I am firmly in the camp of "bring joy to your life". Our time here is too precious to continue to sweat the small stuff. My Halloween things are staying up until TDay. I have some cute things that make me happy, and replacing it with typical harvest stuff after already having that up for the month of September won't make me joyful. I am going to leave Yul stuff out longer this year too. All of our stuff is very woodland themed. Reindeer and snowmen in the yard can be up all winter as far as I am concerned. My Nisse collection makes me smile.

Same. Cheese, GF crackers, and sparking water...take me somewhere pretty to sit, talk, and snack. I don't need an expensive meal, and chain restaurants get old. Their prices keep going up, quality keeps plummeting. I am happy sitting a park just getting to know someone or meeting for coffee/tea in a quiet place.

Swedish dish towels Museum membership Homemade pancake and biscuit mixes in glass jars Produce basket given in a laundry basket which can then continue to be reused maybe include some nice local honey in a glass jar or ceramic jug Houseplant in a nice, permanent pot with drainage Practical tool like a drill Cloth napkins

I claim the 5th!

Kelly, I hope your medical team.will take you seriously and do the testing.

I am just gutted. I love chocolate. And I was going to make hot cocoa mix for all my adult kids. That seems like a very poor gift indeed.

Awesome! Well done! 💃💃💃💃💃

You guessed right! 😂😂😂

My worst first date was a guy who asked me out to dinner then drove through the McDonald's drive through, and took me to an insurance sales pitch seminar. According to his friends, he was surprised when I chose not to go out with him again.

It is disturbing to me that we haven't heard more about Mexico. Mark and I want to help. We will check out World Kitchen. Thanks to all who have been discussing this here. I feel like the Hive is a better source for what is happening in the world than many, many other sources.

This 100%. This person would not be in my personal orbit after that. If they figured out they were being ghosted and asked about it, then I would tell them what lead to my decision and walk away. No need to have a discussion.

$36 for 16.98? I fear they are sawdust and sugar held together with elmer's glue!

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These are macarons. They are not cake. They are not sandwiches. They are also not pies. If anyone says an Oreo is a cake, we are going to have a girl fight! 😁

Also, my bread is not a sandwich. It did not rise properly despite fresh yeast and a perfect environment. Grrrrrr.... It is dense and wants to fall apart. I have managed to make it into garlic toast instead with some asiago on top to help hold it together. Done tell me that is an open face sandwich. Just no. It is garlic toast.

This is a very, very hard NO!

Pictures are wonderful! I always feel like the Badlands are best enjoyed before June 10 and after Sept 10 just to avoid the miserable heat. Custer State Park is a joy. Though it doesn't have geysers and paint pots like Yellowstone, I still love it more because it is not overrun with people so there is time to just ooze along and take it all in without crowds, and turons (apparently my kids' generation is calling all the "tried to get a selfie with bison and found that the rules of nature apply to me" people). Glad you had a lovely trip!

Relieved no one is near, but so sad that everyone is prepping for the worst.

I read that it is in Canberra, but so don't know where all of you are located so I was worried. I hope you are all okay, and that this fire is out out very very soon.

I will tell you what isn't going to be a sandwich. My stupid loaf of GF bread with fresh yeast and a perfectly warm and humid kitchen if it doesn't rise. And I am mad as heck about that because I am making potato leek soup for supper and wanted grilled cheese to dip. 😠😠😠😠😠

Well, if the Earl of Sandwich said it, then we better get in line with it! 😁

Right. And I would imagine that if they were heavily regulated it would be possible to have common sense protections like this, especially for livestock farmers. I know wild dogs and pack hunting is a major problem. But we can have something like this where there are enough hoops to jump that a person proves they have the need and are fit to own like gun safes with combinations finger print trigger locks, something like that, and a recheck every couple of years to make sure the person hasn't done anything that would disqualify them from continued ownership. The problem is we have leadership that doesn't give a rat's rear and wouldn't know common sense if it smacked them dead in the face.

Okay, I will give you that! 😆

I am sorry. This is very unfortunate. Some families are like this. My sister in law is one such person, and so since she would be mad about anything we did for mother in law that wasn't here original thought, and that she was not the driving force behind, we just ignore her and do it anyway without I forming her of our plans at all. I do the same with my brother because he married a very bad person. It is fought or sure, but sometimes you just do what you know to be right for the other person, and just straight on ignore the rest of them, and do not attempt to include them. It gets exhausting when people are like this. I get it!

Right. The thing they are acknowledging with the silencer is that the only reason to own a silencer is to kill someone without anyone hearing the shot. They know that the motivation to own a silencer is 9 times out of 10, bad. But what they refuse to acknowledge is the same thing about assault rifles. The reality is that the AR15 exists for killing humans. That is it. It is an instrument designed by the military for the purpose of mowing down the enemy. But if they put the same process in place to own an AR15 as they do for a silencer, they would be acknowledging this, and well, NRA money is very lucrative.