Please circulate -- U of Regina has stepped up to host displaced female Afghan students, with a safe place so they can complete their degrees and not be sent back to Afghanistan from school in Qatar. (Lost funding due to destruction of USAID.) Hoping to raise $500k. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I can see both pics! Must have been a Bluesky glitch. I got one of those earlier Swiss "four fruit pyjama" jackets on eBay. (The 1980s version doesn't have all the pockets.) I'm converting it into a field vest with snaps on the arms, so they can be re-attached if it's cold.
I'm wondering if it might be possible to unpick the stitches and remove that bit of sherpa or fleece or whatever? Could then sew on a replacement pocket. I almost did that, but managed to find a vintage Woodfield one that didn't have the fluff, to use as a cargo vest.
I ended up customizing a pair of work jeans earlier this year -- had taken apart some old jeans earlier for patching material, and salvaged the back pockets. I sewed them onto the legs as cargo pockets -- I can fit my field notebook or an N95 mask in there!
loop material to hold big embroidered patches for a bit of colour. (They also form a 10th hidden pocket, accessible when I pull the patches off the velcro.) The vest's big enough that I can wear it over a hoodie or thick flannel shirt, which should make it usable well into the winter.
I got a vintage black denim hunting/fishing vest earlier this year, and really enjoy it! Probably 1990s, only 9 pockets (6 of them "stacked" on each other like that on that one). I ended up adding snaps and velcro to make the closures more secure for phones and keys. And used wide strips of velcro
Yes -- visiting early and mid-20th C homes, it's interesting to see how small a lot of closets were. Not the walk-in type the size of bedrooms, that appear on home renovation shows now.
From accounts with relatives from Kipnuk, the village is a total loss. One of my Elder relatives says it's wiped out. Those rectangular dots in the distance? Houses floating away
This is horrible. It appears as though the tidal gage at Kipnuk has set a record (records go back to at least 2000) and the gage on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel is at the highest level it's been this century.
From GK Chesterton -- to a criminal who's been able to escape consequences so far. "I know the woods look very free behind you .... But some day you will be ... old ... You will sit up in your free forest cold at heart and close to death, and the tree-tops will be very bare.”
I remember when he just dropped the thing at the top of the stairs. Looks like his staff have learned from this, and have someone stationed there to take care of it.
Most of the money that the Inflation Reduction Act had directed to energy/climate projects was going to red districts, and I think people are starting to realize this now.
“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.
The design was revolutionary at the time -- there are two separate pipes inside. The Fox 40 emulated that with multiple frequencies, though without a pea or rod. It may have an edge in wet environments like during rainfall (no moving parts to get stuck).
Well, yeah -- people might trip over a pumpkin! (seriously, the PNW is heading into rainy season and wet leaves can be slippery, so mind the sidewalks.)
I've decided to keep monitoring bike use on the new bike route a block from me, after helping with the citywide traffic counts last week. I'd like to see what happens after they're paved and the equipment is cleared, over the next month. Will also keep counting e-bikes and scooters.
I think it's a major factor in why I went on a spree and darned a bunch of socks I'd set aside over the past couple of years. There doesn't seem to be an AI in the works that will tackle that.
to me because a bunch of people who are sick, or have shortened lifespans, for lack of this investment is not going to save money. It would be insulting to children to say that it's juvenile, to assume that all this happens magically (or by volunteers/charity which is kind of similar).
so it would be great to take care of that. And speaking of biting animals, getting vaccines/treatments for West Nile and Lyme disease is also something we need.) But all this stuff is going to be eroded away by the attacks on government agencies and public health in general. It doesn't make sense
and anyway, we've had vaccines to protect us from that if anything does get through. We can turn on the faucet and the water won't make us ill. (And yes, there are places in the country where people haven't got safe water or access to nutritious food without dodgy contaminants like lead or caesium
We go out and are reasonably confident that unless we run a red light, we'll probably make it to the end of the week without getting sick from stuff we eat in a restaurant or buy in a grocery store. We won't be bitten by some diseased animal, or coughed on by someone who's carrying some lethal virus
The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.
