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I would not order any thing that important from A. I once received a tampered with bottle of hair conditioner.
3 Katz, mistakes can happen. If you are sure you will get the seller you prefer, then give it a try.
Seagrass, our USPS carrier is horrible. Not only does she get mail mixed up, but she decides if she will do a vacation stop!
I even talked to our head Post Master. He just said that he was sorry. They obviously can't fire her.
Before her, we had two really good carriers.
@maire_cate
I Googled the tinted moisturizer. There are only 5 shades. I think I would need to purchase two different shades and mix them.
@HU
I will have to Google what each is used for.
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I Googled and am adding these to my bag. Do you use a particular brand?
@seagrass
Denial has been my go to for several decades.
I agree with FOAS, but since they don't really need $ and it will just get absorbed into their budget somewhere, I would also think about including something sentimental...some family heirloom, or something from your own wedding. It doesn't have to be big and probably better that it's not. I love giving sterling flatware serving pieces, or a small serving dish that could be used for holidays, or an heirloom Christmas ornament, or candlesticks, etc.
My cousin gave my nephew and his wife a quilt that she had made, and she had me pick it out. I think it was my nephew's wife's favorite gift - it was something that no one could buy.
Yes, dating back to the 1998 GW alumni. Sent Spike a $15 contribution and received in return this tee shirt which is still in pretty good shape...
Ive been around since 2002. Started briefly on the Rhododendren board, then Kitchens and Bathrooms, then Cooking, then Cooking Conversations, now KT and HDC. I also paid $15 to Spike and even got a ride on the teacups. Ive met quite a few GW members over the years, altthough none of those mentioned above.
I've been on Garden Web since July 2002, and I joined because of the Cooking Forum, which was very active back then.
At some point, someone suggested that I visit KT (after having posted on CF for several years), but when I did, someone jumped on me like I had no business posting here, and so I left and did not come back for several more years. I noticed too much hostility when first visiting, but fortunately that has changed.
Many of the lesser known cultivars are way too delicate for commercial production, which is why many are known as dooryard varieties. I've grown them myself - ladyfingers/Mysore and a now a no-name dwarf variety.
Bpath, not sure what you are seeing. i see it as molded rice and seaweed for the Snoopy.
Jilly, better give me those bowls.
Sueb20, better hide that from Amylou.
I have a ridiculous amount of dishes, but find that I use my rice bowls for everything. Perfect size for an apple cut into slices or some grapes to take back to my desk, perfect at dinner for a side of this that or the other, perfect for a bit of ice cream when I don't want to eat too much for desert.
You did cause me to go out and look for a picture to share, found some for sale on e-bay and just had to buy another set of 4 since a few of mine have gotten chipped over the years.
I have a plastic bowl that came with a stick blender (that I no longer have), and it is my favorite bowl - I use it all the time for various purposes. It looks a bit like these bowls, but the handle is level with the top of the bowl, and it has straighter sides. The type of handle it has makes it very easy to carry, and so I often put chips in it, but I also use it as it was originally intended - as a mixing bowl for a stick blender. I wish I had more of this bowl.
I've collected a lot of inexpensive bowls at Japanese shops, from rice bowls to sushi bowls, and I have a lot of bowls that are relatively small in size - some for mise en place, and some that I use for ice cream.
I have never had botox but I know that several of my friends have, and I have to say they do look younger than I do ( same age). I just really cannot stand the lip thing which they have done as well, not over the top but still something looks different.
I am mostly very afraid of something going wrong, as I also have those bags under my eyes and they've really gotten more pronounced. I remember my mother had them and so I guess here I am.
If I look in the mirrow where it's harsh lighting, it's really brutal but I'm still too afraid to take action. I believe the eye thing I have going on would need heavy duty action and I;m just too afraid.
e also said that men rarely have those lines because their skin is thicker on the upper lip, plus they are constantly exfoliating the area with shaving.
Well then, off to shave! LOL
"I think RBF is just another name for 'person who is not smiling'.”
Actually, it's another name for WOMEN who are not smiling! What's the equivalent for men? Don't think there is one.
The outside, while ridiculous, looked kind of pretty in the lighting. The inside was plain awful.
If you want to see good design, it is usually in the modest homes of artistic-minded people. People with big budgets so often get it wrong.
I tend to make chop salads as SO prefers them and just divvy them up on our plates, as I plate our food each meal. For a large party, I have a big Mason Cash mixing bowl. I use it for lots of things. Biscuit making, various non salad "salads" (potato, chicken etc.) and it works well for regular green salads too. And, IMO, for sure meets your "pretty" requirement. (That is also a strict requirement for MY kitchen)
I likefriday, what an unusual salad bowl set up. Not for me, however, as the sald would be all over the floor as I was attempting to move it to a plate.
And, okay, Friday, you have me imagining that your huge wooden peppermill has its own dolly or handtruck and two people are needed to get the ground pepper onto a diner’s plate. Perhaps it pivots.
Anyone can correct me any time. Just be sweet when you discuss my ratty sneakers.
For just the 2 of us, i keep washed salad greens in a covered stainless bowl and use them as needed in individual bowls or plates. I have a big wooden bowl and a pretty clear acrylic bowl I use for large salads.
I have a favorite recipe from Irene Kuo's The Key to Chinese Cooking that uses these peppercorns in a beef stirfry. I learned to toast them in a small pan, let them cool and then grind them with a mortar and pestle. They are very fragrant, but I don't find them numbing or even hot.
you can find them at most asian or chinese shops ... at least in my area. i grind them up and add them to stuff. tongue numing yes ... start with 3-5 peppercorns and adjust up or down.
Very helpful! I want to try them!
I use unscented laundry detergent and fabric softener. I think the companies that make them have gone overboard with scented laundry products. Does anyone add "scent beads" to their washer along with their heavily scented detergent? I just want my laundry to smell clean, like the OP said, that's good enough for me.
I can barely stand to have workers and repair people come to my home because it seems they all use products with that same, ubiquitous scent! And forget about walking down the laundry products aisles in stores! People must have dead scent detectors to think that stuff smells good. They even sell garbage bags infused with that scent! I’m sure thousands of years from now, when archeologists discover our ruins, they will still be able to smell this stuff.
I was shopping in the produce section of Kroger the other day and was looking over the potatoes. I was trying to find the best bag when the grocery guy came up to me and told me he had some new bags he could get me. I said okay, and then he asked if I needed onions because the cart he was unloading had huge white and yellow onions on them. I sometimes choose them over bags because the ones in the bags are usually already rotting. I told him the last time I bought a bag of onions there they were half rotten already. He asked me which ones I wanted and I picked three huge onions out. He bagged them in netting and put a .99 label on them for me. I'm pretty sure they would normally cost me $5 or more for those three onions.
This time I don’t have a bargain, but I do have a ”kill”. Here’s the story in pictures.
Have been on the hunt for at least four years for a Yves Saint Laurent top that matches a skirt that was given to me. It’s by Tom Ford and from the Fall 2001 Gypsy Collection. I’ve found a few that were all too small, until last week when one popped up on eBay.
This is my inspiration board with the blouse. I’ve looked with various degrees of focus and a few weeks ago, a little voice said “up the intensity”.
The blouse on eBay. If you don’t know, it’s underwhelmimg.
My skirt
The outfit
The outfit on the cover of Vogue (which I also own).
And there is not enough room to show my smile! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I’m a little plump right now and the skirt isn't zipping, so it might be a minute.
There's a foolproof cake here called a Quatre quarts. Four quarters. You weigh your eggs in the shell. Take the same weight butter and same weight sugar and beat them together. Add the same weight SR flour and the eggs. A little vanilla essence, nuts, apples..... anything you fancy - I like to caramelise apples and put them on the bottom of the tin, cake mix on top and bake at 180°C for between 45 mins and an hour, depending on how many eggs you started with!
it's pretty, that's why. And if it happens to be nearly total and a clear, pleasant day, why not?
Demand is what makes prices go up, and demand goes up when population increases.
I'm not buying into what that article claims, for the most part. I've never known farmers' markets to be cheaper than grocery stores, and I've been going to them since the 1980s.
If the population in the U.S. were not increasing, prices would not be increasing. In areas where the population is decreasing, real estate prices are going down.
A lot of things are cheaper now than they used to be - especially clothes and junk made in China.
To get into the housing market, people may need to lower their expectations and live with what they can afford in order to save money to upgrade in the future. I could not afford to buy real estate when I was in my 20s or 30s, but then I was in the middle of changing my career path when I was in my 30s.
In America in 1940, the rate of home ownership was a bit under 44% having fluctuated in the 50 years before that between 43% and 48%. The rate only topped 50% in the post war era. But I guess most people who post on Reddit think the year 2000 is ancient history so maybe they get a pass for being so ignorant about so many things that have actually existed...only for most of written history.
Lovely story, Olychick. Thanks for the link.
It took a long time for the US to accept the concept of Hospice. I think it only blossomed once hospital conglomerates embraced it, making it financially viable. It wasn't available when my DM was dying of leukemia in 1978. I remember donating to an early hospice in Chicago that accepted patients dying of AIDS -- whenever that was. Americans can be so slow to adopt anything Not Invented Here.
I wouldn't do chair pads. One of the other 3 would be my choice.
A local restaurant has some of those metal chairs. They don't make for pleasant dining.