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Like those tubes! With little reflector wings (that kept falling off). I mean, I kind of janked the whole thing together, but since I only use it a few weeks a year ... But it's a handy mini greenhouse, and watching things sprout is very cheerful.
Also, I should think about starting tomatoes ...

I have a dear friend who wrote about hunting and fishing for YEARS and has zero sense of direction. Driving with him in the South of France was hilarious. We'd get in a roundabout and I had the map on my lap and he'd start yelling in panic, which would continue a few miles after choosing an exit. Oy

We need the water so badly. Crossing my fingers over here.

I have that one! I had heated seedling mats that fit the shelves, so that was handy. And I had some 3' long LED grow lights so I put them vertically on each side. Not ideal, but it worked.
LED lights are great, and not too spendy. You should be able to buy short ones to hang off the shelves too.

God it's sunny and 40 degrees here in Livingston today. We haven't seen snow on the ground in town all winter.

Only time I got big lost was in Dublin in my 20s. Somehow the 3 blocks between the bus station and our house became an hour and a half of wandering streets that had become totally unfamiliar. I blame the fairies.

It's hugely useful! They're great tools, which is why I've been trying to get him to use one for years.
He's just enormously stubborn, and not ADHD at all, which is very weird for me since I'm by far the least neurodiverse person in my family. (He get's so frustrated with me interrupting. Sigh).

My mother and grandmother, any movie with horses, would bicker over how many horses played the main horse (they were both horse show judges).

Yes, there's a war, but I have tiny greens coming up under my plastic hoop houses in the back yard. It's WAY too early, but if the sun is going to shine, I guess I'm goin to grow stuff.

Hey guys.
The war objectives are due BEFORE you start the war.
#PublicDeclaration #jusadbellum #JustWar

I remember going as a little tiny kid to see a friend of my parents on the movie screen who did the riding in a movie called "The Horse with the Flying Tail." Also the horse, who my parents knew.

Read this. Let it break you.

Of course, with our 20% increase in population, plus tourists, the biggest risk is still the highway there and back. 🤷‍♀️

No! It's why I couldn't get him to use it at all. He hates all that geek shit. He really didn't want to be surveilled (don't blame him). He's been horn hunting this country for decades, so the concern is bears, or getting accidentally hurt. And since I've lost people unexpectedly, I worry.

My beloved has agreed to use the Garmin I got him. I set the tracker to just ping once an hour, and it's kind of cool to get to see where he is (even though he HATES it). But he's in his 60s, hiking off trail, alone, and the bears are coming out. We managed to convince him that safety is, well, safe

See also Ceausescu. It’s a good time to study nationalist dictators and the monster in every flag. Schmittian exceptions have a natalist wing, again.

That's why I moved to MT when it was cheap. I wanted a house I could pay off (and I did). I spent decades trying to keep my indigent mother housed. That I had to do it this way is not ideal. And that everyone younger than me is locked out is a crime.

It's so weird? And distressing (and, of course utterly wrong).

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here's the thing that pisses me off about that noma story: those people are still blacklisted among the many powerful *men* in the culinary industry who still, even after all this evidence, support rene redzepi

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

Ha! Good job internets, the Crying American MAGA lady in Ireland has taken her TikTok private. Small victories.

I mean, ours has been in the family since the 1860s, and only supports itself, but not my Aunt/cousins because we built a riding arena, grow our own hay and sell it to the boarders. We are all deeply invested in it, but off-farm jobs are required.

I mean? It's kind of his MO.

Our families knew one another tangentially in Chicago in the 70s. Yup.

Oh god I'd forgotten about that one.
Ugh.

Pretty sure my tiny little vodka mom went up like a blue flame at the end ...

Oh god. Putting all the agents I've contacted over the years in a spreadsheet and losing my will to live.

Lookin' at you Jackson Browne.

I feel this in the deepest part of my grew-up-BROKE-among-the-wealthy soul.

Catholic here. Left the Church but not the beliefs if that makes sense. Molesting kids, and being dicks about funerals did it for me. Do miss my lovely lefty parish in SLC though.