That make sense. I had a hunch you would be the one to answer this. Thanks!

Thanks for the shroom! I have lots of outdoor furniture from IKEA. It is well made and affordable.

The idea that the average performance of stock brokers is not better than the indexes is worse than it sounds. Lots of brokers do much better. Those that do are successful enough to limit their clients to the wealthy. Those who take small accounts are inexperienced or relatively unsuccessful. The chance of finding someone who is talented enough to make you more money than a mutual fund is very, very small if you have less than $100,000 to invest.

The chance that an individual buying stocks could do better than that is ridiculously small over the long run.

April 2 here. #747

I should have been more specific in my answer. In re-reading the question it looks like I was referring only to the safety issue. By "not hot enough to cook the meat right" I was in part referring to the unpleasant way ground beef turns out when boiled without browning first. I still would never put raw hamburger in a crock pot, no matter how safe it is. It will be rubbery and floating in fat.

The island was first mapped in the late 1700's by Mr Puget and Mr Whidbey of the royal navy. Things are named based on sailing around them. Useless bay is called that because it is useless and deception pass is deceptive.

You are a good guy for trying to take care of her. Your choices are all bad and my advice to you doesn't make it any easier. Good luck.

It is a great question and you are smart to not take it lightly. You should really talk to her about it though.

Advair changed my life! It is nothing less than a miracle of modern science.

My mother is from Coeur d'Alene and as a child we had a cabin there. The family has been in idaho since the 1800s and it has always been "name then lake"

Google maps gets it right for Coeur d'Alene lake but wrong for Hayden lake (we all remember the Aryan nation camp at Hayden Lake, right?)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22Coeur+d%27Alene+Lake%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=8OzkTtSVHonliAKvuv2vBg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CB8Q_AUoAg