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  1. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think the problem is that there are bad drivers all around: car drivers, motorcyclists, bikers, etc. In a car, if you are a bad driver, or encounter a bad driver, you have some amount of protection. (Some.) It's gotten so that I'm less afraid of driving in bad weather because of the weather...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So, having lost a cousin-in-law at age 30 in a motorcycle accident i want to make it clear i am not generalizing here. There's a very small portion of drivers who are nuts. They weave in and out of traffic, go way past the speed limits, and I've seen them pass on the curb. You see this with car...
  3. sheeplady

    Cold/Cough Remedies?

    The net pot is wonderful. I use the spray bottle type (given as a gift). When I was pregnant, there's like nothing for a cold you can take, and at one point in both pregnancies it was the only thing that let me sleep. I also use Traditional Medicinal teas (note: not while pregnant). If I get...
  4. sheeplady

    Vintage Appliances

    Oh, yes, good point. Do NOT tip sideways. ETA: the top could likely kill you. The top is incredibly heavy. I don't want to make a big deal out of the gas, and scare people. But you want to be very precise moving these things. Be delicate as far as moving. That said, I had two in our home with...
  5. sheeplady

    Vintage Appliances

    Yes! As a warning- most of the ones you will find will need restoration or be butchered. You likely won't find one someone has "restored" already. But if the mechanism is in good shape the vast majority of restoration is easy. If the gas is leaking, you have a very dangerous situation and a...
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    Vintage Appliances

    We have a monitor top (ck) and a flat top. Both need restoration (door seals, shelves rechromed), and they will be our fridges once we are no longer renting. The monitor top was $200 and the flat top $75. If you're willing to drive, I've seen them for free. They are particularly plentiful...
  8. sheeplady

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Sorry you got kicked, Wire9. I grew up on a sheep farm and every time I got hurt it was stupidity on my part. I made 48 blue royal icing roses for my daughter's birthday cake tonight. I'm going to have a martini and head to bed.
  9. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I personally never trust a company who mentions evil in their motto... in any capacity.
  10. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My grandfather attempted to enlist for WWI, despite the fact he was too young. He knew the recruiter in town, so he went to the next county over and tried to sign up. The recruiter had been injured on the front and refused to sign my grandfather up. For WWII he was in his early forties, married...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    What do modern people do with their fat today? Do they dump it down the drain? We have two kinds of fat... Drippings (good fat, goes in canning jars) and Bad Fat (not good enough to keep for cooking) which goes in whatever type of tin we have for the freezer and later tossing.
  13. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    On the topic of racism, I saw the racist "w" and "d" term's used on comments on an article about Italian immigrants. The last time I heard the "w" word was when I was in high school. A girl was yelling at a teacher (which was wrong) and he called her a "dirty w." She looked shocked for a...
  14. sheeplady

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Tonight is going to be night #3 of making baby bibs. One of my closest friends from college is expecting her first, and I'm making her baby bibs (like 18 of them, she will never be without one), trunk blankets, and cloth wipes (for cloth diapering). And as usual, I went overboard. Her baby...
  15. sheeplady

    Frank Sinatra's vacation retreat is for sale

    I guess I thought Palm Dessert homes were worth more... I just did a search and a 5 bedroom runs about $1 to $11.9 million; with lots in the $3-5 mil range. I would've assumed, however, that the Sinatra home might have a better location and large bedrooms and such. Plus, even if one is not a...
  16. sheeplady

    Frank Sinatra's vacation retreat is for sale

    $3.9 million seems like sort of... a deal. Not for your everyday person (obviously) but to own the retreat of Sinatra... which is a nice house to begin with... 5 bedrooms and a guest house? I would think this would be worth quite a bit more.
  17. sheeplady

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    A young man I graduated with and sat in many classes with, murdered his parents. Suffice to say, they tortured my classmate and his brother in ways that no person deserves, yet alone a child. Psychological, sexual, and physical torture. The children had been removed by CPS and placed with their...
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    Skills For "Living The Era"

    I knew a girl who drowned when I was in high school- she was a fellow swimmer when I was in athletics (on an opposing team in the district right next to mine, so I had met her, but she wasn't a friend). She was swimming at her school's pool early in the morning, and the lights on the water were...
  20. sheeplady

    You know you are getting old when:

    I actually fell asleep once in the bathtub while pregnant- not "falling asleep"- I was totally asleep and likely was snoring. Thankfully I woke up when my mouth hit the water. Saved by snoring.
  21. sheeplady

    Every Time I Toss the Bacon Grease I Feel Guilty

    We actually use most of our plastic bags for garbage. When I see them starting to pile up (we have two fabric homemade plastic bag holders) I take the re-usable bags. Once we can compost again we will make much less trash. (And once the youngest is out of diapers- we use cloth until age one but...
  22. sheeplady

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    It's a good question. If I was farming now, I'd want at least an LLC. I don't blame farmers for incorporating... there's greater protection of assets. Small farms, unless you have some sort of "edge" are impractical. If you can grow some sort of specialty or make your goods into finished...
  23. sheeplady

    Season's Greetings From The Boys From Marketing!

    The vast majority of farms are still family owned. Above 90- I believe like 98%- is the quoted level. Some of this is mechanization. They have GPS enabled tractors that can plant rows, harvest, etc. This allows a farmer to plant a thousand acres- compared to 50. Other is changes in how we...

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