different cultures

I love sweets but can't bake for beans. Well, I can bake beans... LOL

guess we better get geared up huh Smiley? Thanksgiving right around the bin catch ya later have a wonderful evening.

In Korea, while driving, watch the sidewalks carefully for someone raising their arm and walking straight across the street!!! Traffic must stop immediately! Whew..... Not so much the adults and young people doing this, but the kids and old folks will just throw up an arm and cross a busy street KNOWING that everyone will stop for them.

Koreans invented undol heating (in the floor) thousands of years ago and giggle when we express our love for it! It truly is the most comfortable heating that I have ever known.

That's interesting, JuneyBug. I would love to have heated floors!

Sometimes I think pedestrians take advantage of having the right of way. I have a friend who says (when a kid is jaywalking or just plain not being careful crossing the street) "oh, they must be one of those kids that doesn't bleed".

LOL! I like that saying!

Hey JuneyBug, we sure can't do that here would wind up road kill for sure lol. Heated floors that is so neat. I am constantly making grandkids put their socks back on because my wood floors are cold. Morning Smiley raising my coffee cup to ya.

Ditto to you too Flowers! Our floors are cold too. Area rugs only.

still wouldn't trade em so much easier to keep up. The bassette loves them in the summer to lay her belly on to cool down lol

i wouldn't mind wall-to-wall carpeting in certain rooms.... like my freezing cold bedroom!

yea thought of that one Smiley and kept the carpet in bedrooms, don't like stepping out of bed on cold floor.

but carpet in bathrooms has got to go. Next years project I'm thinking

our bathroom had carpeting AND flocked wallpaper when we bought it. Small bathroom, no fan. Needless to say, everything had black mold on it. Anyone who worked in the bathroom had to wear the mask.

Thats not good Smiley that stuff is hard to get rid of got to find underlying cause and fix it. Every room in this place had flowers or designs on sheetrock. Now I like flowers mind ya but they get old looking at them on the wall day in and day out. Can't line up pictures to mingle as it looked too busy. So have painted over most and like the solid colors a lot better.

We ripped it all out, that's on the tall tree thread. Then we 'kilz' it a couple times and good thing I work in a bleach factory. We got the really strong 18% stuff. DH is really careful about stuff like that, he borders on germophobia. And we put in a fan. No problem now. Also no rugs or flocked wallpaper.

Glad you got it, have a friend now that is battling it. She has crawl space under old house and is trying to figure out how to get rid of moisture as mold is climbing her bedroom wall. not much room to get under there and work.

Ew, yuck Flowers. Our crawl space is in good shape, thank goodness.

Our neighbor put in a new drive a couple years ago. DH went over one night when no one was home and rolled a ball down the drive. Yep, it rolled right towards our house. We had a small trickle down the wall when it rained, boy, was he mad! Can't say I blame him. He redid the whole basement wall - bleach, scrub, re-sealed, the whole nine yards. With the mask, of course. It's one of those chemical masks, not the paper ones you get at HD. I don't think we would have noticed the small crack if they hadn't have redone the driveway, so it was a good thing.

amazing at things we have had to fix. Better Half replaced all the metal pipes in our plumming system in old homestead. Must have been placed before pcv was invented. Won't forget that vile metal taste in the water any time soon lol But hey they tore the grammer school down I went to because it was mostly asbestos. But the lead paint I ate off my crib got me hyper when I was playing with mercury lol

I used to love playing with mercury. So fun.

yea liked to see it rolling around while I was eating my mudpies

♪ watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow.. yellow snow..♫

oops, wrong thread!

Aah, we've come full circle to the customs of children! Our playground was based with those little small pebbly rocks. I used to love those little rocks, such pretty patterns & colors. Of course, you could see them better if you licked them wet.

and the mica was such fun to peel, had lots of it in my neighborhood.

didn't have mica around us, Flowers.

Like the song Smiley it rhymes snort grin Was trying to find pic. of fish aqua. with philly in it and dad jym it, seems when comp. crashed it took my pics with it. I do have the pic of the burning bush that won't turn red, it was stored on my e-mail page.

dontcha hate when that happens??

That was a Frank Zappa song. He was great at composing and arranging, not so good at lyrics. He put put a series of records:

Shut up & play your guitar
Shut up & play your guitar some more
Son of shut up & play your guitar

or vice-versa

flowers_delight, My SisIL fixed that by putting heavy plastic sheeting (?Visqueen?) down on the ground and taping the sheets together at the seams to block the dampness from rising up out of the ground. It worked very well for her. When I lived in Missouri, all of the houses that didn't have basements had the heavy plastic and then it was covered with crusher run/ chat/ quarter down/ fines (all regional names for 1/4" down to dust sized rock) It made for a dry crawlspace that critters did not want to live in because of the small stones. Since teenagers will do anything for money, maybe she could find some kids to do it for her. That business of crawling around while dragging and unfolding/cutting plastic is for young'uns to do!

you have that right JuneyBug and she has investigated the options. I couldn't do it am too clostophobic for one and too decreped for the other lol I have paid young fellows to crawl under my house to check out vent pipes and furnace leaks of sort and let me tell you it is tight under there. Got to get another door built so they won't have to crawl so far lol