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I like getting out of South Dakota but I don't think I could live in a suburb of big city Texas. Traffic is crazy here and it doesn't cool off at night.
Spokane in the aughts was a perfect place to live - cheap rent, tall trees, great parks, a fun downtown, public transportation, populated but not crowded to the point of being crazy.
I've come to realize that the lifestyle I lead in South Dakota is extraordinarily unhealthy, and my unhealthy, unbalaced lifestyle has become encoded in my behaviors and social interactions. I should treat escaping SD as the matter of life or death that it is.
I just had a granola bar from HEB that was the best granola bar of my entire life. How is it that the food is always twice as good and half the price whenever I visit Texas?
I smell smoke. Is this the first forest fire of what will probably be a very active season? The American West is going to burn unless we get some real precipitation.
Unfortunately, Megan the beautiful barrel racer isn't here to be captivated by my photos of a forest fire ominously moving closer and filling the neighborhood with smoke.
Does anyone remember #MegantheBeautifulBarrelRacer?
People like her didn't follow us to the Fediverse. We have lots of photos of moss, though.