@doschicos and @jasmom Thanks for the Autoslash option for car rental. Less expensive than Costco and USAA for my one week rental next month.
I got a fabulous rental deal with DH’s former employers code. 
Am getting estimates on driveway repaving. Any tips on ideas or questions to ask?
When we had our driveway replaced, we chose a contractor who not only replaced driveways, but also worked on road construction, because we assumed (correctly) that if he did jobs for the state, he was good. People still ask us who did our driveway because it looks so good.
Thanks. One of the companies we may have give us a quote has some very high end clients/projects on their website, and it says several other companies get their recent from them.
New question: I just did the Windows 10 update, restarted the computer, and now whenever I try to print from a website I opened in chrome, it crashes. Every time. Has anyone else had his problem?
I looked at the suggested ways to fix it, and one says to clear cookies. I happened to have cleared all the cookies from Chrome yesterday b/c of another issue I was having (before finishing the Windows 10 update) with AT&T requiring a password update. Any other thoughts/suggestions? I’ll send a report to google.
Does it crash when doing the same thing in Edge, Firefox, or some other browser?
DK. DH fixed it. I think the memory for whatever holds the image to print needed to be cleared, if I understood correctly.
@jym626 re your driveway, ask for written bids, and find out what prep they do (get them to detail it, again in writing). I think you’re in the Northeast? Anyway, I have the impression you’re familiar with the scourges of winter, and what’s underneath makes all the difference.
Anybody else noticing that now threads with new posts are in bold instead of vice versa? That’s the way it was before the “upgrade.”
THanks, @HouseChatte. Am no longer in the NE, but still want a durable driveway. Where I live people use a cement surface or pavers.
And yes, @Nrdsb4 - they finally switched it back so the threads with new posts are in bold. Small, slow progress!
I want to drive WA to CO in mid October. Is there any website I can see which route has the least snow/ ice if any ?
Not for me. So far.
So when the recipe calls for 3/4 cup chopped nuts –
Do I measure 3/4 cups whole nuts and chop them?
Or do I chop enugh nuts until I have 3/4 of a cup of chopped nuts?
I’ve always interpreted it as the latter. Chop the nuts, then measure them.
If it reads 3/4 cup chopped nuts, I’d use 3/4 cup already chopped then measured.
If it said 3/4 cup nuts, chopped, that would be different - measured than chopped.
For a lot of recipes, it probably wouldn’t matter too much.
@doschicos is correct.
But here’s where the slight difference in wording makes a real difference in a recipe:
1 cup sifted flour(meaning sift before measuring) versus 1 cup flour, sifted (measure before sifting).
When was the last time you sifted flour?
I sift frequently. In fact my favorite pumpkin apple bread calls for sifting flour with the spices and baking soda so will be doing it a lot this fall. It only takes a second.
I sifted flour last week when I made a fig ricotta cake. I didn’t know the difference with the wording. I measured the dry ingredients and sifted. I’ll read baking recipes more carefully next time I bake.
I sift mostly when making cookies at Christmas, usually sugar cookies.
I also have a blueberry muffin recipe that calls for sifted flour.