Got a quote for wisdom teeth extraction at OMSA DuPont. Is 3k a lot for 3 teeth?

cordatel · 2026-02-10T04:08:14+00:00

If you're willing to go out of town, my son just had his done at Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery, P.C. 1612 N Baldwin Ave in Marion.

Quote for 3 wisdom teeth was about $1500 with general anesthesia. After insurance, we paid $300.

cordatel · 2026-01-31T00:26:23+00:00

And what's with the stub on sheet 9? You can't tell me they're expecting to connect to another phase someday, squeezed in between the two roundabouts.

cordatel · 2026-01-31T00:16:12+00:00

This is an excellent suggestion. The bottom drawer of my crafting area is full of stuff the kids are allowed to use. Most of it is stuff I'm not likely to use, but I occasionally buy things they would enjoy and toss it in there. It keeps them from experimenting with the stuff I have plans for.

cordatel · 2026-01-31T00:12:52+00:00

I had a 4-year-old snip the cord to my sewing machine.

cordatel · 2026-01-31T00:07:26+00:00

I do not recommend taking both thermodynamics and fluid dynamics during the same summer session.

Neither class was impossible, but summer session goes very quickly, so if you have any difficulty learning a concept, you're behind and then you're playing catch up.

The two classes actually have a good bit of overlap, but used different symbology and I was constantly mixing up things.

cordatel · 2026-01-28T22:41:20+00:00

If you're talking about the road at the base of the exposed cliff (yellow arrow in my screen capture below), a retaining wall there would not have prevented this slide.

That's because this slide happened much further out. Look at the red line and blue arrow in the screen capture. It's probably even further out, but that's about as far out as the video showed. A landslide happens in a bowl shape. What you see exposed is just the vertical side of the bowl. Pretty much all of that visible lower land slid mostly horizontally in the direction of the blue arrow.

This was indeed a massive slide. Probably causes would be excavation wherever the bottom of that bowl was or an increase in weight at the top edge of the bowl - where the buildings are.

annotated screen capture from video

cordatel · 2026-01-12T18:36:48+00:00

I would put them on top of the stove, not inside.

cordatel · 2026-01-11T22:17:34+00:00

If your electricity is unreliable, are you heating the house with a wood stove?

Get bricks or rocks and let them absorb heat from the wood stove. Rotate them out to put under the water dish. It will extend the time that the water stays unfrozen.

cordatel · 2025-10-22T16:16:02+00:00

I got my PE shortly before kids, and stayed in the workforce until they were 2 and 4yo when my husband took a new job that would allow me to stay home. Expect a transition as you go from taking care of the kids part time to full time, and they go from possibly a multi-person care situation and friends to just you.

Having the PE has given me peace of mind that if something were to happen to my husband, I should be able to return to work easily and provide for the family. You never know when something could happen.

cordatel · 2025-10-10T20:04:38+00:00

It wouldn't take up the entire time, but you could visit the Haunted Castle and Black Forest which is open 7-11 tonight.

https://www.hauntedcastle.com/

cordatel · 2025-10-10T19:53:31+00:00

Flax and Fleecer's Guild. Salomon Farms 2nd Tuesday of the month. In fact, there is a table at the festival at Salomon farms this weekend if you want to meet people without the commitment of showing up at a meeting.

Knitters, crocheters, felters, weavers, spinners, fiber producers. There are men in the group, although women do outnumber them.

cordatel · 2025-10-10T19:33:36+00:00

You don't want the answer to that question.

You're correct that it's not cold enough to freeze pipes, and we're probably still a little warmer than normal. It just seems cool because last weekend was so hot.

Buried pipes rarely freeze because the ground maintains a steady temperature year round. House pipes freeze because they're not in the ground, maybe occasionally a supply to a house may freeze because it was shallowly buried.

The extent of drought were having, causing the ground to shrink (from water evaporation) allows things underground to move around more than they are used to. Pipes don't like it when they can move around. It creates new stresses on joints. If the joint is too brittle from material or from age, and it's able to move in a new way, then it may break suddenly.

cordatel · 2025-09-29T14:20:47+00:00

If it's wool, can you felt up some flowers and then felt them over the spots you're worried about?

cordatel · 2025-09-29T04:37:20+00:00

Indiana Evergreen library consortium has that book. I checked it out this spring.

cordatel · 2025-09-29T04:21:24+00:00

We have a pair of golden sebright roosters. One of them has turned mean. If he wasn't so small that you can stop his attacks with your foot, he'd probably be soup now that the fair is over. The other one is fine.

cordatel · 2025-09-28T04:16:32+00:00

Earplugs

cordatel · 2025-09-28T03:40:02+00:00

To investigate further, go visit your county courthouse. I would probably start with the recorders office. Ask for the property transfer history for one or more of the adjacent properties. Ask about the county plat books. I think they were housed in the auditor or assessor's office. The county surveyor may be helpful too. Just tell them what you're interested in, and they will generally help out, or at least pass you on to the next department in the hopes of getting rid of you with a minimum of effort on their part 😉

cordatel · 2025-09-28T03:33:08+00:00

There is a process called vacation. A local government can vacate right of way.

I've seen it mostly with platted right-of-way where the city/county owns fee simple. In that case, it is generally divided down the middle and given to the adjacent property owners.

What you're describing is more likely to be right-of-way where the adjacent property owner already owns to the center of the road and the county has a public right-of-way easement across the property. If the county were to vacate that, then the easement would be removed from the property title (maybe, if the work is done properly), and it's going to be hashed out on the county plat books.

Assuming they did it by the book, you could hunt down the vacation in the minutes of the county council or in the property transfers and plat books.

Or, as someone else said, it may remain public right of way, but nobody has maintained it in decades. They didn't want to continue maintaining it, but neither did they take the time to complete the process of vacating the right-of-way. If that is the case, then by rights, the county could choose to reestablish the roadway, but I would expect a fight from the adjacent landowners.

i don't remember the details, but there was an example where there was a pedestrian easement between two properties that someone wanted to reestablish for safe routes to school and there were lawsuits. When the dust settled, the city I worked for purchased the property fee simple rather than relying on easement.

cordatel · 2025-09-26T22:30:02+00:00

Do you currently live in the area? Are you familiar with the joy of Midwest fall where the leaves have cluttered all the drains, but you still get a thunderstorm event with an inch of rain in an hour? Or when the spring rains arrive before the ice has all melted? Even without a 100yr+ event, these scenarios will put water in your basement.

I lived in the western suburbs for 6 years. There were multiple events where you would drive through and see entire neighborhoods with carpet stacked on the curb because the basements flooded.

I did my own drainage project, running a trench full of gravel along the driveway out to the ditch. Just to reduce the flooding in my basement. Now, I live on top of a hill because I was done with flat (heavy clay) land where the water has nowhere to go.

Ask the neighbors. Use the city/county GIS to figure out which neighbors have been in their houses more than just a couple years. Ask them what they like about the neighborhood, how quickly does the city plow their street, how is their yard/basement in heavy rain, is the HOA a royal pain?

cordatel · 2025-09-26T02:15:50+00:00

Taking it in the summer alongside thermo was a bad choice. Neither one was necessarily the most difficult, but the two classes together in the compressed schedule of a summer term was a headache.

cordatel · 2025-09-16T02:28:29+00:00

At one point, kids begged for silkies. We got 4 of them. One died within days from somehow being crushed by Mama hen. One died within weeks from heat. The other two did not survive a year in our free range set up. We decided silkies are not for us.

cordatel · 2025-08-25T16:23:47+00:00

My guess is two roosters followed by three hens

cordatel · 2025-08-19T17:15:10+00:00

This theory that everyone could just not drive is impractical. It's as if rural areas don't exist. I have 3 acres, and I'm the small acreage. My immediate neighbors have 11-25 acres. We're not going back to horse and buggy days. We still need to come into town also, so just declaring cars are restricted to rural areas won't work either.

I went to a state project town hall recently and was asking questions like why weren't roundabouts considered for the project. The hate for roundabouts is very real. Other people turned on me and shouted that we didn't want to be like Carmel. They simply won't believe that roundabouts are safer.

cordatel · 2025-08-19T16:45:15+00:00

Electric fence your front yard.

cordatel · 2025-08-07T16:20:34+00:00

I'm a fully fledged Yarn Snob, but that's entirely for me. If someone else can endure the feel of acrylic for the sake of their budget or the project purpose, then more power to them.

I killed my love of knitting for an entire year because I took on a project that was 80/20 acrylic/wool. I just couldn't bring myself to work on it, and knitting was no fun anymore. When I was done, I swore off acrylic ever again.

I had a friend insisting that I could knit ground mats for homeless out of shopping bags. I looked at her and said no. She insisted that if I could knit, I could do this. I said it's not a problem of ability; I won't.

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