('i take it from the mouth of an animal')

@shiftythrifting Goodies from Cindy's Corner!

The Chesterland Historical Society Flea Market is August 15th! Hope to see you there!

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1-4: Golden Fantasy elves- one in box

5-6: cool old Compacts

7: the Galactic Gourmet, a sci fi book about making hospital food edible

8: Tiny typewriter necklace

9: Giant metal bowl

Hi there again. I'm Casi. I'm a disabled Enby who is the only caregiver for my elderly disabled mother, and we're Homeless.

Mom is 70yrs old and has chronic bronchitis and arthritis and Mobility issues, and I'm chronically ill and multiply disabled myself. Where we live has already had multiple days of 105°F (40°C) temperatures throughout the Spring, its gonna be a hot summer. We cannot be on the Streets.

I have us in a Hotel because its the safest option for us. We have no family that can put us up for even a night and while I'm always on the lookout for outreach groups and programs we might qualify for, at this point we're on our own.[ and incredibly grateful for all the kind and generous support to help us through]

But the rates have gone up to Summer Prices which will make things a little more difficult than they already are. The Current rate is $98.30 a day / $688.03 a Week.

Moms Social Security is our only stable income apart from donations and my Redbubble and Ko-Fi shops where I sell my art. I've been looking for stable work but its always been a joke that there "more people than jobs" in this town and that's even truer now than ever, and without any transportation I can't even do Odd Jobs or Gigwork.[cant doordash on foot, can't to yardwork on the other side of town if I cant get myself there and back safely etc...]

Moms income will only cover 12 days of the month, and that's without putting any of that towards Meds or Groceries. We do get $290 SNAP/Food Stamps, on the 9th, but with the prices of everything between absofuckinglutly ridiculous, that too, only goes so far.

Literally Any Amount of Help would be incredibly appreciated. Really and Truly.

Room paid for until the 11th

Flat broke again Food Stamps are good on the 9th.

Pain episode still in full force and making me brain foggy. Whatever virus we had last month got Moms Chronic Bronchitis exacerbated but its getting better.

I think I can rustle up some nice wasps for you...

Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysura rufiventris), family Chrysididae, Portugal

photograph by Ricardo Gonçalves

Steel Blue Cricket Hunter (Chlorion aerarium), family Sphecidae, found across the US, far northern Mexico, and extreme southern Canada.

Adults feed on nectar.

Not found near homes that often, they tend to frequent open fields.

Females paralyze crickets. They dig burrows into the ground, where the place the cricket. They then lay an egg on the cricket, which the larvae feed on.

photograph by bg1159 & Edward Trammel

Panda Ant (Euspinolia militaris), female, family Mutillidae, endemic to the Sclerophyll forests of Chile

photograph by Chris Lukhaup

Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor), Bttm & mid - females, Top - male, family Thynnidae, Australia

Females are wingless.

photographs: Me and Moxxie, fir0002, Russell Best

Milde’s Tarantula-Hawk Wasp (Pepsis mildei), female, family Pompilidae, National Butterfly Center, Mission, TX, US

- with Western Honey Bee friend.

Another wasp in this genus has what is considered to be the most painful sting of any insect in the United States, Pepsis grossa. This species most likely has a comparable sting.

As with many species of wasp, the adults feed on nectar and pollen from flowers.

They paralyze tarantulas and other large spiders, which they feed to their larvae.

This individual was HUGE, and very active! (almost 2.5 inches in length).

Seen here feeding on a mixture of mashed banana, beer, and yeast, spread on one of the feeding logs next to the trails.

photograph by Paxon Kale

(CC - Creative Commons liscence)

Paper Wasp (Polistes gallicus), male, family Vespidae, Germany

photograph by Reinhold Möller

Texas Sand Wasp (Bembix texana), family Bembicidae, GA, USA

pre-loved orgasmatron at the op shop today