Habitat ReStores
Habitat ReStores are outlets that accept donated goods for resale. While every ReStore is a little different, most focus on home improvement goods—furniture, home accessories, building materials and appliances. These donated goods are sold to the general public at a fraction of the retail price to help local affiliates fund the construction of Habitat homes within their communities. Materials sold by Habitat ReStores are usually donated by local retailers, contractors and individuals in the community. ReStores provide an environmentally and socially responsible way to keep good, reusable materials out of the waste stream and simultaneously provide funding for all of Habitat’s community improvement work.
P.S., Sorry about your mom.
~Sue
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What to do?
by wha happened? inmom left us on 8-22-09. her household is full of furniture.
what do i do with it?.
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The Caring Elders
by cantleave ini would be interested in your opinion of the following:.
a friend told me about an incident that had happened in a neighbouring congregation.
she told me that a sister from the congregation needed to get back to work after a meeting but discovered that she was boxed in.
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She asked an elder to ask if the people boxing her in could move their car.
And he disrespected her wishes and ruined her car. He needs to man-up and pay for the damage he caused, or step down as an elder. Personally I would call for both due to his cowardly cavalier attitude to her dilemma.
But truly, she is at fault: She willingly (and stupidly) handed over her keys to another driver. She defaulted to his manly "headship."Her mistake in judgement. But yeah, he's gotta pay, even if it's $10 a week until it's made right.
The very first thing my father told me, when I bought my first car as a teenager:
"Never hand your car keys to someone else. They didn't work for it, they didn't pay for it, and they'll never respect your property with the same care and attention you would. And don't be too quick to drive someone else's car, either. They'll find some old scratch or dent or sound or something and try to blame it on you."
Dad was a cop who dealt with the lowest-of-the-low scum sh*t elements of society all his life. I'm grateful he taught us how to avoid them, by taking personal responsibility for ourselves and our property. Mom the JW would just tell us "Forgive, and let anyone screw you over, Jehovah will take care of it all in the New System." A divided household had its advantages.
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What's for dinner tonight peeps?
by beksbks ini'm having spaghetti and meatballs, salad with blue cheese, and cabernet.
it's the antidote to turkey dinner/leftovers..
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quietlyleaving, I'm so new to having lamb, but I always enjoy it in restaurants. How do you marinate it?
Rather, what do you marinate it IN?
The one and only time I tried it at home, I rubbed it with garlic and rosemary and broiled it. It was just "okay" but nothing to repeat.
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What's for dinner tonight peeps?
by beksbks ini'm having spaghetti and meatballs, salad with blue cheese, and cabernet.
it's the antidote to turkey dinner/leftovers..
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Thanks, Josie. You're a sweetheart.
We planted him under a new plum tree directly out the kitchen window, so he's always with me when I'm cookin' and lookin'.~Sue
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What's for dinner tonight peeps?
by beksbks ini'm having spaghetti and meatballs, salad with blue cheese, and cabernet.
it's the antidote to turkey dinner/leftovers..
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A quickie meal: Near East Sesame Ginger rice with two fistfuls of fresh shrimp chucked in at the end. Yeah, I know, lame!
Didn't actually eat any because we just buried our cat yesterday and I'm still crying my eyes out so hard they look like this: + +
Took the ham bone Mr. B's SIL graciously gave us from Thanksgiving and made a humongous pot of split-pea stew fortified with carrots, celery, onions, garlic, thyme, rosemary and of course smoked ham... was just joking that he'll have to have it morning-noon-and-nite 'til it's all gone. (Actuallly, it freezes well so we'll have it on hand for other quickie meals at least thru Xmas.)
Slicing, dicing and cleaning-up took my mind off and made me feel a tad bit better. I tend to throw myself into cooking whenever I'm sad, it's so therapeutic and uplifting to be creative and feed others when you, yourself, are down.
If our Tuxedo-garbed Brooklyn Boy was still here, he would've been doing figure eights around my feet for the shrimp, then later on for the smoked ham. He loved to just sit by and watch me cook, because he always got some of whatever we were having.And it would have been PURE JOY to share with him again.
~Sue
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Pepsi schmepsy!
From "a hilltop in Italy" here's the real thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8&feature=related
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E-watchman website closing down.
by yadda yadda 2 inrobert king recently announced that his website, www.e-watchman.com, is going to close down because he no longer has the services of his administrator, and because the website has fallen to a lower google rating because of recent inactivity.
says he is moving everything to a blog..
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Hello everyone
As I mentioned on this forum a few days ago, I have lost the services of my webmaster. Which means that I must either find someone else who can do the html stuff or stop publishing on the site. I have decided to use a blog platform instead.
It has also come to my attention that because the e-w site has been dormant for so long that Google has dropped it from it's search results. So, in order to revive the domain I am going to point it to a new blog, which means everything on the present site will go offline and a new blog will come online with the e-watchman.com url.
I am porting over certain essays and commentaries and hosting them on the new blog as PDFs. But all of the mailbag archives will be gone, as well as many of the commentaries. Fortunately a lot of the material is the basis for the book anyway. I am also pulling the plug on the e-w.co.uk blog and JW news blog as well. Starting sometime next week everything I publish, including podcasts, videos and whatever else, will be on the e-w dot com blog.
As they say in the cheesy late night going-out-of-business commercials: "EVERYTHING MUST GO!"
So, if you want anything on the e-w sites, from essays to mailbag questions, graphics, you might want to grab them now. I think I might take a screen shot of e-w for sentimental reasons. Next week the site will be gone.
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New Atheist Group in NJ
by betterdaze intonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.
2nd wednesdays each month.
book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.
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Thanks, Sylvia, just downloaded the paper for my reading list. You saved me some Googling around!
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New Atheist Group in NJ
by betterdaze intonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.
2nd wednesdays each month.
book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.
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Bake sales, book clubs, warm oil massages, group orgies, semi-nude female pillow fights, man...that's the good stuff.
LOL! Sounds like you know a lot more about it than I do. Mr. Betterdaze will be thrilled.
Almost makes a man wanna give up his faith !!
No need to give it up. Faith in humanity to use reason, science and creativity to solve problems and improve lives. Works for myself and others who've thrown off the shackles of religious belief, or happily managed to avoid it altogether.
~Sue
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New Atheist Group in NJ
by betterdaze intonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.
2nd wednesdays each month.
book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.
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PSacramento, I don't think that's what we meant about volunteering.
But you're welcome to join us and "put it out there" for discussion.
~Sue