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DogMan

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Pretty much finished. Started it in January

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misswish

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Morning!

It feels so good right now!!! It's only 71*, it's drizzling rain, I have the doors open. Smells wonderful! It will be in the 90's later today but I'm enjoying it right now. I need to get off of here and do some stuff I've been unable to do in the heat. Some of Hubby's stuff in the shop to sort out, re-pot a plant, etc. I hope this means monsoon season is finally starting.

Jessie is out on the deck. She's been brushed so she really liking the cooler temp. She will be helping me, of course. I am so glad that I have her, she keeps me going.

Stay safe and healthy :hug: :inlove:
 

CaFF

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Munching on Carolina Reaper jerky ATM... yummy and helps with the broken toe...it literally messes with pain receptors. 🌶️🤪🌶️

*They use it in brain surgery and other trama cases, so makes sense.
 

CaFF

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Good morning!
Hope everyone is doing well.

Made myself foods and a big 2lb batch of Milly meat yesterday...made a LOT of dishes...now all washed up...by hand as usual. Whew. 😜

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Now, watching a CFL replay and enjoying
an iced pour-over brewed Colombian coffee, freshly ground. Mmmm...😊

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DogMan

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What is the opposite of a crappy day called? I don't have many

I looked on a map for the shortest walk from bus route along Port Phillip Bay to the back of the peninsula adjoining Bass Strait towards Tasmania

Blairgowrie was about 1 mile

So I went not knowing what I would find

It was gorgeous

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Mister

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CaFF

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It's too hotttt....plus I have to walk along and cross a freshly paved street to get to Rite Aid.
Solid stinky blacktop...it's actually kinda soft in this heat...
Not only is it as hot as Hades radiating all that heat, it smells like it too...ugh.

91F now, with hours until the sun goes down and expecting near 100. Tomorrow is 100+.
Do not want. :oops:

Watching the Mariners vs Angels game for free on YT, in the AC, and armed with much iced beverages.

Big Ice is Go: used a Tupperware container to make this.


Used my "icepick" knife to make into cup-sized hunks..they last well.
 

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VapeOn1960

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It's too hotttt....plus I have to walk along and cross a freshly paved street to get to Rite Aid.
Solid stinky blacktop...it's actually kinda soft in this heat...
Not only is it as hot as Hades radiating all that heat, it smells like it too...ugh.
Yes... I know. Parking lots (especially ones that have been redone not too long ago) smell nasty! Over 100 deg F here. Outside of Rite-Aid, I see lots of melted ice cream (our's still has Thrifty ice cream... we used to have an actual thrifty... I'm so old I remember 5 cents a scoop!) Try walking barefoot on new asphalt!!!
 

VapeOn1960

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Big Ice is Go: used a Tupperware container to make this.
Our tap water is really bad (I simply just live without ice) Mom and nephew use the ice from the fridge/freezer... it has NO FILTER... tried it once and dumped it out! I use bottled water to make coffee (and just to drink) I was so lucky (for over 10 years I lived up in the mountains at 5000 ft) the water was so soft and clean. Now that I'm back down in the city... yuck water! I will pay $1.25 a gallon any day.
 

CaFF

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Our tap water is really bad (I simply just live without ice) Mom and nephew use the ice from the fridge/freezer... it has NO FILTER... tried it once and dumped it out! I use bottled water to make coffee (and just to drink) I was so lucky (for over 10 years I lived up in the mountains at 5000 ft) the water was so soft and clean. Now that I'm back down in the city... yuck water! I will pay $1.25 a gallon any day.
I hear ya...as a kid I grew up on what was basically an abandoned farm from the 1940s.
Well water was rusty and poisoned. Not to mention the septic system's drain field was a mess. Made for 7' tall Scottish Thistles though and Peavine like ya wouldn't believe.

Dad tried to fix some of it, then gave up and bought a reverse osmosis water purifier which very expensive back then, but it worked for washing and such. Miles from the nearest store, so we just ran the water through several times until it tested clean, then we boiled it for drinking. Worked ok.

I didn't have a shower until like 1979..lol..

Fortunately, the city is served by one of the largest Aquifers around, made of ancient limestone from the ice age and Missoula flood era. It's great water. City has a multi-million dollar treatment plant too to buffer it out, clorinate it, keep tabs on it, and all that stuff. :)
 

CaFF

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Yes... I know. Parking lots (especially ones that have been redone not too long ago) smell nasty! Over 100 deg F here. Outside of Rite-Aid, I see lots of melted ice cream (our's still has Thrifty ice cream... we used to have an actual thrifty... I'm so old I remember 5 cents a scoop!) Try walking barefoot on new asphalt!!!
Heheh...I got like 25 cents a week allowance...saved up two weeks to get an Eskimo Pie ice cream sandwich. :D

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Our tap water is really bad (I simply just live without ice) Mom and nephew use the ice from the fridge/freezer... it has NO FILTER... tried it once and dumped it out! I use bottled water to make coffee (and just to drink) I was so lucky (for over 10 years I lived up in the mountains at 5000 ft) the water was so soft and clean. Now that I'm back down in the city... yuck water! I will pay $1.25 a gallon any day.

The water from our well is terrible, smells like minerals (copper mostly) and has a red-clay tinge to it, so we have a series of Pur filter pitchers through which we put all the water we use for drinking and cooking. I think the water gets filtered like four or five times before we drink it. A PITA to manage, but works like a charm. I use bagged ice from Dollar General most of the time, but I have been known to fill ice trays with a Pur pitcher, because to me, ICE IS LIFE. I couldn't go without ice, someone would have to just knock me unconscious, I guess.

I do use a lidded RTIC tumbler, so that when I fill the thing, there's still ice in it like 15 hours later. Best 20 bucks I ever spent, this tumbler. Goes with me everywhere.
 

VapeOn1960

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The water from our well is terrible, smells like minerals (copper mostly)
I'm glad you filter your water... a bit concerned that you mentioned copper. We had the most pristine/soft water up in the mountains (like I mentioned) and we had steel (iron) pipes... but our friend had copper pipes within the house (it was a add-on "apartment" he rented) The occasional orange color from the iron (at our house) wasn't a big deal, but copper pipes are! We stayed with him for a couple weeks before getting our own place. I had this sense that I was being "poisoned"... we all did (including some paranoid thoughts) First thing in the morning, we would make coffee. I finally figured out he had copper pipes (more of an issue with soft water... hard water tends to coat the inside of the pipes) When the water sits all night in those pipes, the first gallon needs to be flushed out (yes... just waste it down the drain) After that is fine the rest of the day. Not sure why you could "smell" copper and maybe you are confusing this with other things (like "rotton egg" that is more likely iron and sulfates) Either way, just run out at least a gallon (or more) fist thing in the morning! If you don't want to waste it, maybe use it in a garden or something but don't drink it. Please find out if you have copper pipes in your house. One clue is water deposits in your sinks will look green (another clue that at out friend's place that made me suspect copper)
 

CaFF

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It's hot, and it's only 2pm...they expect 102.
I'm not near where they do the forecasts, so I bet I'll hit 104 here.

The nearest PWS to me, here...

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PWS are da bomb...wish I could have one.
 

CaFF

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I do use a lidded RTIC tumbler, so that when I fill the thing, there's still ice in it like 15 hours later. Best 20 bucks I ever spent, this tumbler. Goes with me everywhere.
I love that purple Thermos aluminum double-walled tumbler I have, does the same.
I got mine for $3 at thrift.... :p

I'd left some leftover ice cubes in it overnight...it was still there the next morning. Outside warm to the touch in a 80F room, inside still cold as ice.

Seahawks preseason game is at 5pm...the hottest part of the day...ugh...
 

CaFF

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Same here LOL
I work outside... I have to vape outside (not my house) I'm hating summer.
I'm prepared... a pair of little boob ice and their larger cousins. :giggle:
One of those big ones slipped out of my hand (doncha hate when that happens?) and hit the kitchen floor from like 4' up...it bounced.

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Plus, three Rubbermaid ice trays full...love those things. Never sticks.

The real credit goes to my 1985 Frigidare fridge....it went through last year's record 114F while it was 98+ in the Apt without AC 'cuz it broke down. Cat and I had to evac to parents or Milly woulda died.
The fridge survived...as did the food inside.

It's 34F in there ATM, as usual. Try THAT with one of those newfangled Chinese e-fridges. 😃
 
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nadalama

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I'm glad you filter your water... a bit concerned that you mentioned copper. We had the most pristine/soft water up in the mountains (like I mentioned) and we had steel (iron) pipes... but our friend had copper pipes within the house (it was a add-on "apartment" he rented) The occasional orange color from the iron (at our house) wasn't a big deal, but copper pipes are! We stayed with him for a couple weeks before getting our own place. I had this sense that I was being "poisoned"... we all did (including some paranoid thoughts) First thing in the morning, we would make coffee. I finally figured out he had copper pipes (more of an issue with soft water... hard water tends to coat the inside of the pipes) When the water sits all night in those pipes, the first gallon needs to be flushed out (yes... just waste it down the drain) After that is fine the rest of the day. Not sure why you could "smell" copper and maybe you are confusing this with other things (like "rotton egg" that is more likely iron and sulfates) Either way, just run out at least a gallon (or more) fist thing in the morning! If you don't want to waste it, maybe use it in a garden or something but don't drink it. Please find out if you have copper pipes in your house. One clue is water deposits in your sinks will look green (another clue that at out friend's place that made me suspect copper)

No copper pipes here. Pipes are some PVC- type material. Perhaps it's iron in the water rather than copper.
 

CaFF

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We have an old one like that on the back porch (has survived 105 + outside) Just looked... it's a Wirlpool.
No comment on the boob ice.
Teehee...that's what happens when I freeze ice using only half of a ice sphere mold. Takes a lot less time but still provides a big chunk of ice.
Yes, I'm easily amused. ;)

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Fair warning: this is another of those project posts.

With the new puppy around, we have been putting up a scrap piece of board blocking him from 3 rooms of the house. I bumped into it once, but hubby has tripped over it at least once every single day. We could close the bathroom and bedroom doors, but one room has a fridge that will burn up if we close the door since we do not have an air conditioning unit in that room. It's a new fridge, but we don't have room elsewhere.
I came up with a solution that cost nothing. I still had an end from a child's bunk bed out in the shed, as well as some other new looking scrap lumber. I had got rid of all the old looking and rotten stuff earlier in the year. I made a gate to fit the door opening to replace the door to that room, and we can close the other doors.

Hubby does not know yet.

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We made, so far, three of these screen doors
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out of one bedroom, the hallway (to keep kitties in when necessary) and the laundry room, but lets the ac cool air through. Have one more to make for another bedroom, it should be done this weekend.

! WAKE UP ! from the MEDIA SPELL !
 
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BobsHere

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We made, so far, three of these screen doors
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to keep kitties
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out of one bedroom, the hallway (to keep kitties in when necessary) and the laundry room, but lets the ac cool air through. Have one more to make for another bedroom, it should be done this weekend.

! WAKE UP ! from the MEDIA SPELL !
Doesn't look like they're going anywhere, lol
 

CaFF

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Not bad for a preseason game...still bummed about the dismantling of my Seahawks...

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🏈:D👍
 

Mister

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The water from our well is terrible, smells like minerals (copper mostly) and has a red-clay tinge to it, so we have a series of Pur filter pitchers through which we put all the water we use for drinking and cooking. I think the water gets filtered like four or five times before we drink it. A PITA to manage, but works like a charm. I use bagged ice from Dollar General most of the time, but I have been known to fill ice trays with a Pur pitcher, because to me, ICE IS LIFE. I couldn't go without ice, someone would have to just knock me unconscious, I guess.

I do use a lidded RTIC tumbler, so that when I fill the thing, there's still ice in it like 15 hours later. Best 20 bucks I ever spent, this tumbler. Goes with me everywhere.
Pur are definitely the best home filter in that category (taste wise)

Im glad u mentioned copper tho, because i had never considered that.
I used to have a lot of gastrointstinal problems, but had noticed i havent been for at least the year..

that coincided with me putting a pur filter on my bathroom sink (which i frequently drink from).

I had not known the symptoms of copper poising before this thread, i was thinking it was something i was eating or maybe medication, or worse.

Now it seems that it couldve very likely been the problem in a 45 year old copper plumbed house, that wouldnt seem old enough to worry about those things. Wish the filters lasted longer, but i am certainly putting more importance on them now.

Edit-forgot the link to what i read
 

CaFF

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Watching the Eagles - Browns preseason game on NBC10 outa Philly.
Their weather is nicer than mine...unless you like a high of 95F...SMH! o_O
 

Jimi

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Pur are definitely the best home filter in that category (taste wise)

Im glad u mentioned copper tho, because i had never considered that.
I used to have a lot of gastrointstinal problems, but had noticed i havent been for at least the year..

that coincided with me putting a pur filter on my bathroom sink (which i frequently drink from).

I had not known the symptoms of copper poising before this thread, i was thinking it was something i was eating or maybe medication, or worse.

Now it seems that it couldve very likely been the problem in a 45 year old copper plumbed house, that wouldnt seem old enough to worry about those things. Wish the filters lasted longer, but i am certainly putting more importance on them now.

Edit-forgot the link to what i read
Believe it or not Pur actually even removes GMO's from water, one of the few that does
 

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