Metropolitan Museum of Art is a whole day must. Shopping on 5th Ave. - don't miss Tiffany's and inside Trump Tower there is a 6 story waterfall which is kind of cool. There is also a ferris wheel in the Times Square Toys R Us. Just FYI. If you go to St. Patricks walk up behind the altar and look back at the gorgeous round stained glass window.

I've been a regular poster for the last year and a half after lurking intermittently on the old boards. Homeschooled from the beginning using WTM recommendations in an eclectic mix. Still working part-time as a small animal veterinarian but my heart is with the horses and cows that I don't have time to see anymore! I love to answer questions so please visit my "Ask the Vet" social group if you have any, I check it almost daily. I live in the frozen north where real women play broomball.:D

I'm planning on having my dd10 read it next fall. But I haven't read it yet to really answer your question.

:ohmy: I just had a client in the other night adament that we change "Pitbull" on his dog's file to "Presa Canario" because he didn't want his dog stereotyped....wonder if he knew about this interesting bit of info.

Something tells me you may be getting called upon for some work soon?;) Thanks for all the info. I defer to Perry on all swine flu virology questions from here on out.:D

I agree that the media likes to scare the you know what out of us. What I would like to know is how fast is this flu killing people and were they immunocompromised in some way. If so then I might be less concerned. I did catch how NBC showed the graves and old footage from the 1918 pandemic...association propaganda at its best.

Yes, I am very concerned about this. I have a vet/epidemiologist friend who probably didn't get much sleep last night as he has been worrying about bird flu for years. This is a strange mixture of two swine flu genes, one bird flu gene, and one human flu gene. No one has dealt with this before and we really don't know what to expect.

WWE: Not to be confused with WWF!:lol: Just kidding. Writing With Ease: Quickly Quipping Quills (I love alliteration) Writing With Ease Causes Ink and Thoughts to Flow Freely

This is so tragic. I see so many of these types of families come through our clinic. They have small children and a very dangerous dog. People forget that they are animals. There are too many good dogs out there to allow these types of dogs to continue to breed, IMO. I get really mad when I read stories like this.

I lived in CT for twenty years. It is VERY expensive, pretty much everywhere in the state. My sister is in NC and lives very well on a modest income, close to mountains and still not that far from the ocean. Don't get me wrong, I loved CT, but I now live in MN and could not afford to move back there at the same level of living with an engineer's salary (which is good). My cousins who have opted to stay in CT have very high paying banker or sales jobs. There is a ton of pressure to keep up with the Joneses that they face in many areas that you would not find in most of NC.

So it appears that left-wingers are only virtual terrorists then?:lol:

I have wondered about this. There are only so many things that will cause neuro signs and then sudden death in horses...en masse. I was thinking they could've been given cattle feed by mistake. It would contain a coccidiostat like Rumensin that kills horses dead and causes signs like they are describing. The fact that they all died pretty much at the same time steers me away from the injection theory, unless they had a lot of people doing the injections simultaneously to have the timing of deaths so close together. It would make more sense that they were all fed at the same time earlier and were now experiencing the consequences. But we'll soon find out from the necropsies.

I had the cryoablation (freezing of the lining) which is supposed to be safer than the thermal ablation. The procedure you linked looked like something else, like a stripping of tissue. It was the best decision of my 40's.:D

Anything you think you can get from a roast sitting in a car over the weekend your dogs can get as well, just FYI. They can get E. coli and Salmonella poisoning just like us. So if it were my dogs, I would not feed it. And smell means nothing, BTW, according to microbiologists.

I posted over at "Ask the Vet"! Sorry, I usually miss the general board questions.

I'm proud of you, too! It would be nice if our governor had the chutzpah yours has!

You know I love you and your chickens, Bill, but I guess I wouldn't call the 25 years of economic growth and peace during and following Reagan's term "failure" but to each his own. I went to our St. Paul tea party at the Capitol. There were 4-5,000 there when I left (near the beginning as we had baseball practice). It was peaceful, respectful. The kids had a great time reading all the signs. My favorite sign was "Obama went to the White House and all I got was a middle class tax cut big enough to pay for this lousy sign"....but maybe that's because I was holding it.:lol:

HI! Just checked in this morning. He'll be fine. At 90# he probably didn't exceed his max in chocolate and it sounds like it was mostly milk chocolate anyway. In the future, just make him throw up right away to be on the safe side. 1 or 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide orally usually has them vomiting within a few minutes. Syrup of ipecac works too. Chocolate is a CNS stimulant so seizures and other neuro signs are what you would see.

I have a 5th grader who enjoys writing ( so much that I outsource it). She is taking an IEW like class at a local co-op once a week with lots of homework. I think in some forms of writing that addressing the reader is OK and makes the piece interesting. The other thought I have is that your ds should not be using contractions in any formal writing (let's) unless it is in a conversation in a narrative. I would change things in bits and pieces rather than overhauling him so you don't discourage his desire to write.

It is not up yet on the desiringgod.org website but....you must see it or read it for yesterday, April 12th. It was such a good message. I really needed to hear it.

My eldest will be 6th grade, a young 6th (really 5th by birth) next year. I want to make school more fun too and really get her critical thinking skills going. We will still be doing the basics, she uses Saxon and doesn't seem to need me there. Rod and Staff for grammar and she has two levels of Spelling Workout left. We are beginning the history cycle over again with Ancients and I purchased two Professor Noggin games, one on Ancient Civ and one on Anatomy as we will be in the Biology year again. I also have Red Herrings and Mind Bender books that she seems to enjoy. We are behind in Latin, so LC1 is where we will be. Rummy Roots is another game I just got to liven things up a bit. I am outsourcing art as that is her strength and not mine. Also, she loves to write and I want to help her "publish" more things on the computer.

I don't know the exact years, but I do know that my dd9 (at the time) absolutely loved these books which counts for a lot with me!

I agree. I've used all four years lightly for the elementary years and now I'll be using them more in depth for middle school. I am adding in Apologia creatures series as well.

Where is that NA na na na na smilie when I need one? :tongue_smilie: I get to hear John preach tomorrow....live. Boy, that sounds arrogant and "groupiesque". I'm not, I'm very thankful. Death is done...amen!

As a Christian, every day is Easter for me! He is alive...sin, Satan, and death have been vanquished...Hallelujah!