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Maine got a SUSAN COLLINS WROTE THE BILL TO FUND ICE AND ICE BREAKS INTO OUR HOMES TO STEAL OUR NEIGHBORS ad

I am grilling sandwiches and boiling a pot of soup on the wood cook stove right now, and honestly I am really much too hot. It’s a treat. I will absorb it and store it for when I have to go outside.

Maine tip: WOOD STOVE. you get through it beside the wood stove. the concentrated heat of the wood stove is incredibly luxurious. when you’re out in the bitter wind, you know you know there’s a warm seat by the stove in your future. this is the way.

not at all catchy, but when I’m in the stix and outnumbered locally, I remind myself “there are more of us than them” and I’m connected to a kinder world a few taps away in my pocket

we have a ranked choice primary. whoever wins that primary will have the support to send collins back to caribou. the vote won’t be split, and we don’t have to do any coalescing in february. we will vote in our RCV primary when the time comes. please take solace.

coos at tha beach!?! you kidding me??

their windswept hair, the warm light, the long shadows, so glamorous, wow

thanks for this tip! I did birthday shopping for upcoming twin birthday: preteens first kitchen knives! and color coded, too!! I’m excited!

WHOA that’s a serious bill on that thing!!!! which now looks zero like a sleeping weasel, lol

haha when I got into the car after feeding the sheep this morning I looked in the rear view mirror and was surprised to see that my face was wet from tears streaming down my cheeks - I hadn’t been able to feel it at all!? so cold! but not *quite* cold enough to freeze tears, lol

also when I sit down they’re extra too-short, like you can see the tops of my socks, and above my socks is my bare hairy leg and dry winter skin! I don’t want to share that! bad pants! I just put all the pants in this category into a tote: seeya in summer time, shorty weirdos. 38 yr ol grump here.

dude yes wtf

napping ermine bird

haha, welcome to Maine!

thank you, once again, for sharing with us!!! your contributions are such a treat! I appreciate the heads up you provide for us down here at balmy 44 degrees N, and your beautiful dispatches from the frozen north!

shame on him!

Oh cool! Where can this shrew writing be found?? The descriptions of them as the ultimate curmudgeon loner are honestly kinda charming, I’d be tickled to read more about them.

I hope it’s a daft rodent jelly roll vole that meets its fate with your cat, and not a grumpy shrew.

shrews are verrrrry tiny! it could live in the walls of your house eating bugs for years and not be a bother, though you might hear it skittering around in a hungry rage during the half hour it’s awake daily. they are cranky and weird creatures. less yucky than mice or voles.

wowww!!! so enchanting! thank you for sharing

kinda like the thought of it being an overgrown meadow of unkempt brambles, given back to the critters and birds. gotta dig around and get scratched up to find that dirty old plaque. like the onceler’s house from the lorax!

Perfect

sad to say good bye to a sweet kitty pal. I’m sorry for your loss.

whoaaaaa.. this makes me bean-curious. how will you prepare them? are they as tasty as they are eye-catching?

(idk if I’ve ever eaten a Lima bean. maybe in a salad at a summer pot luck or something?)

Melt, and no more be seen

resentful old white man

now you are the delivery guy. the baton’s been passed, like in a folk tale. I’m sorry.

around 150 head. it’s a small flock, but growing.

their queueing behavior is cute.. they’ve got all this space, but single file is how they like it. the snow really exaggerates it!

my sheep!

sheep tracks across light snow in a wooded pasture

If you're opposed to fascism and you're still active on X, then no you aren't.

peeled mandarin pieces on a blue and white plate on top of a wood countertop

winter treat: peel a mandarin and let the pieces sit out a bit. the skin dries and tightens, and the pieces snap when you bite into them. best eaten beside hot wood stove.