I used to only buy ice cream in the winter, because I had a 45 minute drive back to the harbor, then wait for the ferry (passengers, no cars), then a 45 minute boat ride, then garden cart the groceries home on the island. Even with a soft-sided cooler and ice packs, it was a bit much to get ice cream home in the…

How warm is warm enough for kids to run around outside? I live in the mountains in Maine, and our kids are outside all year. Seems like a question of proper clothing, and keeping them dry.

Same here in Maine. I'm the first on my street with solar, so no problem for us but the next people might have an expensive upgrade on their hands

Catholic school: fill your children's heads with lies, and then molest them. No thanks.

28 panels here, but after a few huge snowstorms one of my arrays hasn’t made a watt of power for 2 weeks....

My 2 cents: why add a car payment and make a big change now? Might as well drive what you have until it needs replacement, and then decide what works for you.

Yes, same. A bunch of friends called when they heard John Prine died; that was a bit of a silver lining to hear from a lot of people we can’t see in person these days.

Seconding you on John Prine. Saw him in concert several times; my toddlers know a bunch of his songs!

I’m in Maine. Dirtbikes, sometimes, but really motorcycles are a summertime phenomenon here.

Personally, I like nearly every cover of Bob Dylan's songs over the original versions.

Mmmm, the only good gatorade flavor! Que sabor!

Or, we understand that the design of things exerts tremendous influence on how they are used?

You've probably seen people drive their kids around for Halloween trick or treating

I haven’t seen an analysis of this yet, but I’d love to see a partisan breakdown of politicians who have died of Covid. It has to be mostly republicans.

How many nurses do you know who smoke or are impressively obese? That’s proof enough to me that working in health care isn’t a signal of intellect or even good health...

I'll happily take the vaccine if some fucking chumps refuse it. 

In the country club crowd, they'll drive BMWs mostly

Obviously, her phone was full of child porn or something. Only explanation that makes sense.

She was probably commiting crimes with her phone. Otherwise, why be so worried?

Lol, and with recognition that this is the absolute height of privilege: we bought the lot next to our house, and will put something on it for in-laws if they need to move in with us