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and no, it's not overrated. There's a reason why people still like to read it. It's a genuinely good, funny, and thoughtful discussion of the social mores of the time.

Yes! It is satire and makes me giggle all the way through. One of my favorite books.

Not true for everyone. Weed helped me sleep through the night regularly for the first time in literally over a decade. And, since I forget about smoking when I am not in pain, it's clearly not addiction talking.

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After moving boxes to our new address yesterday, my car decided to die. Our new residence is 2hrs from our old one. Got a tow, got a loaner vehicle from someone, made it back home by 9PM yesterday, instead of 3PM for a second trip of "plants, rocks, and books"...yes we're crazy, but our priorities are in order.

Anyway, today we frantically packed everything out of the RV (and cleaned tanks, disconnected services, etc) in preparation of the landlord's grand-daughter that is supposed to be bringing a truck with a fifth-wheel hitch.

I get a call from the landlord, "I just talked with [grand daughter], what's the story?" Well, the story was that she was supposed to be arriving any minute.

I guess she "didn't feel like it", so the landlord said he'd arrive with the truck tomorrow morning; the day of our deadline with the county.

Oh, by the way, this message is brought to you by FUCK THE STATE, Inc. Now back to our not-so-scheduled story.

I hear his wife yelling at him in the background, "No! We are getting them right now!" He protested that it was late, and he was tired, but I heard more yelling in the background, and he confirmed that he would arrive in three hours.

A few hours later, I get a voice message, "We're half way there, but found out the tags are expired and there's no insurance. I'm not going to jail again, so we're turning around!" I hear more yelling from his wife in the background, something about picking us up anyway. We have no clue what's going at this point. Then we confirmed that they are NOT coming, and are headed back.

Our home is empty, and no longer has plumbing to the outside world. Everything is sealed in boxes and packed in the loaner vehicle. Nothing else to do except make another trip of plants, rocks, but this time tools instead of books (aside from car fixing tools, which I should have had yesterday when my car died).

On the schedule: rent a car, print a trip permit, follow our home to its new place, get it level and chocked, return the loaner car, hook up sewage, electric, and water, prepare for car repairs after work so we can ditch the rental, sleep, work, buy parts and perform repair, while still moving more and more plants and rocks.

Being so fortunate isn't easy, but it's a blast!

Good morning ๐ŸŒž

No heat, no toothbrushes, no coffee...

But last night before finally getting to sleep near 2 a.m. we laughed until we cried ๐Ÿคฃ and I'm so grateful and blessed to be doing life with someone so awesome ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š

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I love it! Took me a while to get the timing down, and to figure out the instructions to "stir for 10 seconds" before pressing is unnecessary, and sometimes results in bitter coffee.

I've had it for 9 years and it's in great condition. I had to replace the rubber once (because I have a bad habit of not taking it apart right away).

Moving days are as fraught with snafus as wedding days ๐Ÿ˜† but we are dealing well so far. It helps to have the best moving buddy (idr how to tag Troy ๐Ÿค”)

#coffeestr #moving day

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I have not personally, but a quick search says they mainly eat seedlings when there's a population boom and they run out of the dead plant matter they prefer. Diatomaceous earth sprinkled around the seedlings may keep them at bay.

Leaving a couple inches around the seedlings un-mulched might help as well.

Encouraging habitat for lizards or frogs may help keep the population down.

In my case it was at age 12, after watching the movie Space Camp. I'd been poring over photos of space for years, and loved Sci-Fi (Star Trek AND Star Wars equally, thanks Dad ๐Ÿค—)

And then... Space Camp somehow unlocked "๐Ÿ˜ฎ you mean... I could GO to space?!!! ๐Ÿ˜€ Hot dog! Sign me up! I'm totally smart enough to be an astronaut. Let's go!"

I did not end up pursuing it though.

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#handspinning #TurkishSpindle #dropspindle #wool #BabydollSouthdown #sheep #textiles #yarn #photography

Nothing yet. I was going to publish last spring and got overwhelmed with my determination to start a whole-ass author business with my own website and store and all, so I didn't do it.

It's a retelling of the origin of Medusa.

๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ I'm a writer and aspiring novelist. I've completed a novella, and was working on a sequel. Haven't been writing much lately, but I'm an author at heart.

I've been working on ways to express my grief in words. Also on making my non-fiction as engaging as my fiction.