I would likely do the kidney beans in case the flavor of the chili beans didn't work well with my other beans. Sometimes I use pork and beans in my baked beans if I run short of the others I prefer.

Last Tuesday dd's dance teacher (and studio owner) invited dd to try out for a position in the Moscow Ballet Nutcracker performance. Nothing major, just one of the snowflakes. Tryouts are today. She said the girls have to be 6, but dd is 5. Not the best dancer, but definately one of the most enthusiastic. Teacher said she thought it would still be ok for dd to try out even though she isn't old enough since she would be working with her. Fast forward to this morning and I finally make it to the official Moscow Ballet website to sign up for the audition and read that the dancers have to be 7 years old. I am concerned that my child should not try out. She would love it, but... I haven't talked about it to her so she isn't expecting it at this point. I have called the teacher and texted the teacher but no reply yet. If I don't hear back, should I just take her to the audition anyway based on the last conversation or skip it based ont he ages on the website?

:iagree: It sounds like a bunch of miscommunication to me. The OP was given the date and all important details. But she never responded. Even without a formal invite in the mail, I would have responded to the one online so they would know to expect my child. Mail does get lost. People forget to mail things. If the mom had mailed it, and never heard back, then she is probably upset with the OP. Just write ot off to communication misunderstandings.

All-Terrain Armored Transport from Star Wars. Ok, I know this is on a dog, but I think it could work for a horse too. Maybe you couuld make part of it from large cardboard boxes.

A vegas showgirl? A cowboy?

If you go to a high end store that sells Thomasville (Flexsteel is another great brand), then the sales person should be able to help you. Most high end furniture stores I worked in had decorators handling the furniture sales. It would mean a visit from them to your home, but finding the right furniture can be worth it.

I hate it when a bad southern accent is used in media. ARGH! It is one of my biggest irritators when watching anything. I also hate it when the dumbest idiot in the group is nearly always portrayed with a slow southern accent. We may talk slow but we are not dumb clucks!

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: For everyone going thru this. We are struggling and it all just seems relentless in the stress it is putting on every aspect of our life - marriage, communication, health... I had a cousin call me unexpectedly last night who has lost his job and now feels like his marriage is next, looking for advice. The only advice I had was just keep hanging on. Hoping and praying that better economic situations come to everyone soon.:grouphug::grouphug:

First, the writer of that novel must not be from the south. Y'all is plural. I would only use it with a single person in the room if I was referring to that person being part of a group (as in, "Is that what y'all do at your church?). That being said, my great aunt (from West Tennessee) would write it both ways in her letters to me. 'Y'all' is plural for you all. 'Ya'll' was the contraction for 'you all will' as in 'Ya'll be here this Friday or next?"

I would likely use them much like rice. Or in a pasta salad of sorts. THe last time I bought something similar I ended up using them in a baked pasta like a lasagna where melted mozzarella held them together.

We went from nearly 4000 to 1800 sq ft 2 years ago. I didn't purge nearly enough stuff like books and toys and linens type stuff. I am still working on that issue. My new house has never lost that cluttered look because I still have too much. I like the smaller house in some ways, but it is mostly because we went from 1 bath to 2. Yeah, the first house was built in the 50s with only one bath.

I know! I know! And the crazy thing is that the pin was NEW. It must have ben defective from manufacturing. My dad had heard of old pins shearing and is very careful with his. Believe me, I was in the truck with him and 2 kids. Hearing that thud as the hitch dropped and watching it drift behind us was surreal, like it was in slow motion. We were in a hilly area, with low population during a slow travel time of day or it could have been disasterous. Our guardian angels were working hard that day. That was also the trip where he didn't dump sewage. When the trailer flipped over, most of what we lost was because the sewage leaked back out and into the trailer. Now he never leaves a camping area without dumping - motorhome and trailer!

My parents have both - a class A motor home and a pull behind trailer. They are great for different reasons. They mostly use the motor home for non-camping road trips where they stay in RV parks and such. They also prefer it when parking in the yards of family. It has a more spacious and more comfortable feel with carpeted floors and the like. If they are traveling to an area where they want to be local tourists, they love the motor home. My dad does not like to take it to campgrounds though because some of the narrow, winding roads to get to campsites are more difficult to move thru. There are also few pull thru spots. If he is towing his car, he has to stop, unhook the car and it's trailer, before he can park if he wasn't able to get the pull thru spots. If he is in the trailer, he can back it up and manouver it much easier. They also like the trailer for camping because it is more 'wash and wear' with vinyl floors and such. It is made to be easy to clean more than it is made to be comfortable. The sleeping areas are separate, but not private. Only curtains separate them from the rest of the camper vs the doors on the motor home. When looking for either, do lots of research. I can't remember what type frame he has now (this is his 3rd camper trailer) but some are much more light weight than others, and easier to pull. I know that this one he says is lighter than his last one even though it is nearly twice the size. Also take your time. Take time to look at many and see what would fit your family best. Layouts vary, storage varies, and so on. There are dangers with each type as well. This week my parents had to park the motorhome because the winds coming in from Isaac were too strong and making driving of it too dangerous (they were on their way to TN). A few years ago we had a pin shear causing a trailer hitch to come out of the truck and our trailer went over a small cliff into a ravine. Thankfully it didn't hit anyone or anything but it was a complete loss.

This is me. I have actually grown to prefer pizza without cheese. Sometimes the pizza is a bit messier to eat since the cheese holds it all together normally, but I still like it without cheese.

Ok, I admit, after reading the title, my only thought was to give the rat to a snake for a nice treat. But since this is apparently a loved pet (and I can't imagine why to be honest), I won't make that suggestion. A former boyfriend would make tunnels for his rats using PVC pipes from one cage to another. He would occassionally change the route for interest.

Sometimes it has nothing to do with the talent or personality of the leader. Sometimes other people take over because they want to be leader and they then work in the background to overthrow the current leader by pointing out weaknesses (real or imagined) and so on. It is a power struggle. By their saying it is because you were not good enough and that it was done publically and by surprise- that says to me that it was more of a power thing than a 'you are not right for this' thing. You were overthrown. It doesn't say anything about you unless you let it say something about you.

I would think that was not legal. If Kohls wanted to do a credit check before hiring (and many employers do now), that would be disclosed later. When I worked for another retailer years ago, we were paid $x per credit app, then bonuses for each one over a certain number. Some people pushed those apps every which way, even illegally, just to get those extra dollars. The company needs to be allerted to this. I know he wants to handle it on his own, but what if this is used for identity theft or the like? What happened is not normal by any means. She fraudulently had him apply for a credit card. Job or no job, that is wrong.

This is exactly why I started selling thru a co-op. The members order online. I deliver on the day the co-op is open. I collect my money. We do it again next week. Even my friends will pick up their eggs from dh at his work rather than come to my house. I have another friend that sells hers to a local health food store. And another that sells hers thru a man at the farmer's market. None of us like to have strangers come to our homes. And no, I don't make enough to cover feed, but every little bit helps.

After we had our first surplus, I found a local co-op to sell my extras thru each week. I charge $3 a dozen. Other sellers sell theirs for up to $5 a dozen depending on if they are fully pastured, free range, special chickens, and so on. When I have duck eggs to sell, those go for $6 a dozen. I do weigh mine to make sure they are all at least mediums before I put them in the sale cartons. The small ones are what I use for my personal cooking. That being said, I do sell them to a couple of friends for $1 a dozen. They are close friends who are having a hard time financially but want good, fresh eggs. For others, I will sometimes trade 3 clean, usable cartons for 1 dozen eggs. A new carton starts at 30cents and goes up from there if I have to buy them. Yet another person I trade 1 dozen eggs for 1 pound of meal worms/june bugs or what ever bug he is pulling off of his organic garden that my chickens will eat. When you start selling them, you do need to be aware of local laws. My eggs have to be cleaned, and the labels must have certain information. I can reuse old cartons but some areas say that cartons must always be new.

Our library sells them for 25cents each at their book sales. People buy them a box at a time. I donate all mine to the library whenever I am finished.

Basically he has said that creationism is not appropriate for children and that has creationist families in an uproar. He also said that evolution is somehow responsible for technological innovation. This is the kerfuffle.

What the PTO does varies from school to school. At the first school I taight in, they did lots of fundraisers, but they also volunteered heavily in the school. Parents would sign up as volunteers in whatever grades they wanted and would then do things like make our copies, help decorate bulletin boards, fix us appreciation meals, buy specialty items for our classes, help on field trips when not enough parents could, bring in special speakers/entertainment for the students, volunteered to read aloud to classes, gave grants to teachers, and so on. The parents who were able to help, became well known with the teachers. If there were job openings, like for subs or secretaries, they were often the first hired. At the next school, they didn't do much. Lots of fundraisers, but we were not sure what happened to any of the money as we never saw any of it used in our building.

You can't buy gros, very worn couches at the thrift stores here for that price. If it is really mint, I would jump on it before someone else does.

What?? We were supposed to get engaged first?? We dated for a year, bought wedding rings on our 'anniversary', gave my parents 3 days notice of the wedding, and dh didn't actually propose until the night before the wedding - because I told him I couldn't marry someone unless they actually took time to ask me first. So technically, I guess I was engaged less than 24 hours.:D

Not stinky, thankfully! She is the 'good' child. She never does crazy stuff, unlike her brother. Just a couple of weeks ago, of course, I read some story about a kid who had a lego tire up his nose for years and the doctor just found it, before they were preparing to do some kind of invasive sinus surgery. I gloated that neither of my kids had ever put stuff in their noses LOL. ;) I don't know what he sprayed in her nose to reduce swelling, but she definately needed it. There is still so much snot and gunk coming out that I think he saved us from another round of antibiotics.