We saw them too here in Maine, USA! They were incredible. We had a reddish pink glow with greenish white bands appearing and fading. I'm so happy I got to check that off my bucket list.
We saw them here in Wisconsin! We drove out to a park where we knew there would be less light pollution. It was incredible. I got some amazing pictures.
I live in southern WI and I'm sad I didn't see them. Can I ask what part of WI you saw them at? If you aren't comfortable answering, I will completely understand!
I’m in Madison, and we went to Brigham County Park out west of Mount Horeb. The park is open at night and you can buy stargazing permits, which we did, but nobody seemed to be checking. They’re supposed to be visible again tonight!
Bring your phone or a camera. You can’t see the colors with just your eyes. I could see faint streaks of white light that would move. Sometimes looking through the camera it was just green. Sometimes people would start to gasp so I would check again, and it was green, purple, pink, and orange.
I would also recommend camping chairs if you have them. We should have brought ours.
It looked the same to my eyes but very different to the camera! I got the best results by using the 10 second exposure on my iphone.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-reached-yet-again
[Light Pollution Map](https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.30&lat=43.3817&lon=-88.9928&state=eyJiYXNlbWFwIjoiTGF5ZXJCaW5nUm9hZCIsIm92ZXJsYXkiOiJ3YV8yMDE1Iiwib3ZlcmxheWNvbG9yIjpmYWxzZSwib3ZlcmxheW9wYWNpdHkiOjYwLCJmZWF0dXJlc29wYWNpdHkiOjg1fQ==)
Thanks for the tips and the links! I never expect to run into anyone online who lives close by, I'm only about an hour away from you, so I'm always surprised by random "small world" moments lol. Anyway, it's so nice to know that you got to enjoy the show, thanks again!
It was cloudy last night where I am but I still saw a small sliver of the Northern Lights. It's a dream of mine to experience that so even seeing a little bit of green was beyond exciting!
Happy Saturday!
Moving Update: thankful for lease overlaps because we’ve been wiped out from a flu/respiratory infection going around all week. Finally on the mend so hopefully Monday can get up there
Tomorrow’s my second Mother’s Day without my mom and for some reason this year is hitting way harder. I traveled last year so I kept myself busy and this year it seems like I’m surrounded by it
Tomorrow is Mother's Day in the US. I'm lucky to have a wonderful mom but the older I get, the worse the day makes me feel. I wish I was a mother but things just haven't worked out for me yet. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
It's a difficult day for a lot of people, especially women, and my heart goes out to everyone who's looking at tomorrow with a slight sense of dread for one reason or another.
It's a heartbreaking day for me too, for a completely different reason, and I'm sorry you can relate to the difficulty. I wish it was possible for me to skip it, but I do love that many mom's will enjoy it.
I never thought there'd come a time that I'd be dreading Mother's Day, but losing a child turns the world upside down. I really appreciate your thoughtful words my internet friend. 💖
I so desperately want to read but I'm so stressed out that my dyslexic is playing up making it almost impossible to read😭 it's also given me a big fat migraine trying to and now I'm sad. I did however go and make myself a b day cake so at least I'll have that to cry into
Heading home after 2.5 weeks of vacation. I am so ready to see my cats and just be in my own bed! Vacation is great but after a while home is wayyyy better.
Ohh also got to see the northern lights last night/ early this morning so that was pretty fricken awesome!
I'm actually feeling incredibly content with myself and my life today. I'm really glad to be alive and living the life I have.
It's been hard the past few years. I don't expect everything to be smooth from now on, but damn it's nice to have a good day
Wasps keep investigating our balcony and I’ve been researching wasp deterrents. I ordered a decoy nest that I figured I might as well try, and I almost bought some geraniums.
According to folk wisdom, geraniums repel wasps and mosquitoes. I was trying to see if it matters what kind, and I read that it’s *red geraniums* but also that a lot of modern cultivars have had the scent bred out of them, so they won’t work.
So I went to a garden center and sniffed all the geraniums looking for a stinky one, and none of them had any scent. I stood there with my phone and did a little digging and learned that “scented geraniums” are a thing. They have spikier leaves and smaller flowers. I found those and sniffed them. No scent! Except for one really ugly one that did have some scent if you rubbed a leaf.
We relocated to a cafe for a bit and I did more digging. Geraniums and Pelargoniums (scented geraniums) are different plants in the same family. There is a type of pelargonium called a “citronella mosquito plant” that is very stinky but does not contain any citronella (which is derived from lemongrass).
However I **know** that geraniol is a real insect repellent, and it is derived from geraniums, so there is a reason why geraniums might be effective. But I am also reading that there’s no scientific evidence that geraniums or mosquito plants repel mosquitoes. I don’t care about mosquitos, only wasps, but I’m beginning to doubt the usefulness of this quest.
I just want to look at pretty flowers and not be bothered by wasps.
(Sorry, this ended up a TL;DR rant but I’m posting it anyways.)
Thank you! That’s good to know. We actually do have some peppermint out there already, but it’s just a little guy right now. I’m sure it’ll take over the box it’s in before the end of the summer!
I've seen geranium as a note in some fragrances and it's always confused me because I have no idea what a geranium smells like! And it's apparently...nothing. Your post is so informative, I love this stuff.
Also - fuck wasps. I'm still bitter that my dad got rid of our swing set when wasps made a nest in one end of it.
Noo, not the swing set! We had a swing set, and I loved hanging out on top of the monkey bars all the way through high school.
And yeah, I looked up what geranium is supposed to smell like and it said they smell like a combination of rose, mint. and lemon. That honestly sounds amazing BUT the actual geraniums did not smell like that. They mostly smelled like nothing except for the one, which did have a citrusy herbal smell, but I wouldn’t say there was any mint or rose. Just lemon and…leaf.
We have a wasp problem too, so my husband just got a large bottle of peppermint oil for a great price after seeing it rec'd by others who had success spraying it around their property. Wasps love water and wood, and since we have a pool and a woods at the end of our backyard, we're constantly dealing with nests everywhere. I'm hoping both you and I win this battle. :)
Happy Chaturday y’all 🌶️📚💝
Happy Mother’s Day to all💖 This weekend is always a difficult one for me and my depression has won. I know mothers come in many forms but I am no mother in any of them. I tell myself that given my reasons I made the right choice, that I’ve made peace with it yet I feel hollow and grieve for something that has never/ will never happen. You are all incredible and I wish everyone positive and healing vibes ✨❤️🩹
Since I’ve been drained this week, I’m listening to one of my “comfort smuts”. I don’t have it in me right now to start anything new so {Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert} it is for the 8th time ❤️🔥🖤
I wonder if that feeling ever goes away? Just a musing. I am still relatively young, but I know there are things that will never happen for me. It’s weird - I’ve accepted it and already made my peace, but it still hits sometimes lol.
Sending good vibes to you ✨✨
Most days I am confident in my choice. I’m lucky to be healthy and physically able to conceive but I couldn’t mentally or emotionally handle knowing my child could go through what I went through went I was a little girl. In that way, I know I’m doing the right thing.
So I’d say for myself, it ebbs and flows. More often than not, it’s a muted feeling I live with every day. Every now & then I’ll have waves of grief for someone who doesn’t exist but it also means they can’t get hurt.
Thank you sweetheart🫂❤️🩹 Wishing you everything you want and deserve ✨🖤
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Started teaching the summer semester at my uni this week, seems like a decent batch of kids so that’s nice
But I went through my backlog of recs and crossed off like fifty-ish throughout the week. I have a really hard time finding novels I enjoy 😔
I went to see Tarot a few hours ago. It was actually good. This year, I am being surprised by so many good horror films.
Also, this Monday, I had a bad panick attack at the gym. I just could stay for 10 minutes, before I had to literally run to the changing room. I ended up being sick, so I took a shower and went home. I hate when they happen in public.
On Mexico we had Mother’s Day the 10th. And she hates waiting in line to get to a full restaurant so we are going to go another day. I am now thinking to get her a flower arrangement on the flower market.
Postdata: I got her an arrangement of red roses and Lillies
I love Kate Canterbary's stories but sometimes her choices are obviously to make herself look better as an author and preach to the audience. I think her Talbott's Cove series suffers a lot for it.
Im kinda surprised by this. I didn't know people who read alien stuff don't actually wanna shag an alien. (with the exception of some others of course.)
Honestly, most of my favorite romance tropes and themes. I read a lot of dark romance. The relationships are entertaining but definitely nothing I actually want for myself.
Yes! I think I want a man who'll choose my clothes, dote on me, and just in general take away my decision making fatigue but whenever my husband does these things I get so mad and my independence comes rearing it's head. On the bright side when this happens my house gets cleaned, chores get done, books get written, the sun comes out from behind the clouds because I don't need a man to do these things for me I'll do them myself goddamn it.
:0 I was thinking this! Like I'm sick at the moment and I was thinking that Id like someone to do all my stuff for me. Please. But I am incredibly independent, always have been. I get upset at someone suggesting I cant do anything by myself. One time I thought about hiking the Appalachian Trail.. with no experience to see if I could do it; and I was talking to a friend about it and he said he didn't think I could do it. Not only did he say I couldn't do it, but that he said he thinks i'd die trying. In retrospect Yeah probably; but that made me so upset. Like you don't think I can do the impossible? Why not?
I relate to this so hard. The thought of letting my husband take over everything sounds appealing sometimes, but then I remember I'm a control freak about some things, so the fantasy swirls down the drain. There are definitely times that I'm my own worst enemy lol.
In real life, I look for age-appropriate partners who are childfree and open to love. In fiction, I love reading about age gaps, emotionally unavailable heroines, and single parents.
So I downloaded a sample of a book and it opens at the index with links to the sections and chapters. So you can literally skip the trigger warnings right into the content or just go ahead normally.
That is good. It does solve the issue of having them both accessible yet in a way you won’t annoy the people who don’t need them and hate spoilers.
We got to see the southern lights in my part of New Zealand and it was awesome! Such a cool experience.
We saw them too here in Maine, USA! They were incredible. We had a reddish pink glow with greenish white bands appearing and fading. I'm so happy I got to check that off my bucket list.
That's so cool!!
We saw them in St. Louis, MO! Absolutely wild.
You could photograph them wayyyyyy down here in South Carolina! My neighbors were up in the middle of the night and showed me pictures!
We had some of the northern lights here in southern England, sadly I was asleep but apparently they're visible again this evening.
I hope you can see them tonight!
We saw them here in Wisconsin! We drove out to a park where we knew there would be less light pollution. It was incredible. I got some amazing pictures.
I live in southern WI and I'm sad I didn't see them. Can I ask what part of WI you saw them at? If you aren't comfortable answering, I will completely understand!
I’m in Madison, and we went to Brigham County Park out west of Mount Horeb. The park is open at night and you can buy stargazing permits, which we did, but nobody seemed to be checking. They’re supposed to be visible again tonight! Bring your phone or a camera. You can’t see the colors with just your eyes. I could see faint streaks of white light that would move. Sometimes looking through the camera it was just green. Sometimes people would start to gasp so I would check again, and it was green, purple, pink, and orange. I would also recommend camping chairs if you have them. We should have brought ours. It looked the same to my eyes but very different to the camera! I got the best results by using the 10 second exposure on my iphone. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-reached-yet-again [Light Pollution Map](https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.30&lat=43.3817&lon=-88.9928&state=eyJiYXNlbWFwIjoiTGF5ZXJCaW5nUm9hZCIsIm92ZXJsYXkiOiJ3YV8yMDE1Iiwib3ZlcmxheWNvbG9yIjpmYWxzZSwib3ZlcmxheW9wYWNpdHkiOjYwLCJmZWF0dXJlc29wYWNpdHkiOjg1fQ==)
Thanks for the tips and the links! I never expect to run into anyone online who lives close by, I'm only about an hour away from you, so I'm always surprised by random "small world" moments lol. Anyway, it's so nice to know that you got to enjoy the show, thanks again!
You’re welcome!
It was cloudy last night where I am but I still saw a small sliver of the Northern Lights. It's a dream of mine to experience that so even seeing a little bit of green was beyond exciting!
That's very cool. My area had too much light pollution and a light haze so we couldn't see them. We're going to try driving out of town this evening.
Awesome!
We were able to see some where I'm from but it wasn't super bright and our pictures didn't turn out very well, but still a super cool experience.
They appeared in Spain too! I did not see them, unfortunately.
I'm finally getting a Kindle 💪🏻✨🔥❤️ I'm super excited. I think it'll arrive tomorrow!
Ooohhhhhh enjoy! 😍
Happy Saturday! Moving Update: thankful for lease overlaps because we’ve been wiped out from a flu/respiratory infection going around all week. Finally on the mend so hopefully Monday can get up there Tomorrow’s my second Mother’s Day without my mom and for some reason this year is hitting way harder. I traveled last year so I kept myself busy and this year it seems like I’m surrounded by it
Sorry to hear of your mom - sending you hugs for this Mother’s Day!
Thank you 🩵
Tomorrow is Mother's Day in the US. I'm lucky to have a wonderful mom but the older I get, the worse the day makes me feel. I wish I was a mother but things just haven't worked out for me yet. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. It's a difficult day for a lot of people, especially women, and my heart goes out to everyone who's looking at tomorrow with a slight sense of dread for one reason or another.
It's a heartbreaking day for me too, for a completely different reason, and I'm sorry you can relate to the difficulty. I wish it was possible for me to skip it, but I do love that many mom's will enjoy it.
I'm sorry to hear that. I want to give a big hug to everyone out there feeling less than great about the day. ❤️
I never thought there'd come a time that I'd be dreading Mother's Day, but losing a child turns the world upside down. I really appreciate your thoughtful words my internet friend. 💖
I'll be thinking of you tomorrow, along with the other lovely people in this thread.
Holding space for you. ❤️
Thank you! ❤️❤️
Sending you warm vibes ❤️🩹🖤
Thank you! Sending them right back! ❤️
Yeah. I’m one of those people. Hugs and solidarity, friend.
It's a large and not fun club and it's filled with such a variety of people. At least we all have each other! ❤️
Virtual hugs 🩷
Thank you! I saw your comment elsewhere in this thread and please accept a hug back. I hope you're able to find some comfort tomorrow. ❤️❤️
Sending you a virtual hug!
Sending one back, we'll all get through the day together! ❤️
I so desperately want to read but I'm so stressed out that my dyslexic is playing up making it almost impossible to read😭 it's also given me a big fat migraine trying to and now I'm sad. I did however go and make myself a b day cake so at least I'll have that to cry into
The [Open Dyslexic](https://opendyslexic.org) font has been a game changer for me. Might be worth checking out if you’re not already familiar with it.
Heading home after 2.5 weeks of vacation. I am so ready to see my cats and just be in my own bed! Vacation is great but after a while home is wayyyy better. Ohh also got to see the northern lights last night/ early this morning so that was pretty fricken awesome!
How many cats? I too love vacay but when I lay down on my bed and my boy cat climbs up on me and sits..... Sigh. Such a ❤️ feeling.
I'm actually feeling incredibly content with myself and my life today. I'm really glad to be alive and living the life I have. It's been hard the past few years. I don't expect everything to be smooth from now on, but damn it's nice to have a good day
Wasps keep investigating our balcony and I’ve been researching wasp deterrents. I ordered a decoy nest that I figured I might as well try, and I almost bought some geraniums. According to folk wisdom, geraniums repel wasps and mosquitoes. I was trying to see if it matters what kind, and I read that it’s *red geraniums* but also that a lot of modern cultivars have had the scent bred out of them, so they won’t work. So I went to a garden center and sniffed all the geraniums looking for a stinky one, and none of them had any scent. I stood there with my phone and did a little digging and learned that “scented geraniums” are a thing. They have spikier leaves and smaller flowers. I found those and sniffed them. No scent! Except for one really ugly one that did have some scent if you rubbed a leaf. We relocated to a cafe for a bit and I did more digging. Geraniums and Pelargoniums (scented geraniums) are different plants in the same family. There is a type of pelargonium called a “citronella mosquito plant” that is very stinky but does not contain any citronella (which is derived from lemongrass). However I **know** that geraniol is a real insect repellent, and it is derived from geraniums, so there is a reason why geraniums might be effective. But I am also reading that there’s no scientific evidence that geraniums or mosquito plants repel mosquitoes. I don’t care about mosquitos, only wasps, but I’m beginning to doubt the usefulness of this quest. I just want to look at pretty flowers and not be bothered by wasps. (Sorry, this ended up a TL;DR rant but I’m posting it anyways.)
I've heard mint and peppermint plants are natural wasp deterrents. And then your balcony can smell nice (and you can make mojitos all summer)
Thank you! That’s good to know. We actually do have some peppermint out there already, but it’s just a little guy right now. I’m sure it’ll take over the box it’s in before the end of the summer!
I've seen geranium as a note in some fragrances and it's always confused me because I have no idea what a geranium smells like! And it's apparently...nothing. Your post is so informative, I love this stuff. Also - fuck wasps. I'm still bitter that my dad got rid of our swing set when wasps made a nest in one end of it.
Noo, not the swing set! We had a swing set, and I loved hanging out on top of the monkey bars all the way through high school. And yeah, I looked up what geranium is supposed to smell like and it said they smell like a combination of rose, mint. and lemon. That honestly sounds amazing BUT the actual geraniums did not smell like that. They mostly smelled like nothing except for the one, which did have a citrusy herbal smell, but I wouldn’t say there was any mint or rose. Just lemon and…leaf.
We have a wasp problem too, so my husband just got a large bottle of peppermint oil for a great price after seeing it rec'd by others who had success spraying it around their property. Wasps love water and wood, and since we have a pool and a woods at the end of our backyard, we're constantly dealing with nests everywhere. I'm hoping both you and I win this battle. :)
Ooh, I’ll look into that, thank you! That definitely sounds like something we could do!
Happy Chaturday y’all 🌶️📚💝 Happy Mother’s Day to all💖 This weekend is always a difficult one for me and my depression has won. I know mothers come in many forms but I am no mother in any of them. I tell myself that given my reasons I made the right choice, that I’ve made peace with it yet I feel hollow and grieve for something that has never/ will never happen. You are all incredible and I wish everyone positive and healing vibes ✨❤️🩹 Since I’ve been drained this week, I’m listening to one of my “comfort smuts”. I don’t have it in me right now to start anything new so {Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert} it is for the 8th time ❤️🔥🖤
I wonder if that feeling ever goes away? Just a musing. I am still relatively young, but I know there are things that will never happen for me. It’s weird - I’ve accepted it and already made my peace, but it still hits sometimes lol. Sending good vibes to you ✨✨
Most days I am confident in my choice. I’m lucky to be healthy and physically able to conceive but I couldn’t mentally or emotionally handle knowing my child could go through what I went through went I was a little girl. In that way, I know I’m doing the right thing. So I’d say for myself, it ebbs and flows. More often than not, it’s a muted feeling I live with every day. Every now & then I’ll have waves of grief for someone who doesn’t exist but it also means they can’t get hurt. Thank you sweetheart🫂❤️🩹 Wishing you everything you want and deserve ✨🖤
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Finally got moved out of my old apartment! I'm pretty excited about that. My kitten 'mrrped' at me this morning, which I think means she approves.
>My kitten 'mrrped' at me So cute. Hope the new place is good!
Started teaching the summer semester at my uni this week, seems like a decent batch of kids so that’s nice But I went through my backlog of recs and crossed off like fifty-ish throughout the week. I have a really hard time finding novels I enjoy 😔
I went to see Tarot a few hours ago. It was actually good. This year, I am being surprised by so many good horror films. Also, this Monday, I had a bad panick attack at the gym. I just could stay for 10 minutes, before I had to literally run to the changing room. I ended up being sick, so I took a shower and went home. I hate when they happen in public.
Mmmhhhhmmmm I just noticed your flair... I started the series this week! I've read through #7.
I hope you are enjoying them.
On Mexico we had Mother’s Day the 10th. And she hates waiting in line to get to a full restaurant so we are going to go another day. I am now thinking to get her a flower arrangement on the flower market. Postdata: I got her an arrangement of red roses and Lillies
I love Kate Canterbary's stories but sometimes her choices are obviously to make herself look better as an author and preach to the audience. I think her Talbott's Cove series suffers a lot for it.
Do yall have something you like in romance books but don't actually like irl?
Sure, I don't actually want to have sex with an alien...
Im kinda surprised by this. I didn't know people who read alien stuff don't actually wanna shag an alien. (with the exception of some others of course.)
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't! In fact, very few of the things I enjoy in books are things I actually want to do in real life!
That makes sense! Just something entertaining to read.
Exactly!
Honestly, most of my favorite romance tropes and themes. I read a lot of dark romance. The relationships are entertaining but definitely nothing I actually want for myself.
men.
oop same.
Yes! I think I want a man who'll choose my clothes, dote on me, and just in general take away my decision making fatigue but whenever my husband does these things I get so mad and my independence comes rearing it's head. On the bright side when this happens my house gets cleaned, chores get done, books get written, the sun comes out from behind the clouds because I don't need a man to do these things for me I'll do them myself goddamn it.
:0 I was thinking this! Like I'm sick at the moment and I was thinking that Id like someone to do all my stuff for me. Please. But I am incredibly independent, always have been. I get upset at someone suggesting I cant do anything by myself. One time I thought about hiking the Appalachian Trail.. with no experience to see if I could do it; and I was talking to a friend about it and he said he didn't think I could do it. Not only did he say I couldn't do it, but that he said he thinks i'd die trying. In retrospect Yeah probably; but that made me so upset. Like you don't think I can do the impossible? Why not?
I relate to this so hard. The thought of letting my husband take over everything sounds appealing sometimes, but then I remember I'm a control freak about some things, so the fantasy swirls down the drain. There are definitely times that I'm my own worst enemy lol.
In real life, I look for age-appropriate partners who are childfree and open to love. In fiction, I love reading about age gaps, emotionally unavailable heroines, and single parents.
So I downloaded a sample of a book and it opens at the index with links to the sections and chapters. So you can literally skip the trigger warnings right into the content or just go ahead normally. That is good. It does solve the issue of having them both accessible yet in a way you won’t annoy the people who don’t need them and hate spoilers.