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Post by maryland on Jul 23, 2023 21:21:22 GMT
How big is your friend's house? Do you know if they have empty bedrooms or guest rooms? If we had extra space, we wouldn't mind hosting for a few days. My biggest problem with people staying with us is the food/meal planning. I am not a good cook or host, haha!
I don't like staying at other peopoles houses, I prefer to stay at a hotel so we can get away after a visit. But that's just me!
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Post by maryland on Jul 14, 2023 22:52:44 GMT
Some real estate agents help with such things. If she is going to be at a hospital, it may be that the hospital can give her some names. Our GD will have a rotation in Brooklyn and someone from her school connected her to an apartment that rents to the residents who are rotating through. I did suggest my daughter reach out to former students and the school to see if they have any recommendatons. The school has not been helpful at all, so it's frustrating. My middle daughter's university was great for nursing student rotations, they were all local.
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Post by maryland on Jul 14, 2023 20:50:04 GMT
Thanks everyone! We did look at furnished finder and air bnb and they are pretty expensive. The problem is, she said she needed to renew her lease on her apt. at school because she may have rotations in the area. But that was in May. She just got her rotations and no more are in her area, so she will have to pay two rents from Aug. through next May.
So she will have to figure something out, she may just have to spend more money that she planned. They had campsites, but she had no interest in that, haha! She may just have to not take her pets (family could keep her cats) or agree to share a room in a house. I wish there were "realtors" that you could hire to help you find places, as we are having trouble (and it's probably just being inexperienced with this type of thing).
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Post by maryland on Jul 14, 2023 2:32:45 GMT
i am a lot younger than them, and traveling gives me anxiety. I also get nervous about leaving my dog. So I totally understand their reasons for not traveling. If I travel, I prefer to driveel alone so I can stop as much as I want, haha!
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Post by maryland on Jul 13, 2023 20:11:27 GMT
We have friends who did a three month stay at an AirBnb. They found an AirBnB in a city they liked, then contacted the owner to see about an extended stay at a reduced rate. The owner agreed and they singed a contract for a 3 month stay for 50%(ish) percent of the original listing price. The owners were thrilled to have renters for 3 months and our friends were happy they didn't have to bounce around when they were in one city for an extended period. Maybe something like that will work for your daughter. Good luck to her. Great idea, thanks so much!
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Post by maryland on Jul 13, 2023 20:01:10 GMT
My daughter has to do a rotation for grad school and she will need a place to stay for 3 months. We have tried looking for extended stay hotels / air bnbs but having never done this before, I am having trouble. Any tips for those who have done this before? She does have 2 cats that she would like to take with her if possible.
Any advice on searching? Martinsburg WV area.
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Post by maryland on Jul 12, 2023 11:35:49 GMT
I got the paperwhite on sale at Target in March 2020 because I worried that the libraries would be closed. I didn't use it as much as I should have, but it does take me a long time to get used to something new and I am tech challenged. I got tired of always asking my kids to help me with it so I think I just gave it away to a friend. Then I heard about the oasis and got it a couple years ago on prime day. I have very bad up close vision, so the only way I can read with my contacts in is on a kindle where I can enlarge the print. So the oasis slightly bigger size is part of the reason I wanted it. I have finally started to read on it all the time and it's really handy! I love the buttons as I would constantly do something wrong on the paperwhite and jump forward several pages. But I also can't text well (I juse the speaker function any time I need to use my phone) , so it's probably all me! haha
The battery life on my oasis is much shorter than the paperwhite that I had. If I am at the beach and reading a lot, I charge it every day (just so I have full charge). The paperwhite battery lasted much longer. The oasis battery does charge quickly when I charge it.
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Post by maryland on Jul 6, 2023 20:35:46 GMT
I’m having a great reading year so far. I’ve read 64 books so far with 14 of them receiving 5 Stars from me. Here’s my 5-star list for this year, with hopefully more to come……. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Only One by Riley Sager The Whispers by Ashley Audrain Drowning by TJ Newman No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay The Vanishing of Margaret Small by Neil Alexander All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham The Housemaids Secret by Freida McFadden The Maid by Nita Prose A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham The Hiking Trip by Jenny Blackhurst Imposter by Bradeigh Godfrey Can’t wait to look thru this thread and add more to my TBR List ! THANKS gottapeanow Thanks! I just bought kindle version of The Hiking Trip by Jenny Blackhurst for 99cents on Amazon. Thanks for sharing the 99 book! I always love mnmloveli recommendations! So I went and bought it also!
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Post by maryland on Jul 6, 2023 19:43:27 GMT
No, I am the one that talks to much with tv shows and movies (not at the theater but when watching at home).
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Post by maryland on Jul 6, 2023 19:42:33 GMT
I hate to menu plan (I can never think of ideas) so I usually go every day/every other day. Walmart is 10 min. away and a grocery store is 5 min. away.
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Post by maryland on Jun 26, 2023 19:05:33 GMT
I would go. How far is the drive from the party to where you will be spending the rest of the time? Could you go Thursday night to Duluth and stay that night and leave after the party? It will be a 2 hour drive back to our cabin. I'm just going to say it-I don't want to spend money on a hotel. Linda would be the first one to say she couldn't afford it. My DH wants to go to our cabin Thursday like normal, then drive up to the party for a couple hours, then drive back later that day. This sounds like a good idea!
If it wasn't in the budget for taking off work and staying at a hotel, I wouldn't do it and wouldn't feel guilty about it. We are at the point now that we spend so much making others happy and we want to do things/spend money for around our house that make us happy. So I prefer to say no to other things and spend the money the way we need to (lots of houses repairs for us). But if it was easily in the budget and we didn't have other plans, we would probably go and have fun with friends.
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Post by maryland on Jun 25, 2023 21:08:41 GMT
We did one with Embark where we did it ourselves at home. The vet recommended that brand. But we were really surprised, we thought our dog was pit bull mix with lab or great dane. He was pretty big, 84 pds and reminded us of my brother's great dane. But it said he was 70% pit bull, 20% chow chow and the rest super mutt. I wanted to do another one, but they are expensive.
Our neighbors used wisdom and the vet did it.
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Post by maryland on Jun 18, 2023 18:32:25 GMT
I shop at Walmart all the time as they have the best prices in our area. They have never asked, but I would be happy to show my receipt. We have a lot of shop lifting at our store.
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Post by maryland on Jun 18, 2023 2:13:17 GMT
She is beuatiful! So happy you found her!
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Post by maryland on Jun 17, 2023 0:26:28 GMT
I hope your dog is doing better!
I have never had a vet call our pets kiddo. I don't even call kids kiddo, so I'm glad it is not used by our vet.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 23:39:04 GMT
It's been just the carpets so far. I have sprayed an enzyme cleaner after using a carpet cleaner, but we bought a new enzyme cleaner today to try. We have to replace the rugs in our house (we have been needing to for years!) so maybe that will help.
You will probably not only have to get rid of the rugs but also you need to get rid of the padding. Add to that the fact that the scent will go into the floor below. My dog was doing that and we kept replacing the carpet and padding but then pulled back the area rug and realized he was marking because of the scent in the hardwood floor. The hardwood was BLACK from all of his marking. We had to tear up some of the hardwood and then replaced it, bought a new area rug, new padding and put a plastic tarp between the area rug and the padding. He hasn't marked there since. It didn't matter what we sprayed or used to clean the area. Once it gets into the flooring, that's it. Yes, when we get new carpet, we have to tear out everything. I rented a carpet cleaner several years ago, and somehow ruined our carpets. Now when we get them cleaned, rust colored stains appear. The only thing we can think of is the padding is ruined. So we are getting new padding, new carpet and whatever else they recommend at the carpet store. Hope it helps!
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 15:12:27 GMT
I have to use a diaper (belly band) on my male. My female will use pee pads but my male will only use the pee pads for #2, he will readily mark the house all day long if I'm not home. My DH used to call it 'rage pee' as in he gets mad if we leave him at home. When I renovated, I took all the rugs out of the house and put down LVP, I will say removing the rugs helped but now I have trust issues so if I'm leaving the house for more than a quick errand, the diaper goes on. He hates it which I think has also cut down on the marking. When I'd find spots he marked, the diaper went on so the diaper is associated with the marking now. I was joking that we may have to get diapers for him in the house. Our former dog, a large German Shepherd, had degenerative mylopathy so she was incontenint for 8 months. We had to express her bladder and bowels and have her in a diaper when we had to pick her up to move her or take her for a walk in her wheelchair. So we bought a lot of diapers!
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 15:09:29 GMT
Please don’t think it’s irredeemable. We had a Cairn terrier who had been a stud at a puppy mill and was recently rescued and neutered when we got him. EVERYTHING about living in a house was new to him and it was a challenge for a while. I would STRONGLY encourage crate training. (We couldn’t with him because of his past circumstances.) But he wore a belly band in house, we had him on a strict schedule, and we tethered him to whomever was home - much like training a puppy. With him, there was the extra challenge of having such short legs that he could lift a leg without any warning signs lol But we got there and after a few months he was 100% reliable in the house. He was potty trained for actual elimination within days but marking took a lot longer to totally extinguish. BUT WE DID, and had him for 12 happy years. He came from extreme conditions and lived in them for six years, so I wouldn’t expect it to take as long in your situation. Thank you, this gives me hope! I was in tears all night and didn't sleep.
We don't know much about his past as he was brought in through Humane Investigations. But the humane society posts pictures of the adoptions. So this woman messaged me on facebook after she saw the picture of us with her dog. She said the dog was dumped on her street and the previous owner drove off. So she tried to take him in but he dog and her dogs didn't get along. So her MIL tried to take the dog but he was too much for her (she didn't say why but he was pretty crazy and hi energy the first few days we had him). So they took him to the humane society.
So hopefully it will work out with this dog. We are taking him to day care every week to get socialization and play time with other dogs. We went to three different day cares and he passed the evaluation with each. With our favorite day care, they told me it usually takes 3 evaluations before they "pass" and he passed on the first time. So we learned that his aggression on walks is leash aggression not dog aggression, as he plays so well with other dogs at daycare.
Thank you for giving me hope for this dog!
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 14:58:08 GMT
I had a boxer that did and basically your screwed. Brings more pets into the house is only make it worse. If he hasn’t been neutered, getting him neutered might help. My boxer had been neutered. He is marking is territory, any new scent will cause him to remark that spot. That's really scary. He was neutered after Humane Investigations brought him to the shelter. That was in January. I think my husband and I need to make a decision about what to do if we can't stop the marking. That's just not something that we could deal with as we have to travel a lot and we can't have him ruining our house or our parents houses (we have to stay with them as they are out of town and we visit often). I hope that is not the case with us, but thanks for the warning. We do need new carpet throughout the house, but maybe we will get vinyl floor as it would be easier to clean up. I worry about the mess with hardwood or the grout with tile floor.
I am going to call a few new trainers to see if they could help us. I don't know anyone who has had this problem and I know so many that have dogs, so this isn't something I expected.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 13:26:53 GMT
This is really depressing. I don't know what to do about the dog. I thought we were past the marking, but our kids have cats, and they will only visit if they can bring their cats (2 of our kids have 1-2 cats and live out of town, so they have to bring cats and we love their cats!).
I may contact a few trainers and the humane society we got him from and see if they have any ideas to help us. I hadn't planned to get a male dog, but we are very limited in selection in our area and it's pretty much all pit bulls at the humane societies, and we couldn't use a breeder as my husband does not want a puppy. In this dog's bio it said he would love a dog or cat sibling. I was so excited as I wanted to rescue another dog (when a female of a particular breed) became available as well as adopt a female cat.
Maybe we will have to crate him when we can't supervise him.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 2:04:13 GMT
I agree that he’s marking old spots. Is he marking rugs, carpet, or hard flooring? If you can, pour vinegar on the spot and leave it for at least 15 minutes. But know that vinegar is an acid and can etch a surface. It's been just the carpets so far. I have sprayed an enzyme cleaner after using a carpet cleaner, but we bought a new enzyme cleaner today to try. We have to replace the rugs in our house (we have been needing to for years!) so maybe that will help.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 2:02:50 GMT
First, have any medical issues been ruled out? Second, do you know if he was reliably house trained previously? Third, he's a scent hound. I've never had one, but my gut is that is the real issue here, combined with your home being the first place he's lived post-neutering. Marking can be a pretty common behavior in response to scents and your fella can smell *everything.* I'm afraid I have no advice because I don't have any experience with scent hounds, and though I'm not sure that's the underlying issue, I strongly suspect it's a big contributor. I'd look for some online rescue groups for plott hounds or other scent hounds and ask members if they have any advice. I'd wager you're not the first to deal with this. Thank you for your response. We have taken him to the vet, but not to be checked for a uti as he can hold it all night. But I may just send them an email to ask. I am in a plott hound facebook group, so that's a great idea to ask them. I should have researched the breed before adopting him, but we were really limited in the dog we adopted, and he fit most of our criteria. We have only had 2 German Sheperds in the past so that's the only breed I am familiar with.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 1:57:55 GMT
I don't even know what an alexa does (although I am familiar with the term), haha! We have the Echo Dots in 4 rooms of our house. I use it mostly to listen to music or if I need to know something. "Alexa, how old is such and so actor?" Also, DH's office/painting studio is downstairs and my craft room is upstairs so we use it for an intercom. Now I'll use her as an alarm clock! That's a great idea to use it as in intercom when you are in different rooms!
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 0:17:18 GMT
Great question! I have so many books that I want to delete from my kindle oasis but don't know how. It is confusing for me I am bad with technlogy! But I will try this! I need to learn how to use it because I still take a ton of books on trips as I am afraid I will not figure out how to get my kindle to work. So it defeats the purpose of my kindle.
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Post by maryland on Jun 15, 2023 0:08:34 GMT
We adopted a 3 yr. old male plott hound dog 3 months ago. It's going pretty well, but he is so bad about marking (peeing in the house). It is usually in the room where my visiting daughter and her cat stay or where the litterbox was kept. He did it today and the cat hasn't been here for a few weeks. I have cleaned it with the carpet cleaner and sprayed the enzyme cleaner (when he has done it in the past) but it doesn't seem to help. He wasn't neutered until he was brought to the humane society in January, so not sure if that has any thing to do with it.
I am hoping to adopt second dog (female) in the next few months but I worry that the marking would get worse. I want to try to solve this problem first.
We have never had this issue before with our past dogs, and it's frustrating. We had a trainer but we had to address more serious issues first and our trainer is taking some time off, so we have no one to help us at the moment. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Post by maryland on Jun 14, 2023 23:58:17 GMT
Why can’t he set the alarm? It is his golf appointment. I knew someone would ask this. The alarm clock is on my bedside table so it's just easier for me to set it. He cleans the bathrooms and vacuums/cleans all the flooring so he does his share. That's great! My husband and I each do things for other too! I don't even know what an alexa does (although I am familiar with the term), haha!
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Post by maryland on Jun 10, 2023 23:24:30 GMT
I would tell her I would try my best to keep it a secret, but in doing so, you can't tell the family, so the house may not be "company ready". My brother and I would give up our beds when relatives stayed with us, and that never bothered us, as it was fun for us to sleep in the basement! But my kids aren't as fond at giving up beds (so grandparents can't visit us).
Congratulations on your son's graduation! I hope it all works out with the surprise!
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Post by maryland on Jun 8, 2023 22:45:35 GMT
That was very inconsiderate to everyone exposed. I hope your mother in law feels better soon!
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Post by maryland on Jun 6, 2023 19:50:45 GMT
Accuweather.com has a link called "Health & Activities" that shows respiratory air quality for people with asthma, as well as air quality & any current alerts for your region. For my area (East of Washington, DC near the Chesapeake Bay) today, it shows Likelihood of Asthma as High, Dust and Dander as High, Air Quality as Poor, and a State Air Quality Alert in effect until midnight. It is bad. I am originally from that area too!
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Post by maryland on Jun 6, 2023 19:48:17 GMT
I love to read, so I will buy an inexpensive book for the kindle or go to the library. I also love Sheetz or McDonald's diet coke and iced tea, so I often stop by for a drink!
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