A health insurer being permitted to vertically integrate a pharmacy chain to get around profit margin caps.

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Thank you 🫂.

We were listening to the album Kerplunk today and she was kicking her knees to the beats, it’s definitely my kid 🤣

😂 he’s got a double coat, and his winter coat is coming in

We had to say goodbye to our cat, Maeko, this past Friday. Vet confirmed that her kidney function was dropping, and she had lost over half her body weight in the past two weeks. Meds might have stabilized her but wouldn’t have given her much more than another month, and at reduced quality. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since before Thursday, I keep waking up and reaching for her.

She didn’t require sedation, so we got to say goodbye to the real her and not someone halfway gone. And she got to go in my lap, getting her belly rubbed just the way she liked and purring. But I’m still hurting, even though I’m glad she doesn’t hurt anymore.

Just trying to focus on the positives, like how our eleven week old daughter rolled herself over this evening, has a huge smile for me all the time, and watches my every move when I’m in the room with her no matter what else is happening.

Hi! I’m brushing a grocery bag’s worth of fur from our dog, it’s an every few days kind of task

People who don’t admit it are a bunch of Pansies

It’s my wife’s first full day back at work after maternity leave - we had planned for her to WFH until Thursday but our backup battery installation for our solar array got moved up to today. They have to periodically cut our electricity to get everything wired up, so no WFH until they’re done tomorrow or Wednesday. So today is also my first full day as the stay-at-home dad, which has been pretty good. Lots of picture taking to share so she doesn’t feel like she’s missing too much being at work.

We took a trip over to our local library this morning and signed up for the “1000 books before kindergarten” challenge and showed off our outfit for dinovember to the librarians (pictured below). I was at the library board meeting last week to weigh in on who should be our new permanent library director, and there were a bunch of us there to support the acting director’s bid. There might be a board position opening up in the near future and I’ve been encouraged by some folks to apply/run for the position.

We also finally found a food our old cat is willing and able to eat reliably, after much trial and error, which has taken a weight off our hearts.

I truly apologize for not reading your username correctly before making a snarky comment, and deeply regret and am sorry for any negative feelings I may have caused.

It is my hope beyond hope that you are able to have your body match who you are inside, you beautiful beautiful wonderful person, you.

I’ve heard it’s not the size of the pickle but how flavorful the brine is.

Or something, I’m not crazy about pickles or cucumbers

Tbf, drain cleaning Australia’s synth wave music is pretty rockin but yeah the rest sucks

I was about to feel attacked but then I remembered i collected seeds from “probably asters” yesterday

💯

Remember to move hornworms to your non-production/trap tomatoes to see more of them!

An acquaintance of mine by the name of Mark Follansbee runs “Wormainea” and teaches folks to do worm bins (vermiculture) in the southern parts of Maine. He’s got a few different guides, whether you prefer videos or written instructions, but I’ve gotten to dig into his setups and they’re pretty easy to set up and keep going - and there’s practically no smell (done right). You’ll have to find something to do with the castings and the worms once the population hits a point.

Aukward

That’s what I’ve used them for as well =D

Happy planning / planting!

You can check out the toolkit over at Permapeople.org, though I’m unsure exactly how open the codebase is. I do know they’re hoping to make it community run in the future, and that the devs share pretty much whatever is asked of them.

Less in the spirit of your question, but something I’ve used relatively extensively is the mymaps.google tool. Here’s hoping someone with some better answers than me comes along (and I remember to check back) to give additional alternatives