u/pixie1995

Bought 2 bare root roses that unfortunately arrived while I was away for 2 weeks, so they spent an extra week in the wrapped plastic bag surrounded by whatever they pack it with (peat moss??). The instructions say it’s important to soak them in water for 12-24 hours so they get a good drink but I can see there’s already buds forming and the bag they came in was still nice and damp when I unpacked them today so I’m assuming they were drinking the moisture from that. When I rinsed them in this bucket I could see lots of fine white roots forming too. I’m just impatient and want to plant them now! 😅

And if so, what do you use?
Glue residue ruining it 😭

Ive noticed the type of story i love reading is a young woman (or person) faces hardships in life but comes out on top. Clan of the cave bear, Ugly, where the crawdads sing, white fang, a fortunate life etc are some favourites.

Has anyone else read this? Took me a while but I did end up enjoying it quite a lot.

Currently on holiday visiting family - wasn’t able to bring my scissors or scalpel on the airplane for obvious reasons so having to make do with some crappy cheapies I got from the newsagency. I did find an exceptional amount of cool old magazines and 1950s nat geos in my late grandfathers eclectic hoard.. most of my weight limit coming home will be those 🥴

14 hour difference between pics. I’m meant to fly to New Zealand tomorrow morning but I’m driving up the coast today… do you think it’ll emerge in the next few hours? I don’t want to miss it 😭

$120 second hand what a bargain

Really enjoyed making this one… inspired by the modest mouse song of the same name.

She was only small as it’s winter here in Aus but I loved the white patch

And they often advertise themselves as “qualified” but refer only to their wwcc/ first aid/ ndis screening as the qualification… like duh, everyone is required to have those things. Admittedly the cert 3 doesn’t mean much but at least it shows you’re proactive and trying. If you can’t be bothered to do an easy tafe course to brush up on some of your knowledge/ skills then what does that say about your commitment to the industry? I dunno, maybe I’m just tired but it frustrates me how few workers are willing to do personal care or work with more complex participants, or even treating SW like an “easy side gig”.

Edit to add: I should probably just have said support workers in general, not just isw. And that’s also not to say all, or even most are like this. But there’s definitely a demographic that are.

And if not you should be.