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Ugh that is disgusting.

I heard speculation that bankrupting farmer and other businesses is intentional so people with money can buy them up. Did I hear that here? Or somewhere else? Can't remember.

I surely do. My favorite was prune whip.

If Ben is truly a preacher at the church, could there be youth activities that the kids could do? Seems like a lot of the churches around here offer something. Bible school, day camp, etc. We really don't know what goes on in their daily lives.

Head coverings. Some orthodox Jewish women wear them. Either wraps or wigs. Some wraps are beautiful. I am Reform Jewish and wouldn't wear a beautiful wrap because I think it is "cultural appropriation". So I wonder what the Rodriguez girls are wearing them for? They saw one and liked it? Amish women cover some of their hair? Modest fashion statement?

I hope you can find some peaceful and comforting way to deal with the craft supplies. Maybe keep a few most precious ones? As for the cards I agree. We have stores here where I can get cards for 50 cents or a dollar. There are only a few people I send them to. What about just simple cards from your craft supply? Many times I write a short note on a blank card from a box. But postage is getting expensive too. Hoping you can find a good solution

Medical question - prefaced by a story. I am 81. When I was about 7 I got measles. The doctor came to the house back in the olden days and I do remember being very sick and he looked in my mouth and said I had "the spots". I was kept in a dark room for the duration. Then sometime -still around 7 or 8 maybe - I got really sick again and same doctor came and said I had the spots again and second time with measles but new thoughts were didn't need darkened room. So my mother brought me books and when I wasn't sleeping off the fever I read. Went back to school and someone noticed my vision was off and I started wearing glasses. Did my body not make immunities? Misdiagnosed? Glasses unrelated? No one ever explained it and I haven't asked since measles wasn't a thing. my aunt had German measles when she was pregnant with my cousin who is my age and cousin was born deaf in one ear. I am too old to have gotten a lot of vaccines but do remember the polio shot and the pink drop in a sugar cube I got at around 21. My children and grandchildren have gotten all recommended vaccines. Even "the jab".

I thought her husband "made" her?

Gay - so no way. Sadly.

Oh that is sad. You might make a few inquiries if there is a quilting guild or two and leave a contact number with hubs. Churches might like the items. Library? Some loan out things like that.

When we moved states from a smaller house to a bigger house, we still got rid of an attic full and more. But there are some things I have that bring me comfort and there is room for them, for example a box of my sons' infant things, and a box of things my mother knitted for them. No one wants them, but, I told my family when I am gone just have a junk company come, even if it is worth something unless they want to sell it. Don't waste time sorting. I have several good sewing machines and quilting related things but my quilting friends are all in agreement that we will help divest of all each other's stuff as appropriate. I can see not accumulating collections but at this point in some of our lives, a picture of an item as a memory isn't a comfort, the real thing is. My house is not cluttered and there is still room in the closets, and I don't have any more collections, but I'm keeping my stuff to the bitter end! I am 81 so I guess time is limited.

Serious prediction Matthew J. Kacsmaryk serves as United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas Aileen cannon Florida

This is from a Vanity fair article I got in an email Second clip

Yes, I understand. I think the love our parents had for us was conditional to us, but did stand up for us with others. But, we never knew what would happen when. I guess my point was that the posters were comparing their seemingly idyllic upbringings to the poor rodlets and it struck a chord with me because even though we were certainly fed enough good food there were other issues. Nobody drank in our house. No reason but they didn't like it. So, like anything on these forums, YMMV.

I'm so sorry. My son died in November, 2020. Not the natural order of things.

I am reporting back. I got my back Social Security today and my new monthly amount will be raised by approximately $25 so my dream almost came true.

Agree - she has no "power" over her own life. Also, she is young and healthy and even if it was Josh she might be missing "benefits". I know, we will all say EWWWW but this is Anna.

Its a long read but does contain some information on this issue https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-150-year-old-social-security/

I am guessing most of us have had better lives than the rodlets. I was talking to my one surviving brother yesterday that we had all the "material" things such as a nice house, cars, heat/food/clothing/medical care. Some vacation sometime. We weren't physically abused and no sexual abuse. BUT it was less than ideal because my parents fought a lot. And it would go in cycles. If they were getting along for a short while, we knew one of them would say/do something to set the other one off, and then even though we had the things, we were unsettled, worried, scared, etc. for a lot of the time. We were a family of 5. From the outside we looked great. Inside, not so much. So, I'm glad the posters had much better lives than the rodlets and maybe us.

I like most yogurts except the ones with sugar. Even some greek ones have added sugar, especially vanilla, and also some of them have extra ingredients I don't want. Maybe harmless, like guar gum, but still don't want. I got Daisy sour cream today. Its ingredient is Milk. I read some of the other brands and there is a list of ingredients. Why? If Daisy can do it, so can they.

I was listening to The Briefing with Steve Scully on Sirius. Rep Lisa McClain from Michigan was waxing poetic about "President you know who" and how she expects Sen. Slotkin to respond with "gloom and doom" and also when Steve asked her about the federal employees losing their jobs she went on about all the "fraud, waste and abuse" and that the american citizens don't want their money spent on that. And he didn't ask or remind her that those folks who lost their jobs are also taxpaying American citizens, or at least taxpayers. She was very dismissive. And even though I am not from Michigan but I did hear her on a global network, I wrote a message through her website telling her that. She also said a lot of other things that indicated to me that she thinks all of this is just grand and may I have another sir. I wonder what strength KoolAid she was drinking.

I posted upthread a while back that the silence had more to it than being primaried. Then I heard a democratic lawmaker hint that his republican friends were saying something like this behind closed doors - as in intimidation, threats, etc. And now we have this headline. I wish all of them being threatened would stand up with a sign tonight. It would be harder to accomplish when it is all out in the open. Of course there are risks to that too.

Well my mother wasn't a yenta yet when I was a child. She had me when she was 21. My grandma from the shtetl never served me bananas and cream. Go figure.

I did listen to my parents talk about the depression and my father was on the front lines in Italy during WW2 so there was that. The depression stories affected them and our daily lives more than the war did although I think my father had PTSD before it was renamed from shell shock.

That makes a lot of sense. We are that.