RoughCollie
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Food:
Confections of a Closet Master Baker - Bullock-Prado, Gesine
The American Frugal Housewife - Child, Lydia Maria Francis
Lost Recipes - Cunningham, Marion
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen - Pepin, Jaques
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter - Reese, Jennifer
Money/Business/Economics
The Home-Based Bookstore - Weber, Steve
Plutocrats - Freeland, Chrystia
How To Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any - Wecks, Erik
Dogs/Animals
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals - Grandin, Temple
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog - Kerasote
Pukka - Kerasote
Pukka's Promise - Kerasote
For the Love of a Dog - McConnell
Control Unleashed - McDevitt
The Other End of the Leash - McConnell
Misc:
Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality - Barondes, Samuel
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod - Beston, Henry
Francona - Francona, Terry
Switch - Heath
The Year 1000 - Lacey
Life Below Stairs - Maloney
How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most - McCarty
Saying Goodbye - Rember, Julie
Woman's Guide to Hunting - Zastrow
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Gladwell
Out There: In the Wild in a Wired Age - Kerasote
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years - Collins, Michael J.
The Apostle: The Life of Paul - Pollock
Is This Normal? : The Essential Guide to Middle Age and Beyond - Whyte
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My kids were taught that they must never let anyone abuse them in any way, and that they have the right to defend themselves and to defend others. I thoroughly educated them on the law pertaining to that subject. They also took karate for a long time.
This has come in handy a few times. DS2 has had to defend himself twice (at ages 10 and 16), and DD has had to defend other kids from being bullied. All ended victoriously for the good guys! No one was hurt badly, and no one was bullied after the initial encounter.
I've come to the conclusion that bullies don't anticipate their prey defending themselves, and they don't like to feel pain. School and camp officials who blame the defender don't get away with it when I am involved.
DS3 was bullied by the principal of the parochial school he attended in the 8th grade. When I found out about it, 2/3 of the way through the school year, I withdrew him and had fun chatting with her about the situation.
All of my boys were bullied by a preacher who attended their college campus's Christian Club meetings. They thought he was in charge, but it turned out he was good friends with the faculty adviser. My boys and other students who belonged to the club were interviewed, separately, by several college officials. That ended well -- the preacher was banned from campus.
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She is very pretty!
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Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Sanibel. I can think of other popular tourist destinations, like Aruba and the US Virgin Islands, but I'm not so sure the standard of living for the residents is particularly high.
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Mom in High Heels, just be glad your Mom isn't fixing black-eyed peas, too. Greens + those horrible peas really stink up a place.
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tp (triple post)
I cannot post right, quote right, or edit right -- my brain is not working on all cylinders today.
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Jean and Mariann, I hope you are both feeling better today, and don't tackle anything! Rest & heal!
I had 8 college students over here last night (including 4 of mine), 7 of whom ate me out of house and home ( a gallon of bean soup, 2 quarts of chili, 2.5 lbs. meatballs, a rotisserie chicken, 36 cans of pop). At 1 a.m., I decided eating time was over. That is when I discovered that I had forgotten to run the crammed-full dishwasher. That is also when the dog decided to grab the container with the meatballs in it and take to the dining room rug. He spilled a cup of sauce (grape jelly/chili sauce mixture). I cleaned it up, even though I was so tired I couldn't think straight, which was how he got the meatballs to begin with. He only ate 1/2 of them and I threw the rest away.
I am always amazed by how much males can eat -- our guests had already had dinner when they arrived. I was up until 3 a.m. supervising the kids.
So:
Take care of dogCall MomClean kitchen - in progress
Take out recycling
Make vegetarian lasagneGet ready to go to friend's party & gather up stuff to take over there
Go to party until 4 pm
Maybe go to grocery store and pick up more oven-ready lasagne noodles and Italian sausage
Maybe make a few lasagnas to eat and to freeze
Maybe serve/eat/clean up after dinner
Maybe comb the dog; definitely feed & play with him
Maybe get figures on paper so DH and I can discuss budget and financial goals for 2014
Maybe discuss budget with DH
Maybe throw caution to the winds and read instead of doing anything productive.
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Dorothy, this is a book that was recommended by someone here. I own it, I've done the exercises, and I recommend it. It has become my New Year's resolution to do this daily -- I should have been doing it all along! I hope your library has it so you can see if it would be helpful to you.
The Core Program: Fifteen Minutes a Day That Can Change Your Life
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You did exactly the right thing.
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I live in western PA, and pork and sauerkraut is a tradition here, too. It's on the menu at a party I'm going to. I don't see how anyone can eat that stuff. Then there's haluska (cabbage and noodles) -- another traditional dish I cannot abide. I'm sure that will be on the menu today, too. Thank goodness it is a casual buffet, with people in and out all afternoon, and not a sit-down meal.
I'm from the South, and I hate black-eyed peas, too. I always choked one down every New Year's Day, for luck.
If we had even a halfway decent Chinese or Mexican restaurant here, that's what we'd have on New Year's Day. I'd make sure there were lots of leftovers for midnight snacks and breakfast.
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I haven't seen a puppy or cat in a pet store in probably 20 years - are there places that still sell them? (Aside from visitors from the humane society...)
Yes there are. I haven't seen them either, but they are a main source for puppy millers to sell dogs to. Reputable breeders never sell their puppies to pet stores, and they never send their dogs to a humane society. In fact, unless something serious prevents them from so doing, a reputable breeder's contract states that if the new owner has to give up the dog, the dog will be returned to the breeder unless moved to a breeder-approved home.
The type of puppy mill resellers I've seen are places that offer a variety of breeds for sale. There is a place like that where I used to live. Most of these places claim they sell dogs from reputable breeders; they are lying.
There are dog auctions, where puppy millers purchase their breeding stock. I know about them because there is a wheaten terrier rescue organization that goes to these auctions and buys all the wheatens to save them from this fate.
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I am glad your bath was thwarted.
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http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/
It is important to wash your hands after feeding pets. Dog food,for sure, can transfer salmonella to your hands.
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UO - I am not saddened by the sight of animals in a pet store. In fact, I enjoy visiting them there.
Do you know if there are puppies there, they are from puppy mills, and how puppy mills treat their dogs?
I like looking at the rodents to desensitize myself. I look at the birds and fish, too. The ferrets are too smelly. At our Petco, I don't think the animals are particularly well taken care of. The cats there are from rescues. I don't know if just anyone can get one, or whether they have to fill out an application. There are no dogs, which is a relief since PA is state that has a lot of puppy mills.
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I think you have a great idea. I may try that with my son.
I have a son on the autism spectrum who has severe food issues, so I get where you are coming from. My son has not eaten anything I've cooked (except for pancakes, if I happen to make them when they are on his good food list, and sweets) for 16.75 years.
It doesn't do any good to buy what he likes unless he requests it, because his likes change within a limited list.
So far, the only new food he has added in the last 5 years is hot dogs, which he will eat 6 times a year. He eats no meat, no fruit, no veggies, and hasn't tasted them except for one bite of a banana, and apples when he was 2.5.
He has been thoroughly tested for physical problems, and has been in therapy for years. He's had everything done that can possibly be done, and nothing has changed.
It isn't a power trip. My son will starve himself if I do not have food that he will eat in the house.
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DD invited some of her friends over, but with the snow, the drunks on the road, and high possibility of cars getting stuck in our driveway, it looks like her plans will be canceled.
Otherwise, we don't celebrate New Year's Eve. We are going to a party tomorrow afternoon, though.
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Clean snow off SUV and car and walkwayMake path from door to SUVFeed & take care of AidanMeds AMClean kitchenTidy DRMake 2 gallons of bean soupMake 2 quarts chiliMake 3 lbs. meatballs4 loads laundry -
I got in the clean tub and found to my horror that the water was cold! I hauled my very blue bottom out of there very quickly, I can tell you. I'll have to have dh look at the water heater after he gets home. I think you sabotaged it.
How utterly horrifying! How did you make it all the way to sitting down before you discovered the water was cold?
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She is suffering from delusions of grandeur. She's ill, you know, and her mind seems to be slipping away.
I'm trying to keep her on track, but it's a difficult task.
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Off with your head, Knave!
Time to haul out your dictionary, Weenie.
Aren't you supposed to be in the tub?
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You win my eternal favor and are now to be known as Dame Shukriyya.
Okay, Buttercup, you've got your one subject. I have thousands, so you've got much more work to do !
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How 'bout Queen Jean? That has a regal ring to it befitting someone with the username 'Jean in Newcastle' :D
:grouphug: your highness.
Sorry, the Queen title has already been taken. Funny, Jeanie Weenie suggested that a few days ago. She was voted off the island! But that was mostly because she was going to chop my head off! (She is not as meek as she appears.)
For those that pray for others......Update-she's going weird--
in The Chat Board
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:grouphug: and prayers.