nevergiveup
-
Posts
946 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Classifieds
Store
Posts posted by nevergiveup
-
-
What are your favorite things to wear to stay cool?
I've never worn dresses, but yesterday was 95 here and I am rethinking them (too many spider veins for me to let my legs out in public). Bonus points if they have a built-in bra.
And, skorts--why? Pros/cons?
-
I second going to the extension office.
Ours has bags that you put samples in along with directions on how to take the samples. We have a lab that we then ship them to. I think a test cost $9.00 or something. I remember that the postage to mail it off was more expensive than the analysis.
-
I've had Le Creuset. I've had Aldi's. I've also had a stoneware cloche.
Best one by far for bread baking is the preseasoned Lodge I got from Amazon. Due to the high temperature used to bake the artisan bread, the white interiors of both the previous ones discolored horribly and I never trusted the knobs. The Le Creuset's pretty blue enamel (mine was blue) chipped. I believe the interior of the Aldi one pitted. The cloche was difficult to use and the handle on the lid broke off right away.
Lodge all the way. I have two of them and the preseasoned doesn't rust like my original one does.
I have some artisan bread rising as we I type this.
-
I know several people for whom an underground fence works wonderfully well.
However, success with one depends on proper training and the type of dog--those with high prey drive can take the hit from the fence and keep going.
-
I worry about this--my son owns a property he rents out.
The renters are pretty comfortable there. I think that when he wants them to move out, they won't do so willingly and he will just have to move in with them!
-
Just heard that she had 13 pups!
I have known all her dogs since they were pups, too--she has 3 adult German Shepherds.
How soon will I know what their adult personality will be? I've never net a pup I didn't like!
-
1
-
-
I'm getting a puppy! I'm getting a puppy!
My friend's German Shepherd just had pups and I am going to be getting one. These are purebred.
Do I want a male or female?
-
1
-
-
I know you said you are not willing to ask family members to help.
But could you ask family or a friend for a loan to pay off the credit card and you make payments to them instead?
-
My family will eat anything in a pie crust so I would be tempted to make it into a beef pot pie.
I say "tempted" because I would most likely just tell them to shut up and eat it as is.
-
2
-
-
There seem to be a lot of diseases where we live so we have to have our fruit trees on a regular spray schedule.
If not, all we get is small fruit, every one with a worm or something in.
So, ours are a lot of work. All fruit trees benefit from pruning and some are then prone to sprouting lots of branches to compensate.
Some need to be pruned in different shapes for optimal production and minimal disease.
We also thin the fruit and pick up all the fallen fruit each week as well as clean the trees off in the fall to minimize diseases.
We net our cherry trees so the birds don't pick it clean.
-
I thought some professional bakers swear that freezing a cake makes for a better cake. They were probably referring to an unfrosted cake, though...
That being said, heck, I would eat the cake and then order another for when your son is feeling better.
The more cake the better in my world.....
-
Thank you so much, Storygirl! That was really helpful.
As I understand, the school (in Wisconsin) wasn't really helpful.
My sister has always thought there was a problem but they didn't do anything to address it.
She finally had outside testing done and the result was the diagnosis of ADD-in and the testing place suggested medication and a 504 plan.
Since the school has been reticent to do anything on their own, I thought it would be helpful if she had some suggestions in place for their meeting.
Thank you again for your very helpful reply!
-
1
-
-
My nephew (age 13) was just diagnosed as having inattentive Attention Deficit.
The family will try medication.
What would be the best 504 school accommodations to recommend for him?
-
Well, I would go to Home Depot or Lowe's and buy a big canvas painter's drop cloth.
They are usually beige and very cheap. I would put it under the table and chairs.
-
2
-
-
I prefer an actual rice cooker for rice, it’s a lot less error prone than the instant pot, what can take some fiddling to get different rices just right.
What rice cooker do you have? And it has different settings for all these different rices?
I have cooked rice on the stove in a pot for years. It usually boils over regardless of the pot I use.
That's a pain in the behind, but at least I am forced to clean my stove, which isn't a bad thing!
Thanks for all the replies! I am still torn--I like that the IP is versatile but I also like that a rice cooker apparently does rice very well.
-
1
-
-
Which one do I want? Help me decide!
Here's the scenario:
I like to cook different rices: white, brown, red, black.
I sometimes cook steel cut oats.
I cook all sorts of dried beans, lentils, etc.
I have a stove top pressure cooker which I use a lot for meats.
-
I heard an interview with Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank) on NPR and she sounds like a late bloomer.
She didn't do well in school at all--teachers called her dumb, but her mother always supported her and told her how great her imagination was.
-
1
-
-
Feed them to the family.
Guilt them into eating them.
Only half kidding. If the food was not spoiled and at least had some nutrition in it, I would suffer out to the bitter end.
-
1
-
-
Does anyone have that cork-pierce-pour thing that lets you have a glass of wine but leaves the cork sealed? I think it’s called Coravin. I want one of these. I have wine I am not drinking entirely because this is the problem. I only want one glass. Nobody else wants wine; DH doesn’t drink it. So I end up only having my wine when I have guests who will drink it too.
My contribution to this thread: the No-Yank Tank and the Long-Tail Tee shirts from Duluth Trading co. My torso is long and shirts that are too short get on my last dang nerve! But these longer-than-average shirts are awesome. They come to the lower hip and stay down. They are the best!
ETA: name. And wow, I did not know Coravin was so expensive!
Drink your one glass of wine then freeze the rest for stews and sauces.
-
Scouts will accept money donations and get 100% of the proceeds instead of the small percentage received through cookie sales.
I have gone this route in recent years as I realized how small the boxes of cookies have become--I just give them the money in lieu buying of the cookies.
-
4
-
-
I'd be really frustrated too. My dd got braces as a sophomore too, though she did get them off just in time for her graduation (and senior pics then).
I do wonder about the idea of photoshopping though, if necessary. Some good friends of ours had a son with severe acne, and they had his acne photoshopped out!
But, then where do you stop?
Hate your nose? Photoshop it.
Hate your chin? Photoshop it.
Women already have such trouble with body image, etc... from looking at photo shopped models, do we want to encourage this?
Back in my day, we all looked like dorks in our senior photos.
Braces are temporary.
-
1
-
-
I would be frustrated, too, but would tell my daughter to smile without reserve now!
No one is going to remember that her braces are yellowed, but they will remember how much fun she is to be around if she can get past that.
Now, if she had a gob of spinach hanging from them.......
-
I don't use a splatter guard--for me it held in too much moisture.
I put sheets of aluminum foil around the pan to protect the burners not being used as well as the counter and then make sure I use my vent.
-
Sounds like you want them to join more than they want to join.
There is nothing in your post remotely compelling.
"not active..don't attend...rather not join..."
You have your answer--save your money.
-
3
-
S/O Summer Heat--clothing
in The Chat Board
Posted
Thank you all for the great advice! I've already several things in my online shopping cart. ANYTHING is better than the jeans I traditionally wear!!!