I build quinzhees, a snow shelter that can be built at any temperature below freezing. Once the temperature gets below minus 5, snow no longer packs. Quinzhees can be built at any temperature.

Hey, cool. I gota cousin there. Plan to visit sometime. Any recommendations? You’re too big to see it all.

So, all of the English speaking world spelled one way. You changed some spellings and now you want the rest of the English speaking world to change to your way?

Can Americans just switch their spelling back to standard English, please? Why do we have to have two systems of spelling just because the U.S. wanted to be different?

I’d stay in Canada as long as I could travel someplace warm for a couple of months in the winter.

It’s about 20 cm at the longest point. It goes together fairly easily, the biggest first and moving to the smallest. Much of it was friction fit but my dad’s really precise so it went well.

The magazine was Scrollsaw Woodworking and Crafts, issue 97.

He got them out a scroll saw magazine. Photocopies the design and pasted the copies on the wood. I’ll ask him which magazine.

Thanks. One of the best trips of my life.

Yes

Whoops. Forgot the link.

I see your point, however, China is consistent, and it is not nearly so imperialistic as the United States. I’m not sure which one I trust less.

Seems like a no-brainer. Canada doesn’t have an EV production to speak of. I believe it was originally done to support the U.S. EV industry, but do we really need to be doing that?

But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.

Yup. Geographically not north, but we get labelled north anyway.

Yes, but when the gender is unknown, cat is masculine.

How did cats ever get designated masculine?

I very much appreciate you designating yourself as a US American as there are 35 countries in the continent of America (Yes, I know that the US teaches there are two continents withing America) and the rest of us often feel miffed that we get flack when we claim we are Americans also.

Politeness. It changes the atmosphere of a conversation/community/country when people are polite.