Maria, we drove to Mendon, MI to get the glass. I finally emptied the car and brought all my glass in to the house. I opened up the packages of sheet glass and was shocked to see that 2 of the red are actually red mirror! It was so dark in the store where her glass was that it was really hard to tell what some of the colors were. In the first pic the 2 pieces of glass on the left are the red mirror. This is 3 pieces of orange: This is 2 pieces of Uroboros glass Here's the books I got I also got 2 boxes of scrap that I haven't gone through yet. I still can't believe my DD and DH spent 45 minutes digging through that scrap bin!!! DH said there is 36 pounds of scrap altogether, and I got 6 bowling balls, not 5. I got all this for $100 so I guess I did get a good deal??? I'm feeling a lot better about it today...or maybe it's because I worked on my holiday exchange gift and I made a lot of progress on it! LOL Barb

As someone who has always had a lot of pets I completely get where you are coming from. I've never really taken in sick pets but have had pets that got sick for different reasons. Between 2012-2015 we lost my father in law and 6 pets. 3 of them were ferrets which have a lot of health problems, 2 were cats that were both 15 and one was a young cat. I totally get it. You love animals but the thought of losing another one is just too much. I hate the sound of my phone ringing now because I'm always waiting for bad news on the other line. If one of my pets even looks at me funny I think what's wrong are they ok?? It's a lot for the nerves, heart and brain to handle. My house is full of pets and they are healthy but I worry about them all the time because I love them so much and was kind of caught off guard when the other ones passed. I just worry I'm going to miss something I should have caught. You do need to take a break. If you feel that strongly that you want to say no to something you feel so strongly and compassionately about then you need a break. And your husband needs to understand that. Explain to the shelter the situation and why you're saying no and I'm sure they'll understand. Please don't feel guilt for saying no. You deserve a break and some love too and maybe one day you'll want to try again when you've healed. Like others have said maybe look into a healthy adult cat to keep you and your husband company.

Zalco, (re your feeling that the definition of 'partnership' would not hold up for a patient/doctor relationship) you said "Doctors do not bring one set of skills to the table while patients bring another set. Doctors bring medicine, patients bring their health, either it's maintenance or it's remediation to the table. Even when a doctor is a patient outside of her specialty, the set up is similar." I'm in agreement that patients do not bring to the table the skills that their doctors have, with their numerous years of rigorous medical training. But it is now being taught that patients bring valuable knowledge to the table, by having specific information the physician lacks. This is everything pertaining to their symptoms. It is vital information to add to the physician's trained skills, in order to bring about an accurate and expedient diagnosis. I assume that's why they named their objective 'Patients as Partners.' This in no way implies that the patient has equal medical expertise as their physician. It simply means that physicians are now being taught to engage in more communication with their patients. The old adage 'Children should be seen and not heard' was often applied to patients as well. But now this is recognized as detrimental to optimal health care. For those who don't already have a good communicative relationship with their physicians, at least their children probably will, thanks to how the next generation of med students are being trained. Elmer, if you're still reading this thread, thanks for informing me that 'Ivy League' universities are only in the U.S. I was under the (wrong) impression that the few universities ranking highest in the U.S. U.K. and Canada were somehow also referred to that way (maybe because they are all very old, lol) so I'm happy to be corrected on that. Yes, my specialist did pursue the same line of investigation (believing it to be an autoimmune problem) as my GP, so no 'superfluous steps and tests were wasted.' But my most telling symptom did not appear until after I'd been referred to the specialist, who was able to pinpoint the precise condition, because of that specific information.

Of course you don't Elmer. "Just another Summer" ring a bell? You're comatose to the subject like every other subject under the sun but proclaim yourself a resident expert. "Russia and Ukraine combined account for 25% of global wheat exports and Ukraine alone for 13% of corn exports, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets." Russia’s invasion of Ukraine crimps exports of the crucial food grain Another creditable source I now can't find stated 29%. Most of the exports go to the mid east so no worries in your back yard Elmer. You once stated a lack of understanding why everyone can't have fresh food, so I'm confident you don't understand the effects of a grain shortage worldwide. Dah. Do you like quality pasta made with Semolina? Durum wheat jumped 90% since the poor harvest in Canada and shortages are expected. I don't expect you to believe this either but If you remember I commented on this subject last fall with a link to a USDA crop report. Since you pushed my button we can give Ukraine a C130 gun ship and we can transfer i squad of A-10 warthog planes to them. It's a top story in defense news right now, so don't tell me we can't. We can, we should and nothing is stopping us except one mentally incompetent man.