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Oh, Tradd, that sounds AWFUL. What a cluster this has all been. And what has been gained, for the American people?

DH and mouse and car - we had a 1969 Barracuda in the early/mid 1980s. DH loved that car and kept it mostly clean and tidy (rare for him!). ...

families can be very tangled things. My FOO has never been, but we're pretty chill and don't envy what each other has. DH and his brothers had some...

Ah, life with rodents! Good title for a book! Or a thread, lol? Do we all have mouse stories? I know I have a couple... and IL DID say animal...

tangentially - but still a peeve!) I hear this all the time from people who are wondering why lower income families keep kvetching about not being...

I do see your point, IL. I don't know the backstory, but it's quite possible that to get one set of issues addressed (laws, programs, etc under...

I'm bad at rehoming books, but I do it from time to time. Those with useful information that I no longer need (I've given up on the idea of living...

IL, I too wear a good deal of my food. I have trained myself to match my shirt to whatever food I'm planning to eat. Italian? red/pink/orange...

Rosa, that sounds lovely! I like the idea of life-celebrations much more than funerals.

Well, I'm glad frugal-one and Bae still with us! And I too have never had a NDE.

Of course we have some control over our lives! I really wasn't trying to say we don't. Just that focusing on security at the expense of living said...

Well, I like happystuff's thoughts on the matter, will think on that slant a bit more - Personally, I'm a little more down-beat about it. It has...

Agree with all of the above - It's fairly easy for me to write a generic "thanks for support in a difficult time" or whatever fits the occasion. As...

I do not disagree with what you say. There was a lot of frustration with the status quo and frustration (as we see currently) can lead to really bad...

huh, I sure missed all of that, and asking around my age-group of friends and acquaintances, they don't remember it like that, either. We were sure...

So far, I've put in a couple hours on the yard the last few days, and I can see a bit of difference, even if no one else can. The weather's been...

Yeah, Reagan was about as depressing as could be. We went from a president who was totally focused on the plight of the common American, and then...

If I get most of the branches, sticks, blown-in trash from neighbors, and misc. yard crap removed before we leave to go up East the third week of...