Looking for a good stacking set with on-board heater for my daughter
Pamela Novak
7 years ago
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Comments (22)"It just is not wide enough to retain optimal heat." My earlier post "Also you must not have read my post as mine is right now 160-165 depending on where I stick the thermometer. Like I said the bin isn't even 1/2 filled and it's at that temperature so your theory of needing that size bin to provide that temperature is just plain wrong." PK's earlier post PK, I do not concede the point. In the beginning of November, I made two side-by-side mesh bins and filled them with exactly the same ingredients in one day. One was 30" in diameter, and one was 40" in diameter. I kept daily records on these two piles as I have on all my piles. The core temp was slightly higher on the 40" bin; but more importantly, kept the temp. up for a longer period of time. I'll give the exact numbers next time I'm on line. I don't think I said the core temps would be higher on a wider pile, but rather the heat would be retained longer. Val - I don't have a problem with racoons, but my dog takes no interest in my piles when smelly day old fish scraps have been put in the middle. Keep in mind that I only add fish when the core temp is 130F or more. This dissolves the fish scraps (mainly bluegill or small) in less than ten days. People who have odor issues often add smelly items when their core temp is not this high. My next door neighbor is adding whole banana peels to a 30F core and wonders why they don't break down as quickly as mine....See MoreAmethyst and Silver table for my daughter
Comments (20)Thank you everyone! Ya'll are all so sweet! Luckygal, she was extremely contrary last night. Every time I thought I had her in place, I had ornaments falling off. I get them back on, then she falls. By the time I finished, there was glitter all over the table! Jane, my DH said the exact same thing about the "silver bells". LOL! Phonegirl, I've always loved fairies. I've been on a mission to find some ever since I saw Judith's a couple of years ago. They were always sold out at Marshalls when I went to Mobile, but this year I lucked out. I also got a blue one that will probably be on tomorrow's table. LOL! Where in the world did you find a purple pickle? Now that I'd love to see. Betty, where did you find the pink place card holders? I would love to have a set of them. I can't believe I've only done one pink Christmas table this year! I need to pull out my pink and do one. Maybe this weekend. Shopping every day...now that's my idea of having fun! Not too sure what DH would say about that though. For storage, I have a pantry in my kitchen that I store all of them in. Unfortunately, I've filled it up and I've taken to hiding, I mean storing, things under the beds. Luvs, my daughter didn't agree about the curly ribbon. She said it was a little much, but it was all I could find to use on my napkins. Jeanne, before I forget, here's a photo of the glass mosaic placemats. The photo doesn't really show the true colors...think purple carnival glass and you'll know what they look like. Thank you Mary Ruth and oakley! You're right, silver does reflect better and looks so pretty with Christmas lights. Judith, the chargers are just some very el cheapo ones I found at Old Time Pottery a couple of years ago. I haven't used them in a while and I was noticing last night that they look like they could use a coat of paint. How in the world do you manage to get your fairies to stay on your stacking plates? Lynn, I won't even mention what I had to do to that fairy to make her stay on the plate! It involved a nutcracker and I'm not talking about the little decorative men! OA, I was going to wait and do this one for NYE. I was so ready to play around with the setting though that I just couldn't wait! Now what to do for NYE??? I have no clue!...See MoreCan I put a timer on my teenage daughter's shower?
Comments (14)I mentioned this posting to a friend of mine. She said she had a similar problem with her daughter. She found a novel way to fix it. Her daughter's bathroom was one of those in the middle of the house without a window, so the light always had to be on when someone was in the bathroom. When no amount of reasoning with her daughter would get her to take shorter showers, Mom put one of those timer switches on the bathroom light that automatically turns the light off after 15 minutes. Since the switch was too far to be reached without getting out of the shower, her DD had to either continue in the pitch dark, or get out of the shower before all went black. Once she was out, she usually stayed out. Anyway, not a solution for everyone....but it might work for some....See MoreI dont get along with my step daughter
Comments (27)Pennylane-- I don't want to be guilty of encouraging you to flout the advice of your counselor (who is a professional, and I of course am not), but I would encourage you to discuss with him the idea of you dealing with SD directly when it comes to the more vague issues of "attitude" and "respect". With appropriate assertiveness (not passiveness or aggressiveness) and without meting out "punishments" per se, but more of a *discussion* with her. Run it by him and see if he might reconsider his advice somewhat. I say this, again, not because I am in a position to have an "expert" opinion on blended families, but because I am a stepdaughter, and one common thread among other stepchildren I know is that the SP/SK relationship is made so much worse when it is perceived that one or more parties is being "manipulative" or is untrustworthy, and this perception results from an INDIRECT approach. Whether it's the SK or the SP doing it, it spells the beginning of the end for a decent relationship. You don't want to risk creating an impression to your SD that you are two-faced, passive-aggressive or are "hiding behind" your DH and expecting him to fix all of your interpersonal problems (including the one with SD) for you. Aside from eroding trust and encouraging similarly indirect behavior on SD's part, I dare say it also undermines the very thing you seek to improve in the situation: her respect for you. I can honestly say that the number one factor that has made me fully give up on having any sense of respect for my SM or any desire to "work with her" is exactly this sort of thing. If she had had the guts to actually TELL ME if/when something I did/said/was upset her, instead of resorting to the little digs (with a big grin) she felt were her only permitted recourse to express her displeasure with me, I would have seen her as not only a person worth respecting but also as an honest human being who I'd WANT to be close to. It was very hard for me to see her as a fully-formed ADULT WOMAN when she was constantly "tattling" to my Dad about whatever her grievances were. Moreover, in her case she drastically distorted the things she relayed to him which painted me in the worst possible light, and since these things were never discussed with ME directly, I had no chance to explain (or in certain cases just plain CORRECT) some of the misperceptions, so it was pretty much impossible to see her as trustworthy or as an agent of anything other than discord in my relationship with my father. Therefore, she never earned my genuine respect, nor my desire to "work with her" even though her tantrums to MY DAD made it so I was terrified for years to do or say anything to upset the apple cart. So she got her surface compliance out of my stuffing myself for years, but it certainly didn't improve ---and in fact severely worsened--- anything deeper between us than the shallowest "hi, how's it going"/"oh, fine..." And I dare say I don't think it helped her relationship with my Dad. For several reasons, but one of them being that expecting him to "fix" something that is so inherently vague and emotional and open to perception as "attitude" and "respect" is pretty much impossible, and no one knows this more than the bio-parent in the middle. It's one thing to have clear rules/consequences for clear actions or infractions. For example, an eye-roll is clear enough to be called out ***IF HE SEES IT HAPPEN***... But the problem comes in when/if it happens when he is not around, due to the underlying distrust and disrespect which will be made no better by the "hiding behind DH" approach. Please at least run this by your counselor. I'm not a professional, but I did experience this from the other side, and I think if you ask other adult SK's on here they'll agree with me....See More
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