loves absurdity, staring at skies, listening to first birds, climbing steep trails; married mother of adult daughters; not always right about totally everything
@MoundLore and when the Lick and its mineral waters had made this a desirable location (yea, made it a PLACE at all; featured also in making the Trace a place), and people founded a city, their first business included obliterating it and sort of paving over it.
@MoundLore small potatoes, but it bugs me: "The Great Salt Lick", central to Nashville history, is hard to find and unheralded. Basically lies beneath the baseball field, where you might read the historical marker if you're really snooping around for it.
it is #summer, it is #hot, sometimes #toohot. i'm going outside and take a hike. y'all stay in and #worry and keep cool--the world will be more expansive for me, #happy
@AlpacaAurelius did you know when i looked at every cheese in my 4 favorite grocery stores i couldn't find an animal rennet cheese that didn't cost upwards of $15/lb?
@annielcrawford we'd have to sit out back on guard without ceasing, as our backyard and the next ones are a superhighway of oak and hackberry and walnut trees...
@DrSeanOMara@Mangan150 if someone's vitamin D level is 109, and all he takes is cod liver oil, but he's outside a lot, is the sunshine what's giving him the high vitamin D level?
Yesterday a 2 1/2 year old sat under my tulip poplar and told me to twirl so she could see how my dress would look, twirling. After that, "Take your hands out of your pockets," she said, and commanded me to twirl again. "Twirl again," she said. "Twirl again." "Again."
@tulipgrrl The Tall Woman has a few PG sections. I think the one or two references to the young wife and husband enjoying one another is sufficiently vague. But there are childbirths, and deaths --- twice she loses children.