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Got that covered - got 6 of them but probably only two of them are active mousers.
I live in a cottage in the woods and my cat brings live shrews into the house to play with. Cats!
Trapping a mouse at 1am in the bedroom is not so endearing.
Dealing with septic tanks - rotting uneven floors , shitty no pun intended plumbing and electrics - broadband from the copper era. No thanks - much prefer my modern sterile IKEA isocube.
The one advantage of uneven walls and non-90° corners is that my DIY fixes to everything fits in nicely and even looks good when done with care. Everything is easier to fix.
I dream of quitting my job and living on some land. My wife refuses to "live in the middle of nowhere, where there's nothing to do". I guess I shall continue to work a job I hate in order to live in this expensive area.
It is interesting but it is very hard work to husband animals but they seem very happy.
Really interesting twitter thread by @SarahTaber_bww breaking this down from yesterday: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1443225915073437698.html
What does the -core suffix mean in this context? I get that it is a mix of words, like hardcore, nerdcore, etc.. but why? I figured that was reserved for fringe extreme genres. Does anybody have any info on this?
In hip fashion circles, I've seen it crop up regularly. Dadcore, Normcore and the like. I've always taken it to mean the synthesized essence of an aesthetic, or at least the adherents believe that to be the case.
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It takes some effort, but you can have it (mostly) both ways. I live in a little rural town (Hillsborough, NC) that has farms in the woods and a great tiny downtown with several really good restaurants, pubs, and even a tiny art scene and it's only 15 minutes away from Duke/Durham, NC with tons of great dining, shopping, events and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of other situations like this, nice semi-rural/rural…
Yeah, most places I was looking at would be 30-60 minutes outside of large city, and only a short 10 or so minute drive to the local town. She told me one day that she never wanted to leave the current county (her home county). Now she is also determined to move into her old school district (much more expensive and more developed), even though the school scores aren't much higher than the current one and just with th…
Edit: I often think about buying a cheap old isolated house on a couple acres in Italy, fixing it up and just putting the world at arms length. Kids and wife make it impractical so I will continue to trudge :)