8 years ago the spring weather was different. It drizzled almost every day. It was cloudy. Now we have these clear sunny days, big winds and scant rain.

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    12 days ago

    We have blossoms. They’re 3 weeks too early. Even during a “hot” year the high season for blossoms was around 7 April. We will probably have a frost in April that will kill off the fruit.

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      12 days ago

      We get that here too. Damn flipflopping temperature. Warm weather tricks everything into blooming then frost kills it .

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    I was blown away when my die-hard Republican boomer dad said he thinks climate change is real. There’s a pond behind our house, and he can remember how big it used to get in the rainy season and how small it used to get in the dry season. Now, during the rainy season it comes up to the backdoor, and during the dry season it’s not there at all. If he can still trust his own eyes over what the TV tells him to think, maybe there’s still some hope for the world.

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      12 days ago

      I’m with your dad on this. There’s just too much profit in lying. And people are too willing to swallow whatever is waved in their face and repeat it as gospel.

      These days, you can only trust your own eyes. That’s science.

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      13 days ago

      No you don’t. I have one shower in my house with a window in it, and it’s an extra special pain in the ass. Window frames and windowsills are full of nooks and crannies and accumulate mildew like you wouldn’t believe, and require 600% more cleaning effort than is appropriate to prevent them from doing so.

      That, and good luck finding any window treatments that are suitable for use while being constantly soaked. I resorted to making a “curtain” out of a modified shower curtain.

      This is what I get for my house being a 1920’s redneck abomination where everything is an addition, and what is now the ground floor bathroom is in the spot where the original kitchen was in the 1930’s, with the window that used to be over the kitchen sink now directly in the center of the bathtub.

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        13 days ago

        Ok, yes. If you do a window that’s gonna get sprayed then it’s gotta be aluminum and plastic or whatever. That’s a fact. And uv resistant too of course. And that’s pretty common in the world of specify your dims and order a nice window.

        And there are options for how it opens too. It doesn’t have to slide.

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      13 days ago

      A shower needs a window. A bathroom needs a window. It’s proper, natural and practical. A window provides necessary ventilation and cleansing light (uv). A bathroom without a window is a broken bathroom.

      That said, bathrooms without windows are pathologically common.

      I feel strongly about this.

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        13 days ago

        I take it your bathroom window isn’t facing a public road?

        I feel strongly about not having to lock eyes with the kids going to school, or anyone for that matter, when I’m in the nip.

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          13 days ago

          Get a $5 sheet of diffusor panel sticker. All the light with none of the image. Ez to apply.

          And then crack the window 2" for air

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    13 days ago

    Yeah it’s called climate change and we’ve known about it for decades but the internet ruined things.