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As someone in the health care system... it sucks! Good luck figuring out your symptoms! I doubt the mamogram was very useful towards diagnosis, but the doctor likely got paid for it.

I do have to say, one of the main rules in my house was that no animals came into the family that *I* wasn't going to take care of. They were all my animals. I didn't want the animals being resented or not being taken care of because they "belonged" to my kids. Well, except sort of for the...

We're just weird that way. :lol:

I don't know why, but my favorite Captain Kangaroo character was Kitty Cat. :D We think we would like to travel around the country in a trailer, but we have way way too many animals now. We are doing it opposite of you- we will travel when we retire and the animals all die off of old age...

Video of Saxton's river. There are some scary videos on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiffqhpokac This is a video of the flooding in the town where I work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=abiXMtDMK6I

Wow- this could get long! My father is a twin and they are the oldest of 12 children and grew up in Erie PA. My youngest uncle is only 6 years older than I am. We only went once a year to visit upstate (I grew up right outside Philly) because my mother was horrified at the conditions. The...

I have thought about ribbon quilts, too, and have been carting around some ribbons for 40 years. http://www.ribbonquilts.com/ http://www.ribbonquilts.com/

Welcome to our crazy world! I look forward to your stories. I grew up with a Wicked Witch neighbor (we actually called her the Witch- the whole family), so I can sympathize. Her yard was always manicured to the micrometer. My father put his strawberry patch and his veggie gardens on her side of...

Those are really cool! Can the rubber rings be re-used for future canning, or are they like the flat metal lids that are only good for one good boil?

My SO is chief of police in a small town here in VT. Things have been a bit chaotic here since the hurricaine and flooding and it is raining inches again these past few days. We are fine, and our town is mostly unscathed, as is the town where she works. The town in between us is a mess, and...

LOL! I sunburn way too easily for that- and I'm cold the rest of the year!

I LOVE the John Deere pink dress! (and the model is a cutie, too :D) Smocking is one thing I have never had the nerve to try. Here are a couple of quilts that I have- I don't have pictures of ones I have given away, and I didn't dig out the pieces of a couple more to take pictures of- a bear paw...

I have a 30 year old (I think) Harvest Maid. The plastic trays were yellow and brittle and hard to clean without breaking them, and I couldn't find replacement trays that I thought would fit. So I was shopping and liked the Excalibur- the round trays are sort of a pain. The sticker shock made...

Cool- I started quilting with a log cabin quilt I made when I was pregnant with my son way way many years ago. I gave that one to my mother- she still has it. Then I made a jeans quilt for my son- cut squares out of saved up ripped jeans that friends and family gave me and added a heavy almost...

Hmm. Lumpy has not happened to me- wonder if it is because of the boiling? I raise my milk to 160 or so, then cool immediately- it never actually boils. I think it is technically "scalded" milk. I have used both ultrapasteurized and low temp pasteurized whole cow millk for mine- every once in...

Oh, for heaven's sake! My horses waste (in spite of my best efforts!) so much hay on the ground that we'd have to stop feeding round bales.

I want that house! Only in the country where there aren't any neighbors and more room. I love the green roof!

It is neat reading these responses- as varied as why we all are here in the first place. We lived on a relative shoestring when the kids were growing up until I could finish my degree and get back to work. I bought my "farm" with my divorce settlement. My son didn't really like it, I suppose...

Yeah!! Congratulations! Finally! :weee

My mother swears by Italian food, especiallly lasagne. So sad about the pups- divorce sucks.