Harrison Ford?

(Also I’m 100% cool with the expectation of reasonable cultural conformity and aside from dropping the occasional “ope” and “lemme just squeeze right by ya” I’ll blend right in)

We (me much more strongly than my wife) are considering leaving altogether.

One reason I advocated for the twin cities as our “final” stopping point was because the boundary waters are a very porous border and I know i could get my family across with relative speed and low risk

Politics have been a convenient correlation, but I’ve been convincing my wife to move further and further north to more climate-change resilient areas

Almost like that poleward range shift is gonna affect humans just like any other animal

That is spectacular, and makes me super pumped to do that at my new house

What about it made her want to move?

Oh I’d love to see the whole garden if you don’t mind!

How’d you go about creating the right conditions?

I identified it as Callicladium haldanianum, but Platydictya subtilis is a good option, as well

No, it’s a true moss. I can dig up my notes and get the species for you, it’ll just be a little while

Lean-to is ideal in my mind because it naturally makes a little burble of still air for the teensy fire to grow in initially

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

I really appreciate that! I made sure to make most of the things I planted look intentional, because my desire for wildness isn’t realistic in suburbia.

So I labeled every species with sharpie on paint sticks and defined borders, in the hopes that the new owners don’t just tear it all out

I did the math, though, and my gardens are roughly 1.8% of the lawn. Nowhere near large enough.

I told my wife that it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to me that at least 20% of our next yard is native plants and (she doesn’t know this) a functional ecosystem.

I read “Nature’s Best Hope” by Doug tallamy this semester and it gave me a glimmer of hope against my almost total conviction that things are beyond saving

Yeeahhh I know, that was there when we bought the house a couple years ago and I never got around to replacing them. We’re moving, anyway, and I didn’t have time to grow bushes to replace them