Hit me with your best tips for making a backpacking trip fun for elementary age kids. Cool back country treats (we'll obviously have a lot of mac & cheese, peanut m&ms, etc)? Fun games you like to play? We'll be out for 3 nights, base camping at a lake 3 miles from the trail head, highly favorable ratio of adults to kids.
I have a 1000W modified sine wave inverter I'd like to replace with a pure sine wave inverter. My top priority is for it to do whatever thermal management it has to do quietly, though I recognize that fans make noise and that's just reality. Do you have a recommendation? Other considerations are physical size (especially length/width), since it's in a small space, and of course price, though I would rather spend more for something more durable, quieter, or both.
I'm in a New Brunswick genealogy Facebook group, and today someone posted an image of a document from the Drouin collection showing civil marriage records from the NB Department of Health from the 1830s. I had never heard that the Drouin collection contained civil records outside Quebec (or even that NB had civil marriage records at that stage).
I've obviously asked this person for more info. In the meantime, though, I'm wondering if anyone here has general info on the availability of early New Brunswick marriage records in the Drouin collection, or if you know of other sources for the same records. I don't currently have Ancestry or Genealogie Quebec access, though I plan to go to a FamilySearch center sometime in July and I'd be interested to know where/how to find those records when I do.
In case it's helpful, I'm looking for the marriage of two New Brunswick residents, John Emmerson (born 1796 in either Newfoundland or PEI) and Mariah (or Maria) Ives Tozer (born 1808). Their first child was born in 1824 in Whitney, North Esk Parish, Northumberland County, New Brunswick, though Mariah Tozer was born in Maugerville in Sunbury County so they may have married there instead. John Emmerson grew up Anglican, but by the time they reached Whitney they were Baptists, so records are scarce.
I have a loved one who can't eat wheat, onions, or garlic. (They can eat scallions or chives, and they can eat trace amounts of wheat like you might find in breading on fried chicken. It's a FODMAP thing, if you know you know.)
We eat a lot of sushi. Any other suggestions about places that might be able to work? Doesn't have to be a restaurant that's totally free of alliums and wheat, just looking for a few dishes on the menu that will work. So far we've been able to eat at a bunch of sushi places, Oori Rice Triangles, Good To Eat (with some careful navigation), and Kitava. Dim sum is also surprisingly workable -- lots of rice-based noodles/dumplings with scallions as the allium.
Asking for a friend: I’m curious if anyone has had experiences or seen cases involving someone being approved for citizenship by descent based on a biological parent who has no legal connection (and does not want a legal connection).
In my friend‘s case, the Canadian bio parent is a known sperm donor. The relationship is friendly, and he’d help out with DNA tests and providing his birth certificate. However, he is not on the birth certificate — only one parent is, and neither the donor nor the parent wants him to get parental rights and responsibilities. Kiddo is still a minor.
Has anyone seen an approval go by that maps to similar facts? Distant but not unfriendly biological dad, known sperm donor, whatever.
Any tips on where to get good advice here (Canadian lawyers, US family lawyers, someone else I’m not thinking of)? Any helpful insight on how Canada treats biological descent?
I have an old Craftsman with a ton of cool details, and a whooole lot of knob and tube. Basic set up is that the attic wiring for the ceiling lights is all knob and tube, as is some of the wall wiring on the main floor. Basement was finished mainly in the 90s and is romex (and not inside the walls, so easy to track.)
I would like to insulate the attic. I’d also like a couple new circuits, but those probably can be done without much wall opening.
The first electrician I’m talking to has said that, basically, if I’m pulling out some of the knob and tube I’ll need to replace all of it, including busting holes in the walls. At which point I’d also want to insulate the walls, and so on and so forth, and the total cost of the job doubles or triples.
The other option is to just have the electrician sign off on keeping the knob and tube, and insulate over it. This is legal in my state, though it increasingly seems to be an insurance issue. The electricians I’ve talked to (this year and a few years ago) have not been concerned about this as a safety issue, even though the internet mostly seems to think my house has a 300% chance of burning down if a knob or tube remains in it.
I have a couple of questions
First, I *know* I’ve seen lots of stories about folks replacing knob & tube a bit at a time. What’s up with that? Is it just preferable to do it all, or is there some reason it all has to be done at once?
Second, I’m somewhat tempted to leave the attic wiring alone and spend my money on insulation and better circuits for the kitchen. What happens if I blow insulation over the knob and tube (again, legal in my state and safe per multiple electricians and insulation companies as long as the wiring was done well and is in good shape), and a few years down the line replacing the knob and tube becomes a necessity for insurance? (It’s a little hard to imagine that EVERY house in the metro will have to be updated, given that most of them still have k&t, but the insurance market is wild.)
The cost is obviously the major consideration here — if I had all the money I need, I’d just rewire the whole house, insulate attic and walls, upgrade the panel, and buy an induction stove. But in reality I have to do things incrementally, so I’m trying to understand the options in more detail.
It’s the internet so I can’t control what folks do, but if you just want to comment to say knob and tube is dangerous, I’d take it as a kindness if you’d scroll on by.
I just switched to Kaiser (for better and worse) due to a new job that offers only Kaiser insurance. My prior derm, outside Kaiser, prescribed me Emrosi for rosacea, which is not on the formulary. It's a very low dose (40 mg) extended release version of an antibiotic, minocycline. It's on the formularies for WA and Mid-Atlantic commercial plans, but not for NorCal.
The doc offered to prescribe me 50 mg of immediate release minocycline twice a day (so 100 mg total). In the context of some back and forth while I was asking why the dose was so much higher, the pharmacist said, basically, the low-dose extended version is quite different: it has anti-inflammatory effects which the immediate release one does not, and it does not have antibiotic effects so does not cause abx resistance or harm the gut microbiome.
Any tips on ways to get a formulary exception? My concerns about immediate release aren't about side effects that would make me uncomfortable and lead to failing a trial, they're about long-term abx resistance and gut health since this is a med people take for a while. I'm also concerned about the different mechanism of action.
Paying out of pocket isn't really an option as the med is $1000/month and the manufacturers copay card only works if my commercial insurance covers it.