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Kitten cafes! I want one here.

Nope, they fall out when they die and then scavengers eat them.

"Man, I thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now."

Kittens trying to catch a butterfly? Or playing with a ribbon?

The girls have dry food, but split a can of wet every night. I just dish it halfsies on a paper plate and then pitch it when they're done.

I remember a scene on the MTM show, where she was antiquing a piece of furniture and had been instructed to hit it repeatedly with a chain. At first, she couldn't do it because she felt bad, and then she started cracking up with every whack. I LMAO.

Or any time they don't use the adverb. "Don't take it personal" drives me up the wall! It's "personally"!

Not that you want to be hit, but it depends on when you turn as to whether or not you have the right-of-way. At least here in Indiana. I was a juror on a civil case where a woman t-boned a guy, flipping his work vehicle. She then sued him for turning in front of her, claiming whiplash and back injuries (her back problems were well-documented from at least 5 years prior to the accident). A semi had stopped and waved him to turn onto an access road because he (the semi) was nearly to a red light and couldn't go anyway. The lady suing had been behind the semi, but decided to roar around him because she was in a hurry and turning right at the red light. And she had to have floored it, to hit him hard enough to flip him. Turns out, once you begin your turn, you then have the right-of-way over oncoming traffic to complete your turn. So we rejected her suit. Including the husband asking for compensatory damages because his wife was now a bitch. Heh. And yes, he really did say it that way. I suspect that was also pre-existing prior to the accident. Nice try, buddy.

My brother's cats like to nibble on the dog food occasionally, but they try to discourage it. I think the main reason they shouldn't eat each other's food is that cat food is more calorically dense since they're (usually) smaller. A dog eating cat food would get fat and a cat eating dog food would be malnourished. Plus cats need taurine in levels not normally found in dog food. "Grilling out" is definitely a regional thing. I've heard it both ways.

Thank you! That's adorable.

I skinned my shin early on, too. Maybe an instruction that might have helped would be something like "Be careful not to apply too much pressure over bony areas, as you could cut yourself." My leg hair was always fine and floppy, for lack of a better word, so I needed to apply more pressure to get it to cut than I thought I would. And then I got to my shin...

I had gotten in touch with an old high school acquaintance when he'd found me on Facebook. When he found out I was going to the home town for the weekend, he cadged a ride. I should have said no. He creeped me out with skeevy remarks almost immediately. So I made an excuse to stop at a gas station, told him I was uncomfortable with him staying in the car while I went inside, and then quickly ducked back out to the car and left him there. Not my proudest moment, but he wasn't that far from home... Then I went home and blocked him on FB.

Re: dryer vents. One winter at the previous apartment, I met a new neighbor one winter night. I answered the door to this man in a gaudy silk smoking jacket, silk shorts and flip-flops who thought my apartment was on fire because he'd seen the dryer exhaust venting out on my patio. I was polite, but thought he should have figured it out since there was a strong odor of dryer sheet. That apartment next door was an idiot magnet for interesting characters. Had one young girl frantically banging on my door because there was a "scorpion" on her patio that she had trapped under a bucket, but then didn't know what to do with it. I assured her we don't have scorpions here in Indiana, not to mention it was a rainy spring day. I went over and tipped over the bucket and sure enough - it was a crawdad. I let it grab a stick and walked it over to a muddy ditch.

EEK!!!

Even with that link, I had to look up "bishie". I got "Short for bishounen, translated roughly meaning"pretty boy." Used for attractive male anime characters, and sometimes real life. Generally they are sort of girlish looking. Generally used by rabid anime fans who can't spell bishounen so they shorten it."

A higher tech Neti pot? I haven't tried one - just about killed myself with the low-tech one. A slight exaggeration, but if you don't get the angle right, you're suddenly gagging on a bunch of warm salt water. And it was gross to begin with...

You lose hearing on the higher notes first, so that makes sense. My Dad couldn't hear the wind chimes or the microwave beeping that it was done.

I'm a complete sap for my kitties. I have an automatic ltter box (Litter Robot) and I change the bag in the drawer about every 4 days, which correlates nicely with the kitchen trash bag needing to go out, also.

Happy to help and I'll share on FB, too.

That sucks and I don't think it's unfounded at all. You can send me the link in a PM.

They should just call it coffee cherries, but I suppose someone would think it was really a cherry.

I have. Growing up, the family story was that we were French, German, English and Dutch. Mom started digging around years ago and we quickly discovered there was no Dutch, just more German (Deutsch). Ancestry says we aren't English, either, but Irish instead. So - French, German, Irish, a substantial chunk of Scandanavian we haven't a clue about and less than 10% each of Iberian penninsula (Spain and Portugal), Italian and Greek (which are lumped together for some reason) and a trace from the Caucasus region. I also did 23andme and there are minor differences, but mostly agree.

Taking to Small Talk.

It's different: When purchasing cascara for coffee cherry tea, avoid confusing it with cascara sagrada, or Rhamnus purshiana. While this tea sounds similar to cascara, it is quite different: Cascara sagrada is the dried tree bark from the California buckthorn tree and is often used for laxative purposes.