Re: Dazor UREKA!

Could be. My wrists aren't the strongest. I think it's also in the height of the person doing the pulling. I'm short and I suppose my center of gravity might be lower then whoever designed that door.

I will fess up and tell you what happened the last time they let me struggle with the door. A dozen eggs fell off the door when I finally got it opened and stumbled against it. My friends were not happy with me having to clean

Serves them right!

Cheryl

How true. How dare my friends actually allowing me to help clean up after a great meal. I think I'll have to remind them of that the next time I'm invited. That probably should read "If" I'm invited.

Snicker, snort

Basically, I feel the same way about being in this area. For many years, especially when I was travelling so much for work, and living overseas, I would say that if I have to be in the States, then DC is the place. We've always taken advantage of the museums, arts, etc. But, lately, I kind of kick myself about the move to the big house- at precisely the wrong time. It will take a while for this house to recoup it's value, but unlike some friends - we're not in an upside down mortgage at all. I accept the high dollar costs as part of being able to take advantage of all the other amenities.

DH is dealing with the commute - and that's not fun. However, I completely understand being happy here. I think the whole situation is kind of getting to me. I'm with you about the condos at Town Center. My folks loved it when they moved from the 'burbs to near downtown Miami - it was awesome. We have some acquaintance/friends (he's a big property guy - owns the local very nice ice rink in Ashburn) who sold their large house, and bought a condo downtown in DC. Says they're loving it - the kids are out of the hosue, the dogs are fine - just go on long walks around Penn Quarter. And now, they walk to the CAPS games.

We'll see - I'll be less grinch like once I have another job, and less fear of the next catastrophe. I don't think the $2 K repair on the Audi helped (in addition to the $1.7 K the insurance co. covered).

You do have the great situation with being able to work from home, and the nearby sitter service!

Ellice

You betcha! I wouldn't give that up for the world! Some days when life is extra crazy I get a bit overwhelmed, but then I tell myself how fortunate I am to have so many good things to juggle.

Best wishes, Ericka

How much do you pay for a dozen eggs?

Catherine

Up here we pay about 1.60 GBP for a dozen free range eggs

Wow - that's about the same as we pay US - well, a little less. Free range cost anywhere from $3.30 to $4 a dozen here in Northern Virginia. I expect if I were further out in the more rural area it's less to buy right at the farm. I miss a bit from the UK days, on the road to/from work there were a couple of farms selling free range eggs - my colleague's wife would frequently remind us to stop - it was so cute, the hens running around.

Ellice

We can see the hens scratching around in the fields on our way to the shop where their eggs are sold; guaranteed "free range". Delicious, strong-tasting eggs with bright yellow yolks, quite unlike the insipid things that we used to buy from supermarkets down south.

See, told ya' it's more pricey here. Cage-free, organic (not the ucky cage-free) are $4-$4.39 a dozen - depending on where you buy them. Non-organic, but cage-free - about $3.40.

Ellice

It's expensive. Groceries in the metro DC area are quite high, have been for many years. That was the prices at Wegman's, Harris-Teeter and Giant. Whole Foods, a bit more.

Ellice

Don't you feel bad cooking and eating their babies ??

Hope you are not paying more for brown eggs Vic, they are merely eggs from a different variety of chicken.

I would never pay for 'organic' eggs but I would pay more for cage-free chicken eggs but they are not available to me.

Heck no

Do you have a famers' market near you? Our has two farmers who sell "yard eggs". I checked, and they said that yes, it means their chickens run around the yard during the day and only go into the henhouse at night.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I'd like to think your doctors know of this plan ? Doesn't seem wise to me with your other problems.

I know that - lived on a poultry farm where the chickens ran free and where the hens for eggs did too. At the end of the day there were always a few stupidos who did not return to the coops and the labs would be sent out to pick them up and deposit them in the coops. Anyone not knowing what they were doing would have thought mayhem had arrived.