Tybee
Senior Member

+1 It is also much more cost efficient in the long run to invest in healthy family structures than to pay for problems down the road.

Not sure if this counts, but made dog food, using a roll of ground turkey, sweet potatoes, celery, carrots, and celery. It was a big hit.

I wish you could get a better answer though as to what is causing the pain, Cathy. Then you could know what to work on, physical therapy, etc. My...

Feeling very appreciative today for straw. In winter we place bales around the house for insulation. We figure we save about 500-700 dollars in...

Spent last two weeks traveling to family in Indiana, Virginia, and Maine, so we went from spring to super-spring and then back to spring in Maine and...

Cathy, this is what we use for pain relief for muscles (and has worked for back spasms that I have--crippling pain, emergency room level pain):

I have had to rewrite my class policies to account for some of the weird outlier behavior. Maybe your employer is doing the same thing.

Tradd, I find your progress truly inspiring!! We have some good diving up here by Traverse City so think about coming up this way some time. (We...

I know I have systemic reactions to inhaled steroids, and the doctors say this should not happen, but for me, they do. Cathy, you have probably...

I know what you mean about feeling disillusioned. I am a brittle asthmatic and have really had to hit the prednisone over the years. It definitely...

We moved up to northern Michigan 4 years ago--yes it is a dream up here. WE absolutely love it here but are considering moving--when we moved here...

We are traveling to see my son and then my parents, so if we feel up to it, we will add the destination. But it would be at the end of a long week,...

No expert here but recommend a refurbished ipad from Apple store online-- inexpensive way to do what you want to do, and phone will be too small.

Wonderful news, on all fronts, and so glad about safe and happy arrival of new baby, and congratulations to both sons-- I vote a bottle of champagne...

Oh definitely, you are so right about the NY traffic! I also figure that we can meet in the middle and have dinner at a Friendly's if it's too far...

The landscapes are too die for, apparently literally, Rogar! I like the Hailstones, too. The seal vest that she made for her cousin--those buttons...

Thanks, Toomuchstuff and Gardnr, really good advice and getting an inspector is probably the way to go. There is nothing like walking the property...

I know what you mean, affordable living is so much easier with a smaller house! I think we may go to see it next week, since there are too many...

I wish we could be closer but it is so expensive where they are, and we can't really do a mortgage at this point. This is the closest we can get and...

Well, we talked to the realtor and she is sending us more info, but she is pretty discouraging as to condition of house. Of more concern is idea...

So far, I have gotten ideas about making dogfood, how I might want to design my new greenhouse, and the firestarting thing. Other than that, the...

OP, you might want to read Wheatbelly.

jp1, good point about buying no more than we need and then turning barn into studio/guest apartment. We can always build another animal barn, and...

I like being able to share at meetings and know there is an expectation of anonymity. So does everyone else there. It feels like a safe place to...

Another thing to do is to try to find a useful 12 step program. I've been going to Al Anon and we exchange lists of phone numbers, so there would...

Maybe it's just a folie a deux. You are right about his maturity level and hers.

I know, I know. But they were a surprise when we moved into this house, and I had forgotten it was that time of year!

What really draws me is how much I loved that first bungalow I had, plus memories of my grandparents' bungalow in Savannah. I would have to do a lot...

No restrictions that I know of. My husband wants a music studio desperately, and he is the noisy one, so that would be a great thing to add. We...