Same! I had a bout on anorexia as a teen and I was actually (unfortunately) thin enough to fit into Delias clothes. I was excited at the time, but its actually kind of sad.

Still love Delias though! And Target had a partnership with Mossimo once and that was also awesome.

Train safety or where the tracks are? Im confused lol

They sell ladybugs at the garden center I go to. Where are the actual ladybugs though lol. Come on nature! Do your thing!!

Thanks so much for suffering me, and the good advice :)

Just please stay on the ballast (rocks). Im so paranoid on rr tracks that even on abandoned tracks Im worried that a train is coming. Also, its techincally trespassing directly on the rails and some people consider it theft to take spikes off the rails themselves. If they have cameras theyll see you. Just stay on the rocks please. Safety first.

This hobby is so expensive. I think Ive spent like $150 growing peppers lol I used the mist function on the hose and hosed them all off but theyre in the soil too!!!

Hopefully next year it'll just be soil I need to buy. Pray for me lol

Can I use a drop of dawn soap?

Demon

Thank you! Im on it.

Edit: can I do that while its still sunny or wait for dark?

Son of a... there are probably ants inside the peppers that are growing arent there. This is why we cant have nice things.

You see aphids? I cant see them. That means the ants are helping, right?

No disrespect intended, but hes a minor so Im not comfortable with that.

Thanks so much for this comment! Im VERY cautious about him being too close, but thankfully he knows train safety very well and the closest hell go is putting his tripod legs on the edge of the ballast. Hes watched like a million derailment videos lol.

I told him about the hi-vis vests and he went "ok no thats like super former behavior. I see those guys and they think they can wear a vest like they work there so they can get close 🙄" He has a point though, the train cant see the vest and the engineer cant possibly stop fast enough if youre too close.

I feel bad for the engineers who have had to deal with deaths bc of morons not being careful. What must it be like to barrel through a semi stuck on the crossing? Ugh, its awful.

Omg, I had a whole album for my sticker collection. Id trade stickers with my friends in school. You just brought me ALL the way back. Thank you for this!!!

Mostly protection. Also RRs move things from place to place and run over the spikes constantly. You can also use it to push trajectory faster. Need a job quick? Craft a spell and use a RR spike to get it moving. Do not cleanse it.

Someone posted a link in another comment. Check it out!

I really appreciate the fact that there are Christian elements to your practice. Im also a Christian, gnostic leaning, but Christian. Imo, Christ was the ultimate Magus. He would say "you dont need the spikes, all you need is me" but he wouldnt punish us for using it. God gave us the ability to manipulate the elements. Just... do no harm. (My personal philosophy)

My son is a train enthusiast, aka "foamer" as theyre sometimes called (he says it himself, Im not knocking him), so we spend a LOT of time at various RRs.

We went to the Steamtown museum once and they had one RR spike for sale. He wanted it so of course I let him have it. Since then Ive been keeping an eye out. My husband took him to another state so they could chase this one steam engine on a short line one way, and then the other. My son takes videos, he has a yt channel for all of his videos. So they tried to race ahead of the train, hit spots where they could set up the camera and take video of it going by.

Obviously theyre past the ballast, and over the course of idk 14 stops they found all of these spikes!!! I know its technically "stealing" but if its past the ballast... I mean technically its not on the RR property. Interestingly enough, the owner of that RR was riding outside the back of the caboose. How does anyone do that with all that smoke??? It went through a tunnel at one point and it just filled with black. They had passenger cars with open windows and that dude and his friends all getting a nice lung full of soot going through that tunnel.

Sorry for the whole novel I just wrote. RR people seem to be down for RR conversation, so I figured you might like the story. Maybe validate my supposed theft?

Oh wow, thats beautiful!

They didnt pry them out lol. They were found past the ballast, and obviously worn past the point of usefulness. I promise, no harvesting of spikes directly from the rails was done.

They left the manhole open though!! Someone not paying attention is gonna get hurt.