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BSD is sometimes used for Belgian Shepard Dog.

Your GSD is beautiful, Jack. Tiny dogs are easier, but we've traveled with bigs dogs, and finding hotels usually isn't a problem. Also, many B&B's accept them, or you can sometimes convince an owner if your dog is well trained. The biggest issue we run into with traveling with dogs is what to...

I have 3 cats and 2 dogs. I've had hard wood floors in more than one home. Here is the BEST vac to use on wood floors: Amazon.com - BISSELL PowerEdge Pet Hard Floor Corded Vacuum, 81L2A (Same as 81L2T) - Stick Vacuums It doesn't have a huge dust bin, but it's big enough, and washes easily...

I'm just more of a home body by nature, so travel is not a huge priority for me. I've enjoyed places I've seen when we've traveled, and there are some places I haven't seen that I think would be interesting, but if I don't get around to them, that's OK. Travel doesn't have the same stress...

I have always said I'd never install wood in the kitchen, entry, or bath. Well, we just changed that rule, and installed wood in the kitchen of this house, because of how it connects with the other rooms. We thought the wood throughout those spaces looked the best. We went with ash, with a...

Glad you've decided to wait. If you're having trouble hearing, you should go to an ENT or audiologist. Either can look into reasons for hearing loss, although nerve damage is a likely cause with age. I have worn aids since my early 30's (for both conductive loss and nerve damage). I...

Retired 7 months, earlier than planned, and at age 48 (in the range of the study group). Neither happier or unhappier than expected, but my nature is to be optimistic and I guess I have a high happiness baseline (in contrast to DH who is more pessimistic). Despite the study, I expect to be...

What a great spot.

This is why we chose this as our retirement home. There are a lot of homes with great views in this part of Missouri, but this house is walkable to downtown and parks, so that clinched it. It's quite a fitness exercise walking up the hill to our house, but we figure, once we're too old to take...

Nice pics. Fall is my favorite season, too. Either the colors weren't as good this year here, either, or we missed them while busy with the home remodel. Anyway, last year was really pretty here in Hermann. Here are a couple taken from our deck last fall.

Yep. I feel your pain. At first we hung onto old books and manuals because, well, maybe someone would ask us to look at old code, right? At least that's what we told ourselves. But, really, DH and I are bibliophiles. When we got together, the biggest issue we had in combining households was...

I loved any kind of wooden puzzles, puzzle boxes, later rubic's cube, etc I loved creating whole towns with legos. Even better than for Barbies, I made towns for those Mattel little people that my younger brother was playing with at the time. Had a whole room in the basement with streets and...

A lot of this stuff is online, but some of the really old probably isn't, and there may be some interest as listed by Rustward. DH and I had COBOL and Pascal, to VB6 and PowerBuilder, to .NET and Java, also a lot of open source - as well as operating systems, platforms, etc...everything you...

Hope you're enjoying your stay. At $24, I'm guessing this may be a Norton. If so, as I understand it, Norton has some of the highest levels of antioxidants of any wine. So, maybe this is saving money on health? Have it with some dark chocolate...you know, for the health benefits :coolsmiley:

I definitely don't fling my skillet, and although I have scratched the top, I haven't been worried that my abuse will break it. All appliances in our house predate our occupancy. The wall oven is the original HotPoint from 1973 (in Harvest Gold). The cooktop had been replaced, and moved by...

We have a smooth cooktop, and I cook with cast iron nearly daily. I have both Lodge from 20 years ago, and Griswold that was my husband's grandmother's. I use one Griswold 8" the most. In response to this thread, I just looked carefully at the cooktop, and I noticed a couple of marks that...

As much as rental properties and travel do not seem to go together. Waterfront and low maintenance also are an unusual combination. Water is an awesome force.

I'm currently in a period of not volunteering, as our home remodel is taking all my bandwidth. I'm looking forward to getting back to volunteering once the dust settles. I've volunteered for a number of organizations most of my life, including front lines, committees, and on the boards. The...

It's not that I think rural folks have family values, and city folks don't. There's some bad areas in rural settings, and there's some inner city folks with strong values. However, folks tend to be further apart in rural settings like the one my husband grew up in, and so the threat of crime...

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I think that's often true. The more dysfunctional the family, the quicker the firstborn must grow up. DH and I are both first born. I come from your "typical" middle class family (some dysfunction, some good -- how much you let it influence who you become may depend mostly on your in-born...

Since you have supplemental insurance, contact that insurance company with the bill that you have been sent. What the hospital can bill will depend on the type of coverage you have and the type of contract (if any) that they have with the provider. If this is an in-network situation, then...

Since you say she doesn't like her job, and her concerns are financial, then hopefully reducing your risk will provide her some peace of mind. However, maybe there's more to her hesitation than just fear of being poor. Does she have interests to pursue in retirement? If it will help her to be...

Well, heck. Don't mean to get off topic, but I don't know how to embed a video so it plays in the thread. Tried a couple of things, but the best I can do is that link above. Tried searching and FAQ's, but couldn't find the way to do this here. I'm probably over thinking this. Any advice...

Yeah, there are a lot of other festivals and wine trails that attract crowds, but Octoberfest is the big one. DH and I are used to big festivals, as there were a lot in our urban neighborhood in Columbus, too. In both neighborhoods, we liked being able to just walk in and take in some music...