WTF-Beta

Cancelling Amazon won’t work for us, living in the middle of nowhere. I use it all the time.

I’ve felt more unsteady on escalators lately. There are a massive set of long escalators out of the light rail station up to street level at Husky Stadium in Seattle - you can get there from the airport and Jr. picks me up. I’ve really had to hold the handrails to feel safe the last couple of trips.

Nicely done, that is lovely. And the piano sounds great!

@Steve-Miller said in Another interesting house:

A very strange house.

That much water pooling on the roofs is a big red flag.

Yes, flat roofs are a mistake. It’s pretty dry there, Average 9” rain a year, 4” of snow.

Hurkle.

-24 F this morning, so I was hurtle-durkling in bed looking at real estate with property in slightly warmer places, and came across this one. Interior is not at all what I expected based on exterior - and who wants to live in a place where you are likely getting sprayed with pesticides and herbicides every time you are outside (though not sure that matters when you are currently living right next to a massive superfund site ) but I quite like the interior. I’d likely get rid of the carpet. Not a fan of indoor swimming pools, but wow that cement enclosed patio would be awesome for some indoor plants. Cool house!

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3010-Basin-Hill-Rd-Mesa-WA-99343/217431316_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

We have recently switched to a lot of cast iron cooking - mostly switching out the non-stick frying pans for the desirable vintage ones you find at antique stores - but also using the Dutch ovens on the stovetop more. I was worried because we have a glass cooktop, but it’s been fine. Steve is the breakfast maker and he keeps the un-enameled cast iron skillets seasoned to perfection, they really are nice to cook in. I need a different kitchen where I can start hanging all these skillets on the wall…

That really is a beautiful eulogy. ️

We have three LC Dutch ovens and two small cast iron frying pans, all hand me downs from Steve’s parents, so they have been used for a long time. They are still fantastic.

Happy Birthday! Hope you get to go someplace warm! (I am officially tired of winter).

How lovely. WTG - that shawl is beautiful. ️

My gallery-mate needed an MRI on his neck, he is horribly claustrophobic - he went under general anesthesia - he said the bill was something like $10K!!

@Mik said in Places I wouldn't vacation:

Not a fan of caves. I'll go underground when I'm dead.

I’m right there with you. I had to take meds to deal with my last MRI.

Doesn’t look like his painting to me either - style and the way he paints his hands is different.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/van-gogh-portrait-garage-sale-attribution-denied-van-gogh-museum-1234731385/

I miss my barn chores too. Somehow getting exercise doing something necessary feels better than exercise at the gym.

I just read a thread about this and every single Canadian comment I saw said they were spending more time at the grocery store looking at labels and NOT buying from the US.

There is a tailing pond above the pit, you can better see the elevation from the second photo (which I got from this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Montana/comments/15s1s19/flew_over_butte_today/ )

The family that owns the mine does not own the pit, the pit is still owned by ARCO (I think).

Had not seen it. Butte is quite beautiful from an artistic point of view - the uptown buildings and old houses are incredible, and the views from uptown are spectacular - it’s probably my favorite city scenery-wise of all the cities it’s size and larger in Montana. But it is also poor (relative to the bigger cities) and pretty much a toxic waste dump. I would not have come here if we had small children. We live relatively close to where an old zinc processing mill once stood (the ore container still stands) and if you walk up past it where the railroad bed used to be, there are still places where the ground is made up of colors the ground should not be made up of. I don’t plant anything but flowers in my yard, my tomatoes are in containers with store bought soil. I do love it here, though am increasingly NOT loving the length of the winters. They are still actively mining here, surface mining happens in a massive area right next to the pit. The amount of $$ in copper and molybdenum (and a few other minerals) that gets pulled out of the hills each day is MASSIVE. The mining company does not employ that many people, 200-some, maybe? The family that owns the mine lives in Missoula.

I have trouble too, sometimes. So frustrating. I like that old Lithuanian saying.