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[CatrionaGrace]

My dear, you are young. I can only say if lovemaking is never dangerous, you haven't really gotten it on yet. And again, you are young, so showers and baths don't present quite the same frisson of high adventure sport to you that they do to the more elderly among us.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Is it just me, or is this place getting weird?

(not a complaint, just an observation)

 

[Stuart Dren]

This is going to end with Homer accidentally starting a successful adult cooking show that loses its writing content over time due to audience capture, making it big in adult Hollywood, then becoming depressed in spite of his success while mired in fresh sparkly transactional friendships. Eventually though, if fiction is anything to go by, he'll come around to his senses.

My dear, you are young. I can only say if lovemaking is never dangerous, you haven't really gotten it on yet. And again, you are young, so showers and baths don't present quite the same frisson of high adventure sport to you that they do to the more elderly among us.

I have almost broken my neck in the most ordinary of intimate circumstances, and that's without many growth rings in my trunk.

Is it just me, or is this place getting weird?

(not a complaint, just an observation)

Homer's fault. But with that observation, probably a good idea to pivot topics.

I don't know if you watch Channel 5 (Youtube), but they did a cool video on Irish language revival that made me think of you.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I don't know if you watch Channel 5 (Youtube), but they did a cool video on Irish language revival that made me think of you.

There's a couple of books I will get around to buying, Manchan Magan (RIP) has some very interesting titles. I will, too, check out this channel.

This is going to end with Homer accidentally starting a successful adult cooking show that loses its writing content over time due to audience capture, making it big in adult Hollywood, then becoming depressed in spite of his success while mired in fresh sparkly transactional friendships. Eventually though, if fiction is anything to go by, he'll come around to his senses.

I've got Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks running around my head. That's ok, it's a great song.

If we're auditioning for the cookery show, I recently sent my sister a version of our mother's brown bread recipe. I will be clothed, though.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I have almost broken my neck in the most ordinary of intimate circumstances, and that's without many growth rings in my trunk.

It is good to know that adventure is available to even the most cautious. I only meant Rath, being young, has time to explore beyond, shall we say, safe sex. Sex in a shower could (quite literally) kill two birds with one bar of soap.

 

[Louanne Learning]

After my husband died, I gave his tablet to one of my nieces. There were photos and videos on it taken up to about 2021. Finally, today, we got those photos and videos onto my Google drive. Among the pics is the capture of my husband's and mine artistic (visual) expertise.

Remember those hermitage days of Covid? I was always finding ways of funnily passing our time, stuck in the house as we were. One day, I got large white Bristol boards and paints, and put a framed portrait of us on the dining room table, and we set about painting portraits of us.

What I remember mostly about that afternoon (March, 2020) is how we laughed non-stop.

Spoiler: My portrait of us

Spoiler: My husband's portrait of us

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Our covid experience was much different than for many people. At the time, out of six adults, my family included three first responders, one transit worker, and an ER tech. All of us went out into the world regularly, so didn't experience the same level of isolation others did. We treated our three households as one for purposes of childcare, homeschooling, and covering each other's shifts. When the college closed, I spent most of my time barefoot in the garden with a pile of zoology books redesigning and updating signage for the museum. We all got ill at some point, my husband was hospitalized for a while, but overall- best few months of this introvert's life.

 

[Louanne Learning]

my husband was hospitalized for a while

I'm so sorry to hear this. It was a scary time, but in hindsight our fear was more from just not knowing. Another of my nieces gave birth right in the middle of the terror, on April 10, 2020, and I remember the fear I felt for her at the time. They wouldn't even let the father into the room.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I've got mixed feelings on that time, but there was some good stuff along with the shitty. Creating good memories that last forever is certainly part of it. That, and not expecting that all 50 crab apple saplings would take root and thrive.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Here's me getting ready to shovel snow in January, 2019 (yes, I am short)

 

[Riddley Walker]

I've got mixed feelings on that time, but there was some good stuff along with the shitty. Creating good memories that last forever is certainly part of it. That, and not expecting that all 50 crab apple saplings would take root and thrive.

We built our house during covid. It was crazy. No one knew what was going on. There were shipping delays, material shortages and wild price swings. We had to figure out how trying to keep the various trades working but not too close together. It was stressful.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Yeah, my wife and I discovered we could probably survive a nuclear winter together and the two kids were fine. The biggest issue was that the measures taken to protect my mother were contrary to her preferred wishes and damaging to the quality of her life. Thankfully, we got time with her after all the lockdowns.

It was 2020 when I dipped my toe fully into "creative" writing, whatever the hell that is!

 

[Set2Stun]

Saltwater ones are a different story - they're huge (anywhere from 11 to 20+ feet in length), territorial, and VERY aggressive.

During my time in Darwin there were always warnings about the salties. Probably every week there was at least one cover story in the newspaper about someone having a massive crocodile removed from their backyard pool.

Yellowstone talk takes me back. We did a road trip when I was a smol, probably 5 years old. I still remember a lot of it; Old Faithful, the beautiful and deadly thermal springs, the herds of bison. One morning a gigantic moose wandered through our campsite. Fortunately he was very chilled out.

 

[Set2Stun]

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