This year we are trying Mosquito Barrier. It is made of garlic. We hope it works! Their site has good info. (I don't know how to link on the kindle)

Agreeing with others...tell the league and it sounds like there are bigger issues with this kid.

:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: a slow clap in honor of your accomplishment from happi duck who recently finished three seasons of Degrassi junior high and is now watching Degrassi High...

:iagree: :iagree: http://www.carbona.com/sd_new_chart.pdf

Yay! Glad it worked out. I picture you sitting out front of your house in the shadows. As the UPS guy walks up you strike a match and then in a menacing voice say "I was wonderin' if you were gonna show..." I clearly need to get some sleep.

Wearing stained shorts for the rest of the summer? (if there's not some issue preventing them being worn) I've never dealt with crayon but I've used Carbona Stain Devils successfully on lots of things. There is a formula for crayon. http://www.carbona.com/sd_new_chart.pdf

The honors portion is the "H" pages for each lesson. Somewhere, maybe the intro, it mentions using them as you go along or all together at the end. We use the H pages as a review at the beginning of the next year.

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Some libraries need to make due with people that aren't trained. Perhaps they don't realize that alphabetized by last name does not stop just at the first letter. My library let me bring my kids in to 'read the shelves' so we could get some community service hours. We each worked on a children's fiction section putting it in perfect order.

When selling specific items at a garage sale we've had good luck with listing the specific items in our craigslist ad...that way when people search for a specific item they find the listing for the garage sale.

Yes, common around here. Some towns make it optional though all have the program.

I wish the manager would have helped the kid out!

What I find re media mail is that binders/pages are okay only if related to medical information.

Yes, do keep us updated!

If I'm understanding the team trophy is given to the studio. I think it's okay if you keep them or at the very least keep the special ones just to keep the peace. Here's my idea for distribution. Have a "drawing". Give each dancer 'tickets' to put their names and phone numbers. I think the number of tickets could be based on how long they danced with you or how many competitions. Maybe one ticket per paid month of dance. You can just cut up slips of paper. In front of each trophy goes a bag labeled with the trophy information and dancers puts their tickets into the bags. If they especially desire a certain trophy they put more tickets in that bag. I would also put out a "I don't want a trophy" charity bag. If someone doesn't want a trophy they put tickets in this bag and you donate 25 or 10 cents per ticket to a specified charity. This just makes it more interesting for those who don't want a trophy and also might encourage people to think 'hey, we don't really need a trophy'. To avoid hurt feelings and drama you hold the "drawing" privately and deliver or have people pick up trophies at a later date. Now here's why I keep putting "drawing" in quotes and why you hold the "drawing" privately...if you need to you can fix the "drawing". No one pays for tickets and you never promise that it will be random. What you're really doing is seeing what everyone really wants. Even privately, you could draw random names but this at least gives you the chance to see that Susy only did team dances and put all her tickets in one bag and give it to her. This also keeps someone from randomly getting several. Hope this makes sense and is helpful!

me too!

In our family we like to come up with weird things to say as people pass by(crowded sidewalk, mall etc.)...so they just catch a snippet of a strange conversation. I don't care if it's a fake leg!! Grandma doesn't want to see that!! would work wonderfully!

Stuff like big league chew never went away here. I wonder if some kids even know why the gum is shredded!

Cool!! Sounds like great fun. Hope he has a great summer!

This topic always surprises me. Around here irl this debate NEVER comes up. I'm glad!