When I was growing up in coastal NH, there was one year that some local authority in Maine just north of us decided to release millions of ladybugs to control pests. Well, they all ended up in my town, and all summer long everyone’s ceilings were COVERED in ladybugs, like literal crawling ceilings where you couldn’t…

Brb printing out a cutout of Robert Fisher’s face to affix to my boxing dummy for this afternoon’s workout. It’s gonna be SO SATISFYING.

The difference is, when someone stomps on Robert Fisher’s face, we ALL enjoy it.

How did I miss the call for this? My family has all kinds of great-but-gross recipes!

The Game 5 design looks like an IUD going into a basketball hoop.

Awwwww, so precious!

He’ll be able to find you! The first time my mom brought my pupper to visit me in college, he made a beeline to my dorm room despite never having been there before (and he’s as dumb as a bag of rocks, bless him). Wherever he is, he’ll find you and he’ll be happy if you live somewhere you’re happy. And you don’t need…

I was thinking something like that (crumpled money) or like a swimming pool full of saffron.

This is weird - just yesterday I was walking behind someone at work who was carrying a coffee mug that said ‘Solar FREAKIN Roadways’ and I couldn’t figure out what it meant. I just googled it and it’s not even a new thing! It’s like that time my mom and I, living thousands of miles apart, both randomly and…

I’m a big fan of birdfeeders in abundance. My favorite is this one I got where you put it in the window and it juts into the house and it has a one-way mirror at the back so you can get right up to it and (as long as the light outside is brighter than the light inside) the birds won’t be bothered because they can’t…

I spent years trying all kinds of tricks to keep squirrels away from the birdfeeders, and honestly the only thing that has actually worked is to feed the squirrels in addition to the birds. So as long as the squirrels have corn and peanuts, they’ll leave the birdfeeders alone. Plus, now I have squirrel friends!

I bought one of those for my mom! She and her cats love it, although the squirrels eventually wised up and stopped even trying.

I can help you out here. Put 1 Tbsp (or 2 if you’re feeling indulgent) peanut butter in a mug and microwave it for 30 seconds. Add powdered sugar by the teaspoonful until it’s the right consistency, stirring between additions of powdered sugar. Then eat it with a spoon!

Adding this to my wishlist for the next time I get tipsy off pink wine and decide to treat myself!

Tell me more about this mango chili tea though...

Same here - I’ve always been able to taste the difference between tea where the water was boiled in a kettle and tea with water that was microwaved - and I don’t think it comes down to the tea being stronger, because I don’t microwave the bag with the water. I can also taste the difference when the water hasn’t…

I don’t really know either! Vermont (at least the parts that I used to drive through regularly) has really bad potholes too. It does make me wish I knew someone with budgets/roads expertise so I could ask them. Maybe it’s a combination of specific kinds of weather and how much money is allocated to town vs. county vs.…

Yeah, WI! Mark Pocan is pretty great too!

I’m from NH, and we get that from out-of-staters ALL THE TIME - ‘your roads are shit because you don’t have sales tax/state income tax!’ Now I live in Wisconsin, pay sales tax and state income tax, and the roads are even worse here every year from about January to....whenever they get around to patching them up, which…

YES Re: paper mills. Every time I drive through Berlin, NH, I roll up the windows and make sure the car is set to circulate interior air miles before I get to the town, and it still manages to seep in and make me want to cry.