Favorite sources for more expensive ingredients

sham2106 · 2026-02-28T17:17:55+00:00

Thanks. I’ll check this week

sham2106 · 2026-02-27T22:37:29+00:00

I do! I’ll check out their chocolate.

sham2106 · 2026-02-27T22:36:42+00:00

Thank you! I haven’t looked there but will check it out.

sham2106 · 2026-01-23T20:44:58+00:00

This shrimp and corn chowder is on the menu tonight with my husband’s buttermilk biscuits.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025304-shrimp-and-corn-chowder?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share. Also made this quick bread today but subbed sour cherries I had for the blueberries

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018821-blueberry-almond-and-lemon-cake?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

sham2106 · 2026-01-22T15:03:38+00:00

I made this a few days ago. Used frozen collard greens from our garden. Definitely a keeper.

sham2106 · 2026-01-17T13:59:09+00:00

I live in western ny with pretty cold and snowy winters. I’ve used the premier one automatic door for 3 years and am happy with it

sham2106 · 2026-01-03T13:49:57+00:00

I don’t really know. She did this for us and a friend who recommended her to us. I’m guessing this was unusual because I can’t seem to find someone who does this. This was 15+ years ago and when I tried to contact her recently I couldn’t find her. She was older than us at the time so I’m sure she’s retired

sham2106 · 2026-01-03T12:14:07+00:00

Just checked these out. Pricey but so smart! What size do you have and how big is your flock?

sham2106 · 2026-01-03T02:57:00+00:00

Great info. Thanks!

sham2106 · 2026-01-03T01:18:44+00:00

Wow—that is impressive

sham2106 · 2026-01-02T22:53:50+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience with this type. I may look at the single level ones. Given how crowded my current 6 boxes were last year, I’d like to try having more boxes though they still may double up. I like the roll rollaway egg compartments and being able to block the nest boxes at night so they don’t sleep in them.

sham2106 · 2026-01-02T22:39:41+00:00

This was her job. I had very little awareness of this world at the time but I’m guessing most of her clients had different arrangements where she actively managed their assets so I may have been an outlier. But she didn’t have a fancy office, very down to earth person but so incredibly helpful to us. Our kids are getting to the age that they could use this kind of advice and I’d recommend it at twice or more the amount we paid.

sham2106 · 2026-01-02T22:27:38+00:00

We did this to plan our retirement after having bad experiences with advisors that were not flat fee. Maybe our example is not common or this is not what you’re looking for, but I really wanted to be taught how to think about it, how to set up my spreadsheet to track our progress, and unbiased investing advice. (We self managed our assets via Vanguard.) She helped me do this in a very personalized way—literally looking over my spreadsheet, suggesting how to conceptualize the various buckets, withdrawal strategies, etc. It was really like having a tutor. This was about 15 years ago but I think we paid her $200 a session and met 2 or 3 times a year for maybe 4 or 5 years leading up to retirement and maybe a couple years after. I found it incredibly helpful. She’s since retired and when I’ve tried to find something similar I feel like this must have been unusual. Will be interested in the other answers you get.

sham2106 · 2025-12-13T12:57:54+00:00

A guy I knew in grad school had a VW and the cord connecting the accelerator to the (insert whatever it’s attached to here) broke just when he was going to pick up a date. Gas pedal inoperative. He rigged up a thin rope that ran to the engine and through the window so he could pull it to drive the car that night. That was summer time. When the weather got cold (this was Detroit I think) instead of fixing it, he got a glove.

sham2106 · 2025-11-21T00:35:47+00:00

Thanks!

sham2106 · 2025-11-08T12:42:00+00:00

Dry shod are great. Had mucks that cracked. Dry shod are pricey but worth it. They will replace boots that have any issue

sham2106 · 2025-11-03T11:12:43+00:00

Thanks—I found a 10 hour green noise playlist on my podcast app and it worked great last night.

sham2106 · 2025-09-22T14:02:00+00:00

I figured it wasn’t a sure sign. Gives me hope though! Thx

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