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Comments (3)No, squash and cukes love the heat, especially squash. Plant them. Better too late than too early. I'm having trouble with basil this year, too. Mine looks poor and has already tried to bolt; a sure sign of stress. I'm not sure what the issue is since the weather has mostly settled down. My peas are just about finished. I've pulled out most of the plans and the ones that are still left aren't producing anything nearly as tasty in the heat as they did in the cool season. But my peas were late getting started this year; just not enough sun when they were seedlings I guess....See MoreUPDATE: WoW Thanks! I wanted that !#7
Comments (150)My husband was in michigan this week and that was one of the flights he thought about taking on thursday night. He flies a lot and it just hit close to home. Clarence is not far from where we live. We are a little more out in the country. Big sigh of relief. When the news came on at 10pm they announced at the end of the broadcast that a plane had crashed by the airport, but they didn't know anything yet. By the time the 11pm news came on, it was not until after the weather that their news crews made it to the neighborhood and they announced it was a commercial plane. WIVB broadcast without commercial break until I went to bed at 2am. When my husband called to say he was alright i was so grateful. (wipes tears and sniffles) Fran, Could i have the blanket flower, please? BTW, DS#3 watered my keyboard once, its still a little iffy. We set it in from of the blower on the woodstove for a week. Just FYI those of you sowing in the keys LOL! Thank all of you for the prayers. Families here are esp. close knit and things like this are difficult for anyone. Praying for your FIL, too Nichol. Fleethart...See MoreMissing RSVPs because I said book a sitter
Comments (23)ilovepink - how was the party? I hope you had fun and that no one showed up with uninvited kids. I have only 1 child (18 yrs old now), but DH and have always attended adult events/parties when she was younger. It was never been a problem to get a sitter with some notice. That said, we also had a group of friends with kids similar in age to DD so we did host and attend to "kid friendly" parties as well. The kid friendly parties were usually spontaneous dinner parties on short notice or nights when our town celebrated fall festival or some similar occasion. Formal parties never included the little ones. I really enjoyed an adults only night out. Being a stay at home mom for many years, it was a real treat to get out for an evening with DH alone. I didn't feel guilty in the least. Each year I contacted our district high school childcare program director. Our high school childcare program provides daycare for working moms, and has an entire curriculum teaching students how to care for small children. They are certified in CPR, etc. The director would give me 3 or 4 names (prescreened by the school). I would interview them and then have them interact with DD for awhile while I was making dinner. I would keep an ear for what was going on and it was a great way to find a sitter for the year. I usually chose a senior that drove, so I paid a bit more. I would always pick a girl who actually played with my daughter. I liked the idea that in the event of an emergency in my absence, there was a licensed driver caring for my child. I will also tell you that when we would vacation with friends with the kids, we took the babysitter as well. It was money very well spent. Everyone would contribute toward the week/weekend fee, and even though we really didn't need a "sitter" every night, it was great having an extra set of hands with an early dinner and bath time for several kids. It also would free up a couple of moms who were starting to prep our late dinner as well. Being at the beach was also nicer if the adults wanted to stay a bit longer, the sitter would take the little ones back to the house and start the process of getting the kids going in the outside shower. The kids loved it, the parents loved it, win win for everyone. We even took the sitter on weekend trips to the beach. The friends who hosted at their beach house had high school age kids and the sitter always got a night out to hit the boards or whatever our hosts' kids were doing she was included. In our part of the country, people usually have 1 or 2 "regular" sitters whom they pay well and count on to entertain their kids until it is time for bed. They don't just put the kids in front of the tv and talk on the phone. My DD never really did much babysitting, but the friends of hers that did, made at least $50-75 for a Saturday nite. IMHO money well spent for parents in need of a reliable sitter. I always overpaid our sitters, but in return I never had a worry when I went out for an evening. The next morning my DD would be going on and on about how much fun she had the night before:)....See MoreInheriting furniture and evolving esthetics
Comments (26)My father lived his teenage years in a house without electricity or running water. (They had an electric generator), but we still have things from that house. I slept for a number of years on a brass bed that we pulled out of the mud after the legs had broken through the rotten floor of the house after it was abandoned and taken over by squirrels. I think this relative lack of things, and having to move a number of times in childhood is what has made him so attached to both his house, and the things he was able to put in it. He still says that he would rather move out in a box (die in the house) than move. It will be quite a process sorting and parceling out but I don't find it an onerous job, really. I think if something happened and it all evaporated tomorrow, that would be okay too, for us--not for him. But there really hasn't been any feeling that any of us "deserved" a particular item for a particular reason, and really we haven't even been interested in the same things. None of the bickering that one hears about. My parents educated us all (grandchildren included) and that is one very important legacy in itself, and I never felt like I needed or deserved more than that, (0r even that, really)....See Moremark4321_gw
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