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I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren’t flame resistant… Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.

My 9 year old recently asked me what “stop-drop-and-roll” was and I explained it was if you were on fire and she gave me a really skeptical look and asked, “did that happen a lot when you were a kid?”

Six billionaires live in Wyoming, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but since the population is otherwise so low that means a billionaire rate of 10.3 per million people; some 10X higher than most other states. Wyoming is almost twice as infested as New York (6.92 billionaires per million people).

The parabolic microphone idea sounds interesting! I use the Merlin bird ID app to identify what I can hear, but it’s not directional, obviously. I do have a pretty decent digital camera with 40x optical zoom, but you really need to know where to point it, because the slightest change in angle is a big change at a distance.

I can’t use any magnifying lenses because I have blind spots that interfere with it. I can use a digital camera, I actually have a pretty good one with 40x optical zoom. But since you need to really know where you’re pointing at for long distances, I mostly just use it for bee spotting!

Bird watching. I’m going blind in such a way that makes binoculars impossible to use, and am completely deaf in one ear, so I can’t even tell which direction the calls are coming from 😅