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  @scandigonian@pnw.zone The ARRL HAM Radio License handbook is a good place to start. I got my Amateur License a few years back. If you have a local HAM radio club, that is probably the best place to start. There are a lot of enthusiast everywhere who love to teach others.

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  Great day to take the drone up! One another (related) note, what does 360 image support on Mastodon look like? Any workarounds? #mastodon #drone #washington #pacificnorthwest

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  Finally made it up to Skagit County to see the tulips! #washington #skagitcounty #flowers

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  If you saw a nerdy guy knelt down next to a sidewalk taking pictures of native lupines in Tacoma tonight . . . that was me. Saw a patch of these on our way to dinner and we had to stop. The bicolor lupine (Lupinus bicolor) is a particularly small lupine that does well in otherwise rough situations. Bee-friendly, small, but with a delightful blue-white flower color. They grow from BC to Baja California. #lupinusbicolor #plants #tacoma #flowers #washington

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  Got this photo of the smoke clouds from the Temple Theater fire on my way home today. This was taken near the Convention Center downtown. Hoping the damage isn't serious. #tacoma

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  The Pakistan mulberry made it through its second winter (it just needed some time getting a bit larger in the milder Tacoma winter weather before it made it down to family in SW Washington), and is now flowering. This variety has much larger mulberries, so there's a greater fruit-to-effort ratio. Mulberries tend to be tolerant of extreme heat and drought, so I like to think of them as a particularly climate resilient fruit. #gardening #washington #fruit

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  Hoping my "leave the button mushrooms in the sun (and under cover) to build up Vitamin D" project was successful. Many mushrooms, including button mushrooms, build up nutritionally significant levels of Vitamin D in response to UVB exposure. #Tacoma #mushrooms #Nutrition #food #selfsufficiency #washington

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  Playing some of the less common Boards of Canada songs for our dog, Joules. We're starting him on Aphex Twin next. #boardsofcanada #tacoma #music #electronicmusic

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  Saw some dramatic mammatus clouds near Roslyn today on my way over the pass. This cell moved south to north over I-90. Thankfully, I hit it right as it started to fall apart, so no hail. #weather #clouds #mammatus #washington

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  We did quite well morel hunting out near Leavenworth this past weekend. First time looking for these; we'd only really gone chanterelle hunting previously. This was from a burn scar from last year's fire, where morels tend to grow. #mushrooms #washington #pnw

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  Tacoma has a new blood donation center over by Westgate. I used to drive up to Federal Way to donate (no complaints, as it was just down the road from my favorite Ethiopian grocery) or hit the mobile drives at the co-op, but nice to have a local brick and mortar spot to go to now. They are really low on blood at the moment so if you ever thought of donating, now is a great time to make an appointment. #tacoma

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  Mt Rainier and Mt Adams sticking up above a layer of smoke. #washington #pacificnorthwest #wildfiresmoke #pnw #mtrainier #mtadams

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  First trip to a state that everyone would agree is in the South (Tennessee) for a family-related trip, and rapidly crossing off botanical and specialty food items off my bucket list items. Saw wild pawpaws and pokeweed, picked up some sorghum syrup and wildwood honey, and experienced rainfall at 85F/29 C. With luck, we'll see some fireflies tonight. #tennessee #pawpaws

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  Someone is having some post-bath feelings. #dog #tacoma #bathtime

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  TIL there is a 1960's French sea shanty about Tacoma, "Le port de Tacoma": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__zfY4K75Zk #Tacoma #Washington

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  Precinct-level map of Proposition 1 (Metro Parks funding). Results are still coming in, so more votes to count, but it appears to be passing overwhelmingly. Lowest approval by precinct so far is 57.3%. Highest precinct is 93.2% in support. #tacoma #washington

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  I'm going to start sharing a series of posts on public online resources that I love, just because! The first is the PNW Herbarium Consortium (https://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/search.php). Type in your favorite native species and it will show where it's been found throughout the region, with collection details in a handy side pane. It'll even include unusual occurrences of species outside its normal range. Like CA Bay Laurel/Oregon Myrtle growing in Tacoma. #plants #wa...