“so check if you have animals you’re bringing with you”

We don't have a savings account. Just checking. But BOA standard savings account interest rate is .01%. A 7 or 13 month CD is 4.51%.

In reality, it won’t matter a whole lot. The national average rate on savings accounts is .42%, or $42 on a $10000 balance. If they raise this by .25%, it will be .525%. Or $52.50 on a $10000 balance. Whooppee!

I can think of only one place in the kitchen to avoid placing the microwave. On the same electric circuit as the refrigerator. If the microwave is on when the fridge cycles on, it can trip your circuit breaker.

If these are the best of the contest, I'm glad I wasn't one of the judges. Having to wade through hundreds (thousands?) of mediocre images. I wouldn't call any of these outstanding.

Is this Washington DC, or Washington State? That could make a big difference.

All 5 seasons of Babylon 5 got me hooked.

You can also, after all is up and running, use an app called Wintoys. With it you can easily disable or uninstall several Windows processes that you don’t need that slow things down. I’ve got an older laptop that kept saying 100% disc usage with Windows 10. Nothing I tried fixed it. After playing around with Wintoys,…

It looks like you keep the doors attached. Only the shelves are removed.

I guess it would be a good thing for some people. But that is a lot of wasted space. We have 4 times as many plates and bowls on one shelf in our kitchen.

The trick about ants, is to make your kitchen ant proof. Put EVERYTHING edible by them into sealed containers. It doesn't have to be much. Ziploc bags work fine. Any kind of meal, of anything sweet. Salty snacks, don't worry about. They won't eat them. If you do have ants, follow the trail, see where they go. They…

Wrap a big fat rubber band tightly around your wallet. This makes it much, much harder to get out of you pocket.

Cool article.

First time I ever bought gas, it was 19 cents a gallon. Of course, I was only making $1.25 an hour. That would have been in 1959. That's about $1.99 in today's money.

Maybe because everyone is lying to hide the real facts?

Just find a scenic river close to you that has canoe rentals, and go for a family camping trip. I'd recommend the best one near me, but there are already too many people.

We should talk to Tricki Woo about that.

Hay, Claire. Do you know why Eagle Brand is so expensive?

She’s getting too old to bother with them now. But our Momma Chihuahua used to have great fun finding beetle grub worms. She would walk around the yard with her nose down in the grass. Sniff, sniff, sniff. Scratch, scratch, scratch. Chomp, chomp, chomp. Repeat.

“If you’re skinny dipping for the health benefits free vitamin D, among others, according to this article,”