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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 ration of value to breakable, I don’t think I have much I have to worry about. I...

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...

Funny how we are different in our priorities. When I first joined SL back in 2003, I think, I was beginning to downsize and examining all those...

I'm also in Texas. Nice squirrel pic lol

George, your mom sounds like a great women. So glad her hard work paid off even though it took a long time.

I definitely am now in the camp of use the good stuff even if it gets broke. When Erma Bombeck was dying I saw her on the Phil Donahue show and one...

Same here. My car insurance went down when I moved from the hoity-toity neighborhood to the "working class" neighborhood because in h-t I had to park...

That is wonderful that you get such great use out of your garage. Up north, garages are necessary. They are of borderline use here in St. Louis. One...

I didn't know what that term meant either, so I Googled it. https://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/12/14/impact-porn-culture-girls/ The basic...

I discovered that I have four sets of champagne glasses (small sets, 4-5 glasses per set), and I like them all, so I have dedicated the cabinet above...

All stereotypes are a generalized exaggeration of whatever characteristics are most noticeable in a particular group. But all people are individuals,...

I wonder how representative some of these media stereotypes have been of the population and culture of their time. The fifties housewife, the sixties...

RR, one of the absolutes when I went house hunting was a 2-car garage for my car and the garden tools I would need. I love it!!!!! Never had a...

I've had more than one experience, but most blatant was in the service in the late 70's. A Master Gunnery Sergeant did NOT like women in HIS Marine...

I don’t think Lord Acton or Edmund Burke have anything to worry about.

Well, yes and no. My father moved to another state and told my mother to divorce him because he had lost 3 jobs in less than a year for being...

I try not to have things that are too good to use, but I'll confess to a couple of beautiful French jacquard dishtowels. DH is tougher on things...

Wait, you mean there are places where people put cars in garages?? That's just crazy! We live in an area where most garages are detached, and more...

I think women's roles are constantly being defined for them by men--be it sex kitten on Instagram, happy co-worker with no complaints (sure, keep...

Portland is the closest major city.

Tybee: I think it's a really challenging time of year, compounded by effects of the pandemic, to fall in love with a new place. Give it some time. ...

What is porn culture?

To answer your question is this still prevalent today? The expectation that a mother will stay home with the kids - no. The expectation that...

I worked in retail for a while in the mid 1980s. My boss at the time would follow me around when the store was not busy and ask me what color my...

Interesting watching the Chicago mayor’s press conference this afternoon. The teacher’s union has dug their heels in and are refusing to return to in...

Catherine, it takes a lot for me to get to the quitting part. I stayed in my second marriage for my kids for 22 years to someone controlling and...

Nice, Tradd....

They are beautiful! DH just “spoke” to me about spending too much money lately, so i erased all of the items on my ebay watchlist to get my...

IL they conduct heat like nobody's business. Whenever we watch something like Downton Abby or any period European show with a shot of a kitchen in it...

The truth is my one experience of sexism in the workplace (oh I've met plenty of jerks outside the workplace, a ton) but IN the workplace, is maybe...

Hm. We both cook. We had, for years, dinerware, because it just didn't break. That got too heavy and I was looking for enamelware to replace it with....

Mushroom burgers, not vegetarian.

Copper pans are very attractive to me right now. Two of you have mentioned them. Do you keep them copper colored shiney? Tell me about cooking...

Today I broke a new trail in the forest... tramping on snowshoes. I am investigating a new sit spot, with conifers standing to the north, at my...

I owned some earth shoes, maybe 10-15 years ago.

Back in the 80's my then DH and I worked in retail and he was a housewares buyer for a very nice department store. Needless to say we bought the 80's...

A tour de force.

The idea that some man would define my life was poison to me, thus my never-married status. I like men--a lot--but on my own terms.

Mine was a BankAmericard too, and I have no idea what I used it for--schoolbooks, maybe. I did like Earth shoes, though I never had any.

My mother always told me that she wanted to know another life besides the mountains she grew up in where most women married very young to farmers or...

I traveled extensively for my job for years. I know many people but would classify them as acquaintances not anyone I could count on for help. I...

Cottage cheese while beets roast. I will probably have them with sour cream.

Guess I took it to mean today too...

My first credit card was a BankAmericard and my first credit purchase was for Earth Shoes. 1974.

Too funny:))

Oddly, I don't remember having any trouble qualifying for a credit card, circa 1967 or so.

Burrito filled with finely diced carrots, onion, mushrooms plus chicken and an Asian pear.