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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 15 Oct 07

We all have a certain dish that we enjoy that brings us that warm fuzzy feeling. Often these foods revolve around fond memories of days gone by. Whenever my kids are coming to dinner I will make a roast chicken, gravy, mashed...

chicken gravy

comfort foods

cooking

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dhouston Mashed potatoes Cocido madrileno French bread slathered with butter and either Bovril or Stilton, or maybe with prosciutto on it

16 Oct 07

ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 2 Oct 07

I posted a discussion about the use of a folding shopping cart to carry groceries for my clients. It would ease the stress on my joints and arms. It is gone. Was there something wrong with this discussion?

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dhouston I read it in my email and saved it to answer later. I didn't see aanything wrong with it. I was going to comment that urban dwellers have always used them and they are used all over Europe as well. It's because we don't use cars and either walk to the market...

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 6 Sep 07

I have begun the search for bargain gifts to give for Christmas. This search usually begins in January, but due to my being unemployed at that time, I have had to postpone my search until recently. On September 4th I purchased...

bargains

frugal living

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dhouston But how many people actually want yet another salt and pepper set???

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 21 Aug 07

The topic of discussion at the office was the end of summer. Many believe that summer ends with the last week of August. Not for me! I stated that I believe that summer goes on through mid-October and sometimes beyond. When do you...

summer

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dhouston Sideriologically, summer ends about September 21. Culturally in the US, it ends on Labor Day, whereas in Europe, it goes to the end of September. I think it's summer whenever (ugh!) the temperature exceeds (loathing!) 80 F. I love going to the shore in mid and...

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 10 Aug 07

Here is a picture I recently found of myself that was taken in 1966, I was nine years-old. I tried to reflect on my being nine. Nothing significant came to mind. I was in the 4th grade. The teacher's name doesn't come to mind....

age 9

childhood

elusivebutterfly

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dhouston I see crayons in one pic and a heart thing in another Where is the picture?

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villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 17 Jul 07

According to the US Food and Drug Administration one in five women have depression in the United States. To me, that sounds like a lot of women, not to mention the men who are depressed. Depression can be scary. It can be...

depression

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dhouston About 20 years ago, when Prozak was new, it was prescribed for me. i instantly gained so miuch weight that I added 4 dress sizes. Later, Pxil cam out and I was switched to it. They weight started slipping off. After DH died and I no longer had health...

18 Jul 07

villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 17 Jul 07

According to the US Food and Drug Administration one in five women have depression in the United States. To me, that sounds like a lot of women, not to mention the men who are depressed. Depression can be scary. It can be...

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dhouston Yes. Depression can actually be physically painful. Something that is worse, however, is bipolar disorder, which 2 friends and a relative suffer from. It can also respond to a combination of drug and talk therapy. Depression is the "common cold" of psychiatric...

18 Jul 07

villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 17 Jul 07

Have you heard the new report that the U.S. News & World Report has published a 2007 list of America's best hospitals? They are listed in the order they were chosen. In some cases there was a tie between two hospitals. In this...

university of pittsburgh

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dhouston 1 km = 5/8 mile; do the math Yes, it's a long way. I see Hope's in Australia, so it urprises me that she has this problem.

17 Jul 07

villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 17 Jul 07

Have you heard the new report that the U.S. News & World Report has published a 2007 list of America's best hospitals? They are listed in the order they were chosen. In some cases there was a tie between two hospitals. In this...

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dhouston Philadelphia is one of our nation's medical capitals given the number of hospitals and medical schools. The hospitals range from internationally renouwned major research institutions to little community hospitals in small neighborhoods. Major pharmaceutical...

17 Jul 07

villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 14 Jul 07

Our entire family are the biggest pet lovers in the world. We have bunnies, birds, a puppy, cats and we feed too many wildlife animals to keep count of. Both our daughters were away at college. We had rented an apartment for them...

children

pets

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dhouston No. I don't like them. I am allergic to dogs, cats and other hairy animals.

14 Jul 07

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 12 Jul 07

As many of you know, I will be celebrating my 50th birthday on July 30th. I have decided to get a tattoo of a small butterfly on my right leg just above my ankle bone. My hubby is 100% against this idea. We had a heated discussion...

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dhouston I really think that if you value your marriage at all, if you have any respect for the relationship or your marriage, you will skip the tattoo. Or at least try to discuss it sanely. You haven't mentioned why he objects. Have you asked him? Have you asked if...

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villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 8 Jul 07

I just received a link to a short movie about a lady who lives on a ranch in Utah who paints paintings of soldiers who have been killed and sends them to their family. It is a very short video and I thought you may want to view...

compassion

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dhouston What a sweet thing for her to do!

9 Jul 07

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villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 8 Jul 07

I am wanting a new clothes line in my back yard. I have one in my hallway to use in winter and one on my back porch to use in summer. Until we moved into this house, we always had a clothes line outside in the sun. The sun has a...

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dhouston Clothesline! That seems like such an anachronism to me! I've ued an electric clothes dryer since the 1960s. It is also illegal to hang clothes out where they are visible from the street where I live, and I guess I haven't seen clothes hanging in decades....

9 Jul 07

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villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 4 Jul 07

In West Virginia, we do have a 6% tax on food.I am not talking about restaurants. I understand why they must charge taxes on restaurant food. My daughter just told me that they have just changed that in South Carolina and they...

food

taxes

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dhouston Groceries and necessities such as clothing are not taxed in PA, NJ and DE.

4 Jul 07

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 28 Jun 07

When you arrive home to find an empty house do you look for a note that would explain where the people are that should be there? I have been home for over an hour and thought that maybe my hubby and our roomie were off to fetch...

where are they

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dhouston No, I don't look for a note, and yes, I think you are wrong to be angry. Who knows when the person originally went out and expectd to be back? If it's day time, what's your problem? If it's late night, that may be different. Maybe they got held up even though...

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 18 Jun 07

Lately I have been very weepy. My heart feels so sad. Although I have had many wonderful and joyous moments, there are just as many sad ones that stand by their side. I do not want to go back on anti-depressants. But, maybe I may...

depression

sadness

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dhouston Why don't you want to? If you get the right one, it will help you. I hope you talk to your doctor.

26 Jun 07

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villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 24 Jun 07

We live in an area where there is lots of wildlife. My brother called me the other morning at about 3 AM and said “ I just saw a coyote crossing the road and coming down your way. We own the land nearly up to the road he was...

wildlife

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dhouston Yikes! With deer in your yard, don't you worry about ticks and Lyme disease??? You make me thankful for urban living!!!

24 Jun 07

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 24 Jun 07

What is your preference real or artificial vanilla? I prefer real vanilla. The flavor is so much better than artificial.

vanilla

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dhouston Absolutely only real. I refuse to ever eat anything artificial. It's why I make *everything* from scratch. Even mayonnaise.

24 Jun 07

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 24 Jun 07

We visited a local farm today where we picked strawberries. My daughter had given me a huge bunch of rhubarb a couple of weeks ago. It had been waiting patiently to join some strawberries to make a strawberry-rhubarb pie. The wait...

baking

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dhouston I've rejected rhubarb since childhood, having only been offered it cooked to a nasty paste and overloaded with sugar. What's it like raw?

24 Jun 07

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ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45956) • United States 24 Jun 07

We visited a local farm today where we picked strawberries. My daughter had given me a huge bunch of rhubarb a couple of weeks ago. It had been waiting patiently to join some strawberries to make a strawberry-rhubarb pie. The wait...

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dhouston I'm not a fan of sweet pies (although I love quiche, pork, veal and ham and other savory pies) so don't care one way or the other. I haven't bothered to eat a swet pie in maybe 20 years--much less make one. And I never could stand rhubarb, because it always...

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