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I wonder where the dog loo is and if the dogs can leave the apartment at will (like through a doggy door if no one is at home). I have a dog that has to use absorbent pads (for that purpose) inside my apartment when I am not home. If it went outside through a doggy door then my neighbors would have to see and smell the results until I got home to clean it up.

Their patio looks very inviting.

I think it's interesting that people seem to assume that they will always have functional legs/ankles/balance and assume all their guests and/or future family members will likewise.

I know an very healthy 70-ish woman who lives in a lovely multilevel home (that I can't take my daughter to because my daughter uses a wheelchair). This woman has done well with all those stairs, until now... she just broke an ankle. Parts of her own home will be totally inaccessible if she needs a wheelchair or walker in the next few years. And THIS woman has normal California-building-code staircases.

It makes me think there's something missing, a 50 gallon barrel with a fire burning in it (and some tattered, dirty people warming their hands over it).

Though the swings are cool. It seems kind of awkward to try to push a kid on a swing when one is standing on a kind of steep slope.

I guess I'm just not that into high-concept modernism....

Our laundry waits in the bathtub, behind the shower curtain in a basket until it gets washed. We don't have another option, too much laundry to fit in a small hamper.

I think it's called Caldera (like the Spanish word for cauldron). I saw it for the first time last night at Target... I like the sage scent... very nice.

Speaking as a former art history major cum bio-psychology major (at a well known university) I have seen many depictions of nudes from many cultures. While I was an art history student I learned that there are valid criticisms to be made about the drawing, painting and displaying of naked people, whether or not they strike a particular person someone as pornographic or titillating is irrelevant really.

The artist was being a voyeur, the artist has more power than the model. Which is why it's usually male artists and female models, in my opinion. The model is turning the very thing they live inside (their body) of into an object, a commodity. The model is objectified. The model becomes so much meat. When we observe a nude, do we normally think, what spiritual qualities does this woman with the big breasts or that man with the wrinkled legs have? If I asked this person with their behind exposed a deep question about math or science, what would his or her answer be?

No, we start thinking about body parts and I think usually, on some level we are thinking about sexuality.

I think it's time to grow up and realize that objectifying human bodies is inappropriate, whether or not it's in a church or the Louvre, or your bathroom. Otherwise what we have is nothing more that ersatz sophistication.

I have two of the one-button rice cookers, a big one and a little one. They both have separate metal lids. I have used them to steam (Chinese filled buns (both frozen and homemade). I have also steamed tamales in them... works really well, with the little steaming rack that comes with the rice cooker or with an improvised rack on the bottom. My little rice cooker has a steamer that sits on the top of the pot, my big rice cooker has a steaming tray that sits on the bottom...

I have never tried anything like soup before... that would be interesting, I can't quite see what the advantage would be. Mine turn themselves off when the water gets boiled off (when steaming), or absorbed (when cooking rice)... I wonder how long they would continue to cook with soup in them?

(sigh) Looks perfect to me. :-)

I'm going with pigskin
http://www.tailileather.com/color/TL055.jpg :-)

I don't know if there are big enough pieces of leather in an ostrich hide to make a couch... seems like it would be prohibitively expensive, too... though it could be ostrich-look vinyl, maybe?

Steam. Wonderful stuff.