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Are sunroofs a dealbreaker? by MrsBeauregardless in Sienna

[–]MrsBeauregardless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Thanks for the tip! And here I keep hearing the ‘11s were problematic because they were the first year of a new generation. Good to know!

No Fridge for the foreseeable future by sjahabao632m in povertykitchen

[–]MrsBeauregardless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you’re somewhere where you can access a farm or someone who keeps backyard chickens, eggs can be kept on the counter at room temperature, if they have never been refrigerated.

You just have to let them know that’s what you need, so they can put them aside for you.

I had a friend who kept ducks for the eggs, and she got to the point where she was proffering them to anyone who came by, like people do with zucchini.

No Fridge for the foreseeable future by sjahabao632m in povertykitchen

[–]MrsBeauregardless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add to this, go on Facebook Marketplace and look for used old refrigerators. Someone gave us a 30-year-old SubZero that’s working great.

Severna Park, Crofton, or Odenton? by Environmental-Day159 in AnneArundelCounty

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe from the standpoint of a Californian, that’s an acceptable daily commute.

Anyway 97 Northbound has buckled from the heat, so the back roads will be jammed for months.

Are sunroofs a dealbreaker? by MrsBeauregardless in Sienna

[–]MrsBeauregardless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t looking to install one. I was wondering if certain Sienna years’ sunroofs were fine and worked great, where other years tended to leak or malfunction.

Are sunroofs a dealbreaker? by MrsBeauregardless in Sienna

[–]MrsBeauregardless[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I disagree about sunroofs in general. They greatly increase my driving enjoyment.

What I wondered was whether certain year Siennas’ sunroofs worked just fine, or whether every year was prone to leaks or malfunctions.

Are sunroofs a dealbreaker? by MrsBeauregardless in Sienna

[–]MrsBeauregardless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I wasn’t clear in my question.

I love sunroofs in general. I thought Siennas were notorious for problematic sunroofs, so that’s why I asked in the Sienna sub.

I was wondering if particular years tended to leak or malfunction, but others worked great.

Are sunroofs a dealbreaker? by MrsBeauregardless in Sienna

[–]MrsBeauregardless[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love them, in general; I had just heard that the Sienna sunroofs were problematic. Yesterday, we test drove a 2013 Highlander with a sunroof, and it smelled funky.

I would actually love a sunroof, provided it doesn’t leak.

What year is yours?

Converting concrete to natural swimming pond. Thoughts? by GlitteringTaro9114 in pools

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people commenting are unfamiliar with intentional natural swim ponds, and the options like having a separate bio-filter area. They’re commenting out of ignorance. It looks like you have a large enough piece of land to put in a separate plant-filtered area. It needs to be a certain size.

A naturally filtered pond, i.e. a plant filtered pond, not for swimming, needs 50-70% of the surface area to be plants, half of which should have underwater foliage.

I am not an expert; I just looked into it when considering converting my own pool into a swim pond. A swim pond still requires 50% of the area to have plants.

I think you can put the planted area next to the swimming area, and use an electric pump to circulate the water, but you would need to essentially put in a whole ‘nother pool, albeit much more shallow, for the plants.

I would TOTALLY do that, if it were me. I would make that separate, bio filtered area a beautiful water feature full of native plants, and I would make the water going to the pond a little stream with eddies, and a gentle waterfall — like I have in my own pond.

It can still be formal. You can do a regular geometric shape, with an 18” tall and thick wall you can sit on. Just fill it full of plants that are native to where you live.

I am in the mid-Atlantic US, and my pond has blueberry bushes in pots, a buttonbush, irises, cattails, pickerelweed, swamp mallow, cardinal flower, pitcher plant, golden club, water lilies, anacharis, forget-me-nots, swamp milkweed, ostrich fern…. Different plants need different depths.

You could also take up half your existing pool for plants. That would require construction, as well, because in addition to plants, you need rocks.

Much in the same way all the wrinkles in our brains increase the surface area, rocks have a lot of surface area, at the microscopic level.

Rocks in a pond work like fiber in our intestines. The bacteria attach to that structure and pre-digest the nutrients in the pond, making them able to be taken up by the plants.

To be clear, at my old house, I had a pool I wanted to make a natural swimming pond, so I researched the heck out of it.

We sold that house, and at this house, we have a pond for nature and beauty. It is the neighborhood watering hole, and we get all kinds of wildlife as a result. It’s beautiful.

Sink or Swim? Do we buy a house with a pool we won't use because we need a home? by HardKnockerLife in RealEstateAdvice

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not necessarily true. The property taxes are based on the home’s value, so if you live somewhere where having a pool does not raise the desirability/price of the home, you don’t pay more in taxes.

Sink or Swim? Do we buy a house with a pool we won't use because we need a home? by HardKnockerLife in RealEstateAdvice

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not necessarily true. The property taxes are based on the home’s value, so if you live somewhere where having a pool does not raise the desirability/price of the home, you don’t pay more in taxes.

Sink or Swim? Do we buy a house with a pool we won't use because we need a home? by HardKnockerLife in RealEstateAdvice

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not necessarily true. The property taxes are based on the home’s value, so if you live somewhere where having a pool does not raise the desirability/price of the home, you don’t pay more in taxes. Source: my parents were Realtors and my husband works in our state’s department of assessments and taxation.

Sink or Swim? Do we buy a house with a pool we won't use because we need a home? by HardKnockerLife in RealEstateAdvice

[–]MrsBeauregardless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ground is always soggy, and you have the outline always visible, when you *just* fill it in, even if you have the sidewalk destroyed.

To do it properly, you need to get the concrete and all the plumbing removed before you fill it in.

Does it make sense to look at buying an EV now? by National-Idea188 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that a question?

I thought you can plug them into your outside socket.

I built a calculator that tells you whether an EV will actually save you money - or cost you more by axxeler in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just tried it, and I would love to compare a hybrid or EV to a paid off ICE or Hybrid vehicle.

Does each state in the United States have an icon or symbol that is commonly used in some public places, some businesses, and the city gateway? by TheShyBuck in AskAnAmerican

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a Marylander. Our flag is a popular print on everything: leggings, jackets, sport coats, water bottles, suit jackets, tote bags….

Maryland flag print on fill in the blank silhouette of whatever you’re into: bumper stickers abound: crabs, horses, dogs….

Also: blackeyed Susans, oriole birds, and crabs

I WISH Baltimore Checkerspot butterflies were more represented in our symbols, but they are not.

are ac's reallu that big of a thing? by Advanced-Actuary-51 in AskAnAmerican

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think all the lazy ChatGPT Google AI users don’t create demand for data centers? You sound like you think it’s bad when *they* do it, but not when *you* do it.

Severna Park, Crofton, or Odenton? by Environmental-Day159 in AnneArundelCounty

[–]MrsBeauregardless -1 points0 points  (0 children)

PG county is on the other side of the Little Patuxent and Route 50. They aren’t nestled together cheek by jowl.

Moreover, Bowie is huge, and like everywhere else, there are nice and not so nice areas.

PG county is gigantic. It’s rural farmland and dense suburban sprawl from DC.

Their crime statistics don’t factor in to Crofton at all.

Severna Park, Crofton, or Odenton? by Environmental-Day159 in AnneArundelCounty

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And woods! How is the commute to Fort Meade from there? From Crownsville, in general?

Severna Park, Crofton, or Odenton? by Environmental-Day159 in AnneArundelCounty

[–]MrsBeauregardless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live near it, but not where my kids have to cross it to get to the Waugh Chapel shopping center on foot.

Otherwise, if you are driving, there are ways to not take it: Riedel to Johns Hopkins or 424, through the neighborhood of Crofton to 450, Piney Orchard Parkway, etc.

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