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I am eating down our pantry, too, both recent stuff meaning 1 year old, and years old canned goods. When the canned good are gone I will have to...

I look at real estate is NH and I love it! The past week I have been perusing real estate in Portsmouth. It is pricey and beautiful. I love the...

This could’ve started out as a rant but it ended up a rave ! Today at the grocery store the checkout guy was taking forever . I couldn’t see...

I have two friends, both single, who moved from St. Louis to Carroll Co. NH recently. They live within 10 minutes of each other. I kid my female...

catherine is right there always sale somewhere. I don’t get the whole love for sales anyway since they don’t seem real to me. my black Friday...

I am hearing good things about a current film, A Marriage Story. i have not seen the Glen Close film.

The Problem With Everything by Megan Dahm. i’m skimming it. It’s a series of essays about contemporary culture, victimologies the outrage...

I never dreamed of technological things in my personal life, although in my work life it was a DragonForce of my interest. I spent way too much...

Old stuff is not necessarily simpler. The Ellen Show has hilarious bits with millennials trying to figure out old stuff like 1) how to use a...

The Gila is very pretty and a welcome respite from the surrounding scrubby desert landscape. When I lived in Las Cruces, it was a common destination...

The refrigerator case, the entire thing, fell forward!!!?? Whaaaaaaaat? That is scary. I’m glad you are following up on this situation. I’ll bet it’s...

i mean fru fru or froo froo or chotchkes

I got rid of 5+ cubic feet of artificial Christmas greenery. Next up: Xmas ornaments and fri fur. One of my tall trees went to a mansion in my...

well, but—those tactics have been used in my city, to round up badnicks with warrants. They had already committed the crimes, the “you have won a...

yes! There are so many choices of flooring! Same with tile. If you go to a tile store There are scads of gorgeous tile. Even the limited selection...

ah yes, the ubiquitous grey barn-board-wannabe floors. I hate those with a passion, arent we all sick and tired of them by now?

I am thinking of green cabinets, yep. Maybe even the trendy duo tones, with white for top and green for bottom cabinets. The white or ivory lightens...

As you tell it, that seems like a ridiculous waste of my tax dollars.

Here is a rant, and I hope no one gets hurt in the process, haha: I love white kitchens and think they are classic, and I also think white/...

It is clarified butter. DH Keeps a jar of clarified butter in our freezer and I have forgotten where I got it from. I told him when he runs out of...

This is a very nice thought and it’s practical at the same time. Do small things as you can. Inviting someone in to live in your home is a really...

The Flower show “stuff “are my tools. There are 50-60 containers and bins of dried plant materials as well as wooden things and metal things and...

Here, when you let someone move into your place they have tenant rights of a sudden. Makes no difference if they’re paying rent or not. I wouldn’t do...

My paternal great great grandmother died in similar fashion, in a household fire event. What was interesting is that we heard this story decades...

I will not be allowed any space in the garage other than, perhaps, one workbench a few feet long and storage under that. The garage is The Man’s...

As a one time Christmas decor queen, both kinds have advantages. The fake trees can be up for an unlimited amount of time since they dont get old...

I constantly think about where things will fit in our Hermann house, and one big area of concern is all of my flower show “stuff.” Currently it...

This is embarrassing: we pulled down all of our fake greenery from our 3rd floor storage area. Here’s the inventory: 4 Christmas trees 12...

Sometimes I think our appliance dishwasher is just dumb. At the moment it is caked with greasy grain and it needs its biennial scrub down. We...

A major problem with grandma providing childcare only a couple days a week is that childcare facilities want a commitment to five days a week and...

Building a good fire is a skill indeed, one I dont have, so it is one of accomplishment. As for living in your cabin throughout the winter, sure...

A bulldog won best in show at The National Dog Show about an hour ago. Very exciting! Clearly the judges realized the phenomenal beauty of a bulldog...

Upthread mention of Xmas decor in the attic reminds me: my job this week to to haul all of our artificial Xmas decor out of our 3rd floor storage and...

I finished His Favorites. It was a good and a fast read!

Chainsawing trees I hope

P.s. the winter months here in St. Louis can have days of sunshine and happiness. Monday it was downright warm and the sun was out. Today DH worked...

I am already sick of hearing about “the holidays “and rosa your thread is adding to that. Ha ha Ha ha ha! but a little bit true, love ya anyway....

Didn’t he though! I’ll never forget the recording that came into our ZIP Code for the national presidential election year —was it the year 2000?—...

I am always a little uncomfortable in what seems like playing both sides of the fence. I didn’t vote for The Donald, but that doesn’t mean I hate...

There are some rumbles in DH’s family estate liquidation. The “bad”sister is asking for an accounting of monies spent on the estate, and she has her...

Hey this is super dooper progress!

Have you told him, clearly, that there is no place for him with you? I mean, having a specific conversation with no wavering, that he may not stay ...

The value of The Joy of Cooking is that it was the first widely distributed cookbook to lay out methods and materials clearly. Cooking guides of the...

He needs to get out of Southern California. Places in New mexico and texas would be more affordable and still mild-ish weather, tho hot summer. ...

Onions and garlic, those are the saviors of food.

Newgig, I am glad your household is moving towards healing.

interesting! That film is cataloged on Amazon prime but it’s not available through Prime. Keep an eye out for it

I watched season 1 of that plus some episodes of the next season. The title sequences are great— they struck terror in my heart and set up the...

Great video! I loved it, funny and true.

Given the flower show this year and an installation for a fundraiser I’m doing, I don’t know how much decorating at home I will do it varies from...

Dont be a Grinch! Decorate largely! Haha, just kidding. Here is a tree I made for today’s flower show competition called “ How the Grinch Stole...

Just this week DH learned that he is called by nearby neighbors in Hermann “chainsaw guy.” He is happy with that moniker. He brought home a slice...

The film Pacific Heights is my second favorite cautionary tale about tenants from hell. My favorite tale (this one a true story) was circulated on...

Japanese gardens are wonderful. That’s really the only reason I would visit Japan not that I have anything against it but there are so many other...

we have 1 acre at our Hermann house. We are big gardeners. In the city we have tiny plots of land and have strung together several over past decades...

There is a high level of non-reproduction amoung my cousin group, REALLY high when I think about it. i mean, the group of cousins I hung out with....

At work I used to have a purgatory status where I deliberately kept paper documents for what I thought would be a short time like six months to a...