Butter sits out on the counter, toast gets fully buttered. I try not to pierce the toast.

Cindy, that's such a frustrating situation C. is in. And you can't just easily fix it as his mom.

Thank you Teppy and Calli! It IS frustrating.

If you have the kind of illness where you need juice, soup, ginger ale, and cross dosing of Tylenol and ibuprofen, I am your gal. Need to elevate this, ice that, cleanse the other thing, change a dressing, keep tabs on 5 different meds, some of which can't be taken within a couple of hours of each other, while some need an empty stomach and others need a full one? Hit me up. I'm a pro and have the homemade charts to prove it. I can pinpoint a fever with 0.5 degrees F, by touching my lips to your forehead.

Illnesses mothering can't fix offend me. They're scabs, and my shop is a union shop.

It sounds like switching back to Remicade is the best way forward;

I hope so, and if it is, I hope he can. The thing is, this vasculitis is rare (particularly for someone of his age/overall good physical condition). Had he been on it still, Remicade conceivably *could* have caused it (but he's been off for six months). Remicade is infliximab. Inflectra is infliximab-dyyb. The med change is the only notable change in anything in the past six months

(And I don't say this out in the wider world wide web, because I don't want want to feed the anti-vaxxers, but he had his 2nd Pfizer shot two days before his most recent infusion, so there's a chance some flukey reaction happened -- but it's just that both were back in March, so it's hard to say what caused this at all.)

Oh, in exciting news, I am getting my first professional haircut in two years in a couple of hours! Pixieland, here I come.

I haven't made an appointment to get my hair cut, because I'm in one of those stages where I don't know what I want to do with it. Your mention of "Pixieland" made me tingle though, Jen, as did Beverly cutting off six inches of her hair. I did the latter to myself about a year ago, but it turns out hair grows back.

I need to color, too. I look like a skunk.

Well, I say "I have work," but I'm currently looking at Ruggable rugs online. Has anyone gotten a rug from them? I'm curious if they live up to their marketing.

We have 2 and I love them! Although we haven't yet put either in the washing machine. They spot clean well enough.

I can report happiness in Pixieland, Cindy. OMG, so much better.

Hmmm. I hadn't heard of Ruggable before today. Interesting!

Timelies all!

Getting warm here.

It's supposed to hit 80 (or more) today ... which would explain why I saw a LOT of cicada husks and a few newly emerged adults. buzz, buzz, y'all

It hit 80 here today, Toddson. It was nice, but I think we're a little too north for Brood X. We just get the dog day cicadas.

Hi, Sheryl.

I can report happiness in Pixieland, Cindy. OMG, so much better.

Nice, Jen!

I can report happiness in Pixieland, Cindy. OMG, so much better.

It looks so good!

Husks galore at my front door.

Thank you, David!

Butter...scraped over too much bread...

When buttering toast, it's important to get an appreciable depth of butter, so meted a given amount of butter, if it's not enough to spread to the edges, I sort of adequately butter the middle and leave margins around the edges. Best, of course, is enough to spread adequate depth crust to crust. Also, if there will be honey, there must be enough butter to mingle the two. If there will be jelly (or preserves, which I prefer) there should be slightly less butter because the preserves contain enough liquid to make up for edge-to-edge butter.

PBJ sammich requires a margin of 1/16th to 1/8th inch all 'round to allow for squish and spread factor.

ETA: If I could find square butter I would leave it on the counter in the black chintzware butter dish my great-aunt left me, but regular sticks are just in a PennaDutch blue pattern on white Pyrex butter dish. Didn't we have a butter dish convo, way back in the mists of time? Crocks you fill with ice water and float a smaller crock in, kind of things?

JenP your hair is fantastic--shows off your face and makes your eyes look enormous and beautiful. I covet that hair! (I'd never wear it b/c hair on my face getitoff getitoff, but) on you it looks wonderful.