pinkytoe
Senior Member

It is something like 9 degrees outside and snow-globey so watching things germinate under lights is keeping my spirits high. Hope.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kinsolver. Told from the vantage of a boy growing up in Appalachia and all the woes therein. Good read so far...

Butter was $2.49 at Safeway with a digital coupon. The price variances at different stores are aggravating so we end up shopping at several stores...

Split pea soup with cornbread and salad. I like to make big pots of soup from scratch and freeze some for future lunches.

This has been a very cold and gray winter so I am organizing every space I can think of to keep from going nuts. Normally, the sun comes out and...

I live on a block with at least four households with "basement boys." They are unemployed or retired middle-aged men living with a parent or relative...

Though the downtown library here is our closest one, we travel to another branch not frequented by folks seeking shelter and wi-fi. I would be very...

I read today that Cal-Maine, nation's largest egg producer, is having record profits.

I feel like someone here recommended this book. Breath-The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. All sorts of info about how humans used to...

DH just finished a wooden tortilla press with scraps and hardware he found in his stash. For the handle, he used a piece of an old broom handle cut...

One of the most helpful knee exercises a PT gave me was to sit on the edge of a table and swing your leg back and forth 100X. I don't think I have...

I think I need to move to Hermann along with my German DH:)

Speaking of building materials, it drives me nuts when these HGTV shows do their demos and destroy cabinets and fixtures that could be re-used. I...

These days, I only use my iron for sewing chores like hems. It is probably 20 years old and still works great - just a cheapie from Walmart....

All this biz (on both sides) about gov records being found where they're not supposed to be is somewhat tied to inefficient bureaucratic procedures....

Spinach salmon avocado salad and something else TBD.

Well...someone elected these bozos.

I don't recall this in our previous city, but here they bring van loads of "mentally challenged" people to the library. They mostly just wander about...

The yucky grocery eggs are $5 a dozen here. The better ones are $8 and up.

I read that the Boulder Library was closed recently due to meth contamination. Sad...

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum. Interesting to me because it shows how the development of forensic medicine came to be during...