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When I was young we never had any farmer's market locally but I remember making a couple of trips to a very big market in Mennonite country that featured a lot of fresh and prepared foods as well as handicrafts from local growers (and even a livestock auction), all at amazing low prices. Today there are "farmer's markets" popping up in a lot of local communities but they seem to me to be just a marketing ploy, most of the vendors are businesses that only do the market circuit, and even when you can find someone selling actual locally grown/produced food it is at a premium price far in excess of what I would pay for the same items from the grocery store.
I'm curious, what farmer's markets are like where you live?
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Yes, last year was a nightmare. Over 70 people died during that "Heat Dome"

No repeat this year please!!
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For sure Gershun, you don't want a repeat of last year!
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It's like early fall weather here Willie. I'm waiting and wondering if we'll ever get summer. But I'm not complaining cause I can't handle the hot temperatures.
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We are getting a little pop of hot weather (34°C/93°F), when I checked the near by beach cam I can see lots of people in the water.
Water temperature is around 15°C, that's about 60°F. Brrr, those people are nuts!
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What's with Canadian newspapers reporting the platinum jubilee of "the UK's Queen Elizabeth"... uhm, she's OUR queen too🤔
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My sis just called from her MIL's, the power has finally come back on after Saturday's storm and she is helping to go through the fridge/freezer. MIL doesn't want to throw anything away and sis doesn't want to be the one who has to force the issue 😬🙄
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It seems I got lucky yesterday, the storm that raced through my region was just the northern edge of a string of destructive weather that ripped across the province, there are power outages and trees down from Windsor to Ottawa and on into parts of Quebec.
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I shouldn't have stopped for that to-go coffee, I was still 3 blocks from my door when a storm blew in with rain and hail. Soaked to the skin (and I'm glad the hail was tiny, ouch)!
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Much too young. These are always hard to hear about and thinking of the pain of losing a child.😕😕
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Barb: So sorry for the loss of the 25 year old.
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Cleaned one frig and one freezer plus part of the other frig. Things will get done in stages.
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So sorry Barb!

Willie, I agree. I hate it when it gets warm out. Fortunately, we've been having an unseasonably cool Spring.

I'm still feeling crap though so I could be in Paradise and it would not matter.
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Just heard that the nephew of one of my friends, son of a former member of our congregation died. He was 25.

No details, but I can't imagine the pain that all of his family is enduring.

We say Baruch Dayan ha'Emet (blessed is the true judge). Too sad.
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cwillie, same here. I will be providing care coverage to my Aunties again in south FL from mid Aug to end of September. UGH -- too hot to do most any outdoor activity during the day.
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My ability to get things done seems to go down in relation to every degree the temperature rises, we're on the upward side of a front and all I want to do is sit outside vegging with a book and my coffee.
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Grocery delivered last week included Guacamole, packaged, keep refrigerated, perishable. Husband put it in the cupboard. Handed it to me while I was making nachos, eating nachos. Then it dawned on me.

His relentless search for older, spoiled food is now affecting me, even though I have done the 24/7 hypervigilance routine.
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Cwillie, I am horrified when I go to a regular grocery store. Minimal real food and isle after isle of processed food stuff. So sad.
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Lately when I look through the grocery flyers and even when I'm shopping in the store I'm struck by how little of it is actually FOOD. Oh lots of it is edible - chips, candy, cakes and pastries, and all the frozen meals and snacks that some people do call dinner (I'm looking at you pizza pockets); but plain, simple whole foods probably take up less than half the aisles.
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The Kentucky Derby winner 2022
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I just filed my taxes🤞 It seems auto filling isn't as painless as I'd hoped, when I tried to upload the file the tax software said I couldn't because there were boxes that I needed to fill in on my T5800 statement of securities slips first. I don't know the correct answer so I just guessed... this is why I wanted to use auto fill in the first place, because I don't understand how to read these forms. 🤯 This s*** shouldn't have to be so complicated.
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I agree that management needs to step up to put an end to this harassment Geaton. Unfortunately with all of the hyper focus and scathing media coverage of long term care since the disastrous early months of the pandemic management is running scared and are IMO too busy kowtowing to the families and residents. It doesn't help that there are scads of new government regulations that seem to change constantly. Something's got to give.
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cwillie, that is just an awful way to have to work. I think part of the problem is family not having a realistic understanding of what the staff is able to do and when. And I blame the admin for not protecting their people. When we wish to visit my MIL in LTC, we call her floor several hours in advance and always *ask* them if they have time to get her ready. If they said no, we'd live with that, so I'm hoping they're not just saying yes no matter what. I don't think most people understand how bad the labor shortage is. It's not about *just* paying a higher wage to attract workers (a cost that would be passed on to us consumers) -- there are literally not enough people to do all the work. There are 76.4 million baby boomers in the US (born during the years 1946 to 1964). The youngest ones are only 58 years old right now. These Boomers won't be filtering into facilities for another 10-ish years. The birth rate in the US in 2020 was 4% - half of what it was in the early 60's.
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I've been reading through some of the threads about how some caregivers have to deal with unreasonable expectations and advice from the extended family. I've mentioned before that my sis works in a nursing home as a scheduler and staff moral has probably never been lower, and one of the stressors is the families.
People are installing cameras and then calling in multiple times throughout the day demanding one thing or another for their LO - mom can't reach the remote, needs her pillow fluffed, we want to make a video call RIGHT NOW...
There was a person who literally shadowed the RPN (LPN) for her ENTIRE SHIFT and had her in tears by the end of the day.
There is the family who spends hours of the day with their X00lb physically dependent LO and who bring in all his meals and insist staff be on hand to help feed him while they watch - if the man wasn't be eating all that crap maybe it wouldn't take 4 staff to attend to his needs.
How about the ones who rather than visiting seem to be lurking on every corridor listening in to staff discussing a resident's needs with a coworker and then whistle blowing to management about privacy concerns
There is the daughter who always arrives in time to watch while her mother has her bath yet never lifts a hand to help - weird and creepy.
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Lol, Cwillie.
Here in the U.S., we can file an amended return, if bad things happen to good people.

I never liked DEADLINES.
Always followed the rules.
I now am finding new ways to respond to and interpret those rules, keeping in mind that just because someone says it is so, does not make it so. This, after hearing from so many government agencies "their different interpretations" of the rules for the last 2 years. I am trying to lighten up.

And the wave of the population that claims "THEIR TRUTH" is complicating reality.

So, in my own small way, I will be my own authority, I am complying with IRS regulations, but no longer going out of my way to explain to the IRS everything. They don't want letters of explanation anyway. Their rules state do not put a P.O. Box as your address. But a Fiduciary P.O. Box is required for us to function, and to comply with the Social Security requirements of a rep-payee. There is no POA. I heard that banks and other gov't agencies do not acknowledge rep-payees, and visa-versa, the SSA does not acknowledge POA's.

I am not going to upload all our private and most sensitive documents to an online non-IRS website so they can ID us. Just not. Not ever. We are still here, living at the same address, the same two people. So, I complied with their written rules, and put our home address on the form. This is a different address than the P.O. Box used for the last 10+ years.

It was the IRS that sent our Stimulus Checks 3 different ways:
1) Automatic Deposit into our checking account; 2) mailed to our P.O. Box; and 3) mailed to our home. I was just fortunate that my Dh handed me the mail that day-it could have gone differently as it had in the past.

Sorry to have over-reacted, over-shared. Just tired of twisting myself into a pretzel to comply with so many 'supposed requirements'.

It is perfectly okay if no one understands what I just described. Lol.

P.S. The IRS is paying us interest on the refund from last year that they are 'holding' because they cannot identify us. That interest is 5%, more than the bank pays!

So cool, does that qualify me as a rebel now?
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If I let the CRA be in charge of my taxes not only would they say I owe money (I don't) I'd miss out on all the tax credits and rebates that I have to apply for.
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Taxes are mailed.
As a senior, I took the easy way out, and mailed the form with just our address and signatures-no taxes will be due, let them figure it out.

They do want me to answer their letter requesting our I.D., holding our refund from last year's filing. I will get to this soon, but no way can I be uploading documents online to comply.

It is discouraging to hear how backlogged the IRS has become.

The full moon is at 98.7% already, so I am decreasing my stress.
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I was reading posts about difficult relations, and remembered one from my own marriage to DH2, with a celebrant in the back yard of my cute inner city house. Deep suspicion in both family sides – DH2 was well off and considered a sitting duck for a gold digger (in fact we both had about the same $ assets), my lot wondered what Kook I’d found this time (I did have an unsuccessful rescuer track record).

My daughters, son in law, and nieces did the final stages of nice appropriate finger food and drinks (in fact SIL had to do 3 trips for more soft drinks as it was very very hot and Tony’s relies were very very square).

In the middle of this, Tony’s cousin Helen went to my daughter and said that the food was too fancy for her husband Bernard, and could he have a cheese and tomato sandwich. Bernard would never have asked for this. !!! My daughter just said ‘No’. She was brought up right!

You do have to worry about some of these people. How to make yourself remembered for 20 years? Helen Connolly fixed it!
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Explain the term “half-life”:
When someone only goes out and has fun half the time.
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Fregflyer,
Maybe NOT a coincidence, but a valid observation.
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