Howdy Hive! How's everybody doing this sunny Saturday? I'm sitting on my back porch enjoying the lovely sounds of other people mowing. Can anybody tell me why we persist in this absurd exercise in futility affectionately referred to as "mowing the grass'? Speaking of absurdity and 'mowing the grass' did y'all know that is the euphemism used for Israel's policy of periodically blowing the hell out of Gaza in the name of containing Hamas?
One of my neighbors has planted a bunch of flowers out in the alley, including a bunch that butterflies seem to love. I've seen more butterflies this year than I have in the past several combined, this photo is from one of the times I actually managed to have my camera with me when one was flitting about. Does anybody happen to know what sort of butterfly this is?
I was reading a post on the ENGAGE token and engagement on hive earlier today and it got me to thinking (I'd link to it but I'm too lazy to find it presently). It mentioned how many of us are trying to be authors/creators and that can leave something to be desired in the engagement department. I know I'm guilty of this, sometimes after I finish a post I'm ready to do anything else and tend to wander off and my engagement on other peoples' posts can be spotty and random. It definitely feels to me like posting is far more incentivized than commenting and engaging but how do we go about changing that? What gets y'all to stop and say hi rather than just upvote or scroll by? (I'm just starting to familiarize myself with communities, I suspect they may be a partial solution)
I'm not much of a fan of selfies but if I can remain behind the camera I will occasionally indulge in one and since I have nothing better to do I figured I'd assail y'alls senses with one. Don't know about y'all, but I'm rather enjoying these mask mandates, walking around like you're heading to your next holdup is quite a bit of fun.
All this back porch rambling has been fun but I'm more than ready to get away from here and be elsewhere for a bit (like Mitchell Hill Lake here in the photo). Anybody fixing to escape on an adventure? Got any good suggestions on places to escape to? Anyways, that's enough out of me, happy weekending!
