A few days ago my husband came back from Hamburg, from the Hive Meetup called BuzzParty Hamburg 2024. I knew I could not go this time to meet other Hivers, which is always a great experience, but I sent some little painted rocks to two users I had already met in real life last year.
However, being a Hiver and having my husband there I also got some cool Hive goodies (thanks to the good organization of @tibfox) and a personal gift:
The black T-shirt is my size and the black cloth bag with the red letters is also my size... I declared it mine actually, as a bag is a bag and could be used by anyone but I am the one who likes them more than my husband so the answer to the question of who will use them is clear. The little Hive notebook is cute as well as the pens. We can certainly share that, I wouldn't be so greedy and grab it all for myself... would I?
And do you see one little transparent package full of pebbles... there, on the top of the black cloth bag?
Here is a closer photo of it.
I immediately knew what it was, although its appearance can deceive us. You can think they are pebbles for my new addiction hobby, however, they are rock-shaped candies! :))
We already tried them and ate a few rocks from this gift that @ninaeatshere sent me. A big thank you 🤗. But you and this gift made me want to do a prank. 😂 To pretend in some public place that I am eating real rocks and offer passers-by to try that too, but on second thought it wouldn't be a good example because I am sure some people would get it wrong and even try the real ones from the beach... They would blame me for the broken teeth... Dentists will be happy with more work though.😁
That idea was ditched as I didn't want to show a bad example even if it would be fun... in any case, talking about examples or promoting the best platform - I took this new Hive bag to our walk today!
The person you see in the mirror is me, carrying the Hive bag on my shoulder. Too bad the mirror was placed much higher than I am so the reflection is tiny - barely can be seen. When we sat on one bench to rest a bit, I took a better photo, the proof that our new and loved cloth bag took this walk with us.
On the same bench, I ate one loquat. It was small but sweet - almost the same sweet as the rock-shaped candies that Nina sent me. Btw, my husband's bag was checked at the airport... maybe they thought these candies were other things. 😅
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Loquat - before my intervention, in one piece
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Loquat - after my intervention...
*After this stage, I made half of the loquat disappear too and we continued the walk.
It was a nice one (the walk), around one part of the town called El Romeral. Well, it is located between two municipalities, with some forests around, orange plantations and very nice houses and clean streets.
Unfortunately, not all the plots were this clean as you see here in the photos. In one part, by the road, there was a lot of garbage. When we see such a thing it makes us wonder why people can't take care better of their garbage... Do they throw empty cans and plastic bags out of the car window while driving; or it was the wind that blew the empty bottles and cans there, from a bin?
Whatever the reason is, people litter out of negligence or there are other reasons why garbage ends up in nature, we came to the topic of one of the activities my husband did with the other Hivers in Hamburg. It was the cleaning up activity they did on one beach in Hamburg.
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They had some devices - garbage sticks to help them with the task. He said these sticks were really useful and precise, that even a cigarette butt or small, thin pieces of cellophane or plastic could be easily picked. It was an interesting activity but it is alarming why more and more garbage ends up in nature... We should definitely stop littering around... and try as much as possible to preserve the landscapes like this one!
It is also a gift we got from this world. 😉
