Wonderful!! 🎉🎉🎉

Offense

We're free and clear for at least 10 days.

Hurrah!

The beans are delicious! 👍

Here’s something I didn’t have to do in CA -blow all of the water out of the sprinkler lines so they don’t freeze.

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Thought about doing it myself but decided to hire it out this time so I can see how they do it. On line I was told it takes a big air compressor. I have a fair sized compressor but nothing like this:

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SK, have you had your sprinkler system winterized yet?

You're welcome, Mik. Glad to hear it.

Perhaps we need apet thread?

A masterful summary of “the last three weeks” and “weird”:

@wtg said in Watching the debate?:

The debate was not an anomaly.

This is my biggest concern.

Ah, found the solution. The part of the window with the x was off the top of the screen. If I grabbed the bottom of the screen and pulled it up, the top appeared and I was able to resize the window to make it all visible. It must be some setting I have, because everytime going to a chat, it appears the same way off the top of the screen.

That's a very good question! First step would be to keep Trump away from government.....

Glad to hear Mrs Ron and Mr WTG are bother doing better!

@wtg said in At the hospital:

The big guys like IBJI and ATI seem to have their therapists working with multiple people at the same time. We didn’t think that was optimal.

That’s how it was when I was doing PT for my plantar fasciitis, one PTist was taking care of several people, and each time you went, you might or might not have the same person. At the time I remember thinking if my problem were anything more serious, I wouldn’t like that set up, so I can’t imagine doing it like that after a TKR.

Meanwhile, my superwoman neighbor had her knee done a week ago tomorrow and said she drove for the first time yesterday. That means she’s not taking any pain meds. This is her second TKR, and she said she didn’t take pain meds the first time around. She has amazing recuperative powers….

Wow!!

@Axtremus

My thoughts exactly.

Excellent!

That woman becomes a part of the piano.
She sits and is simply fabulous, what touch.
My old piano teacher was a bit like her, you'd never guess this kindly 80 year old had such talent. She'd sit and suddenly become a concert pianist.

Suddenly I was reminded of Barenboim materclassing Lang Lang 😄

@ShiroKuro totally agree. Read the profile of him in last week's New Yorker. Truly frightening.

@Rontuner Great picture.

@wtg said in Tornado!:

Frozen pipes aren't an issue if you shut off the water supply, and even better, drain the syst

I thought about doing that one time when we were away, and at this point I don't remember the details, but I decided I didn't want to do that. I think it was because of the water heater? Although now we have a new water heater...

@wtg said in Tornado!:

for you, is a non-functioning sump pump really a disaster?

Probably not, but when you're not at home, you don't know what you don't know. And we had some water problems in our last house, so we're a little gun shy, as it were.

The other thing motivator for getting some kind of generator is just being without electricity for an extended time (when you'e home), and of course worrying about the indoor climate for the piano.

But I will probably drag my feet so much that we do nothing for a good long while! 😛

@DeweyLOU

Thank you for sharing this!

It’s tempting to say something like “my work isn’t as important as yours” as a way to excuse myself from taking the risk. But:

@DeweyLOU said in What do I do with this?:

Capitulation is what they're counting on. If we aren't all willing to take a stand, even in the face of potential risk, they'll have already won.

This is a powerful message, one I don’t take lightly.

There were people laughing about it. I can find the clips. It became, "a thing."

I'm staring death down in the face right now so I won't go looking for them.

Maybe one day people will stop underestimating me by thinking I don't have reasons for what I post, and that I can't back up what I say.

But it's been decades now. I won't hold my breath.

There was a metaphor used in the old days, at the OCR, at TNCR, and here, expressed in the form of a question-- "Is this the hill you want to die on?"

I will die on the hill of objecting to Israel's occupation, genocide, and aggression, and I won't feel badly about it for a split second.