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| Started by | umar <866013149e@interpring.com> |
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| First post | 2021-04-25 17:32 +0000 |
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Stopping by umar <866013149e@interpring.com> - 2021-04-25 17:32 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-04-25 14:19 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@interpring.com> - 2021-04-25 18:53 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-04-26 06:52 -0400
Re: Stopping by Ken Wright <wizard@koalatyworks.com> - 2021-04-26 08:09 -0400
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-01 14:23 -0400
Re: Stopping by Ken Wright <wizard@koalatyworks.com> - 2021-05-01 17:10 -0400
Re: Stopping by Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-04-26 15:24 -0700
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@interpring.com> - 2021-04-27 20:26 +0000
Re: Stopping by Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-04-27 22:22 -0700
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-04-28 10:32 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-04-28 14:45 +0000
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-04-28 14:43 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-04-28 09:56 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-04-30 13:40 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-01 14:22 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-05-02 13:43 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-02 10:42 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-05-02 18:10 +0000
Re: Stopping by songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-05-06 09:09 -0400
Re: Stopping by umar <866013149e@interpring.com> - 2021-04-27 20:22 +0000
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| From | umar <866013149e@interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-25 17:32 +0000 |
| Subject | Stopping by |
| Message-ID | <s6493b$vu4$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
Stopping by to see what's become of the place... looks like everyone's gone to greener pastures. Pity, that; Usenet is vastly better than what's come after it. I still refuse to join Facebook, and have more or less dropped off the other places I used to hang out in, largely due to work, which has more or less eaten my life. Luckily, I enjoy doing what I do for a living. Ах, как годы летят, мы грустим седину замечая; Жизнь, ты помнишь солдат что погибли тебя зачищая? umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-25 14:19 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <1foglh-ro7.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32426 |
umar wrote: > Stopping by to see what's become of the place... looks like everyone's > gone to greener pastures. Pity, that; Usenet is vastly better than > what's come after it. I still refuse to join Facebook, and have more > or less dropped off the other places I used to hang out in, largely due > to work, which has more or less eaten my life. Luckily, I enjoy doing > what I do for a living. > > Ах, как годы летят, мы грустим седину замечая; > Жизнь, ты помнишь солдат что погибли тебя зачищая? *waves hello* :) i still see what gets posted, but it's pretty thin these days. i'm living the quiet gardening life so i'm in the gardening group r.g.edibles... and a few other places in on-line forums hold my attention from time to time. songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-25 18:53 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <s64dqc$19p2$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
| In reply to | #32428 |
songbird <songbird@anthive.com> writes: > *waves hello* :) *waves hello back* > i'm living the quiet gardening life so i'm in the gardening >group r.g.edibles... and a few other places in on-line forums >hold my attention from time to time. I make a fair number of comments on dailykos.com, but it's surprisingly "fascist" for a liberal site. There are all sorts of unwritten rules. Other than that, I'm mostly off in radioland. WSCS (classicalwscs.org) takes up a fair amount of my time. And yes, the Web site sucks; we haven't had time to do anything about that. It's weird; the two lines of Cyrillic I appended to my previous post came back as gibberish, but quoted in this reply, before I deleted them, they were Cyrillic again. Weird. umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-26 06:52 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <skiilh-rh2.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32429 |
umar wrote: > songbird writes: > >> *waves hello* :) > > *waves hello back* > >> i'm living the quiet gardening life so i'm in the gardening >>group r.g.edibles... and a few other places in on-line forums >>hold my attention from time to time. > > I make a fair number of comments on dailykos.com, but it's surprisingly > "fascist" for a liberal site. There are all sorts of unwritten rules. heh! :) i can't do stuff like that. > Other than that, I'm mostly off in radioland. WSCS (classicalwscs.org) > takes up a fair amount of my time. And yes, the Web site sucks; we > haven't had time to do anything about that. it is fine! since you commented i had to look at it and am listening this morning. :) i like that it isn't full of other stuff and your stream sounds ok to me too. our more local station we used to listen to they talk too much. when we want music we don't want them to talk all the time. i'll bookmark it and see how it goes. ;) > It's weird; the two lines of Cyrillic I appended to my previous post > came back as gibberish, but quoted in this reply, before I deleted > them, they were Cyrillic again. Weird. it showed up correctly for me both in your initial post and in my quote of it. using slrn on Debian linux. songbird
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| From | Ken Wright <wizard@koalatyworks.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-26 08:09 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <ad50e253ac374e48c03f21c024f8b5d2cb3c2b7d.camel@koalatyworks.com> |
| In reply to | #32430 |
On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 06:52 -0400, songbird wrote: > umar wrote: > > > > It's weird; the two lines of Cyrillic I appended to my previous > > post > > came back as gibberish, but quoted in this reply, before I deleted > > them, they were Cyrillic again. Weird. > > it showed up correctly for me both in your initial post > and in my quote of it. using slrn on Debian linux. Just as another data point, I saw the Cyrillic clearly. Evolution on Ubuntu 20.10. Ken, missing the old alt.poly days
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-01 14:23 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <oti0mh-0h7.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32431 |
Ken Wright wrote: ... > missing the old alt.poly days nice to have some people talking again here. :) songbird
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| From | Ken Wright <wizard@koalatyworks.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-01 17:10 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <9c373bbc28789a9912e363813350e965cd5ab2ee.camel@koalatyworks.com> |
| In reply to | #32444 |
On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 14:23 -0400, songbird wrote: > Ken Wright wrote: > ... > > missing the old alt.poly days > > nice to have some people talking again here. :) I always said alt.poly had the best conversation on Usenet. You were always part of the best of the best, songbird. Here's hoping we can get things going again! Ken
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| From | Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-26 15:24 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <bKGdncpD5soIoBr9nZ2dnUU7-e3NnZ2d@supernews.com> |
| In reply to | #32430 |
On 4/26/2021 03:52, songbird wrote:
> umar wrote:
>> songbird writes:
>>
>>> *waves hello* :)
>>
>> *waves hello back*
{waves at everyone}
>>> i'm living the quiet gardening life so i'm in the gardening
>>> group r.g.edibles... and a few other places in on-line forums
>>> hold my attention from time to time.
We have a gardener who comes every month. We have roses, hibiscus,
lavender, irises, other plants, and citrus trees. This is separate from
the various lemon, orange, and grapefruit orchards here in our
development. I don't touch plants as I tend to kill them, and I can't
find my cotton gardening gloves. We had drip irrigation installed on a
timer as it's far more efficient with water. We're back in a drought
again here in SoCal.
>> I make a fair number of comments on dailykos.com, but it's surprisingly
>> "fascist" for a liberal site. There are all sorts of unwritten rules.
>
> heh! :) i can't do stuff like that.
I do the comments in GoComics and Comic Sands sites.
>
>> Other than that, I'm mostly off in radioland. WSCS (classicalwscs.org)
>> takes up a fair amount of my time. And yes, the Web site sucks; we
>> haven't had time to do anything about that.
>
> it is fine! since you commented i had to look at it and am
> listening this morning. :) i like that it isn't full of other
> stuff and your stream sounds ok to me too. our more local
> station we used to listen to they talk too much. when we want
> music we don't want them to talk all the time. i'll bookmark
> it and see how it goes. ;)
>
>
>> It's weird; the two lines of Cyrillic I appended to my previous post
>> came back as gibberish, but quoted in this reply, before I deleted
>> them, they were Cyrillic again. Weird.
>
> it showed up correctly for me both in your initial post
> and in my quote of it. using slrn on Debian linux.
>
I see it rendered properly. I'm using Thunderbird on Win10.
For the people not at alt.callahans, I fell in the bathroom and broke my
R tibial plateau, IOW, broke my knee. They made an immobilizer out of
cotton padding, fiberglass, and ACE wrap. Lots of wrap. My crutches
came straight out of the shrink wrap in the ER. I'll be in the recliner
with my leg up for at least three more weeks as I broke it 5 weeks ago.
Hubby is scheduling me for my orthopedic consult as I type. I'm no
longer in pain, which is good, as that first week was a horror.
--
Freyja the NurseWench
http://freyjaw.dreamwidth.org
Twitter: @FreyjaRN
I will not just survive, I will prevail.
-Leslie Burgess Jr.
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| From | umar <866013149e@interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-27 20:26 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <s69s2a$2uc$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
| In reply to | #32432 |
Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> writes: >We have a gardener who comes every month. We have roses, hibiscus, >lavender, irises, other plants, and citrus trees. This is separate from >the various lemon, orange, and grapefruit orchards here in our >development. I don't touch plants as I tend to kill them, and I can't >find my cotton gardening gloves. We had drip irrigation installed on a >timer as it's far more efficient with water. We're back in a drought >again here in SoCal. We're in a drought here in New England, too. I wonder where all the water's going. >For the people not at alt.callahans, I fell in the bathroom and broke my >R tibial plateau, IOW, broke my knee. They made an immobilizer out of >cotton padding, fiberglass, and ACE wrap. Lots of wrap. My crutches >came straight out of the shrink wrap in the ER. I'll be in the recliner >with my leg up for at least three more weeks as I broke it 5 weeks ago. Ouch! May the three weeks go by swiftly. I have never been on alt.callahans, but I took a look at it yesterday. Is Bill Gawne still around? I seem to recall he used to hang out there. umar
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| From | Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-27 22:22 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <ocWdnVyPXZa2bBX9nZ2dnUU7-IPNnZ2d@supernews.com> |
| In reply to | #32434 |
On 4/27/2021 13:26, umar wrote: > Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> writes: > >> We have a gardener who comes every month. We have roses, >> hibiscus, lavender, irises, other plants, and citrus trees. This >> is separate from the various lemon, orange, and grapefruit orchards >> here in our development. I don't touch plants as I tend to kill >> them, and I can't find my cotton gardening gloves. We had drip >> irrigation installed on a timer as it's far more efficient with >> water. We're back in a drought again here in SoCal. > > We're in a drought here in New England, too. I wonder where all the > water's going. Texas? The Midwest? Someplace else? Beats me. We just got a little rain yesterday and today. Pollen comes next. Time to eat antihistamines. >> For the people not at alt.callahans, I fell in the bathroom and >> broke my R tibial plateau, IOW, broke my knee. They made an >> immobilizer out of cotton padding, fiberglass, and ACE wrap. Lots >> of wrap. My crutches came straight out of the shrink wrap in the >> ER. I'll be in the recliner with my leg up for at least three more >> weeks as I broke it 5 weeks ago. > > Ouch! > > May the three weeks go by swiftly. Thanks. Hubby & Dad are taking good care of me. They wheel me to the bathroom when I need it. Chris helps me wash my hair every Friday. He cut my hair at my behest and took off over a foot of hair, so no more waist length hair. It's easier to handle when laid up in a recliner. The first week was very painful, then it was as if someone flipped a switch and my pain went away. I'm okay, just not thrilled at being nonweightbearing on one leg. > I have never been on alt.callahans, but I took a look at it > yesterday. Is Bill Gawne still around? I seem to recall he used to > hang out there. > > Nope. I think he went to the FB version known as "Friends of Mike" or something very close. I don't have FB. He still posts on LJ from time to time. -- Freyja the NurseWench http://freyjaw.dreamwidth.org Twitter: @FreyjaRN If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. -Robert A. Heinlein
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-28 10:32 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <288olh-h43.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32435 |
Freyja wrote: > On 4/27/2021 13:26, umar wrote: ... >> We're in a drought here in New England, too. I wonder where all the >> water's going. > > Texas? The Midwest? Someplace else? Beats me. We just got a little > rain yesterday and today. Pollen comes next. Time to eat antihistamines. while it has been overly dry here in recent months we've still had a few rains enough to keep the ground moist, but we could use a few steady rains. last night and this morning the storms came through and went north of us so i don't know if we'll pick up any rains in the next few hours, some small chance i think but more likely another chance this evening. i guess i'll be able to get outside today for some weeding after all. :) songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-28 14:45 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrns8it8g.loo.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32437 |
On 2021-04-28, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > while it has been overly dry here in recent months we've still > had a few rains enough to keep the ground moist, but we could > use a few steady rains. last night and this morning the storms > came through and went north of us so i don't know if we'll pick > up any rains in the next few hours, some small chance i think but > more likely another chance this evening. i guess i'll be able to > get outside today for some weeding after all. : We've had some rain, but not nearly enough. There have been lots of fire warnings to the north of me, in NH and VT. umar
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-28 14:43 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrns8it3q.loo.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32435 |
On 2021-04-28, Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> wrote: > Texas? The Midwest? Someplace else? Beats me. We just got a little > rain yesterday and today. Pollen comes next. Time to eat antihistamines. Lots of pollen here, along with some spectacular flowers on trees. The rabbats are out, munching away on greenstuff, and I saw a spotted turtle basking on a log the other day at Ponkapoag Pond, one of my favorite places to go walking. > The first week was very painful, then it was as if someone flipped a > switch and my pain went away. I'm okay, just not thrilled at being > nonweightbearing on one leg. Gotcha. > Nope. I think he went to the FB version known as "Friends of Mike" or > something very close. I don't have FB. He still posts on LJ from time > to time. Fascbook? Sigh. Fascbook devours all things; it is the black hole of the Internet. umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-28 09:56 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <956olh-h43.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32432 |
Freyja wrote:
> On 4/26/2021 03:52, songbird wrote:
>> umar wrote:
>>> songbird writes:
>>>
>>>> *waves hello* :)
>>>
>>> *waves hello back*
>
> {waves at everyone}
:)
>>>> i'm living the quiet gardening life so i'm in the gardening
>>>> group r.g.edibles... and a few other places in on-line forums
>>>> hold my attention from time to time.
>
> We have a gardener who comes every month. We have roses, hibiscus,
> lavender, irises, other plants, and citrus trees. This is separate from
> the various lemon, orange, and grapefruit orchards here in our
> development. I don't touch plants as I tend to kill them, and I can't
> find my cotton gardening gloves. We had drip irrigation installed on a
> timer as it's far more efficient with water. We're back in a drought
> again here in SoCal.
i watch the water news out west and the snow packs. for some
reason i find water projects and rivers facinating and i also
hope to see actual rivers flowing again sometimes to give wild-
life a break too.
most of my work here is trying to keep certain things from
getting worse while growing some food. it's a challenge some-
times because this site is complicated enough from the fact
that it is mostly developed so there are no easy ways to do
some tasks other than a little at a time.
i'd love to be able to have citrus but that just isn't
possible here - for many years i hauled a tiny orange tree
around with me until it finally gave up. the final straw
was a cold attic. where i'm at now there's no room for
plants than what i have already.
...
> For the people not at alt.callahans, I fell in the bathroom and broke my
> R tibial plateau, IOW, broke my knee. They made an immobilizer out of
> cotton padding, fiberglass, and ACE wrap. Lots of wrap. My crutches
> came straight out of the shrink wrap in the ER. I'll be in the recliner
> with my leg up for at least three more weeks as I broke it 5 weeks ago.
> Hubby is scheduling me for my orthopedic consult as I type. I'm no
> longer in pain, which is good, as that first week was a horror.
it's no fun being injured and dependent upon others. glad to
hear things are going ok. :)
songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-04-30 13:40 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrns8o25l.52s.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32436 |
On 2021-04-28, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > i'd love to be able to have citrus but that just isn't > possible here - for many years i hauled a tiny orange tree > around with me until it finally gave up. the final straw > was a cold attic. where i'm at now there's no room for > plants than what i have already. I have a north-facing lawn; my back yard is full of trees (mostly Norway maples). I like the trees because they shade the house in the summer, and I've never needed air conditioning. But I have essentially zero opportunities to grow anything. There's not enough sun. > it's no fun being injured and dependent upon others. glad to > hear things are going ok. :) Amen. umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-01 14:22 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <ori0mh-0h7.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32440 |
umar wrote: > On 2021-04-28, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > >> i'd love to be able to have citrus but that just isn't >> possible here - for many years i hauled a tiny orange tree >> around with me until it finally gave up. the final straw >> was a cold attic. where i'm at now there's no room for >> plants than what i have already. > > I have a north-facing lawn; my back yard is full of trees (mostly > Norway maples). I like the trees because they shade the house in > the summer, and I've never needed air conditioning. we need the AC here for Mom, but i'd gladly do without it if i could. my sinuses don't like coming in from the warm outside to cooler air or vice versa and i'd also like to be able to acclimate to the heat during the summer but that doesn't happen very much with the AC on. ah well, FWP... :) > But I have essentially zero opportunities to grow anything. There's > not enough sun. i couldn't really enjoy that. i like gardening too much to not have some strawberries and other plants that need a fair amount of sun to be productive. songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-02 13:43 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrns8tb3m.6vf.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32443 |
On 2021-05-01, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > umar wrote: > we need the AC here for Mom, but i'd gladly do without it > if i could. my sinuses don't like coming in from the warm > outside to cooler air or vice versa and i'd also like to be > able to acclimate to the heat during the summer but that > doesn't happen very much with the AC on. ah well, FWP... :) I can remember as a very young child in New Orleans, we didn't have AC. We just opened the windows and ran lots of fans. Our house was built on piles driven into the ground instead of a foundation, and I loved to crawl under the house and see all the bugs and other critters that lived there. I found pill bugs fascinating. It must have been hotter than the hinges of hell -- I remember we'd get intense downpours for 10 minutes or so, and then the sun would come out and we'd see steam rising from the streets. This was in the early 1960s. Air conditioning existed, but I remember only ever encountering it in a few stores my mother took me to. > i couldn't really enjoy that. i like gardening too much > to not have some strawberries and other plants that need > a fair amount of sun to be productive. My former wife and I bought the house back in 1988. Decades later, I'm still there. When my brother and I bought a handful of radio stations in northern New England, it was my plan to move up there, but circumstances haven't allowed that so far. There are aspects of living where I do that are very convenient; I am two blocks from the local commuter rail station, for one. But it would be nice to be out in the countryside, umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-02 10:42 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <1cq2mh-p25.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32448 |
umar wrote: > On 2021-05-01, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: >> umar wrote: > >> we need the AC here for Mom, but i'd gladly do without it >> if i could. my sinuses don't like coming in from the warm >> outside to cooler air or vice versa and i'd also like to be >> able to acclimate to the heat during the summer but that >> doesn't happen very much with the AC on. ah well, FWP... :) > > I can remember as a very young child in New Orleans, we didn't have > AC. We just opened the windows and ran lots of fans. Our house was > built on piles driven into the ground instead of a foundation, and I > loved to crawl under the house and see all the bugs and other critters > that lived there. I found pill bugs fascinating. pill bugs are edible, supposed to taste like shrimp, i've not tried them yet or been that desperate but a good thing to remember. i have some nice sized ones that live in the worm buckets i keep for digesting food and paper scraps. they can get pretty big. :) i spent a lot of the summer out back in the ponds and fields and the neighboring woods. i feel sorry for kids who've not been able to do much out in the natural world. to me it has always been so facinating and gardening is a great way to expand into soil sciences and microbiology and geology and ... > It must have been hotter than the hinges of hell -- I remember we'd > get intense downpours for 10 minutes or so, and then the sun would > come out and we'd see steam rising from the streets. yeah. and riding down the road on our bikes and having tar bubbles pop and spray us. > This was in the early 1960s. Air conditioning existed, but I remember > only ever encountering it in a few stores my mother took me to. we did have a window unit way back in the 70s but it was a loud monster. i didn't like it and spent more time downstairs in the living room which was much cooler. >> i couldn't really enjoy that. i like gardening too much >> to not have some strawberries and other plants that need >> a fair amount of sun to be productive. > > My former wife and I bought the house back in 1988. Decades later, I'm > still there. When my brother and I bought a handful of radio stations > in northern New England, it was my plan to move up there, but > circumstances haven't allowed that so far. > > There are aspects of living where I do that are very convenient; I > am two blocks from the local commuter rail station, for one. But > it would be nice to be out in the countryside, it has it's ups and downs for sure. :) today the farm across the road was being sprayed and the wind was drifting towards us. now i need to get outside for a few minutes and check for black ants that want to keep nesting in the walls of the house. a lot of gaps that need to be caulked up. always something to do here and it will be a busy day so off to get at it before i talk myself into going back to sleep for a while. :) i'd love a commuter rail station anywhere within walking distance of here. not likely ever, but who knows, when perhaps they figure out how much less it costs to maintain rail than pavement and the world runs out of oils/tars... or ... heh. well, we can dream right? :) songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-02 18:10 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrns8tqos.7kq.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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On 2021-05-02, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > pill bugs are edible, supposed to taste like shrimp, i've > not tried them yet or been that desperate but a good thing to > remember. Pill bugs are crustaceans. I think they even belong to the same branch as shrimp (malacostraca? something like that). I seem to recall there are a fair number of fossil crustaceans that resemble pill bugs. > i'd love a commuter rail station anywhere within walking > distance of here. not likely ever, but who knows, when > perhaps they figure out how much less it costs to maintain > rail than pavement and the world runs out of oils/tars... > or ... heh. well, we can dream right? :) I have some old railroad timetables from the 1940s and 1950s. One of our radio stations is in a town in NH with a beautiful brick former Boston and Maine depot. In 1948, I could have caught a train at Boston's North Station, changed trains in Concord, NH, and got off within a block of the radio station... except that the radio station wasn't there in 1948. The track leading to that station is gone; like many New England railroad lines it was abandoned after most of the regions factories and mills shut down. Parts of it are now a bike trail, and two covered bridges still stand that used to carry trains across the river. There is an Amtrak train that stops about ten miles from there, but it goes to NYC not Boston, and it isn't running at the moment due to Covid. One of our employees has a 7.5-inch guage railroad on his land, and uses it to move dirt, gravel, and building materials around. He's building himself a new house. umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-05-06 09:09 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <1d6dmh-gi4.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32450 |
umar wrote: ... > One of our employees has a 7.5-inch guage railroad on his land, and uses > it to move dirt, gravel, and building materials around. He's building > himself a new house. i used to have an HO scale layout as a teen, but that was all torn up when Mom sold the old house. if i had one now i'd set it up as a bean shelling and sorting layout. :) not really, i enjoy the tactile aspect of harvest season too much to have it done by something else. songbird
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