powderfreak

That’s crazy. 10-15mg for me is relaxing though I still feel much more sober/mentally with it than after say 2-3 DIPA’s. It hits me more of a body relaxation than a mind altering substance, less euphoria but just very content. Sleep insanely good too vs I sleep like absolute crap after even a little booze. A few beers or a couple drinks gives a much more euphoric buzz but less control over your actions which is always the risk with alcohol.

Around 4.5” for August with today’s half inch. NE CT does that before breakfast some days though .

Back down in CT for a night then a night in Boston… just started pouring and look at the radar, lol. A little blip a mile from the border. Might not even be at @DavisStraight’s location and he can’t be far from here.

I overtook you the past two weeks. Most posts ever for a summer banter thread.

That makes more sense… it seemed personal. Everyone has life experiences that shape them… like my mom grew up with an alcoholic father (my grandfather), she thinks booze is the devil. She doesn’t let it get in the way of fun but I know how much she hates alcohol. I’m sure if your family is impacted by a drunk driver or a loved one died of lung cancer from smoking, or a gambling problem caused financial issues… your opinion on those vices will be strong and that’s totally understandable.

Yeah I mean people can get drunk, they can smoke two packs a day… state gets money from those vices. Horserace betting. Cigars. Might as well get some tax dollars if folks want to relax by other means too. Plenty of vices are legal that can harm society much worse too. Edibles or tinctures are healthier than alcohol, smoking cigs or cigars by far. It’s not even close. No liver damage, no lung damage, etc.

Wow you only had 1.58” water in August?!

Summer till the 20th then snow chances by the 1st? Always rushing through fall/autumn.

Like drinking Coors Light vs a strong bourbon. 100mg gummy bear sounds terrifying.

Yeah just like casinos, big tax misses for the states.

Terrifying creatures when hidden in ski trails. They will be dead silent and still in the high grass until you are like 3 feet away and then this flying basketball goes straight up in your face. Sometimes you can see their scrotum looking necks in the grass side eyeing you. When I have the dog she sniffs them out and has found some massive flocks of like 30 birds hiding in the tall grass… she’ll chase one that takes off running and then all the sudden there are 30 flying basketballs going in all directions. They surprise the crap out of me most of the time. So silent until you are on top of them.

Definitely a group who hates the bookend seasons and finds that beautiful sunny cobalt blue sky 70 degrees with nights in the 40s and 50s boring or something. They want to go straight from winter to summer and vice versa. Always holding onto the warm season but then flip to try and rush the cold season in. Skipping the months of nice boring weather in between. Like the thought of 72/43 and sunshine is just dreadful lol.

We’ll have quite a bit of that coming up with average mins already 50-52F. Lots of 40s overnight en route for C/NNE.

Another 0.47” this morning in a line of storms. Keeping the ground soaked. Garden is absolutely insane right now.

Yeah we’ve had small birds hit our sliding glass doors before… it was just jarring to see this like three foot wingspan turkey just slam into the building, not even a window/mirage that tricked him. Maybe it was the green paint or something lol.

I’ve seen a bunch of weird wildlife stuff. But one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen happened early evening. This turkey was flying wide, big circles. Wingspan was decent, it seemed very stable, and cruising at a good speed. It started heading towards the Midway base lodge and slammed into the second story wall. Dead on impact. Sometimes small birds slam into windows but this was weird, no optical illusion in the solid wall and it’s a decent sized bird. Didn’t try to avoid it at all, hit middle/middle in the second floor.

It's a muggy evening, temp has reached the dewpoint before 10pm. Mist and fog settling in. Occasional showers today with low ceilings in the mountains.

Even up here.

0.27” in morning showers and now another round moving through. Nickel and dime, just like winter.

Today had an autumn vibe... gray, chilly, breezy, with wildflower ground cover changing color.

Yeah it’s so sad. Most of the shelter deliveries up here seem to be from the southeast US too when the shelters announce new arrivals. Texas to Georgia zone. No idea what they do to dogs down there but must just be a combo of rural, year round warmth, and lack of spay/neutering? A lot of the places that don’t see freezing temps or at least it’s less common, seem to have a ton of feral dogs just roaming around towns too. I remember spending a couple weeks in Arizona back in high school on some habitat for humanity trip, there were dogs everywhere and none seemed to belong to anyone in particular. Just wandered around town, hung out at the gas station looking for scraps, etc. it was shocking because they were like squirrels are up here… you see them everywhere just lazily wandering around.

I feel like I’ve seen that snow map in numerous snowstorms in the past decade lol. Maybe not those amounts but that axis is a classic for needing therapy up north .

Good grief these games are insane. Martin Perez tonight. Someone always loses their mind. Funny Tom Caron on the post game mentioned agita too .

Our mutual friend did say you keep the town of Tolland up-to-date on weather, well done, they seem to trust you. I forgot to tell you but last weekend when down there Graham was like “so how the hell do you know Kevin W?” lol.

Gerrit Richards has played the stopper the past few nights. What a wild ride if in June we were told Richards would become one of the more reliable bullpen guys .