I can’t really tell you about your situation, but my wife and I did the math for our ROI on a set of roof mounted panels by assuming that the power company would continue raising rates. We averaged the delivery increases and generation cost increases over the number of years we had been in our home, then ran that annual increase over the lifespan of the panels. Rather than being a twelve year break even point it worked out to about seven. In our case, Maine has okay laws about net metering so check what your state and municipality’s regulations about it are. Look at your overall financial picture. If you can’t do it without a loan, shop for your own loan rather than just taking the installer’s.

To answer your question anecdotally, this past summer we were very happy to only pay our grid connection fee of $18 monthly while our neighbors complained about $300 (or higher) each month. You might not hit your full generation needs, but you might make enough of a dent to make it worth your investment

All is well, far less free time now than this time last year when she was sleeping for eighteen hours.

I’m glad it was better! Fwiw my wife and I did a bunch of eye rolling during the snack breaks and on the ride home from several of the classes.

Our kiddo is doing really well, we hit 1y4m last week - she has all teeth except her 2 year molars (tons of fun), is transitioning from two to one nap a day (tons of fun), and is doing her darndest to use words for things, which is actually fun.

That’s awful. We were lucky enough to take a course from a doula who worked out of the hospital system we did our birth care through. I still have all of our materials plus an unused code for an informational app, and would be more than happy to send you a little care package if that would help in any way

Changed up my whole approach to a writing project - I’m finally making progress again and being a little less down on myself as a result.

Planting perennials & daydreaming about next year’s veggie layout and rotation. Hearing “aren’t your feet cold?” because I wear sandals until there’s snow on the ground

Almost any time we’re mentioned as a state

I’m unable to view it using Sync, so it might not be the app.

Someone on the town crew was out with the boom flail mower, mowing on the sides of the road. Ostensibly, it’s to keep the drainage channels clear and to reduce plants from reaching out into the road. Guy mowed my entire front row of ferns, skipped some lilies, then mowed down my flowering and decorative grasses. At one point, he must have lifted the boom to avoid an Iris, but then brought it back down on another flowering grass in the middle of my front gardens. They’ll survive, but my front garden is going to look destroyed for a few weeks at least while they recover.

In more positive news, we had some friends and their son visit on Sunday. My wife took the other ladies around to walk in the gardens at one point while I was cooking - I found out later that we’re part of the inspiration for some folks who are looking to start a sober living space!

600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it

I bit the bullet and ordered some shirts to wear while I’m working the market stand, and I’m hopeful that they make everything more cohesive. Logo is the front, catchphrase is the back:

I helped a friend out of a bind this week, and tomorrow I’ll be helping another friend start to transplant his garden from his old house to his new one. Hopefully this heat dome doesn’t ruin our efforts.

First and foremost, I appreciate how patient and helpful you’ve been; thank you.

That’s how I’ve been doing it for a while. Two years at least, as that’s when I first bumped into the pictrs limitations. I’d done it before on other message boards but made full use of it since landing at Beehaw. As of yesterday it started giving me the album links instead when following the steps as you’ve outlined.

The alternative mentioned by Blaze and seconded by PenguinCoder does what I need very conveniently

An all around good egg, who often pops into threads just to be helpful.

Agreed. Most of what kept me using the service was familiarity and the behavioral inertia that brings, but making sharing to message boards difficult (even comparatively) is a deal breaker for me

The only url I’m able to get through the app is

https://imgur.com/a/7sSZfrH#fAh9k4C

Interesting. I made another attempt this morning but all the links are to the site and not directly to the image address

I attempted that, but the long press options don’t include the “copy image address” for me. And yeah it seems like this latest update is really pushing the site so they can serve ads.

Self-hosting a service is not all that complicated, but requires some commitment.

Lol I run a small business and have a sleep disorder and a nine month old, any bandwidth I have is at a premium

Wholly agreed!

1. that IS easy enough even for me

2. I can’t express how honored I feel seeing you reply, it’s like a rite of passage

Thanks, I’m really proud of everyone who donated their plants and time, and for the folks in town for showing up like they did.