Dang. Those heart flip flops are back.
catherinet
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Comments (21)They seem to be OK otherwise. So many flowers were knocked off and a few inflos snapped off too but thats how it goes. I will take the risk of this kind of bad weather over no weather. I wish there was a method to the madness to figure out. Some with just rocks were fine and others weren't. Some of the rebar had worked itself out of the ground and some held. Maybe because the ground was very soft and it blew out of the southeast which is very rare without a tropical cyclone. I would estimate the gusts to be 50+mph by the fact nearly whole trees were in motion. It was a pretty impressive microburst. While i was waiting for a light it was rocking my truck and a large branch from a Mesquite tree fell in front of me and a street sign blew over hitting a car a few lengths behind me. I think this was just one of those instances that you can only clean up after and make the best of it. I am going to buy some longer 4 ft sections of rebar now and put a 90 degree bend one end to hook over the lip of the pot. Then drive it with a sledge as far as I can. Come winter time I will just turn the rebar out of the way to move the pot or use leverage to pull it out....See MoreNeed a Summer Orthotic Sandal/Flip-flop
Comments (49)I feel just awful that I recommended a shoe to Red that didn't work for her, and I feel for her frustration and the waste of money. And part of the reason I feel terrible is because the shoe I advocated so strongly is not what Orthaheel is currently selling as the Wave flip-flop. Last month, I ordered a Wave pair and a Tide and found I can't wear either one because OrthaheelUSA has redesigned the product! I measured them for comparison against my older ones. The strap is tighter, the footbed is a little softer and more padded, and the angles and hollows of the footbed are shallower (it's been made just a little flatter). But the worst part is--and I can't understand why they would do such a thing--the thong has been positioned one-quarter inch farther back from the front of the shoe, which means that the thong digs painfully between the toes and prevents the arch and heel from settling fully into the places designed to receive them. A noticeably larger amount of empty sole now extends beyond my toes (enough to be a tripping hazard). The new flip-flops were so uncomfortable that I couldn't keep them on for even half a minute. For any other product, I would have shrugged philosophically and sent them back, but I was so concerned (actually, DH would probably describe it as enraged and distraught) about this threat to long-term physical health and well-being that I fired off emails to the place from which I ordered them, to OrthaheelUSA, and to the office of the Australian doctor who developed them. The redesigned shoes are easily differentiated from the original ones by the Orthaheel logo on the bottom of the shoe---the old good one has ORTHAHEEL in all caps with a squiggly line under the first 4 letters (ORTH), whereas the new logo has larger letters all in lower case with the squiggle under the last 4 letters (heel). If I wear the good flip-flops every day (first thing in the morning and last thing at night), the old Orthaheel design stabilizes my plantar fascitis and my feet NEVER hurt, even if I walk around barefoot for part of the day. I dread the day my old ones wear out and I return to the chronic pain and inflammation of heel spurs that I lived with before I bought my first pair of Orthaheel flip-flops. Anyway, the vendor followed up on my anguished complaint, contacted the manufacturer, and responded as follows: "We learn something new every day! . . . There is a difference between the new foot bed and the old. Apparently, Orthaheel has moved to a new manufacturer (for better quality, they say). The variance on the foot bed is meant to be so slight that it should not be noticeable. Obviously it is for you." Now I will try to locate a bunch of the old version of the flip-flops and stockpile enough of them to last 15 or 20 years. It illustrates something I must have forgotten: Just because you've found a perfect product, don't assume it will always be obtainable. And boy am I kicking myself....See MoreChild Flip-Flop
Comments (8)Thanks so much you guys for the variety of perspectives. And Scarlett, thank you for that thought, this is my biggest fear that he'll take years to finally make up his mind and it will be decision by default, or we'll have to do IVF (which I dread, I know so many people who have had to do it and the process sounds awful), or my parents will no longer be around, etc. For me the sooner the better. By the way, I finally coaxed the 'reasons' out of him, and aside from just basically enjoying the freedom right now, I think 'diapers' came up about two dozen times...he can't see past that for some reason, you'd think diapers was a pit of poisonous vipers to hear him talk about it! So after a week of fighting, making-up, heartache, tears and laughter, we agreed to put the plans on hold for one year, and then we could revisit it. I'll be 31 at that time, so hopefully with child by 33, I can live with that. In the meantime I'm going to keep busy with hobbies, traveling and reading, in the hopes that I'll have no regrets if I use the time wisely to do things that would be more difficult to do with kids. Me time! Try to turn lemons into lemonade, what else can you do, right? Thanks again, everyone...I love this site...so many positive insights, and so few judgements. Rare for a messageboard....See MoreSkip this post if sick of whorehouse flip flopping
Comments (37)I'm way behind on the story, and I guess I didn't realize until now that you had TWO sofas to re-cover! I would definitely do the chairs in the paisley and leave the sofas in solid colors, especially if they are going to sit back-to-back or close together as shown in your photo. Too many competing patterns and colors, unless that is what you're going for. I do still love the elephant print and the olive color with it. Not a bold choice for a solid, but really shows off the thundering herd. I'd use the rust/red as cording somewhere - with the teal blue on the sofa or maybe even on both sofas to tie them together, for throw pillows or for cording on pillows with the paisley, etc. Just a touch of that will go a long way. Here is your photo right-side up....See Moreshotzy52
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