Excellent article. "A 2023 paper found nearly 80% of all structure loss in the West over the 3 most recent decades occurred in grass or brush fires." But we keep getting rid of green farmland & building out into highly flammable cheat grass. Even city folks face premium increases as risk increases.

Nothing Is Ours Anymore: Is the "Rental Economy" the Most Destructive Scam in Modern American Capitalism? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Take it IN to the post office if it's important - they will postmark it if you ask!

Report: Average American’s Retirement Plan Involves Richard Gere Falling For Them After Paying For Sex https://theonion.com/report-average-americans-retirement-plan-involves-richard-gere-falling-for-them-after-paying-for-sex/

Let's end this kidney stone of a year by posting one of your favorite photos from 2025. I'll start. This is my rescue dog, Tali, watching a sunrise at Payette Lake in Idaho. #IdahoEscape

This Person of the Year choice has shaken me. wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/2...

It’s a good morning for ice cream

Where are your 40 Below Club photos, my frozen Fairbanks friends? #Alaska

Ready for dinner and some Blues Addicts. An annual, year-end tradition. @petep44.bsky.social, WC and I are sad you aren’t here.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is how Tali celebrates Boxing Day.

The pain of being a bird nerd. I just watched “Hamnet” and right off the bat they featured a Harris’s Hawk in the wrong hemisphere. Argh! But I was able to move on and be moved by this powerful movie.

Crazy to have my outdoor window box looking like this at the end of December.

Today I learned that my husband is also my 15th cousin thrice removed. How is your day going? This is much less exciting than learning about my blood relationship to several kings, queens, and Kevin Bacon. Anyway, Merry Christmas Eve!

It's almost time. ⏰️🎅

Fortunately, my parents were not smokers. But I still remember making ashtrays in class.

I swear I developed helicopter PTSD from all the medical flights going over our house during the pandemic. Suffice to say I don’t love all the Christmas light-seeing flights passing over this time of year.

Speed limits in Boise‘s North End have been lowered to 20 mph. But if there’s no enforcement, I may have to resort to this. In fact, I should have started doing this years ago.

I think Tramp, his cabinet, and envoy should be dropped onto a glacier in Greenland (although it really is too beautiful for that stank). See if they still want to buy it after finding their way back to civilization.

Does anyone in Boise know what happened to the PraYnksters group? This showed up in my memories and all I can think about is how today the "prank" would be to deport this hard-working man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qch1...

Happy #Solstice to my Alaska friends. Please stay warm, and remember, Fairbanks will gain 16 seconds of sunlight tomorrow! 1/2

I’m thrashed. Good night.

Boise Christmas Bird Count tally for me so far: 1 Western Screech-Owl. #CBC

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Check out the VIP in a box for the Postmodern Jukebox show in Boise.

Hold that plane! Alaska Airlines is starting direct flights between Boise and Anchorage next June. Sadly, only in summer.

Found another Dr. Who inspired Little Free Library a few days ago. The same home also has a dog toy library.

I woke up early to hear Tramp's voice on the radio (turned that off immediately) and a scam attempt from someone spoofing a friend's email account. Do not EVER buy an Amazon gift card that a "friend" wants sent to their niece or whatever because they are having trouble with their credit card. 1/2

This was my first aurora capture of 2025, early morning on Jan 1. I'm wondering how many auroras I have left this year. Tonight's a possibility to add another.

The wind is really giving it to the Pink Tree here in #Boise today. #IdahoEscape

Check out this sweet offer for a free Christmas tree from FarWest Garden Center in #Boise.

Here's a list of U.S. cities where gas is $1.98 per gallon: Delusion Springs, TX Gaslight Grove, FL Spinville, OK Truthbend, KS Hoax Harbor, MA Falsehood Falls, NC Pander Plains, SD Gullible Gulch, GA Pumpdream, NE Fibsburg, PA

here's an economic indicator: My UPS guy has been driving for 16 years. He just told me they are at an all time record low for deliveries, with a week to go to xmas.

I always think of Alaska as winter Solstice approaches, which is a big reason to celebrate up there. This is a photo from Fairbanks. Right now the sun rises in the south (not much higher than this) and sets in the south, with an exceptionally long sunrise and sunset on each end. It can be beautiful.

It's always a rollicking good time at the Xtreme Holiday Xtravaganza for Boise's homeless shelter, Interfaith Sanctuary. Everything from Boise kids Curtis Stigers and Bill Coffey rocking out, bluegrass, Oinkari Basque dancers, punk rockers, Eilen Jewell, a high school choir, and other local talent.

Climate change is already destabilizing Alaska’s Arctic. A proposed 211-mile mining road could push fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous livelihoods, past the brink. tinyurl.com/y9kcvcfn #ClimateChange #Arctic #IndigenousRights #Sustainability #ClimateJustice

I somehow just thought of this absolute legend:

F**king insomnia. I’ve slept a total of 6 hours the past three nights.

I have never wanted an ugly Christmas sweater--until I saw this masterpiece today. Thankfully they didn't have it in my size.

I feel like I should treat these anti-ICE stickers like an Easter egg hunt and see how many I can find in my neighborhood. This makes three so far.

It's good to see that the City of Anchorage and a church there are supporting tiny homes for unhoused people. I hope they are a resounding success.

My view is partly blocked by trees and houses down here on the flats, but my friend on the hill snapped this photo of Boise's sunset tonight. It was lovely. Credit to Kitty Barber.

A crazy story where everyone is suing each other. Even the Old State Saloon Nazi makes an appearance. boisedev.com/news/2025/11...

Get yer free Idaho wife, complete with no OB-GYN care available!

Hey #Boise folks, if you love old homes and are nosy like me, check out the North End's Holiday Home Tour happening this Saturday. It's fun to see inside other peoples' homes, even if it makes your own interior decorating efforts feel underwhelming. www.northendboise.org/event-detail...

By far my favorite holiday decor in the neighborhood every year. I think I'm going to need a bigger piece of paper, though. #Festivus

Happy Gotcha Day to our sweet pound puppy that makes us smile, laugh, stay in shape, and wake up to cuddles and joyful tail wagging every day. Hard to believe it’s been eight years since Miss Talulah Blue found her way into our home and hearts. I couldn't pick her up for this year's photo. ☹️ #dogs