@DougG 🤣

Zone 6 is where I am and I find it anything but easy to deal with. Winter hammers pretty much everything but grass. 🙁

Thanks for all the info WTG 🙂

I'll go take a photo later and share it. I think this bush probably needed to have been.. I don't know, pruned? It's top heavy and thin on the bottom half, which isn't great. And I think the blooms are going to be white, at least initially.

We'll see, I may warm to it.

@Rontuner said in Help me re-learn how to park:

I'm a bit under 6'4" and always test out the back seats

Smart!

I am about 5'4" and Mr SK is 5'6" on a good day, so our needs are a little different!

Biden interview on why he dropped out of the Presidential race:

Link to video

@Jodi said in Grand Obsession:

I feel like some of these modern piano composers that I like have a much bigger reach than I do,

Yep. I play music by Alexis Ffrench, David Lanz, and George Winston. All of these guys are quite tall, and as far as I can tell from videos, they all have massive hands.

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I’ll check out the Messenger.

I need to pick my next pieces to work on after the concert is over …

@Rontuner that’s good advice, thanks!

Since the timer comes on Wednesday, I’m planning not to do anything to the room until I’ve lived with the tuning for a bit.

Judge Michael Luttig, lifelong Republican, (remember him from the January 6 hearings?) endorses Harris.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050952-luttig-endorsement

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oh yeah, it looks like this except maybe with a little more of the top dough folded over but the fruit visible, as here:
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“I never thought the leopards would eat my face!

What a tool.

I had a random bite on my legs after tuning in an area that had cicada swarms. I though a mosquito got me...
Now I have a few more up around my shoulders. Mom confirms the mites are nasty in her neighborhood, where I stop by once a week... At least I know what they are!

Way itchy...

AO Smith. That’s the brand almost all the local contractors are installing, and based on googling around, I’m resigned to the fact that they’re all probably crap anyway 😕

An alleged Iranian connection was pushed by Netenyahu when he gave his speech to Congress. I'm 99% sure but I could be wrong. I'll post the quote or tape if I can find it.

Thanks, wtg. Moving on to thread #2.

"Bloated fruit loop."

I am so borrowing that description!

@pique said in Question about leasing vs buying a car:

We just sold our 2006 Honda CRV with 200k miles on it. The reason we sold it is because I found the seats to be absolutely crippling. That became my #1 criteria in car shopping--the comfort and support of the seats.

Same here. Hondas are great cars in many respects but the seats are like sitting on flat boards. The five hour drive up to Door County in my Mom's Accord used to leave my back in bad shape. Plus in my case, there's not enough thigh support; I'm 5'10".

Toyota and Subaru seats, OTOH, are very comfy for me.

@ShiroKuro -

Something like this? It's what @Mary-Anna is talking about, I think.

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I see there was a companion item, the Super Awful Awful burger. Two half pound patties instead of just one.

https://www.carsonnow.org/reader-content/09/29/2020/don-t-fear-original-famous-awful-awful-burger-still-here

Every now and then I put my silver (the stuff I put in the dishwasher) into an aluminum foil lined sink, dump some salt and baking soda on it, and then pour a kettle of boiling water on it. It removes most of the tarnish.

My best friend, who lives in Sequim, had (I think) what you described as the minimally invasive laminectomy/microdiscectomy. She had to go into Seattle for the surgery because.... that's where you go for major surgery when you live in Sequim! (There aren't many doctors, and far fewer specialists on the Olympic Peninsula). I don't know the details of her problem, but I do know that the surgery did resolve her pain issues.

I'll be talking to her soon and can try to get more details, though it sounds like your back problems are a bit more complicated than hers. Hoping you can get some relief from the pain. Back pain is the pits, to say the least. Yours sounds like a real challenge.