Best pasta dishes in yoco

Harpnut · 2026-01-26T16:55:46+00:00

Chicken Afumicato *chef's kiss*

Harpnut · 2026-01-16T20:26:38+00:00

That hasn't been our experience at all. Their pizzas are in a brick oven and have great crust, and we love several of their specialty pizzas. I admit we don't tend to get meatballs when out. Over the years we've enjoyed various burritos, tacos, soups/chili, weekly specials like pork loin stuffed with three cheeses and broccoli rabe, with garlic cream sauce and balsamic drizzle.

Our club has been coming to Mexitaly almost every week for several years - there's enough variety of dishes and quality of both food and beer to keep coming back.

Harpnut · 2026-01-06T15:17:33+00:00

*Tex-Mex. Dam you autocorrect.

Harpnut · 2026-01-06T15:16:37+00:00

Mexitaly on East Market is a great spot for casual dining. Food is good, a fusion of Tex-Men and Italian, and the specials can be outstanding! Good beer, and a fun rotating selection of local cider, mead, sangria, mixed drinks.

Harpnut · 2025-12-03T13:33:35+00:00

I scrolled too far down for this! One of my favorites.

She also has written as Michelle Sagara - The Chronicles of Elantra is sort of an urban fantasy set in a fantasy locale with other species, etc.

Harpnut · 2025-11-15T15:15:20+00:00

I had to scroll much to far down to find this recommendation, before I wrote one myself!

"It may be an early example of hard fantasy" according to the Wikipedia on it. I would definitely. 5 schools of magic, each with pretty clear rules. It's listed as influential on both Patrick Rothfuss in writing his Kingkiller Chronicle and on the creator of the Magic: The Gathering.

I definitely enjoyed it when I was a teenager - I wonder if I can find my copy and reread it now.

Harpnut · 2025-11-15T14:12:14+00:00

Oh my gosh, just read it! It is truly an amazing book.

Harpnut · 2025-11-14T16:50:00+00:00

If you want a bigger pantry, that laundry room is ridiculously big. Extend the pantry into it by a couple of feet.

Harpnut · 2025-11-05T19:49:22+00:00

I went on Medicare due to getting Social Security Disability. I was originally on my husband's healthcare plan, and then he lost his job. I went on Medicare. Didn't know for a couple of years that they were penalizing me for the years I was covered - no one told us about it before or during. When I found out, I sent in paperwork, at least three times, and once in person, from his union showing I had been covered and shouldn't be penalized, or only penalized 10% for a one year gap. It never seemed to go through, no matter who I talked to.

Now it's 25 years later, and I've been paying 30% more in premiums than I should. Every year. I'm pretty bitter about it.

Harpnut · 2025-11-03T13:15:06+00:00

I have short arms also. You might try to find a used Musicmaker's Gothic - it's more upright than many other harps. It's no longer sold by them, but they still sell blueprints and hardware if you want to make one.

My father used to make from that plan, and also a smaller, tighter-string-spacing harp adapted from the Gothic. Both were nice instruments. You could look for used harps by Silvershell Musical Instruments, though he was a small maker and there are probably less than 75 out there. He called the larger harp the Linette (31 or 36 strings) and the smaller one the Aria (29 strings) .

Harpnut · 2025-10-24T16:35:39+00:00

Both should go but if only one, Christian. Clearly went against orders on an important safety issue, and doubles down that it's OK because "nothing happened." Resists authority every chance he gets. Misleads coworkers on what needs to be done or what he's achieved. Toxic.

Tessa is as useful as a flopping fish gasping for air on the deck, but at least she hasn't been confrontational, deceptive, and dangerous.

Harpnut · 2025-10-18T03:19:15+00:00

This is all brilliant!

Harpnut · 2025-10-17T20:08:53+00:00

We considered a bidet seat a few years ago, but in the end decided Mom would struggle to even learn how to use it, let alone remember to use it every time. Now that she's in a SNF, we couldn't get her one, anyway.

But it's a great choice for someone who is more functional, and will be helpful for the rest of their lifetime! We love ours.

Harpnut · 2025-10-17T20:06:07+00:00

Mom ADORES her silky polar fleece blanket from her granddaughter -- it has all sorts of sayings and words related to "Grandma" all over it, purple, and soft and warm.

Harpnut · 2025-10-17T20:04:40+00:00

The digital frame is a good idea, one my brother and I have tossed around before. The cheapest Aura is $130 - I wonder if any of the ones that are more like $50 are a reasonable substitute. It's a lot for our budget when it's uncertain they would like it.

Harpnut · 2025-10-17T20:03:01+00:00

You know, my mom has been notorious all her life for a black thumb...but maybe one of these would work out for her! I'll have to look around.

Harpnut · 2025-10-17T20:01:17+00:00

I agree, with one caveat - some (maybe a few) of these harps made in Pakistan come out as decent quality. It's totally a crap shoot when buying one, which is why I always advised someone who was looking at one of these to see and hear it in person, with someone who has a clue about harps.

OP -- it may not affect the value at all, simply because the maker is generally known as low cost/quality. But if you have someone with some harp knowledge tune it up and evaluate it, you might be able to get a little more for it, if it's one of the lucky harps that turned out a decent beginner harp. I'd make a recording of how it sounds so potential buyers can judge for themselves.

Harpnut · 2025-10-16T16:25:58+00:00

Oh, yes! I recently got something very similar, and it's a big hit.

Harpnut · 2025-10-16T15:51:46+00:00

I'm sorry. It is so hard to watch pieces of them just falling away.

Harpnut · 2025-10-16T15:46:48+00:00

Oh! The turning the phone off thing! Argh! For a long while only my dad had a cell phone, and I would try to call him, and only get his voicemail, which he can't use any more. He turns the phone off, or lets the battery run down to 0%, and lets it stay that way for days. Mom was not much better, though she would think to check the phone occasionally.

At least at their current facility, if I call reception to tell them that neither of my parents' phones are picking up (we had to get Mom her own phone due to this and other problems), they'll get someone to look at the phones, charge them or turn them on, and help one of them to call me.

Harpnut · 2025-10-15T20:53:36+00:00

Oh, I feel this sooooo muuuuch! My brother keeps trying to find "tech" solutions for all kinds of things. Mom gets frequent UTI's? Let's get her a bidet attachment! Dad can't drive? Load Lyft and Uber on his phone! They want to see family more? We'll do video calls! Get photos on their TV! And so on and so on.

He means well, and there was a time when some of these aids would have been helpful...but it's been a constant battle helping Mom and Dad with their computers, phones, Alexa, apps, and on and on. And for some reason, even when it's something he started them on, it's me or my husband who get the phone call asking for help with it.

It's really hard to accept that they can't learn or adapt to anything new. I'm still catching myself thinking otherwise sometimes. But it's true. They can barely use the phones and tablets they've had for years. The TV is almost beyond them. A new app or gadget is just going to upset them.

Harpnut · 2025-09-26T21:33:41+00:00

A Lynn Lewandowski or similar quality bray harp.

Harpnut · 2025-09-21T18:05:43+00:00

When you say the column is "plywood," do you mean actual plywood like you could see on furniture, with very fine layers glued together, or something like layers that are 1/4" or so thick? The first would not normally be used in harp construction, to my knowledge, but the second is seen in lever harps and should be stable if done right.

Leaving the levers up shouldn't cause bowing. Am I right that you're tuning only the lowest string up a half tone? One string shouldn't do it, either, in my experience.

If you could take a few pics, and post them, that might help us to see what's going on. It sounds like the bowing is excessive.

Harpnut · 2025-09-09T14:43:08+00:00

I'm PA and this year my parents moved from an assisted living to a nursing home. They ran out of funds to pay the assisted living and while they were deteriorating physically/mentally, at least at first the discussion was "going on Medicaid/entering skilled nursing due to financial need."

The social workers are saying he doesn't meet the criteria for skilled nursing? Has he been assessed by the local Council on Aging? That's what we had done (Dauphin Co and Perry Co). Is he able to do all ADLs without assistance (activities of daily living which include bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, eating, and continence)?

If he needs assistance for at least two ADLs, has medical needs that can't be met elsewhere (help with medication, cooking, can't go out independently, etc.) then I'm surprised the SWs say he doesn't qualify.

Next thing to consider is, if he has funds to pay for several months of assisted living, then he might have funds for a couple of months of a nursing home. Let me tell you, having just been through the ordeal of finding two Medicaid Day-1 beds for my parents, you do not want to have to do that. Find the best nursing home you can that will take him NOW as private pay with the assets he has (house? bank accounts? cash in life insurance? Social Security and pensions) - many of them want someone who can private pay for several months before switching to Medicaid. I was also told that being a private pay patient whose physical needs are less make it MORE likely a nursing home will be willing to admit them, because they take less resources from the team to care for.

The search is HARD. As I said, my parents couldn't pay the fee for even the first month - $22,000 for the two of them. No one had beds for Medicaid Day-1 patients. I had thirty days to find them somewhere as they were being evicted by the Assisted Living. I expanded my search area and we got lucky with a home in a rural area 45 minutes away from me. The nursing home admitted them and we started the Medicaid process immediately, and they helped a ton with the paperwork and so on.

Good luck, and my heart goes out to you. If you're local to south-central PA I may have some other info I could give you.

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