I didn't see this on anyones list. We are currently reading this, and I think it is a must for American Lit studies. Karen

The whole showing/breeding etc seems to be a sticky subject. I grew up showing my families Italian Greyhounds. Due to the fact that my dad died when I was 9 we decided not to breed the two champion girls we had. As a young adult I started showing Shelties. I bought the best I could and if they did well in the show ring and passed health test related to Shelties I bred them. I only breed 3 litters over a 10 year period of time. I never used my own male dog as better more suitable males that crossed well with my girls were a superior choice. Recently I purchased a Pembroke Corgi. Due to my history in showing the breeder has asked me to show her. So far she is doing very well in the show ring. If she continues to do well and it she passes as the health test required for Corgies (These are pricey but a must in my opinion) I "may" breed her. She has an outstanding temperment and I already have people asking for puppies from her. If I do breed her my goal would be to keep a pup for myself to show etc. Kailyn is the only dog we have a present. I love showing dogs it is a sport, social activities etc for me. I am very selective about who I will sell a puppy to and I tend to keep in touch with the buyers. A neighbor gave me grief for the fact that I may breed Kailyn BAsically this was my expression :001_huh: I could rant about the puppy mill puppies that people fall in love with and are sick and cause huge medical bill for their owners. People who adopt dogs from sheltes are wonderful outstanding people and often get the most amazing dogs. A neighbor got a "free" lab mix a few years ago. The dog has so many health and behavior problems it has cost the owners thousands of dollars. I have never had a puppy have a serious genetic/health problem. I go to every lenghth I can to make sure that does not happen. I also as a personal note really breed for temperment when I do breed. Oh well I guess I will get off my soap box now. Karen

I take this to relieve symtoms of Sjogren's ...it helps keep my lungs clear. I have to make sure I also take Vit C when I am using it. Here is a link with information about it http://www.advance-health.com/nacetylcysteine.html Basically I take think it can hurt to take it as a precaution. Karen

My ds just finished this and we discussed the friendships in the story a great deal. Karen

Susan doesn't update her site often and I called her to find out about puppies. I had to wait about 3 months to get one. We got Kailyn in Feb. She may not have pups now, but it would be worth waiting to get one from her. Kailyn's personality/temperment is wonderful. She is steady, smart, sweet, learns quickly, travels well, and is so pretty. She is my first Corgi. I had 15 Shelties over a period of 25 years. Ds was interested in a Corgi so I found out about them and decided to get one. If Kailyn continues to do well in show (I am showing her in conformation) I may breed her next summer. Karen

I purchased her from Susan Stickland who has HoneyFox corgis in Pa Kailyn's registered name is HoneyFox First Edition so that is why we too the bookshelf pictures. I love your idea of using the picture for my avatar. Now to get super computer savvy ds to figure out how to do that for me. As reguested by the breeder I will be showing her in conformation, but I am looking forward to doing obedience and maybe agility with her. She is also in training to be a therapy dog. She loves meeting people so she is having a great start at therapy training. Karen

I have not been here much lately as we have a new addition to the family.....a corgi named Kailyn. She is sweet and wonderful and I adore her. I could not figure out how to post a picture here so here is a link to my page on mycorgi.com go about 3/4 of the way down the page and you will see a slide show of picture of her. http://mycorgi.com/profile/KarenDimaio Karen

I like Victoria approach to problems like this. She would not use a heavy hand(ie pinch collar etc) I would also look at her diet. They actually make special diets for hype aggresive dogs (brown rice and carrots are key elements) I have trained lots of dogs for show and obedience competitions and never use a hard hand. I love clicker training and positive reinforcement. Try to watch some of It's me or the dog on Animal Planet, it could really help you. In the mean time this will take time and work on your part. Keep her on a leash and have someone come to the door. Have her sit by you side and click and give her a treat when she is good. Let her know that people coming to the door is a nice thing, it is a time when she will get a treat. Use a calm soothing tone with her. Dogs really do feed off of out response to situations. It you are tense they can sense it (smell it actually) and they will be uptight too. I hope you are able to work this out. Karen

So I think it is often a waste when someone dies for what the believe. Karen

My ds , almost 16, does not have a love for reading. I select books that appeal to his interests. A few have been October Sky The radioactive Boy Scout A Hard Days Write (about what motivated each of the Beatles songs- this is a very interesting book) A book about Michael Faraday Undaunted Courage (about Lewis and Clark) he also has to read book from the year of Sonlight we are doing (a mix of 7 and 100) Karen

He was trained from the beginning to just use pee pad. They keep one on their screened porch and he has a dog door to go out and use it whenever he needs to. Karen

Non shedding dogs are great, but remember the dog will need to be clipped a few times a year. Personally we own a Corgi and she is a wonderful dog. Big dog atitude in a small (25 lbs when full grown) size. Corgies are quick to learn and ours is not afraid of anything. She is very outgoing (she will be doing therapy work soon) Corgies do shed but I have found if I brush my dog weekly shedding is light. Good luck with your search. Karen

If you are getting sick the people at the trade show would be grateful if you did not attend(i.e. they don't want to catch what you have). Sorry if I sound blunt but that tends to be my way. Also you may be able to fight off the cold if you take it easy today. Karen

The 3-5 thread has me thinking about dinnertime in other households. My dh job hours are not set in stone. I literally never know when he will walk in the door. Usually it is as 3:15 to3:30 and he is as hungry as a bear. Although often something can hold him up at work and it can be much later before he arrives home, Because he never know when problems will pop up he can't exactly let me know when he expects to be home. It has been like this for the entire 19 years of our marriage. He technically maintains a 911 system and mobiles communications for our town and it is not a 9-5 job. He is also on call 24 hours a day every other week. I am not complaining about his job because it affords us a very nice living, I just never know when he will be home for dinner. For this reason I mast a lot of meals in the slow cooker. I also cook a lot on the weekends (cassarole etc) that we heat and eat during the week. It is very important that we all eat together so we make sure this happens. We cookout a lot on the weekends as dh likes to doing the outdoor cooking. So this is our "normal for dinner" what is yours? Karen married to dh for 19 years mother to ds age 15

usually we eat dinner early 3-4 o'clock as that is the time dh usually gets home from work. I wish I had more of a break between school being done and dinner but it is what it is. After dinner I try to take a walk, clean the kitchen up, play with our new pup etc. Karen

but the site would not let me I think it is an early castle keep Karen

We live in Ocean City Maryland and often go to WIlliamsburg. We drive down the peninsula of Virginia and it is a beautiful drive(much better tahn I-95 in my opinion) If you drive down the peninsula you will have to take the long bridge tunnel which cost about $12.00 I believe. Karen

is working for us. I like how the Chemistry materials come with all the lab equipment you will need. The text is easy to read. Although I think the text alone would have been more difficult to follow without the supplimentation of The Teaching Co DVD's. Mr. Cadulla, on the DVD's, is wonderful. In another post I have listed how I matched the text with the DVD's. These products are not designed to go together so they don't exactly line up. We also tend to look for lab demo's on You Tube. ie we did Boyle's Law this week and this weekend ds has to look for a You Tube demo on the law. There is a wonderful British professor that does each of the elements in seperate You Tubes. They are short, informative an funny at times. Karen

My new puppy We go to pick her up Monday. I am so excited, her name is Kailyn http://sz0045.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/Trixie%20F%231.JPG?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=21461&part=2 Rats I can see the photo but you can't because according to my way to internet bright teen the photo is on our hard drive She is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. I will try to figure out how to post the photo another way later. Karen

unless lets say statement 3 is another given. I always helps my son that his next statement needs to be based upon his previous (or several previous) statements or reasons. If often helps to put which previous statement or reasons you are citing in ( ) with your statement. If you make a statement with no backup then you have holes and your proof doesn't work. For example my ds has problems with this concept of right angles Lets say angle A and Angle B are right angles so he will then say that Angle A is equal to angle B , but he has a hole. He has not said all right angles are equal. This seem obvious but it must be stated. Hence the joy of proofs. Early on in proofs we spent a lot of time talking them out, cutting them, coloring them etc. If seems this is paying off as we get to more difficult one as he is doing very well with Jacobs. Karen

I have made it very clear that I want to be cremated. My physical body has been put a place for my soul to be on earth. When my soul has left this body I no longer need it and it no longer needs to exist in a physical state. I have left instruction with my family as to what to do with the ashes, ie I do not want to be in an urn on someones mantle. I think that is to much emotional baggage and an emotion burden for anyone to bear. As to a memeorial service one can be held that would celebrate my life, but not to morn my lose. Needless to say I dislike funeral and anything about them, I always have. KAren

I would get up at 4am to go grocery shopping. Dh and ds were asleep, the stores were empty and well stocked. It worked well for me. I would go about every two weeks that way when ds was young. I am an early bird though. Karen

The young man that started and still runs this company was homeschooled and I have purchased seeds from them for several years. The catalogue is a feast for the eyes and the seeds have an excellent sprouting rate. I have been very pleased with everything I have purchased from them. The seeds are heirloom, open-pollinated seeds: pure, natural and non-GMO Here is a link http://rareseeds.com/ Karen

Here is an analogy that the Teaching Co teacher uses for stoichiometry. Say you have a recipe for Raisin Bread and you go to your pantry and get out all the items in the amount you own(not what you need to just do the recipe) now you figure out what item limits how many times you can make the recipe by the great degree. Say you need 2 eggs and you have 4 so you can only make the recipe twice even though you have lots of the other ingredients. This item is called your limiting reactant. Now you figure how much of the other ingredients you will need to measure to run the recipe per the limiting reactant. Basically this is stoichiometry although it is a bit more complicated when you are converting to grams and moles etc. Really the Teaching Company DVD's have been wonderful for us, he explains things so you understand it (ie you don't just do the formula) Thank you for the many compliments. Who needs crossword puzzles to keep your mind young, just learn Chemistry unstead :lol: Karen

Ds and I are beside ourselves with joy over the fact that we are both understanding Stoichiometry (hey I am impressed that I can even spell it) Ahh the thrill of actually wrapping your brain around a difficult subject. In case you are wondering how we accomplished this We are using Rainbow Chemistry although I think the way it is covered in the book is very confusing. Yes you can get the correct answers , but you can't really wrap you brain around it. We like to understand what we are learning. Rainbow has provided us with lots of practice problems though. What has helped up the most is watching the Teaching Company Chemistry DVD's Wow can he teach Chemistry. Also I spent several hours writing up teaching notes and presenting these to my son on a big white board. I developed a system for organizing the grams, moles etc information above and below the formula that really helped us to keep things straight. Ds is is acing every problem I have tossed his way. He is thrilled!!! Karen