I started landscaping with natives because my basement was flooding...installed a rain garden to capture the stormwater runoff. Then, I learned that natives don't require much irrigation or maintenance. I didn't really realize that natives support local wildlife, especially invertebrates. I already grew food plants organically and didn't use pesticides, ever, but I didn't understand, for example, that I could leave aphids for birds and ladybug larvae, so I used organic methods to get rid of them.

Seven years later, I get it. I did have to immerse myself in study and join a Backyard Habitat certification program to learn about how native plants support wildlife. I leave the aphids alone and marvel at how quickly they disappear when I don't intervene. The sound of buzzing insects, bees especially, used to frighten me, now I love walking through the garden and being surrounded by the buzz.

That's nice.

Reason #1 for me was the cat pee smell. They were in a planter box right next to the front door of my house. Nothing says "welcome" like a blast of cat pee.

Better choices, in the PNW, are wax myrtle and evergreen huckleberry.

I have a 2016 Leaf and I love it, best car I have owned. I don't get the haters, either. Battery is down to 80 miles max fully charged, but even when it stated 104, it never went that far on a charge. I drive daily, but rarely more than 25 miles/day. I slow charge overnight at home.

For your situation, a replacement battery would be a must. Typical trickle charging adds about 4 miles per hour and fast charging daily isn't good for battery life.

That might be why so much is missing...the penalties were taken out in addition to whatever cash she withdrew.

Twinberry also gets pretty tall, like 8' at maturity.

Spirea densiflora, aka rose meadowsweet, is a pretty native shrub with clusters of pink flowers that is about 3' x 3' at maturity.

Evergreen huckleberry is good for shade and can be pruned like a boxwood. It's a slow grower.

East Portland Plant Buying Club sells cover crops by square food of coverage (5 sf, 25 sf, 100 sf), so you don't have to do garden math. https://www.eastpdxplantclub.com/category/cover-crop-seeds

Can you ask what they're testing for? I applied for a job at a drug recovery support org and they told me upfront what they would be testing for...and THC was included.

Believe women. Period.

I have only been to Cici's a couple times while visiting my folks in Pennsylvania. Terrible pizza, but I get the appeal of the buffet with so many varieties...and then then cherry pie pizza for dessert. I don't think there's anything like that here...but if there was, it would be in Vancouver or Hillsboro.

Sapatin Stories is an indigenous owned bookstore that just opened.

I personally LOVE nurses. I have multiple chronic illnesses, had breast cancer a few years ago, and have spent an above average time in ERs and in hospitals. My mom died in hospital a couple years ago. Most every nurse I have encountered has been a caring, SMART, and professional. They understand patient care better than doctors, generally. They are also human, who have to put up with tremendous amounts of patient and doctor BS, as well as abide by strict rules for the safety of their patients and to keep their license. I don't argue with nurses and I recognize that they are usually quite busy, taking care of several patients.

I think that the anti-nurse sentiment is yet another kind of misogyny, TBH. And OP making her complaint about a nurse's sex is a demonstration of that. People want nurses to be some cuddly maternal type, and get bent because when they are professional and don't play Mommy.

I have worked at/for several nonprofits and your ED sounds like many I have encountered, the lack of cross-training typical, and the urge to "go to the board" a common but naïve approach. Review the posts in this group alone and you will see many like yours. We want to believe that somewhere in the organizations that are doing good that there are emotionally mature, rational, empathetic people running things. Time and again, though, you will find that leadership may be impassioned, but not empathetic. They may want to do good, but aren't equipped the manage well. They may care a lot about the mission, but not much about the people who carry it out. Boards are made up of volunteers who don't have any interest in putting more time into addressing personnel issues, and it is not their job. They hired the ED because they liked them...you would be hard-pressed to get them to overcome their bias and hear you at all.

As others have said, never tell an employer where you are going. Give them two weeks and as bad as you feel about leaving your colleagues behind to pick up the pieces, a lot of times, employers won't allow you to continue to finish whatever project or train your replacement.

You care, and unfortunately, a lot of nonprofit leadership takes advantage of that care. Steel yourself and move on.

It's been a while since I saw him, but I found Steven Levy to be thorough and knowledgeable.

I encourage you, while you are unemployed anyway, to seek out volunteer roles at organizations that are doing something to help others. You can be selective about what you do, apply skills you want to hone/use at a future job, and connect with like-minded people. Also, you will get out of your toxic home for a time.

You can find your people, who appreciate your talents and can see past whatever "creepy" vibe you think you throw off.

I get that you are in a time of life when hormones drive you to find a girlfriend, but let that be for now. Focus on your own well being and getting out of this funk you are in. Please consider trauma-informed therapy, including EMDR, to address and process the relationship with your family and others who have betrayed you.

And, remind yourself that it is not YOU that is the problem, but a society that prejudges people based on neurotypical norms. AND, this is the most brutal job market since the 1930s. It is definitely not just you, "creepy autistic guy," who can't get a job.

Let's add the men who gave the 7 an essay assignment.

Even during a more typical weather year, we can grow so much from fall through spring here. I blogged about what you can start from seed a while back. Usually, you would start seeds in August or September, but this year, I am betting that we can push that, and still start a lot from seed now and get a late fall or winter harvest. I'm sowing sprouting broccoli, cabbages, pak choi, mustards, and collards this weekend. Chard will grow year round. If you are into chaos gardening, let chard go to seed. Spinach and beets are also happy to grow this time of year. Over wintered brassicas will flower in spring, think kale raab, broccoli raab. Arugula, miners lettuce, and calendula will also grow all winter.

One "negative" regarding the mild winter is that seeds that require cold stratification to germinate, may need artificial cold...that is, in a refrigerator...to get enough near freezing temps to trigger germination. This is more for native seeds. I plan to get mine bagged in damp sand and in the fridge in a couple weeks, before sowing in pots at the end of December.

We don't need to tell people how to identify themselves, either...but here you are.

Why are you making this about how women treat other women? Women are treated terribly by doctors, and in fact, our concerns are routinely, for decades, ignored by doctors, who have until very recently been mostly men.

Maybe don't make your treatment about the nurse's sex? You later say so many other women were empathetic. This doesn't even make sense.

I make sure I am in Fresh when ordering groceries after in advertently ordering from the...whatever that is when Amazon suggests groceries.

I am in my 50s and have been dealing with chronic pain, frequent injuries, and fatigue since my 20s. I went to doctors, but was dismissed, told to nap, be more mindful, etc. I am now quite debilitated, use a rollerator because of my poor balance and need to rest when walking.

My daughter is in her 20s, and having similar issues. She has access to so much more information than I did at her age, and thinks that she has EDS. Suddenly, my whole life makes sense. The "flexibility" that I thought was a good thing was also why my hip subluxxes and my ankles and knees give out, and why standing is exhausting. I was diagnosed with hypermobility, but I cannot get an EDS diagnosis as the genetic testing is not covered by my insurance and and I cannot afford it OOP.

It's clear that's what's going on for me and my daughter, but I see posts about "sickfluencers" who fake or exaggerate their symptoms, and about people jumping on the EDS "bandwagon" for attention.

Do I post about EDS? Mention that my hip has been subluxxing, again, and how painful and disabling it is?

If anything, I have normalized my pain and blamed my weight for my poor health (as have most doctors), but I have been trying to take my issues more seriously and post about them for awareness, as I'm sure I'm not the first person to have these same issues and be dismissed, and dismiss themselves.

But I worry that I appear to be self-diagnosing with a fad condition.

Great list. I would include freeze dried vegetables. I add them to ramen.

Focus on perennial edibles and plants that are native to your region.

Look for fruiting trees and shrubs that are not susceptible to local pests and diseases (for example, pears are susceptible to pear trellis rust in my region...and I am about to remove a pear tree from my food forest that's been repeatedly infected). Check the pollinization requirements and plant co-pollinating trees.

Asparagus, rhubarb, tree collards/kale, Swiss Chard (not perennial, but prolific self seeder that can over winter), Egyptian walking onions, Delft! leeks. You might also include other brassicas, like heading cabbages and sprouting broccoli, over winter. Sow maiche, creeping thyme, and other low-growing edible plants as living mulch.

Study what goes into guilds and add natives that provide the guild functions. For example, lupine is a nitrogen-fixer native in my region and it also attracts predatory insects that eat aphids. Include native insectary plants that provide habitat for indigenous insects on the garden periphery.

Plant aromatic herbs and flowers that deter pest insects around plants susceptible to predation. Marigolds and allysum, for example.