view different colors and varieties.

It's Saturday, do you live in Wisconsin? The top 20 heaviest-drinking cities in America and the corresponding percentage of adults that drink excessively in them:

Green Bay, WI (26.5%)

Eau Claire, WI (26.2%)

Appleton, WI (26.2%)

Madison, WI (25.9%)

Fargo, ND-MN (25.2%)

Oshkosh-Neenah, WI (24.5%)

Missoula, MT (24.3%)

Grand Forks, ND-MN (24.2%)

Wausau, WI (24.2%)

La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN (23.8%)

Mankato-North Mankato, MN (23.6%)

Fond du Lac, WI (23.5%)

Iowa City, IA (23.1%)

Dubuque, IA (23.0%)

Sheboygan, WI (23.0%)

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY (22.9%)

Lincoln, NE (22.7%)

Fairbanks, AK (22.7%)

Ames, IA (22.7%)

Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI (22.5%)

Sokushinbutsu is the rare, historical Japanese practice where Buddhist monks undertook a rigorous, years-long process of self-starvation and extreme asceticism to mummify themselves while alive, aiming to attain an enlightened state as an eternal "Buddha in this body". Around 20 to 24 preserved monks are known to have succeeded.

The Process of Self-Mummification

First 1,000 Days:

Monks ate a strict diet of nuts, seeds, fruits, and pine needles (mokujikigyō or tree-eating), while cutting out all grains to strip the body of fat and muscle..

Second 1,000 Days: The diet grew harsher, consisting only of roots, bark, and a toxic tea made from the sap of the urushi tree, which induced vomiting and further removed bodily fluids while poisoning tissue to prevent insect decay.

The Final Tomb: The monk sealed himself into an underground pine box just large enough to sit in a lotus position, with a small air tube and a bell. He rang the bell daily to signal he lived; when it stopped, disciples removed the tube and sealed the tomb for 1,000 days.

Anything fun or wild happened where you live? Are you going a local event or creating your own? Any activity from hiking to movies. Any fun ideas for others? Thanks for your ideas💡🕺💃🧩⛰️🛒🛍️💈

Any artists out there? Painting, baking, drawing, weaving, sculpture, macrame, beading? We want to see your excellent artistic work. Please post anything you have created or received from another gifted artist.

My three five year olds are wonderful. I adore them. They're clever and fun and sweet and caring and creative and every experience is a joy. I love watching their ideas blossom and seeing the results of those underdeveloped little inklings. I cherish teaching them about their weird mistakes and explaining what happened while we clean up together. But tell me, friends, why did the nine boxes of jello powder they emptied into the toilet last night set? There was no boiling involved. No cold water. Nothing cold at all in fact, you're all familiar with this summer. I highly doubt they stirred for a minute until the powder dissolved. No refrigeration crossed their minds. Yet here we are, with many servings of fully set, fully brown strawberry-lime-blue raspberry gelatin dessert. I don't know how to make this a teaching moment because it's too cute and funny. I don't even know where all of the jello came from. And you should see their smiles.

Reposted because it wasn't parenting-related enough for the parenting sub.

UPDATE: I left out older sister. 7yo deserves inclusion for suggesting we add whipped cream before cleaning up "for the plot." She clearly heard my response ONE time when my pizza-ordering intentions were questioned last week and it stuck. My toilet runneth over (in the best ways, and not literally)