Tag: water

Morning, 12 Mar 2018

The good: Mattress rotated (cannot be flipped because of the construction of the mattress), sheets changed, floor under the bed swept, and the shelves that are functionally out of reach emptied.

The bad: The water was cut off because the bill payment and cut off order functionally crossed in the mail. (I have gone out and acquired a gallon of water for today, and things are done so they’ll turn the water back on sometime today.

The ugly: Whas-his-name the neighbor’s one puppy does not care if I live on the other side of the fence, I am too close to the fence and thus too close to his space and he must borkborkbork.

(His sister, however, believes that scritches are necessary, even if they must be through the fence. I have put bricks where she found a place to stick her nose part way through to ask for scritches, so she does not do something like dig herself through.)

lynati:

sixpenceee:

The crevice between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates near Iceland. Can you imagine diving between them?

(via Reddit)

That one part of the strata looks like teeth.

I think that’s actually a reflection off either the surface of the water from the underside. (Or off a halocline or thermocline?)

It does look like teeth, though.

systlin:

moniquill:

applebeveragesaur:

6dogs9cats:

moniquill:

iknowuthink:

Growing food instead of lawns is good, but can we PLEASE stop with the condescending bullshit that implies that people who choose to grow lawns must only being doing it for shallow ‘sheepish’ reasons?

Maybe instead of snidely saying ‘trying to impress your neighbors?’ give people instructions on how to work with and/or fight their home owner’s association, how to appeal to a landlord, how to address local ordinances, and how to grow stealth food crops as ornamental plants in areas where food gardening is banned. Seriously, they will come bulldoze your shit and then bill you for it.

We need more posts instructing people how to guerrilla garden and found community gardens, and fewer posts saying ‘You only have a lawn because you’re shallow and vain and stupid!’

AND still we have allowed some local governments to make laws against growing your own food and collecting rain water.  It’s time to remove the OLD CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE FROM PUBLIC OFFICE…all of them.

collecting rain water creates standing water which helps increase the populations of mosquitoes and other dangerous pests

like

is some free water really worth the malaria and west nile

…you do realize that it’s possible to contain collected water in ways that make it inaccessible to mosquitoes, right? That pretty much all rainbarrels have anti-mosquito measures?

In any case, most anti-rainwater collection laws are made because major operations are collecting so much that it damages the local aquifer; what these laws need is amount stipulations rather than outright bans. Everyone should be able to have a rain barrel. No one should be able to have a private reservoir that monopolizes the local water table.

SCREAMS THIS FROM THE MOTHERFUCKING ROOF