Thank you!
Many do not know that libraries are not just all about books or somewhere to take the kids for a storytime. Libraries are your portal to all the information you will ever need out there in the world. So many resources can come from your public library to you.
Books on tape, CD or downloadable materials can be had for the ownership of a library card. Most libraries share with a consortium of others within their state. Currently I read books on my Kindle and just yesterday, I borrowed a copy of the current āCooks Illustratedā for 14 days to peruse. BTW, there are some recipes Iām going to make that I found in there (one is a Sengalese chicken recipe similar to Chicken Yassa).
As a retired librarian, I will continue to sing the praises of our public libraries and the services they provide to all of us! Give them a try!
Around $50 USD
Probably will go more luxury cream than CBD cream. Her husband is a retired professor from the med school.
Hereās what I donāt understand about the magazines; it seems like they are available without a wait, and without borrowing and returning them! I have only ābrowsedā them, which is what Iāve done with my virtual subscriptions. Am I missing something?
ETA I just noticed I can ask to ākeep it in my rackā, and āsubscribeā ( be notified when a new one is released).
Our local library is FANTASTIC! Not only is there a library of books, we have a library of things that includes musical instruments, ,park passes, games, light therapy lamps, telescopesā¦and the list goes on. For anyone that hasnāt been inside a local library lately, youād be surprised at how much they offer. Loaning out items is just the beginning of it. There are loads of social groups, movie nights and instructional courses, as well. Itās an excellent community resource.
Saturday morning he backslid and nipped her on the hip while she was cooking breakfast, and hard at that (turns out it left a bruise). She repeated my method one time and thereās been no issues since.
Iām still visiting until tomorrow night but his progress has been remarkable - he seems to be a pretty smart dog and although heās not one of those ādesperate to pleaseā types, he is quite willing to be trained.
He no longer gets on the living room furniture, itās been since Saturday that heās tried to mouth any of the wood furniture or window sills, and I got him to quit barking randomly. He still barks on (what he believes is) sufficient instigation, like voices in the hall or when he sees someone walking a dog out the window. So weāre still working on that.
I think Iāve gotten him to understand he isnāt supposed to shake or flip the feeding mat over (I stood there petting him throughout 2 meals, and just said ānoā any time he went for an edge of the felty flaps) and with your suggestion weāve broken the evening meal into two servings about 90 minutes apart, so no more throwing up. I just stood nearby watching for the next few meals [editing; Iām getting my days mixed up - somehow itās both āHow is it Monday already?ā and āIt seems a lot later in the week than it isā] and he didnāt try to pick up the feeding mat. Hopefully he doesnāt revert sometime when he feels heās unobserved.
Donāt you just hate it when you are trying to arrange a get together for a meal at a restaurant, and there are people in the group who canāt make up their minds about if they can/want to attend (so want to let you know at the last minute), and furthermore, some of them are not on speaking terms with others, so some attending is contingent on others NOT attending.
Reminds me too, I had a friend who would always ask if he could let me know the morning of, if he could make it to dinner that night at my place. After a couple of cancellations I figured out that he was waiting to see if he would get Ć better offer. He never got invited again.
Iāve only once had this happen. I talked with other guy in question and he said heād still love to come and as long as there were more than just the three of us, heād be fine.
So I told the first guy - very politely, because he is a good friend even if a bit over-reactive on this point - that he didnāt get to dictate my guest list and I was sorry to learn he wouldnāt be coming, because I was indeed inviting Steve.
The next time it came up was wings and beer out and he sheepishly apologized to Steve and theyāre buds again.
Iāve been thinking about apartment living and the benefits of parasitic heat.
Iām visiting daughter2 the past few days. Sheās on a second floor apartment and has neighbors on 4 of the 6 available sides.
We were running the oven Saturday (matcha-cardamom-cinnamon cookies, very good!) and I asked her if I could turn the heat down a couple of degrees because it was pretty warm in there (74Ā°F, and Iām more used to 66-68).
Her reply:
- You can but it wonāt matter. Iāve had it set on 65 ever since Autumn, but the coolest itās gotten in here is 72.
Weāre in a cold snap now; it went into the upper 20s by midnight and this morning was a frosty 20Ā°F.
Itās still 71 degrees in here, despite her living room area being a wall of windows plus a full-sized sliding glass door leading out to her patio/balcony area. Itās maybe 2 degrees cooler in her bedroom, because she keeps the doors closed to keep the pup off the carpet (the rest of the apartment has some kind of impenetrable faux-wood laminate flooring).
This is kind of a weird complex. Itās billing itself as āluxury apartmentsā and while itās not, really some items are nice, while others are way off the mark. Itās very well soundproofed, nearly everyone has dogs but youād barely know it, it has fairly nice 1.25 inch quartz countertops and quartz+tile backsplashes, and a largish 4x6.5 foot island with double sink, 9 foot ceilings, the kitchen and laundry appliances are all decent quality, the bath has a good amount of space and the vanity/sink area there is also topped with the same quartz.
Then they paired it with the most godawful cheap particle board cabinetry (kitchen and bath) which after just a few months is already falling apart in places, the kitchen faucet (high neck/pull wand) is no-name (literally - no branding on it at all) and is cheap and awkward to use, the bath door and one of the doors to her bedroom are poorly hung (so you have to pull hard and pull up to get them securely closed) and thereās a lot of shoddy workmanship in terms of fit on the wood detail work, baseboards and the like.
Iām wondering if the builder started out with high ambitions and found out they were getting cost overruns and decided to start cutting corners. They were almost 2 months late in getting the first 2 buildings completed and might have lost a lot of their prospects who couldnāt wait that long. Luckily for my daughter, we found a really nice lady in the next town over who rented her own master bed/bath and shared use of the kitchen to my daughter for just $900 a month.
Guys are easy 
Unless thereās a woman behind them! 
I do wish website developers would make website fill-in forms (i.e., airlines, hotels) actually usable so users could just begin to type the city/state, month, day, year and it would auto fill. When making reservations on my work computer for my CEO, having to move my hand to the mouse to click a pop-down to choose the appropriate month, day, year in each cell is a PITB. Tabbing to each cell and starting to type the data needed for it to auto-fill is a helluva lot easier for the user. Iām much more keyboard-oriented, so tabbing and typing is way faster than having to use a mouse to find the data in the pop-down.
A minor inconvenience, but when I have to make conference and/or hotel or flight arrangements for multiple people, it becomes time consuming.
Just a little Grinchy grumbling as I try and close out the year without any major eff-ups.
Moment of wonderment: Saw a juvenile bobcat in our yard at sunset today. It walked down my neighborās driveway, where mama or papa bobcat waited patiently. The pair crossed the street, hopped over a stone wall, and were gone.
Happened too fast to get a photo.
ETA: The adult was likely the mama bobcat, as I learned here.
Orange is a flavour avoid. I donāt write about it that often. Iāve probably mentioned it here half a dozen times over the past 3 years, and Iāve mentioned it to a cousin who keeps suggesting recipes that contain orange or orange juice over the years.
I guess FB is taunting me or not listening carefully enough
Okay so itās not working out. She canāt give him the kind of exercise he needs on her work schedule, and without me staying there heās reverting - nipping at her and gnawing window sills and what not.
I told her she canāt take him back to the pound, so for now heās my dog. My old dog (almost 14 years old) is not taking it well, but heās getting used to it - the āpupā has been here since Friday afternoon, I think.
The pup is still getting better day-by-day in terms of behavior, but also heās a problem since he mostly responds well if Iām in the room, and doesnāt necessarily do so if Iām not, and I canāt stand over him 24/7. But heās still a sweet pup. Just rambunctious as hell, and big enough to be a problem when heās feeling his oats.
Would a training class help? Or is he still too young for that?
Yes, Iāve got him on a schedule for early next year. And heās very good with other dogs (other than pestering them to play when they donāt want to be pestered) so thankfully I can take him in a mass training class thatās fairly inexpensive for 6-8 hourly sessions.
