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Wish I was over there and close to the trade fair!

I have tried Alpaca and Cashmere socks and similar accessories off and on through the years with mixed results. Generally, I ended up settling on good quality "no itch" sheep wool with Icebreaker being a favorite brand for things like longjohns and vests. I am interested in Yak wool/"down"...

:) Here, it is a normal size.

Got back on. Not sure what the glitch was. Must have been a Javascript error or something since I cleared things and retyped it and it posted. I tried adding a Smiley and it was enormous as well, like several hundred times the size of the text!

DCA, Drone Congregation Areas, are usually up high in the air where I live. Surprised they are on the eaves of a house in the UK.

Where have our butterflies gone? Not a good sign for our gardens with no butterflies or bees.

I'm not running VPN at the moment on this computer. I can post here but, not in the Butterfly thread over there for some reason so, I'm assuming it isn't a cookie or basic connection issue.

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Trying to post in the "Flora and Fauna" forum but, all I get are "server errors". Is this an account privilege thing I overlooked? Tried using both Chrome and Firefox and I'm on a Windows machine. If I missed a forum problem area, please let me know! TIA, Sid

In Texas (USA) here and the "bee colony collapse disorder" is significant. Monarch Butterflies normally come up out of Mexico and fly North toward Canada but, I have seen NONE this year! I suspect the drug cartels and human trafficking killed off the Monarch's as they over-wintered in Mexico...

Yep, been here ~10 years and only had power out for a few hours, mainly during Winter when a frozen limb or tree took out a single line. Guess I got a little too complacent and let it bite me harder than it should have but, all in all, I came through in good shape with only some minor problems...

I live in rural East Texas and the high winds recently took down a huge number of trees and with it electricity. The town closest to me still doesn't have power a week later for all of its ~2K residents and the larger city I went to yesterday with ~82K residents is only partially powered...

First, for McAfee, don't use a live credit card. Get a virtual card when you sign-up and turn it off afterward. For VPN, NordVPN is a solid choice. Be careful with cheaper alternatives to make sure they aren't a front for government agencies or criminal networks. Proton is one I would look...

This was long ago in the past when our ancestors were hunter-gathers living in small communities without frequent contact with others. Small gene pools have allowed genetic markers and in some cases, genetic defects, to be passed on to large population groups. This isn't the dark ages where we...

I live in Texas close enough to the Border crisis to see some of this not as a fantasy but, as a reality. It is easy for people in positions of power to put forth a message about everything being blown out of perspective and being an agenda from uncaring mentally disturbed people on the far...

Great points about diversity and things left out of the history books. However, in "troubled times", migration is what we see in significant numbers today. Yes, there are many economic refugees but, there are also many fleeing for their lives either due to famine or oppressive governments...

In terms of "preparing for troubled times ahead", being able to keep your own stores is part of that so, I think that is where the talk about conflict and crimes comes into play. On the other hand, you need something worth protecting from theft too! For me, this means things like growing my...

:thumbsup: More equal UNIVERSAL access to effective education, trade schools, and medical care would be appreciated by many in the USA. The UK has a strong agriculture sector. If there weren't so many exports, I think the UK could be largely self-sustaining. My understanding is that the...

I had a personal case study in rural Alabama where I lived at the time. Tornadoes came through and wiped out everything for ~100-mile radius. With no electricity, the nuclear plant shut down and the lines were down, the water stopped flowing out of the taps or wells, gasoline ran out for home...

I would be happy if it was just a Hollywood thing. Unfortunately, it is much more than that. If you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore what is going on, I wish you all the best. In the USA, we have had large areas in major cities burned to the ground by BLM rioters in the past...