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I'll go with MountainFrugal's answer. Around here it's the non native blackberries (2 species, both delicious) and Scotch Broom, not so delicious though I used to eat the seeds sometimes when I was a kid. Like uncooked lentils. And when I look around at our ash trees, I can just about kiss them good...

Everything I do is a one off project. I prefer not to have to fix the same thing twice, at least not in the same way.

I love that show but I missed that episode.

I've never seen pink dandelions.

We're both native English speakers but my wife lost her hearing as a teen so I have to use sign language to communicate with her. She can talk fine, she doesn't sign to me unless it's a noisy environment and I can't hear her. Quite frankly I think it sucks. I can't have the conversations with her th...

Blackjack wrote: "Reminds me that I'm just a silly monkey who one day decided to put clothes on and act self important."

Oh I like that!

I hunker a lot. Makes me feel primitive, which is what you said too. Also I hate standing. Walking, running, sure. Standing, ugh.

cmonkey wrote: As far as installing a wood stove into an existing chimney, yes it can be done but you need a liner like this. It connects directly to the stove exhaust and goes right up to the chimney cap. I installed a liner (looks like the same brand and model!) in my fireplace-converted-to-woodst...

I really prefer the term hunkering to squatting, but OK. I do it all the time. I hate standing around and I don't care if people look down on me. Also it makes me feel primitive, which I'm not.

I dislike team sports. If I'm going to be part of a group project it's going to be building mountain bike (or trail running) trails, stuff like that.

mooretrees wrote: I recently stopped using a pillow. After a few months of stiff necks in the morning, I have more mobility in my shoulders and neck now. Do you sleep on your back? On my back I prefer no pillow but on our hard mattress sleeping on my back will make my back hurt. I usually sleep on m...

I love Heinlein stories, but he definitely over simplified things.

Why am I on this forum? You guys are so beyond me.

That was beautiful.

One thing to keep in mind here is that a simple textile item like a cotton/poly blend t-shirt isn't much more energy intensive than many other items which are commonly disposed of after single use. Since price is a reasonable proxy for energy intensity, throwing away a $5 t-shirt likely isn't any w...

Toska2 wrote:

There is nothing to do but enjoy the moment. Its so out of your element that by the time you are aware of what you are doing, its over.

Wow. The Power of Now in a single sentence. Before you ask, I am not making fun of you. I'm impressed.

Ego wrote: It didn't occur to me that the overreaction itself might actually drive Covid to mutate into a deadlier form. I can understand how natural selection could lead to the success of mutations that allow it to infect new people more easily. In fact that would happen without any social distanci...

I had already decided what species of trees I wanted to plant in a clear cut I had done a few years ago. I had a bunch of scrubby Douglas firs taken out, as they were shading our yard. But the area below them had annoyed me for years, nothing but blackberry briars, since it had been cleared long bef...

That clip was beautiful. Thanks Tyler for sharing.

7WB5 wrote: One thing to bear in mind about possible mutations over the long term is that it is not a Lamarckian process. The virus isn’t consciously striving for a means by which to find its next human to infect. The reproductive rate of the virus is staggeringly fast and the copying mechanism is l...

Seven wrote: "IOW, men are quite visually hard-wired to both the sexual and emotional/romantic centers of their brain." Overly generalized. Yes I like to look at attractive people. But when I close my eyes I can't visualize them at all. If they hug me, I can remember their smell, the feel ...