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Me too.

That’s really what I meant. Not about wearing shorts, but there are plenty of nice looking workout pants for men that would be way more flexible and comfortable than jeans. None of the people at the gym I go to work out in jeans.

Why does he work out in jeans?

Terrifying.

Holy wow on your snow pictures! The current state of snow in my yard in Montana. It’s supposed to hit 45 degrees today.

Pretty sure I played one of those once, in the very beginning of my piano search - 1998 maybe. It was pretty spectacular. Congratulations!

@Doctor-Phibes said in I got an invitation from ….:

Should be a cool experience. Just make sure you clean the toilet seat thoroughly before snorting coke.

Lol.

That coin is hilarious.

Looking forward to hearing about it.

Cool.

@Renauda said in Convenient place to live:

@jodi

Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States).

I know it well. The USEPA rep there gave me and a couple of colleagues a tour of the mine site. Disturbing to say the least.

My maternal grandmother was born not far from Butte. Close to Virginia City in a little Irish village called Laurin - now, for all intents and purposes, a ghost town although the old red stone RC church and school are still in operation.

We stopped there once, it has a cool old church.

That busy road showed up part way through, and I thought the same thing. And all the ‘lovelies’ made me fast forward to the actual walkthrough footage.

Holy wow.

It is also a landscape painter’s dream. (From my perspective)

Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States). Also has the coolest old Buildings and the most Ghost Signs. So much history, something like 10,000 miles of mining tunnels under the city - mostly filled with water now, they get all their copper and molybdenum surface mining. An HUGE amount of money every day still comes out of this place.

This popped up on YouTube yesterday, I am fascinated by ruins, and this tiny “castle” is very cool. Too small for me, but really beautifully done.

A couple of photos that I’ll turn into paintings eventually. My drive home almost every day from the gallery and clay studio in uptown.

To give some perspective, I live in Montana, the county I live in is small - 719 square miles (1157 square Km)n the town has about 35K residents, the county has just over 36K! Closest towns with more shopping options (and better airports) are not far (68, 77 miles) but you have to go through mountain canyons/over mountain passes to get there, and the roads are dicey (to say the least) in bad winter weather. But in good weather, it’s easy with our 80mph speed limits. I do love the great wide open, and feel a tad claustrophobic when I visit more heavily populated areas.

I live in a town of about 36K people. Yes, I have to order things online, but I love that most of my errands take less than 5 minutes to get to. And I can go the back way and avoid the traffic lights.

I feel for you. Night time leg cramps/spasms are the worst. I get them in my hamstrings, right above the knee. For me, they are related to my back giving out on me a couple of years ago. They get triggered when my back is bad, but also triggered by too much salt or not enough water (so hydration). I end up having to roll out of bed and stand a specific way and it’s so freaking painful. Hope you get better sleep tonight.