Read, cook, sleep, paint a room, garden

My 35yo gets soaked senior feed with bran mash (2/day), soaked Timothy pellets (2-3x/day), free choice orchard/Timothy forage (she will not eat the alfalfa). We're holding rice oil and rice bran in reserve for this winter. She's so finicky, I hope she'll cooperate!

I was going to say checked luggage too. I've checked some odd stuff without any hassle.

I live 2500 miles away from my grandparents, so visits are few and far between. Grampy had just been moved into a memory care unit, and my first stop in town was him. Amidst reminiscences I recognized, though some were garbled, he told me in vivid detail of a film crew who were secretly filming in t...

Pour boiling water on it, wipe, repeat.

Good point Stella. It's pretty laughable though -- many of the big box furniture retailers sell furniture of lower quality than Ikea. Most of our furniture is around 14yo Ikea. Other than the bookcases (dead and gone) and the coffee table (frequent repair) everything is in like-new condition. The en...

We have Ikea's bookshelves, one of the lines that is similar to Billy, and, honestly, I am not a fan for using them as bookshelves. They just don't hold up as well to the weight of books as I expect and are a real pain on carpeted floors. (Sorry, Tulsa!) What we've begun transitioning to is a wall-h...

Mama was lucky to find such a compassionate and sensible person in you, Kathy. That's a tough decision, and not something to be taken lightly.

We had a very similar situation with a mare who was rescued from horrifying circumstances.