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Grades 1—4 are in person three days a week. We have always had very small classes and capped them lower this year, so physical distancing is not a...

I am not following. Is your school in remote mode, and you want them back in the classroom? What is the policy now where you are teaching? My...

I cannot imagine how difficult and frustrating it must be for teachers right now. Your post made me wonder about the School to Work program at my...

I have been recycling forever. When I lived in my first condo I kept it in my second bedroom and drove it somewhere and then sorted it. I will only...

Ms. Leachman of Des Moines, Iowa. A small world factoid is that Cloris’s niece and I, back in the day in Des Moines, shared a boyfriend off and...

Fettucini Alfredo, Part Deux. Leftovers.

I am becoming more proactive about getting my kids back. Grades 1-12. we do serve a population that probably has a higher percentage of “at risk”...

People have even stopped taking bottles from the trash as much as it's gotten so hard to redeem them. Used to be largely homeless and very poor...

Rich people are trying to cut the line: https://news.yahoo.com/rich-people-trying-pay-skip-182500683.html

The mood here is vaccine priorities change every week, what a cluster@#$# it all is. Probably should have always done it by age as they are now more...

We have 3 choices up here: 1) take bottles and cans to the local transfer station; 2) bring bottles and cans to the redemption center. 3) Bring...

Where I am soda bottles have a deposit and if you put them in your recycling bin someone will come by and take them out long before the trash truck...

Every industry is a beneficiary. Cities here were tripping over themselves to offer Amazon perks for locating a distribution warehouse within their...

Since Brazil is a free country there is a lot of travel back and forth, unlike someplace like Cuba.

My local recycling center requires everything to be pre-sorted and only takes #1, #2 and #5 plastics. I'd like to think that pre-sorted indicates...

What a relief for you and your wife Steve. I know that Brazilian variant is in Minnesota.

Where I live there are hardly any Brazilians and yet we've already seen at least one instance of the Brazilian variant. *shrug* However, as...

What a difference a week makes! The Minnesota Web site for signups opened a week ago Tuesday and you could hear the Comcast network wires popping...

Absolutely we have corporate welfare. Agribusinesses and extractive industries are some of the beneficiaries.

On this topic, but not on the OP topic, there was a great op-ed by Thomas Friedman in the NYT: "Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest." It...

yup

I am going for groceries tomorrow after 13 days. Since it will be bitter cold Friday I decided not to wait the extra day to hit two weeks. I found a...

My parents are finally eligible for a vaccine but have heard so many horror stories on the news they are not even trying to sign up. There are...

I will assure you, being intubated is far more painful, with more side effects, and is more of a hassle for all.

I heard another fanatical medical "expert" on the local news say that even if every single American got a vaccine it would not end the pandemic and...

The 21st century "pit bing"

I am beyond recycling at this stage of life, having done it for decades--and I'm suspicious of how much (if any) good I've done over all. So, though...

Just this week, I got a note from our trash people that they are now taking more plastics, including cottage cheese type tubs, along with the soda...

My understanding that the phrase “socialist snowplow” came from a response to government haters wanting the government to get off our backs and the...

Shifting from silverware to jewelry, here's another sad story of loss (I think I've told this one but it is relevant to this topic): When I got...

It keeps coming back to what one brings into one's life or home and the frequency of doing so. Choose wisely from the start and continually. I do a...

Recycling of many materials appears to be a scam. https://zerowastechef.com/2019/11/13/recycling-scam/ On the island here, our waste flow is...

On one hand it makes life easier as one doesn't have to try to clean and recycle plastic anymore. Although I have done pretty much NO recycling of...

Let me know if you ever come back! As far as driving in cities, I am comfortable driving in NYC, but only because I know it. Washington is not fun...

I've driven in New York City. Just worked out that way; nothing I would have volunteered to do. And I've driven in Boston frequently (ex-wife is from...

Yes, that was our third trip to Paris and I knew full well what we were approaching, that's why it scared me so badly. I made a quick left and worked...

OMG! I can deal with Boston but I would NEVER drive in Paris, esp. on the Champs Elysees. I could barely stand to take a taxi there! I remember...

In all of our travels in the UK, we have never driven. I simply cannot grok driving on the wrong side of the road, with a standard shift, using my...

I think that is the point of the use of this phrase.

We had 8-9 inches of snow with 25 mph winds. I hate winter! And, yes we park our cars in the garage.

DD wisely told me when I inquired about something she and her hubby were "discussing" that one has to pick their battles in a marriage. DH gladly...

As a young woman, had a boss tell me not to wear a bra. Went to the gyn and with legs in stirrups the doc patted my bottom and made a remark. Went...

She was an equally good mother, which sometimes wasn't easy with me as a son. But that's probably true of all boys. Mark Twain said "...it used to...

spaghetti with meatballs and salad. Maybe some focaccia.

That image came from a royalty-free website. https://www.pexels.com/photo/squirrel-in-wooden-tree-2312781/ The original is huge, like 5000x3000...

I'm not a fan of big city driving and will be happy to never do it again. My worst experience was the vacation where we flew into Brussels and rented...

Mulling on this for a moment, this phrase, "sexually receptive", is troublesome. It seems to encode: - women as passive participants - women...

After getting rid of my St. Louis Crystal which had the highest ratio of value to breakable of stuff I own, I don’t think I have much I have to worry...

I've been to Burlington twice - visiting friends. Absolutely loved it! Took the boat tour around the lake - so beautiful and relaxing; walked around...

DH bravely took us on a Boston area interstate to the airport with me as a crappy navigator.He didn’t loose his nerve. But me...never again.

I love Portland so much! I haven't been there since 2018, and it really pains me to type that. Have you gotten a chance to explore the city at all?...

I was stationed outside Boston for three years. I knew fighter pilots who hesitated to drive there. When I moved back to the Midwest, it took nearly...

We do have a generous driveway that allows us to park side by side, and it's only a few steps into the house.

You'll have to have us all over for champagne once you are settled in! We have 19 coffee mugs, and DH commented one day that if we were going to...

I'm a collector, like my ancestors before me, but mostly of useful items. Or they would be useful...Like books, art supplies, and now non-perishable...

Dang!

North of interstate 80: yep, garage required. My friend who moved to northern NH is thrilled with her attached garage and sure I can see that...

Never had a garage when living in Wisconsin in old homes. They are all detached and far from the house if you have one. Our neighbor did build a new...