That one up on the right looks really proud, like a kid showing you something they made

Backguette?

Younger kids:

• Madagascar
• The Shrek movies
• The Despicable Me movies
• Any Muppet movie

Older kids:

• Honey I Shrunk the Kids
• The Karate Kid
• ET
• The Goonies
• Kindergarten Cop
• Matilda
• Jumanji
• Cool Runnings
• The Mighty Ducks

Thanks, I’ll look for it

My spouse and I started Terraria on a whim. After going in blind and thoroughly getting out butts kicked the first night, we found the wiki, started a new game, and have survived a few nights now.

We’re trying to avoid spoilers, so only read the tutorial and getting started pages of the wiki. The mechanics on xbox aren’t always intuitive, and building is especially painful so far.

Several years ago we lost power for 4 days after an especially bad storm. We don’t have good enough cell service at our house to usually use data or run a hotspot. Mostly it’s like camping except we get to sleep in our beds.

Prepare: We keep filled water jugs for both drinking and flushing the toilets.

We have a small generator to run our fridge, so once a month we run it for about 10 minutes. We keep gas and spark plugs for it handy.

We have a weather radio that’s solar powered with battery back-up.

We have a solar-charging battery bank (to charge our phones) as well as lanterns and flashlights that use AA batteries and a stash of extra AA batteries. Winter here can be quite cloudy, making solar lights harder to use sometimes.

We have a camping stove and extra fuel, as well as some easy to prepare foods. We use the food when we go camping and get new ones to store for emergencies, making sure the food doesn’t expire. We cooked outside (it was summer but even in winter I would do the cooking outside).

For winter we have a kerosene heater and extra fuel and wicks.

Entertainment: I would guess you’re especially asking about evenings, as during the day when our power was out we’d go outside if the weather was nice. In the evenings we played board games and card games, did puzzles and crosswords, did art (drawing, coloring, and painting), did crafts, and read.

If we know ahead of time bad weather’s coming, I’ll download some shows and movies to my tablet. We also have a DVD player to connect to my laptop while the battery lasts.

Because now Mariah Carey won’t leave him alone

I have friends who published before being married, so now professionally still use their own last name (for continuity) but socially will go by their husband’s last name.

You may know this already, but if it comes back you can take your feeders down for a few days to a week until the hawk decides to move on

No because the feet are typically also part of the wing and have a flap of skin in between them too, and in many species the toes are pretty much the only part that sticks out from the wing skin

At-home laser tag game? When we were kids my brother had one - 2 battery powered chest plates you wore and 2 guns. We’d turn the lights off in the basement and play.

I love Bird and Moon

Owls can control their pupils independently. They have such neat adaptations to make them such effective hunters. Amazing you noticed that detail - are you sure you’re not an owl?

Reminds me of Eddie Izzard’s stand-up bit about grans

For kitchen stuff - If it’s not dishwasher safe I don’t get it or don’t keep it (if it was given to me).

We have a robot vacuum and litter box. I am grateful for them every day.

Getting myself and my kid out the door in the morning feels like climbing Everest every day. One thing she almost always forgot was to put socks on when she got dressed, so she’d have to go back upstairs. Since she’s also neurodivergent there was a good chance she’d get distracted upstairs and 1. forget to get her socks, 2. lose track of time or 3. both. I put a bin by our shoes and now her clean socks go in there.

It’s most likely a boomer ball

Congrats! That’s not something to be embarrassed about, thanks for sharing it with us

Why do I feel like they complained when people didn’t “speak American” in the States

Our rabbit’s “sitting in a field of french fries” would be the cat’s food. If she can figure out a way to reach it she’ll eat the whole bowl.

“Can you make it drip a little faster? They keep turning the water off when I want a drink”