coastgirl
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I'm so far behind it's going to take a bit to catch up!
I'm planning on figuring a way to feed them through my printer. I can't write long hand anymore...
Thanks Angie...we bought the house thinking "septic's no big deal" and it's not, really, but it is one more "homeowner" thing hanging over our head. We had septic at our house in Victoria BC (not too far north from you) and it was never an issue...but it occured to me reading your post, it almost NEVER got really cold in Victoria, and here in NS...not so much...
Yep, the thing hanging over your head is that backing up scenario!!
We have a big post in the driveway, the previous owner said that's where the pump is, so I guess that's where we'd dig ("we" being dh of course!!). But it hasn't "alarmed" again since early Sat evening, so we're...um...ignoring it. 
I have a friend in Oregon whose daughter is enrolled in their virtual school, she loves it.
Her daughter is in the Talented and Gifted program and the bricks-and-mortar school just wasn't able to take good care of her...
I have a friend with a colonial-era home in MA. She has developed a mantra for such days: "I love my old house, I love my old house, I love my old house..."
I think we will start early this year just b/c we'll be gone for 2+ prime weeks in Dec. We don't get home until the 21 or 22, and I'm trying to figure out if we can still buy and decorate a real tree at that late date (they tend to be dried out by then, having been cut in early Dec...). It may just be the "kids' " fake tree in the family room this year, but at least we can decorate...
Ok, definitely "freak me out" time, but I think it's really great of them to take the time to help you out.
I just read that they have fireworks wagon rides at Ft Wilderness...not quite as fancy I'm sure, but sounds like fun. We did the campfire and movie program there last January (bundle up!) and it was so much fun.
Yep, that'd be me too...practical just doesn't apply to Christmas...and Hallowe'en, and Easter, and birthdays...
Hey Welcome!
Are you actually in the UK? I thought we were going to be the only "foreigners" trying to figure out those monochrome US bills! 
Ok, now I only have about 10 pages for reading and response...
That's a really good idea... turn the postcards into recipe cards. I was sitting here wondering how I'd do a recipe card. I wonder if there's a label size that would work for printing out the recipes then attaching to the postcards. I could hand write them, but I don't know if you'd be able to read them.
I'm planning on figuring a way to feed them through my printer. I can't write long hand anymore...
20 year septic owners here....we've had some experience but have no alarm. If it was recently pumped (in Oregon that is a requirement at sale) then it should not need pumped. [snip] They heard the WHOOSH! coming their way when they hit the blockage.
It did not, of course, come up into the pasture, but they sure thought they were gonna get it!
Or it might be the downpour although we have never had buckets of rain back ours up.
If you have to "dig it up", you don't really have to dig the whole thing up. Just have to dig a hole where the cover is so they can remove the cover to pump it out. [snip] Our pumping guys will NOT dig it up for you, no matter how you plead that you are an old lady and the ground is frozen.
Thanks Angie...we bought the house thinking "septic's no big deal" and it's not, really, but it is one more "homeowner" thing hanging over our head. We had septic at our house in Victoria BC (not too far north from you) and it was never an issue...but it occured to me reading your post, it almost NEVER got really cold in Victoria, and here in NS...not so much...
Yep, the thing hanging over your head is that backing up scenario!!
We have a big post in the driveway, the previous owner said that's where the pump is, so I guess that's where we'd dig ("we" being dh of course!!). But it hasn't "alarmed" again since early Sat evening, so we're...um...ignoring it. I have a friend in Oregon whose daughter is enrolled in their virtual school, she loves it.
Her daughter is in the Talented and Gifted program and the bricks-and-mortar school just wasn't able to take good care of her...Nothing in this house was standard when it was built!So, he has to figure out how to get that black pipe stuff unglued and put in a longer crook neck so it will match up with the drain from the sink. .
I have a friend with a colonial-era home in MA. She has developed a mantra for such days: "I love my old house, I love my old house, I love my old house..."
I wanted to put up some of the Christmas decorations this weekend too but my DW wouldn't let me.
I think we will start early this year just b/c we'll be gone for 2+ prime weeks in Dec. We don't get home until the 21 or 22, and I'm trying to figure out if we can still buy and decorate a real tree at that late date (they tend to be dried out by then, having been cut in early Dec...). It may just be the "kids' " fake tree in the family room this year, but at least we can decorate...
Ok, definitely "freak me out" time, but I think it's really great of them to take the time to help you out.
I just read that they have fireworks wagon rides at Ft Wilderness...not quite as fancy I'm sure, but sounds like fun. We did the campfire and movie program there last January (bundle up!) and it was so much fun.
Yep, that'd be me too...practical just doesn't apply to Christmas...and Hallowe'en, and Easter, and birthdays...
Hey Welcome!
Are you actually in the UK? I thought we were going to be the only "foreigners" trying to figure out those monochrome US bills! Ok, now I only have about 10 pages for reading and response...
Next Monday is a holiday, I work the 19th, I'm off the entire week of Thanksgiving to prepare for the hoards, and then we leave for WDW 
on Dec 2. 
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(just in case I forget!).
Our DS2 has been real clingy lately and cries profusely when we leave him in the child care area at the gym. He used to be okay but all of a sudden he has started pitching a fit. We were concerned that we would be able to leave him in Flounder's Reef during the daytime hours for the time that would be needed so we didn't want to risk the St. Maarten excursion and the $$$ involved. So we cancelled the excursion and moved the Flounder's Reef time to other days. Oh well, maybe next time when DS2 is a little older. 
