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We were cancelled on both city and country properties and are indeed in the hands of "the last resort".
When push comes to shove, and all the cards are on the table, the last resort looks like gold! Good luck!
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Class act.
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Rich fodder for eat local advocates.
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I want to thank each of you for your very kind words. As an outsider to MFF, 3000 miles away from the center of action, at least a generation older than the average member, I am humbled by the empathy and compassion you've taken time to express. I will always be grateful for these gifts, most often from people I've never met.
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My husband of many decades passed away last week after facing stage 4 cancer for 18 months. He was asymptomatic and pain-free throughout, finally losing vigor in the last several weeks. He was ready to give up the fight.
I have been astounded by the outpouring of consolation by our neighbors. He had quietly made lasting connections with dozens of disparate people.
I am humbled by the mark he made. It doesn't make our loss any easier, but I want to think that he is somehow aware of the depth of loss shared by our coterie of friends and neighbors.
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1 hour ago, hollywood said:
There were some mudslides. Now the atmospheric river is gone. The Santa Ana winds are a distant memory. The captain has taken off the fasten seatbelts sign.
NEVER unbuckle your seatbelts while on a plane, regardless of what the captain says. There's always some kind of turbulence just off the horizon.
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3 hours ago, StephanieL said:
Today, we've had 4 measurable earthquakes hit us, all centered just a few miles from our house.
I felt 2 of them.
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11 hours ago, Steve R. said:
(my b-day was last week, but did I get a mention from either of you?)
Join the chopped liver club.
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My same-old, same old. Old fashioned rolled oats, covered with water, heavy shower of salt, nuked 2.5 minutes. Blanketed with heavy cream. Super strong coffee with milk. Several NYC puzzles. Bracing start to the day. Which occasionally involves heading back to bed for another hour of cossetted sleep.
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No need. Just buy "self-rounding eggs". Medium perfectly fits a biscuit, large fits an English muffin, XL fits a Kayser roll.
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On 1/17/2025 at 2:06 AM, sourbroughten said:
wait...are most of those CD's unopened?
To a collector, an item in its original, sealed container ("mint in box") is worth many orders of magnitude more than an open albeit "like new" identical item.
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Went in for my first SI today. (The knee and the needle are old friends.)
I’m praying for relief since ablation brought none, and my current QOL is the s - -ts.
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An old saw says that you can’t miss what you never had. So how can I so desperately miss someone I never met?
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I am heartbroken. I wondered why last week I kept hearing Pat Meheny’s “Last Train Home”, a track we both loved. We never met but my life is richer for our minuscule but not insignificant friendship.
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On 1/10/2025 at 5:13 PM, Wilfrid said:
This has happened to me before but not for a long time. I am headed down Broadway around 64th Street and two people stop and ask me if there are any good restaurants around here. "Like burgers and fries?"
Rendered speechless, of course. I pointed them downtown and assured them they would find something.
My drop-jaw tourist question was at Union Square where I was asked for a Starbucks and a Pottery Barn. For these you come to San Francisco?
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You’re right. Urban fires used to be single dwellings, hastily put out by city firefighters. But these wind-driven fires are wildfires, leaping rooftop to treetop. Friends in Santa Monica are panicked about their several blocks lined with palm trees, ready to act as matches.
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These wind-driven fires are indeed terrifying. They leap-frog when blowing embers land tens of yards away on tinder (aka houses and foliage, anything combustible). Their speed is incomprehensible.
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Are all of our SoCal family safe?
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Since "I'll never be French", you can construct plate for me! No complaints at all.
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Thanks for this. Much falls into that sad category of “why would the chef think I’d want to eat this????!!!”
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Many thanks, people. We do our best. 😀
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Married 66 years! On that day, so long ago, I could never have imagined it. It went by fast.
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Gotta git me some Kunik. Like l'Oreal says, "because I'm worth it!" Many thanks.
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in What's that got to do with anything?
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Nor do we. Ours was just a search for ANY kind of residential coverage. Insurers are abandoning California like rats on a sinking ship. We wound up the the state's Fair Plan, high rates for minimum coverage.