Thanks
Funny day
it was okHOpefully fun funny and not this sucks funny
But seriously - hope you had a great one
Does it keep you up all night? Is the urge to howl at it completely irresistible?
she keeps me going.
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!!!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.
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.Big Ice is Go: used a Tupperware container to make this.
I hear ya...as a kid I grew up on what was basically an abandoned farm from the 1940s.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.
Heheh...I got like 25 cents a week allowance...saved up two weeks to get an Eskimo Pie ice cream sandwich.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!!!
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'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)The water from our well is terrible, smells like minerals (copper mostly)
I love that purple Thermos aluminum double-walled tumbler I have, does the same.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.
Same here LOLIt's hot, and it's only 2pm...they expect 102.
I'm prepared... a pair of little boob ice and their larger cousins.Same here LOL
I work outside... I have to vape outside (not my house) I'm hating summer.
We have an old one like that on the back porch (has survived 105 + outside) Just looked... it's a Wirlpool.The real credit goes to my 1985 Frigidare fridge.
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)
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.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.
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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Doesn't look like they're going anywhere, lolWe made, so far, three of these screen doors
to keep kitties
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 !
I feel ya bro....Still no forecasts in the 70s F yet
Pur are definitely the best home filter in that category (taste wise)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.
Believe it or not Pur actually even removes GMO's from water, one of the few that doesPur 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
Chronic poisoning by copper in tap water: I. Copper intoxications with predominantly gastointestinal symptoms - PubMed
Copper can induce acute and chronic intoxications in humans. Copper in tap water has caused a series of severe systemic diseases in Germany in recent years (copper induced liver cirrhosis). Besides cirrhosis, another type of disease with predominantly gastrointestinal symptoms has occurred which...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov