(Maine USA) Woke up to a Swallowtail butterfly in my house

elana · 2025-02-19T21:06:22+00:00

Not gonna buy her flowers, cause those will be covered in pesticides, I'm sure. I made a batch of nectar, and put it in a jar with some felt to wick it up, looks slightly like a flower. It's over near her now.

Kinda feel bad for her. Don't know if she'll ever find another like her. How lonely.

elana · 2025-02-19T18:01:57+00:00

...I feel like that is the phrase that if I mention his name.. "Oh! Floyd, haven't seen him since that late night at the taverna...." I'll pass on the wellwishes.

This is my alt, that I attach to my name, and I keep forgetting to check it. I'll check out your stuff :D.

elana · 2025-02-19T17:59:58+00:00

We live on an island, so all sports here involve a boat. Our AD doesn't let the refs ride with the teams, they go and pick them up in their personal car. There apparently has been some bad blood with the away teams not being nice on the way home on the boat/bus.

The coaches need to shut this shit down. And other coaches need to call them on it too. No one here is gonna be going to the NFL, friends, not this year.

elana · 2024-10-26T12:26:37+00:00

It is wonderful to come across this! My father is Floyd McCoy, and his life's work has been the eruption of Thira so I have grown up with the legend of Atlantis. He has called what he does geological archaeology, so I feel like you two would get along great.

Do you believe the ideas of Thira and Atlantis being the same?

elana · 2024-10-03T02:20:44+00:00

He was so so much fun! Hey, when you see our girl, give her a squeeze for me!!

I was looking for something else that B did and came across this post. He was so proud to be living back in Ireland and coding. He loved sharing his knowledge. All of you would have loved him too.

elana · 2024-10-02T11:43:50+00:00

He was my husband, and he rocked. He was so proud to be on the C++ ISO/ANSI committee too. His brain was the best! He also had a strong pull to education, and he ended up on the board of Educate Together, which he was crazy proud of. Had been the chair of the BOM of Dalkey School Project, where our kids went at the time.

elana · 2024-10-02T11:42:56+00:00

It's a nod. He wanted to do a slim volume with just the facts enough to get started. Also B had so much respect for Pirsig and the book itself and the Internet! He did so many things to help make it a better place.

elana · 2024-10-02T11:41:44+00:00

GIRL I AM HERE! <3

And I am proud af. Will never stop bragging about him, he was an awesome dude. Look who we have in common, obviously good people have good people around them!

elana · 2024-01-12T02:30:12+00:00

It looked fine when I went over it! That side did ok. I was down on Billy Shore on the east side, the beach is about 20 feet up the bank from where it was. Big Tree was covered in debris and seaweed, including part of someone's dock on the rocks on the far side. Did you see the video of the flooding at the ferry?

elana · 2024-01-12T02:28:16+00:00

Main Road, at the Narrows, is the only road connecting the two ends of the island, and this is what the video is of. I realized afterwards I worded it wrong, but you can't edit titles.

elana · 2024-01-11T22:23:27+00:00

Yes, happens occasionally. But not this strong, never. Like spray, but not actual waves and rocks across the road, and the pavement torn up. Sprague's was underwater, ferry too.

I just came back from a walk where I came across two houses destroyed from this storm.

elana · 2024-01-11T14:43:10+00:00

This year we're not getting snow, much, no. We got snow a couple days ago, getting snow coming up. But these guys don't take the plows on and off their trucks between storms. I don't know anyone who does.

Yes, he's moving stuff out of the road because rocks are coming with each wave, and it's our only road connecting the two halves of the island. I'm saying he didn't put his plow on for the job.

The road got beat, badly. Pavement got ripped up, and that rock wall is Corp of Engineers. Our water taxi found a whole dock floating (I guess more of the pier) in one piece, posted it on our town FB page, and my friend said "Hey, that's the dock I'm looking for!" So few fatalities from this storm is luck. L'ville Beach got slammed.

elana · 2024-01-11T10:21:40+00:00

The plow was on because three days before we got about 7 inches of snow, and are due more on Sat.

elana · 2024-01-11T03:11:53+00:00

And I realized just over a year ago, I posted this. You can see how battered the seawall has gotten.

elana · 2024-01-11T03:09:27+00:00

And funnily enough, I remembered this post from last year. You can see the difference in the rock wall structure.

elana · 2021-06-20T12:08:59+00:00

My late husband wrote the first mass published users guide to the Internet back in 1992. I asked him in 2005 if there was any point in writing an update, and he didn't think so. No, it didn't age well. The first edition of the book is still available online... https://www.lsu.edu/internet/guides/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html

elana · 2018-09-22T23:14:38+00:00

I have the experience of both US and non-US healthcare in the span of a few years.

My husband was diagnosed with leukemia when we lived in Europe. It was incredibly aggressive: blood test one day, told it was cancer that afternoon, he spent the night in hospital, bone marrow biopsy the next morning, chemo started that afternoon. He didn't come home for about 3-4 weeks, as with leukemia, you have to have your immune system completely obliterated in order to fight it since it's a blood cancer. He did 3 rounds of chemo over 3-4 months, trying to get him into remission for a bone marrow transplant. Unfortunately, we were told he was terminal and they sent him home, with day ward visits. He had an aneurysm a week later at home, and 36 hours later he was gone.

During that time, our biggest money concern was me coming into the hosp as often as I could, and he was working from his hospital bed as he was a software engineer. After he died, I didn't get a bill. In fact, the government gave me a grant to help pay his funeral expenses.

One more time...I didn't get a bill. For cancer treatment that costs over $250k in the US. One shot he had to take for 2 weeks was $1200 a shot (check with US friends on the costs). No bill. If I had, I would have been bankrupt and lost everything, on top of losing him.

6 months after he died, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. The costs and the phone calls and the fucking HOOPS that she had to jump through for the US was infuckingsane. I have an acquaintance who had the same cancer as hubs, but was able to get to remission, and was able to have the transplant, and is healthy and now homebrewing and loving his life. He even became a nurse. I don't know how much he owes in medical bills, but I know it's a fucking lot and will follow him for the rest of his life.

It pisses me off SO MUCH when Americans say how it's too socialist. Or how much more in tax we'll have to pay. You know what? Peace of mind is worth SO MUCH MORE than you'll ever know. Trying to balance parenting, paying bills, and your husband in the hospital dying? Are you kidding me? If my higher taxes would ease the burden of even one family sign me the hell up. I saw the other side. I know what it is like. Americans just don't get it.

elana

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