04-21-2020, 06:54 AM | #12496 |
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Seems like a good course in 2020. I had a roommate in college who found stoned tree identification to be most soothing.
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04-21-2020, 07:19 AM | #12497 |
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The expectation he has, based on conversations with Philmont staff, is that he will be cutting down trees and clearing brush in the Fall and stacking it up in big piles every 50 yards or so through the woods.
He's also going to join the skeleton crew that works the winter season. They have the honor of burning all those piles of timber. All this is in some of the most beautiful country in the US. I'm not sure if he will be hiking in and camping to do this work, or if they stay at the base camp in cabins and drive out to the work site each day on the network of dirt roads on the ranch. But either way, it's exactly the kind of thing he loves to do. Room and board included, I think. The food situation is pretty good too. A step above backpacking food. He's applied with a good buddy of his that had done trail work with him last summer as part of a trail crew at Philmont, and they worked well together. It should be fun for him, and a lot of hard labor. |
04-21-2020, 07:27 AM | #12498 |
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Is it habitat restoration?
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04-21-2020, 08:14 AM | #12499 |
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Wildfire mitigation, I think.
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04-21-2020, 10:54 AM | #12500 | |
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I had found a job Sunday night with a deadline of yesterday and I was just working on a cover letter when the press release came out so after a grocery run and dinner prep, I decided fuck it, banged out a quick cover letter (probably shittiest ever but....) and submitted it at 11:59pm. I guess that made me feel accomplished for a brief while yesterday, even if it was a completely pointless exercise
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04-22-2020, 11:33 AM | #12501 |
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Well done monster.
I've been in the same position scrambling to meet a midnight deadline for a job posting. I'm glad I did, despite not getting the job. You're doing the right thing for the right reasons. Keep it up.
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04-23-2020, 07:05 PM | #12502 |
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I cut my hair!
It's shorter and I can spike it again and I can't believe how much happier it's made me. It was driving me nuts. Nutser than I realized, apparently. I'm no newbie to hair cutting. I always cut my own pre-kids (but it was longer then, which is easier to do on yourself), and beest's, and the kids' until they were middle school, but it does take time and so once we had a little more money and I went shorter and the cheap production-line places like Great Clips were a thing... I paid someone else to do it (and hated every second of it) And Bajaboi made delicious dinner (which is how I found time. kinda. dinner was ready before I was completely done, so I'mm'a tweek the back another time, but only I know what isn't as I would like it there ) And I ran my 50th mile since Parkrun stopped so that's an accomplishment. Happy is not a word I associate with running.
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04-23-2020, 07:10 PM | #12503 |
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Well done!
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04-23-2020, 09:29 PM | #12504 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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Nice!
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04-24-2020, 04:33 AM | #12505 | |
Encroaching on your decrees
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Mr Limey is not, I think, a hairdresser in the making so either I do it myself or go stark. STARING. MAD!
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04-24-2020, 05:03 AM | #12506 |
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I was in dire need of a haircut before this caper began.
Not only do I now resemble a badly thatched cottage, I'm beginning to feel like one. Can dry rot in the purlins and Deathwatch beetle be far behind?
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04-24-2020, 08:57 PM | #12507 |
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Black beetles that are cutting their capers all over your Morris wallpapers . . . and crawly things never at rest . . .
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04-25-2020, 12:08 AM | #12508 |
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Wuhan is slowly cautiously opening businesses, most are still pretty empty except the barbers and hair salons are mobbed.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Well, it's taken a month but I finally managed to get a groceries delivery slot *hurrah*
... sort of. There were no delivery slots available for regular grocery shopping (where you put together your own list) from Tesco, Morrisons or Sainsburys - but there were available slots for Morrisons 'Food Boxes'. I have been wanting to try one of these - just because I think its a genius idea. https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/boxes I went for the meat eaters food box. Contents variable, but should contain something along the lines of: Quote:
I will keep trying for a slot for a full groceries list but if this works out then it should at least allow me to cut down my trips to the village shop down to once or twice a week instead of every 2nd or 3rd day. Pet food I can mainly order separately online and my neighbour gave me a phone number for a local dairy that are doing 3x a week deliveries of fresh milk, butter, eggs and I think yoghurt The idea of a preset shopping list of basics really appeals to me. I think even without the current crisis, it's a genius idea. And then supplement it with stuff from the local shop - means not having to go to the supermarket at all. Right now cutting down the number of times I have to go into the shop at all, and also cutting down the amount of time I spend in the shop when I do go in, by reducing the number o items I have to buy in there is a very good thing.
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04-25-2020, 05:58 PM | #12510 |
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Probably a can of Soylent Green in there for Carrot.
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