Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Incidentally, in case it helps in identification, the outbreak started after I was laying on the grass tearing apart lawn mowers, and the affected areas are 98% where I go, my desk, the bathroom, my bedroom. I don't think the cat is to blame. She moved outside, only comes in to eat, right after I did the mowers. I think she is wise. The places she tends to hang out in the house (before she moved out) seem to be flea free.
2 hours ago
I have fleas.  A bad case. I am getting bitten badly. I have immune system issues, I'm reacting badly to the bites.
The question I have is these are TINY. Are they a different type? Is there a reason why I'm reacting so badly? Is there anything that can be done to help the response in my body?

A picture off the net of how big a flea is:



A picture I took of an average sized flea I killed in the house:



Note the difference of the size of what is used as a comparison. They used a ball point pen. I used a sewing pin.
These things are TINY!!! Definitely fleas, they look right under magnification, and act appropriately.

Any help on what they are, so I can find out what their egg hatch cycle is and possibly break it? I'm losing here. I have had fleas before, but they were normal ones, the size of the ballpoint pen tip.  These are being far worse to get rid of, and I'm reacting far worse than I have before. Admittedly, I'm under severe stress, and not eating well, I'm working on both of those, and fleas is NOT helping me cope with the rest of it all.  
2 hours ago
D handles. I'm small, a long handle just tangles me up and the leverage is wrong. I can't balance a load at the end of a long handled shovel. I have to have my hands closer to the scooping part, and the D puts my hands in the right place.
1 day ago
The correct spelling of school is school, not school.
Some people put the second o before the first o, but that is not correct.
6 days ago
We are currently at KP 6. If you are somewhere where it's past sundown, go look!
1 week ago
And despite the NOAA's prediction, they did not pile up together. First impact was about midnight Central time, next a about 6:30 AM central, next about 8:15 AM central.
The NOAA's Enlil spiral still says a heavy impact, but I think they need to update that badly.
Half a sec, I'll upload their current picture off another device. This is what did NOT happen.
That spike on both charts is what would have hit if they had piled up.
1 week ago
Probably really nice lights tonight! Might be visible farther south too. Multiple flares and the CMEs from them are going to join up for a stronger impact. Expected time of impact is close to sundown in the US.
Watch the sky!! :D
1 week ago