iris lilies
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he is one of those academics who did important work early in his career. His subsequent fame and fortune sunk him.

I will confess that in the year 2017 I bought a MacBook Pro, way too much computer for my needs. It never really took to me. I didn’t take to it....

I thought all good quality LED lights were $3-$5. Granite, I don’t change the lightbulbs in our house so I don’t really keep track of what we have...

Good luck in getting your Mac fixed soon. How annoying!

It all looks beautiful. Quite a lot of variety.

JP, I’m not your performing monkey and as much as I love you, I won’t respond to your commands. If you really were sincere, you would remember I’ve...

Isn’t another state doing that as well, one out west?

I think a lot of that has to do with the media back in the day not being so Team Red and Team Blue in their reporting. Identity politics were not so...

Hmmm, and I could find your complacency about Hamas and the support they have from your buddies in the leftie space very upsetting, as someone who...

Your premise that I owe you any sort of explanation for anything is flawed. But that said, apparently you haven’t been reading carefully, because I...

This is exactly my experience with my own direct care physician. I have been amazed at the times she reaches out to ask questions, give me advice,...

I use my credit card for most everything too, 99% of spending. The record keeping aspect has come in handy, not only for purchases, but to track my...

The discussion taking place some days ago on the national stage was about the extreme violence done to Jewish babies, the act of beheading.

You are funny. If I carried that same logic to you, I could say “ because you completely don’t express that you have a problem with beheading Jewish...

It is just such an unexpected thing. Taxes, I get. The tax man will extract his tax. But I never expected Medicare to be impacted. Well, live...

It is only for one year.

Oh the Trump kids and any other Trump shenanigans. Why do you think I’m OK with any of that? Seriously? I truly cannot understand why you think...

yes, JP, I think it is “weird “ that Hunter gets his dad on the phone when he’s talking to his business partners. What is the point of that I wonder.

What exactly: There was a phone call where Hunter with his business partners got his dad on the phone to chat. I’m not saying they chatted about the...

Oh no (she moaned) so we have more of this to look forward to? Ugh.

Here is a rant about yet more financial consequences to the capital gains event for us that took place last year. I bitched and moaned about the...

I don’t know what the legal definitions are for these kinds of congressional inquiries. I saw enough to think there’ssome thing there worth...

I was wondering about the “impeach Hunter Biden “charge, but I was busy doing some thing else and couldn’t devote time to rereading what JP had said...

did he have the hot water heater replaced? I guess the hot water heater is for your unit only, right?

Oh good. So you went for a few days without it and that’s not easy, thanks for being a patient tenant.

Why can’t you pay five dollars each?

The little trees are sweet. I love the mushrooms. How high are the mushrooms?

I’ve already made and frozen containers of turkey noodle soup, made with the bones from our turkey. I still have hunks of turkey meat to use up....

Here I was just thinking that “sale “prices don’t affect me much because I buy items when I want to buy them, and then, Bam! Yesterday the Facebook...

That is a good place to be. The Xmas clutter does get out of hand quickly. when we lived in the city, I had a whole storage closet for Christmas...

J, good to see you around these parts!

bobby knows we bought a new Bronco Sport a few months ago. Even more galling, I have decided to trade it in after five years. I’m going to be one of...

Haha, well, I told ya’ll that once I started high blood pressure meds I felt it unlikely that a big stroke would take me out. Nawww, it will be mini...

While we’re at it, we will Die Broke. Living (and dying) the dream is to die suddenly of a heart attack or stroke, having spent my last dollar...

There are many voices here that are anti-statin besides our friend, Jane. About cholesterol and heart disease and dementia: the trick is to have...

Thanks for the review, Roger, for “All the light we cannot see.” I will probably skip the film.

I have 0 advice to give about reducing cholesterol via diet. You don’t strike me as someone who eats much fatty stuff. You can always work with...

Cherries! Wonderful gift.

I know, the Christmas decorations are great. They’ve already gone up in many houses around our little village, and they’re very charming.

If I sound, cranky here, I apologize, but if you read responses here, you will find that those who are not stressed out by the holidays do in fact,...

unfortunately, nope. It’s the real date. We eat fruit from the bottom of the freezer and it’s fine.

wait— you mean there’s voter fraud? I didn’t think you were concerned about that.

It’s really good that you discovered that before you left and let your landlord know. It’s all on him.

That is good news.

Roasted cauliflower! That’s what I’ll do with the cauliflower. Better than boiling it, thanks for the idea.

We are eating a few things from our garden, including cherries from the bottom of the freezer from the year 2005. But they look good in the pie.

Aww, that us hard. But Whole Foods. Pricey. DH is sad because the Save A Lot store here in town closed. The owners retired. It is the opposite of...

This afternoon I pitted cherries from the deep freezer. The cherries were labeled “2005” year. Then DH made a cherry dessert for tomorrow’s dinner. ...

When I think of low fat Third World cuisines, I immediately think of Vietnamese. I love Vietnamese! And then there is Japanese sushi, a low fat dish....

I was going to suggest Indian, since they are have a great vegetarian, tradition and food, but I can see the problem if your Indian restaurants are...

The dining-out scene is abysmal here in Hermann. I am seldom tempted to go out because there’s just no place I like to go to eat out. Sure, there are...

now THAT is an eclectic list worthy of you Rosa. A Gentleman in Moscow is one of those serious books like All the Light I Cannot See that is on my...

because we are doing gut rehabs, we buy some “out their items rather foolishly. Decades ago, I remember the very first thing we bought for our...

I dont want to spend the necessary dinero on near-perfect coins. Condition is key in that collecting world as you know. The oldest thing I have...

Decor tip, a basic one for me: just live in a place before you start buying things. Already I’m jettisoning a couple of things I bought for the...

I like Krakauer and have read both of those books. I still dip into lore about Chris McCandless and theories about his death including now one about...

Omg the final scene with the shirt is so so sad.

I set out to read 12 books this year, yes the entire year. Not a very ambitious program! But my count is 14 so far. So at least I met that goal.