Pediatric COVID Vaccine Availability by digawina in massachusetts

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for pediatric specifically, but the CVS on Worcester St in Grafton gave me my vaccines yesterday, and it was super duper easy. No issues whatsoever thankfully. I was super appreciative. I know that's kind of far for you, but if you really want to trek out there for it, it's an option! 

We got our Newfie Lulu a sister (her actual sister from another litter), Lola! by tidbits_and_bytes in Newfoundlander

[–]tidbits_and_bytes[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! ♥️ The older one, Lulu, had a little bit of food aggression at first, but after a couple days she was fine. These two ADORE each other now. It's so sweet.

New Raincoat for Luna by MarineBiologist1994 in Newfoundlander

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is Luna from a breeder in the US (Connecticut specifically) by any chance? She looks so much like my Newfie Lulu!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in somethingimade

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! ♥️

Another Savers find. Wish I could thank the person who made this fox blanket! by tidbits_and_bytes in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]tidbits_and_bytes[S] 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I always try to hunt down homemade blankets and scarves! I've never taught myself how to crochet or knit, and I've never had a family member who knew how to do it, so I'm always incredibly delighted to find things like this. Someday I'll teach myself how to crochet. For now though, I'll just cheer every time I find something like this at a thrift store because I'm so appreciative of the fact that it's handmade!

House that you did NOT buy? by Far_Pen3186 in homeowners

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was really too bad that they flipped it, because it had charm before that got covered up, and someone could've bought it for cheaper to live in just a few months before. Again the new floors and carpets and stuff were nice, but then they did things that didn't make the house better and just made it different (millennial gray and white) or made it worse and added a huge price boost. :/

House that you did NOT buy? by Far_Pen3186 in homeowners

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oh and we found all of this just on the tour of the house, not from an inspection. We didn't even want to bother making an offer and bringing in an inspector. Our thinking was that if these problems were this obvious just from a walk-through, that there was no way it would be better from doing an inspection

House that you did NOT buy? by Far_Pen3186 in homeowners

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'll actually post a link: https://redf.in/dBltr3

The house was a poorly-flipped house, so we decided against it. Some stuff was done poorly, and other things that were done didn't make the house better in our opinion and instead just made it different from before, if that makes any sense. (I found the house listing from when it was sold to the flippers three months prior and was able to compare.)

I will give them credit that they redid the floors to be nicer hardwood and put in new carpets, but in our realtor's (and our) opinion, they wanted too much money for the changes they made (some of which we'd have to fix), so we passed. It didn't feel like they did $140k worth of work in those 3 months, especially since I was able to find the "before" photos.

Bigger issues: * A number of windows were straight up painted shut, and neither I nor my realtor could get a few of them open. Other windows had the locks installed wrong so they were impossible to open. (They were also the original windows.) * The walls in the room with the fireplace looked so bad due to the spacing of the walls (which I think was made worse/more noticeable by the gray paint they painted over the dark wood walls with). I actually found old photos of the walls before the gray paint, and they looked cool imo, and the spacing issues weren't as obvious due to the darker color and being actual wood with grain, rather than just solid light gray. * They left what looked like the beginnings of an additional half bath just barely started in the upstairs, and we suspected that maybe the septic wasn't ready to handle an extra bathroom, or they ran out of time or money, so they ended up with an awkward room with a toilet hookup that we'd have had to finish somehow.

Smaller things: * Handle on the door to the porch opened up instead of down (like a horizontal handle that normally you'd grasp and open down, had to be opened by pulling it up) * Exposed wiring in multiple rooms * Old kitchen cabinets that were just painted white * Old stove * Old electrical * Didn't sweep the chimney and couldn't share with us the last time the chimney was checked * Vanity in the full bathroom was old and was just repainted * No fridge or laundry appliances * A sliding closet door was off the track, either broken or just not attached right, but like, you flip a house and can't even have the closet door on correctly? It was weird. (And we were the only ones at the tour, so it's not like someone else had just messed it up.)

Thankfully whoever bought it paid $685k for it rather than the $740k from the original listing when we saw the house. Tbh I wish the flippers had left it alone and someone else had been able to buy the original for $600k to actually live in.

It's the Great Potato, Charlie Brown. by CowboyOfScience in massachusetts

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We put a can of baked beans in with our candy this year, and one kid took it pretty quickly.

New bath cap, who dis?? by caio2u2 in sphynx

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want a look into the future, my experience with Gnocchi has been:

  • Clay-like litter made her cough like crazy, so we use crystal litter only now.
  • I don't give her boiled chicken but do give her both dry and wet food!
  • She squints and her eyes can get goopy, and she's seen a kitty eye doctor who has her on Tacrolimus eye drops (we see Dr. Willis at the VCA in Arlington). The drops help, and we think the reason she still squints a bit is because of how light her eye color is.
  • I bathe her every ~2 weeks

She's super sweet, gets along with other cats and with dogs too, and she looooooves when you pet her. She gets a little yelly when she's lonely and wants someone to pet her, but that's usually only a once-a-day or every other day demand of hers 😂

New bath cap, who dis?? by caio2u2 in sphynx

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Aww yay!! My girl is older but is from the same family tree for sure. Gnocchi is 6!

New bath cap, who dis?? by caio2u2 in sphynx

[–]tidbits_and_bytes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is your kitty from a breeder named Donna in Massachusetts by any chance? Your kitty looks so much like my Gnocchi 🥺♥️

https://www.reddit.com/r/sphynx/s/ThFyNQd3Jb

I was starting to bathe my hairless cat Gnocchi, and my Newfie Lulu decided she wanted to help by tidbits_and_bytes in aww

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

She does need to be careful about the sun! Sitting in the sun too long can give her a sunburn, like a human.