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@DudespostingWs See what breakfast oat meal can do for one’s health. Myth is Scots eat oatmeal daily. Though not a drop of Scots ancestry, I eat oatmeal everyday, with raisins or dried cranberries. My expectation is to live well into my nineties, as did my maternal relatives, who did.

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

@thewordsionary But one knows names of every dog within a mile of home

@MaxVelocityWX Having to keep windows closed to prevent too much smog in house? It’s summer! Windows should be open!!! Yep, mine are closed, groan!

While the worst of the smoke is at last over and mostly out of the picture for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the same cannot be said for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin, who will continue to see the effects of haze and reduced air quality throughout the day today. It will lessen throughout the afternoon, and could clear tomorrow...but recent fires in the Pacific coast could mean that smoke may very well remain in the picture for the northern Plains, the Midwest, and the Great Lakes...

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Christians to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires and empathy more than cruelty.

EXCELLENT QUESTION.

Enough already with the fire crackers!

@Rainmaker1973 My mother discovered how my brother’s toddler son learned to eat at Montessori school. She was appalled. Boy was shown once, and only once, how one eats at Grandma’s house. Boy obeyed. Compared to my mother, a USA Marine drill sergeant is a woess.

Maria Montessori believed that children need to be outdoors because nature strengthens their bodies, calms their minds, and awakens their curiosity. [📹 West Side Montessori]

@redheadranting This film DVD is in my small collection.

I watched Moonstruck last night for the first time. I've seen clips of the movie for decades, and knew what the movie was about and even knew the quotable quotes from it. I just had never seen it. It was delightful. An hour and a half. Let me repeat that - it was an hour and a half! I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that wasn't clocking in at nearly three hours and I am so for bringing that back. It was an hour and a half of pure entertainment. There was no message the producers, show runners and directors were trying to shove down my throat. There was no "difficult" history in need of rewriting to make me feel a way someone else wanted me to feel. Just a silly story about a silly family doing the messy things families do. And people looked normal!! Not only normal, they looked different. I didn't confuse all the characters with one another because they all looked uniquely human with bad teeth, grey hair, too thin, too fat, too old. Let's make more of these wonderfully delightful and reasonable length movies once again, please.

Today’s challenge: find black plums in black bowl on black table

Honestly I have found one good thing about the wildfire smoke in WI. It smoked out the mosquitoes that were swarming my yard.

So….deep in the ocean is just Tim Burton land. Got it.

@MidwestWeathe_r I’m older than dirt and misread tornadoes as tomatoes. That’s with glasses on.

Significant severe weather will be possible Monday afternoon, evening, and into the overnight hours for portions of WI, IL, MN, and IA. All hazards, including a few tornadoes and hurricane force strength winds (74+ mph) are possible.

When your leaders say "Don't forget we're all in the same boat!"

Bear 909 checks to make sure the coast is all clear for her cubs 💚

@AstronomyVibes Keep it to myself to avoid mass human hysteria and just keep on trucking along.

If you discovered tomorrow that reality is a simulation, what would you do first?

@powderski In Wisconsin back in the day after evening meal, a shot glass of peppermint schnapps was sipped by little old ladies to “calm” their digestion.

This was probably 15 years ago at Whitefish. My cousin and I were about 16 and got paired with a guy skiing by himself. He had to be in his late 50s. As we're loading the chair, he looks at us and goes, "You boys narcs?" We just stared at him. "...No?" "Good." That was apparently the right answer. The chair had barely left the terminal before he pulled a flask the size of a brick out of his jacket and took a heroic swig. For the next ten minutes he explained why the government lies about snow reports, why avalanche dogs are "probably undercover," and how he'd once outrun ski patrol three days in a row. I couldn't tell if he was joking, drunk, or just permanently like that. Then he handed us the flask. Peppermint schnapps. It tasted like someone had dissolved a candy cane in rocket fuel. We reached the top, he stood up, nearly ate it getting off the chair, somehow recovered, pointed his skis straight downhill... ...and absolutely refused to turn. Just tucked and disappeared. My cousin looked at me and said, "I genuinely don't know if we just met the coolest guy alive or the dumbest." To this day, the only thing I ever carry in my ski jacket is peppermint schnapps. Every lift ride reminds me that somewhere out there, that lunatic is probably still straight-lining groomers.

Seen elsewhere, not my quote. 😉 "The meth lab in Canada's basement is upset that they can smell cigarette smoke upstairs"

@ingham_mal This morning it was noticed big sleeping beds in flower bed outside kitchen and in raspberry patch. Besides pedestal bird bath, large, old wok is kept full of water for critters. One evening a large coyote was in yard,

Not badgers this time but a family of polecats by my water bath. The variety of species taking advantage of this constant supply of clean, fresh water & particularly so during this heatwave is amazing.

Reminder: When fires ravaged southern California, Canada sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes.