Plot Twist: there’s a ranger who’s a sneaky sneakerhead.

I prefer the image of each little kit tucked into a shoe bed for the night

Plot Twist: there’s a ranger who’s a sneaky sneakerhead.

I prefer the image of each little kit tucked into a shoe bed for the night

I meant they aren’t sure why the fox (es) is(are) stealing shoes. But I believe you are correct, plus even a clean fox can do a person or pet damage with bites. And they don’t want to have to relocate or kill the 🦊

It’s a real story, also being run by The Independent if you can get past the ads.

Real fox or possibly foxes, people reacted to the warning by deliberately leaving out shoes, so second notice reminding folks it’s bad for foxes to spend too much time close to people. Why? No solid info.

"Newsom’s plan in California is unlikely to succeed. More than a decade ago, California voters approved a constitutional amendment that stripped lawmakers of their ability to draw congressional districts and gave it to an independent redistricting commission. Newsom has only offered vague ideas for how to get around that requirement. He has suggested the legislature could call a quick voter referendum to potentially strip the commission of its power. He also said on Wednesday there was a possibility of the legislature trying to enact new maps on its own – a novel legal theory.

“It’s not lawful in any way,” said Dan Vicuña, a redistricting expert at the watchdog group Common Cause. “It was clear that this was meant to be done one time after the census, through a public and transparent process that centers community feedback, and then to be not touched again until the next decade.”

He added: “It’s not an invitation to them to circumvent the independent process and gerrymander maps in the middle of a decade. That would completely undermine the purpose of the independent process voters approved.”

California’s independent commission has long been considered a model for making the process of drawing district lines fairer. There has been a bipartisan push in recent years to get more states to adopt commissions such as California’s, where ordinary citizens – Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated – have the power to draw district lines. After the 2020 census, four states – California, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado – used independent commissions. Democrats sought to require all states to use independent redistricting commissions in federal legislation that stalled in the US Senate during Joe Biden’s presidency."

That’s pretty!

I also have windows that slide left/right. Specifically, the right side slides left to open, right to close. Two are “landscape,” one is “portrait” shaped. Then I have three sliding-glass doors, which work exactly the same way except for the latch, threshold, and the fact that the screen also slides. It may be relevant that it never snows here.

What heart?

I don’t have to tell you “that’s what the insurance companies want you to think so you’ll forget about the option of free healthcare for all” because here we both are.

I’d bet, although the hospital billed that amount and insurance covered it, they actually paid less to the hospital. Because they negotiate lower “allowed amounts” in exchange for keeping the hospital in their “preferred provider” group.

But surely your out of pocket maximum was much less. The “before insurance” numbers are a fiction to make your insurance company look like they’re doing more for you. They don’t pay the hospital anything like that amount, and if you had no insurance, you could negotiate a lower amount from the hospital as well, since they’d rather get something over time than have you go bankrupt on them.

Oh! Green, red, napa? Carry around a head and pull off a leaf at a time or bite into the whole thing? Or slice it into shreds?

I approve of cabbage but I’m not delighted with most of the recipes I’ve used. Got something really different? And please, my body can’t tolerate much capsaicin so don’t lean into heavy 🌶️. Other spicy spices are fine.

I’m lucky enough to live in SoCal, I have tomatoes and blueberries and lemons and miner’s lettuce in pots on my balcony year-round. And I make lovely strawberry jam, but I’m well aware that the boiling necessary for preservation destroys most of the Vitamin C.

Sure, it’s midsummer. But if the tariffs are still on in December… Well, I’ll probably still have cherry tomatoes on my balcony in Los Angeles, but it won’t work for someone in Minnesota.

Fortunately, TACO.

Not eating anything except local produce might get you winter scurvy in some places.

But you have a good sensible point about the billionaires.

As a short woman who can’t run fast, it depends on how safe the situation feels. In general, I keep moving if there’s someone coming out and approaching people, because some of those folks can switch from a scam to a purse-snatch/assault in a flash. But I’ve occasionally tucked a 20 into the cart of a woman sleeping on the sidewalk, and I don’t care what they spend it on. I donate monthly to my local food bank as well of course.

Im sorry to hear that. Even on organic tomatoes?

How old-timey were you aiming? Because “it would be most wondrous” sounds more like Bill and Ted.

Oh yes, pixel phone, I didn’t even notice. Gonna edit. Thanks for fixing it!