I believe that’s what @bbqboy ’s comment is related to.
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LOL I had to do a double take of your temperatures. It took a second for me to realize they’re in Fahrenheit.
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Top one is Celsius. I posted the second one to translate to the Americans
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-2° F Rocky Mountain West.
A frosty day in more ways than one😬
It is however not keeping the birds away from the suet cake👍
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It was too cold for my tiniest dog to poop this morning. He kept lifting his feet off the snow and we were out there less than 4 minutes. He doesn’t like wearing booties. We will try again in a few minutes.
Our adopted wild turkey was hanging out on our neighbour’s back porch.
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We got rather a lot of snow yesterday, and two of our neighbors helped clear our driveway, one with his shovel, and another with his enormous snow blower. I can - and do - shovel myself (I don’t let Mom shovel at all anymore,) but I’m so super grateful for their help.
The snow-blower neighbor helped out the last time it snowed without asking or telling us, he just pushed his blower across the street and cleared our driveway. I was so incredibly grateful, and I stressed out over how to thank him; normally i would bake a gift, but he has some dietary concerns. Ultimately I found a pretty homespun bouquet at the farmers’ market ($12, including the mason jar) and took it over to him the next day. He was startled, and of course said, “Oh, you didn’t have to…” but I very much wanted to express my gratitude, as well as signal my willingness to accept future snowblowings, if he were to be so inclined.
Yesterday, he was inclined. YAY.
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Hopefully you don’t get to the temperature where no translation is needed!
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I have felt like this about too many people during my 61 years on this planet. Of course, I’ve felt the opposite as well. Unfortunately I’ve rarely been able to say anything whether that be positive or negative.
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#braincleanse
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Nice diversion! #27 is pretty darned cute.
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In times of crisis, I find nothing soothes my mind more than moving my focus away from our own species.
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A favorite and currently quite apropos phrase superimposed over two favorite photos that I’ve taken here since arriving here in Las Vegas.
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I needed that. And I stole it (although I gave you credit!)
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No credit necessary — I snatched it off the interwebz myself 
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I don’t know if this is the right thread in which to share this, but it is on my mind.
For a long time, I have suffered from bad breath. Well, it’s really Mrs. ricepad who suffers, but I’m the one that has it. My grandmother had a distinctively bad breath - which we called “Baachan Breath” - and I assumed that as she aged, her attention to brushing/caring for her dentures got sloppier. About 15 years ago, though, my dad started developing Baachan Breath too, but he was neither a grandmother NOR a denture wearer. Definitely the same breath, though. In the last 5-6 years, I started having Baachan Breath, to the point where Mrs. ricepad could sometimes smell it across the room. I brushed a lot, sometimes several times a day, but even then, my breath would sometimes smell like minty hot garbage. I didn’t have it all the time - it would come and go, and when I would ask my dentist or my GP about it, neither one of them could smell it so they had no answers.
And then, a breakthrough. Last summer, I developed a sinus infection. My doctor said it would probably run it’s course in a week or two, and he preferred not to prescribe antibiotics for it, but told me to use a sinus rinse daily until it cleared and that would ease my congestion while my natural immune system handled the infection. For the last several months, I’ve been using a neti-pot daily. It’s kind of gross, but I recently realized, and Mrs. ricepad confirmed, that I have not had Baachan Breath ever since. Problem solved!
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That’s amazing, but maybe not a surprise given how these things are connected in our heads.
And better than more concerning underlying reasons! My PIC does the neti-pot every day, but he has a deviant septum.
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Balm for the soul. Thank you.
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Glad it worked, but please be careful with neti as with anything else that’s a medical treatment (distilled or boiled water only, and unless there’s something specific you are treating like allergies, sinus, etc it’s not always needed / advised as a daily treatment).
(fyi, there are 4 types of neti – string, water, milk, and ghee - I don’t engage in any other than water, though we got ghee up our noses anytime we had bad colds as kids… gross 
but effective, 
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Thanks. I have chronic congestion from being allergic to just about everything on god’s green earth. I get skin-tested every few years, but the first time as an adult, the allergist did the tests on my forearms, and after 15 minutes, the reactions had grown into one gigantic welt on each arm and I reacted to everything except water. I only use water (with salt/baking soda) in the neti pot, and boil the water beforehand.
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