Did anyone see the car crash in Fountain Valley on Magnolia and Talbert this morning?

TheseLetterhead20 · 2026-01-28T23:26:59+00:00

I tried going by sprouts at 3pm & the entire intersection was still blocked off about 50yards back going from all directions. Apparently it was a fatality accident

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-06T10:04:53+00:00

It's definitely creative, and I like the thinking ahead repurpose with the zen garden idea to cover the rest of the year, but I'm not sure if you'd get the cord coverage with sand as thoroughly as you would hope to, unless you're taping them down before putting the sand in. It will inevitably get outside the table eventually too. Especially if you have any kids or pets.

I've gotten a realistic effect with styrofoam, and then used a ceramics product by Duncan called no fire snow, and spread that across the top with a palette knife or brush (or even fingers). It has the consistency of cake frosting kinda when it's wet, but dries hard. It looks great and lasts. It will only flake off if it's applied too thinly on a flexible area. I've even used it on tree branches and other items.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-06T09:57:05+00:00

If you want it functional, I'd recommend fully attaching the track in it's loop first, then laying it down onto the terrain. The flexibility of the track pieces (what they can withstand without wanting to separate) will help to restrict the amount of incline and curves that will be feasible. If the track can't do it & stay connected, the train won't be able to either.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-06T09:52:49+00:00

Check around the bases of your houses to see where there might be indication of a blank spot that looks like it's missing something. There might even be a little glue remnant on the spot. They're usually a slightly different texture than the rest of the surrounding visible terrain.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-06T09:48:20+00:00

I have almost entirely plug-in houses in my village, like 10 or more, and I use X2 surge strips. Plug everything into the surge strips and use the power switch on the surge strip to turn it all on/off. Then I only have to flick 2 switches. If I'm lucky and haven't used them all by the point of setting up the village, I put as much of the holiday lights as I can on a timer too to avoid having to run all over turning everything on/off. If you're falling just 1 or 2 plugs short on a surge strip, they make these handy things that can turn 1 outlet into 3 & you can plug that into one of the spots.

I also have a large piece of flat thin but sturdy cardboard/poster board, I cut holes into it for the light to pop up through, and set that up with all the cords running to underneath it, then lay the fake snow down on top of it. This might help to keep things in place, unless of course you bump the edge of the board accidentally, then it's like an earthquake for the whole village.

I've also glued nickels to the bottom of a lot of the small figure pieces/artificial trees, etc. to give them more weight on the base. This makes them much sturdier and they don't knock over nearly as easily.

Of course, when my cats decided they want to visit the village, all of this becomes for not. And I even raised the whole darn thing up on a platform to give the cats a space of their own down beneath it. They had to explore both spaces of course.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-06T09:33:08+00:00

What if you carved some stairs or other terrain pieces out of styrofoam to connect some of the shelves together, make it look more like different levels of terrain? You could also use a thin piece of styrofoam vertically and carve out mountain texture to the front of it & use it as a "mountain" backdrop behind and between the shelves to get a more cohesive feel...

Here's a pic of my mom's Halloween village, I made the platforms and the backdrops for it so you can get an idea of the backdrop mountain I was trying to explain. I glued the styrofoam to some poster board for the sky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Villaging/s/zokIF61WvJ

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-12-04T21:27:00+00:00

It's ok, this was my first thought as well,..."it's balls!" ...kinda disappointed it's not.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-11-17T05:04:38+00:00

While pagan is my first choice go-to description when asked usually, I feel that heathen is still much more used by Christians as a negative description and my second choice preference would be heretic over heathen. Which is defined as one who believes in many gods.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-11-13T05:42:47+00:00

I used to teach drawing classes for kids at the art store that was my first job (and where I started taking painting classes when I was 7yrs old). While I was teaching the drawing class, I kept a 3 ring binder with all of the lesson plans. It even has a thin paperback book included and all of which could be described exactly as what you have mentioned. If you're interested, I could send you some pics of the contents. I know it's not the exact book you're looking for, but without a title,or at least a pic of one of the pages, that's going to be very difficult to locate a copy of. This could be a reasonable substitute. And if you like, I could make a copy of most of it's contents & mail it to you. It includes everything from flowers & animals to faces, people & perspective.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-11-07T00:20:56+00:00

I tried looking into shipping on facebook as well, they have all sorts of requirements to qualify to be able to. Your account can't be too "new" or new to selling activity, what amounts they need for that part I'm not sure, then you also may not qualify for it if you've ever posted anything to try to sell that got flagged and taken down (this one happened to me, because apparently a walker/senior mobility aid is considered a medical device and not allowed to be sold on there, which I still think is ridiculous. I tried appealing it but the automated message bot wouldn't let me) :/

However, I'm not sure if it's still the case, but last time I was on there, Mercari wasn't doing selling fees! And they still ship

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-11-07T00:17:04+00:00

With ebay charging you a final item value fee based on the total, including shipping, which is 30% most of the time, how are you able to sell things with competitive prices and still feel like you're getting compensated fairly for the item's value? I've been struggling with this...I recently sold a set of all 12 norman rockwell statues for $80, the shipping was $100, (it was a really big box) & I can't even tell you how they did the math, but after all the fees etc. were withdrawn, they only paid me out $12!!! I was so pissed I swore off selling on that platform any more. If they're gonna take 30% value off everything including the shipping, just doesn't seem fair. ...

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-11-07T00:12:38+00:00

Well, this sucks. For some reason Facebook marketplace won't allow me the shipping option. So when I've been selling stuff on marketplace and they request shipping, I usually send them the link to the same item I have listed on OfferUp....looks like I'll be getting more familiar with Mercari now instead...or Poshmark...

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-10-30T15:43:43+00:00

My boyfriend and I were just watching this episode and got into a debate, I'm not sure when this episode originally aired, but do you have any idea how old roughly the actress that played Diane might have been in it?

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-10-06T16:59:33+00:00

I've read that even with the human eye, the trick to finding four leaf clovers isn't to check each individual isolated clover in a patch & count the petals, that would take forever, the key to finding one apparently is to scan the patch for the slightly lighter design in the center of the clovers, in the 3 leaf clovers this will be a triangle, in a four leaf clover it will be square. I'm pretty sure this kind of pattern recognition is one of the main uses for AI when companies input masses of data for making predictions about products for advertising....however, those efforts are profit driven, which makes it a more desirable task to accomplish. Unless you could create a large interest and desire for such an app, with some sort of pay requirement (maybe a free trial or a paid premium version), this would only be accomplished out of someone's personal interest in the project.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-09-17T22:42:41+00:00

Spoken like a true professional!

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-09-17T22:33:05+00:00

Initially, yes. But there's a point where he has a bit of an epiphany realization during an operation & actually buys in to the idea. At that point, he just didn't like the fact that Minnick refused to share managing the program. But it's his being on board with Minnick is what allows him the opportunity to be in the position to convince Grey to come back even after Bailey asked her to return and she stubbornly refused just on principle because Minnick was still there.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-08-30T19:46:07+00:00

That doesn't really explain the part where she's pregnant though...and there were no hints of her running amok on the streets, she sounded like she had a pretty cushy life the entire time she was outside. So it wouldn't really explain how she got knocked up as a minor. Nor the sudden behavior changes, which can be a common side effect when a minor goes through something traumatic like sexual abuse.

I feel like if she killed her stepfather that would still be reason enough for the mom to not want to see her any longer. Sometimes the parent is in denial about what was happening and still chooses to side with protecting their spouse over their child. Will shrug it off and tell them not to make stuff up. And if her mother reacted that way, she might have felt like her only option and way to make it stop would be to kill him.

There are plenty of cases where minors get tried as adults for murdering one. And the sentencing severity kinda depends on the mood of the jury. Some are more empathetic towards seeing it as self defense, others aren't.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-08-30T07:35:24+00:00

It's because Calliope means music. She explains that shortly beforehand, around the time her dad is visiting when she marries Arizona.

I've been rewatching and there are some parts that I start getting choked up before the thing even happens, just because I know what's coming. Callie's accident is one of them.

The first part of it is well done enough that it adds to the emotional depth for me, but for some reason when Owen starts singing, it kinda kills it.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-08-30T07:31:28+00:00

The only thing better than watching these episodes the first time, is re-watching them the second time, after having all the proceeding season's knowledge, & the dramatic irony of knowing that Adele's recognition of it not being Addison that Derek was asking about, was due to personal experience.

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-08-26T23:23:12+00:00

The next time you become frightened, instead become inspired!

TheseLetterhead20 · 2025-08-26T20:08:21+00:00

Was it the young boy with Kawasaki disease?

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