sparkycat99 t1_j8ra8po wrote on February 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM

Reply to MPD Officer often fed information to Proud Boys leader by oxidadapanda

It finally comes out

sparkycat99 t1_j6fba2q wrote on January 29, 2023 at 10:56 PM

Reply to How does DC handle snow? by thereadingbri

Lots of road salt, few municipal snowplows so no snow removal. It hasn’t accumulated and been a bother now for a few years. If we do get snow it’s wet, watch OPM for work at home/school’s out, mostly melts in a day. No one shovels. If it freezes, it can get messy.

I miss the snowapocalypse fun.

I don’t think NYC has gotten any yet this year.

sparkycat99 t1_j5rl6e8 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:47 AM

Reply to Recommendations for animal hospitals in the district having experience with handling feline diabetes? by BeerBoozeBiscuits

Atlas for really good general care, but when my cat needed an oncologist and an internist we went to Dog and Cat emergency and speciality in Bowie.

Yes it’s a ways out of DC but I’ve had better experiences with Dog and Cat than Friendship

sparkycat99 t1_ix7ukwg wrote on November 21, 2022 at 12:35 PM

Reply to Earlier this year a cyclist killed at this intersection by a speeding truck (a pedestrian killed too). Now their ghost bike has also been hit. by dhasselhof

The positioning of the “Fred Hill” campaign poster is sadly ironic.

I was walking with a non cyclist out of town friend and we passed a ghost bike. I stopped for a minute.

He waited patiently - when we started walking again - he asked “what was that?” I explained. He said “I’ve never seen one of those before.”

Later it occured to me that 1) most non cyclists don’t know what a ghost bike is 2) people in cars probably notice moving bikes as much as they do ghost bikes

sparkycat99 t1_ivt3m2b wrote on November 10, 2022 at 12:27 PM

Reply to comment by here4myplants in Missed leaf collection. What to do? by here4myplants

Go to the hardware store and get some big bags. Your Whole Foods bags are pretty small.

I’m not sure how many trees you have - or if thats just what ends up in your yard from other people’s trees, but when I had a rental house in DC we had A LOT of leaves.

The single big ol’ tree in our backyard was at least 20 of those big hardware store paper bags before it was bare. I used a rake and a snow shovel to get them corralled and in the bags.