In the astonishing and hard to believe category - the house I grew up in and that features in all three Kritzer books, which my father paid just under 10,000 bucks for sometime in the mid-1940s (prior to my birth certainly and most likely prior to my brother's, before 1944 - the house was built in 1938 and maybe they even got it when it was new. The last price it sold for was 36,000 bucks so that had to be in the mid 1970s or thereabouts, maybe even towards the end of that decade, since the neighborhood was terrible in those days. The same people apparently still live there, since there's been no sales listed since. Today, the estimate for the house is 1.3 million dollars. I mean, if the absurdity of that isn't perfectly clear, nothing ever will be. It's listed as a three-bedroom two bathroom house. That means they had to turn what was our den into a bedroom. There are only six rooms in the entire house - a dining room (unless they turned THAT into a bedroom), a tiny kitchen and porch area, a living room, and what they call the three bedrooms - that's IT, all 1600 sq. feet of it - 1.3 MILLION dollars. The world has gone completely insane as have the idiots who would actually pay that, because ANYONE who would pay that would then tear it down and spend ANOTHER two million to construct a monstrosity. How does anyone live in Los Angeles anymore.
I 'm going to assume it's auto-correct, but how does it get "bi6to" instead of "birthday"?? :o
I believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I remember going to Marshall Fields in Chicago on my first trip there. It was Christmas time and the store was loaded with happy shoppers going from floor to floor. We ate lunch there and just wandered around breathing it all in.
When I went to Chicago last November, it was a Macy’s store. It was already decorated for Christmas, but everything had changed. Half the floors were empty. It felt more like a Ross Dress for Less, only a few blocks away, and I left with some purchases, but I also left depressed.
Happy Birthday Cilla!!
From DR TCB:QuoteI believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I think/hope so.
DR Jane, I think that you are as frustrated as I am re: covid and how people are acting. Since Quebec has gotten down to around 90 or 100 cases a day (population of 8 million) so many are acting like this is over. I see pictures of people inside standing right beside each other. People outside are standing right on top of each other. I feel like these people are living in a completely different world than I am. :(
Sunday afternoon greetings!
Ah, yes, big city department stores. J. L. Hudson Co., had a fabulous flagship store in downtown Detroit that was a big part of my growing up. One of my first memories is of my sister taking me there when I was about 6 to meet Kay Thompson and get an autographed copy of ELOISE. That was the beginning of my love of meeting authors and hearing them talk about their books. Unfortunately, the store was imploded on October 24, 1998 :'(
My grandmother worked as a jewelry marker in a secured "cage" in the L. S. Ayres store in downtown Indianapolis in the 1950s and early '60s. She used a blue ballpoint pen to write the prices on small white tags attached to high-end costume jewelry like Monet and Trifari. It was always a treat to visit her at work and have lunch in the Ayres Tea Room, which has been replicated inside the Indiana State Museum. About 15 years ago my Mom, sister, niece, and I had a delightful lunch there.
From DR TCB:QuoteI believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I think/hope so.
I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them. Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead. I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part. I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.
Thanks for the birthday greetings. I've been having a rough time lately and don't want to just come to this site to complain, so I've stayed away. I do appreciate the good wishes.
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From DR TCB:QuoteI believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I think/hope so.
I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them. Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead. I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part. I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.
The antibodies test required a blood sample
From DR TCB:QuoteI believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I think/hope so.
I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them. Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead. I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part. I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.
Wouldn’t a health crisis such as the current pandemic be considered sufficient cause?
Covid testing vibes for DR Vixmom!
From DR TCB:QuoteI believe the Arizona bar owners will lose their lawsuit.
I think/hope so.
I'm not so sure they will lose. There was no due process and no evidence presented just an executive order. Forcing someone to close their business is the same as taking their property without due process, you are taking their income and that can't be returned to them. Many will have to close forever and they all still have to pay their overhead. I don't think a lot of these orders are constitutional, but people are going along with them for the most part. I'm glad someone is finally taking the issue to court.
If the bars don't follow safety precautions are they liable for someone dying from covid? Actually I think people throwing covid parties knowing they are sick should be liable for any deaths. Of course that is a different issue.
The Duke and Wallis Simpson were more shallow and blind than I had previously thought.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for a successful Kritzerland show tonight! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Places!
In the astonishing and hard to believe category - the house I grew up in and that features in all three Kritzer books, which my father paid just under 10,000 bucks for sometime in the mid-1940s (prior to my birth certainly and most likely prior to my brother's, before 1944 - the house was built in 1938 and maybe they even got it when it was new. The last price it sold for was 36,000 bucks so that had to be in the mid 1970s or thereabouts, maybe even towards the end of that decade, since the neighborhood was terrible in those days. The same people apparently still live there, since there's been no sales listed since. Today, the estimate for the house is 1.3 million dollars. I mean, if the absurdity of that isn't perfectly clear, nothing ever will be. It's listed as a three-bedroom two bathroom house. That means they had to turn what was our den into a bedroom. There are only six rooms in the entire house - a dining room (unless they turned THAT into a bedroom), a tiny kitchen and porch area, a living room, and what they call the three bedrooms - that's IT, all 1600 sq. feet of it - 1.3 MILLION dollars. The world has gone completely insane as have the idiots who would actually pay that, because ANYONE who would pay that would then tear it down and spend ANOTHER two million to construct a monstrosity. How does anyone live in Los Angeles anymore.
Our family home in Seattle was built around 1952 for, I believe, somewhere around 20+ thousand.
After our parents died, we sold the house in about 1970 for about $40+ thousand.
Today, that house is worth about 2 million.
Oh my, DR Jrand69. I fear for the reaction you're going to get when David Lynch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0) gets wind of this development.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vibes for a successful Kritzerland show tonight! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
DR John is there a particular brand of gluten-free pasta you found tastes as good as regular pasta?
Alas, not that I can eat pasta right now.
Spending a little bit of Sunday with Huck Finn and the AMTSJ production of Big River.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcvShqLOM8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcvShqLOM8)
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
I used to get my eyeglasses in downtown Indy, and we would go shopping at the department stores.
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
Ways your cat expresses affection:
https://pawsplanet.me/10-ways-your-cat-says-i-love-you/ (https://pawsplanet.me/10-ways-your-cat-says-i-love-you/)
Annabelle: Nos. 2, 4, 7, 9
Thatch: Nos. 1, 4
Stella: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
I remember going to Marshall Fields in Chicago on my first trip there. It was Christmas time and the store was loaded with happy shoppers going from floor to floor. We ate lunch there and just wandered around breathing it all in.
When I went to Chicago last November, it was a Macy’s store. It was already decorated for Christmas, but everything had changed. Half the floors were empty. It felt more like a Ross Dress for Less, only a few blocks away, and I left with some purchases, but I also left depressed.
When Macy's purchased other department stores they turned them all into Macy's. I think keeping the individuality of the stores would have been better.
DR John is there a particular brand of gluten-free pasta you found tastes as good as regular pasta?
Alas, not that I can eat pasta right now.
This brand was Mariella and is from Italy. It was much better than any I had tried several years ago.
I have nothing to brag about, food-wise, just been snacking all day on whatever's here. But I got a lot of vacuuming and putting-away done.
I spent 40 minutes out in the garage, trying to straighten out some things. I took a superfan with me, but I'm still dripping from the heat.
I have nothing to brag about, food-wise, just been snacking all day on whatever's here. But I got a lot of vacuuming and putting-away done.
I found a gift card for Subway, but didn't know if it had anything on it. I couldn't find out online how to find out what the balance is, so I took my chances and went to Subway. Ithashad $25 on it! Free lunch! :D I brought home my sandwich (Subway Melt) and ate half of it. The other half will be my dinner later tonight.
I have nothing to brag about, food-wise, just been snacking all day on whatever's here. But I got a lot of vacuuming and putting-away done.
I found a gift card for Subway, but didn't know if it had anything on it. I couldn't find out online how to find out what the balance is, so I took my chances and went to Subway. Ithashad $25 on it! Free lunch! :D I brought home my sandwich (Subway Melt) and ate half of it. The other half will be my dinner later tonight.
It is as if you received the gift twice :)
I spent 40 minutes out in the garage, trying to straighten out some things. I took a superfan with me, but I'm still dripping from the heat.
John, I don't care who your superfan is but...TMI!! :o
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
Hmm. What are the features of the $15,000 ones?
Well, that went pretty well.
Spending a little bit of Sunday with Huck Finn and the AMTSJ production of Big River.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcvShqLOM8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcvShqLOM8)
I love this score, but I've never seen the show. I guess I can now!
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
I bought my condo 13 1/2 years ago for $160,000 and the Zestimate is now at $237,718.
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
I bought my condo 13 1/2 years ago for $160,000 and the Zestimate is now at $237,718.
I bought my condo one year ago, and the value has gone up by $23,000.00.
I got my house 20 years ago for $64,000. Just got a statement from my insurance company that the value is $180,000, which is about $20,000 more than the tax level on it. Houses in the area are selling for $15,000-$175,000.
I bought my condo 13 1/2 years ago for $160,000 and the Zestimate is now at $237,718.
I bought my condo one year ago, and the value has gone up by $23,000.00.
My mom didn’t have a car, at first, so on Monday or Friday Evening when the stores were open until 9:00 pm; the three of us would take the bus downtown for some shopping and dinner at Woolworth’s.