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  1. Particularly set in the US during that time period. We will be listening to it on a trip to the WASP museum in Sweetwater, TX (about 4 hours each way) A place to hang the moon by Kate ALbus is what I am currently considering but 1) England and 2) One of the kids has already listened to it
  2. A trip to Honduras with my son next summer.
  3. Wow. You're in a very low cost area. I'm in Texas here and people are paying closer to $2K/mo for 2 bedrooms. (They are looking for $1200/mo but having to travel a lot to find it)
  4. Note: The rash took a LONG time going away once it showed up. Even taking all the medicine, etc. And the area where the rash was felt numb and I started to wonder if it would be numb my entire life. And sometimes I'd "Feel" the numbness walking around even though it did not hurt. And yes it continued beyond the length of the medicine. However, about the time I thought about going to the doctor to see if it was normal, I realized the rash was getting less and less. And eventually even the numbness went away.
  5. YES! I had shingles a year ago (And a blessed doctor who identified my symptoms even without a rash showing yet and did NOT try to tell me it was all in my head (Which I was afraid it might be since I saw no reason for there to be so much pain!) And the relief was VERY fast once I started taking the antiviral. They also prescribed stronger pain pills but I only needed two total.
  6. This is so scary but I'd take it as good that he's still in the hospital with a plan of attack. Sepsis can go bad REALLY fast.
  7. Honestly, if someone does not like to dye their hair, they need to just stop. Their feels about what is socially required may not be accurate. And they need to be comfortable in their own skin enough to not care what other people think about things that are meaningless.
  8. The dressmaker's shears seem to have that angle so the handles are above the cutting. I believe the lower picture may actually be the 7.5" pinking shears. It is not dressmakers because it does not have that angle for cutting fabric on a table. If you notice, BOTH of the "cutting tips" look blunt instead of being one sharp and one wider like the dressmakers.
  9. What I am seeing for Gingher's are "knife edge Dressmaker" -- Are there non knife edge dressmaker scissors? I LOVE my Gingher's pair. They feel so solid in my hands and cut fabric FANTASTIC (And I keep them put away to keep them from being used for anything else) ETA if you are asking for Knife edge or serrated edge -- get the knife edge. They are the basic fabric cutting scissors. Serrated edge are harder to sharpen and used only for really slippery fabrics
  10. Yes I've got a friend who does door dash and she has her own stories about ridiculous customers.
  11. our guys wear it too. They'll be sent home from the job if caught without it. Oh -- Yeah I'm not sure I've seen people on residential roofs using safety equipment as much. But commercial? It's required.
  12. I do not think it is required at all to dye hair. White/gray hair is distinguished
  13. Oh cool. We've been travelling through West Texas on Christmas day. (A Sunday -- so may have been same year if it was recent). I forget exactly where we stayed that year -- Ft Stockton, Van Horn, or El Paso. But we woke up Christmas day in a hotel. We had the gifts and stockings with us. The kids got the stockings on Christmas morning to open, then we finished travelling to relatives in Arizona and did "christmas morning" the next day with family. (we made extra careful that day to keep topped up on gas but found the gas stations, at least, on that major road were open)
  14. Pretty cool that your husband knew what it was.
  15. Ah Ok. I'd never heard of the K gas station. We just got the Q one right before covid and they became almost immediate sfavorites in our house
  16. QT is QuikTrip -- the station mentioned. There webpage shows a typical store front -- with both the QuikTrip and QT prominently posted https://www.quiktrip.com/
  17. Bucees would be a fun day to go on Christmas. I'd call the Buccee's ahead of time though. Looking around. One article says they are open on Christmas day but close at 8p Another only has hours for Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas and implies they might be closed on christmas.
  18. There are QTs in the Dallas area (Which is where I believe Grapevine is) The food -- is okay. I like their egg rolls. It's gas station food.
  19. What HomeAgaiin says. I use the knives that I find easiest for certain tasks. The BIG knives are good for chopping up meat (like cutting aparts pieces in Chicken etc) But we tend to use the same knives over and over. Bread Knife is great for bread, yes. A serrated tomato knife good for cutting tomatoes. And then I use a longer blade knife and my kids use the shorter blade knife for all th incidental vegetable cuttings. Note: do not put your new knives in the dishwasher. Wash them by hand and put them away dry. The dishwasher is hard on good knives My dad likes to say that sharp knives are safer than blunt ones -- because they will cut easily and you don't have to put so much force behind them. But it does taking learning how to use them. There are videos out there to look and see how to use them.
  20. 1) How exactly does it work to have coffee in shower? Doesn't the water get in the cup? I'd stand outside the shower finishing my coffee before getting in if the coffee was THAT necessary. 2) Sounds like you need to keep coffee on hand. At the very least don't share that you drink out of a cup with your dog. people don't need to know all the details even if you are oK with it (I'm sure there are things I am okay with that would shock others) But mostly--just keep more coffee on hand if running out is that big a problem
  21. Im confused why Take a deep breath or "Lets think about this step by step" would cause a computer's math results to be more accurate. I'd figure the result should be the same either way
  22. The whole digital thing is brand new this year so its very likely no one knows exactly how it is all going to go. My son is taking the 11th grade test as well and everything is kinda fuzzy in the preparation.
  23. Woah. Carrying soccer players off the field. I never saw anything like that in any of my daughter's games (She's thinking about trying out for soccer at her middle school next year)
  24. My favorite baby shower books are SAndra Boynton. But--I'm not organized enough to NOT give repeat books to a family!
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