@Steve-Miller said: The office building is actually on the back of the house and appears to be an addition done in the 1970’s. That's what caught my eye in the listing. I know that stretch of Wheeling Road well, as itis just a few blocks north of my Mom's townhome/condo subdivision. I was like "where is there an office building on that street?" @Steve-Miller said: Looking at the baseboard heat, (is it electric?) Possibly, but more likely hot water powered by a gas boiler. We had a similar arrangement (zoned hot water baseboard and vaulted ceilings in an open floor plan with lots of windows) in Door County and it was remarkably comfortable. That house was built in 1991 and had good insulation and quality windows. That the water source is “Lake Michigan”? Prospect Heights is between Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights, a bit more rural than typical suburban, sort of an outlier in the area. As you noted, homes built in the 1930s, most of them on one acre or larger lots. When we moved here in 1980 PH didn't have its own police or fire departments. They got police and fire service from surrounding towns and the state police. https://www.prospect-heights.il.us/130/History-of-City Early homes in Prospect Heights and even our town were on wells (and septic) but later construction included municipal water and sewers. The municipal water was not from Lake Michigan; each town managed its own wells. Eventually the towns got switched over to the Lake Michigan system. Not sure exactly when, but our 1960 house had a water softener that was switched off because by the time we bought it in 1980 we were on Lake Michigan water. My Mom's 1980s PH condo that she bought in 1995 didn't have Lake Michigan water until a few years after she moved in.

Nearly all have some charm, I like the FLW and the crafts bungalow. Though my favourite style is the classic colonial bungalow, built in Malaya and India. I'd add that we are fortunate to now live in a 1960 architect designed house, which is a very pleasant space. On paper, basically four squares with corners touching laid out in a diagonal. Fit/draw another four blocks next to them. Add a second floor and a roof that overhangs the outer triangles formed between square blocks. It must have been fun to design.

Wow. Now I suppose I have to find some supplement that supports thymus help. [image: the-more-you-know-the-more-you-suffer.gif]

That's a lotta dead peach trees. Central California farmers are expected to gain up to $9 million in federal aid to help remove 420,000 clingstone peach trees following the closure of Del Monte Foods’ canneries earlier this year. Del Monte permanently closed its Modesto and Hughson canneries in April after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July. The factory closures left hundreds of workers without a job while also leaving farmers in dire straits as they navigated what to do with their crops. In March, the Sacramento Bee reported that many Central California farmers had their 20-year contracts to grow peaches with Del Monte canceled while facing a $550 million loss in revenue. The impacts pushed a delegation of California lawmakers to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide financial support to the fruit growers. Last week, California Sen. Adam Schiff and Reps. Mike Thompson and David Valadao announced in a news release that the USDA had approved their request to pay California farmers to remove around 3,000 acres of clingstone peach trees before the harvest season. According to the news release, removing 50,000 tons of peaches from production could help growers save about $30 million in losses. “For generations, Central Valley family farms have relied on Del Monte’s Modesto facility to process their peaches, and its sudden closure left growers with thousands of pounds of fruit and no clear path forward,” Valadao said in the news release. Schiff, Thompson and Valadao, in addition to 39 other members of Congress, sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in March, stating that many of the affected California farmers are multigenerational family farmers who have invested in their orchards for decades. They argued that it was necessary to aid these farmers or risk “long-term structured damage to our nation’s agricultural base.” https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php

It's an intense place! I didn't like living there but I was 26 by that time. I think I could have appreciated more if I had been younger or older.

The sad part is that many would vote for Jr and the others.

Nice house, nice area; surely will be easy to sell.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out he has dementia, is a malignant narcissist, and lives in his own fantasy world.

Mines called Paprika and it was either free or had a one time cost. I’ve had it for years. It converts web based recipes perfectly and downloads a photo. I had a bunch of bookmarked recipes but I’ve since downloaded them into this app.

@Bernard said: Short, and sweet. There are quite a lot of dissonances in Chopin. Link to video Love it. I’ve thought about picking up that ballade again. It’s been years since I’ve had it in my fingers.

From blue. Chili must have beans. No spaghetti allowed.

Anyone who underestimates Russia's military capabilities is an idiot. But I guess we're meant to believe Ukraine is causing a crisis for the continued existence of Russia. Ok, then. The sainted Ukraine which massacred 100,000 Poles in 1943. The absurdity of it all reminds me of Trump's military parade. Maybe Cold War style military parades are just anachronistic and dumb.

Well, the war isn't winnable. If one defines "a win" (and Trump has dementia; he hasn't defined "a win") then whatever "win" equals, it doesn't equal anything militarily realistic for the US. I'd add Trump's doesn't have guts. He is a cognitively impaired con artist who is frightened half out of his mind that he will be assasinated by Iran. The irony is Iran never planned to assasinate him until he assassinated Iran's head of state. He isn't going to finish anything. He doesn't even know what he's trying to do let alone how to do it.

Hahaha!

Donald gets in Camilla's way. Link to video

[image: 1777933698576-20260504_203744-resized.jpg] Neighbour's azaleas