Amy in NH
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Is there a Social Group, or someplace, where boardies are discussing the current spate of sedition in the US, and potential consequences?
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2 minutes ago, teachermom2834 said:
This is how I feel too. I have not told one person they should wear a mask. I have not shamed anyone or attempted to educate anybody. Yet, we get mocked, scolded, and in the case of my son in the grocery store, yelled at. Why doesn’t the respect go both ways?
Because anti-maskers don't respect you or anyone else. They are selfish jerks, plain and simple.
If they respected others, they wouldn't be anti-maskers.
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On 12/1/2020 at 6:13 PM, popmom said:
Well, I'm a bit "tied up in knots". How do you find out which doctors are willing to prescribe Ivermectin? Or which doctors are having success treating outpatient? Are these primary care docs?
You don't actually need a prescription; you just need to make sure to give the right dose. Ivermectin is an antihelminthic (wormer) used for all types of livestock, and you can buy it at Tractor Supply, Agway, and all over the internet. It is safe for human consumption.
15 hours ago, fairfarmhand said:Huh. Ivermectin. That’s what we use to worm our cattle. That stuff is cheap too. I wonder how ethical it would be to give that to anyone who came down with covid in my house.
We are waiting on results from COVID tests here, after a full-contagion exposure one of my household family members had a work in each of the three days before Thanksgiving. We've all been self-isolating this week while we wait. If it comes up positive, we'll all be taking an appropriately titrated dose of Ivermectin from what we keep on hand.
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My opinion is:
It sounds like your neighbor has a pretty display, and the giant blow-up elf is tacky.
I'd rather have the leg lamp.
I'd probably keep the curtains closed and suffer through it instead of ruining DH's joy.
I'd feel bad for the neighbors who can't enjoy their own decorations from their own front window without having to view the elf-monstrosity.ymmv
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26 minutes ago, Margaret in CO said:
If possible (access and storage) I'd encourage all to think about local sourcing their meat. With the beef packers in the US being monopolies, the famer/rancher is getting very little for his/her product. Consider splitting a half with another family. We've moved more and more into butchering and selling straight to people--we make way more than when we send cattle to the feedlot. If you have a CSA, they may be able to hook you up with a farmer who does this. Thanks.
Sounds great in theory, but the price is always so high for local meat that we'd be forced to forgo.
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I was in one of the two Sam's Clubs in my state on Monday - no tp.
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I think the disconnect is two-part:
1. The leaders of the "who cares about COVID" movement really don't care about their fellow human beings, and see the COVID death rate as being a way to rid us of extra social security/Medicare payments, ACA premium subsidies, etc. Sociopaths and psychopaths.
2. The masses who follow them blindly, and don't pay attention to anything outside of their faux-"news" media bubble so don't know what's going on in the rest of the world - or even the reality in our own country. Willful ignorance.
We have had less than 5 cases in any of our local towns until yesterday. A letter went home from the local school district - one case in one high school, and another in a different town's elementary school. They are starting distance learning again tomorrow.-
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Could he have gone to a couple of different places and mixed them up in his mind?
Like maybe at Disney he saw the Country Bears Jamboree, and then the Epcot American Adventure, plus the flower gardens?
Or he went to a botanical garden followed by Chuck-E-Cheese?
We have Clark's Trading Post down the street, with real live bear shows - but that's different...
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Dd15 got herself an African Egg Eating Snake in the spring. Twiggy is super-cute, and pretty easy to care for. Apparently she thinks it is the rainy season right now, and doesn't want to come out of her humidity hide where she has blocked up the opening by making a door from her bedding-shavings.
Snake-sitting is probably like grandparenting? You get to have fun with them for awhile, and then return them to their owners for regular care and maintenance.-
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What I want the most is for my oldest kid to be home for the holidays, but they have already said they will not be able to make it due to COVID.
So giving up on that wish... as far as a material item for myself, I'd really like a Marley Multi-pocket Urbanizer in purple. I have a black one that has held up amazingly for the past 4-5 years, but the leather is starting to look worn and the magnet inside the front of the bag has somehow disappeared so that it doesn't clasp anymore. I love that bag - it is everything I want in a handbag - but it is really expensive. My mom sent money last week for Christmas, and for my birthday which is at the end of this month, so I could actually afford it if I wanted to spend that much money on myself. But a snow-tire on our car that is driven by our son popped yesterday, and because it is AWD we had to replace all four tires - so that ate up all of my Christmas and birthday money. And we are a bit behind on the bills already.
So, what I want for Christmas is peace and health for everyone. Please everyone stay healthy...
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Return to the requirement for unbiased reporting on anything labeled "News".
Stop gerrymandering.
Actually listen to each other with compassion - which will never happen in a million years.
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On 11/5/2020 at 10:55 AM, Pen said:
I don’t think you are alone 🙂.
Did they get it from regular world or university? I have some friends who feel frustrated that they spent a lot of money to send kids to university with a resulting hatred for the parents and snowflake mentality as to ability to engage in discussion seeming to result. The opposite of what they thought a good education might give in terms of being able to enter into a meaningful exchange of ideas.
Maybe in a few decades we will be post-woke, or people will be tweeting (or whatever is then au courant ) about having woke from Woke.
I think you might be able to say that if you have to walk on eggshells about what you are saying then you can’t feel emotionally safe in your own home either and ask them how they think it can be solved. That you love them and want to have them over but that you are also in emotional pain when they visit .
I think it makes sense that adult children who now hold different beliefs than their parents might not want to be harangued during a routine visit home. It strikes me that the snowflake-callers are often the actual snowflakes - can't handle someone with a different opinion. Kind of like the OP who is upset that her kids now think differently than she does.
It's not a bad thing for kids to learn how to think for themselves at university. What I see as a problem is insulating them from the real world as they're growing up, as I've observed in so many religious homeschool communities, where they can't be exposed to anything anything outside religious doctrine, so that they experience culture shock when they first leave home.-
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Even though most of us think of the end user-consumer as being a product's customer, many manufacturer's customers are the stores that sell their products. One of my kids works in "customer service" processing orders to go through logistics and shipping at a small-to-moderately-sized company whose customers include the big chain and regional grocery stores we all shop at. Surprisingly, this is a very specialized and technical job that requires a good deal of training. She is the only person at her place of employment who can quickly schedule delivery of their products - it would require an old manager from a different branch to take over processing those orders if my kid were out sick. Some of her other customer service co-workers handle orders for different countries or a different type of customer (ie. small stores vs big ones). They try to cross-train, but during the busy-season they fall behind in their own area of specialty because they are short-staffed. So that's one line of possible cuts in the supply. So even if they have it in stock at the manufacturer, it's possible that there are problems in logistics and shipping.
And then there are the problems with shortages of supplies for manufacturing that lead to product delays and backorders, and how the backorder is handled is different for each customer: sometimes all of the product is sent to the most high-volume customer due to contracted-fines for late product, sometimes it is split among a bunch of smaller-volume customers who end up with partial orders. Either way, if there is a lack of product, someone somewhere is not going to find it in the store.
Northern NH used to be full of paper-mills, but they've all closed in the past 20 years and the large machinery was shipped off to Germany, Japan, and China.-
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Reminds me of news stories from my youth about consumer supply lines (breadlines?) during Soviet-USSR (Russia, for the youngsters)!
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2 hours ago, mom31257 said:
Our county's voting machines are out all over. They are having to send provisional ballots to every precinct. I did not do early voting because the lines were so long at the one location. I wasn't sure I would vote at all, but I thought maybe lines will be shorter when it is spread out to all the precincts. My ds worked early voting and the primary. He told me provisional ballots will take much longer. Yuck!!
I think this is actually a good thing. I have much more faith in a paper ballot that was filled in directly by a voter than a machine that can be hacked during or after-the-fact.
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This is actually not a frivolous subject for me. I have had thin, weak nails my whole life; they have always split and broken. As I've entered perimenopause they've become weaker and weaker, to the point that they will break down to the finger, and sometimes into the nailbed. I started trying lots of different polishes and methods - none of them lasted more than a day, or two at the most, before chipping. The only thing I've found that lasts is UV gel polish.
I got a Sally Hansen UV nail light on ebay for $10, and buy the Born Pretty brand of gel polish shipped from sellers in China for ~$2/bottle. I put on a base coat, top coat, two layers of color, and a final top coat. I stick them under the light for 30 seconds between each coat, and 1 minute for the tippity top (1 push of the button = 30 seconds; it has automatic shutoff). This lasts 7-10 days without chipping. I found that the more I keep my hands extra-moist/in water, the quicker they loosen and come off, so I soak them in water inside a nitrile glove to loosen before removing.
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That is very frustrating.
What worked for me: When not in an elevated emotional state, I had a calm sit-down discussion with the offender(s). "I don't like having to yell at you, you probably don't like being yelled at/grabbed. Next time I am starting to feel frustrated with you and know I am about to yell, I will get your attention - you must listen for me when I am calling your name - and I will let you know that I am getting overstimulated by your behavior and I am about to start yelling. I expect you to stop that behavior immediately." Then if they didn't, and I had to resort to yelling/grabbing, they got sent to sit on their bed for 15 minutes while I calmed down. It took a few tries, but then it worked very well.
As far as the growth spurt - feed them a decent amount of protein, and as many baked potatoes as they want. When I had a bunch of hungry teenagers playing sports, I used to make and freeze 100 beef and bean burritos at a time for them to just thaw and eat when they got home from practices/had a gnawing hunger.-
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I'd like to know how many of the members here stating that COVID response in the US has been okey-dokey are also "pro-life".
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Vacuum thoroughly first, then use 1 qt vinegar to 1 gallon hot water with a couple of drops of Dawn.
If you're using a regular mop, and the sponge-head is old, it could be disintegrating small pieces onto the floor that look like dirt.
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21 hours ago, PeterPan said:
When our state's positivity rate went up, it was after the "peaceful protests" and was very obviously connected. I was googling for what stats are hovering in that 14+% positivity rate, and it looks like some are states having high rates of protests. So it may be that your local positivity rate is disconnected from the larger state and that people don't assess their risk as being connected to it. We saw that in our area. The state numbers were going up because of certain locales, not because of us.
I'm not saying what they're doing is wise, just that there could be context. Even some of the states that are doing fine, with very controlled positivity rates, aren't mandating masking for churches, which would be somewhat comparable to a 150 person prom or gathering I suppose.
We attended one actual peaceful protest in the late spring - not sure why you put that in quotes - and *everyone* there was wearing masks and trying to maintain distance. We had no increase in cases in our local area after that event.
That was after local doctors went on a ski trip to a hotspot in Austria last winter after COVID was discovered, and brought it back to the community after they were forced to leave their trip early due to the closing of European borders.-
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On 9/18/2020 at 10:52 AM, Lady Florida. said:
Yes. I often cook noodles separately in pasta based soups. If it sits in the refrigerator for a day the broth is absorbed by the pasta and you end up with a very thick stew-like thing. It's no longer soup.
On 9/18/2020 at 10:54 AM, Seasider too said:You are kind to use the word stew. I think it can look like a potluck mystery gelatin mold. 😂
If you use egg noodles, you won't end up with decomposed gloop.-
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19 hours ago, Momto6inIN said:
Where does one but a corset? Do they still have strings and whalebone and you have to have someone tighten/tie them for you a la Scarlett O'Hara? I'm intrigued.
Amazon has tons.
And other places online as well...
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16 hours ago, Frances said:
I agree. And I would add to that the proliferation of media sources, especially more biased ones. It’s no longer the case that the majority of people are watching the same nightly news cast. Now, if they choose to, people can totally live in a bubble of news and social media that conforms to their pre-existing beliefs.
Not to mention the fact that Reagan gutted the law that required fair and unbiased reporting in news, opening the door for opinion-based "news" entertainment, and Congress no longer "lives" together in the sense that they used to before the sessions were shortened.
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Posted · Edited by Amy in NH
Use the MyPlate guidelines put out by USDA as the final arbiter.
Tomato based sauce (e.g. marinara or bolognese or pizza sauce) (veggie or not?)
Must be at least a 1/2 C of sauce in order to count as a veggie. Cooked tomatoes in sauce form are high in lycopene.
Sweet potatoes in various formats (veggie or not?)
Sweet potatoes may be high in vitamin A, but they are actually a starch - so in the grain group.
Black beans, lentils, chickpeas, soy butter (veggie? protein? neither? both?)
Beans, lentils, and chickpeas are proteins that are also high in fiber. Soy butter is a fat.
Cheese as part of a dish (e.g. pizza, ravioli, quesadilla)
Cheese can count as dairy, but kids age 2-8 only need 2 servings a day of dairy, and 2 oz of cheese is a serving.
So, what says the hive?