The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Adams Rubble: Hello Riddle :0
Riddle Sideways: Morning Adams on the fountain lotus
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: not the usual seat
Adams Rubble: I was eated nicely, clicked the screen and ended up on the lotus
Adams Rubble: I decied to change seats so the new construction was not behind us
Adams Rubble: seated, not eated
Riddle Sideways: sometimes the oddest things happen
Adams Rubble: Happy Earth Day
Riddle Sideways: Oh Yes
Riddle Sideways: Remembering when Earth Day was a big deal
Adams Rubble: before Covid
Riddle Sideways: way before
Riddle Sideways: way back when we were going to try to save the Earth
Adams Rubble: then we found out the earth will be fine; it is we who need saving
Riddle Sideways: and nobody was up for doing that
Riddle Sideways: way back in 1970
Adams Rubble: funny sentence order
Riddle Sideways: it started
Adams Rubble: we're up for saving the earth but not us
Riddle Sideways: yep, meant that
Riddle Sideways: everybody for themselves
Riddle Sideways: oh dear. says "Apple Watch" will give you Stickers if you work out today
Adams Rubble: much has gotten better
Adams Rubble: plastics have gotten worse
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: our recycler won't take the plastic bags anymore
Riddle Sideways: we are to just throw them away
Adams Rubble: the toher day I was thinking of all the waste that comes in an Amazon box
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: the normal item packaging. then a box to protect it. then those plastic blatters. then an outside big box
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: got friend's shopping list (text) for shopping today. It had a special kind of oat milk. She was not sure it could be found.
Riddle Sideways: funny, next text said to forget it, she was having it sent
Riddle Sideways: think Grandfather rolled over
Riddle Sideways: one of those sentences that only makes sence in 'These' times
Riddle Sideways: remember reading many sentences here and snapping back to 'that only makes sense in SL speak'
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: did 'Oak Milk' exist back then
Adams Rubble: I never heard of oak milk
Adams Rubble: nor of an oak cow
Riddle Sideways: milking an Oak tree
Riddle Sideways: Thank You Internet search engines and Wikipedia
Riddle Sideways: Oat Milk was developed in the 1990s
Riddle Sideways: and came on strong in 2017-19
Riddle Sideways: big boom in lactose intolerance
Riddle Sideways: an ok kind of Intolerance
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Riddle Sideways: "Why, sonny, back in my day, we just got sick from milk. And were glad for it"
Adams Rubble: too busy building the school 50 miles from home
Riddle Sideways: too busy making the sidewalk for 50 miles uphill both ways
Adams Rubble: life gets harder each time it is told
Riddle Sideways: right
Riddle Sideways: how did they build that?
Adams Rubble: they had help from the space aliens
Riddle Sideways: we have lost the tech to build those paths
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Those aliens stopped coming and helping
Adams Rubble: but we did not have space aliens back in those days
Riddle Sideways: the space aliens were secrets back then
Adams Rubble: whoops
Riddle Sideways: think possibly that Different aliens are coming now
Adams Rubble: who knew
Riddle Sideways: the Xyzzy-ians are not coming because of the _________-ians are here
Adams Rubble: ICE is keeping them out
Riddle Sideways: the space Pollution in orbit is too junkie. Nice Earth Day thoughts
Riddle Sideways: they can;t find parking spots
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: wow. what a mass of differing information. searching on space junk cleanup gives so many results
Riddle Sideways: and very different
Riddle Sideways: some read like they are in existance
Riddle Sideways: trial tests of space cleaners
Adams Rubble: everyone needs a maid
Riddle Sideways: some read like the future from 1950's magazines
Riddle Sideways: when did space debris get included into Earth Day
Adams Rubble: moons
Adams Rubble: excuse me a minute. must do errand
Riddle Sideways: ok
Riddle Sideways: the olde crotchety Riddle, thinks Granpa was right. The world did go to hell in a hand basket.
Riddle Sideways: do dthe kids that grew up in Europe know that expression?
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: back
Adams Rubble shrugs
Riddle Sideways: did those starving kids, that would have really enjoyed having my broccoli all those years ago, know what the Earth was going to be like?
Riddle Sideways: nice, needed that pause
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: you left me alone with my thoughts racing
Adams Rubble: sorry
Riddle Sideways: the grandpa and the youngin
Adams Rubble: we are living in the present
Riddle Sideways: yes, need to remember that
Riddle Sideways: had juxtapositioned back to some time
Adams Rubble: some grandpas ended up very bitter
Adams Rubble: they lived through the depression and 2 world wars
Riddle Sideways: interresting point (though sexist); Grandpas ended up bitter and Grandmas became sweet
Adams Rubble nods
Adams Rubble: bell hooks wrote much about that
Adams Rubble: the only emotion men are allowed to express is anger
Adams Rubble: bell hooks is a feminist who tries to save men
Riddle Sideways: good subject to crack open some racist walls
Riddle Sideways: like the News this week
Riddle Sideways: of a police killing being found guilty of doing it
Riddle Sideways: being a small step for humans
Riddle Sideways: toward justice
Adams Rubble: much work to do in this ole country of ours
Riddle Sideways: hopefully the future kids will be agassed that our society was like this
Adams Rubble: it gets overwhelming if we try to think about oding something about all the suffering in the country and in the world
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: what can one person do about space junk
Riddle Sideways: seems overwhelming
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: what could one person do about cleaning up the Earth
Riddle Sideways: what if one person could talk 2 other people into cleaning up the Earth on April 22 each year
Riddle Sideways: wondering how big that tree is that got planted 50 years ago
Riddle Sideways: one may not eat the fruit from the tree planted today, but plant it and nurture it for others
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: the meadow here is showing the first Luppens
Riddle Sideways: reminds of the kids bood "The Lupine Lady"
Riddle Sideways: *lupine
Riddle Sideways: read that over and over
Adams Rubble: do not know that book
Riddle Sideways: Do one thing in your life to make the world better
Riddle Sideways: she went for walks and spread Lupine seeds
Riddle Sideways: that made the world prettier
Riddle Sideways: there is a pdf of it on the net
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm arvindguptatoys.com
Riddle Sideways: wrong computer, to paste the link
Riddle Sideways: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvin...a/rumphius.pdf
Riddle Sideways: ok there is the required reading for Earth Day
Adams Rubble: I do not see the Lupine Lady but lots of books there
Riddle Sideways: Shall we re-learn from reading children's books
Riddle Sideways: oh and a Kindle pdf version if you need that
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Happy Earth Day, gentle readers
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: May you all be free of fear and anxiety
Riddle Sideways: Now class go forth and do your assignments. Make the Earth better, prettier, fixed. or at least do no evil
Riddle Sideways: and at least put a smile on everyone you meet
Riddle Sideways: Earth was the home of some very funny life
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I said that to my cat and he looked blank
Riddle Sideways: as cats do
Riddle Sideways: they also are funny life of this planet
Adams Rubble: that's why he looked blank
Adams Rubble: it is very cold here today
Adams Rubble: I have been shivering (ed.note it turned out the batteries in the thermostat died and the heat was off)
Riddle Sideways: cold here too
Riddle Sideways: Sunday was so warm and nice
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: remember it well
Adams Rubble: and Monday and Tuesday
Adams Rubble: here
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a good weekend
Riddle Sideways: hope you have time to read a children's book ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: seems like a nice thing to wish
Adams Rubble: yes, toddlers do not always want to here books and the babies try to eat them
Adams Rubble: hear
Riddle Sideways: ha, yes. saw that yesterday
Riddle Sideways: on Zoom
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: someone told me about reading books to cats but they ran away when I tried
Riddle Sideways: it put the cat to sleep
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: well RL just yelled that it wants to get started
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: get the Earth Day parade going
Adams Rubble: take good care Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: take care Adams
Riddle Sideways: by All