iris lilies
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yup, that’s what all the provocateurs say!haha.

Gosh. Are there others here who keep doing the same thing and expect different results? Makes me wonder… You could interpret this however you...

I didn’t know or didn’t remember that you have no financial investments. Well then. Jane, I’m just gonna give it to you straight —you and I...

I never thought UL was mean, I just thought he was extremely direct and he liked to be a provocateur much like George Parker. UL was pretty...

Surely you made comparable money in the financial markets? But who knows. Real estate roulette especially the kind of nuttiness it goes on on...

I think UL was rational, not sure why you think he was not. I get that you don’t like him though. Yeah I think we got that through and through.

razz, a few months ago I brought up the fact that I was listening to an Audible book and I didn’t like it. That’s when several people here piped up...

That is hilarious. We could make an amusing parody called “Your Money or Your Lie” that would have chapters such as: Drive your Hummer every day...

Only during Covid will I waste my time doing this. I want to clear $10 per book. In the last batch only 1/3 sold. I do not relist them, I move that...

yes!!! Oh yes yes yes! I have been eyeing these refinished dressers with floral froufrou accents for months now. Originally I thought I would do a...

I made $103.56 on eBay this month selling books.

The random nature of these appointments is maddening. A few minutes ago I read on Nextdoor that a local hospital is giving Covid shots to those...

The current finish of your dresser isn’t one that I would like, so painting it would only be better in my book. I rather like the trifold mirror.Hi...

Haha,I’m sure these college professors werent the only ones to do it. They were a little different from the occasional prank though because they were...

More walks less meeting is funny! I used to volunteer to take minutes at meetings at work because that forced me to keep my mind from wandering....

Haha everyone in my neighborhood wanted him! That’s why he quit his job working for a plant company Many years ago and into business for himself...

I can write for hours about hobby groups, organizations, how they operate, their goals and activity, etc., I’m on the board and an officer in...

It’s a wonderful story about simplicity and simple living, thats for sure. When ideals and goals align with our achievements, that seems like a...

I just had leek and lentil soup! Love leeks.

I know, exactly! I have been telling him that I expect him to quit the condo work after mid March because by then it will be gardening season...

That IS a lovely way to put it. I used to tell people who commented that we had no mortgage that they, too, could be mortgage free if they were...

I will carry permanent resentment toward the person on the board of directors (who by the way is supposed to be sophisticated in working with...

And I see almost everything as an exercise in values these days. Maybe it is the place in life where we are.

A little of Ayn Rand goes a long ways and those novels of hers are excrement. But not surprisingly, I identify somewhat with some parts of...

As I elaborate below, do-gooding on the basis of differing values is the problem. When I join organization A with goals to benefit organization A,...

I do mean it as less than complimentary because their efforts remind me of herd activity, group-think, going back to high school where THE group...

I am spending ridiculous amounts of time chasing down a way to get these French Coolie shades that I have fallen for made into a light fixture. The...

Dude, I have no trouble being judgmental. :~)

Omg is there a Reddit simple living group!!!??? Of course there is. I should’ve known. There’s a reddit group for everything. I recently left...

You have hit on something here. It is The New People in my neighborhood who seem to be anxiously quivering to “help” and I find that—jarring. It...

I think George Parker has assigned an overly negative connotation to “modest” as in modest goals. We are all talking about the same thing. This is...

Oh right! I love the idea of modest goals or modest expectations as I see them. That is how we achieve contentment in simplicity, by reaching for...

I might qualify as a “non trump Republican.” Please show me where I said the Jan. 6 debacle is “no big deal.” Your continued characterizations of...

hmm, ok I will take that under advisement. I doubt that I will ever mask up like a surgeon to wash chicken and avoid microscopic bacteria, but I...

Of course people choose what to post. Sure. I re-read your post as you requested and still get the same message from it. Maybe I am wrong. Are...

I usually wash it in a deep kitchen sink so the only splash back goes into the kitchen sink.

haha! Just ran across a book that made me think of you: ...

The blue waves piece is gorgeous I love it! What is it has a finished piece?

OK I’ll bite. Who exactly, name names, needs to step up to represent whatever it is you think is not being represented? My comment about both...

oh hell yes! Can’t you feel the slimy bacteria all over it when handle it? Now does it really get rid of significant amounts of bacteria?...

probably a lot of people from both “sides” need to get over it.

I miss PDQXYZ, a poster from long ago here. But I will paraphrase his words about G!w Bush which I thought were funny in their simple truth: ...

People they be weenies. I haven’t worn a real winter coat here in years. I have a heavy hooded sweatshirt and wear it over a long t-shirt. My...

Ok you people! Haha. I was wrong, here are the actual, fixed annual costs to have our Hermann house at a basic level: Real estate taxes:$1,245 ...

Also I have no house payment. The average cost of living you quote probably includes mortgage payments. I don’t have one.

see adjustment above. But that doesn't include insurance, forgot that, ‘ tho insurance is cheap but yeah, more added. Oh you people, you want...

Hermann house: Taxes are $1,100 annually utilities that are necessesities are, ok more than $100 monthly. Wish I had the bills here. Probably...

When I think about cheap places to retire, it is never south of the border in the United States. It is always Asia or eastern Europe. And that...

Good for you! The do-Goode’s in my neighborhood tried desperately to find people who needed their shopping done. Two large efforts and more than...

I think comparisons of 9/11 and insurrection on January 6 are not reasonable. Which is not to say that the January 6 incident wasn’t serious, because...

Did you live in Corvallis? I interviewed in Corvallis 32 years ago for a job but I ended up in St. Louis.

That is wonderful seeing that nice old San Francisco Victorian carefully moved along to a new home. That’s a classic SF house.I hope it land safely...

Has the movement to leave garden debris thru winter reached your world? there’s a name for it but I can’t think what the name is. It’s a movement...

I feel like I might like Hand to Mouth as a snark read. There’s a small genre of those kinds of books and we’ve discussed them here over the years,...

Myn brother-in-law was one of the pioneer researchers in No Till . He’s a PhD researcher at an Aggie college and he also does hands-on work in...

My go-to method for hauling most everything is 5 gallon buckets. Even in our community garden where we have wheelbarrows a loaded wheelbarrow is hard...

We use a tarp many times, too. We do not have a garden cart or a wheelbarrow. For my once a year a garden cleanup of my city garden I use empty...

Thats the one I had last fall. I thought everything had shifted to Suprep now. I wish you luck! I also have a Cologuard last summer that showed...

I saw it twice in the theater. That and Atonement are the only two I have watched twice in theater. But here we are talking about films that are...