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  1. sheeplady

    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    You get a play-by-play of your family''s previous evening's activities from your child's teacher... before your child has said a word about such events... and your child's teachsr wasn't there. Yes, this has happened to me. More than once.
  2. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've always wondered if we had kept the Bell System intact past 1984 and tabled breaking it up- say until 2004- how different telephone and internet access might look- for better or worse. I think that if politicians saw the Internet coming they would have held onto the Bell System and...
  3. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Copper landlines are essentilly the lines that provide service to our very rural parts of the US. These are places often without other service- be it cell service, cable (including internet), etc. Essentially in these areas it is copper landlines or nothing. It is not profitable to update these...
  4. sheeplady

    Sesame Street forward! :-))

    I am very glad for the introduction of this character.... i hope she is on frequently! As an aside, the modern day episodes of sesame street feel only tangentally related to the sesame street of my youth. After the sesame street workshop made a deal with HBO to survive (I am not blaming...
  5. sheeplady

    Round 5 Beauty Box Thread!

    I dumped a lot of my stuff when I moved, but I am willing to separate with some of the stuff I moved with, if it's a go!
  7. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A very important point. Almost every action taken by any large telecomm company is to dump their copper. They basically don't enter into any discussion with the government without putting the copper lines on the table.
  8. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I am wondering if it's a matter of a budget suited to the task. I imagine with the proliferation of telemarketing and online advertising they have their hands full. You can increase a budget substantially, but it may not still be adequate if needs are high.
  9. sheeplady

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    None of the recycling places near me would take a dead microwave when ours died. So I took it apart and sold it for scrap metal. Interestingly enough, the scrap place wouldn't take it "whole" but once I broke it apart, they took the metal components even though I told them it was from a...
  10. sheeplady

    The House is a Museum ...

    I've gotten to the point that if a piece doesn't serve a practical purpose in my life... I don't tend to keep it. I have little kids, too much stuff, and too little time to arrange my collections. I still have a few, but they just aren't a priority now. I also grew up with hoarders, and I've...
  11. sheeplady

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Tonight I'm looking forward to traveling to my husband's cousin's house for dinner. We've just moved from NY to Virginia and she's less than an hour away. The kids love her. Since my husband and I respectively moved out of our parents at 18, the closest we've been to family is 3.5 hours travel...
  13. sheeplady

    Show us your vintage home!

    My family drove fence posta very deep because they had problems with survey pins being "pulled" on one section. Why I never knew... the adjacent land was never sold or anything. I think it might have just been "something to do." A high school friend digs crystals on one of her colleagues'...
  14. sheeplady

    Show us your vintage home!

    I didn't know anybody still walked the property lines in the spring. We always did when I was a kid... caught squatters once this way. It was my job to walk the (actively used) fences every 2 weeks or after a storm, with a hand saw and hatchet to remove anything that landed on the fence.
  15. sheeplady

    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    Went to the local kmart today to give them some business. The store was filthy... my daughter accidentally dropped a dark blue top and when she picked it up it was brown with dust. There was next to no selection in her size. We went to Walmart and they had some of the same things for half the...
  16. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Nice. Apparently there is a "controversial" report out now that 66% of cancer cases are due to random mutations, only 29% due to environmental exposure or lifestyle habits, and 5% due to genetics. (It's controversial because a lot of people want to think, "I'll never get cancer cause I eat my...
  17. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've heard that story (like snow) from someone when I was a kid... but never knew where it was. My grandmother (at one time) used asbestos snow to decorate for the holidays (like the wizard of Oz stuff... around the tree and cardboard houses). She also wrapped her tree in fiberglass tinsel...
  19. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I knew a woman who died of mesothelioma. Her husband worked in a mill producing some products with the stuff (they knew it was dangerous) and the workers had all the protective gear. He'd come home and she'd go to the backyard and shake his "dusty" clothes out so her wash machine wouldn't get...
  20. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I grew up in the Adirondack Mountains... so the acidic thin soil over a granite base where the blueberries grow. Although things got a lot worse with acid rain... something I haven't heard anyone worry about living in the southern tier where I live now (limestone and shale base.) My parents...
  21. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The farm I grew up on (as well as the house across the street- the hired hand''s house- and the house down the road) had spring boxes for water before the city pipeline went through in 1900 (landowners were offered free water for the life of the house or $100). Whenever my parents dug 2.5 feet...
  22. sheeplady

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As the mother of two small children, I think the most expensive thing about young children is daycare. If you want a reasonable life style as a two parent household (assuming you are not independently wealthy or upper middle class or one person works a high paying job) that means both of you...
  23. sheeplady

    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    Except when they add a "ship to store" option and ruin this feature as checking the "in store" box includes (and often only seems to include) "ship to store." (Looking at you, Jo-Ann Fabrics.)

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