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  1. Well, you got nothing to lose - I remember the fence debacle. Don't mess with the peri-lady!
  2. Are you friends with them or at least cordial? I would call them first if they're not too scary. They might be grateful you called them and not the cops.
  3. Any suggestions for what kind of professional can help with building a financial plan for a couple who has no investments other than real estate and a business? Thank you for any suggestions.
  4. I had zucchini, onion, and lentil soup for breakfast then a lot of borscht for dinner: beets, cabbage, onions, sweet potato, green beans. I'm going to try to eat a little fruit this week. I have blueberries and applesauce in my freezer.
  5. The obvious power differential in the current crisis is why I think young people are being drawn to a passionate stance on this. I'm a very politically active person but I find it hard to engage with the protests right now and I've been examining why (I would expect myself to be more engaged with the Let Gaza Live side.) I do believe there should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should proceed within it. War is horrible. I've finally hit on my personal snag: the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. So anti-Semitism is my enemy and Bibi Netanyahu is my enemy and Islamophobia is my enemy and Zionism is my enemy. I think I generally assume that the enemy of my enemy is my friend but in this case, due primarily to the anti-Semitism that is bubbling up, it's not true, and leaves me with no way to engage authentically.
  6. I go to bed at 9 pm and get up between 4 and 5. I love the dawn - see username. I struggled for about 4 years with profound insomnia but it went away after an expensive homeopathic MD consult and the right remedy. If I stay up past 9 I then have a harder time sleeping no matter how tired I am. If I stay in bed past 5 I usually end up with a headache from being late to my first cup of coffee.
  7. I'm thinking about this as a member of my library's board. I've gotten as far as this: locally, our community would likely be uninterested and our library wouldn't spend the money. Big picture - I see a place for all books in a library, except for ones that promote hate speech and incitement to violence. But, I think that shelving books and passively allowing access is different that platforming i.e. allowing a proponent to be a speaker at the speaker series. Our library has a policy that would allow Brave Books to hold one of their story hours as their First Amendment right but putting them on our speaker schedule would involve directing resources to them and that would not make it past our board. I think of many many older awful books for small children containing racism, glorifying war, etc. many of which I (Gen X here) grew up with that are now being questioned and weeded out. They were less politically motivated than these but the subtle harm was harm nonetheless.
  8. cabbage, onion, zucchini with pesto slaw, greens, black beans
  9. You know you're a homeschooler when...
  10. This is a serendipitous thread as I have been thinking a lot about my grandfather and his stories in our family. Briefly, we were told stories that made him a hero, and the more I read about his impact on the world, the less it's true. I have all of his papers and I toyed with years about writing his heroic story, but I can't. It's not that simple. Some parts of it are definitely courageous and others are actively wrong, some are just incompetent. I've decided that rather than write the story we were told, I'd like to write a graphic novel about my own progression from grandfather-as-hero to grandfather-as-complicated. I would use pictures that he took and quotes about him from other peoples' books, but the focus would be on my own knowledge unfolding.
  11. What we usually have: Dutch babies with lemon and powdered sugar, random snacks for lunch, beef tenderloin, roasted veggies, balsamic onions, salad, twice-baked potatoes and Buche de Noël for dinner. Christmas Eve is usually appetizers, charcuterie, or raclette. This year - I am spending Christmas with my family of origin and not my dh or children as it is likely our last all together. And this group has some interesting dietary restrictions - one sister's family won't eat beef or pork and is mostly gf, one is vegan-adjacent with no processed food, and the last is veganish with lots of processed food (fake meat, milks, etc.). Two sisters are lactose-intolerant. My oldest sister is kinda high maintenance and usually asks me to make her food. My 95-year old mother is hosting us all and I think we should plan our shared meals now so we don't have to waste time pondering and polling. Non-beef and pork sister's husband makes 7 fishes for Christmas Eve, so maybe that? Plus a vegan squash soup and green salad. Bread, gf crackers. Breakfast? I can't even think of one thing that everyone will agree on aside from coffee and chocolate. Maybe some open-faced rye toasts with toppings: lemon-dill sour cream and smoked salmon, blue cheese and pear, pickled mushrooms and frisee. Lunch: maybe a wild rice salad with feta on the side. Leftover squash soup. Supper: nut roast if my UK sister makes it, maybe the roasted chicken with tangerines and arak recipe from the Jerusalem cookbook, salad, Buche de Noël. Christmas pudding.
  12. Yesterday I had 2 cups shredded cabbage and wild rice for breakfast leftover veg and lentil soup the teeny-tiny brussels sprouts from our garden plus a salad of greens, cabbage, zucchini, carrots, walnuts, cucumber
  13. For my musician dd I teased out music-related academic learning (theory, music history, aural skills) from performance practice (lessons, practicing, rehearsals, and performance.) Performance practice went in the activities slot. For the rest - she put in the hours, she earned the credit. In the OP's context, I would guess there are elements of theater that can be divided this way: history, stage management, tech? I don't know if your ds did any of these but if you want to acknowledge his mastery of theater practice other than rehearsals and performance, you might see some credit-worthy units.
  14. I hope all is resolved. Happy to keep this challenge going into the new month. Yesterday was 2 cups of brussels sprouts then many bowls of lentil, carrot, celery, leek soup. I need to go produce shopping.
  15. I've changed my travel plans to include staying at my mom's over Christmas so it will be we four sisters all together, probably for the last time. This week's goals are to finish putting the garden to bed today before it snows, find the right pictures and frames for mom's Christmas gift project, buy some more beechwood, start carving birds, and buy some hooks for hanging them, eat 800 g of veg every day, hike/walk/ruck every day. So I did move the piano and also changed the living rom and pantry pretty dramatically. The house feels so much more spacious and I'm quite pleased with it. I bought two new lamps and they help a lot. I did not find my desk space but did come to terms with the thought that my favorite area is on the couch next to the window. So I've moved a sturdy stool and a lamp and will call this my space until further notice. The new spaciousness of the house makes this feasible. Under the must-get-worse-before-it-gets-better category, I moved all the books from the house to the back house, and brought zero in from the sauna. This is the right move to be able to bring them pre-sorted to new homes but it is sort of funny that my two enormously compelling goals were to make myself a new desk and bring in all the books are the two I am unable to execute.
  16. I've read about it as an Appalachian tradition. https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/june-is-the-mon/#:~:text=Appalachia has many interesting customs,banging%2C hollering%2C and serenading. https://www.ncpedia.org/shivaree
  17. I find they make the soup or stew too sweet. The flavor is great for stew but I would cook them separately so they don't sweeten the whole pot.
  18. The rain has saved my procrastinating rear-end. It rained enough the last few days to thaw the beds so I just put my garlic in the ground. I picked some fresh kale and thyme from under the leaves too.
  19. Mmm, I love parsnips and think they would be delish mashed with potato and/or celeriac. They're quite sweet tasting. My grandmother used to make parsnip ice cream which was really good! You can also boil them then finish them like homefries.
  20. Not covid, since I'm entirely better. Whew! So glad to have older dd home, we can start to get holiday-cozy.
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