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There are day trips to the Channel Islands:
You can take a cruise around them that doesn't land, or land on one of the islands and do some hiking.
There's also the aquarium in Long Beach, and the Queen Mary (which I haven't been to, but have been wanting to go).
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I've been having acupuncture for the past 13 or so years for my chronic allergies. That doesn't really help with the $ issue unless you have insurance that will cover it, but I went from taking sinus meds almost daily to none since I started the acupuncture...Vitamin C is a natural antihistimine, and local honey can often help build up some immunity to your local allergens.
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I just got done dealing with fleas a couple months ago - and have dealt with a few infestations in different states/houses. I've found the most effective thing is an insect growth regulator for fleas (the one I just bought is called I.G. Regulator, 4 oz from Amazon). You need a pressurized garden type sprayer and dilute the IGR in water and spray it on carpets, draperies, furniture, mattresses, etc and let it dry. It stops the flea larvae from maturing and continuing the life cycle and can last 6 months. The one 4 oz bottle of IGR is enough for several applications (I plan on spraying the house I'm in now 2x a year just because fleas are more common here, and can live year round outside).
To stop the adults, vacuuming and washing pet bedding frequently is crucial. I have in the past not used any drugs on my pets and bathed them daily to kill the adult fleas, but after I started doing that this time, decided it's a lot of work. So I also used a generic Capstar product (the drug is called Nitenpyram and you can buy it on Ebay or other websites). It will kill adult fleas on the cats or dogs and doesn't stay in their system (I'm not a fan of using fat soluble drugs that stay in my pets). It was my first time using it and it worked very well to kill the adults on the pets and is much much easier than bathing the cat...It can also be used as needed if they pick up fleas on a walk or something.
The IGR is quite safe for people and pets and when my son was a baby and we had an infestation, I wanted something that wasn't highly toxic but also effective, and that's why I started using it.
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Thank you for all the prayers. It doesn't look good, though - he doesn't think he wants to try to fix it and although we do have a counseling session scheduled for tomorrow, I think he's already out the door. I'm sick to my stomach and heartbroken and will continue to need the prayers.
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:grouphug: You are very much in my thoughts! Do you have a lot of family around you?
A set of my parents are here, but other than that, it's all his family.
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I do appreciate all the responses - I didn't get much sleep last night and don't feel much better today, but it means a lot to know people are praying.
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:grouphug::grouphug:
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I typically don't ever post like this, but I'm in desperate need of prayer for my marriage. I can't go into detail, but I need a miracle and would really appreciate anyone willing to pray or send good thoughts my way.
Thank you. . .
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OK...I called Delta Airlines and they told me that our carry on bags need to be 45" in linear length or less. So I order 5 suitcases that, according to the measurements given in the description were less than 45"...but when they arrived according to my measurements they could easily be more (by an inch or so) (taking into consideration the handle, the legs and wheels, etc.)...what should I do...or think? How strict are the airlines with stuff like this? I mean, could we end up checking 5 bags at $25 a bag? Would you risk it?
These are the bags I bought:
Carry-on & Accessory Bags | American Tourister Iltie DLX 21" Upright Luggage | Shopko.com
Collections | American Tourister Splash 21" Upright Luggage | Shopko.com
what advice do you have for me??
Do you have the option to go to the airport and check? Our airport has a metal thingy that you can put the carry-on in, to see if it fits and qualifies. However, when we flew a year ago April, I just ordered bags from Lands' End that said they were carry-on approved by the airline standards, and I didn't have any issues.
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Don't start with fresh eggs. If they're a week old, they're perfect.
Place eggs in pot. Fill the pot with cold water covering the eggs by about an inch, and add a hefty pinch of baking soda. Bring to a boil and once it's rapidly boiling, remove from heat and let cook 15 minutes. Remove from heat and run under cold water.
They should peel like a dream. :)
I agree with the baking soda. Even with old eggs, I couldn't ever get them to peel well until I started adding baking soda to the water.
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And they're totally darling looking!
I agree :) I saw another one recently and had to make myself *not* buy it - lol. Another nice feature is that they often come in nice cabinets that can be used as furniture (I've got one in the spare bedroom as a bedside table).
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Well, my dh is not interested in converting, but doesn't yet know about the fasting (except on Sunday mornings) and would not be a fan, to say the least. If we were eating with someone who was fasting and he wanted meat, he'd probably either go grab a hamburger before/after or bring his own food (depending on who it was and the situation). ETA: I don't know that he'd be offended, more likely just irritated.
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You might watch at estate sales and such for an older machine. I am currently using my Grandma's old Singer, and also have purchased another old Singer and a White. They are very basic, but built very well and you can often find them well under $100. Another bonus is that you can often do repairs on them yourself - there is a lot of help online and tutorials walking you through stuff.
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We had cyber-sitter but it was too limiting and I'm not ready to invest in another program for the occasional school related searching that my last few kids will be doing this year.
We have K9 and then have put Google on Safe Search and locked it. I haven't done a lot of testing to see how far it locks stuff down, but my kids aren't on the computer searching a lot (they're usually more busy playing games). Here's some info about it:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=510
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Ok, I have one more question. Is it harder to litter train 2 kitties than one. When we got the two pups I thought I would go bonkers as I never knew who did it.:tongue_smilie:
Cats typically are easy to litterbox train. You just want to keep the kitten(s) contained in a smaller area when you first get them so they don't have any trouble finding their litterbox (don't let them have the run of the house for a few weeks).
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:grouphug: I'm sorry.
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Praying. . .
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Ok, Thanks.
Now can we talk about declawing? I know there are some strong feeling against this. I really do hate having my furniture ripped up though. We don't have anything right now that is extra special but hoping to get new living room in a yr or so. Any time I have seen cats in a house that are not declawed I see the evidence on the furniture.
So convince me that I shouldn't get our new kitty, well, if we get a new kitty;), declawed.
I wouldn't declaw. Cats *can* be trained and I've never had an issue with any of our cats tearing up the furniture. As kittens, they might try to or act like they were going to, but redirection works with kittens. As long as you have a nice tall scratching post made with something good to scratch on, if you take them from the furniture and put them on the post and praise them and pretend to scratch it yourself, they can be taught pretty quickly. They're not praise driven like dogs, but they do respond to praise and like it. Catnip on the things they're allowed on also helps. I've found it's much easier to make a good scratching post rather than buy one - most of the affordable ones are way too short (a cat should be able to extend its front legs all the way up the post). You can use a cardboard tube newsprint comes or dimensional lumber (a 4x4 or secure a couple of 2x4s together) and then just wrap in carpet. You can often find carpet stores will give you throw away scraps that are big enough. My cats have always liked berber :)
If you provide enough toys/scratching areas/sleeping areas specifically for the cat(s) you can also train them to stay off the furniture completely.
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Hmmm. If we would go this way we would need a regular litter pan. They don't clump, right?
They don't clump. But I've found much less odor with the wood than I ever had with any type of clumping clay. You can also use alfalfa or rabbit pellets - I tried that for awhile and it worked well. But one of my cats liked to eat them and I really didn't want her grazing in the litter box. . .
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I've had the opposite experience from the previous posters on male/female cats. Both male cats I had had issues with marking and not using their litterboxes (2 completely separate time periods/houses/etc.). Both my female cats have been great. Our current cat (female) is 16 and she has always loved my dc (she's not cuddly, but has always been very interested in them and spends a lot of time with them). Although she's not a lap cat, she's very people oriented.
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Is there a brand of litter that you could recommend?
I use wood pellets as litter. There are brands that are marketed as cat litter, but it's much less expensive to get wood pellets marketed for pellet stoves or animal bedding. It's much less messy (as far as tracking and dust) than the clay litters and controls the odor very well.
Our cat(s) have always been indoor (unless supervised on the patio or something).
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Wolf is clueless.
I don't think he even knows the password to online banking.
I know my dh doesn't know the passwords to the online banking, or any of the sites I pay bills/credit cards online. It's one of those things he's glad I do and that he doesn't have to keep track of.
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Sorry to be confusing. I'll try it this way.
If you homeschooled for primarily academic reasons:
Q 1. If your kids wanted to go to college, would you
a) support them as well as you possibly could without enormous debt/hardship or
b) refuse financial support beyond the absolute minimum required for a degree in something you thought economically viable?
I agree with Ellie - I want them to be prepared for college, but don't know if that's what they will choose to do.
And as far as finances - I don't know. I seriously doubt we will be taking out loans for them, or if we do, not large amounts and they will be mainly responsible for paying them back. We just don't have the resources to fund it. We have very little saved up for retirement, although our only debt is the house. So I don't plan on paying for their college, but I also don't see homeschooling as "making major sacrifices." I am sacrificing a career of my own, but that money was never in the equation, so it's not something we ever had (so don't feel the loss of it). We stay on a budget and plan and homeschool fairly inexpensively. Dh and I both had to work and go to college (and we both did it in 4 years) and I fully expect if my dc go to college, they will be holding down a job, too.
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I don't know how to vote because we made a spare bedroom into a library and built shelving into the closet (floor to ceiling) and along one whole wall. In addition, there are 3 other regular bookcases in that room.
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It probably depends on the day, but when we took our trip, none of the 4 of us got sick (and my kids hadn't ever been on a boat at sea before). I bought some Dramamine just in case, but we didn't need it. It seemed fairly smooth to me, but I don't have much experience to compare it to.