man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

“life is old here, older than the trees. Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze.”

My home of the Adirondacks (the dome of mountains at the top of New York State) are referred to as “new mountains made of old rock”. Think of a recut diamond. They are only about 5 million years old but the rock that makes them up is over 1 billion years old.

Holy fuck

My sister knew a women who would adopt any solid black cat with yellow eyes that came into the shelter. No cats with green eyes, no spots of white. Solid black. My sister later discovered why. Her husband doesn't want any more cats, but isn't actually sure of how many they have. So as long as her cats look exactly the same as the others, he can't pick them out and be unhappy when the brings home another one.

Big brain woman right there

Oh you gotta keep watching to see the orange cat

I knew what would happen and yet

The best part is that the cat’s first box was already too small. “I learned nothing and never will.”

“Small box makes me feel safe…smaller box make me feel…safer??”

these are all the geek equivalents of Lovecraft’s Cat’s Name

i would totally watch entire episodes of this

@darkravn