Does anyone here have experience with HOAs run by the developer of a neighborhood?
I just read our bylaws/covenant and it states very clearly that our recreational facilities will be completed by December 2019. It’s now September 2020 and they haven’t even broken ground yet. We’ve also never had a meeting or seen a budget and just keep writing out $90 checks each month for the supposed cost of landscaping the common areas and the front yards.
Is this something that might be worth pursuing at least in terms of asking questions about it? The whole recreation area not being built yet has driven me crazy for a while.
Can I have a refresher in online text therapy services people have used? I used a line today that was just text and it was good. Moo I’m thinking about using a subscription one with a therapist
Talkspace and better help are the ones that advertise on podcasts. Better help seems like it’s a little bit cheaper for a little bit less on demand service. I used Talkspace for a while.
7 cups of tea is a free peer one, but I’ve heard iffy things about how well people are trained to respond to stuff.
How to run a roomba in a room with furniture and also cords?
All of my rooms have furniture and cords and the roomba disapproves/gets stuck/starts humping the power strip and then dies. I thought robots were supposed to be useful? Also specifically the roomba can go under this one chair and then it turns around 17 times and decides it’s stuck now.
I know I should have made notes from the last time it was discussed, but someone please tell me what the affordable but easy-to-write-with pens are? My hands are having a “writing with a standard ballpoint is too hard” day, and it sucks.
I get the main robot traps like surge protectors off the floor (permanently, no point in having to do every time something every time I want to vacuum). Once that’s done I find the cords can usually fend for themselves. I have one table I blocked off Roomba’s access to, because it can just squeeze under there but then it gets wedged between floor and a support beam.
I run around pre roomba and pull cords and baby and cat toys off the floor. I had chairs that roomba could only handle if they were pulled out from the table, so I do. Basically, roomba is the boss. There’s a computer section that is too hard to deal with so I set the virtual wall there.
Does anyone have any experience with the Purple (brand) chair cushions? My tailbone especially is really suffering with sitting on old farm chairs, even with cushions, and I don’t have the desire to buy a fancy office chair that I will then have to move in 6 months. Sitting on a pillow on top of the cushion helps some, but it throws off the height. I’ve heard good things about the Purple ones though. (I will have to wait until October to actually buy it though.)
Does flour go bad? I just tried to make gluten free bread for my SIL, and it isn’t rising like it should. The yeast is fresh. I don’t use much GF flour though, so it could be older. There is no date on the bag because I must have cut it off when opening it.
Should I go ahead and bake it anyway? I’ve already used/wasted the ingredients, so maybe?
Using a “normal” recipe, just exchanging regular flour with GF flour. I have done that very successfully with cookies and cakes, so I assumed it would work with bread too.
I also have an unopened bag of GF flour dated as “best by March 2020”. Should I pitch that too? Obviously I need to bake for my SIL more often!
No, keep the gf flour, give up on making bread with it. You can probably make baking powder leavened biscuits but it won’t bread that easily. Making gf bread is a nightmare, I apologise for gluten being delicious and magical and actually the most important bread ingredient
