Tybee
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I love that one. Fingers crossed!

Many chop them up and put them in muffins?

I know, right? IL, I finally got the picture to work and I really like that staircase. What did you replace it with?

I think the Ramsey Baby Steps are terrific, and he gives a lot of very good advice. Apparently he gives some not so good advice, too, and runs his...

I like Razz's post a lot. OP, if you are thinking of downsizing and moving away, and you have an open time frame, I think the 10 items a day idea is...

We had a similar era house in Illinois once, and there was a 15 year period where they made cardboard sewer pipes--seriously, compressed paper...

I don't know how you feel about painting the interior of a log home, but I found some beautiful images of just that, like this one:

Took a kitchen faucet back to Lowes, and they took it back, even though we bought it 6 months ago--we had not opened the box, it was for the new...

I can't remember if they gave Moderna or Pfizer to everyone, staff at residents, at my parents assisted living place. 104 vaccinations and zero...

Everybody has to do what they have to do with respect to being with family during the pandemic. Sometimes you don't have the greatest choices. My...

Yppej, if you can visit your parents safely, then that would be good. I guess you guys are the only ones who can figure that out, what is a safe...

I love the more expensive one, too. It is totally cool. And that is a big space differential. The layout looks fabulous. And I lived in a...

It got warm there for a couple of days and the ice fishermen went away. It's 12 degrees now, so I guess they will return, but not sure when.

New house has godawful leaky front door front window area. We will not use this door until spring until we can build a porch to step out on. Am...

I am in a great hurry as need to go into the nursing home on compassionate care visits to my mother. Also see my grandchildren and don't want to get...

Tammy, it is so good to see you posting, and I hope you stay.

Cool news!

Me, too, newgig, and if I said anything unwelcoming, I am so sorry. I think we ought to work as a group on being nicer, so that we feel that this is...

Down in SC at Bi-Lo, if that happened, they would actually give you the whole nine dollars and the peanut butter. I got a free pack of lemon cookies...

Wow, that is lovely.

I started watching The Lie. Has anyone else watched it?

I might be able to do that.

It is!!

My folks in assisted living got their first vaccines last Monday. A great relief.

Oh man, Early, that is rough. Hope everybody recovers well.

Oh wow, info from the field--how cool! Fifteen points of testing sounds good. That last part about not really knowing sounds not so good. Was it...

Two of my favorite movies are Baby Boom, where Diane Keaton leaves the rat race and moves to Vermont, and Funny Farm, similar kind of theme. They...

It's funny, Tradd, I read the title as being ACLU warning against blocking other people, like we do here, not Twitter banning anyone, and then I read...

We had best split pea soup ever. We had brought the peas in a bin full of food and the moving trailer showed up yesterday and so we cooked the peas...

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If you are worried about rights to the house then it sounds like you need a lawyer now. Please protect yourself.

Yppej, for what it is worth, I too believe you were bullied here and were the target of the kind of remarks that you stated, quite early on. I...

When we lived in Beaufort, there was a really nice apartment complex where you could get a three month rental. now that he is in the house and you...

I had two Ralph Lauren floral pillow cases that I got at a thrift shop, and the window at the new house has shutters on the bottom, and a tension rod...

Another thing I like to do when I am feeling low is to read biographies. There are always rough patches in people's lives, and it is instructive to...

That sounds nice. My only plans right now are to say a prayer, breathe a sigh of relief, and smile a lot.

We tried this one at Menards and vowed to someday get one, or two- Osaki OS Champ Brown Massage Chair at Menards®

That's a good plan, Yppej. I would like to get my husband to try it--he is the one who is constantly going to the grocery and constantly thinking...

Razz, in your original post, you asked, "So basically, how do you manage your own mental self-care? I usually recognize it for what it is - start...

That sounds really lovely, Rosa. We are waiting for the pod with our furniture to be delivered, and then I can put my silver in the sideboard when...

Ay-up (practicing New England speak).

Thanks, not sure of the permanence yet, as have not sold Michigan house yet, but yes, we are here, for now.

Hang in there, Tradd, and give the situation time--it sounds like the adjustment problems are on his end, and he just needs to grow a bit and it will...

Thanks, Razz! Not sure yet if it will be our permanent house but it is indeed closer to family and we got to spend Christmas with my two...

Cannot handle the little pieces--that is why we have gone to the 300-500 piece ones because I can't see on the little pieces! Very cool though Cathy...

Yes, to stop letting my family push me around. To be WAY more assertive with family.

So sorry to hear this news, what a lousy surprise to end a lousy year. I lived in a 400 foot condo in Chicago that had a doorman, and liked it...