Anne

My daughter and I had ones that were just bracelets with a retractable cord between. She could get up to around four feet from me. We did a lot of hiking since she could walk, and I can’t imagine going through some places without it. She’s so quick and always loved to peer right over cliff sides. No fear!

It’s definitely getting swampy after a couple rainstorms, there’s almost knee-deep standing water in some parts!

We’ve had a couple good rains, transforming what used to be a muddy creekbed into a clearly defined pond!

Yes! The ecosystem changes are what I’m most excited about. Not so much the mosquito swarms the next year or two, but once the rest of the food chain moves in it’ll be wonderful! I have seen a heron a couple times in the swampier parts of the creekbed and if he becomes a consistent visitor to the area I’ll be over the moon.

I will report back in a few weeks with more pictures! Also will probably be spamming them all over Lemmy because I just cannot shut up about how cool they are 😅

A beaver (or beavers?) moved into the creek deep in the woods behind my house last fall, and I am SO excited about the beautiful pond they are building.

I’m graduating this month at 31 and my friend, you have made a great decision for yourself! It’s incredibly difficult as an adult, but it’s going to feel completely worth it when you’re at the end. You’ll open up a new world of job opportunities, and if you ever have kids or take on a mentor type role for one you will be a living example for them to get through it too. I spent the first two years of college making jokes to my classmates about doing it a decade too late, but now I’m owning it. Those whipper snappers should try doing it alongside a full time job and a kid and a house with a currently flooded basement!

You’re going to do great. And, even if you don’t do great, all you need to do is PASS. That’s okay too!

No, they are screwing with you!

Or I’m banned from the same instance, IDK.

This seems like a really predictable correlation…