*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@realcaseyrollins LOL, yeah, I noticed. lol....

Subtle humour is the *best*.

#Slowly is for #writers. Thank you to @slowlyapp@twitter.com Team for publishing my story! It is a full letter to a new #penpal in #japan and I thought it would look great in a Blog format. #xp

RT @slowlyapp@twitter.com

RG🇨🇦 learned from his pen pal that Japanese🇯🇵 would take a yuzu bath🍊🛀 during Winter Solstice🍃

https://www.getslowly.com/en/story/rg/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/slowlyapp/status/1209753312439857157

@freemo The tubs are water tight by their construction alone, I believe, similar to wine barrels. Wood should expand a bit when wet and hot.

I built a shower stand many years ago in cedar slats and it was lovely - the smell, the texture of the wood under my feet. Left the wood untreated, and curiously, the common nails did not rust, protected by the wood's natural oils.

@freemo @freemo Wikipedia has a short page about Furo, or Ofuro as it is also called. I have heard the water is quite hot, here's what they say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furo

"Furo are part of the Japanese ritual of bathing, not meant for washing but rather for relaxing and warming oneself. Washing is carried out separately outside the yubune. The bather should enter the water only after rinsing or lightly showering. Generally Japanese bathrooms are small by Western standards, so the bathroom is set up much like a walk-in shower area but containing the furo. Since the bathroom is a complete wet area, in modern buildings and ryokan heating is provided by air conditioners overhead. The water is hot, usually about 100 to 108 °F (38 to 42 °C).

@toneji I think it's a lovely custom! A Japanese penpal friend just told me about it and sent me that photo. I imagine it must feel really nice to be in hot water with the fruit floating around too.

@freemo The heat in the Furo tubs must be nice too, would love to try it. A Cedar one, specially, which must smell good with the hot water in it.

"Soaking in baths full of fruit in Japan"

"In Japan, people traditionally soak in hot baths with the yuzu citrus fruit to welcome the winter solstice and protect their bodies from the common cold. During last year’s solstice celebration, children from a local preschool shared a dip in a traditional yuzu tub in the city of Toyooka as dozens of the yellow yuzu fruits surrounded them on the surface, according to Japan’s daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun."

https://time.com/5060889/winter-solstice-rituals/

@freemo 😃 Got one too.
Feliz Navidad!

@Sphinx this is the palette choice in Toolbox, Irfanview.

@Sphinx The highlight rectangle? Yes, you can pick any colour easily in Irfanview toolbox. I use either a lime green or an orange like show above, whichever will contrast more with the background colours.

@realcaseyrollins LOL.... 😜

@realcaseyrollins The Gimp, eh? I downloaded the package but did not install it yet. Very powerful, it seems.

And free. 🙂

@Sphinx ...continued...

- the second I used the Right click, select Screen Shot from the Firefox Context menu, and snapped it to your post box only (it does a good guessing job of what block you want, or pick two window limit points - upper, lower corners.).

@Sphinx 🙂 For quick job, a one use image like that one above, I would use the built in Screen Capture in Waterfox (same as Firefox Aurora version 68).

Took a couple snapshots to show it:

- the first I used the whole screen capture (to get the Firefox menu in action), then cropped and compressed the image to .png in Irfanview.

@reitrace @georgia yes, it might be a case of needing company, and for a lady, going alone can be intimidating.

@Gargron Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, boss. Thank you for all the work you do.

@kashi Gorgeous map, thank you again. Another one saved for future use. 🙇

@kashi Happy Holidays for you too, and thank you for the lovely image. Saved it here. 👍

@cantinto
Take a look at this thread, and it has a link to the discussion being mentioned here.

Pretty active too.

https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103363357923380440

@mngrif

And I just found out up to date stats for Masto Bida IM -- ant they are over 7,000 users.

https://fediverse.network/mastodon.bida.im