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Pressure-cooker meal tonight: roast pork over onions, potatoes, and carrots, with honey-mustard gravy.

If I give money to family members, it's a gift, not a loan. My brother-in-law had a stroke a few years ago (all recovered now, thankfully) and he was in the hospital for a while. My sister had to take time off work and spend a lot of time driving back and forth to the hospital (50 miles away)...

I tried another crock-pot recipe yesterday: butternut squash, sweet potatos, poblano peppers (hot!), onions, mixed with a bit of brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and then cut-up pork loin on top. It was ok. The picture in the cookbook looked really pretty, and my version did come out pretty...

I'm glad it all came out all right for you in the end. Thank heavens for that quick-witted teacher who realized something was up with that $80 Scholastic Books order! There's something touching to me about your DD stealing money to buy books. I mean, stealing obviously is never right, but...

I would never demand, of course, but if I saw you doing Continental style knitting, I would definitely ask if you could take a minute to show me how it's done. I've tried and tried to get the hang of it and just can't get it right. I always do English style, and I know it's slower. Would you...

Are you a lottery millionaire now? :wave:

You would have to pay taxes out of that original lump sum. That would bring it down to about $1,700,000. Invested well, you might gain 10% some years, lose 20% other years, so on and so forth. There would be no guarantee what you might make - or lose - in any given year. Plus, human nature...

Half-smokes with mustard and pickle relish from street vendors in DC. Wonderful! Technically that's not exactly "hot dogs," but close enough.

This is a good time to talk to her about what "friends" are, too. A good friend would not ask her to do something wrong. A good friend would not want her to get into serious trouble while the so-called "friend" gets the benefit of the money. Standing up to peer pressure is difficult for a...

Go, PPPPAAAATTTTSSSS!!!! I'm looking forward to a good game. This was the matchup I wanted, between Brady and Manning.

True, and it works both ways. Parents who didn't implant have a very strong vested interest in believing they did the right thing, and parents who DID implant want to believe they did the right thing. Parents are like that. Whatever decision they made, they very strongly want to believe...

No, I'm on the computer now. Ah, and NOW the "like" button magically appears again! If I didn't know better, I'd swear my computer just likes to taunt me every so often.

For some reason my "like" button isn't showing up, and I wanted to really, really "like" this.

Me neither. (As in, also don't understand why she would have to drop out of Girl Scouts). Have you spoken with the Girl Scout leader? She might have some good ideas for you. Maybe she can help figure out good ideas for discipline. A friend of mine has a daughter a little younger than...

Always good to see different perspectives - especially interesting when they take articles from the New York Times as their starting point and then expound on them further. To get back to the SOTU speech: there was a good article in the Washington Post "Fact Checker" column today, by Glenn...

Oh so do we. We watch Al-Jazeera fairly often, actually. Also we get some Russian station that has features about how tough life is in the U.S. because of the terrors of capitalism.

My point is no cable was necessary to watch this. It was on the basic network channels plus PBS, available via rabbit ear or other basic antenna that I assumed you would have if you own a tv at all. I do not have cable here in VA either. We get beautiful OTA reception with just a basic...

Jiro, do you not have tv at all? I watched on PBS, over the air, good captions, good analysis after.

Cool. Which model did you get? I see on your profile you are from Ida. When I was a child I had some elderly relatives (grandmother's cousins, I think the relationship was) who had a farm near there.

Oh, the joys of living with pets!