He’s a healthy, happy boy.

(His sisters don’t always like how intensely he plays, since he’s very energetic and 17lbs, but oh well)

Nah, I just like setting my phone to 0.5 zoom and getting REALLY close to take pictures of him

100%. He played the long game and boy, it’s a crushing victory

Not constant, actually, my professor emphasized that after being completely dessicated, when rehydrated about 80% of the plant will revive perfectly functional

Yeahhhh, he’s bumbling around these days

Because I was really excited and my apartment sucks, it is what it is

I can’t waaaaiiiit, no i can’t wait

I’m telling you, spend a few days actually looking for and actually SEEING moss, it’ll blow your mind

There is a strip of grass beside the driveway to my complex’s parking structure with one tree in it.

That tree and the surrounding grass has at LEAST five species of moss living on it, so I just slow down on my walk to the car and appreciate those diverse, weird little plants

Liverworts are one of the oldest living ancestors of modern plants, their life cycles are kinda weird, they look more like something that grows in a petri dish than a plant, and this one looks like snake skin

I just finished a two week, three credit-hour crash course primarily on mosses, but it included liverworts and hornworts a bit, too. So to find one in the wild was really cool because it’s the first time in my life I’ve seen one.

They’re just weird and I like em

I believe it’s a dessert

My wife’s grandma makes “pretzel salad”, which is crushed pretzel sticks that are tossed with a mixture of margarine and cream cheese, I think, then baked until crispy then crumbled.

In the meantime, cream cheese, maybe whipped cream?, sugar, a few other onesies and twosies, and canned shredded pineapple are mixed into an unholy slop.

Then, when is time to serve, the crumbles are mixed in with the slop and there you go. Salad.