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My Aussie, Mink, turned up limping this week. I figured he had just pulled a muscle chasing a bunny, but the vet says he has torn his ACL, and the only fix is surgery. Surgery is $2000-2500. Worse than that, the doc said that many dogs tear the other knee within a year. Mink is 10--I worry...

I live alone, but it seems like I am always swamped in laundry, so I have a question for you all. I recently read an article, somewhere, talking about how often women washed their bras--apparently some wear them for days or weeks. I guess I am a little OCD--I rarely wear anything more than...

Piece of cake, right? We have a young man working at the courthouse who just got his first apartment. I know he can't read well, and I am looking for a cookbook for him. I know I can find a kid's cookbook, but he might be offended at one that was too childish. Long ago, I worked with an...

Actually, it was most a half bushel--minus the boxful I took into work this morning, and the ones I ate. Delicious, luscious, drip down your arms peaches, fresh from the orchard yesterday, perfectly ripe today. I sliced them into acidulated water, but I don't have any pectin for the jam I...

I am hunkered down today--nasty snowy windy day--and canning stuff for Christmas. I did some lemon curd, and used up most of my sugar. I also extracted the juice from 2 gallons of sour cherries that I picked last spring. I found a can of vanilla sugar in the back of the cabinet--do you...

I have been eating lovely orchard peaches since the middle of July--my favorite fruit. They are about gone now, but I stopped at the orchard last weekend and bought half a bushel, and. . . . they are awful. :sad: Mealy, dry, not much flavor. (Like the ones you buy in the grocery store.)...

My son (25) is a pig--a sweet boy, but a total and utter slob. He recently moved from his apartment here to Pennsylvania, and during the transition, spent a couple nights at my house. HE BROUGHT ME COCKROACHES--hurl, hurl, hurl.:sick::sick::sick: I have only seen 5 total, I think, but I am...

A friend's mom has had cancer surgery that removed part of her tongue and jaw. She can't chew and has trouble swallowing. She is tired of potatoes and gravy--any other suggestions? Right now, she is drinking some Ensure, eating ice cream, and pureed or mashed fruits and veggies. She needs...