Kathryn
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Never heard that.
I've heard:
Rose to his feet
Got to his feet
Stood on his own two feet
But not stood to his feet.
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I'm interested in how they're acting when you see them also. I just don't understand this mindset at all and can't imagine people doing this to someone and smiling at them while doing it.
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I started, but I stopped at the question for which medical conditions I searched for information.
I do that for any condition I encounter, in self or a family member.
The question would have required me to give a complete medical history of any symptom I ever felt.
I almost stopped there but ended up just saying something like "lots--every time I or someone close to me has a possible problem."
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This happened to ours. I called speed queen and they said something must have overheated and melted against it. Ours was actually sharp. They sent me a new one and haven't noticed the problem since. I take care not to overload the dryer to where stuff can't tble easily. I can't put my comforter in there anymore. Got a burn mark on it from that thing.
So, you contacted Speed Queen and not the retailer?
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Every so often we find little marks on our clothes after coming out of the dryer. Our dryer looks like yours in back. The marks come out, but, yes, it is annoying. I feel like a traitor saying this because I absolutely LOVE Speed Queen and would never own anything else.
The dryer we had before would occasionally leave small marks as well and it was a Maytag.
How do you get the marks out?
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I was just wondering about Mrs. Mungo yesterday. I haven't been around a whole lot lately so I didn't know if I'd just missed her.
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If you have a Speed Queen dryer, what does the vent opening on the inside back look like? We got one last month and I'm noticing small black marks on some of the laundry. Looking around in there, the only thing I can imagine is that the metal back there is black looking and I don't recall it being like that when we bought. It doesn't come off when I touch it, but it's not hot right now and maybe that makes a difference.
Here it is:
And here is what I'm finding on my laundry:
Does your dryer look like that? Anything else it could be? Should I contact the store?
ETA so far I've only noticed it on my cloth diapers and their microfiber inserts. I haven't closely examined the rest of the laundry though.
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Nope. One brown, two blonds. And for eyes, I have one each of green, brown, and blue.
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I really hope this is supposed to say cousins!
I think she means one family's set of siblings to marry another family's set of siblings. I also have several of these in my Midwestern family tree from years back.
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Both of my maternal grandparents were from Kansas. My grandfather was from eastern Kansas and his family were farmers. Various branches had arrived there from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, where they had also farmed. My grandmother was from western Kansas and her family, especially her maternal line, was very much like Pa. Her father's grandparents were respectable Ohioans, but his parents had set off to homestead. When his mother died in childbirth when he was nine years old, he and his younger brother set off to make their fortune in the world. And did. He held a series of jobs throughout his life, and satisfied his wanderlust eventually by becoming a railroad engineer while having a family settled in one place. His wife, my grandmother's mom, was the one who herself came from a long line of wanderers. Her grandfather started life in SC. He moved to KY, then IN, then IL, then AR. His children continued the pattern. My great-great-grandfather reminds me a lot of Pa Ingalls. He was born during his father's time in IL and moved to AR with him. He then went to TX and back to AR where he married and my great-grandma was born. He continued to move, now with his family, always with the promise that the next move would be where they struck it big. They went throughout TX, OK, and KS, then out to NM where he was sure to find gold. At some point, he realized that wasn't going to happen and moved up to OR but his wife finally put her foot down and refused to go. She and the children stayed behind and worked to make enough money to get to Kansas where her sister lived. There she stayed. Her husband came in and out of their lives, but she never uprooted the children for him again.
My grandma remembers her mother taking care of him before his death. She did so begrudgingly and out of obligation. She refused to pay for a tombstone when he died.
Also, my grandma remembers how much her maternal grandmother disliked her. She was the second child, coming just a year after her brother. Her grandmother lived with them and always said horrid things about how she shouldn't have been born because she was too close after her brother and her mother should have waited longer before having another child.
Anyway, when I think about Pa Ingalls, I think about my great-great-grandfather and his dragging his family around the unsettled west constantly seeking his fortune with no regard for the dangers or unsavory situations he put his family in. I don't think all westward-movers were like this, but Pa Ingalls definitely wasn't the only one.
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I don't know about now, but growing up in the 80s-90s in SC, spring break was always the week before Easter and the Monday after Easter was a teacher in-service day.
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I'd definitely go with an e on the end. That's far more common.
My first thoughts for middle names were Elizabeth and Caroline.
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I've never heard of electric kettles besides on here.
If just I am drinking tea, I hear the water and the teabag in the microwave in a measuring cup, then add my sugar, stir, and pour in my cup (I make two cups at a time). If others are having tea, I use a stovetop kettle because we generally drink different kinds.
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So they are Catholic but with Orthodox liturgy? (I"m obviously confused!)
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. So, the way I learned it was that they live in areas that were converted from paganism to Orthodoxy. Later, due to political realignments/shifts, their rulers became Catholic and they were forced to as well. However, they were allowed to keep many of the traditions we are familiar with in Orthodoxy: married priests, liturgy in the common tongue, baptism/chrismation at the same time, etc. Basically, the only difference to the everyday person was that they now answered to the pope. As political boundaries changed again and again in Eastern Europe, it has become as much about politics and ethnicity as it has about religion.
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You are being unreasonable--unreasonably generous and gracious. They can get over themselves and pay for their own tickets and arrange their own vacations and pick up and dial their own phones if they feel that you're being selfish.
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The dish drainer next to the sink is where dirty dishes go while waiting for the dishwasher.
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Yeah I am not understanding this either.
Thirding this. Why?
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*In my personal opinion, I think that you are born with a spelling ability or not. I saw it plainly with my twins. I have no choice about spelling since I use a hybrid program through our school district.*
Anyway, why is that when I go over spelling with my daughter using flashcards, she can spell all the words correctly, but doesn't spell the same word correctly when she has to right it down? It can literally be within a few minutes time period that she could spell it orally, but write it down incorrectly.
Are there special tricks that you guys use to help get the word to stick in their memory both orally and in writing?
Totally not being snarky here, so I hope it doesn't seem that way, but did you notice that you did the same thing? You meant "write" both times, but you wrote "right" and then "write." Did you have trouble with this as a child? I don't know the answer because my son does it sometimes also. But, the more exposure he has to a word, the better the spelling gets.
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She is probably shocked and really upset too, so I would give her that small benefit of the doubt. At least I hope so.
Otherwise she knew he was prone to this stuff, and this would be unfathomable.
Honestly, I know people deal with shock in different ways, but the way the MIL is handling it is unconscionable to me. I've known my DH since we were teens and I'd certainly never ever expect him to do something like this. However, if someone told me that he had, My first inclination would not be to tell them they were wrong or mistaken even if I thought that were true. I'd first want to listen to what they have to say, before making any sort of value statement at all as to who I'd "support" in the situation.
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So Ukranian Catholics consider themselves to be Orthodox, but the rest of the Orthodox church does not consider them to be Orthodox because they are in communion with Rome? Is that an accurate reading of that part of the article?
No, they consider themselves to be Catholic. Orthodox consider that they fell away from Orthodoxy (they call them "Uniates") and need to be brought back. There's a more antagonistic relationship with Eastern Catholics than with Western Catholics.
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I'm so sorry. Please do keep us updated.
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Other. See what happens. We have 4-5 nicknames for her, but I'm partial to Elsie right now with my daughter. My grandmother went by Betty.
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Is the mission of the scholarship to make up for inequity?
Or, is the mission to bring diversity to the tech industry, and the leadership within the industry.
Businesses benefit from a diverse workforce. When the creative talent and the customer service teams represent the customer base, the product is improved, the market share increases, and the profits go up.
I wouldn't assume that the people funding this scholarship are motivates to correct historical wrongs. I would guess their motivation is to increase diversity. Your wife brings that diversity.
This.
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Wild Kratts is a nice one that my 6 and 10yo both watch.
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Anyone else tear up at the end of House at Pooh Corner?
in General Education Discussion Board
Posted · Edited by Kathryn
Just read it this morning! I did get teary but not as bad as when I read it to my oldest four years ago. He got it and this one didn't and was bouncing around like Tigger and being distracting. When I explained it to him, I did get a little wistful when he told me that he would *never* stop playing with his stuffed animals.
(Edited autocorrect fail)