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5-5-24, 12:44am
okay---i am 110% in favor of jp1's activism on behalf of companion animals in need of a new home. yup. that sounds awesome & amazing. thankk you...
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5-5-24, 12:18am
Though the thread is old but is somewhat ok to share experience of how I was thinking of permanently shifting from Gulf to US. We were living in the...
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5-4-24, 11:56pm
Welcome to be the part!
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5-4-24, 11:54pm
I'm Quade and very much interested in sharing thoughts and learning from others' experiences. I find this forum is of like-minded community so I have...
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5-4-24, 11:29pm
Some of you may remember that when I started all these batches of 40 hours years ago (2016, I think!), I had 50 boxes of clutter in my upstairs...
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5-4-24, 10:27pm
Today finally DH installed a banister on the stairway from the first floor to our basement. I’ve been asking for it for months, and gave him a...
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5-4-24, 9:26pm
I carried around a Sony Discman FOREVER because it still worked, just needed a strip of duct tape to keep it closed (I'd peel it back to change...
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5-4-24, 3:07pm
Even if it’s happening at state schools - still modern day dirty hippies. I have no use for any of them. Go do something useful rather than blocking...
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5-4-24, 1:55pm
Figure out Spring trip logistics done
Work on trunk quilts 1 of 5 done
Knit socks done
Knit new cardigan pattern in progress
Take items to...
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5-4-24, 12:51pm
Ohhhhh---okay----looka them two catts! The late, great Ogden, i presume. but yeah---can wee have this one on the catt photos thread, too? yup.
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5-4-24, 12:02pm
You can watch whole episodes on YouTube.
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7QxdubrLI&list=PLoieWSdjTgUL0owghq6DWTiQf2nUcghJ2
But...
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5-4-24, 12:01pm
okay------too bad i don't have a photo to share o' this, but my ol' tomcat who is dark gray & quite chunky was pawing at a leftover piece of pizza...
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5-4-24, 11:45am
Will Zuccotti Park go down in history along with Valley Forge?
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5-4-24, 11:26am
Remember all the good that the Occupy movement did?
yeah
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5-4-24, 11:20am
One wag said that Gov Noem’s dog is still biting her from beyond the grave.
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5-4-24, 9:50am
Is it? A small minority of students at a small minority of schools (plus the usual non-student hangers-on) have managed to inconvenience everyone...
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5-4-24, 9:39am
Never seen either of those.
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5-4-24, 12:05am
I was watching Bar Rescue just today! It was about an old artsy female musician who had no business sense whatsoever. I do like those shows. Have...
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5-3-24, 11:27pm
Been watching Bar Rescue, since I was changing channels and saw a late friend of mine on an episode. I knew they had filmed locally, knew about one...
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5-3-24, 10:29pm
oh yeah, try Frenchies, number one on the AKC list. I have had eight French bulldogs in the past 15 years. I’m sure you all remember when I got a...
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5-3-24, 9:59pm
Well, politics is going to the dogs, so it seems oddly appropriate :-)
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5-3-24, 9:57pm
My sister and her husband spent $6k on a "doodle" puppy a few years ago. They both work during the day. It is a very high-drive dog, and they treat...
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5-3-24, 9:48pm
We have had several neighbors acquire doodle dogs and all have come down with cancer and passed at young ages. Funny how political talk turned to dog...
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5-3-24, 9:41pm
I enjoy large dogs, and had always hoped to have a Cane Corso, but once a dog becomes "trendy", problems appear. Wow - I just looked, they are #18...
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5-3-24, 9:35pm
I kinda like that the students at Washington University here in St. Louis have a specific goal that is within their realm to influence, and that is...
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5-3-24, 9:28pm
Tradd, this is happening on state campuses now. Over one hundred students were given ten-minutes notice to vacate an encampment at SUNY (New York)...
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5-3-24, 9:13pm
Cane Corsos are trendy and have been for the past few years. I put them in the same trend category as Dobermans were 30+ years ago,, then Rottweilers...
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5-3-24, 9:03pm
I recall watching a movie with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford based on one of Kent Haruf's books. There is something very calming about his simple...
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5-3-24, 8:10pm
I remember really enjoying Plainsong. Uplifting.
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5-3-24, 6:05pm
Wolfstock sounds fun. Years ago when we were younger and hipper and our friends were younger and hipper we went to Stray Rescue’s fundraising event...
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5-3-24, 6:04pm
oh yeah, Cane Corsos are a trend And then they are not generally family dogs especially from breeders who haven’t been doing it for decades and are...
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5-3-24, 5:35pm
Son-in-law has an obsession with a certain breed - Cane Corso - and they are now on their third one. First was a gentle giant and died from cancer,...
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5-3-24, 5:28pm
Wow! Interesting findings. I've been reading Slow Productivity by Cal Newport which talks about the importance of time off. Also, last week I saw a...
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5-3-24, 4:48pm
LWV Report from the County Council meeting this week:
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5-3-24, 4:11pm
I think that's how I end up with them. They look so cute, especially as puppies, that people get them as pets and don't realize what they are...
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5-3-24, 4:03pm
that’s great, bae. Those houndDogs are so silly looking, they are like cartoon dogs, but I know they’re not silly dogs.
100s of repetitions? I am...
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5-3-24, 3:44pm
For decades now, I have adopted "troublesome" dogs. Usually large scent hounds that some halfwit purchased, who had no idea how to properly train...
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5-3-24, 3:33pm
Leashes and muzzles are a thing that can be used if someone knows their dog is poorly trained.
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5-3-24, 2:28pm
Yeah, I don’t think it is that simple in the world of hunting dogs.
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5-3-24, 1:37pm
Besides being politically tome deaf it also strikes me that it’s an admission that one has no clue how to train a dog.
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5-3-24, 10:40am
It’s interesting to juxtapose a country confronting an exterminationist culture with privileged students demanding that Sabra hummus be banned on...
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5-3-24, 10:26am
Years ago, I was the Controller for a county government about 50 miles north of Madison, WI. One of the stormiest board meetings I ever attended was...
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5-3-24, 6:58am
Sounds fun!
Woofstock - LOL
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5-3-24, 6:18am
I sure hope Kristi Noem doesn’t have other dogs.
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5-3-24, 5:55am
That sounds like such a cool event, jp!! And such a rewarding volunteer activity! I hope you have a great time with your human and non-human...
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5-2-24, 10:26pm
Thank you!!!!
There was no brand on it that I can remember, but I used to play my great aunts organ in the basement of my grandmothers house. ...
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5-2-24, 10:12pm
Did anyone else play a Magnus organ? We had this one in our basement, in the same blonde wood color:
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5-2-24, 9:17pm
As I've mentioned before, I've been volunteering at Marin Humane for the last six months in the Adoption Cat area and I hope to continue doing so for...
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5-2-24, 5:39pm
I can imagine in context it recognizes the legitimacy of a territory and it's peoples as a sovereign state. But it is a rather abstract concept with...
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5-2-24, 4:47pm
I think Israel's "right to exist" was established in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when there was a concerted attempt to drive the Jewish people into...
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5-2-24, 4:26pm
As usual I had to look it up. Humas was apparently elected in a free election in 2006, but that was the last free election and Palestine is...
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5-2-24, 3:23pm
but then it can be argued about the brutality of Hamas to their citizen Palestinians. Young Palestinians won’t know much of life outside of Hamas...
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5-2-24, 10:04am
Sometimes if you go to church thrift stores they have free bins. At least that's what my Uber-frugal DDIL tells me. All of her clothes are thrifted,...
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5-2-24, 9:57am
I don't know much about their elections, but that's a good point that I think gets overlooked by the news we get. Hamas seems to be the authority of...
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5-2-24, 9:33am
Cool steps and beautiful coverlet and the cats are beautiful, too.
Also like the bookcase under the eaves!
I buy a lot of clothes at goodwill and...
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5-2-24, 8:30am
firstly, I am surprised you recognize there’s a difference between Republicans in any way since I’ve not seen that in your posts.
Secondly, of...
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5-2-24, 7:27am
The only real objections to non-gas cooking I’ve seen is that they don’t work very well with woks.
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5-2-24, 6:10am
DH made those steps in our carpentry class a few years ago. It's funny because we put the steps by the bed for Oggie, who had arthritis, but Raymond...
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5-2-24, 6:04am
Nope - I had missed the cat; it must have been inspecting your work!
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5-2-24, 2:43am
I've done what I could do, I cook mostly with a toaster oven and an induction hot plate. If something doesn't fit in the toaster oven (most things...
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