@PowellsLeftArm

Dad in the burbs

 Front Range megalopolis, Colo.
Joined December 2016
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Holy crap the foraging is good this year. Got enough chokecherries for a whole batch of jelly from one bush in my neighbor’s driveway. Tons of sumac berries and big rose hips too. And check out these wild peaches in Belleview Park! Delicious!
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Boy howdy I sure keep coming across more places that seem to be blatantly violating HB21-1048, Colorado's "Retail Business Must Accept Cash" law
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What percent of harmful parenting traits are because someone is trying to overcorrect for the ways their own parents screwed up?
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The dawn of Septober in Colorado puts me in desperate need of a prairie road trip. I wanna eat biscuits and gravy from a gas station. I wanna stay in a motel that still advertises color TV. I wanna visit a museum with a room full of old sewing machines. It is time
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There are not NEARLY enough restaurants where your food is delivered by model train
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Just look how happy these people are to get their food delivered by model train at Buffalo Phil's Pizza & Grill in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
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The view from the tower at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, in the heart of the former Lowry Air Force Base. I remember when it was all old runways out here.
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TEAR MY LIFE INTO PIECES BECAUSE I PUNCHED A HORSE
Sky News
@SkyNews23 Aug 2023
Sarah Moulds: Ex-teacher tells court her life has been 'torn to pieces' by pony hitting case news.sky.com/story/sarah-mou…

Sarah Moulds: Ex-teacher tells court her life has been 'torn to pieces' by pony hitting case

Sarah Moulds "chastised" a grey horse named Bruce Almighty, according to prosecutors, after the animal ran into a road in Lincolnshire in November 2021. The 39-year-old lost her job as a teacher...

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18 states are under excessive heat warnings today
Starbucks
@Starbucks24 Aug 2023
Reentering our pumpkin era. 🎃✨ Pumpkin Spice Latte and Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew are back!
A Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte and Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew rest atop hay bales with fallen leaves and various pumpkins.

ALT A Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte and Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew rest atop hay bales with fallen leaves and various pumpkins.

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Help I'm suffering the affliction that affects so many people who have lived in the San Luis Valley, which is an unstoppable yearning for the San Luis Valley
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Yep. Worth remembering that Levittown houses -- the archetypal postwar white picket fence family homes in the suburbs affordable on a modest income -- were 750 square feet.
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It's good when children's books help kids with problems they'll face
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Oh goodie, all the irony-poisoned hipster dweebs I avoided like the plague in college are back in my life as the parents of my children's classmates
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"Sooo, still wearing a trilby and using 'money' as an adjective, huh? How bout that"
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PFAS P-Furious? Is that anything?
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Takin’ the shortcut
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Me, hanging out with elderly relatives: So, how're you doing these da- Cable news at full volume: They're coming for you. They're all around you. They're trying to kill you. They can't be stopped. Hear that? They're almost here. Elderly relative, staring at the screen: hwuuuuuh
Pamela Colloff@pamelacolloff18 Aug 2023
I shared a hotel room this week with a 77-year-old family member, which meant that I was exposed to wall-to-wall cable news--and America, we are not okay
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Y'know what still makes this site tolerable? Blocking people! I've gone absolutely nuts blocking people since King Dingleberry started breaking everything here. It's great! It's also how I keep Facebook tolerable! Anyone who annoys me in the slightest, you're blocked! Easy!
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Facebook memories: Hey look! Here's some painfully cringey stuff you said ten years ago! Me: Ok FB: Seven years ago you were on a trip with your friend who got murdered! Me: ok stop FB: Five years ago your grandma told you she loved you! She's dead too now! Me: ENOUGH
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You ever do that daydream where you wake up and there's $100 million in your bank account, so you quit your job, pay off the mortgages, credit cards and student loans of everyone you know, buy yourself your dream house, then travel everywhere you've ever wanted to go? Just me?
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Hi yes I will take one kitted-out 4Runner, one mint-condition 1959 Chrysler Imperial convertible, a historic farmhouse with a big porch in the foothills northwest of Fort Collins, and I will now be departing for a lengthy canoe expedition of the Boundary Waters, thank you
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Hmm now that you mention it, no, I've never had an hours-long omakase dinner at the best sushi restaurant in the city, everyone hop in my mint-condition 1959 Chrysler Imperial convertible and let's go try it
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