Speaking of pictures.....

• Anyone into family genealogy - Historian
  • Yes, my sister does it, and - Misha
  • Genealogy - sm
    • Where do you go for this info? - Curious about past
      • This may be a little late but hope you read the post and it helps - Historian
      • mother started with a story from her - good luck to you
  • one thing I noticed is now we are - linda
    • Speaking of pictures..... - sm

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I am hoping some of you who were unfortuante enough to have to deal with severe water in your homes can give me some ideas.

We had a flood in our basement a few years ago.  Everything was up off the floor.  Our basement is generally dry.  However, when I was cleaning a week ago I came across a box of pictures that I had no idea were left down there.  They had gotten stuck together.  I have tried putting them in a food dehydrator, using silicone packets in the box, but so far nothing has helped.  These were mostly baby pictures of our adopted daughter so it is especially heartbreaking for me. 

Does anyone have any ideas how I can get these dried out and apart?  I'll try anything.  The negatives are long gone.

These are really, really funny!

http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/ordinary_stars

I'd love to see all the little details on them...must be just amazing to look at.  I sure do love sparkly things! 

I think I've seen replicas for sale, like on QVC or even E-Bay if you ever wanted to start collecting.  Have no clue how much even fake stuff would go for.  Even if they're just covered in crystals, I'll bet they're still expensive.  I've always wanted to collect those silly little crystal animals and things you see in Hallmark stores.  Oh the way they catch those lights!  I visited a Swarovsky crystal place in some mall once and I was just mesmorized....oh the sparklies! 

Has anyone recently changed 35 mm slides into pictures? Do you know who can do it?  I just found loads of slides from my honeymoon 28 years ago.  I forgot my husband and I used to take slides. 

TIA

$300,000? I just heard where certain magazines might pay this price. Whatca think about this? Lets see, this baby is Tripp- then there is Trig, Trap, all those cutesy names.

One time about 5 years ago, I was driving on the interstate, my SO now DH riding with me.  Was just passing the rear of a trucker, cars behind me so there were witnesses to this and I couldn't just slam on my brakes, put on his signal and tried to pull out anyway.  Since I was already passing him, kept going, and he ran me off the road to the center.  Pulled back on and continued to pass him, had his window open and flipped me off.  I didn't see it because I was trying to control the car, but the funny part was my DH (SO) rolling down the window and hanging out giving him a double one back all the way until I got in front of the truck.  I said WHAT is going on!!  He told me the bas%$@d flipped you off.  Come on, they're high enough up to see there's a car right in front of them they want to pass.  I told SO I'm slowing down and get that guy's plate number so I can report him.  He slowed WAY down and stayed so far back that I finally gave up... Guess he wasn't in such a hurry after all.  We still laugh about my husband's ~chivalry~ that day, him hanging out there giving him the double what for!  Wish I had a pic of that for posterity

Not dissing truckers here, my own brother was one for quite a while and have had a couple who stopped to help me and went out of their way when I had a flat tire on the interstate one time in rush-hour traffic on Friday afternoon.  My brother said that was really nice of them because it's money out of their pocket, but he did always say to report truckers who are playing games because it's so dangerous.

DS (15 yrs old) came home from school yesterday and I asked him what was new. He said the usual - "Not much."

Then.... "Oh, yeah, we learned how to put on a condom in sex class."

I about fell over!!!! Apparently, the teacher had a ... uh... plastic "subject" and she asked for a volunteer to come up and apply the condom to the ... uh... model. And it's called "Health class," but he refers to it as "sex class."

Whatever happened to food fights in school????

No, seriously, I'm glad they learn this stuff. You know what they say, "The More You Know...!"

There are online websites documenting how many men versus women in each city of this country and the number of women today far outweigh the number of men......

jes sayin'............. 

One time quite awhile ago I was pushing my youngest through the mall in his stroller.  There were two boys goofing around in the middl of the mall with the parents right nearby.  I had to stop suddenly because one of the darlings wasn't watching where he was going and fell over the stroller.  I said, "Excuse me!" with just a bit of sarcasm and the father had the nerve to yell at ME because I was rude.  I then informed him that his kid was the rude one and kept walking.  That one still makes me shake my head.

what kind of lettuce/other green leafy stuff do you like when you order/make a salad?

A couple of times I've gone in restaurants and they have brought me a salad that looked like they went out back and pulled weeds. Now, I love veggies, but that's some scary stuff. I'm simple..I just want iceberg lettuce!...then I can add other goodies that I can identify.

I have only met one (1) pit bull in my life.  It was very pleasant, wanted to be petted, and never hostile.  What I did notice is how muscular it was and I remember thinking that I wouldn't want that dog to snap at me.  All dog breeds are capable of being aggressive (especially if there is a dominance issue), but some breeds are more muscular and less *intidimated* by humans than other breeds.   It seems to me (dog experts, please correct me) it would be easier to pull a Yorkie or a Cocker Spaniel off an attacked person than a pit bull.  I don't know how that applies to bigger breeds like labs or retrievers. 

However, my humble opinion does not make up for the fact that you could face the loss of a loved family pet.  I hope it works out for you.

Anyone remember how the old stores were when there were 'Main Streets'? Remember the wood floors and the merchandise in wooden bins on tables? Remember the cookies and candy they sold that was all encased in glass? No escalators, and only the best stores had elevators? Elevators with a man asking 'what floor'?, elevators that creaked and had criss cross bars across the front, instead of doors that closed? Evening in Paris perfume for our mom's at Christmas, Old Spice or hankies with his initial on them for dad? Remember when all you could use was cash? And of course, those wonderful lunch counters? I remember one of them sold sardine sandwiches! Anyone remember?