OMG OMG boxes on the back porch, for meeeee.....
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I just got to Maine. We just left here Monday afternoon, I was home in CT and in the city Tuesday, and this morning I drove back up in the convertible to enjoy this lovely summer day. I'm by myself because DH is golfing then driving up in a Uhaul (another story).
So I had boxes on my back porch! Squeeeee
But ... wait...?
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last yearOf course these are my alphabet plates I had shipped here. But...... then there was another box.
A BIG box. Did I order something I forgot? And it was Fortnum & Mason (squeee!). Oh darn I hope someone didn't recycle the pretty box.
I tore into this mystery box like it was 1973 Christmas.
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Comments (3)Hi, Silverwind! Nice to see you back here. Yup, Bakemom is the other source for sasbes, but keep an eye out in our exchange area--or the main one--for others. I have seeds, too, if you want some! For info on how to wintersow for your potential converts, I think you should just point them to Wintersown.org, and have them go to you, or us, with any questions....See MoreOMG, I am sooo upset......
Comments (5)Thanks Cathy. My wren guard did not have sides on it at first as I wanted to make sure the Dees could still see the hole. Then dh said he saw a wren hanging onto the side of the guard and he chased it off. I first checked the box to make sure the wren hadn't been inside again and it hadn't. I had put some of my dogs hair in the box off to the side as the wren had taken some out. The Dee had taken the hair and packed it around the eggs. So then I added sides on the guard which go down to the bottom of the hole, the front of the guard goes down further than the sides do. I kept checking last evening and did see both Dees go under the guard again. I had added an additional box in the woods line to intice the wren there but this one has ignored it I guess. This morning at 6:30AM I took the dogs out back (the Dee nestbox is off to the side of the garage) I peeked around the corner and could see one Dee in the trees by the box and couldn't see the other so I am assuming it may have been in the box. Later they were both out back at the feeders. I can hear the wren out back now so hoepfully it stays there, it has two empty nestboxes out back to choose from also, why do they always want the box that already has a nesting going on. Ugh! I am just going to keep an eye on the box I guess, I don't want to keep checking it and upset the Dees. I am just praying the wren doesn't like the sides on the wren guard now and stays away from this box. Donna...See Moreomg omg!...i did it!!
Comments (55)I call them Dream Merchants. Really they are not selling a product but a dream. Went to one Amway party and the poor presenter spent an hour "explaining" to me that it was not about selling dreams. Alas, the first page in the Amway sales book says you have to "sell the dream". Pretty certain I ruined his Amway career. The scam is to sucker people into selling carp for you. You get them excited about being rich without having to actually work. Show a pyramid chart and talk about the hundred if not thousands of people that will soon be "working" for you. Stop to show some pictures of a tropical beach location. Continue by projecting huge wealth if thousands of people all sell this stuff for you everyday. End up by noting that some people deserve fabulous wealth and it can be theirs if only they cough up a hundred bucks to join your sales team. Not everyone wants to be wealthy so not everyone joins your team.... don't you want to be filthy stinking rich without working? I got sucked in by AFLAC. Fresh out of college and looking for a job anywhere. Being an "Insurance Agent" seems almost like a real job. I actually sold a few dozen policies before the reality set in. Just because you establish a customer does not mean that you own that account. No, your Regional Sales Manager has the right take over your accounts because you fail to sell them more insurance every month. Last sales meeting I was threatening to turn the RSM upside down and bounce him on his head. Had to quit before I gave into violent temptations. : ) lyra...See MoreOMG .....I can't take it anymore! Daughter is a slob!
Comments (92)Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking online for ways to cope with living with a very sloppy person. It seems nearly impossible to change a slob. I found one site about living with a sloppy partner. I have read such sad accounts, couples that marry (I guess totally unaware of how the other really keeps house), and end up divorcing. I notice that mostly, the tidy, organized person, the one who prefer to live in a sanitary and orderly house, ends up having to change, ends up having to relax their standards, ends up having to back down, and having to live in silent frustration. It seems so unfair, how slobs are able to have/take such control. They dictate how things are going to be, how things going to look, smell, etc. Slobs don't see a need to change how they are, all they have to do is drive the clean person crazy. My daughter and her child and I share a rental since she split up with her bf. Every day I wake up and cringe, dreading what the day will hold. It starts with my daughter never waking to my gd crying and screaming. I have to go in her room to wake her and I dread it because I just know I'm going to have an out of body experience. The smell of her room hits me as I open the door. This sets me off. She doesn't bother to flush her toilet. She lived in poverty with her bf for several years and developed some really bad habits, like half the time they didn't have tp, so she doesn't always bother to use it. Her floor always has junk thrown about, clothes all over, clean mixed with dirty, who know which is which, dirty silverware and drinking glasses she has repeatedly been asked not to take to her room, pop cans spilled or half full and just waiting to be spilled by her child. A big stinky mess, squalor. And there she is snoring away, none of this bothering her, not even a bit. Sigh She makes a mess in every other room, has to be reminded to clean up after herself, or she won't do it. Her cleaning up after herself barely qualifies as cleaning. She works full-time and goes to school, so she is busy, but she uses this as an excuse every time we get into it over her piggish ways. We get into some big screaming matches, and I'm always the loser. Nothing ever changes. She might go to her room and make an angry attempt at straightening out, but not really cleaning, slamming things and yelling so I hear her. I feel like I'm living with a child, not a young adult. I'm having to parent her, and should not have to. I'm near retirement age with my many joint pains, it was a struggle to keep up with my own chores when I lived alone. and now I feel like I work nonstop and get nowhere. I'm sad and angry over all of this, and when depression sets in, it really affects how I feel and what I'm able to do. None of this filth bothers her. Her brand new car, the new car smell has been replaced with the smell of rotting food. She is so gross. I sometimes lose my mind, especially when the smell from her room makes it's way downstairs. I have simply lost it and have started cleaning her room while she's at work, because I just can't take it anymore. I have found dirty diapers tossed in the cabinet under the sink, pads with dried blood thrown on the floor by the toilet, scum with hair, dried toothpaste and makeup on every inch of her sink. I can't understand how someone can live comfortably in such an unsanitary environment. Disgusting. Thanks for reading my long vent about what I'm living with. Thank you for your comments....See More
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last yearbut, wait there's more ... it was wrapped in kraft paper so I though it was packaging. Et voila, a lovely dish towel! I can't wait to hang it on my black stove in CT (avert your eyes, Lars, I'm gonna do it).
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last yearLove it and love that you walked us through the unwrapping! Love the F&M blues and especially loved that you shared photos of everything! I have looked at those musical carousels for years-- for both christmas and birthdays. Yours looks great-- so this will be the year I get the Christmas carousels!
Happiest of Birthdays.. all month long!
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