I FEEL YOU on the nails thing — this was a $7 pool from K-Mart and has lasted three summers now with no punctures. My pup is pretty dainty with his feet so ymmv but honestly for that little I’d say go for it!

I live in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — I was surprised at how well fruit grows here, but it's actually a really nice climate and a lot milder than I thought North Idaho would be. And holy guacamole you should see our grape arbors. I have no idea what I will do with them this fall. I need a friend who has a huge vat for…

Just wanted to share a photo of my pug who helped me pick cherries in the back yard today. We have so many cherries this year the branches are sagging!

Unsurprisingly, good ol’ fishface up there also voted against the Violence Against Women Act a couple years ago. Mitch McConnell: always thinkin’ ‘bout the babies, never about the women.

I originally started my career as an art teacher. My school district would host quarterly staff in service days where we would meet up with other teachers in our same content area to learn new teaching techniques or skills, and I always enjoyed these because it was a rare opportunity to catch up with a friend who…

I wish I had an answer for you, but this thing is 70 years old and takes a type of battery that is apparently no longer made!

I respect your taste in celebrity crushes!

Check out Pappy’s in Kellogg next time you make the drive (that’s the one mentioned above with the really weird basement)! There is also a good one on Cameron Ave, right off the interstate, but not remembering the name. You can’t really go wrong in Kellogg. Don’t bother with any in Wallace, they have admittedly cooler…

I totally feel you on that. It’s like, crush on whoever you want, but understand I will be silently judging your choice! I mean why can’t anyone ever have a crush on someone less expected, like Faye Dunaway or Iman or something? A celebrity crush on a generic pop star just seems boring, but to each their own I guess!

Here’s to irrational celebrity crushes! Mine are Robert Mitchum and Adrien Brody, for no gosh darn good reason, so it's not like I have unimpeachable taste either.

Ugh, Katy Perry is my husband’s “celebrity crush,” which is SUCH a disappointment to me. She is definitely beautiful but so boring that I seriously mentally question his taste in women (and by extension, myself) whenever it’s brought up. I mean, for a dude that has excellent taste otherwise (bought me a Geiger counter…

Ooh can I play? My job involves summer travel too; however, I usually find myself in small, rural towns. Those thrift stores are always my favorite because they aren’t picked over as quickly and tend to have some amazing deals. Here are my finds from last week in the ID Silver Valley region (a GREAT area for…

Do you have any close family or friends who can help and give you a break when you need one? I don’t have kids myself but have worked in education with students from K-12 for a decade now and have a great amount of respect for parents of children with these kind of behavior issues. I’m not an expert but I do know that…

Vodka and beer are about all I can handle. Beer fills me up before I can get too silly, and I tend to drink vodka with enough club soda that I mostly avoid any hangovers.

Omg, I have fresh mint and cucumbers on hand! Totally drinking this tonight!!

Holy guacamole, quinoa vodka??? I live in N. Idaho so we don’t have a Whole Foods (or any way to buy alcohol outside of state-run liquor stores) so that is equally mind-blowing. We have a ton of local potato vodka micro-distilleries in the southern part of the state, but none up here. If there was a way to make vodka…

Hey y’all, does anyone have any good drink recipes for cilantro vodka? I inherited a bottle from a recent party I attended, and while it has been excellent in this morning’s Bloody Mary, I’m thinking there has to be a good mojito or citrus summer cocktail in there somewhere. Thanks and I hope everyone is having a…

Yeah as someone who lives pretty close to Spokane, fuck Spokane. It has to be the stabbing capitol of the NW; it seems like every week there is a new “Spokane stabber!” story in the news. Along with the super conservative population, zombie-apocalypse-like feel of most of the city, and “designated prostitution zone”…

I know this is kinda mean, but whatever: Jim Bob has always reminded me of a ham wearing a toupee. There is just something about his face that is so ham-like.

That toothbrush holder looks like something made in an Intro to Ceramics course. Lumpy, impractical, and “artsy-random-brushstroke” of a glaze that doesn’t really work with anything else.