Thanks @indiaunited and @steemflow

Me too but the odds are stacked against them

It's easy to get caught up in our lives, I know it all too well

Sadly, our countryside is home to a lot of drug-manufacturing, alcoholism and domestic violence. I wouldn't live there if you paid me

Unfortunately there is very little regulation on vicious dogs here

The traffickers actually rented this house

Awww

I bought a house cash (was supposed to pay my brother back, long story) and by the time the sale finally went through and I moved in, I'd lost the job that was my main source of income. I'm still here,

That looks like a good escape, since it's probably too cold to be outdoors by now

Walls can be helpful: they do retain heat, can protect from hot afternoon sun, depending, protect from wind and extreme rain, many plants do well next to East or South-facing walls. West or North-facing,

Sounds familiar... And by now all oversight bodies have been dismantled

Damn, that would just have started my hangover early

I don't know how you bear the noise and it is weird seeing those big beasts flying really low. I'm nowhere near an airport although we are under a flight path but they are high when they pass and we

Oof, be careful of the snake, at least my residents are harmless, I took one out of my tenant's bedroom the other day and I'm sure it was the same one I saw in the vegetable patch later

Yes, jets with engines catching fire is not an aviation accident you'd expect from USA. Things have changed a lot

What an awful disaster. Thought of you when I saw it on the news

There was something of a house-building boom here the 1930s and 40s so many older suburbs have Oregon pine floors and pressed ceilings. The old pine is pretty yellow

I once did Oregon pine floors. The boards were all rotten, never again! Yours looks great now.

There are quite a few species in this family, they are found all over the world

Sounds good! I have had neutered males move in with me that were aggressive outside but after a few months, they ended up being the laid-back cats that got picked on