Gotcha, good to know! I sometimes use topcomment "in reverse" to track down posts that seem to have good engagement.

Absolutely true. I find myself stepping back and reviewing regularly... and remembering that I was raised in an environment were "the family stuff" was held in great esteem, but when I break

Dang. I liked the ammo idea... still, next thing we know there'll be a tariff on air. Every time the breeze blows from Canada or Mexico, they tack a 50% federal tariff onto your electric bill... breathing

You've got a point there! Maybe it's secretly brilliant; a self-regulating economy: The price of everything drives people to drink, but the price of drink is so high outright alcoholism is off the table...

If you have a pool, why not convert it to a duck pond? Start the meditation slowly, maybe 5 minutes at a time. Play them soothing flute music. Good luck!

Most eggs here are about $9/dozen. The fancy organic ones laid by zen chickens who meditate three times a day are closer to $11/dozen. Even the local farmstands are getting in on the action... farmstand

Yes, those definitely are the big ticket items... in this case, I was just using @livinguktaiwan's list of items to compare.

Hi @livinguktaiwan, thanks for stopping by! Yes, I know what a stone is! My late stepfather was English, and I spent three years at boarding school in the UK (5th, L6th and U6th forms) to finish off my

It's sad that people seem so reluctant to explore what they have in common. A friend of ours from years back was sort of diplomat/activist and he was always trying to bring feuding parties together over

Greetings @livinguktaiwan, you may not be coming back to this, but I'll share this anyway, from USA, Northwest near Seattle (expensive part of the country), also wrote my own post with full commentary

Blogging has been dead for 20 years "or so I've been told." Except it hasn't. The argument is always that people only want short content. But if you really want to learn something, or enjoy personal

I try to remind myself that a significant part of Hive bills itself as a social content venue... so engagement does matter, by definition!

Thank you for your thoughtful reply! This definitely deserves to be a @topcomment! One of the thoughts I've held for a while is that since this is a decentralized venue — albeit with certain limitations

We're moving to a smaller place next year, and I aspire to something more minimalistic. We'll see how it goes!

Undoubtedly, there's more to it than that... but it would certainly be nice if the 4-year cycle repeated. Interesting to think that Heidi was once an active poster and influencer here on Hive...

Thank you for the mention, and a very nice showing of stamps following a particular "theme" I appreciate you contributing to the awareness of stamp collecting in the Hive community! It is nice

In general, I have ignored a lot of this back-and-forth shyte in favor of looking at how many "units" (minutes, hours, days, weeks?) of labor/effort I have to put forth to get one "unit"

Subscribed. And thank you for offering up an alternative to LeoFinance/Inleo... that place is just a little too cultish/fanboy-ish for my liking, and I'm sick to death of the eternal round-robin backpatting

Thank you! I think there will always be people in the world who feel a natural inclination to "collect" things, whether they are currently in the culture, or part of our history. In the same

When you take the time to really learn about stamps and their origins, it can become quite a journey of study!