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I have gone through my preferences several time and thought I stopped any notifications that result in emails but in the last few days I have gotten several. Is this a site issue or is there something I am missing?

Some of you may have read my whining posts about my Samsung range issues including is inability to heat water to a boil on two of my four burners. Consequently I have been out shopping for a new stove and have found that all of the models that include convection baking and a couple other of my...

With the holidays coming for some it may be time to pull out the heritage silver pieces and getting them ready for use. Rather than all that hand polishing there is a fast and simple way to remove the deepest tarnish without hours of rubbing. I use this on large and small silver pieces...

As most cat owners do I have dozens of cat blankets and towels and usually have a laundry load of their bedding to do every week. Not that it’s soiled but mostly just hair covered. I recently discovered that memory foam bath mats make wonderful cat mats. The cats love their cushioned...

Yesterday a mother cat with four kittens showed up in my back yard and has taken up residence under my shed. I assume she is feral since she and the kittens hide as soon as she sees me. The kittens still nurse but are also eating cat food and drinking water. I would put them at about nine...

Miss Lola had developed two habits that are making me a little crazy. She sloppy, wet licks the back of my hand while I am on the IPad and does the same to the handle of my coffee cup. Anyone else have a cat or cats with habits you could do without?

Let’s see them decked out for or enjoying the holidays. This is my beautiful Lola

I was using one of my favorite apps, Flipp, few days ago and thought I would share it and also see if others have apps they couldn’t get by without. Flipp has no fees or enrollment and it can be a big money saver. It posts the recent circulars from retail, grocery, discount and drug stores...

My girls, Lola 9 and Willow 12 Every morning when Lola is let out of her room she makes a beeline for Willow’s “treat bottle” and vigorously knocks it around to get that last pieces out and eaten. This despite the fact that what is in the bottle is the very same kibble that is in the free...

I don’t have a junk drawer as that much unorganized stuff would make me queasy, but I do have a countertop container, roughly 5 x5 that holds all the bits and pieces that I don’t feel like dealing with at the moment. A few things, like tweezers for picking gunk out of the dishwasher holes...

Last year I gave myself a Dyson vacuum cleaner for Christmas and today I picked up this year’s present - a new Keurig coffee machine. Anyone else buying themselves a gift or gifts this year?

I bought my first Christmas gift today, a Kuhn Rikon jar opener for my son and gf. I had never heard anything about these until we were cleaning out my mom’s house and she had one that I took home. It is so amazingly easy to use and adjusts from tiny jars up through wide lid jars, I just...

I have catfood out for visiting cats and it is also regularly eaten by fox, racoons and opossum. But the last few days I have had at least one squirrel snacking out of the bowl. At first I thought he might be picking out a stray seed that found its way to the bowl but nope, he is definitely...

This is odd but am sharing it just in case anyone else experiences it. I have had several weeks of Willow sometimes refusing to eat her wet food. I assumed it was related to a switch in cat food brands since the kind she likes, Crave, is no longer produced. But one day she would eat the...

For nearly as long as I have lived here, sixteen years, every spring I have a pair of ducks that come to rest in my yard for a portion of every day. Until recently I thought it was the same pair but I have been reading that wild ducks only live four or five years on average. Now I am wondering...

Thought I would share this tip for everyone who has been doing lots of baking and whose aluminum pans are showing it. I think I am fairly thorough at washing my baking pans but inevitably they get gunked up with baked on grease around the edges and get pretty disgusting looking. I have tried...

Missed you all! What’s happened in your life since TSC has been down? I mean other than checking 1000 times to see if it’s up. As for me, I learned that YouTube lied when it showed how easy it was to change lawnmower tires. It’s not and very messy, but cheaper than I thought to have...

I have a combination of urge to travel and total boredom with my meals that has gotten me thinking about the special meals I have had away from home. I thought it might be a fun topic for us to share. My top three 1. A dinner at a converted bordello in Nashville. Through out your meal...

For the last few weeks I have had a trio of cats show up every evening, usually between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm and gone for the day at dawn. I suspect they are pets let out for the night since each is on the quite well fed side, but I am feeding them none the less and giving them a warm place to...

Willow is a shorthair but has always developed mats in her fur ever since I adopted her over nine years ago. She doesn’t like being picked up and won’t allow regular grooming so I only corner her a couple times a year to groom her and remove her mats. This year as always I have been keeping an...