What happened to joyfulguy? He has not posted for a long time.

There was an OJ siting yesterday at 5 AM over at Household Finances.

Where's Glenda?...off on a trip or what?

And Kimmy...she's been gone for a long time....anyone keeping in touch with her?

I saw that Glenda posted a couple times yesterday and I think Bigack still contributes a picture to the picture of the day post every day. The KT has just been kind of slow since the weekend I think.

I wonder about Ginger... anyone know if she's moved back to MO yet?

and Duckie, did she go off cleaning somewhere and forget to come back?

I can't find Glenda's posts, but I'm needing a Glenda fix. :)

Mammie, she posted on other people's threads.

Yes, Glenda has been missing for a few days. Should we call out the dogs?

sooey

And Debcrowx. We haven't heard from her in almost a year.
And JoMo.

Tami

Thanks, Lydia. I guess I missed those.

Hi everyone ... if there may have been rumours of my demise, let me assure you that they were wildly exaggerated!

I've made some major posts over on Saving and Finance.

Covering and picking tomatoes and finishing with the garden. Cleaning and putting away the coverings that I used for the tomatoes. Pitching a number of tomatoes that won't ripen.

Does anyone want some sprouted radishes? I think that I have hundreds of little seedlings that have come up after a number of the plants that grew in the spring went to seed: hundreds of pods. I plan to ask a fellow gardener who asked for some radish seeds tomorrow whether he'd like some sprouts to see whether he can bring the radishes to maturity in his house this fall, I plan to bring some in here, and think that I'll cover some of the ones in the garden with bales of straw, to see whether we can keep them surviving in the ground over winter.

We had a federal election (with only about 6 weeks of electioneering - can you believe that?) ... not much change from before. So, about 30 million for ... minimal result.

I had a substantial dispute with a local Member of Parliament in his campaign office a few days before the election ... about some generous tax benefits to rich guys ... but nuthin fer the rest of us.

I said that an announcement that his boss The Prime Minister had made had rubbed salt into what had been an open wound of mine for years.

He figures that I should pay taxes on my wages, pension, etc. ... but when his asset grows (doubles, maybe) he shouldn't have to pay tax on the extra income. As an owner of a Wendys, he seems to feel that the little gals who work there for minimum wage (plus a few cents an hour, maybe, if they're lucky), should pay tax on that income.

But when the owner of the shop who paid, possibly a million for it ...

... later sells it for 2.5 million ...

... that there should be no tax on the increase (that's his opinion: the law doesn't say that [yet]).

I don't suppose he'd be too interested in sharing some of the gain with the hard-working staff who'd helped him build the business.

No room here for a full discussion of the systems that caused my open wounds ... but the salt that his boss offered was his plan to pay $750.00 to folks buying their first home, to help them pay closing costs.

I said that if someone can't cover closing costs, and have some money for a down payment, as well ...

... that they have no business buying a home ... that they may well end up losing it.

I said that it was such an approach to buying houses that triggered the avalanche of financial troubles that has bedevilled the U.S. financial system in the past year and a half - do they want to set such similar troubles in motion here?? But there are many more restrictions here to deter such possible troubles developing.

My problems dealt with the exemption from income tax that owners of owner-occupied homes enjoy when selling ... but there's no parallel benefit for people who don't own their homes.

A limited number of people (farmers and owners of small businesses) have recently enjoyed a major increase in what was a pretty generous exemption from capital gains tax when they sold their business ... but there was no similar exemption from capital gains tax from others of us who may have built them up.

I'll be happy to provide more details to any Canadians who'd like to learn them - just contact me. U.S. folks are welcome, as well, but it'd be of minimal interest to most of you, I think.

Some lunches and various activities at church, including "Commitment Sunday".

Helping a friend get her computer email working better.

I hope that you're all learning some interesting things and enjoying your week.

ole joyful

Kat seems to have lost touch with the KT too.
I wish she'd come and post and let us know how things are with her Dad and Ry and of course herself!

Mammie, go to the Search box and type in Glenda. You will get 552 matches. That should give you the fix you need.

Sue

I guess!!!