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Yeah no shit, after looking at the water bill, I could have bought three times as many already and their nowhere near ripe yet.
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Wow! I haven't had a water bill for over15 years, so I just plain forgot how much I used to pay. I have a nice deep (215') well that slurps up the deep aquifer that originates as snow melt in Alberta, Canada. Ya gotta lover those nice cold underground rivers....
 
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Mine is about $100 in the summer, $35 in the "off" season
 
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I suppose I do have a water bill, but I never tried to calculate how much electricity it takes to run the pump. Must be around $5/month in summer, but with all the rain we've been having, it probably isn't that much this year,
 
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Made a 5-gallon carboy of ginger beer and bottled three gallons of banana kombucha tonight
 
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Gonna try my luck at a 5-gallon pail of Mead next week, haven't made any in years.
 
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You must have found some extra time in your day... :)

Hey, a bit of humor (or pain) to share. The other day, I drove into Faith to get a couple gallons of ice cream. I was taking the bags out to the truck and a guy started talking to me. He was smoking a cigarette, but we only BS'd for a couple minutes and, to be totally honest, I did not notice the smell of the cigarette smoke at all. Being the official shopper in this family, I get exposed to... what do they call it?... second-hand smoke quite regularly and I pay no attention to it. When I got home, Lannie (who hasn't gone to town with me for, what?, at least three years) stepped back and proclaimed, "You just smoked a cigarette!" I was dumbfounded! But... but... but... Then the conversation lead to what we had done to others all those years. I smoked for over 50 years and never once questioned that I might make other people stink like an old ashtray just by unintentionally blowing my smoke onto their clothing. What kind of bad guy was I all those years? If Lannie could smell the tiny amount of [totally revolting] smoke that guy got on me in only a couple minutes while outside (no confined area), how many people went home every day and had their non-smoking spouses revolted by what I had done to them all those years? Makes me feel really guilty. And does a vape cloud also put an odor on others?
 
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Started early today, but it was only about 104, can't seem to win......:)

Duh global cooling is returning (slightly).
 
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Beautifully sunny all day (so far) and 86 °F at 72% RH "feels like" 96 °F, but given that my shirt was as wet as if I'd just taken a shower with my clothes on (even my jeans were damp), so somehow I think the humidity readout was way too low... felt more like 90%. :(
 
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Draconigena said:
Beautifully sunny all day (so far) and 86 °F at 72% RH "feels like" 96 °F, but given that my shirt was as wet as if I'd just taken a shower with my clothes on (even my jeans were damp), so somehow I think the humidity readout was way too low... felt more like 90%. :(
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lol.....THEN....I assume you got a lot accomplished today?
 
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Well, other than cleaning out litter boxes and carrying a 30# bucket of shitty litter to the pit (OUCH!), I pretty much restricted myself to hiding in the basement (cooler down here) and doing paperwork and computer stuff that I was behind on. I suspect I am getting way too lazy in my old age. I have a zillion outside thing on my "to do" list, but somehow passing out in the chicken run or garden or barn just doesn't sound all that appealing to me. I wish I still had a good-paying 8-to-5 desk job because this "retirement" crap is killing me.
 
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Now if our bodies were in the same shape as they were during those "good old days," we'd have it made in the shade.

Firethorn red '76 Trans Am with 455 HO V8 and factory Hurst 4-speed able to chirp the tires at every shift.... Sigh....
Ah, but I sold it to some stupid ass teenager who wrapped it around a tree trying to outrun a cop.
 
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Draconigena said:
Now if our bodies were in the same shape as they were during those "good old days," we'd have it made in the shade.

Firethorn red '76 Trans Am with 455 HO V8 and factory Hurst 4-speed able to chirp the tires at every shift.... Sigh....
Ah, but I sold it to some stupid ass teenager who wrapped it around a tree trying to outrun a cop.
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Had a Trans Am too, but I really liked that SS......had a Camaro SS for a few months but had to sell it due to lack of funds, damn I wish I had both of those cars now. Not much for top end, but they would go apeshit in the quarter mile.
 
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About the only difference between the Camaro and the Trans Am was the suspension. Camaros were meant to go fast in straight lines and TA's went fast in the corners. I had 4 Trans Ams and one screaming Firebird, but my one trip to the really weird world was an "Arrest Me" red Porsche 944, in which I did 136 mph in a 55 zone. Never have had a speeding ticket. :cool:

Of course, Lannie would say we are both full of shit. She is a MoPar baby who regularly did the drag strip and even wrenched her own rides. o_O
 
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Speaking of Trans Am's, I bought a brand new one in 96, not sure why....perhaps mid life crisis?

Had a jackass t-bone the passenger side, fucked everything up, T-top would no longer fit, think I sold it for 5 grand after the insurance company totaled it.
 
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Yeah, we were lucky. The only ticket I have had in my life was "passing on a hill" in an area that was not a hill (6 foot rise in road level) and not marked as a no passing zone. I beat it in court, so technically, I have never had a [valid] ticket of any kind. ;) And yet I think I abused the driving laws way too much. As an old phart today, I never violate anything, but I also have memories of 1967, driving a '56 Old 88 with a 371 V8 over-bored to 400, Jahn's racing pistons, street-strip cams, beefed up turbo hydromatic, and I did 130 mph on a 55 mph two lane at night, watching the fuel gauge go down as I drove. People thought I had racing slicks on that thing and, in reality, it was four bald tires. I should be dead....
 
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Speaking of Trans Am's, I bought a brand new one in 96, not sure why....perhaps mid life crisis?
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My first new one was 1981 (that Smokey & Bandit Special Edition). I couldn't call it mid-life crisis because I was only 32 years old, but I was only a little over a year out of my first divorce, so maybe that was the justification for going crazy.
 
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Thunderstorms started promptly at 3:00 am today. And then the rain... I had to go around and shut all the windows and never did get back to sleep, so I feel like a zombie this morning. I think the humidity is at fault - I feel all puffy and hot and miserable, and it's only 6:00 am(ish). There was continuous lightning for about an hour when the storm started, which caused the 'fraidy cat, Zipper, to get off her bed on the couch and pace and whine. Thunderstorms scare the crap outta that poor dog. It's over now, but there are puddles of standing water all over the place.

Oh, and by the way, MoPar or NoCar! :p (I saw that on a t-shirt once, and I want one!)
 
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Hi Dale, No it hasn't rained here for weeks, garden isn't doing well this year besides no rain, and the weeds took over when i was down:gaah:
I gotta go get something be right back
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Wow, that tropical storm missed you?

Hope you receive some rain, it's sure beats the hell out of city water.....unless you are lucky enough to have a well, which I surely wish I had.
 
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Even the fresh produce is going away here
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That's really odd. There are no shortages whatsoever here. Hell, I seen them tossing out older kale the other day, the guy gave me a couple bags to make chips with....it was at the expiration date, but looked fine and should taste fine when it's done dehydrating with my chipotle garlic-onion sauce.
 
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