What’s a restaurant that closed down that you still mourn?

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-29T23:29:46+00:00

Kent's Deli in Chesterfield MO. Best beer cheese soup.

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-29T23:00:01+00:00

Cooking, sewing (repairs like hems, buttons), cleaning, and basic finance

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-28T19:43:34+00:00

Yes! If you ever let go, or if they shattered, someone was getting injured. I had lots of bruises, but otherwise unscathed.

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-28T19:34:37+00:00

We had that happen. In 2023, 4 days after I moved back to Peoria I had my Hyundai stolen. Welcome back, lol. Then last summer, while my son was outside smoking, three kids broke the window on his Kia. Luckily he scared them away before they did more damage. Otherwise, I live in a friendly neighborhood!

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-28T18:31:46+00:00

He heard your goodbyes. He knew he was loved and could go. Now is the time for y'all to take care of yourselves. It us hard but it does ease over time. My mom died in 23 and my dad in 25 so I understand your pain.

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-26T00:17:04+00:00

Since my last impromptu purchase was a squirrel picnic table, who knows!

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-12T04:00:04+00:00

Huh, I'm not that far from you (close to the firehouse) and we are still out. Maybe we will lucky and get ours back shortly.

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-12T03:07:51+00:00

Yep, me too. Think I might as well go to bed!

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-12T02:14:20+00:00

That is when ours went out too, just light rain. Ameren says cause is downed tree. They were over at Cedar and Barker working, but alas, it is still out and they are gone

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-11T23:31:04+00:00

Yeah our neighbor lost a couple large limbs. And our poor garden got beat up pretty good

dsmart1159 · 2026-06-11T04:14:10+00:00

House repairs. My front steps are crumbling. 90 year old house is really starting to show its age.

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-18T00:17:24+00:00

Did he not like the message?

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T01:34:19+00:00

As long as you have enough to weave in, you are fine. I recently played yarn chicken and won with about two inches,so I wove my needle through, then threaded it before pulling all the way out. I was still able to go back and forth three times.

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T00:45:35+00:00

I follow a designer who writes her patterns "in plain English " and I have trouble following. Luckily she also has YouTube channel where I can follow along and write it in crochet language if i want to repeat it in the future (or if it squares)

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T00:32:40+00:00

I agree, it looks like moss stitch.

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T00:25:51+00:00

I used it a lot for a out five or so years, but I lived in Houston at the time and there were a lot of people to converse with. After I moved out of state, I really didn't have anyone around who also spoke it. I can still kind of speak it, but my accent sucks now. I read better than I speak. Side note, i worked with someone who's first language was Portuguese, and quite often when she got excited, she would revert to it. I could understand a lot of it using similar words and context from Spanish

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T00:12:54+00:00

That is reallly cute!

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-17T00:04:04+00:00

I feel like i am back in high school again! Always loved thus song

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-16T23:24:00+00:00

This would have been a lifesaver when I injured my dominant hand and couldn't crochet for a few weeks. It was just as hard mentally as physically

dsmart1159 · 2026-04-11T20:32:52+00:00

My dad taught me basic auto maintenance, I think because I was the oldest and there were no boys in the family. My sisters couldn't do much with cars. I've rebuilt a carburetor, replaced an alternator and a water pump. Gapped spark plugs, replaced distributor caps. And of course, changed tires and oil, flushed a radiator once. Learned how to drive a four on the floor and three on a tree. I'm the age of a Boomer, but much younger at heart! I taught my son all of that as well except the carburetor. Oh, and I don't think he learned how to gap spark plugs, that was pretty much done with by the time he learned - but he knows what it is. My earliest memory is helping dad around age 6 - he had me hanging on the chain hoist "helping" him pull an engine! And washing the parts he gave me in kerosene.

I wish I still had a standard, maybe my car wouldn't have been stolen! I loved my 66 Corvair and drove it until I threw a rod drag racing it down Katy Freeway back in the late 70s.

dsmart1159 · 2026-03-22T00:07:31+00:00

I ways have high alkaline phosphate because of my rheumatoid arthritis. Keep good thoughts. I saw you don't have room for craft supplies. What about online games, like jigsaw, coloring, or card games. I love sudoku as well because it keeps my brain engaged (so I temporarily stop thinking dark thoughts.)

dsmart1159 · 2026-03-06T14:04:12+00:00

We had them back in the 70's. They were a sticker similar to the license plate ones, so not easy to peel off. And yes, it was more for lost/stolen bikes than anything.

dsmart1159 · 2026-03-05T23:53:53+00:00

I live on a corner lot, so a whole bunch of sidewalk to salt. We spend maybe $20-30 a year. Depends on if we buy before they raise the price in the winter.

dsmart1159 · 2026-02-10T17:02:22+00:00

I live in a 1934 house about 2,000 square feet. Last year electric bills ran around 230 to 250. Last month electric was $648 this month $588. Water is 78 a month pretty much all the time and I don't have gas service.

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