ECF Refugee Thread All welcome

[JuicyLucy]

This supposedly is also awesome with custard - don't know if any of the ingredients are ones you are sensitive to

You can probably sub Stevia for the EM

7.5 % TFA Double Chocolate clear
3 % TFA Vanilla Swirl
1% Marshmallow
1.5 % EM

EDIT: I used to have the custard variation but don't have it on hand because I dislike custard, lol

 

[LynnNC]

I like to mix the 2 half and half in a tank. Or if there's a little of one left over in the tank add the other.

 

[inspects]

Cromwell's Custard is good to throw a bit of cinnamon, butterscotch, Caramel, etc into as well even some fruits.

Caramel is fantastic with CC....

Evening, fugees.....

 

[The Cromwell]

This supposedly is also awesome with custard - don't know if any of the ingredients are ones you are sensitive to

You can probably sub Stevia for the EM

7.5 % TFA Double Chocolate clear
3 % TFA Vanilla Swirl
1% Marshmallow
1.5 % EM

EDIT: I used to have the custard variation but don't have it on hand because I dislike custard, lol

Thanks but unfortuantely will not work well for me.
Ethel and I do not get along very well.

Might order some of the double Chocolate clear to try...

 

[Atchafalaya]

Happy Memorial day! I have been busy but I am on my way to work today

 

[chopdoc]

Happy Memorial day yall

 

[LynnNC]

Some fucking Memorial Day. Made even more memorable by finding out that the car I've only had for 2 months and 3 weeks has a blown head gasket. And it's not under warranty either. Why do I even try?

 

[Atchafalaya]

Some fucking Memorial Day. Made even more memorable by finding out that the car I've only had for 2 months and 3 weeks has a blown head gasket. And it's not under warranty either. Why do I even try?

Omg Lynn. That sucks!

 

[JuicyLucy]

Memorable all right

Sorry for everyone's troubles

 

[chopdoc]

Some fucking Memorial Day. Made even more memorable by finding out that the car I've only had for 2 months and 3 weeks has a blown head gasket. And it's not under warranty either. Why do I even try?

If you bought it from a dealer the call your better business place and check with them on lemon laws. You might be covered anyways.

 

[LynnNC]

If you bought it from a dealer the call your better business place and check with them on lemon laws. You might be covered anyways.

I hadn't thought of that so I googled it. NC does have a lemon law but it only applies to new cars or basically 1 owner cars.

 

[Atchafalaya]

OMG work is CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! End of school. argggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

 

[The Cromwell]

Yeah, my sister is a Math Instructor at Virginia Tech...
She is very happily retiring this September.

 

[Atchafalaya]

Yeah, my sister is a Math Instructor at Virginia Tech...
She is very happily retiring this September.

I bet!

 

[chopdoc]

Afternoon fugee's. Yeah yall knnow what to do

Beautiful and hot day today here. Lawnmower been broke and trying to get it goin again. The mower deck spindles cratered so have to replace them but what gets me going is I spent $140 for 3 new spindles. Everyone know the spindle bolts are single use, the usually snap off when trying to take them off. So why in the hell after spending that much money did they not bother to send new bolts with the spindles? Pathetic. So after spending the last two days cutting the heads off of 5 or the 8 spindle mounting bolt heads and twisting off the other three (not one single one out of 8 came out of the old spindles) now I have to drive to town and try to find some new bolts.....pathetic.

Hope yalls Tuesday is going good. I seen Alberto is gonna visit Bob today and since I always try to be a good fugee I went ahead and found something Bob might find very useful today

 

[The Cromwell]

Afternoon fugee's. Yeah yall knnow what to do

Beautiful and hot day today here. Lawnmower been broke and trying to get it goin again. The mower deck spindles cratered so have to replace them but what gets me going is I spent $140 for 3 new spindles. Everyone know the spindle bolts are single use, the usually snap off when trying to take them off. So why in the hell after spending that much money did they not bother to send new bolts with the spindles? Pathetic. So after spending the last two days cutting the heads off of 5 or the 8 spindle mounting bolt heads and twisting off the other three (not one single one out of 8 came out of the old spindles) now I have to drive to town and try to find some new bolts.....pathetic.

Hope yalls Tuesday is going good. I seen Alberto is gonna visit Bob today and since I always try to be a good fugee I went ahead and found something Bob might find very useful today




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Antiseize is your friend.

 

[chopdoc]

Antiseize is your friend.

It wouldnt work in that situation. The bolts for mounting the spindles are self tapping 5/16-18. The steel bolts cut new threads into the aluminum housing which makes for a perfect condition for dissimilar metal corrosion which locks them puppys in forever. I believe its the way it was designed.

 

[JuicyLucy]

GF yourselves Fugees - if storms aren't already doing it to you

 

[The Cromwell]

GF yourselves Fugees - if storms aren't already doing it to you

Just watching the Dean and Todd show. About the only vape show I watch.

 

[The Cromwell]

had about 13 ml of 100 mg/ml nic in an amber bottle that I have been using from that has turned a noticeable shade of pink in 1 week!
DARN! Scrubbed bottle in hot water and soap and trashed the syringe....
Syringe was clean and used just last week on NIC only.... I have them marked....

 

[JuicyLucy]

Musta gotten exposed to too much air somehow

 

[The Cromwell]

Musta gotten exposed to too much air somehow

I have no idea.
It was almost red....

Nicotine Demons?

 

[LynnNC]

Morning peeps! Y'all know the drill....lol

Talked to the mechanic this morning about my car. Head gasket isn't blown...the thermostat was stuck and the "stuff" that was in the coolant tank wasn't oil as the, and I use this term loosely, "jack leg" mechanic told me was nothing more than different types of coolant that didn't mix. The oil in the motor is clean as a whistle. I'm celebrating!!
YEP!!

 

[chopdoc]

I have no idea.
It was almost red....

Nicotine Demons?

Because it changed color, does that actually make it bad?

This has me curious. I keep my nicotine in amber bottle like many do so the only way you can ever tell the color is with a syringe or pipette and you only take a little out at time. Makes me curious if discolored nicotine is still nicotine. Does it develop a bad taste when it changes color or is it harmful to vape?

 

[chopdoc]

Morning peeps! Y'all know the drill....lol

Talked to the mechanic this morning about my car. Head gasket isn't blown...the thermostat was stuck and the "stuff" that was in the coolant tank wasn't oil as the, and I use this term loosely, "jack leg" mechanic told me was nothing more than different types of coolant that didn't mix. The oil in the motor is clean as a whistle. I'm celebrating!!
YEP!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Cromwell]

Because it changed color, does that actually make it bad?

This has me curious. I keep my nicotine in amber bottle like many do so the only way you can ever tell the color is with a syringe or pipette and you only take a little out at time. Makes me curious if discolored nicotine is still nicotine. Does it develop a bad taste when it changes color or is it harmful to vape?

Turning yellowish is a natural oxidation process for nic. It does not become unsafe to vape just develops a peppery taste with the oxidation AFIK.

However turning reddish kind of alarmed me. Only thing I can think of is somehow with my last use I got something in there.
the last time I used it it was quite clear. I use syringes for mixing so I see the ingredients before I put them in the mix.
I have always used a separate marked syringe for my nic... Maybe I used the wrong syringe last time?

 

[AndriaD]

Here's what I don't get: describing nicotine as "peppery" -- what kind of pepper? Black pepper? Bell pepper? Jalopeno? Habanero? I have never found any pepper taste in nicotine. If it oxidizes, it starts to taste kinda like a dirty ashtray -- which is the smell you get when you rinse out an emptied nic bottle, the smell you used to get from cleaning ashtrays. The "TH Nicotine" from VT doesn't really have any more TH than the nic from ECX... but it's a lot cheaper, so I buy it. It's kinda pink colored.

I just read about a dam in NC in danger of breaking, Tahoma Dam -- is that anywhere near Lynn? I sure hope not!!!!! Y'all doing ok up there in NC/KY/points north? We did get a buttload of rain from this asshole Alberto, thought our backyard was gonna turn into a lake last night, but that was the worst around here, though TWC keeps hollering about river flooding; we're not real close to the Chattahoochee nor any major streams, so no serious worries here. I saw the sun come out briefly, a minute ago. YAY!!!

Andria

 

[LynnNC]

Here's what I don't get: describing nicotine as "peppery" -- what kind of pepper? Black pepper? Bell pepper? Jalopeno? Habanero? I have never found any pepper taste in nicotine. If it oxidizes, it starts to taste kinda like a dirty ashtray -- which is the smell you get when you rinse out an emptied nic bottle, the smell you used to get from cleaning ashtrays. The "TH Nicotine" from VT doesn't really have any more TH than the nic from ECX... but it's a lot cheaper, so I buy it. It's kinda pink colored.

I just read about a dam in NC in danger of breaking, Tahoma Dam -- is that anywhere near Lynn? I sure hope not!!!!! Y'all doing ok up there in NC/KY/points north? We did get a buttload of rain from this asshole Alberto, thought our backyard was gonna turn into a lake last night, but that was the worst around here, though TWC keeps hollering about river flooding; we're not real close to the Chattahoochee nor any major streams, so no serious worries here. I saw the sun come out briefly, a minute ago. YAY!!!

Andria

Andria, the dam in NC was in the mountains(about 4-4 1/2 hours from me). The mountains had a butt load of rain weekend before last before getting another butt load this past weekend from Alberto. I think we only got maybe an inch to an inch and a half this weekend. The sun is in and out here today. Tstorms are expected this afternoon.

 

[AndriaD]

Andria, the dam in NC was in the mountains(about 4-4 1/2 hours from me). The mountains had a butt load of rain weekend before last before getting another butt load this past weekend from Alberto. I think we only got maybe an inch to an inch and a half this weekend. The sun is in and out here today. Tstorms are expected this afternoon.

That's very good news, Lynn; I always get worried about bad weather in any of the states y'all live in -- and for that matter, that wretched asshole of a volcano, since Ms Juicy is planning to move there soon.

That wretched asshole is still being a wretched asshole; checked the radar a minute ago, and there is MORE geen and red shit on its way up from FL. Courtesy of the trade winds, I think, bringing that upper-atmosphere volcanic ash over to the Caribbean, where it then condenses into rain and makes it way up to us.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

For KY this May is the warmest ever on record. Well one day to go but it would have to snow to kill the record.

 

[LynnNC]

For KY this May is the warmest ever on record. Well one day to go but it would have to snow to kill the record.

Yep! It went from winter on May 1st to mid summer by the end of the month.

 

[chopdoc]

Weather girl said a heat index of 100 for today and the next few days with 90's all week. I think spring lasted a whole 5 days down here.

 

[The Cromwell]

Weather girl said a heat index of 100 for today and the next few days with 90's all week. I think spring lasted a whole 5 days down here.

We had 6 days of spring but 4 of them were in February.

 

[AndriaD]

I'd just be tickled shitless if it would stop raining for more than 15 minutes at a stretch. Our yard looks like a jungle!

Andria

 

[LynnNC]

I'd just be tickled shitless if it would stop raining for more than 15 minutes at a stretch. Our yard looks like a jungle!

Andria

I’ve got mushrooms growing in mine. And it was mowed on Saturday.

 

[AndriaD]

I’ve got mushrooms growing in mine. And it was mowed on Saturday.

It's been way over 2 wks here since it was dry enough for a long enough stretch for the grass to dry enough to mow. Because 1) mowing wet grass is really bad for grass, and 2) we have an electric lawnmower, and water and AC current do NOT mix nicely. So the grass may be tall enough to hide the whole damn house before it gets mowed.

Andria

 

[LynnNC]

Mine had gotten so tall and supposedly snakes are so bad here this year that I was scared to walk through it. The guy who mows it for me has a gas lawn mower and a gas weed eater. He came and mowed Saturday. Now it needs mowing again with all the rain we've had.

And absolutely..I wouldn't use an electric lawn mower on wet grass.

 

[The Cromwell]

Mine had gotten so tall and supposedly snakes are so bad here this year that I was scared to walk through it. The guy who mows it for me has a gas lawn mower and a gas weed eater. He came and mowed Saturday. Now it needs mowing again with all the rain we've had.

And absolutely..I wouldn't use an electric lawn mower on wet grass.

Ahh but some run on li batteries now. Maybe they even have a 510 connector on the handle?
Ryobi even has a rechargeable riding mower that is supposedly good for up to 2 acres per charge....

 

[AndriaD]

My husband spits if anyone mentions rechargeable electric tools. He has about 200 ft of huge orange electric cord for outdoors. Our lot is just .26 acre, so it's plenty of cord for that.

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Morning fugees.


I love cordless tools. When I first started turning wrenches on helicopters there was no cordless tools. Some of the panels and cowlings that have to be removed all the time for inspections can have 50 or more small bolts or screws securing it. When you work at a place with 20 some helicopters that fly a lot, your taking those panels and cowling's off constantly. My forearm use to swell from all the ratchet turning from that. When cordless tools came along, we all bought them and it made the job so much easier. I bought a 40 volt chainsaw from Lowes maybe 6 months back. I have use it a lot and the ex borrowed it a few times. Runs great and battery last a very long time.


Yesterday I got the deck back on my zero turn mower and cut a ton of grass. Over 2 acres. Couldnt believe I found mushrooms growin in a few areas. Have a few more days of cutting to do but probably wont finish it until this weekend. Heart doc wants to run some test on me so gotta deal with that today. Any mowing will be later in the evening which sucks, Im in the mood to get it done now Plus Rascal is coming home this weekend so want to get as much done as I can before he gets here.

 

[The Cromwell]

Same here Chop on the cordless drills and such.
wonderful things esp for such projects as screwing down a metal roof...
On my recent dashboard project the little cordless screwdriver was a wonderful wrist saver.

When I lived in FL had some hedges that required frequent trimming
You would laugh yer ass off at my extension cord I used with the hedge trimmer. Must have had a couple of rolls of tape on it

 

[chopdoc]

Well fugees, I almost lost my life. Went outside and was confronted by some ferocious mountain lions!

 

[The Cromwell]

Cute little spikey tails!

 

[AndriaD]

Awwww. Kitties are so CUTE!

Annabel has discovered her tail, and when I won't let her attack my hand, she gives that tail a good savaging. She's so sweet; when I sit on kidly's bed to pet her, she'll climb right onto my legs and lie down, like "Ok, here I am: PET ME." Just adorable. She's still mostly confined to kidly's room, though we let her out to explore the living room a good bit. So far no further interactions between cat and kitty; with Tuxie being housebound by all this goddamn rain, we figured she was stressed enough.

A neat feature: Annabel appears to be polydactyl. Very odd looking, but kinda cool too.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Polydactal?
A flying dinosaur?

 

[AndriaD]

Polydactal?
A flying dinosaur?

Heh. More digits on her lil paws than is the norm for cats. When she stretches and her paws are all spread, she looks like she's ready to give Piano Cat a run for his money.

Andria

 

[LynnNC]

Well fugees, I almost lost my life. Went outside and was confronted by some ferocious mountain lions!


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Awwwww......so cute!!!

 

[JuicyLucy]

Well fugees, I almost lost my life. Went outside and was confronted by some ferocious mountain lions!


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Adorable!!!

 

[LynnNC]

Awwww. Kitties are so CUTE!

Annabel has discovered her tail, and when I won't let her attack my hand, she gives that tail a good savaging. She's so sweet; when I sit on kidly's bed to pet her, she'll climb right onto my legs and lie down, like "Ok, here I am: PET ME." Just adorable. She's still mostly confined to kidly's room, though we let her out to explore the living room a good bit. So far no further interactions between cat and kitty; with Tuxie being housebound by all this goddamn rain, we figured she was stressed enough.

A neat feature: Annabel appears to be polydactyl. Very odd looking, but kinda cool too.

Andria

I had a cat that was polydactyl. I loved that kitty. I lost her to cancer in 1998. Make sure you check in between her foot pads for extra claws. Mine developed a limp. When I checked her paw, I found that she had a claw that had grown rather long and it was sticking her when she walked. So she had 6 toes on each of her front paws and an extra claw on the right one.

 

[LynnNC]

I'll be able to be here more often now...I HAD to get a new phone this morning after mine crapped out on me last night AGAIN. It's an iPhone 7plus. I'm an Apple girl what can I say?