currently repairing storm door that was ripped in half and thrown onto ground during latest windstorm -- caught myself thinking my storm door needs a protective door
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currently repairing storm door that was ripped in half and thrown onto ground during latest windstorm -- caught myself thinking my storm door needs a protective door
It's my woodstove's birthday and so I split some very dry birch into much smaller chunks so that it could greedily eat their yellow bones without having to gnaw away first at the entire rind. Happy birthday, Jotul!
It's so cold out the chainsaw stopped working so I put it by the warm woodstove to thaw, because I have to keep cutting firewood to feed the woodstove so that my chainsaw will thaw...
There was John Thorpe in Northanger Abbey. Actually, Jane Austen often talks about various types of carriages, ex, Mr Elton in Emma.
spent time with men in garages & wondering why novels of the 19c have no scenes set in carriage repair shops, hours of men talking about wheel size, imported spindles and what axles don't break and if a breed of horse eats less oats per mile and has anyone seen if Gary's wagon is behind his house?
when choosing a rural place to live, it is worth calculating how close you are to the nearest Napa auto parts store
I chose to stay in the Days Inn by Wyndham Levis because it's almost "Wyndham Lewis" and they said they were pet-friendly but ended up charging me $50 for my dog to stay overnight and that is decidedly pet-hostile. #DaysInn
"Exceedingly interested in all wider problems with which [geology] ... deals."
January 8, 1823, birthday of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Pioneer of evolutionary theory & biogeography 🌍 he proposed that Earth's shifting surface could explain 🦍 the distribution of animals 🐅
From April 2017
Boots on the ground in Caracas? Regime-change operations in Cuba or Colombia? An invasion of Greenland?
For this week's episode of Deseret Voices, I talked to Richard Fontaine about the fall of Maduro, the future of Venezuela, and what Trump might do next. open.substack.com/pub/mckaycop...
November 24, 1859, first publication of Charles #Darwin’s Origin of Species 📚 & it all started with a geological field trip 🪨🔨
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Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?
The day Robespierre goes down
Seagull with its head aligned with a person's body, creating an illusion of a seagull-headed person sitting on a bench, with a ferry and white cliffs in the background.
every sunday harry liked to come to the park with a big bag of werther’s and feed the old men
Sometimes I like to take a break from the online world of billionaire-manipulated news channels, crypto scams, and hallucinating google searches to visit a tree and appreciate its inability to lie to me
To Prince Edward Island
Alex Colville
1965
Take note.
A view of an ornate ceiling and two pigeons looking a the photographer. Caption reads: The photographer was lying on the ground, trying to shoot this ceiling. The pigeons were concerned.
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
-William Wordsworth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
#BookSky
Happy Mrs. Dalloway day to those who celebrate it! #booksky
A #FrockingFabulous silver screen stunner, worn by Anna May Wong in Limehouse Blues, 1938, via The Met.
On my way to donate blood I noticed they are knocking down the Banting Institute, built in 1930. I once took a cutting from a vine that grew at a window, a window I imagined Frederick Banting once peered through.
Reading Les Miserables and the scene where Hugo describes Wellington and Napoleon feels like reading the average shonen manga powerscaling meta #booksky
Terraforming Mars - reality check
Mark Knopfler's Iron Hand has been going through my head this week
Yes. A corollary of that is when you realize that you are now older than that person will ever be.
when someone dies earlier than expected it's a shock, but there comes a time when you have to admit that it'd be surprising if they were still alive at this age -- you release them from the tragedy of early death, but you still miss the years you could have had with them if they had remained alive
we didn't host King Charles, but we did have two teenaged British rugby billets, and they left us with this loot, God save the sultana:
