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JBR said:
Woke up this morning, drank some cold coffee, started a fire to heat up the house to 'nice'. Today the plan is to drive 50 minutes into town, run errands, have lunch, spend a little time on the library.

Yesterday was interesting. A friend of ours from town, Merri (about 40), arrived with her cute 3-year-old daughter. But this visit she came with friends. Merri is a trained pastry chef who works in one of the town's larger restaurants, and she brought two women who work with her as kitchen assistants. They were both culinary students in their 20s, one from India, one from Indonesia. They both had good English-language skills, and had studied English back in their homelands before coming to Canada.

After visiting indoors with us for an hour or so, Merri, her little daughter, and the two young ladies put their warm clothes & boots back on, and went out to build a snowman — a totally novel, fun experience for the two Asian ladies.

One interesting thing occurred before that, when or friendly MaineCoon cat, in full winter coat, came into the living room. The Indonesian lady couldn't take her eyes off him, and her face wore a fascinated expression as she watched him simply walk around, and finally jump up on a low table and settle down for a peaceful rest. I asked her, and she said she'd never seen cats as pets before, back home... it was a fresh experience to see this sort of wild 'thing' just be unthreatening, comfortable, and part of the situation.

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What an adorable little girl! 🤗
 

Got my renewed driver’s license. Not real happy with the pic; the lady taking the photo kept saying, “you need to move your bangs, I have to be able to see all of your eyebrows”. Consequently my hair looks like I was pulled through a hedge 🙄

Any of our government/ law members tell me what is suddenly so important about eyebrows on ID photo? First time anyone’s made such a stink about it
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Got my renewed driver’s license. Not real happy with the pic; the lady taking the photo kept saying, “you need to move your bangs, I have to be able to see all of your eyebrows”. Consequently my hair looks like I was pulled through a hedge 🙄

Any of our government/ law members tell me what is suddenly so important about eyebrows on ID photo? First time anyone’s made such a stink about it
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When I had my DL photo taken, I had to expose my eyebrows too. I haven’t seen the photo yet.
 

RadishRose said:
You're having too much fun with all these dining partners! ;):LOL:
Good for you. This move has been great for you, Sue.
Sounds like ole' Bob may have been "spoken to" after his behavior with you.
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HI Radish Rose, when I told my friends what happened at my closing they were furious I suspect a couple of them ran into Bob, told him in so many words 'you were disrespectful,don;t treat a long time shareholder like that' Yes, this move has been life changing for me, it will be 6 months on Fri Sue
 
I am down to the last 6 plastic bags of old receipts, bills and tax forms. I have to go through each piece in the bag and either blot out sensitive info with a permanent marker, or shred. To me it is very tedious. I think I have one page all taken care of, then turn it over to find more delicate info. It makes me wonder many times does an ID, account or SSN have to be printed on a page. I've gone through several 30 gallon trash bags and about 2 dozen regular size plastic bags. Many of the papers got soaked when my basement flooded in August, They are mostly dried out now, but it makes the papers stick together and to any envelopes.
 
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I kept waking up the whole last three hours of my sleep time, it was so annoying, I don't know what causes that but I hope it doesn't happen again. Maybe it is because I've sloughed off the past three days on getting my walking steps in? Today I've gotten all my steps in plus some extra, so maybe I'll sleep better tonight.

Last week a friend and I agreed to go to a museum today if the weather was good. It was very decent weather, but when I texted him I'd meet him at the bus stop he responded that I needed to let him know several days ahead of time and he couldn't be ready today. Sighhhh, you'd think a week ahead qualified, but I guess he needs reminders/confirmations. Anyway, I went by myself and had a good time.

I returned to the museum that had the hundred year old toasters and light bulbs, but today I went through the area that was labelled 'Motion' (American History Museum of, apparently, all things 'motion' LOL).

There were bits of trains and buses, an old trolley car, a lot of models of different boats/ships, a lot of (boring to me) old motorcycles, old types of parking meters, and a variety of old cars. It was interesting, in a 'different' sort of way.

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HoneyNut said:
I kept waking up the whole last three hours of my sleep time, it was so annoying, I don't know what causes that but I hope it doesn't happen again. Maybe it is because I've sloughed off the past three days on getting my walking steps in? Today I've gotten all my steps in plus some extra, so maybe I'll sleep better tonight.

Last week a friend and I agreed to go to a museum today if the weather was good. It was very decent weather, but when I texted him I'd meet him at the bus stop he responded that I needed to let him know several days ahead of time and he couldn't be ready today. Sighhhh, you'd think a week ahead qualified, but I guess he needs reminders/confirmations. Anyway, I went by myself and had a good time.

I returned to the museum that had the hundred year old toasters and light bulbs, but today I went through the area that was labelled 'Motion' (American History Museum of, apparently, all things 'motion' LOL).

There were bits of trains and buses, an old trolley car, a lot of models of different boats/ships, a lot of (boring to me) old motorcycles, old types of parking meters, and a variety of old cars. It was interesting, in a 'different' sort of way.

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that's just up my street. I go to these Vintage museums of transport, often.. and I've posted many pictures of them on this forum
 
debodun said:
I am down to the last 6 plastic bags of old receipts, bills and tax forms. I have to go through each piece in the bag and either blot out sensitive info with a permanent marker, or shred. To me it is very tedious. I think I have one page all taken care of, then turn it over to find more delicate info. It makes me wonder many time does an ID, account or SSN have to be printed on a page. I've gone through several 30 gallon trash bags and about 2 dozen regular size plastic bags. Many of the papers got soaked when my basement flooded in August, They are mostly dried out now, but it makes the papers stick together and to any envelopes.
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I had boxes and boxes full of documents and TV scripts. As there was such a huge amount I tried first soaking a hole bundle in hot soapy water in a buckt, and then squashing them together like Papier mache.. but that didn't work very well on shiny sided paper.. so the quickest way I found was to use one of these.. I sat down, and was able to zoom through document boxes in a fraction of the time it was taking me before




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CinnamonSugar said:
Got my renewed driver’s license. Not real happy with the pic; the lady taking the photo kept saying, “you need to move your bangs, I have to be able to see all of your eyebrows”. Consequently my hair looks like I was pulled through a hedge 🙄

Any of our government/ law members tell me what is suddenly so important about eyebrows on ID photo? First time anyone’s made such a stink about it
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I remember passport photos with ear has to be visible. Ear prints?
 
1. My weekly chiropractor visit if I want to keep walking and mucking stalls.

2. On to Tractor Supply to buy five bags of chopped hay totaling 150 pounds, two bags of ration balancer totaling 100 pounds, and a case of water for myself.

3. On to Verizon to whine about my IPhone not charging. We concluded it either needs blown out or I could take the easy, more expensive route and buy a wireless charger. The Verizon store doesn’t sell air cans so I bought the wireless charger and boy is it ever slick. It’s not really wireless. The charger plugs into the wall socket then I set the phone on this disc that does the charging.

4. On to Walmart to pick up some stuff I really needed and didn’t get the stuff I just needed because I was wore out.

The horse stuff is still in the car. I’ll unload it tomorrow. Right now I’m watching “Ancient Aliens” with the 60 pound dog laying across my legs. She’s about ten pounds too heavy to be therapeutically comfortable but I’ll live with it.

In the words of Mr.T, “Pity The Fool” who would attempt uninvited entry into my home. If they got past my dogs, I would be waiting with my brothers Smith & Wesson🤠🤠
 
hollydolly said:
I had boxes and boxes full of documents and TV scripts. As there was such a huge amount I tried first soaking a hole bundle in hot soapy water in a buckt, and then squashing them together like Papier mache.. but that didn't work very well on shiny sided paper.. so the quickest way I found was to use one of these.. I sat down, and was able to zoom through document boxes in a fraction of the time it was taking me before




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I get rid of the old documents every year. They do a very nice job of starting the brush pile on fire.
 
Morning folks.....woke at 3am, went to p and sleep just avoided
me, so here I am.....aches and pains in full force this mornning.
29F outside, only up to maybe 50F later, chance of rain but
not likely....achy today of course..Some of the lawndry still
awaits me....not much else going on with me....naps on list
for today....too early to be here,,,,,,,seaa ya''......;):love::coffee:👹
 

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