Amy in NH
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Could you get a part time job in the evenings?
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Yup. That would be Northern NH. Southern NH is much more hot and humid in the summer, but up here in the mountains there are only a handful of days when you'd want to keep your ceiling/attic fans on at night. We find we don't need air conditioning up here (coming from FL where we used it virtually year round).
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I'm on the NH/VT border, too!
We ski at Burke through the Lyndonville Homeschool Group.
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The only thing I know about sump pumps is due to having a stone foundation and dirt floor in which we are currently installing a vapor barrier in anticipation of pouring a pad in the future. I believe they require a french drain which is a trench dug all the way around the inside of the foundation, then filled with perforated PVC and pea stone/gravel. There should also be appropriate drainage (gravel) under your foundation to drain the extra water into the drain, which is sloped to the pump which is sunk in a hole in one corner.
Our property is in between a natural spring (think people filling jugs and bottles with water from a rusty pipe sticking out of the side of the hill at all hours of the day and night) and a river. We haven't been here for a springtime yet, but I'm anticipating some amount of water in the basement. :rolleyes:
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I also agree with Blue Hen. We didn't find out for any of ours.
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Lucky! :D I'm jealous!
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I don't notice more doubts, but I definitely have a cyclical change in my desired level of interaction with the outside world. For instance, if I have phone calls to make (especially tricky ones), I'll put them off when auntie is visiting because I just don't feel like dealing with others, but I'll tackle them with confidence at other times of the month.
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I'm probably their worst nightmare! And, no, I don't have a real estate license.
When we were looking, last year, I acted as our buyer's agent for a few reasons: I wanted to see what I wanted to see, I wanted to be able to do FSBO or foreclosures without having to pay a realtor fee, and I wanted to contact the seller directly if I didn't like the way the realtor was working. Furthermore, the listing agent may be more amenable to making a deal to close the sale if you're going directly through them, since they don't have to split the commission if they list *and* sell.
This did, indeed, work to our advantage, although it was a ton of work for me. I spent a lot of time browsing the MLS in our region. I checked it morning and night, because good deals slip away fast. When I found a house that we wanted to see, I called the listing agent right away and arranged an appointment to see it. We found a house listed with a realtor that was bank-owned. I didn't trust the seller's agent, and when we had issues that needed to be dealt with I called Fannie Mae and spoke directly with the VP in charge of the listing (through a stroke of good luck!). Even when the seller's agent said that we wouldn't be able to do x & y, the guy at Fannie Mae was willing to work with me, *and* we got our sale closed on time in spite of a bunch of setbacks (which could have broken the deal). If we had had a buyer's agent, that never would have happened.
I also worked closely with our lender to make sure they had everything they needed (she said more than once that we never would have gotten our home if *I* hadn't been the one on top of things). And I consulted with a realtor at a non-profit homebuyer group who gave me a few good tips. Be cautious, though, as the seller's/listing agent *is* working for the seller and will use any information against you.
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I don't. I've tried a few times, but they never come out right. Maybe my water was too hard, or the beans were too old. I don't know what I was doing wrong. Now, I just buy them canned by the case from co-op.
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You know the saying "coming out of the woodwork"? How old is your house? Around here, there are lots of 150+ yo houses. We rented one for five years, and we bought one over the summer. Cluster flies (big black ones that look like houseflies) live inside the walls and sometimes the tracks of the windows. They hatch when it is warm enough, sometimes in the middle of winter if there is a warm spell, more frequently in rooms that get enough sun to stay warm, but definitely in the spring, and then they "come out of the woodwork". They're usually found around the windows, because they come from inside the walls through cracks in the window moldings. I have to vacuum them up at least once per week (even in winter).
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Definitely cool! I'd keep it. To be honest, we do have a tiny little muskrat skull we found by the river.
I once tried to collect a skull from a roadkill. The animal had been decomposing for a while, and it was winter so it didn't smell, but the skull was stuck to the rest of the remains. :( The funniest part is that some people I knew saw me doing this (it was the middle of the night, I was on my paper route) and I had to explain what I was doing the next time I saw them :D
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I also agree with you, Robin (although I didn't complain about Prince last year ;) )
We could have just put in a Tom Petty CD (if we had one), and shut the TV off during halftime. There was nothing visual about his act; no "show" at all.
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I thought I heard a recent report that showed that smaller bursts of intense exercise throughout the day are better for you than one longer period?
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My 2 yo dd had been fine since she was an infant, then she suddenly had loose stools every day. I thought it was a tummy bug, but it persisted longer than it should have. She drinks about 1 c of juice per day (mixed with 2 c of water into (3) 1 c servings). We had been getting Juicy Juice on WIC until our local supermarket stopped carrying the concentrate, then we switched to Welches because it was the only available concentrate. I was able to switch back to Juicy Juice which I found at a store an hour away, and her diarrhea stopped. Needless to say, I have stocked up on the JJ since we don't get down that way all the time, and I've stopped buying Welches.
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It just took my 13 yo about 3-4 weeks to complete his first research paper. He worked on it for about 1/2 hour per day, and it turned out to be two solid pages.
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If I could only train the kids to tell me when we are out of things! I hate getting home from running errands in town to hear, "Oh, btw, we're out of dog food." Well, I'm not scheduled to go back into town for another two days. Will they ever learn?
Will *who* ever learn? ;)
We have a small dry-erase board on the fridge where we write down something that has run out. You could have a "family meeting" where you set a rule to write it down at a certain place *as soon as* someone notices it has or is about to run out.
Also, it is a good idea to send everyone to check on the remaining levels of necessities *before* making that trip into town. Making a quick list just before leaving might alleviate the problem.
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I'm planning to stock up on grains & other staples on my co-op order this month. I filled out my order form for Feb, but just got the March catalog before turning my order in. I always check ahead to make sure my items won't be going on sale, which would make it prudent to hold tight for a month. A #25 bag of grain has gone up about $5 in just one month! I'm glad I'm ordering in Feb!! And I ordered enough to last us quite a long time.
And I've also found local suppliers for dairy, beef, & pork. The milk is currently about a dollar per gallon less than the supermarket, and we go through a gallon per day~! The meat is comparable in price to supermarket sales. Yee haw!
And we're planning to grow our own eggs in the spring (along with a good size garden). Eggs are $2.30/dozen at the supermarket. I recently saw a local family selling them for $1.75! So hopefully, it will be a cost-effective time investment.
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Chili & corn bread to take to SIL's.
We don't have TV, and they do!
I think she's making calzone thingies.
And veges & dip.
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Here in NH, homeschoolers have access to school sports teams *in the district in which they reside*. So if they wanted to play for a team in another district, say because the local school doesn't offer the varsity sport (or because the other district has a better team), they cannot. I think this applies to participation in private school teams if they play against public schools, as well, but I'm not sure.
It all goes by the individual rules for the state Interscholastic Athletics Association (NHIAA here).
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My oldest ds was happy to have a British version of the first Harry Potter book since some of the words (and the title) are different.
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I don't know about food grade, but I get diatomaceous earth for my garden from Agway.
I think it is also used in pool filters...
HTH!
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Yes.
We have to in order to get some semblance of a full school year worth of teaching due to a custody/visitation calendar.
But really, I think it makes more sense to school year round and take shorter breaks throughout, so that there aren't issues with loss of retention.
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I thought I saw something about a national? mythology exam quite a long time ago on the old board. Does anyone know anything about this?
TIA!
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Rubbing alcohol and a tissue.
What do you do when your kids are sick and you are supposed to have people over?
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I vote for cancel until further notice.