Hmmm. I must be in too deep because I no longer think of anything as being too weird to order from Amazon/online. We all use my account so dh and ds order stuff. We never set up separate family accounts even after Amazon allowed that with Prime membership. Some things I/dh/ds bought that others might think strange - - a dog agility training tunnel -pillows -a vacuum cleaner -pasta - I couldn't find wagon wheel pasta and ds (younger then) wanted a particular dish I used to make using wagon wheel shaped pasta -floor mats for our van -yeast - couldn't find Red Star locally -a horse head mask - they were popular a few years ago and ds ordered one -a touchless kitchen trash can -spare toilet paper roll holder -English muffin rings and a French bread pan, neither of which I've ever used -ice cube trays -a digital outdoor antenna -a bird feeding station and some bird feeders -shoes -a crossbow and arrows (dh) -yarn -center wheel caps for hubcaps, with the Toyota logo You win! :lol:

Yes Rose, Cotillion is the other one she sent me. If I end up enjoying both, I'll have to take a look at Venetia. Amy you might have made a Heyer fan out of me after all. :D

I just downloaded this book for only $1.99. Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles Its regular digital price is $19.99.. It sounds fascinating and I know very little about the history of Southern California (or the rest of the state) beyond some Spanish missionaries, the Gold Rush, Chinese immigrants, some earthquakes, and a fire. It seems that's all that's really taught. John Steinbeck's fiction taught me more about California history than any school lessons ever did. Amy - I hope it pleases you to know that I'm really enjoying The Grand Sophy. It doesn't read like a romance IMO, but seems very Jane Austen-ish.

The First Fifteen Lives - Hocus Pocus Second Life - A Spectacle

I always use salted, never reduce the salt in the recipe, and neither I nor anyone else notices.

I haven't read a biography about him but I read both The Right Stuff and The Astronaut Wives Club. In both I was struck by how protective he was of Annie. She didn't want to be in the spotlight because of her stuttering problem (which she eventually overcame) and he did cartwheels to keep her from having to be a public figure herself. I think theirs was a real old-fashioned love story.

Older boardie here too. :) I remember both Alan Shepard's flight and John Glenn's orbit. We weren't living on the Space Coast then as we were still in NJ. It was an event that stopped time while everyone watched. Once we moved here, the space program became a part of our lives. You can't throw a stick around here without hitting someone who works in the space industry. Everyone either works there or knows someone who does. When Glenn returned to space, I took ds to a viewing site to watch the launch. He was only a year old so he doesn't remember it, but he was there. John Glenn really was the last American hero.

Never say never, right? Last night dh and I were in a bookstore. I had coupons. Me in a bookstore with coupons is a dangerous combination. ;) I bought a cookbook! This one. Since gave in to the hype and bought an Instant Pot (I love it) and I enjoy the show America's Test Kitchen, so I couldn't pass it up.

I want to stay in Florida but just a little south (like 30 miles) of where we are. To me the ideal place to live is near family and we both have family here.

My next fridge is going to be slide-out drawer freezer on the bottom, French door. Currently I have freezer on the bottom full size door, and the freezer also has a door. I like having the freezer on the bottom but am not crazy about this style.For most of my life I've had freezer on top, which was the default when I was growing up. It's okay, but I like it on the bottom better so I don't have to bend down for bottom shelf fridge items. I had a side by side once and hated it. Never again.

I do remember rolling down the window and asking for "one dollar's worth please." LOL

Attendants? I vaguely remember those from when I was younger. :lol:

No underage kids at home. DS19 wants the PC game version of Battlefield One. We also got him a casual jacket and an inexpensive pair of VR glasses - the kind you attach to your smartphone. At our Thanksgiving gathering he was messing around with the ones dss has and though he didn't ask for them it was obvious he'd enjoy a pair of his own. They were only $15. For the grandkids 2 and 4? We have no idea. They have a lot of toys and we're waiting for dss and ddil to reply to our request for suggestions.

I came home from book club last night and checked the mail (it hadn't arrived before I left). There was a package addressed to me and although I order online regularly (usually from Amazon but other places too) I knew I hadn't placed any recent orders. When I opened it I found the two Georgette Heyer books Aggieamy said she sent me! Even though I know they can be read in any order I looked at the copyright dates and saw that The Grand Sophy was published earlier than Cotillion so decided to start with that one. I read one chapter before bed and will now add it to my currently reading list. Thank you Amy!!! Happy Belated Rose. Your review was interesting to read in contrast to the book I finished this morning. The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Author Lynn Povich was one of those who originally signed on to the lawsuit. While fashions do change, some things probably become symbols and therefore casualties of a movement. Before she gets to the late sixties and the women who eventually filed the suit, she talks about the early sixties, the Mad Men time. They were the women who lived on the cusp of huge coming social changes and they were confused. Hats and gloves may have been among the casualties. -bolding in the quotes is mine "We were at the tail end of the old generation," explained Jane Bryant Quinn, who worked briefly at Newsweek in the early 1960s. "We wore hats and gloves. We couldn't go to prom and parties without dates - and the men had to do the asking. We also didn't have many role models in the working world." Most of us had graduated from college in the 60s when half of our classmate earned their M-R-S and got married when they graduated in June. "Our generation was raised to be attractive and smart - but not too smart," said Pat Lynden. "We were to be deferential to men, to get married, raise children, and to be ornamental wives dedicated to our husbands' careers." I think the feminist movement (called Women's Liberation at the time) changed fashion when women decided they were no longer going to be ornamental. It may have necessitated radical changes in dress style. Later in the book once they start talking about suing Newsweek, their ACLU lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton (yes her) was surprised by their naivete. They thought they could just ask their bosses to make the changes required by law and it would happen because it's the law. "You gotta take off your white gloves, ladies, you gotta take off your white gloves," she would say. I know you're a feminist and you don't think the world was a better place when women wore white gloves and hats. I know for you it's about dressing nicely within one's budget as well as the lost skills women once had. I was just struck by the stark contrast of The Lost Art of Dress juxtaposed with this book. And I think you'd like this book too.

We're down to one cat. We've always had a cat or dog or (usually) both. The most we had at one time was 4 cats and 3 dogs. Dh and I each grew up having cats, dogs, or (again, usually) both.

That can change very quickly and unexpectedly though. You didn't say if the coverage is comparable, but I think I'd go for the $80 plan. Your dh's job situation could also change quickly and unexpectedly and if it was me I wouldn't want to be on the hook for repaying that huge monthly premium.

I used to subscribe to her menus (both freezer cooking and regular menus) and I have the original cookbook. Some of the recipes have become family favorites. What finally stopped me from buying cookbooks is the realization that I use only a few recipes from each book. I know how to cook and bake and do it well (learned in the kitchen next to my mom starting when I was nine) so I don't need any of the tips or information in cookbooks. I eventually copied the recipes I use and gave away the books. I still have a few but mostly because I haven't copied the recipes yet. I also used to be susceptible to cookbooks with a story or from certain places. Two I still have even though I don't use them are one from the St. Augustine Bed & Breakfast we stayed in on our honeymoon. It was actually from several B&Bs in the city. They got together and each contributed a recipe. I used one recipe exactly one time. The other is the Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook because we enjoy eating at the restaurant, though we've never been to the original. I made their famous 1905 Salad once. Just once. Never made anything else from the book. The Inquisitive Cook though not a cookbook, helped my niece when she wanted to learn about the hows and whys of cooking in general. It gets into the science of food and what cooking does to it, similar to the way they do occasionally on Cook's Country.

Oh, I forgot to answer the cookbook question. Cookbooks used to be my downfall any time I walked into a bookstore. Now I just search online. I've given away nearly all of my cookbooks. I kept a few I like Simply Recipes, Food Network, Allrecipes, Mel's Kitchen and Kitchn. Mostly though, I just search. I'm a good enough cook to look at a recipe and know if it will work and if my family will like it, so I've rarely gone wrong with recipes I find online. The funny thing about my (former) cookbook addiction is that I mostly cook without recipes. On the surface it would seem like I wouldn't want cookbooks, but I always liked getting new ideas, and looking at photos of the dish if the book had photos.

My GWtW connection - I once had a dog I named Tara because I found her as a stray puppy hanging around Jonesboro Middle School where I taught for 2 years. Jonesboro is in Clayton County where the book is set and I had just recently read the book, so Tara seemed the perfect name for my new canine companion. While living in the Atlanta area I tended bar for a while after I quit teaching (long story but I eventually went back to teaching after I moved home to Florida). My female boss and the bar's half owner with her husband is distantly related to the man who was driving the car that hit and killed Margaret Mitchell.

I admit to being taken aback when I saw the number 48 in the thread. Why it just now hit me that the year is almost over I have no idea. Yes, I know it's December. :) Somehow seeing that number and realizing how close it is to 52 just slapped me in the face. Bingo - I only got one actual BINGO and that was the top row across. B - Female Author - I've read 22 by female authors and am currently reading 2 that I know I'll finish before the end of the year. Some were fiction, some non-fiction including biographies and memoirs The Sunne in Splendour - This is going to end up on my favorites of 2016 list and my top 100 list. I - Published in 2016 Homegoing N - Number in the Title Ready Player One G - Dusty - Because I read mostly on my Kindle and because no matter what format I choose I mostly borrow from the library, my definition of dusty is a book that's been on my TBR list for a long time, not necessarily one I own. Things Fall Apart O - Picked by a friend. There are several that fit this category, but I chose one that we read in my IRL book club. The person who chose it has actually been trying to get me to read it for several years now. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I didn't love it. It's one of her favorite books of all time. The Art of Racing in the Rain I've read a number of other categories but none that give me any type of BINGO. The ones that tripped me up and kept me from getting Bingo are Fairy Tale Adaptation, Arthurian (the two I just couldn't bring myself to read), Color in the Title, Play, Written in Birth Year, Picked Based on the Cover, and Revisit an Old Friend. Without at least one of these I couldn't get any more Bingo. I've read at least one (often more) books in all the other categories: HIstorical Over 500 Pages Classic Non-fiction Translated Banned (challenged actually) Mystery Nobel Prize Author Epic Nautical 18th Century Set in another Country

From last week - Ouch Nan! I hope your arm is feeling better by now. I finished A Royal Pain audio book and am now listening to A Man Called Ove. I love it so far. Earlier this morning I finished reading The Snack Thief from last week's foodie category. The food descriptions are a wonderful part of the Inspector Montalbano series. Just one example from this book - "The pasta in crab was as graceful as a first-rate ballerina, but the stuffed bass in saffron sauce left him breathless, almost frightened". A few pages later he describes the cook of this dish as "directly inspired by the Madonna". I also didn't realize that the inspector has synethesia and associates odors with colors - "The office was filled with an unpleasant odor of musk and garlic, which Montalbano saw as rot-green" Apparently it's been mentioned in some of the other books too, but I just didn't notice it before (and this is only the 3rd book so I'm sure I'll see more of it as I progress in the series). My library Kindle copy of The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace came in, and I started reading it. aggieamy, I haven't given up on When Christ and His Saints Slept. It's getting better, but still doesn't have the appeal of The Sunne in Splendour.

We're saving for an Alaska cruise with extended family members.

This cooperative Harry Potter game is on my wish list. Also Jaipur (a two player game). I

I was skeptical until it happened to me - more than once. I don't use tapatalk but the site loads differently on my phone than on my computer. I wonder if using the app vs. reading on the web makes a difference in how easy it is to accidentally do something like downvote.

Yeah, when I saw it compared to a magna doodle I was confused.