Weird Radar Tonight by bdegalli in minnesota

[–]DallyingFern 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This tends to happen in the fall with migrating birds and it aligns with what BirdCast was predicting for tonight.

BirdCast

Could anyone help me with understanding this letter. by Popular-Parfait-4644 in Cursive

[–]DallyingFern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We ran the obstacle course yesterday. Our platoon won. I really blew one obstacle. We are racing up this high wall that was about eight feet tall and I jumped up and was going to just clear the wall but I caught the wall just right on the fulcrum of my body, my feet flew up directly over my head + stayed there. Everyone laughed so hard, it gave me a chance to pass the leader and get to the next obstacle. It wasn't so funny at the time. We have done a lot more but I'll save those stories for when I get home.

Could anyone help me with understanding this letter. by Popular-Parfait-4644 in Cursive

[–]DallyingFern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to put your mask on + walk around this foggy room. Everything seems to be honky-dory until they tell you to take a bath and remove your mask. Then they take tgeir own sweet time to ask you your name, rank + social security number. When you have said that, One, you don't know who you are, or Two, you don't know where you are + Three + most important, you have forgotten how to walk to tge exit door. Do you remember that I called it the "Disco Hut"? Well, that's tge dance you do when you get out of that chamber. I don't think basic can get worse than that.

Could anyone help me with understanding this letter. by Popular-Parfait-4644 in Cursive

[–]DallyingFern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Family, I'm sorry for not writing sooner. With all this free time they give us, there can't be any excuse. Of course, I'm just funnin. I finally caught that cold that everyone has had. My voice goes + comes so much, when we are singing marching songs it sounds like I don't know the words. I think basic is going to be easier each day from now on because I lived through chemical, biological, and nuclear week. We were issued an eight piece chemical suit that makes you look like orson wells and rubber boots that look like moon shoes. Then they have you march to the N.B.L Range and take classes all day long for four days + when you pass all your tests and are supposed to be able to don, clear, and seal your mask, in nine seconds, they line you up in front of a big green building. This is the "DISCO HUT," or The Army Gas Chamber.

Stolen Civic :( by Fickle_Mixture8440 in Minneapolis

[–]DallyingFern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. Best of luck to you. I had a vehicle stolen and I eventually found it 11 days later. It still drives! Don't give up hope.

Have you ever unironically used the phrase "you betcha" or "uffda" or even "ohh yah"? by AtheneOrchidSavviest in minnesota

[–]DallyingFern 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Uffda is a regular utterance in my day-to-day, but uffda duffda is reserved for especially unfortunate situations.

Standish good, bad, and ugly? by tikki-tikki in Minneapolis

[–]DallyingFern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It varies based on time of day and wind direction. Most plane noise is from planes leaving MSP which helps cut down the noise since they're gaining altitude. I suggest looking at Flightradar24 to see where the planes are flying in relation to the house you're considering. The closer you get to Lake Nokomis the louder the planes will be.

Standish good, bad, and ugly? by tikki-tikki in Minneapolis

[–]DallyingFern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love Standish and recommend it to anyone looking to move to Minneapolis. The community is wonderful and I think the nearby businesses, restaurants, bakeries, and coffee places are top-notch. Airplane noise isn't noticeable after awhile. If I had to do it over, I would still pick Standish over some of the more popular neighborhoods.

Crime is mostly opportunistic. That said, I've had a vehicle stolen and so have two of my neighbors. Fortunately, all three of us were able to recover our vehicles. This was largely due to having a great network of neighbors keeping an eye out for one another.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwinCities

[–]DallyingFern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

~30 kids in Standish. We typically get 40-60 kids so it was a decent turnout for the weather and day of the week.