ESF , since they've been open about using the food bank I'd just bring up in conversation that given your move, you have stuff you're looking to give away to people you know locally and see if they mention anything. I totally hear BlondeSpiders on her thoughts and thought about the embarrassment as well though, but I'm leaning towards the side of offering stuff to them just to unload them from your home since they haven't been keeping their food insecurity a secret.
I agree. They’re not being secretive about their situation. There are limitations to what food banks usually provide so some extra or something different would be appreciated, I bet. You can’t use it but he can. There should be no shame in sharing things you can’t use. I’ve been food insecure as a kid and an adult. We went to food banks when I was a kid. I hated going. Being given things was so much better, imo.
You’ll probably need to off load other things too which they might find useful, like cleaning supplies, paper goods, etc. Maybe even household things? When things are really tight, used items in good condition from someone who you know can be a treat.
Thanks for this perspective and good call on the cleaning items and other stuff.
Years ago, I bought a bike at Target thinking I would ride it around town, but as it turns out, riding bikes on suburban streets scares me to death. One of them fixes and refurbishes bikes as a side hustle, so I'll offer that to him for parts, and then throw in that we're cleaning out our pantry and did they want the food and supplies we can't take with us.
Um, that’s what makes it good! Plus the nice little char on top. Regular pepperoni is flaccid.
I will say that cup pepperoni is not good cold for this reason. But count me among the grease pool lovers. And it's not like regular pepperoni is not greasy. The grease just soaks into the pepperoni where you can't see it.
This might be the weirdest post I've ever written.
Post by cattledogkisses on Sept 4, 2019 10:43:30 GMT -5
H and I will be driving from Maine to Florida the week between Christmas and New Years. My grandparents snowbird in Florida and they'll be flying down after Christmas, so we offered to drive their car down for them. They'll fly us back home afterward.
Is there anything fun that H and I should stop and see/do along the way? We've driven from New England to the DC area before, but have never driven south of there. Neither of us has ever been to the Carolinas, and we've been to Georgia but only to Atlanta.
H and I will be driving from Maine to Florida the week between Christmas and New Years. My grandparents snowbird in Florida and they'll be flying down after Christmas, so we offered to drive their car down for them. They'll fly us back home afterward.
Is there anything fun that H and I should stop and see/do along the way? We've driven from New England to the DC area before, but have never driven south of there. Neither of us has ever been to the Carolinas, and we've been to Georgia but only to Atlanta.
I am not familiar with the area, but check out the Roadtrippers app or website. We used it for our 2 week road trip out west in July. You can layer the map with different categories (hotels, restaurants, top attractions, etc) and it’ll give you the best route and update it as you add in stops.
Sigh. Listen. NY style pizza isn't thin crust. It's normal crust. "Thin crust" is like the pizza on a cracker you get from Domino's. Normal crust!!!!
And i hate all pepperoni on pizza. I prefer sausage, the crumbly kind, if there has to be a topping.
Yeah but the best of the best happens to be thin crust. Plus I've never seen Domino's with thin crust. Looks pretty thick to me. ETA: Or maybe I am thinking of equally-shitty pizza like Pizza Hut or Papa John's.
Post by Velar Fricative on Sept 4, 2019 11:40:45 GMT -5
My phone fell and cracked. It's a 7 Plus that I've had for more than 2 years and I removed the Otterbox a few months ago thinking if it cracked I'd just get a new phone, because it's one of those ugly thick Otterboxes that I hated. I wasn't expecting it to happen to quickly, sigh. Getting an XS with a slimmer, clear Otterbox, so yay. I'm excited for the fancy camera.
Sigh. Listen. NY style pizza isn't thin crust. It's normal crust. "Thin crust" is like the pizza on a cracker you get from Domino's. Normal crust!!!!
And i hate all pepperoni on pizza. I prefer sausage, the crumbly kind, if there has to be a topping.
Yeah but the best of the best happens to be thin crust. Plus I've never seen Domino's with thin crust. Looks pretty thick to me. ETA: Or maybe I am thinking of equally-shitty pizza like Pizza Hut or Papa John's.
I dont know i havent had Domino's in decades, but they used to have thin crust, it reminded me of matzo pizza.
Sigh. Listen. NY style pizza isn't thin crust. It's normal crust. "Thin crust" is like the pizza on a cracker you get from Domino's. Normal crust!!!!
And i hate all pepperoni on pizza. I prefer sausage, the crumbly kind, if there has to be a topping.
Yeah but the best of the best happens to be thin crust. Plus I've never seen Domino's with thin crust. Looks pretty thick to me. ETA: Or maybe I am thinking of equally-shitty pizza like Pizza Hut or Papa John's.
Domino's does have a thin crust and it's terrible. The worst part is they cut it into tiny squares which makes me completely crazy. I have strong feelings about pizza lol.
I agree. They’re not being secretive about their situation. There are limitations to what food banks usually provide so some extra or something different would be appreciated, I bet. You can’t use it but he can. There should be no shame in sharing things you can’t use. I’ve been food insecure as a kid and an adult. We went to food banks when I was a kid. I hated going. Being given things was so much better, imo.
You’ll probably need to off load other things too which they might find useful, like cleaning supplies, paper goods, etc. Maybe even household things? When things are really tight, used items in good condition from someone who you know can be a treat.
Thanks for this perspective and good call on the cleaning items and other stuff.
Years ago, I bought a bike at Target thinking I would ride it around town, but as it turns out, riding bikes on suburban streets scares me to death. One of them fixes and refurbishes bikes as a side hustle, so I'll offer that to him for parts, and then throw in that we're cleaning out our pantry and did they want the food and supplies we can't take with us.
Cleaning supplies, foil/saran/tupperware, etc. were always handy and hard to come by. Trash bags? Especially if your city has gotten rid of plastic bags at supermarkets, trash bags are really useful. Spices, vinegars, oils are rare at food banks. Getting anything 'good,' requires getting in line early. We never had new sheets, towels, pillows, etc.. What we could get from thrift stores was always a crapshoot and often in poor condition. Pillows were especially hard to come by but it is those comforts that make a big difference in the quality of life since you can sleep better. When you're really poor and there's not enough, buying a new pillow just does not happen. If you offer it and see if it would be useful to him or someone he knows, I bet he would appreciate it because if he doesn't, I bet he knows someone who could use whatever you don't want to move. I know others have different opinions but when friends offered us stuff they no longer needed but it was still in good condition, it was wonderful because it was done out of friendship, not pity. Digging through the crap that people donated sucked. Getting a care package from a friend did not. I hope he feels the same way and that your offers make his life a little easier.
A tree fell on my house yesterday which was pretty shitty and also crazy. The day before I had checked our budget because I’ve been trying super hard to stay under budget (budget flips to new month on 9/11) and I was $1500 under budget and so proud of myself (I am a spender my H is a saver). Anyway the universe was like I see you trying so fuck you and $1k deductible later I am no longer way under budget. #SAD
Related, the tree fall displaced a nest of young squirrels and we were very worried about them as they seemed stunned and overly docile (we coaxed them into our dog crate with warm towels so they wouldn’t get cold over night). Their adult squirrel came back for them this morning and I am happy to report they were carried back up a tree and have been playing up there most of the day and much more active. This made me very happy. Sad story also in spoiler if you want to see that goes along with this.
one young squirrel died in the fall and the adult squirrel has come back down in the yard multiple times clearly looking for the third squirrel and it is breaking my heart.
H and I will be driving from Maine to Florida the week between Christmas and New Years. My grandparents snowbird in Florida and they'll be flying down after Christmas, so we offered to drive their car down for them. They'll fly us back home afterward.
Is there anything fun that H and I should stop and see/do along the way? We've driven from New England to the DC area before, but have never driven south of there. Neither of us has ever been to the Carolinas, and we've been to Georgia but only to Atlanta.
It continuously kills me how moronic some grad students can be. We have groups again for this class (ugh) and one person still has not bothered to show up 2 weeks in...until today. Posts “are we supposed to be doing something?” and then admits she hasn’t watched the explanatory videos. The instructions for the class are explicit and posted in multiple spots. 🤯
A tree fell on my house yesterday which was pretty shitty and also crazy. The day before I had checked our budget because I’ve been trying super hard to stay under budget (budget flips to new month on 9/11) and I was $1500 under budget and so proud of myself (I am a spender my H is a saver). Anyway the universe was like I see you trying so fuck you and $1k deductible later I am no longer way under budget. #SAD
Related, the tree fall displaced a nest of young squirrels and we were very worried about them as they seemed stunned and overly docile (we coaxed them into our dog crate with warm towels so they wouldn’t get cold over night). Their adult squirrel came back for them this morning and I am happy to report they were carried back up a tree and have been playing up there most of the day and much more active. This made me very happy. Sad story also in spoiler if you want to see that goes along with this.
one young squirrel died in the fall and the adult squirrel has come back down in the yard multiple times clearly looking for the third squirrel and it is breaking my heart.
“Their adult squirrel” is making me laugh for it’s appropriate gender neutrality! I’m so glad you were able to help them.
The spoiler bit is so sad I cried. I’m an emotional mess. 💔
A tree fell on my house yesterday which was pretty shitty and also crazy. The day before I had checked our budget because I’ve been trying super hard to stay under budget (budget flips to new month on 9/11) and I was $1500 under budget and so proud of myself (I am a spender my H is a saver). Anyway the universe was like I see you trying so fuck you and $1k deductible later I am no longer way under budget. #SAD
Related, the tree fall displaced a nest of young squirrels and we were very worried about them as they seemed stunned and overly docile (we coaxed them into our dog crate with warm towels so they wouldn’t get cold over night). Their adult squirrel came back for them this morning and I am happy to report they were carried back up a tree and have been playing up there most of the day and much more active. This made me very happy. Sad story also in spoiler if you want to see that goes along with this.
one young squirrel died in the fall and the adult squirrel has come back down in the yard multiple times clearly looking for the third squirrel and it is breaking my heart.
“Their adult squirrel” is making me laugh for it’s appropriate gender neutrality! I’m so glad you were able to help them.
The spoiler bit is so sad I cried. I’m an emotional mess. 💔
I cried multiple times today while I obsessively watched this play out in my back yard.
Initially I had described her as the mom squirrel and then I was like I don’t know anything about squirrels! Who even knows who takes care of squirrels? It’s just their adult. Lol.
“Their adult squirrel” is making me laugh for it’s appropriate gender neutrality! I’m so glad you were able to help them.
The spoiler bit is so sad I cried. I’m an emotional mess. 💔
I cried multiple times today while I obsessively watched this play out in my back yard.
Initially I had described her as the mom squirrel and then I was like I don’t know anything about squirrels! Who even knows who takes care of squirrels? It’s just their adult. Lol.
Hahaha it reminds me of when people here say they need an adult. The squirrels needed an adult! I’m so happy their adult came to get them.
I cried multiple times today while I obsessively watched this play out in my back yard.
Initially I had described her as the mom squirrel and then I was like I don’t know anything about squirrels! Who even knows who takes care of squirrels? It’s just their adult. Lol.
Hahaha it reminds me of when people here say they need an adult. The squirrels needed an adult! I’m so happy their adult came to get them.
I am too! It was really cute to watch the rescue and how their adult grabbed them and dragged them up the tree. I was kind of mad I didn't get it on video. We were worried the adult wouldn't grab the one that was super stunned and docile because it spent the most time in our towels/crate set up, but it happened eventually. The adult was pretty skittish and ran around a bunch kind of making sure no one was going to attack during the rescue mission.
I truly had no idea that squirrels could carry their young up trees, so I even learned something! LOL. My MIL is super obsessed with squirrels so I was all "omg we have to tell her this" and MH was like, "duh I called her immediately to report this as soon as you told me."
Our dog died almost two months ago, we were not looking to replace him. This morning my friend messaged me saying I need to check out the local humane society. I did and then drove there to get this dog.
She is a 1-2 year old Scottie mix. They told me they didn’t have any info on her, but then I was looking through the envelope they gave us and it has her surrender form. Humane society says she is one, intake form says they have had her for two years. It says she is bad in car rides, (she was totally calm and fine in the car) she is not crate trained, not house broken, but also she doesn’t have accidents. () She doesn’t know how to walk on a leash. (She definitely pulls quite a bit)
I’m in between scared shitless and overwhelmed and regretting this and completely in love.
We put her in a crate so we could do bedtime routine and she whined, but is now just standing in it.
She will eat treats, but not her food, and she won’t go to the bathroom outside, she has peed and pooped twice inside after being out for a while. (I will obviously stay out a bit longer and praise her like crazy after going outside while on her leash.)
And rationally I know the difference of not know history at all vs we are going to have our fucking hands full is minimal, and at least we have an idea of what we may need to work on, but man, I wish I would have been told this BEFORE we got her.
Has anyone had success with petsmart training classes? Do they help a 1-2 year old dog?
Post by 1confused1 on Sept 4, 2019 21:13:40 GMT -5
My property manager just texted that the owner, who lives out of state, wants to have a walk through at the end of the month. Please cross your fingers it's not because she wants to sell. We love this house.
Post by mrsukyankee on Sept 5, 2019 1:32:31 GMT -5
muffin0, A. We need pics. B. When we got Barney we were told he was very responsive to commands, great off lead, no problems. Yeah. He was an anxiety mess and only did well when he was with other dogs (which the person who had fostered him before us did). He was a struggle - BUT, he was also amazing in so many ways. I began to hand feed him which helped a ton and worked with the trainer who wrote a book on hand feeding. Dima Yeremenko. I think he has a Youtube channel as well. Hand feeding really made all the difference! That and walk training him (basically going back and forth in the same area until he learned to walk by my side instead of pulling - we did that for ages as well as some relaxed walks where he had a bit more control).
I’ve got to take my cat to the vet later today. He’s always a total beast at the vet so I’m not looking forward to this. Plus parking is really tough since the office is on a busy city street and crossing the street with him in a carrier stresses me out.
For those of you who’ve had cats, have you ever seen “reverse sneezing”? We Googled the cat’s symptoms and this seems very close. But he also had surgery for ear polyps a few years ago so I’m thinking they may have grown back.
I’m hoping it’s not something very serious. He’s 11 years old. He seems fine otherwise but I’m hoping I won’t be faced with any tough decisions :/
Not cat but my prior dog had it. It sounds like asthma attack and lasts few minutes or so. I would pinch my dogs nose or clap real hard so they are startled and open their mouth to breathe. When it first happened it was scary because we didn’t know what it was but reverse sneezing if that’s what it is is harmless. Also try to take a video of it for your vet.
Who’s watched any of the new Dark Crystal series on Netflix? It is amazing how it mimics the original.
Yesssssss! The movie is on Netflix too so we watched that first because it has been ages. We're a few episodes into the series and we are loving it! I'm so amazed that those are puppets and not CGI! I think Jim Henson would approve.
jeaniebueller- Yes. I couldn't wear my hiking boots from college when I tried them on a few months ago. My feet were already big and well, now, they're giant.
Listen people, New Haven style pizza is the best. I personally like Pepe's rather than Sally's, but the Pepe's owner just came out as a Trumper so now I guess I need to eat at Modern or Bar. I'm totally a pizza snob.
Listen people, New Haven style pizza is the best. I personally like Pepe's rather than Sally's, but the Pepe's owner just came out as a Trumper so now I guess I need to eat at Modern or Bar. I'm totally a pizza snob.
MH will be happy though since he hates waiting in line. Have you been to Brewport? I'm admittedly biased because they're relatives but I love their pizza, especially the mashed potato with bacon and spinach.
H and I will be driving from Maine to Florida the week between Christmas and New Years. My grandparents snowbird in Florida and they'll be flying down after Christmas, so we offered to drive their car down for them. They'll fly us back home afterward.
Is there anything fun that H and I should stop and see/do along the way? We've driven from New England to the DC area before, but have never driven south of there. Neither of us has ever been to the Carolinas, and we've been to Georgia but only to Atlanta.
This may be too off your path, but the holiday displays at Longwood Gardens in PA (Philadelphia area) are amazing. The greenhouse is beautiful during the day, but the lights at night are really special.