Maryanne

Honestly, Babycenter is pretty good about banning that kind of nonsense. (It gets a bad rap for sounding like Mumsnet, but it's actually okayish.) If someone tried that on Bargain Hunters (chaotic catch all board there), it would get mocked into oblivion and then tagged as spam and deleted by mods.

Congratulations! Well deserved.

Ah yes. I'll have to go and buy a 20 pass before it's gone. (I like the flexibility of the bulk passes instead of the limits of the monthly rec family pass; it's hard to get a family to the pool more than 8 times a month, to make it pay for itself.) At least the 10 pass option is still there.

I can't find this online: are the prices for the 20 bulk admissions blank in future years because they're phasing out that option, or are they keeping the price the same? (Deciding whether I have to fill up our family pass immediately.)

😮 I love this so much!

Casino Regina! Which is so much less exciting of a venue.

I have tickets to see them in November, and the new album is getting me so hyped up about it. I love Sloan SO much.

I love that their matching outfits make them look like they are wearing uniforms for the tiniest moving company.

Costco has good ones (I saw a study that said their relative accuracy rate is 97.1%) for a reasonable price per test: www.costco.ca/medsup-covid...

I did a search for those tiny ones, and I think that might be the size of the Wilton round candles (like the 2.5" Wilton round rainbow candles, which are primary colours).

I can only find those candles at the dollar store these days (plus sometimes in random spots at my grocery store).

Based on the "What's for dinner" threads on Babycenter: crockpot meals, prepared stuff from Costco, meal kits, one pot and sheet pan meals. A lot of grocery store rotisserie chickens (I eat a lot of those too, as an urban Canadian, because they're so inexpensive).

This is the trouble with most sour cherries too, but I've found that my pitters do the job pretty well (especially the hopper style one). I'll bet the electric one will handle them too.

Cherry pitters and similar unitaskers forever! Alton B is wrong about those. I own two cherry pitters now with zero regrets. (OXO good grips one that does 6 at a time, and this fancy German hopper plunger kind, both of which can handle the cherries from my Evans sour cherry tree.)

I'm so sorry. What heartbreaking news.

If it's more of a greyish blue, they could be passed off as the elvish cloaks that they got in Lothlorien. But I just did a quick word search through LOTR and can't find a colour specified for their original hobbit cloaks, and so there's no reason to say they aren't blue.

Good for you! And at that price, you might as well take the family to BC.

I'm SO MAD about this. They haven't announced anything like that for us in SK yet, but we all know that they're always following Alberta.

What?? I've had vague notions about 18mo olds being in preschool in the US, but this is so confusing. Here, daycare is daycare and preschool is preschool (although some daycares run preschools), and the main confusion is between preschool and pre-K (which is run by schools).

Yeah, it's weird if 2 year olds are being called preschoolers, if that's what people are pushing you to do. But preschool doesn't start until 3-4 where I live. I say "baby" until 1 or 2-sh, and "toddler" until they start preschool at 3 or 4.

I did literally the same thing when mine was a toddler, with the same result.

And then, a couple of weeks later, while it was still a heat wave? I tried to figure out if she still fit last season's snow suit, threw it on her without thinking, and YOU'LL NEVER GUESS what happened next.

I'm certain of it. I buy the cheap tape off Amazon, and it's identical to the tape for my mom's old label maker, and to the tape I sold at an office supply store 25 years ago. 3/8 embossing labeller tape is universal.

Yesss! I got my kid an old school Dymo embossing label maker for her 10th birthday and it was the best choice. Those things are awesome, and the refill tape is incredibly cheap and easy to get.

My brother-in-law, when he was a toddler, tried to get out of the car because he saw a golden eagle. "I'm gonna go scare that bird!" My MIL locked the car and drove away, telling him that THAT bird could carry him away.

It's not good!!

I think it's more likely the seed company's fault. It seems pretty common, based on r/gardening evidence. I once had a bit of chervil seed in with my packet of parsley seed, and didn't notice until the accidental addition of chervil turned a stew very bitter.

It might be? It also looks like a dark version of nemophilia (baby blue eyes). I wonder if a single seed of something else got into the packet.

I think you'd like the 70s books that were lent us while our daughter was small: a bunch by John Vernon Lord (I mostly remember The Giant Jam Sandwich), as well as My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton. (Newer-ish book rec: the rhythm in The Gruffalo is satisfying to read aloud.)

It's the weirdest! I first heard about this from a Texan friend who was complaining about the summer being too hot for tomato ripening. Who knew that my home in Saskatchewan, Canada would be the optimal tomato ripening environment (other than the short growing season).

I'm a giant nerd and checked the Portland weather report, compared to extension resources about tomatoes, and I'm seeing highs there above 85F, which is the point where tomato ripening comes close to temporarily halting. They'll catch up at soon as it cools off slightly.