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Puzzle #760
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Dude. When my second word doesn’t get any hits, I know it’s going to be challenging.

Wordle 1,482 6/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Cuddle puddle!

#WhenTaken #498 (09.07.2025)

I scored 791/1000🏅

1️⃣📍1.9 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇193/200
2️⃣📍2.5K km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥈142/200
3️⃣📍5.8K km - 🗓️12 yrs - 🥉96/200
4️⃣📍42.6 m - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥇195/200
5️⃣📍1.2K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈165/200
 https://whentaken.com/

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Puzzle #759
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Excellent point. I missed the totally obvious extra 0 there. OTOH a 50 foot giant running at 2x20 foot strides per second would be absolutely terrifying. Not that a 50 foot giant isn’t terrifying in its own right. But a sprinter giant? That’s like how I felt after 28 Days Later introduced sprinter zombies. Hell to the no thank you.

Sorry, are you saying 1 stride = 6.25 m? That seems absurd to me. But I’m a short lady, not Mr. Fantastic.

Krylon makes “marking spray chalk” that is temporary and takes anywhere from a few days to a couple weeks to fade. It’s what we used to paint the train tracks on our parking lot for a kiddie train at our fall festival event.

❤️

I have family in Boone. I’ll see if they will spread his story around.

Have you had your kitty checked out by a vet? One dilated pupil like that can indicate a serious condition. PetMD even suggests it’s ER- level concerning. I hope kitty is ok.

The office manager of the hvac repair company we use, came over Wednesday morning before work to loan us a window unit so we could stay cool while we waited for a part to come in for our central air. She’s an angel.

I thought the hitchhikers are supposed to supply the weed. He must have thought he’d won the lottery.

I think Star Wars may have borrowed from their anatomy. They do look extremely distinct.

Biscuits is life!

For the newbies, you don’t want your footprint tarp sticking out from under your tent if you can help it. It will wick water under your tent (rain, dew). Even waterproof fabric can fail given too much water exposure.

I’m sorry you’re having nightmares about your bully. I had a work bully and still have occasional nightmares with them in it too. When I wake up, I tell that person (in my mind) to fuck off. I wish one of these would end up being lucid, so I can tell them in the dream itself. But this helps.

I’ve always thought of it as the brain defragging. That said, I have had a couple where I really felt like the deceased family member was dropping by to say hello. These feel different from the ones where they may appear as a character in my dream, like an extra in a movie. I’m not lucid for those.

Last week it was my mom’s birthday. I hadn’t dreamed of her in a while, but I do think of her daily so I don’t ascribe dreaming of her just because she was on my mind during the day. The night of her birthday she was in my dream.

When I get a family visit, it does tend to end up being a semi lucid dream. I know in the dream that this person is no longer living and this is a visit. But I can’t control the direction of the dream.

So in the dream, I’m aware I haven’t seen her in some time and am very happy to see her. She was also saying how much she has missed me, and was uncharacteristically clingy. Just wanting to cuddle. She knocked me down even to cuddle. She was a tiny woman and I am not.

Then on my other side, my cat that passed 2 years ago decided she wanted to come cuddle too. I didn’t dream of my mom’s calico (whom I also fostered for some years while mom went through a rough spot). This was my calico. Mom never met her. But there they both were visiting at the same time.

It. Felt. So. Good.

I was sad to wake up.

I’m a 3 season camper but that’s fall, winter, spring. I love winter camping but I also have a travel trailer. I have gone tent camping in sub-30°F weather. That was the nightly low, and the high was 50’s, so plenty comfy during the day, just had to bundle up good for the night. If you have a branded Nalgene bottle, you can fill it with hot (not too hot though) water and put that in your sleeping bag with you. Always have a beanie. I crochet so I’m never without one. Don’t wear any cotton (especially don’t wear cotton socks). “Cotton kills” as they say. Performance fabrics, wool, and layers layers layers. 2 layers of socks as well. And that will also help keep your feet from blistering if you go hiking.

For my first fire, I gave up caring about whether I can rough it and will use a starter log. It is so hard to get that first fire to really catch and not need constant tending. The rest of my fires I practice doing it the hard way after there’s a fresh bed of coals and half burnt wood from the previous day. Much easier to build up hot coals after that.