In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:haha! You know, too!
SIGNYM:
Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.
SIX: Well... it actually is quite easy to do with the right tool.
When Covid lockdowns and rules came to our town my choice was to either start shaving my head again or growing it out. Now it's just been over 2 years without a haircut for me.
I went about 2 years without a haircut back during the drinking days by shaving my own head. That was a bit tricky to do at first because I only have a single pane medicine cabinet mirror and the previous time I did it there were 3 panes, but I was able to manage with a 2nd mirror I could hold in one hand while I shaved over the sink with the other.
The biggest problem of doing it on my own was that there was no way I could properly trim and blend the "fuzzy" hair down by my neck on my own since everything gets reversed and weird in mirrors, so I had to shave the whole head EXTREMELY short in order to get them. So short that I didn't want to even go out of the house for a few days because besides the fact I have no tattoos, I looked like a neo-nazi, so I'd always plan to do it when nothing was pending and I'd stocked up on stuff. (This was like scratchy short, not the cool plush toy short you're talking about.
I wear slouchy beanies and watchcaps when I go out so I don't scare the neighbors, and indoors and at night, too, if the weather is cool.
That's the one downside to real short hair: a cold head. Honestly, I don't know how guys stand it.
Yeah... Although I'd have to imagine that as a woman you'd be more self conscious about it.
I told my buddy who never had shaved it that you get a lot of hard looks from people as a white dude with a shaved head and it wasn't until we were out somewhere doing something one day that he said, "wow, you're right". Even short, I'm a fairly imposing figure, and although I don't have tats all over the place there's something about putting a shaved head up top that (I assume) puts up red flags for other males in the vicinity that I'm a possible threat. Not just black dudes. White dudes too.
I don't think I'll ever be shaving my head again just because I don't feel like being on high alert myself because I'm drawing such attention to myself. IMO, me going out with a shaved head is even worse than going out with a political T-shirt in our current environment.
But since you're wearing beanies in 100 degrees sunlight, you probably come off as the cool Grandma that listens to alternative music.
Quote:Oh, yeah, ow! is right. I had a pair of scissors like that.
And yes, I love that feeling, not just on the fingers but how it feels on the head too. When I wrestled back in high school the girl I was dating loved playing with it when the whole team shaved their heads and I could just let her rub it all day long).
If I could manage to shave my own, I'm sure it would be quick and easy if somebody were doing it for you. You'd just have to make sure they took care to properly trim and blend any neck hair fuzzies if you've got them so you can get a longer shave than I was able to do for myself.
I'd recommend a good pair of hair clippers like they have at the salon. I had a very old one of my mom's, probably from like the 70's or something. It had seen better days and would sometimes PULL instead of cut. Ow.
Yeah. The yankers aren't fun. It wasn't too much of a problem if I didn't let the hair grow too much before shavings, but since I was shaving it so short I didn't want to shave it too often either.
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Got some rain this morning. Now the decision to take my umbrella with me or not.
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Hispanics with shaved heads get the same hard looks. Now that I think about it, so do blacks and Asians. Even cops. It seems to be a universal red flag that says "I'm a gangbanger (of some type)". Unless you're wearing fatigues which is an automatic excuse for a shaved head. I assume bc people unconsciously seem to understand that no hair = no handhold in street fighting. Like clipping the ears of fighting dogs.
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Missed the rain coming home but couldn't avoid the hail that came around 11am. Got so much of it that it blocked the windows in the mall roof. There was so much it looked like snow.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hispanics with shaved heads get the same hard looks. Now that I think about it, so do blacks and Asians. Even cops. It seems to be a universal red flag that says "I'm a gangbanger (of some type)". Unless you're wearing fatigues which is an automatic excuse for a shaved head. I assume bc people unconsciously seem to understand that no hair = no handhold in street fighting. Like clipping the ears of fighting dogs.
Yeah. I feel for bald people who don't have a choice. My buddy lost his thick head of black Irish hair by the time he was 25 and has been shaving it ever since. He weighs about 120 soaking wet though, and he's always got a smile on his face so I don't think he gets the same hard looks.
I wasn't blessed with his razor sharp quick wit though, so I had to hit the gym and bulk up.
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9 hours, 12 feet off the ground scraping, wire brushing and cleaning out some really old school steel gutters today for my buddy's dad. I don't think I've ever been on a ladder that long in one day. It's a full body workout.
He owes me big for that one.
I'm toast. Going to bed early tonight, and that dinner is going to taste great.
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Quote:Now THAT'S intense weather!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Missed the rain coming home but couldn't avoid the hail that came around 11am. Got so much of it that it blocked the windows in the mall roof. There was so much it looked like snow.
Do you get tornadoes so close to the ocean? Bc that sounded like tornado weather to me!
Here in the flatlands of LA, it was 70ish, sunny, clear, and very VERY breezy with gusts up to 30 mph. Quite nice, actually, but I decided that any sweeping/raking/watering/ digging would just be blown around, so I did indoor stuff instead. Mostly dishes and tidying up and paperwork, but with dear daughter's estimable help we managed to get a bunch of seeds potted: three kinds of tomatoes, three kinds of peppers (two hot and one sweet), muskmelon, and okra. All heat and disease resistant. A little late, but better late than never. Got them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I'll get beets and zucchini from the nursery.
Tomorrow yardwork I guess, assuming the wind has died down. (It usually does, we have few windy days in the flatlands.) There's so much to do I'm not sure where to start. Raking up the fallen avocado leaves and pine needles, I guess.
Or maybe digging some weeds out of the lawn and weed- whacking in prep for mowing?
Raking, I think. Won't finish but I can make a good start
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Quote:That's a metric fuck-ton of work, SIX. You're right: he owes you, big time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
9 hours, 12 feet off the ground scraping, wire brushing and cleaning out some really old school steel gutters today for my buddy's dad. I don't think I've ever been on a ladder that long in one day. It's a full body workout.
He owes me big for that one.
I'm toast. Going to bed early tonight, and that dinner is going to taste great.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Now THAT'S intense weather!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Missed the rain coming home but couldn't avoid the hail that came around 11am. Got so much of it that it blocked the windows in the mall roof. There was so much it looked like snow.
Do you get tornadoes so close to the ocean? Bc that sounded like tornado weather to me!
Here in the flatlands of LA, it was 70ish, sunny, clear, and very VERY breezy with gusts up to 30 mph. Quite nice, actually, but I decided that any sweeping/raking/watering/ digging would just be blown around, so I did indoor stuff instead. Mostly dishes and tidying up and paperwork, but with dear daughter's estimable help we managed to get a bunch of seeds potted: three kinds of tomatoes, three kinds of peppers (two hot and one sweet), muskmelon, and okra. All heat and disease resistant. A little late, but better late than never. Got them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I'll get beets and zucchini from the nursery.
Tomorrow yardwork I guess, assuming the wind has died down. (It usually does, we have few windy days in the flatlands.) There's so much to do I'm not sure where to start. Raking up the fallen avocado leaves and pine needles, I guess.
Or maybe digging some weeds out of the lawn and weed- whacking in prep for mowing?
Raking, I think. Won't finish but I can make a good start
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
No, what we get around Vancouver are water funnels or water spouts as the weather people call them. They can come on land and drop rain then disappear.
You want tornadoes in BC, you have to go up into the Interior of the province where it is flatter ground. They don't happen off but every so often.
Cool on the seed planting. Yeah, raking not so good in windy weather.
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