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Greetings!
Hello and welcome to my space. If you'd like to add me, feel free. I don't friend back right away, but I generally friend back anyone who friends me unless there is an extreme conflict of interest. You might want to go read my info page first, so you get an idea of what I'm like. In particular, there is this little caveat that I'll also post here ( Read more... ) -
And this is why I avoided Facebook for so long
Well, I got into a way too long discussion/argument over slut-shaming Melania Trump yesterday. At the end of the whole thing I wasted an hour I couldn't get back and felt like I'd been trying to get a pig to sing. Bleh ( Read more... ) -
no cope, no spoons, no nothing
Deactivated my facebook. Nothing to see here, move along. -
Just drank the koolaid
I am Helen Colhoun over at Facebook now. -
Jumping in with both feet
As of this morning I quintupled my monthly donation to Planned Parenthood, became a lifetime member of the NAACP and joined the ACLU (thanks for the links in yuour twitter feed mactavishIt may be time to get a smartphone and a Facebook so I can start recording people and making them accountable. My stepdaughter's boyfriend was helping a customer and ( Read more... ) -
Never Forget
Howard and I just got home from this year's NYC HOG midight motorcycle run down to the World Trade Center. It looks like we had a little over 1500 bikes ( Read more... ) -
Mini solo vacation: Day one
Yesterday, I spent 3 glorious hours at Hershey Gardens. The information I had read said most people spend about an hour there. It is 23 acres and since where I work is 37 acres, I thought the timing was probably accurate. Well, I was very pleasantly surprised because all the space is lovingly curated into different sections like the Japanese garden ( Read more... ) -
On the road again
In all my 50 years I have never taken a trip alone. Today, I am changing that. This morning I am leaving for Hershey, Pennsylvania. I am going to spend today at the Hershey Museum and Hershey Gardens. Tomorrow I am spending all day at Hershey Park, partly because my favorite ride, the Flying Falcon, is being retired this year to make way for a new ( Read more... ) -
With every sting, a lesson
So, yesterday Urte, the beekeeper from my workplace, and I did the second honey harvest at the Voelker Orth Museum where she also works. Harvest one had been 3 weeks earlier and, prior to that, we put in an exit board. The purpose of this board is that bees can go down into it but not easily walk back up because it's a screened maze on the other ( Read more... )