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Thank you for the youtube tornado link. Max has a fascinating site and is juggling a lot of storm chasers and rotating clouds.

Things are popping all around us, Kansas City could be in for a noisy night!

You’ll find raw ginger in the fruit/veggie aisle of the grocery store, normally near the unpackaged garlic, shallots, etc.

Ginger is priced by the pound so you just break off what you want, keeping in mind that there can be a lot of waste if you choose poorly :)

Lindsay Graham needs to stop acting like he’s got anything to say about the movement of American troops, in regards to NATO, the Ukraine, etc.

Succinct and to the point!

The thread could use more such replies on occassion.

Thank you for the remembrance of Greeneyes. It’s hard to believe she’s been gone 3 years already.

I remember how she and Bagster would go at it sometimes, talk about a no-holds barred discussion, wow! It could get brutal.

Now they are both gone...

A belated Happy Birthday, JimRob!! Looks like a fine time was had by all!

Thank you for posting the pictures, Miss Yvonne.

My DH and I were faced with the exact same situation when we were renovating our old house.

What we ended up doing was buying a Johnson wood cleaner that warned DO NOT USE ON ASPHALT TILE. We would pour that stuff on the wood/linoleum edge and let it soak in and work it under the linoleum for a bit, and then pop off the tile and scrap off the tar with a big putty knife. We went through lots of cleaner and rolls and rolls of paper towels, but the floor was not marred at all when we got done.

You just need to be careful of the waste products so you don't get spontaneous combustion and burn your house down.

Amen, sister!

Thanks, we are glad we went ahead and voted today. We have wrestled all week about early voting, but it’s getting cra-cra out there, so 4+ hours in beautiful outdoors fulfilling the boss’s request was a simple task. Could have been made better with a couple of food trucks....

(Yes, we do live in Jackson County but not Kansas City.)

Taking orders from The Boss, my DH and I early voted in a democrat-run county on the west side of Missouri today.

The weather was absolutely perfect, high 60’s with a light wind, people solicitous to the handicapped and elderly, being entertained by toddlers and puppers, chatting about everything except politics, which is a long-winded way of saying it took us 4 1/2 hours to vote, but we’re done.

Remember that line from the Bible about the rain falling on the righteous and the unrighteous? Well, storm's coming.

We had a praying mantis on our porch ceiling a few weeks ago. It was eight feet from the hummingbird feeder when we left to take the dog for a walk; when we returned it had moved to behind the porch light on its way to the feeder.

We removed it to a more suitable location, far, far away from the hummingbirds. We don’t use insectides on our lawn or plantings, so that praying mantis can do Circle of Life stuff on some suitable insect, not my birds!

Thank you, bitt. That Roy Orbison sound-alike is spot on!

Prayers sent for you both.

Thank you so much for not only this detailed information, but also the previous post with all the cancer resources.

I really appreciate you spending the time to keep us up-to-date on this most important topic.

At the end of the day....

I agree with your comments/questions.

However, in this case, the child was fictitious and the man she was chatting with was an undercover FBI Task Force agent.

It’s not as if lawmakers haven’t known about this, it’s just that it hasn’t affected them until recently.

In 2017 there was a horribly sad case in Wichita, KS where a man was killed by the police who had been sent to his address by a swatter who was mad at a third party over a video game outcome in which he lost $1.50. The victim’s only crime was living in a house the instigator had been evicted from the previous year.

Subsequently, two different pieces of legislation have been introduced in Congress to try get a handle on this type of action, one died in a subcommittee and the other has just been laying in the subcommittee since 2019.

See: 2017 Wichita swatting/Legal Response - Wikipedia

According to the “Adopt Casper” button, on 12/27/23 he was adopted and has a new family.

Of our last five dogs, three were throw-aways and the last two were strays. Every single one of them has been a very good dog!