My understanding is it will be a symbol, kind of like the USDA Organic symbol. Not necessarily similar in design, but just that the organic symbol means it’s met USDA criteria for being organic

When I have some motivation, I’ll strain Greek yogurt overnight and use it like cream cheese on a bagel or piece of toast. It’s to try and get more protein than actual cream cheese (about 8-10g compared to 1.5-2).

But if I don’t get that done it’s usually a piece of buttered toast or a bagel with regular cream cheese.

Yeah lots of people around us cut on their own property. Our land is a recovering tree plantation, however, so we don’t want to cut any of the newer undergrowth yet. Hopefully our kid looks back on the memories of going to the forest fondly

Haha true. Eagle owl and GHO always seem like high stakes players to me, plus I worked with a grumpy GHO so I’m sure that colors my impression of the species

If you want to try the stick a pill down their throat method, this site has a video showing you how

Edit: I usually try the pill wrapped in some cheese first, if he catches on to that then I have to use the above method

When it comes to owls I think “glaring contest” could definitely work too

Lately we’ve ended up as the Christmas hosts for my side of the family. The day before everyone shows up, my kid and I make koláče - poppy seed filling for my brother, apricot for everyone else. Then we make my grandma’s cranberry fluff recipe to have with Christmas dinner. Once everyone’s over on Christmas Eve, we watch the Garfield Christmas special. We watch other Christmas shows and movies throughout December, but Christmas Eve is always Garfield.

With just my immediate family, after Thanksgiving we start Christmas baking and decorating. Sugar cookies, my grandma’s ginger cookies, and chex mix every year, plus the last few years my kid has asked for date pinewheel cookies too.

We always cut down a tree in the forest - the forest manager makes a map of which parts of the public forest they want the firs and spruce thinned out, so it’s like free forest management. After Christmas we put the tree out by our chickens, who enjoy sitting on and under it.

My mom’s side of the family gets together the weekend after Christmas, but most of us cousins don’t make it back. I miss us all starting up late talking and playing Uno, and everyone crammed into one house. Even when we do get together now we stay more spread out at hotels and such. It’s just not the same, but there are more people since there are spouses and kids in the mix now too. We don’t all fit in my grandparents’ house any more.

I ordered another Harvest yesterday because I love how it lights up when it needs water or food (a visual reminder works better for me than a phone notification or remembering to check the base). I’ve had mine for 3 or 4 years without issue, so I’m hoping that holds true for the one I ordered.

I did find this article helpful when looking into alternatives

This happy little tree brightened my day, and I know it will your mom’s too

I didn’t know that, thanks for the heads up

And loving every minute of it

I’m glad you’ve recovered! They did say it was more likely for my spouse to have a lung collapse again, which is scary.

Luckily my spouse’s employer has someone whose whole job is to fight with insurance. She got insurance to admit that in an emergency we didn’t need pre-approval which brought our bill down some.

My spouse had their lung collapse. Insurance denied it because we didn’t get advance approval for their lung to collapse.

That at one point was almost $200,000, with $100,000 of that interest. I feel like the Grinch with how big my heart grew reading this

Perfectly captures holidays with cats

I’ll try and keep my answer brief, because I feel the urge to infodump lol.

1. Task anxiety: I struggle with this and am under treatment for it. For me it has 2 parts: 1. Something like “see the dentist” that most people see as 1 step, I see as all the individual parts (like a previous comment lists) and get overwhelmed by it all and feel like I have to get it all done at once. For this, it helps me to write every single step down and just try tackling one when I feel the motivation.

2. My brain jumps ahead to thinking about worst-case what ifs, like really expensive dental work. It helps me some to ask myself the best and worst case for this, and I keep a list of examples when I expected the worst and it didn’t happen to remind myself it’s not guaranteed to be the worst case.

3. Future/jobs and career: First of all, don’t believe what people have told you about your intelligence. Everyone has areas of expertise and areas of weakness. If math isn’t your thing, there are plenty of jobs where you don’t have to do math (or nothing harder than add, subtract, multiply, divide). How you did in school and not getting your GED (yet) doesn’t imply intelligence. Second, don’t feel like you have to choose the career that you’ll do for the rest of your life. I’m on my 4th “career” and none of them are what I initially studied in college. In true ADHD fashion, each time I’ve sort of fallen into a new opportunity, my passion (about the novelty) got me the job, I dove in for a while, and then it fizzled out and I chased another interest.

If they both seem interested you could use 2 boxes and throw a toy, ball, or crumpled piece of paper into each box. Cats being cats, they may still just take turns watching each other, but you could get some side by side play.

I usually vote for both because I can’t pick a favorite, but a Snowy is part of the reason I married my spouse. So it’ll have to be just one vote today

Yes I was depressed but that depression was because I looked around me and saw people succeeding where for me even the simplest tasks felt like trying to drag myself through a pile of broken glass.

This should be an official question on the ADHD screening because this explains how I feel exactly.

My spouse cannot understand why I can’t make plans earlier in the day when I already have something scheduled. But they don’t have the problem where if they let something else have their attention for even a short time, all of a sudden it’s bedtime and they completely forget about the appointment.

It’s also a struggle for me with getting ready in the morning. I have to try and find the sweet spot where I’m ready a little early but not so early I decide I have time to do something else and then I’m late.