pinkytoe
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My cat is only 8 yrs old but has to be accompanied to her food bowls/water every morning. Just a couple of pets and baby talk and she begins eating....

One of the most stressful things I ever experienced with pets was traveling here with my two Siamese cats in a cage in the back of my car. The poor...

Never heard of stainless but bought a fabric one after tiring of lugging around the heavy vinyl one. The fabric one is interesting because it...

I think you have a new life and unless you are emotionally attached to the cat, I would let it go to a new owner. There must be rescue groups in your...

Home inspectors are up there with realtors in my book.

I recently made a salad with arugula, goat cheese, black olives, red bell peppers, pearled couscous and some other stuff for a neighborhood potluck....

I have to add, I have very pleasant/decent neighbors on my block for the most part. Just got lucky with the noise and smell makers being the closest...

We have thought often of moving to the country but know from friends/relatives that the same inconsiderate behavior goes on there. Guns especially.

Big changes seem to happen on Thursdays. Yeah!!

We always called him Barely Cantaloupe.

I am not normally a TV watcher but on occasions when I am considering a Netflix film or flipping through network channels...I am amazed at the level...

Think how many things require another thing to work correctly. A thing for your thing.

The thing I keep pondering is what exactly is causing so many young males to go down a path of no return? I see many of them since moving to middle -...

I thought about this as I looked for a toaster oven today. What used to be a simple device has turned into something that is way too complicated and...

The problem as I see it is that so many people these days live inside their own minds with grievances they believe are real. They have either not...

A tiny tome (actually a commencement speech) called This is Water. Definitely food for thought.

I've been having the same thought I did before the 2008 recession...how are folks affording all these new cars, toys, tech etc? House of cards.

Reading Nothing Undaunted by Dorothy Wickenden. True story of author's grandmother and friend (East Coast Society girls) who traveled to the wilds of...

Congrats! We bought this house as a fixer-upper right after retiring. We did much of the remodeling work ourselves. It has consumed our time up until...

I haven't seen the new Lion King but read an interesting review about how amazing the effects were and how technology is/will be able to manipulate...

I wish more young energetic people would get enthused for candidates as they did for Obama. I think it is a pretty sure bet (I will be surprised if...

MIL is using up her stash paying around $8000 a month for pretty basic assisted living accommodations. Kind of looks like a cheap hotel that serves...

I think my brother is a borderline hermit. We just call him a mountain man as he is happiest outside hiking up mountains, rafting rivers and by...

We had it for several years and I got tired of ordering things that ended up being cheap Chinese junk so canceled. And always a concern about...

I don't think I would turn in my notice until the other job is a sure thing. As a staffer at a major university who sometimes dealt with...

I grew up without a lot of guidance so I doubt I would be very good offering it to someone else. Makes me sad when I see so many humans making bad...

So interesting to watch folks on here go through big life changes. My turn next but not just yet...

As usual, I have a mystery melon/squash that started in the compost pile. I moved it to one of my lasagna beds and it is gigantic. Last year, it...

Currently reading Lost Without the River by Barbara Scoblic which is a memoir of her life growing up on a family farm in the 1930s-40s. It takes me...