Chalkie

I love this idea! Could you please share more information about this filter?

I think for me the morale of this story would be to buy a completely different brand of toilet that uses more conventional internals and be done with it.

It was on a cell phone. If only it was so easy. We lived in that area code for 30 years and still know a lot of folks there that are not all in our contacts. My difficulty is convincing the wife that if it does not come up as a known contact to just let it go to voicemail.

There seems to be a new scam or resurrected old scam going around. Got a call last night the spouse answered thinking it was someone we knew as it was from the same area code as our phones (719). The wife always puts her phone on speaker as it helps her hear better so I could hear the call as well. It was a woman with a heavy accent saying she was with a Medicare Provider Group wanting to know if she had received a new Medicare Card in the last 2 months. If not, could my wife please provide some information to verify herself, starting with her name, so that a new one could be sent. At that point I jumped in as asked this woman to please say again who she was with again and got the same answer, a Medicare Provider Group. I told the woman that she obviously was not with our Medicare provider and we hung up. I did a little lookup on this and it seems the idea is to get enough info that they can request a legitimate replacement card which is then used to submit fraudulent Medicare claims. I don't know if this was a one off, something with 719 numbers, or if it is something going around so I thought I would give a heads up.

I fully understand taking a deep breath and then telling a vet to go ahead with whatever treatment is needed. Our previous dog, which was a rescue, we got as a puppy and had her for 14 years before cancer took her. She was mixed breed and part Shar Pei which was the cause of a lot of vet visits, that breed has thin or fragile skin so she easily found things to test that and I lost count of how many stitches she required over the years. But she was a member of the family and and an excellent traveling companion so we could do no less. When we got our current little rescue I debated getting pet insurance but I could not find a policy that covered more than routine office visits without costing considerably more. So we are again rolling the dice on vet care costs and so far have been on the winning side.

In Texas all veterinarian clinics have to be certified by the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners which sets standards that seem to me to be very similar to AAHA. Clinics are subject to no notice inspection for compliance. In our time in Texas we have had vet care at 3 different clinics, none of which are AAHA. In Colorado we had one vet for over 20 years which is AAHA. Quite honestly I don't see that our pets have had a different level of care between the AAHA and non-AAHA clinics. One thing that I found interesting was the AAHA seems only to deal with vets that are solely in the dog and cat realm which leaves a large swath of outstanding veterinarians that also deal with large animals and exotic animals out of the picture entirely. Which I suppose is why there isn't a single AAHA vet within a 50 mile radius of my sister because a rural vet can't afford to only treat cats and dogs.

Around here right now anyway, midgrade or premium gas is more than diesel. The new Ford 7.3 gas engine calls for 87 octane which in high elevation states would be midgrade. Fuel in general is getting pricey.

I do not have a Class C, I do however have a diesel pickup and I can say that it is no noisier than my son's gas pickup. Outside it seems to me that the Ford and GM diesel engines are quieter than the RAM Cummins engine. One thing to consider in your deliberations is fuel economy. Diesel will not necessarily get better.

I'm not in California. It is easier for manufacturers to print one warning label that satisfies the legalities of a product in all the places it is going to be sold. Thus, here in Texas we are blessed with Prop 65 warnings.

The EPA can not levy criminal fines but it can take states to court and win civil fines. While the EPA generally lets the states administer air pollution programs to meet the standards it can overrule or take over the programs if it is not satisfied the targets are being met. Personally I would like to see Texas take a page from Colorado where gas engines are only required to take emissions tests in certain counties whereas diesel engines are required to statewide. Maybe it would get rid of all these folks that think giant exhaust pipes blowing massive clouds of black smoke is fun.

Many times these warnings, whether there is cause for concern or not, are at the behest of the lawyers thanks to our litigious society. It seems like virtually anything that is sold in California carries a Prop 65 warning which we all see no matter where else we are.

Google maps is already up to date on the closure and showing two alternate routes. One via I-70/US-50 taking 5 hrs 51 mins or the other via US-550/US-160 taking 6 hrs 34 mins.

Elevate the pan on our induction top and you get to hear annoying beeps and an error message flashing.

Real estate can be a great investment but is not necessarily the best as it can depreciate if not cared for. Land on the other hand can't really depreciate but it can appreciate greatly depending on location. Personally I wish I had thought of buying a bit of unrestricted land prior to retirement so it would have been paid off by retirement time.

Exactly! This is why I can turn off the burner a little early under my scrambled eggs and let the residual pan heat finish them off. I have to admit I had never considered heating things directly in the can though. I am going to have to try it.