Thanks for this link. I had never heard of fish elevators!

A fish ladder is a man-made bypass for fish to get from one body of water to another (for example, if there was something like a dam put in the way, or if a stream was blocked off somehow). That way the fish can get back upstream to spawn in the stream where they were born. Maybe try googling spawning stream for your area? Around here it's typically a stream that empties into a lake or a body of salt water. Or maybe different in other parts of the country. Or maybe not all fish do this?

Take a beach walk at low tide Go to an aquarium Go whale watching Tour a fishing boat Visit a fish ladder Visit a fish hatchery Walk along a spawning stream

In our house, I am the only one who eats raw celery. I buy a bag of 2 hearts every week, $1.99. Sometimes the last couple stalks get thrown out, but not usually, especially if I can figure out something cooked that disguises them.

I have fallen asleep at the theater only once. It was a Woody Allen movie. Although my friend claims I did it twice, but the other movie I don't remember even going to the theater. At home, yeah, often, especially when I used to stay over with friends and the movie watching would start around 11 PM. I never made it through the second movie. Just not enough of a night owl I guess. Also I slept through most of "The Empire Strikes Back" several times. When I finally stayed awake for the whole thing, I thought, wow! It's a pretty good movie! I don't know why it made me fall asleep before.

My 1984 Swatch still works, and I wear it every day. My Guess jeans, on the other hand... I couldn't fit into them if I still had them.

Thanks for posting the video. I have always enjoyed that stretch; it requires a bit more concentration than the rest of the long drive to visit family.

Try doing the quickie brake stomp thing when you're going down a hill, to see if it downshifts for you. You should be able to hear engine pitch change. One time I was listening to a song that has that same sound, while going down a hill, it was like in super stereo.

Ours is like that, but it also has some kind of manual simulator thing where you can "shift" but there is no clutch. For those times when dh wants to pretend to drive a manual transmission, I guess. I don't know if the manual simulator tells what "gear" the car is in. Normally, to downshift going down a steep hill, I hit the brakes once and the engine downshifts. Which wouldn't work if the brakes failed.

:tongue_smilie: And many happy returns of the day!

You've already had 2 VBACs? :thumbup1: :thumbup1: Those lecturing people need to shut up.

Maid, cook, accountant, laundress, chauffeur, healthcare administrator, fitness coach, tech support... or do you mean what I get paid real actual money to do?

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I've only seen it once -- Senior/Junior for a mom/daughter. I was surprised, not that the mom/daughter had the same names, but that they wrote Senior/Junior on the paperwork they filled out. Maybe this is common in some areas?

Only for band/youth symphony concerts. The pants are from the junior dept at JCPenney, not sure of the brand, but JCP always seems to have basic black dress pants. Dd needed a black long-sleeved dress shirt too; that is Worthington (I think) from the misses department.

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Yeah, this is what I told dh I want to do... he is pooh-poohing the idea. It's retirement $ and I've got many years to go till retirement.

I'll look at this - thanks!

I'll look at the google docs app. The iPad is... 3 years old, maybe? I don't know if it has Pages but I will look.

One of my kids has asked for a word processing app for their iPad. Doesn't have to be a free app; I'll happily pay to encourage this kid's interest in writing. Recommendations, please :bigear:

Your area costs less than ours. Here it's almost double your hourly. And they charge for testing, evaluation, interpretation, write-up, etc., so about 18 hours.

My kid had the same evaluation setup as you describe. Beforehand, I verified the CPT (services) codes with our insurance to be sure they were covered. One of them is an hourly code so that is one variable that could depend on the individual kid. The clinic billed about $4000 and it's still out at insurance. The actual cost for any of us will depend on a number of things: your insurance's negotiated rate for each CPT code number of hours billed whether your insurance is copay or co-insurance if your child has already met their yearly deductible what your co-insurance percentage is whether the provider is in-network or out-of-network exactly what testing was done does your insurance cover all the billed services (for example, educational testing may not be a covered service)

Maybe the Paperwhite is more $ because it's proprietary technology (e-ink) or because there aren't many competitors? The Fire is basically just another tablet and there are multiple tablet manufacturers to choose from. eta: terms - I though OP was referring to $40 Fire tablet vs. $100 Paperwhite E-reader. If the question really was why Paperwhite costs more than $60 basic Kindle E-reader, well that would be due to lit screen & higher resolution.

I have a Gymboss MiniMax. It does everything you listed as requirements, except it's not an app. It's a small device that can be clipped to your waistband, onto an armband, etc. You can set it for multiple different length intervals; you're not limited to for example 60/90 repeat continually. You can program it to do something like this: Run 10 minutes. walk 1 minute, run 20 minutes, walk 1 minute, run 15 minutes, walk 1 minute, run 10 minutes. The only downside is you'd want to set it up in advance of your run. I find it difficult to make changes on the fly while I'm in the middle of exercising.