iris lilies
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Go outside. Touch grass. Join an activity in your neighborhood. Today we had hundreds of folks through our house for the holiday house tour and...

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with holding back on funds to commemorate a day, one of thousands of commemorative days. Sure still a worldwide...

Just theoretically, how many years do we have to have a “day of the disease” past the stage when we truly need to raise awareness for an emergency...

backup cameras are magic!

ok, chocolate I can see. I usually spend $35 to $55 every time I go down to our local handmade chocolate shop so yeah, I can see that.

Well, I have to say way back around the year 2000 when we bought our neighbor’s used Ford Taurus, it was the most luxurious car I have ever had and...

I read When Breathe Becomes Air and it was beautiful and sad. Art ..Morotcycles..book Is an old popular classic and I probably started it at one...

Wait, this is a candy store? How in the world can you spend that much on candy?.!!!

if one more thing comes into my house that I have to figure out from a manual to operate, I’m done. Done with life! Ha ha. I’ve already decided...

Good for you! All the penis cars looks alike to me. Now when you get to little British cars of the 60s and 70s, I’m your man for marque...

I look at rugs from Rugsource too!

Good news.

the last three major pieces of art I purchased came from Europe. Two of them were in late October or early Novemberr and all were over $800, so I’m a...

I regularly ordered items from Aliexpress in China but have cut that out since I have no idea how much tariffs are and how they are collected.

Ugh the light genie really doesn’t like you!

Turkey soup, turkey over noodles, turkey sandwiches. Turkey turkey turkey. I let DH buy the turkey and he got an 18 lb one, too big for us.

It’ s been 3 years since we fibished the new kitchen here. I have several drawers 75% empty. Those open spaces bring me quiet ioy.

I feel shamed for my excessive participation here. lol, kidding. I don’t know, I still am not convinced I need to show up. I would have to comb my...

The mystery of why Xmas lights don’t work all of a sudden is right up there with the mystery of missing socks. Where did the missing sock go? No one...

Those sock gnomes are funny! I remember one trip to Switzerland years ago and one village. It seemed like every third house had a gnome in their...

I’ll bet you could make some nice ones.

The little boutique retail stores here full of crap no one needs are pushing the “shop local “theme but I don’t need to buy anything. We are buying...

my mom kept her cat’s corpse in the freezer for a while until the Iowa winter ground thawed. My mom had dementia later in life, but honestly, this...

Your fall mantle is pretty! Edited to add: all the colors work so well.

do people actually still stand in line on Black Friday for sales in brick and mortar stores?

In positive news from the sporting world: In Texas over the weekend when the World’s Strongest Woman event took place a male human won it. This...

oh I don’t know kids. I like Zoom because it cuts down on the social chitchat at meetings I have to attend and for that reason I find it valuable. I...

Well la dee dah, my blood is doing important work! I just got a notice from the Red Cross that my blood was sent to Johns Hopkins University...

About falls: I figure I have a few more years before I have to get rid of the throw rugs around my house. Now I like them because they provide...

One of the many stellar things about DH is that he has always been smart and cautious in his work. He did construction for 20+ years and has nary a...

I have to say I was surprised when DH, Mr.Fixit with the mindset of doing everything himself, agreed to gutter guards. Hevalso hired people to stain...

This is not my cat, but it’s a post on Substack that just tickled me so much today. I hope you all can see it. it is a post titled “ a short...

The next time you stalk people in Hermann, be sure and pay attention to the junkyard on Stone Hill Highway, just a stone throw from the beautiful...

I think (without having real data ) prices are a little higher in Hermann because it is more desirable than Owensville. there’s more going on, it’s...

I could’ve actually purchased a house on my starting professional salary in Las Cruces NM as a single person back in the day and I did buy one on my...

There are three not-large older houses for sale within a stones throw of me, what I would call starter houses. One of them is actually very nice, a...

I am thrilled to have found the secret sub Reddit where one can politely talk about trans issues with a gender critical point of view. It is a secret...

That sounds delicious!

The shoplifting in poor neighborhoods is an inconvenient truth and is seen as victim blaming for the problem of “food deserts” there. In my...

I hate wool for that reason. I like cottons and linens which, being natural fabrics, stain. But that is ok.

oh, for sure, it’s not a venture that will even recover costs. But that’s OK, the taxpayers of New York have deep pockets.

Roger, when we moved to a one and a half story house we put Gutter Guard on our gutters. It has helped a lot.

You weren’t suggesting the cities actually going to try to make money are you? It’ll be a tax supported welfare program, yet another feeding program.

https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report The Health and Human Services final report has been issued, with no changes in content other than...

why do you think that is?

My mom spent a couple of years in Rockport during the winter. It was cute way back then, but that was decades ago. my brother and his wife schmoozed...

That is nice of you to not dump sweaters on the second hand stores in July. I wouldn’t worry about using your life’s energy to dispose of clothing...

Yesterday I unfurled a string of icycle lights, ones I had purchased from Goodwill last year. Last year I didn’t really like them after all anfter...

Haha, stop that!

Gas is the only inflated good I notice. It seems reasonable at the moment.

Bird flu is still rampant though. It just killed two of the swans in our lake in my former neighborhood.It also killed some geese there.

I don’t know why I put this topic in Housing rather than in the Holidays forum. But anyway, when I get this place decorated I’ll send out several...

I dipped into the Geisha film a couple of days ago for a few minutes. I loved the book years ago and I thought the film was OK when I watched it...

I love buffalo checks. I use this in the kitchen as well, kitchen curtains that I made. My house is already kinda in Christmas colors. My kitchen...

thank you so much! I have three small tech issues to solve and I need my new best friend, ChatGPT

This is so irritating. all of a sudden, I am locked out of ChatGPT. I get a message something about Cloudsource blah blah blah. The irritating...

Virginia Robert’s Guiffre says positive things about Donald Trump in her tell-all book. However, I won’t go too far into defending Trump in the...

I read that hit piece book by Maureen Callahan because I enjoy dirt on the Kennedy family, they just annoy me and always have but I don’t recall the...