Hi @andrastia, thanks for stopping by, and for your thoughtful comment! I know there's an old saying that "haste makes waste," but I much prefer the Danish interpretation which loosely translates

I suppose weather always "depends" on many things... part of my childhood we lived in Nairobi, Kenya which is practically ON the equator, but it's at 5,900 feet (1,800m) above sea level, so it's

I can appreciate that, living in the "deep freezer zone" of the US, as you do. Our corner of the northwest is definitely much milder; we don't really get protracted freezes in winter, just a

Conversely, the people who could do a good job of running things typically want no part of it because it's an insane shitshow!

What you say is definitely true, and in our particular case we had a "common enemy" we were working to get away from so a lot of differences were set aside to focus on building an alternative.

Thanks for stopping by @cuddlekitten!

Our respective toxic upbringings left us with a rather elaborate and complex quilt of "food scars," some of which continue to rear their occasional heads. Simple awareness always seems to help.

Sea glass isn't everywhere; you have to have a beach that is near where there has been a population for some decades, so glass garbage was created 50-100+ years ago. Often, we don't look down on the beach

So many creative possibilities! I see a LOT of different creative expressions with seaglass at some of our local street fairs.

ORANGE!!!! (Not so much...) Yes, those were the days!

I totally get the whole "eggs-basket" wisdom... we probably have near a dozen different projects going at any one time... Hive activities represent merely one small corner of the whole picture,

I'm definitely here for the very long term... in a sense, I am hoping this will all keep building until some manner of "retirement" happens for me. Even so, the wild ups and downs can be a little

I wish there were less plastic, too. When I went beach combing, I always brought along a garbage bag to pick up the alarming amount of plastic items that would wash on shore... a lot of people are — sadly

I knew about it from childhood, but not that there were people actually willing to purchase such things... and yet, it afforded me a livelihood of sorts for 5-6 years.

They are quite beautiful, and there are so many possible colors!

I would never have known @jlufer, except for one time being at a street arts and crafts fair many years ago, and having a conversation with a jeweler who worked with such items. I asked where where she

Indeed, it is never too late to have a happy childhood. Including real Monkey Bread that exists for the right reasons. Yum!

I was actually pondering the whole "recovering from the 'vid" issue earlier, and the fact that it somehow feels like I never made it back to more than 95% or 98% of where I was before. Maybe

Wow... thanks for that exceptional reply @geekgirl! Sorry for the late response, but I wanted to give this the attention it deserved. No, I didn't think the 20% interest rate was necessarily sudden, as

As long as it remains an organic process and people (including witnesses) continue to regard it as a long term proposition, I'm a little less worried about it. So HBD is really likely to be more of a hybrid