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I really do, Halloween is a close second for my favorite holiday. I like to diy-ish the decorations, especially using stuff I've grown (the straw here was actually dried garlic stalks), and I'm slowly adding stuff year to year with the eventual goal of being that house.

Hah! I love how different the reactions are. Some kids seem to have no sense of fear, while I've had others straight nope out. This year I had a mom grab her kid under the arms to drag him screaming towards me (but don't worry, heard him giggling back down the driveway with a "that was scary!"), and another one shouted "now you die!" (using his flashlight as pistol) after I startled him. 😆

If you see my set up from a previous year in my other comment, one of my favorite reactions was a trio of teenage girls where one saw me approach and let out a "FUCK THAT!" and ran, with her friends on her heels. Left me standing there holding the bowl with a faint "wait come back, I've got candy..."

I go through spurts where I'm posting and commenting a bunch, then I get weary of being online and disconnect. When I am posting, it's usually to places with stuff I like to take pictures of, like [email protected].

Same, this and the new season of Severance have me really excited!

Oooh, you can try what I've done before. Leave the front door open with the interior dimly lit and her hiding in a dark room beyond. When the kids come, she steps from the darkness into the dim light, and it's a pretty good effect with a masked costume.

[Image description: a dimly lit red room, with a dark masked figure with horns standing in the doorway beside a table draped in black with a vase of dead flowers. An illusion of hands pressing through the wall is projected onto the wall beside the figure.]

You're in luck, there is a best of Lemmy!

Oh dear, I just thought that they'd get leggy like basil, maybe I should pinch the flowers off...

Seems like a fun concept, too bad that there were spam bots clogging up the chat.

Yeah, I generally like the smaller size and the fact that it's pretty distraction-free (though I could add more apps, I'm refraining from doing so). I also really appreciate Supernote's commitment to repairability and their transparency in their development, so those were big things that swayed my original choice.

Oh darn, no I don't. Not to sound like I'm an actually good baker, but standard desserts like brownies, (simple) cakes, and cookies I've made often enough that I know the gist of the recipes. Sometimes I'll look up a recipe or two online to confirm I'm on the right track, but usually I make them on the fly.

Like for example, my basic cookie base is a super easy 1:1:1:1 ratio. One stick of softened butter creamed with one cup of sugar, add in one egg, then one cup of flour. Depending on what I'm going for and what kind of butter, sugar and flour I used, I'll add vanilla, salt, baking soda/powder at the right stages.

People say cooking is an art and baking is a science, but a lot of the simpler things you actually can eyeball and get away with it (especially if you're like me and are okay with the occasional odd result 😅). So like if I use brown sugar, I know that's got more moisture than white, so I'll probably need an extra spoonful of flour to get the dough looking right.

Oh I've been loving it! A few quibbles here and there (like if pdfs could maintain zoom levels, so you don't have to re-zoom every time you switch away and back), but overall I'm super glad I got it. Just wish it had existed back when I was in college!

I'm in southern California and I think most houses have gas hookups for driers, often with gas stoves and gas water heaters too.