I am going on an amazing journey of weight loss after my gastric sleeve! I will be posting things that inspire me to continue forward and work harder (:
it amuses me to see people being surprised/impressed/amused by this setup, because it’s extremely common on the plains. if you don’t plant a windbreak, your heating and cooling bills are huge, and storms do things like throw the lawnmower through the living room window, take the roof off, or cake the entire north side of the house with six inches of solid ice.
evergreens remain bendy even in the coldest weather, so – wait, no, not the coldest. i remember when i was a kid it got down to like -45 and the norway pines around my house were cracking like gunshots as the sap froze.
maples, incidentally, make that noise around -20f, and i hear it at least once every winter here in southern minnesota. but i only ever heard norway pines make it that one time.
so anyway that’s why we plant pine trees around our houses. because otherwise the wind would freaking kill us.
This is informative and perfectly sensible under the circumstances but I also cannot resist the temptation to compare it to planting stuff all around the boundary of your lot in The Sims
Elephants are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet and have complex emotions. Their lives are being lost to the ivory trade, accelerating habitat and range destruction. You can help put a stop to this and ensure Africa’s elephants are protected for generations to come.
Ivory Ella was born with one goal in mind: to build a business that offers high-quality apparel and gear that makes people feel good—a company that gives back and inspires others to do the same. In other words, good clothes for a good cause.
Because of you, we’ve donated over $1.6 million to Save the Elephants and other charitable organizations. It our global mission to help eliminate the elephant crisis and motivate the next generation to take action!
