happify @happify.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Rough location here. And coordinates: 44.9854216, -93.2660971 011
happify @happify.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Rough location here. And coordinates: 44.9854216, -93.2660971 020
happify @happify.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Face photo. Sorry for the lack of alt text, running late for kayaking! They are on the walk path between west river parkway and Hennepin Ave, on the downriver side of the federal reserve. 130
happify @happify.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Looks like Grand Marais’s AQI peaked today at 2259, though their graph stops at 1000. I’m a ball of worry for…everyone, and especially those who’re most at risk and with the least protection. 070
happify @happify.bsky.social · 20/05/2026What an exciting water feature to celebrate sidewalks! Might be my favorite in the city in years! (Likely a lateral line something something, said my flame on viewing it yesterday.) 210
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Dead migratory bird-friend that I didn’t have supplies/time to gather for researchers. Will try later, but anyone nearby could gather it for science and love, on 1st between 4th & 5th, downriver side. 160
happify @happify.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I might be a lump, but at least I’m a lump whose lumpiness cannot yet be automated (lmk when machines crochet), and whose lumpy colorways sometimes match the transit I’m on. 1160
happify @happify.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Here it is earlier in January when we cleared it of water (3rd and worst of three very flooded portions of the bike path). The water was 4” deep for about 10’, then tapering off for another 10-15’. My flame’s boots weren’t waterproof so I shoved ALLLL OF THAT WATER over a snowbank with a shovel. 071
happify @happify.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Did some bike path clearing today. Took a while, but not nearly as bad as it was when we got it early-mid January (I hacked at it a bit yesterday, but fruitlessly with just the chopper). Tools used: ice chopper + wide blade shovel to push the water over the snow dams. 4594
happify @happify.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Also still corners like this one that need the choppiest of ice choppers, which was so difficult solo! That ice pack is so dense even the warm up will take ages to dispel it. 120
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Today, I scrambled up to the top of the biggest of our three piles of ice chunks to take a photo of my friends when we finished. Reminded me of scrambling to the top of a much cleaner (and even bigger) corner pile at @wedge.live’s behest some years back. 2260
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Today we cleared the NW corner of 28th and Lyndale (plus bus stop), which required that plus pick axe and took three people two hours (a lot of stuff can be done much more easily/quickly!). 3444
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I’ve been wandering solo with an ice chopper, but have recently met up with friends with more tools. The crowbar + hammer was key to clearing the SE corner of 22nd and Lyndale a few days ago. 4706
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Bopping in to say that clearing ice from corners and bus stops is excellent community care and also good for getting out some kind of energy and connecting with strangers. 323634
happify @happify.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Our frozen Mpls lakes. The original, true, lover-of-all-people ice. The ice that holds us up, allows us to walk on water, welcomes everyone. (Pictured: Bde Maka Ska in December, where I talked to so many out for the miracle, including immigrant neighbors.) 1132
happify @happify.bsky.social · 11/01/2026It’s extremely good to be out in the city with community commiserating about ice. Also a chance to help neighbors and passersby. 010
happify @happify.bsky.social · 17/12/2025It’s astounding! On Monday, I could feel the cracking as directional zips beneath me from my weight and as others skated nearby. Lots of rainbow baby cracks! 0152
happify @happify.bsky.social · 16/12/2025@metrotransitmn.bsky.social seems like neither side of sign at 5th/nicollet away-from-river is working. (Other side says it’s out of service.) 010
happify @happify.bsky.social · 14/12/2025And here is the best plowed sidewalk on 2nd. It wasn’t actually walkable for the full length (I suspect foul play from the city), but they shoved the ice chunks back into the driver lanes, which is what I was periodically attempting to do. 0170
happify @happify.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Here is what the very impressive property adjacent managed, but that’s not possible with just a shovel unless you’re at least as swoll as me and with a half day free time. Still not passable for non-mountain-goat due to ice wall collapse. 1270
happify @happify.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Here are walking vs driving conditions in Minneapolis. THIS IS A CITY CHOICE. This is not snow as it fell, but how the city chose to what to plow and where to leave the ice chunks. 515426
happify @happify.bsky.social · 13/12/2025The city plows parking lanes by moving heavy compacted ice chunks to block sidewalks already cleared by responsible property owners/managers. 4304
happify @happify.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Minneapolis prioritizes cars over people. The street is totally clear, and the parking lanes, but at the expense of the sidewalks, which were decently cleared and are now impassable using a wheelchair. 020
happify @happify.bsky.social · 28/06/2025This rag rug had some catastrophic failures in the weft last time it was in the washing machine. I think it was too loosely woven, so the warp threads shifted to be next to each other. Fixing it with blanket stitches. 070
happify @happify.bsky.social · 27/06/2025@metrotransitmn.bsky.social, this crossing to the Green Line is dealing with a serious bit of a drainage problem. 030
happify @happify.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Mpls friends! Be on the lookout for these bikes. They were stolen last night. My friend relies on them for year-round bike commuting and between election results and this, I've never heard them sounding so disheartened. Please lmk if you see them and I'll pass it along! 54739
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/09/2024Rest of my photos. I recommend doing your own walks down Marq/2nd/3rd and noting how many places are open for you to go into whatever day/time of day you go. Pay special attention to evenings, weekends. Think about what you'd need to feel comfortable waiting for a bus here. 051
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/09/2024We stopped here on 2nd for a bit peering into the lit grates. Not a single person walked near or past us here for over five minutes (probably closer to 10) just after 5:30pm. 061
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/09/2024Some photos from Marq/2nd/3rd from yesterday, 5-6pm. Meeting from 4-6pm TODAY (9/24) at the downtown library on the city moving transit off Nicollet and to these streets. 020
happify @happify.bsky.social · 27/01/2024How are you all contacting trader joe's about their anti-union/union-busting political activism grossness? Their website "contact us" section makes it pretty clear they'd prefer not to hear what their customers think. A 130
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/01/2024But I'm learning and learning and learning about the ice, how it forms different shapes and why, when and how those disappear, the pulse of life below and in and on and above the ice. I curse every PPM of CO2 that threatens the existence all that breathes and moves here, muskrat, ice, human, bird. 030
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/01/2024I love the conversations I have on the lakes too, the others who're drawn to the beauty in the lake, who cede whatever of art and beauty they have attempted in the face of this awesome expertise. And I love returning from those moments to my silent commune with the ice.A 042
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/01/2024How about this lake ice, then, friends? I never did figure out exactly where the blue is coming from in the image--my best guess is the water filling the crack, but I haven't seen it this vivid before. 031
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/01/2024I wish I could attach the sounds of the lake and its ice as the alt text, that’s the truest representation. 031
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/01/2024Absolutely overwhelmed by the endless beauty of lake ice. Just wordless, literally don't even know how to describe it for alt text, what do I do 161
happify @happify.bsky.social · 21/01/2024We’ve probably got today/tomorrow left with this winter’s glorious lake ice world before precipitation + more unseasonable warmth closes the curtain. Get out there if you can!!! 161
happify @happify.bsky.social · 19/12/2023The roller towel of my uncle’s I just mended. Need some old dowels (retired broom handles?) for the second step of this project, but happy with how it’s going. Got to later my mends with previous much less visible ones! 220
happify @happify.bsky.social · 15/12/2023This is my previously chronically underwatered plant, who knew the leaves wanted to be upright and not droopy! 010
happify @happify.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Trying carving and printing the avocado pits from the dye I just made. Not my best idea, not the worst. Doubt they’ll stay flat enough to print with as they desiccate again. 010
happify @happify.bsky.social · 21/11/2023When I end up in charge of a family gathering centerpiece 090
happify @happify.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Still talking photos of notable covers, just not back in a habit of sharing them yet! 3110
happify @happify.bsky.social · 11/11/2023Overdyed this cornflower blue wool shirt (it was too warm a blue) with onion skins and I’m really happy with how it’s turned out so far! 050
happify @happify.bsky.social · 09/09/2023How was this book on ice in the free bin at Old School?!?! OMG, I’m only a few pages into reading it aloud to my flame and it’s so so exciting! 100
happify @happify.bsky.social · 24/08/2023This was our first hazelnut foraging haul. Turns out finding and plucking hazelnuts activates a part of my brain not dissimilar from the agate-hunting one. 230