lovely :)

If you use tap on the debit card you can bypass that, but I don't use tap- makes it way too easy for anyone who might get hold of your card to use it!

nice job :)

Ha! Yes, everyone has some kind of bugs issue..lol I'm in Alberta- no really deadly bugs, but since I'm in the countryside, just lots and lots of bugs..lol Historically, mosquitoes here have been really crazy, but the last couple of years very few- dry springtimes, I think...

Yep. My summer isn't always warm enough for tender plants, anyway, but if I were to put any out, they'd never be allowed back in-- any bugs seen and the plants and I would both be out to face the winter...lol

As always, I do have this on YouTube (slightly higher quality) and Spectra (if you prefer non-corporate hosting)
#Cats #video #fediverse #Peertube
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Exactly. I think the comments that said Callisa fragrans- also called Basket Plant, it looks like, were probably right :)

Looks about right, definitely Commelinaceae.

Re: the name- I also saw a reference that said that Linnaeus referred to an earlier work that mentioned a blood-red *root*and that was the source of the name! Seems more credible, but I did not confirm that. In any case, this is its showiest season!

haha--well at least they are blooming! They are supposed to be triggered by daylength, so in theory any time when night/day are at least equal. Probably some extra cues- temperature, water, nutrients- even mixed signals from mixed genes...lol- but again, it's blooming! :)

Nice at any time! A lot of them now are very mixed up hybrids, but this looks rather like the sort that used to get called 'Thanksgiving Cactus' close at least to Canadian Thanksgiving! (oct 13, this year)

Back in the countryside where I grew up, now, but prior to 2007, 25 years of living right downtown in several big cities.. a different life...lol

🙃 Haha- no sarcasm or anything intended..lol we just had different background thoughts + different experiences. And now- I haven't been in a big city (apart from a couple of in and out half days to buy cars) since 2007! and have only been to the nearest small city a couple of times since 2020..lol

Of course not :)

Oh I wasn't thinking that at all :) I actually was thinking (for no good reason-maybe illogically because *I'm* not in a city these days? lol) you meant people who were outside of their own cities were acting that way...lol Anyway, no idea, all sorts of different times and places and cultures :)

maybe it's a suburban city vs inner city thing?-lots of characters in my days in downtown Toronto and Edmonton!

When I moved back home from the big cities, and started working in a small town, it took me a little while to recognise things like Halloween and the local rodeo, when folks might where costumes-- I didn't really think it odd if the sales clerk was wearing pyjamas or a big hat, for example.

A privilege :)