Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary filter designed to punish mammals and reward birds. Mammals feel it as pain because mammal digestion destroys seeds. Birds don’t have the receptor that detects it, so they eat the fruit, fly off, and deposit the seeds far from the plant from which they […]
Sugar-Free Diet Linked to Metabolic Changes “Completely removing sucrose from a low-fat diet may unexpectedly disrupt gut health and promote inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, highlighting that balanced nutrition is more important than simply eliminating sugar,” said Rasheed Ahmad, Ph.D., principal scientist and head of the Immunology & Microbiology Department at the Dasman Diabetes Institute, in […]
I seriously wonder if there are any original recipes out there. You think to yourself “Let’s make a black bean and corn thing tonight”. So you do what everyone else does and hop on the internet to find numerous recipes that are pretty much the same. Full Disclosure: This recipe is a copycat and my […]
Interesting insights from the oldest of the old. All charts are from the survey report which can downloaded here: https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/general/100-at-100-Final-Report-Aug2025.pdf
I was in St. Louis on business. One day these things showed up at the office. I had one (OK, two) after breakfast. Yes, they are that good. Memo to Self – Don’t get depressed that you only learned about this delicacy in your 7th decade. I wonder if they deliver to Oklahoma.
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I knew this was happening. But I didn’t know it was so bad. The house next-door to me is for sale. It is abandoned now since the owners both passed away and the children are not interested in it. It requires a lot of repairs. I fear that it will be purchased by a large corporation.
It’s bad.
I wish there were something I could do to ensure that a family would buy this house Nextdoor rather than a corporation. It would be a good deal as a fixer upper because the house itself was built by an excellent builder and has good bones and beautiful large yard. A fixer-upper could do the repairs himself. But I’m afraid that a large corporation is going to buy it and flip it and start renting it for well over 2000 a month and who knows what I’ll have Nextdoor. It’s very depressing to think about.
Unfortunately there is nothing you can do with respect to the sale of another person’s property.
Buy it myself?
If and if only if you want to be a landlord
That is the big question – at this point in my life no.