Ck out the flooring stores/depts. Laminate made to look like all kinds of exotic woods, stone,
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Try laminate flooring sm
We installed the wood laminate right over our existing floor from the kitchen all down the hallway. It looks great, is easy to clean and puts up with lots of wear and tear. My husband installed it by himself in a day - the pieces just click together. Some of the brands out there look cheap, so you have to be careful, but ours looks like the real thing. Good luck!
Question re wood laminate flooring
We have wood laminate flooring in our study, which we love. However, we are going to put a room-sized rug in there because my beloved dog, Fox, a 10-year-old Pomeranian, not only has problems with patellar luxation (with four surgeries on his back legs in his first 3-4 years) but now has chronic dislocation of his right shoulder. So you can imagine how much trouble he has trying to stand up on the slippery wood laminate floor. We have tried putting down runners all the way across the floor, plus he has a bed and a blanket down there, too. But it is much cooler lying on the floor, so that's where he stays. He is in here with me all day as I work, but every time I get up, he gets up, scrambling like crazy to get his balance and get his legs firmly under him.
So....to my question. This is a fairly nice rug we are buying, but it says it has a polypropylene backing. Should I get some kind of pad to go between the rug and the laminate floor? I have included a link below, I don't know if that will give you any more information. But I don't want to damage the laminate - the backing on one of the original runners I bought (cheap, from Wal-Mart) stuck to the floor. It didn't damage it, but it was a very small area and I found it fairly quickly. This rug is going to be on the floor long-term.
Thanks in advance for any info! 
Michael's craft stores offers all kinds of Sat. classes. Or check
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health depts in this country get their palms greased
organizations that check restaurants - they will all be conned/bribed, and many of them take graft.....$$......
no, not an exotic cat
having been found in a field, I think, he was just used to his freedom. He had to hunt. He also brought me a dead bat one day. He was so proud of himself but I would not let either of them in the house. I was afraid the bat may have had rabies. Of course, the cat had been vaccinated, etc.
BTW - you notice that our names are Peace and Love. I had a Greek friend whose name was Zoe.
Very exotic looking.
Almost like she has some Pharoh hound or greyhound with shepherd.
Now I know why I went on all those exotic beach trips
when I was younger. My father used to fuss and fuss at me- I was traveling to the Carribean, Mexico, etc and he wondered why did I not visit the good ole USA. Now if only he were still here I could tell him. Now I am into visiting places that do not have the beach included- so glad I did those in my earlier years- did not mind showing those legs then!
automotive stores sometimes - hardware stores
whatever is close - advanced auto, napa, whatever. It was rubbing alcohol by the way.
No MRI yet and we haven't been in the woods
She got a few mosquito bites this summer but no ticks. There has been no bullseye rash or anything like that.
What were the Lyme symptoms in your 4-year-old?
I miss the woods.
I haven't been able to get out in the wilderness for a while. I'd love to get my backpack together and take a week-long hike. I feel so strong and capable and ready to get things done when I come back.
not in my neck of the woods....
They don't let anything interrupt Friday night football around here!
I have laminate, and
it works fine for us, but real wood would look better. Plus it is cold, almost like tile. It doesn't scratch at all (mine is Wilson Art brand). So with dogs it is holding up better than wood would have. I'm not thrilled with the color I chose. The place I went didn't have the honey shade I wanted, and this is just a dull medium brown. So choose carefully. There are other styles that look completely different than wood. You just really need to look at the different products and see them in homes if possible. Then compare that to wood. Check with a Realtor to see if it will cause problems for re-sale. It some areas, it might make the home harder to sell, especially a nice house like that.
Not sure I've seen much in your neck of the woods
went to some sort of juvenile detention place when I was in college - may have camped close by with girl scouts - but since I have been here Morehead has become a major metropolitan area - should have seen it when I got here!
How's the weather in your neck of the woods?
Mid 70s here in the Northeast with bright warm sunshine! Woo Hoo ! It's a doozy of a day.
Laminate floors
We have laminate floors in our study and while for the most part I am very satisfied, the area under our computer chairs is getting very worn (this is a brand new house, we moved in in July 2006). I got one of those clear vinyl floor mats for under my chair to minimize further damage but my husband refuses to do that for his and it's looking worse every day. What kills me is the laminate in the study was *his* idea. Go figure.
Anyway....if it were me, I would still consider the laminate, but put down rugs in any high-traffic areas. Laminate looks good and for regular household areas like a kitchen or dining room it should be fine.
Laminate floors
Does anyone have laminate flooring in their home, and what have you found to be a good cleaner? I had laminate floors in my previous home and had no problems with it whatsoever, as far as streaking, etc. So, I put it almost through my new house, but it streaks at times. Any suggestions?
Laminate floors
Misha, how do you clean your laminate floors? I had laminate in our previous home and had no problems with streaking with what I cleaned it with. My new home has a large area of pergo (5 rooms), and I am having problems with streaking, even though I use the same product I had at our previous home. Can't figure this one out? Any info would help me out a lot. Thanks.
Flooring
We have ceramic tile in our kitchen. I love that it is easy to clean and always looks great, BUT if I am on my feet in the ktichen for long periods of time I have to wear tennis shoes and it still kills my back and legs. (I'm a young 49!!)
My brother had Pergo flooring and had a water leak while on vacation and it ruined the entire floor.
Just a little more info to help you make your choices. Good luck!!
Minimum wage is $7.75 in this neck of the woods...nm
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Any ideas about flooring?
I am in the process of hopefully buying something besides the carpet I have in my home at the present time. I moved here in 2004 and the people before me had put in an extremely light beige carpet throughout the great room and dining room. Here is the problem. I have an older cat who throws up maybe 3-4 times a week. You guessed it, she throws up on the carpet. I want to get something else but wondering what kind of flooring to get. I have slate at the entrance and have put tile throughout my kitchen and hallway. I am not too interested in wood. I could again put tile throughout (not worried about the cold to the feet, by the way as always wear my "berkies," but not 100% sure that is what I want to do. I am open to any and all suggestions regarding any type of flooring because I definitely am looking for a solution to the light-colored carpet and the constant cleaning.
Flooring ideas
What about the pebble-tec (unsure if that is what it's called), multicolored to match existing decor, many variables on colors, really easy to maintain, adds richness to interior? The process involves heating epoxy glue and selected colored pebbles (tiny) in a concrete type mixing barrel and then pouring it in the designated areas where it is hand-trowled smooth and level. With this you get custom color blends of variegated pebbles and if ever you want a change just use area rugs. Just a thought....we're planning on doing this later this year in our entry way and bathroom floors. Good luck!
Flooring ideas
Ok, need some help with some flooring ideas. I have tile through my kitchen, hallway and want some ideas on what to do with my living room/dining room combo which is carpeted at the moment. I have a really nice home so my hubby is saying does not want to junk it up. I was thinking perhaps about rather than real wood, the laminate flooring but he is sorta digging in his heels and does not think that would be satisfactory for us. I am thinking cost-wise because I am tired of paying those $$$$ for everything. Does anyone else have this type of flooring and if so, tell me how you like it, the procs and cons, ok? I have several really big 8x12 rugs that I would use both for part of the flooring for both rooms (I just have those over the carpet at the present time). Give me some hints! Thanks.
We're getting new flooring, too
Actually, we're building and we've decided to have our own flooring installed, rather than the builder's. We've owned a home for the past 15 years (3 houses) and I've changed flooring in all of them. We've had hardwood floors, ceramic tile, linoleum, carpeting and berber carpeting. My favorite is berber carpeting and ceramic tile.
First of all, we have 3 kids - so stains are a problem, as well as scratches on a hardwood floor. The house we're currently renting (till our new one is built) has hardwood floors and I hate them. There are dust bunnies everywhere! I guess you don't notice it as much with carpet. I sweep 2-3 times a day my entire downstairs. Also, my boys love to play with matchbox cars and I'm constantly telling them to take them outside because I don't want them scratching the hardwood floors (they're not even ours).
But some areas of the house require noncarpet flooring, and for those areas, I prefer ceramic tile. Linoleum can tear, especially if moving appliances to clean. Ceramic tile can get expensive, though, and our solution to this was the Durastone tile by Congoleum (I'm sure it comes in other brands). It's the best of both ceramic tile and lineolum. It comes in tiles and is very durable. We had it in our bathrooms and just loved it. Pricewise, it's right in the middle of linoleum and ceramic tile.
As for carpeting, I love, love, love Berber. We've had both dark solid-color carpet and light. The light shows every stain and the dark shows all the white lint/fuzzies, can't stand either. Because of the texture as well as the color shades, it's great for camoing stains and lint. Depending on the color you get (we'd always gotten tans with navy/hunter/burgundy in it), it will match through many furniture changes. Berber is great! Just make sure you get the better quality of padding to go under it, otherwise it'll feel like you're walking on concrete.
Okay, sorry 'bout all that. If you can't tell, I love to decorate. Hope all goes well with your new flooring. Let us know what you decide.
Crispy you say, it is 96 d. here in Orlando at 4:56 pm and we hit 100 today in my neck of the woods,
not including heat index. It has been just a gray haze for days now.
We have wood laminate and LOVE it easy to
throughout our main floor other than the bedrooms and it is very easy to care for (we have 1 dog and 4 small kids). We also have Frieze carpet in our downstairs it is light beige, but has flecks of darker colors in there and our dog (and kids) have thrown up on it many times and you can't tell. I do however have a Bissel shampooer that I use whenever something happens to the carpet, but it seems to wear really well.
Bona Swedish Formula Laminate
Floor Cleaner. I use the cotton terrycloth cover they recommended.
This product says it's the environmenal choice as it is waterbased.
I stocked up and haven't had to buy it in 2 years.
I called for my 3 furkids as having some flooring put in
and even said 2 could "room" together and was told $308.00 for the week. I thought about it and we have a garage, parked the vehicle out and used that and so glad I did, love them so much and I don’t know if the animal clinic gives visitation several times a day.
Pergo-type flooring
I'm thinking of installing wood laminate (Pergo or something similar) flooring in my house. I have 2 dogs. One is a puppy and still has issues with housebreaking. Does anyone here know whether or not the grooves are self-sealing with the laminate flooring, or would I have to worry about urine seeping into the grooves if he went on the floor? I don't mind waiting until he's older to put it down, but if I can be assured that the urine won't get underneath the flooring and smell forever then I'd love to do it sooner!
Thanks!
Sandi
Stick and stone...seriously! sm
My dad worked with a guy who named his boys stick and stone. Didn't believe him until one day I was working at a shoestore and was fitting some kids for their shoes and mom said, "stick and stone, get over here and sit down!" I about died! I had to run to the back room real quick to hide my laughter.
The first stone, anonymissy.
Get spayed?? For goodness' sake. Your vitriol must leave the constant taste of caca in your mouth. I don't envy you.
This all happened almost 40 years ago. I'd say I've forgiven myself, but I have never thought--& still don't think--I had anything to be forgiven for. I made a difficult decision. Period. I'm just sharing my experience, but I certainly didn't do it so that some board-lurking wack job with her own very serious self-forgiveness issues could flame me.
I always say, when people have such an extreme reaction it's coming out of their own pain. Whatever it is, you should get therapy or something, before it totally takes you over, although from the sound of it, it sounds like it's probably too late for that.
This was my experience, for better or for worse. I think anyone who can give a child up for adoption is absolute saint. Abortion is not easy, but I'll be the first to guess that giving up a child is much, much harder.
But I was not that person then. I was an out-of-control teenager. Speculating on how I would have behaved if I'd known then what I know now is pointless. At the time I knew nothing. The reality of the situation did not really touch me then, other than the fear of disruption of my life. I would imagine a lot of teenagers who get pregnant feel the same way, & one of the reasons I'm saying all this is so that if anyone comes into contact with such a girl, you can have a perspective on what she might be thinking. Or not thinking, as the case may be.
So, anonymissy, to answer your questions, I guess you would call them:
1. You need to tell me what a troll is, so I can tell you if I am one or not.
2. I'm not a liar, I really did have 4 abortions over my entire reproductive life, which is now over. I did not use abortions as birth control, in the sense that I did not plan any of the pregnancies, and for 2 of them I was actually on BC - once with an IUD and once with a diaphragm. The other 2 times I gambled & lost, but that kind of heat-of-passion decision making has been happening since the beginning of time, & to people a lot more mature than I was then.
3.Dysfunctional...hmmm. Well, let's see. Like I said, I'm not a liar. When I read a post by someone who is trying to make an honest statement on a board, who is making herself vulnerable by giving up very personal information in the hopes that someone in a similar situation or worse, & who has not been able to forgive herself, can maybe do that -- when I read such a post I don't pour gasoline on that person & light them on fire. I suppose you could say that all young, hormone-addled teenagers are dysfunctional, so in that sense I suppose you are right. But now? No.
As for you, I would say you really ARE dysfunctional. I think the venom with which you responded to my post says everything anyone needs to know about you. That there is something you need to punish yourself for, regardless of your posts to the contrary, & you that are projecting that punishment onto someone else; burning yourself in effigy, sort of.
Saaay laaaa veeeee, man. It takes all kinds.
p.s. to "first stone"
Would I do it again? Yes, I would. I never wanted children & am glad I don't have them now.
If I had felt or known then what I think and feel now, would I have had a kid and given it up? No, I wouldn't have. Even though I have a huge amount of respect for someone who can do this, it's just not my path.
Would I have gotten "spayed"? No, I wouldn't have. Not at 16, not even at 20. At the time I still thought I might change my mind in my 30s or whenever, but as it turned out, I never did.
tomb stone writings
I'm so sorry about your loss...it takes a "tincture of time" to adjust to it.
This is an inscription that I love: "Beneath this stone does lie, a beauty that will never die".
Hang tough friend, just take it a day at a time.
I like my pizza stone and can opener the best.
Any stone is nice if you bake. The items I use and LOVE the most are their spatulas. Everything is kinda pricey. They do have things in all price ranges though. I also like their cook books. I have never been to a power party! Have fun.
Stone Care International
I also have corian and this company Stone Care International has stuff specifically for corian. They have a deep cleaner for weekly cleaning and an everyday cleaner.
www.stonecare.com
My husband had a kidney stone
and as the doctor was explaining to me what they found and where it was and what they would do I made a comment that I understand completely and then asked a question. I don't remember the question but it included a medical term and the doctor said to me "oh, do you have medical experience?" and I told him that I was an MT who transcribes acute care. The doctor then laughed and said that by the looks of his reports that come back that he didn't think MTs had any medical experience and were just typing.
Yes, irritated me as well. I dont' know why people think we don't understand what we transcribe. Understanding is a huge part of the job.
Does anyone know where to look for poems or sayings to put on a grave stone? sm
Unfortunately, my brother and I have to go pick one out for our mother and I would like to find a nice poem or saying about mothers to put on it. Anyone with any ideas?
Archaic, stone age dental tools
pantyhose, blue eyeshadow, any kind of sweater or sweatshirt with a holiday theme.
Stone Phillips' sister is a radiologist where I work sm
She looks just like him, too!
My kids have twins in their class named Steel and Stone. sm
Not quite as bad as stick and stone but pretty dang hokey if you ask me.
Is the Turning Stone? If so, LOVE and miss that place. LinK, if I ever sm
get back home (from Rome, NY), let us get together! You sound like a lot of fun! I've been looking at places to stay and visit for a while now - didn't realize Turning Stone had a lodge now? When I lived there (mid-90s) they didn't have it then.
Boy, do I miss upstate NY and snow. Haven't seen snow in YEARS. I'm in GA now. Have fun!!!!!
There are different kinds of groping (sm)
If we were both flirting with each other with it, it wouldn't bother me at all. But we have had so many problems in our marriage because of him being mean and one of the things I asked him to change was to show me that he cares about me affectionately, not just sexually. In the middle of the night if I roll over and snuggle up to him he will literally wake up and grab my hand and shove it in his pants. Not in a sexy way, just takes my hand off his chest and shoves it in his pants. I would LOVE to have someone I felt that way about and be groping each other all the time - that would be great! It's different though.
This absolutely works and there are SO many different kinds
Easy easy:
1 can each of dark and light kidney beans
1 can garbanzo beans
handful of sliced scallions
diced ripe tomatoes
diced cucumbers if you want
wine vinegar to taste
I made this once because it was all I had in the house and I was hungry. I stuck it in the fridge after munching on it and when I went back to have more... it was gone!!! Everyone in the house LOVED it.
Me, too. Have never watched any of those kinds of shows. nm
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Ice cream with any kinds of nuts in it
Black walnut, butter pecan, chocolate almond. My mouth is watering.
What kinds of things did you sell?...nm
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First off, what kinds of tests have the docs run???....sm
When my son Adam was 14, he came down with severe aches, light sensitivity, sore throat off and on, EXTREME FATIGUE, etc. His doctor suspected mono and did a Monospot to check this out, complete white count with diff, and also EB virus serologies. and Yup, he did have mono, it took a couple of months to get him over the worst. Lots of rest, good eating habits, and multivitamins is all you can do until the virus gets erradicated. And no contact sports or heavy activities, because the spleen gets very enlarged during mono and they worry about rupture with a blow, etc.
If no tests have been done, I would get a good pediatrician ASAP who will do a CBC with diff, white count, sed rate, UA, EBV serologies and Monospot, and get him diagnosed!! The ear thing may or may not be a part of this, could be a concurrent illness on its own, but if he has been this sick this long, "guessing" at the etiology is wasting time, you need to know for sure what exactly is wrong with your son to treat him properly.
Not trying to be an alarmist, but have raised two and my third is 11 right now so have been through the Streps, pneumonias, my third baby was born with vesicoureteral reflux and needed prophylactic antibiotics the first year of life (he outgrew it right after that, thank God, but we spent 8 days of he!! in the hospital as they put the 3-week old through spinal taps and ALL TYPES of tests, two weeks in hospital with my little girl at 5 years with severe double pneumonia, etc!). Hopefully, if it is mono/EBV, he will recover really quickly, but YOU also need to put your mind at rest, too! Take good care of each other, and update us, okay??? God Bless
I have bought different kinds, some have flavor and some do not (sm)
I can't remember if I have tried Spectrum or not. the one I have now is Nutiva and it says "A Deiciously Healthy Cooking Oil" on the front. I have had some like you are talking about and did not like that kind. Not sure how to tell before buying though.
My family made home-made mozzarella,
and it was very good. I was pretty small at the time, so I don't remember the exact process, just that it was done pretty quickly, and a lot of milk was used.
I don't know if you'll save a lot of money making your own cheese. The cost of milk is very high, too, and you need a lot of milk to make cheese.
Oh goodness, you all make up all kinds of stuff
now an overdose of antibiotics causing the yeast. Small little girls can have yeast infections. I just laughed when I saw the above where they were also caused by the fabric softners. I have had some in the past and guess what, I do not even use the fabric softners so back to the drawing board for these posters. I guess conspiracy.
Love puppies of all kinds! How precious yours must look
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All kinds were turning up their noses when I posted below and yet
this post I guess is considered very professional. What a big laugh.
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