mhparker92

I have to ask - is your hubby as hunky as the lineman at Greystone?

<br /><br /><br /> Yes - there is. We actually hooked up our truck to the blower via a power inverter - but I wouldn't suggest it. If you have someone electrically minded - they can do it - it involves some switches on your panel box (or a hillbilly suicide cord if they are more adventurous).

Dutch oven cooking at its best - get the coals going in the fireplace - I can cook for weeks that way. I've got to get a couple of things because we are out of them - no other reason. I'll do that tomorrow during lunch break. ! Otherwise, I keep a good stocked pantry that lets me have fun cooking when everyone is trapped in the house.

My mom got bit by something and hers progressed similiarly to yours. She has serious immune system issues - so I carted her off to the doc alot sooner. She doesn't need for ANYTHING to take time to develop. She had been bitten by a spider - not sure if it was a brown recluse or not. She was on antibiotics for almost a month and still has a mark from the bite. Definitely not something to mess around with.

<br /><br /><br /> Mine is a 2003 with just shy of 300K miles on it. I can't imagine what's wrong with yours. Mine just goes like a champ. We use CMF Motorsports in Douglasville. Two amazing guys that support their families and two apprentices (which I happen to know both apprentices - one is an Eagle Scout).PM if you'd like their contact info.

My grandmother (God Bless Her Soul) told me that my biscuits wouldn't be truly good until I made them every morning for ten years. I smiled and told her that the frozen ones were good enough. !

WOW!! Paulding.com showed the love in the last couple of weeks - I was truly surprised and thrilled at how much support you all have shown for our troop. It makes such a difference!! If you haven't ordered your pinestraw - please consider getting it from our troop!!

<br /><br /><br /> Unfortunately, the program is ending at the end of this school year due to a change in the way end of course testing is done. No one will be able to exempt after this year. My youngest (a freshman) is not happy.

Don't forget to order your pinestraw. We will deliver it to you - no cleaning up your truck afterwards, no waiting in line at Home Depot, no wrenched back from picking them up and then unloading them.We use the same supplier as Home Depot (often they leave us to go to Home Depot for the next delivery).And, most importantly - you aren't spending anymore money to get the same product and more service AND getting to help a great group of young men learn to be great adults.If you'd like to see more about what we do - go to www.troop7online.org

It's sounds like (to me) that you're trying to work with too much dough at once. Usually the dough gets wonky on me once it starts warming up.My suggestion would be to divide up your dough into smaller amounts. Work with one small amount and put the rest back in the refrigerator. Also, be sure that you're using enough flour to keep the dough from sticking. And, try not to work it too much. What makes the dough so wonderful is the small pieces of butter. Once that butter gets warm - you won't get light and fluffy anymore.

It's actually a real issue for the high schoolers because exam exemptions are based on the number of excused absences, no unexcused absences, a limited number of tardie/early check outs, and grades. So - it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

<br /><br /><br /> Okay - first off the typo isn't working for me. President Ford wasn't President in 1966. And, this law took quite a while to enact because I (in elementary school in 1976) was in levelized classes and my brother (7 years behind me) was in levelized classes. My own kids (2004, 2007 start dates) weren't in levelized classes, but the top and bottom performers of the class were pulled into small groups for remediation. That doesn't happen now. I agree with your class size comment. But, as long as we have local communities that seem to think school

SOOOOOOO, folks are ticked that the school system wasn't proactive in cancelling school on Tuesday. But, now that the school system is being PROACTIVE in letting you know what the options are (state waiver, teacher workdays cancelled, spring break reduction, longer school day), folks are going to bitch that about the choices. Really, folks. And, you wonder why local government doesn't say anything until it's a done deal.

<br /><br /><br /> Well, kinda. It looks like that on the surface. But, in reality, if the gifted coordinator is doing their job and if the teachers are certified, they will still be in advanced classes made up of gifted students. And, that means that it should be taught as a gifted class rather than as a regular ed. For example, a friend at a local high school teaches two sections of AP government and AP psych - one of the government and one of the psych classes have the gifted kids concentrated in them - making them gifted classes. The other two are considered regula

I'm all for adding the minutes to the end of the day!!! All for!!!Or, be like Marietta and cancel all the half days including conference week.

This is just the other end of the current mainstreaming that's happening. If all the special ed kids have to mainstreamed, then why do the gifted kids get to have their pull out program? Sigh. If my kids weren't already in high school - we would be homeschooling. One's a senior (5 ap classes) and one's a freshman (all honors or AP except math - regretting that one as well). But, if my kids were little - I'd be seriously considering the home school route. The mainstreaming has got to stop. We've eliminated all leveling in the classrooms, we've eliminated all special individualized progra

We went on a midnight run to pick up friend's twin kindergarteners at Burnt Hickory in an '86 4x4 Jimmy. Had absolutely no problem except when the idiots were out. We left about 9pm - back by 2:30am. Kids helped with pushing cars back on to the road - but no other great 4x4 stories.

Funny - I don't get any of this. Why would the governor shut down Atlanta on Monday? We were to get 1-3" of SNOW. The SNOW isn't the problem. It's the ice. I didn't think it would ice like this. The ground had been cold long enough. But, it hadn't been. I made a misjudgement of 15 minutes. If I had gotten to my boys 15 minutes earlier, I wouldn't have had any trouble getting home. I threw another load of wash into the washer. Sometimes, folks, things just happen. There's alot of concerns to be balanced when making these large governmental decisions. It's easy to Monday morning qua

My boys were helping push cars at Davis Mill and Hiram Sudie. And, the bridge inspection guy with his HUGE duelie was pulling just about anything up the hill. Several other guys were pulling vehicles (including a bus) to where they could get moving on their own. HUGE shout out to the bridge inspection guy!! He was working his butt off - sliding around on the ice and then pulling away!!

<br /><br /><br /> I'm 43. My house value is now about 40% of what it was 6 years ago. Hence the difference in what I ACTUALLY write a check for. There is a basic cost of government. When most of the property values in this county dropped like mine did - the mileage rate HAS to go up. They did alot of budget cutting at the county level. And, if your property hasn't devalued - be happy about the taxes you're paying. You'll actually be able to sell your property. The pluses and minuses to everything. ' />! And, my parents are in the same boat as us -

My explorer is close to 300K. Love her to pieces and will keep her until my mechanic tells me that he just can't do it anymore.Hubby's Tahoe is at 250k. Loves him to pieces and will keep him until, well, see above.My parents have had a couple of dodges over the years - the whole oil burning habit just leaves me going - nah.Y'all enjoy your new fancy expensive vehicles. We'll stick with ours as long as possible.

Funny - the mileage rate might be higher - but I"m still paying 1/2 of the taxes I was 6 years ago. I have been and continued to be impressed with our county leadership that they've made due with the significant cuts in ACTUAL TAX REVENUES over the last few years. Whitey - you don't get to be king of Paulding, darling.

My parents considered me to be the WORST teenager ever. So, so difficult. Then, my brother (7 years younger than me) came along. In hindsight, my teen years weren't so bad.But, when I was pregnant with oldest, my grandmother (who raised 12 children - 6 and 6) told me to start praying for boys - they are tougher in the toddler years, but SOOO much easier in the teen years. Now that my oldest is a cheerleader - I have more of an upclose look at girls - I would say that she's right. !

Just know that you aren't the only one. ! Living it large with two teenagers here. And, it's not helping that FIL is fanning the flames.

My best friend hurt her neck as a teenager diving into water after a toddler that was drowning. Horrible neck pain. Dad took her to the ER. They referred her to a neurosurgeon. That neurosurgeon refused to touch her until she saw a particular chiropractor in Powder Springs. Her family saw him until his retirement some 30 years later. Now, her family, her parents, my family, my parents, and several sets of friends all go to see him. Both of my sons were there last week - one cheers, one is a goal keeper. They knock their bodies around - he puts them back together. He also works with lo