You assume my dogs are uneducated. All my dogs go to school once a week and have daily homework - usually several times, with hot dog treats. The problem with schools is they don’t have front doors with deer and squirrels waiting outside to tease you. And choke collars are not antiquated. They are required gear for…

How, using food, do you teach your dog to not bolt out the door when you open it? I have found a quick jerk on the choke chain with a specific verbal command trains the dog in about two tries. I’m more that willing to change my behavior to train with food, but how?

I liked my daughter’s TaoTronics headphones so much I stole them from her to replace my aging Paww set. Of course I replaced hers with the slightly more modern TaoTronics.

I liked my daughter’s TaoTronics headphones so much I stole them from her to replace my aging Paww set. Of course I r…

I recently discovered a recipe using lemon peels. Peel (vegetable peeler) the yellow skin from 5 lemons and cover with 1 cup of sugar. Let it sit for 2-3 hours to extract the juices and oils from the skins. Then boil 1 to 1.25 quarts of water, take off the heat, and slide the skins into the hot water. Allow to cool…

The point you missed is that you cannot know you are not carrying the disease unless you have completely vetted all your personal contacts and all their personal contacts. This is similar to how AIDS became a worldwide problem seemingly overnight.

Ten years ago there was a movement called Guerilla Drive-Ins. Some geeks in a community would invest in a projector and FM radio transmitter and all show up at a secret location every week or so to watch a movie projected on the white(ish) side of a building or concrete overpass. They’d all tune the radios in their…

OhhhhhhooooHHHHoooo! What about when you reach the impractical limit of getting ranch dressing out of the bottle? Maybe a splash of vinegar to rinse the dressing out and then over the chicken???

IF you’re not sick. We just spent a week with our daughter home from college. She wasn’t sick. And the weekend prior she spent with 6 of her friends. None of them was sick. As of today 5 of the girls are sick and have tested positive for COVID, yes, including our little darling. While she was home and wasn’t sick, she…

Get a Jack Russell Terrier...or a mink. 

Masking tape for me.

Masking tape for me.

Both.  We have wood-look tiles on one wall with a darker grout.  The rest is white. 

I bumped into Google’s 500-song play limit a few years ago. Dumped Google Music and use another player, (Musicolet for what it’s worth). 

I’ve had good luck cleaning grout with Clorox Toilet Cleaner. It goes on as a runny gel and does not evaporate for a long time, thus giving the chlorine longer dwell time on the grout.

The title for this is incorrect. It should read, How to keep a plant alive indoors. Mother Nature didn’t make indoor plants. She did make shade tolerant plants which can be grown indoors much of the time. So the number 1 rule of growing any plant is to choose a plant adapted to the environment. You don’t grow citrus…

What would happen if we had the kind of emergency we all expected during the Cuban Missile Crisis?? 

I was going to ask about that.  Thanks.  Does the yeast change over time like sourdough does? 

How do you know what time zone they are in?  My wife missed one yesterday because it was EDT and not our time zone CDT. 

With regard to huge storage on the OnePlus phones: Back when they came out I got a OnePlus 3 phone with 64GB of storage. I have all the apps I need, over 800 songs, and take a lot of pictures. Still it has not reached half capacity yet.

That’s nice in theory. Here’s real life. You taste your French fries and decide they need more salt. Then, without washing your hands, you grab the salt shaker with your now-greasy hands and apply what you think is enough. Then your friend does the same. If you decide you need still more salt, you ask your friend to…

My dog’s chipped name is Backpack.  We renamed him Casey.  It seems like it costs money to change the chip registries.  Anyone have a way around that?