The First Day Of Fall Is Tomorrow, September 22, 2018
The cure for "I hate the mess of carving pumpkins!"
First day of Fall means I don't have to shave my legs regularly, I can go braless under a baggy sweater and bugs begin their return to hell where they belong. And I especially can't wait til I can snuggle up under the covers without sweating like a pregnant nun in a confessional!
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There are 69 [stop it!] slides that show us the easy way to make inventive pumpkins for the season !
I'm looking forward to be able to open the windows at night and shut off the AC. I am not a hot weather person and this summer has been like 4 months in Arizona to me. Even with the AC on I still only sleep with a cotton sheet over me.
I love the fall season,
Well, since I live in North Texas, it's still pretty damn hot. It's rainy, so it's humid too. And I'm originally from Los Angeles, so seasons were non-existent. But I love making soups on weekends, or crockpot stews. Summers are cookouts with kebobs and steaks and burgers. I bake a lot more in fall and winter too.
I moved to Texas in mid-July several years ago. In Los Angeles, no matter how hot it is outside, if you open your windows during the evening you get an ocean breeze. Not strong, but it can be felt. Out of habit, my first night here, I flung open the window to let some air in. Holy shit. It was a like a brick wall of stifling heat. I hadn't realized the proximity of a beach had every effect on the amount of air circulating. I prefer to have considered myself naive rather than stupid. But that was pretty stupid of me to expect to feel any type of circulation.
Omigawd ... Wipeout was my favorite program ever!!
That looks painful. But, there is always this,
Hi there Blue!
Yeah, I'm still around. It's really good to see you here. (This place is updating all the time)
Fall is my favorite time of year..No question o it. Cool weather, rain and fog. Love it.
Of course you are, Jerry! It's good to see you again... it's always been good to see you.
Next life, I'm coming back as Fall.
I feel ya!
Perrie. How many times have I got to explain. I'm sapiosexual. Intellect and humor are yum to me. I'm straight. But intellect and humor are the basis for many of my girl crushes. Your brainpower and ability to make me laugh hard are conducive to taking an innocent statement like "I feel ya" into territory that would make many of the men here blush.
la calabaza de la muerte
Oooh! You could paint this one ... and I like the gold tooth on it too.
Did you do that SP?
No, it's one of the slides on the link. But I bet he could paint it!
Huh...i clicked the link and didn't see it...not paying attention i guess. /sigh
Ooopsy. You're right ... again. Apparently that's taken from Pinterest. My bad. Thank goodness. I don't know how you handle being right all the time, but I've found it a burden I've had to bear. It's good I've got a respite from the responsibility from being right all the time with the realization I'm wrong here.
You can go hairy and braless around here ANYTIME!
Oh dear god, how I love you ... you sexy beast, you!
Probably some very interesting things, MUVA. And I've got a vivid imagination.
My daughter is the artist in the family. At 15 she can carve pumpkins that are shockingly well done. She can also make 75 different origami....things, from memory. Me? Stick figures mostly, and even those don't look right. I would rather smash my balls flat with a wooden mallet than ever carve another pumpkin.
You owe me a new mascara. Clinique. Naturally Glossy. I've been laughin' at this since yesterday. I've had to reapply my mascara several times since then since I laugh to tears every time I think of this comment of yours. I couldn't respond late last night because I had to deal with a kissing bandit.
Omigawwwwwwwwwwd ... here I go again!! Hell, I'm gonna look like a raccoon in about two minutes ...
If it's labeled waterproof, I won't use it. Waterproof mascara makes my lashes fall off.
And you are reading adverts for mascara, why?
I don't have balls but I know what you mean. I'm done carving pumpkins. Did it for the kids and I hated it. The problem here is that you can carve the pumpkin in early October, but it's still so warm the damn thing disintegrates before Halloween. And I don't think I need to mention the fruit flies....
I like fake pumpkins
Good lord they were bad this year... Crikey.
Wasn't that event canceled for safety reasons after someone was seriously injured? I thought that was a fun technical exercise.
I don't know where it stands right now, but yes, something happened with an air cannon. They get a little crazy with those things.
I like the trebuchets. catapults, slingshots.
I'm dropping everything and rushing to you to passionately kiss your arm from wrist to shoulder. "Tish! I just love it when you speak French!"
It's always fun until the lawsuits start being filed.
Yes, due to litigation...
The door is open. LOL.
A simple sci fi - fantasy movie that includes a Hollywood version of French history called Timeline is entertaining. Did you ever see it?
This is why we can't have fun anymore. People involved know that everything is made in a backyard and likely of questionable integrity so "heads up", wear your PPE and don't do anything stupid.
One of my favorite childhood games was Jarts but for some reason you can't by that anymore. We'd sharpen them on the grinder so they'd work better.
Lawn darts? I have a set from the 1960s somewhere in the basement. My neigghbor liked to borrow them and I tried to give them to him but he didn't have a place to store them.
We would throw them as hard and straight up as possible and see how close you could get them to land from yourself, the closest was the winner. As kids we had quite a bit of fun. Do you want to know what we did with bows and arrows?
Okay, I'm leaving now. Can you leave the key under the mat?
Seems this babe got hurt previously on "Doomsday Preppers" ...
Damn
I loved Punkin Chunkin.
i think it was cancelled for a few years due to a minor off road SUV incident in 2012(?) when one of the occupants was injured and sued everyone including the farmers who donated the use of their property. After that case was settled or thrown out PC continued
but of course in the most recent one, one of the TV producers was behind a Pneumatic cannon that breached and was hit in the head by a thick 12x12 piece of aluminum
from the 'explosion'.
While she initially lamented the cancellation of that years show and all of her efforts to record the contest, she later sued everyone possible, putting the contest on hold again.
Not after reading what you did with lawn darts. Omigawd. Testosterone. The leading cause of emergency room visits.
Testosterone. The reason the words "It sounded like a fun" leave the mouths of men in emergency rooms everywhere.
I can vouch for that several times over.
I imagine your emergency room much like Cheers. You're wheeled in by EMTs and everyone, from docs to techs, in the emergency room all shout "SKREKK!!"
All too true, alas!
I'm gonna remember that one for the grandkids
Yeah. I love crazy kid stories
By the looks of your ankle, it might be applicable to yourself! Yeow ... that looks like it hurt! The last time I saw that was when you did it, but it was casted and look almost ladylike.
Alcohol may or may not have been involved.
I'm a clumsy oaf.
Spent all day today working outside.. Mowed the lawn, put all the hoses away, etc.. Just cleaning up because it's going to start raining soon and it won't stop for months on end. Lots of bugs still out there, including this monster. Biting deer flies.. Not fun. I live in a forest so, lots of them. Usually get about 30 minutes of work before they zero in on me. Sadly, with the mild winters and hot summers we now get, they aren't being killed off by the cold like they usually are. Vicious little bastards. This time of year, they usually calm down, but seems this year they will not go quietly into that long good night.
Those may be the same flies we call horseflies. Nasty bites.
Yep, they really suck, no pun intended. I would rather be stung by a bee than have one of those latch on to me.
AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!! I'm screaming just thinking about it!!
I've been stung twice by stepping on them. I look at the bottom of my foot, and there are their innards still beating ...
I take little comfort knowing they have to die after they sting us. Unlike wasps who can sting as many times as they want. Little bastards.
I went to the store on my motorcycle, (many times, but...), a few weeks ago and a bee flew/went up my shorts. Got me on the inside of my thigh. 3 inches higher and I could have signed up to be a porn actor. Had two in my helmet this summer also, on got me on the cheek, the other by my left ear. Unfortunately, on a bike, you can't just slam on the brakes or swat them away like people in a car can do. Nope, have to just...take it.. LOL
They have earned my phrase of rat bastards.
Actually, that was my photo drone cleverly disguised as a bee. I've got the footage on my 75" plasma television and I've had to include Sundays to my showings due to the crowd size.
Due to new home construction nearby, displaced rats have moseyed on over to my neighborhood. So I have rat rat bastards. We tried sticky traps, but one got caught in it and I cried my eyes out. It seemed too cruel and if I would have yanked him off to save him, he'd be a tattered rat rat bastard. So to save me heartache, my hun got zappers. They get electrocuted in no time flat and never know what hit them. And they were dead not struggling. So after two successful zaps, we are now safe from those fat rat rat bastards. No poop from them anywhere.
That must be what happened to this poor guy:
Aw. I love him. Poor baby.
It's a chupabacabra!
I stepped on a honeybee in the yard once and my dad had more sympathy for that gd bee than me
Makes me wanna smack his nuts with a tennis racket and exclaim: "My poor tennis racket!!"
Lol my dad kept honeybees for awhile when I was younger, been stung so many times I don't even swell up anymore
Really hoping you had the zoom lens on.
Oh please. That's hardly necessary. But don't get me wrong. It's not like I stalk you by breaking into your house and stealing your body hair from the drains in your shower so I can make santeria candles in your likeness or anything.
By the way, you're low on milk.
Nothin' deer about those little bastards! You know, I scoop up spiders and take them outside and even leave a couple in the house. I like geckos in and around the house. I don't mind crane flies. But any other flies and mosquitoes should be tortured and die a horrific death. Roaches should be killed and hung in the roach town square for others to be warned to stay away. Junebugs, while frightening because the lazily fly into my hair, should be allowed to live because they're so darned dumb. Omigawd. They have to be the dumbest insect ever evolved.
I understand deer flies bite, but why do they bite? It's not like female mosquitoes who bite and suck blood to make their eggs. Or do they?
Because they enjoy feeding on our flesh until we are nothing but a rotting corpse laying in the lawn....lawn mower still running. Like some Stephen King novel. As to the mosquitoes? Not sure either, but some are really dicks...like this one..
That bite looks suspiciously like a malleted flat penis!! Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
I once pondered the existence of mosquitoes. Mr Giggles reminded me that they were food for good animals like bats and trout
Feel free to help yourself to my share.
LMAO we've already had two snowstorms up here, really looking forward to that stopping next Apr. On the plus side the bugs died a while ago.
They're faking!! Don't believe them! I'm sure they're saying, "shhhhh .... here he comes!! Close your eyes!! Shallow breathing ...SHALLOW BREATHING!!' if they really died, there would be no next generation come Spring.
Where the hell do you live...The Arctic Circle????
It doesn't matter how cold it gets, the skeeters always pull thru. I lived outside of Fairbanks, Alaska for 3 years and those lil fuckers got bigger and meaner every year I was there
Move to Vegas. Very rarely are there mosquitoes in Vegas. But if you go to Lake Mead ... that's another whole ball of wax.
Lol nope, central Alberta. But I do have to say this has been the crappiest summer/fall since I've been here. Any yes the skeeters come back every year, although I had the black flies more (those little buggers burrow into ya)
I saw bugs big enough to threaten birds when we spent a month in northern Minnesota in the early 1980s.
I think I am going to move to Vegas. Did you know there are pot stores on almost every corner?
Close enough. I remember the black flies in Alaska. Nasty buggers
Yep! I lived in Thorn Bay as a kid and...........wow, big skeeters. One bite and it's off to the E.R. for a transfusion. Deep Woods Off is a big seller up there.
Our spring and early summer were so rainy that our county park had 4 new, non-planned ponds that took months to dry out (actually not sure they ever did, as it's raining here yet again). One time, I saw some kids playing with a pool inflatable. Anyway, that made the bug situation there horrible, as you can imagine. I played softball a bit earlier this summer, and a legit reason to call time out was because you'd gotten bugs in your eyes. I'm fairly sure I swallowed a few.
Deep Woods Off didn't help. The little bastards would crawl into your clothes and everything.
Avon's Skin So Soft is a great bug repellant.
It is supposed to be 93 here tomorrow. It sure won't feel like fall to me.
It as high 80°F until a fast-moving thunderstorm blew though about 5:45p. The temperature dropped when the front passed through but the humidity skyrocketed.
That's what happened here last night. It went from the mid-80s and 90% humidity at 10pm to 60 and dry by 7am. Nice wind all day too.
We had a breeze all day and then the winds got very gusty and I heard thunder about 5:30p. The driving rain started about 5:40 and it was over 10 minutes later. By 6:00pm the sky was a perfect blue and clear.
I hate it when that happens.
Oooh. Can I live with you?
I'd offer but aren't you already married to Texas?
Well, if you have a Macy's or even a Target, I would be in the "Fuzzy Warm Socks" section.
I'll trade you Paula, we had a high of 3C (38F) and a low of -4C (24F) today, tomorrows forecast is about the same
Holy shit. The only freefalling at your place is sleet and snow.
Lol yep, in fact there was some more of that today
Omigawd! Are you commenting from Dome Fuji, Antarctica??
Lol no but from close to the other end of the planet. It's been crappiest summer, fall I can recall in the past decade.
I have a friend that lives in the Whitehorse area. His wintertime posts on Facebook are epically funny.
Your friend is a lucky man, I lived there for 4 years in the mid 80's and it is beautiful country (used to pull the biggest trout from Fox lake just outside of town), but yes it is cold.
He works for the Canadian government doing environmental protection of some sort. I'm continually amazed at the wintertime temps and how some people can adapt to live in those adverse conditions.
Having lived most of my life in Canada, I can say that when things are tough, the tough get going.
On the other hand, I spent a lot of Christmas vacations in Florida, before and after I got married and had kids. In fact, for a while my brother and I shared ownership of a golf condo in Hollybrook, west of Hollywood, Fla, that we had inherited from our parents.
Lol dress for it and develop tolerance, but really ya shouldn't be surprised. If evolution and history have taught us anything about ourselves we are an endlessly adaptable and highly resourceful species
I've experienced many nights at -20°F but when it gets colder than that or stays below that that temperature for extended periods I want out.
I remember weeks in late January that it never broke 0°F as a daytime high for a week or more and overnight lows were in the -20 to -25° range. Strange things happen at those temps and people act weird.
The fun part is what you can do with water when the air temp gets below about -10F or so. The greater the temp differential the better, but you can toss a cup of hot water in the air and have it all suddenly sublimate into ice crystal fog with a loud CRACK! and watch it float away. The last time I tried it with repeatedly great success was in Jackson Hole where we had a stretch of -35F or -40F at night.
In '84 or '85 we had -39F at my old farm and we tried tossing the dishwater out a 2nd floor window. Most of it landed as ice.
In college, we had fights at the car wash with the pressure hoses. You can create instant snow drifts at -10F or below. Spray the water up in the air and it will freeze before it hits the ground.
The real challenge is what my local ski hill does.......they can make quality snow even up to 28F although they still need the wet bulb temp closer to 20F to do a good job.
This place in CA can make snow even when it's 90F outside although it's ridiculously expensive (plus they're cheating):
By the way I learned at Jackson Hole that even when it's cold at night it's not a good idea to toss the hot water straight up in the air and an even worse idea to look up when you do that.....
That has got to be expensive to do.
Oh dear gawd. If you and epistte got married and had kids, you had better have good medical insurance. epistte is you in a dress. A really cute dress. Short. With steeltoed boots for when she does something stupid that you egged her on into doing.
People act weird regardless of the Temp .
I'm not as crazy as I was in college. Thankfully we didn't have cameras on us 24-7 them so those exploits weren't recorded.
Cute boots. I want a nice pair of tall black riding boots but I also love wedge heels.
I tried that in Alaska when it was like minus 30 degrees and it didn't work for me
The water needs to be really hot since it's the vapor pressure differential which causes the phase sublimation. It won't work as well if at all if the water is cold or lukewarm or if the mass is too great for the duration it's in the air, so we were probably just lucky to get it to work with a pan of wash water.
I heard it works pretty well with boiling water.
And thanks for explaining the physics behind it. Now can you tell me what to do to get the condensation off my windshield in the morning?
The hotter the better it works but it doesn't have to be boiling. At Jackson Hole we nuked a cup of water for a minute so it was hot enough to make tea but it wasn't boiling, although that's probably why some of it landed on me when I accidentally tossed it straight up.
I have never run my defrost as much as I have this summer and fall. There's so much moisture in the air that it doesn't seem to matter what temp my windshield is, it has condensation. And when I get the interior cleared, I get condensation on the exterior. I can't win.
There's physics involved somewhere, I just know there is.
It's so humid in the summer mornings that it's at least 2-3 miles before my windshield clears up and that's with the defroster on and the wipers going. I've been trying to figure out for the last 30 years should I increase the temp on the windshield or lower it?
These are the things that keep me up at night
I increase it. I figure that's lowering the relative humidity of air inside the car, so the interior won't fog up. And it prevents condensation on the exterior by not cooling the glass so much.
Sure is miserable in August, though. So I give up and turn it back down, and get foggy windows.
Emergency room automatic double doors open .... "SKREKK!!!" "Hey, everyone! Skrekk's back!!"
Doc, I've got this burning sensation in my eye.....
You're about to get hit with a purse.....
Hell, if I could make a commercial for Rain-X, I would. I love that shit! The harder it rains, the better it works. Where I live, if I crack the back windows, the inside fog disappears pretty quickly, but Rain-X makes an inside windows product. I'm going to try it this winter.
I'll have to try the wipes. My windshield has been fogging up even when I have all of my windows down, which makes no sense to me, unless it's the 150% humidity we've had all summer.
I've been a Rain-X devotee since the mid-1980s when a friend's dad put it on my car. I love the fact that at highway speeds I don't need to use the wipers. It also helps the snow and ice not to stick to the windshield in the winter.
Sandy, you might try using the AC along with the defroster to clear the fogged windshield bcause the AC lowers the humidty of the air in the car. Some cars do it automatically when you turn on the defroster, but I have to turn the AC on manually.
That's what I do. I turn on the A/C but put the temperature to warm.
You should see the people I pass on hard rainy days. They have their windshield wipers on high and I don't need mine at all. I love that product. I'd marry that product if it were legal to do so.
I love that. People are pulling over because that can't see even with their wipers on high, but I'm driving by without my wipers on and I can see fine at 70 mph.
I've used it on the west windows of my house because dirt doesn't stick.
Sure! Then someone will want to marry their antifreeze then the spare tire. When will it stop. R
Holy shit, arkie! That's friggin' hilarious!!
I have my moments besides I was feeling a little "auto" erotic. I hope you did Chrysler over it.. Glad to have given you a chuckle. I am not really a bad guy I just play one on the internet.
Huh. Never thought of that. I live on a dirt road, and my westward-facing windows face the road. They're always dirty.
I'm gonna try it
We've had a couple of good chuckles in the past, that's for sure, arkie.
It works, it also make the windows easier to rinse clean - i use a squeegee & a hose
I am not a cold weather person.
Give me a palm tree over an evergreen.
Here ya go -
Ha. Never would have thought of that. Still prefer this though,
This seems easier:
True dat. Especially since I've started getting arthritis and heat helps. Now when my little hoofies get cold, they ache.
I'm retracting the invitation for you to move in with me. You have to tolerate numb toes in snowboard boots and ice skates, or at least be tolerant if the booze is good.
I'd rather be cold than too hot. I get mega-bithy when the temps go about 80 or the humidity is more than 75%. I hate the feeling of getting out of the shower and then you are starting to sweat 10 minutes later as you get dressed. You can't wear makeup in the summer because of the heat and my hair is always a mess.
I'll be waiting at home for you with fleece lined mukluks in a teddy holding a toddy. Hot. Both teddy and toddy.
Actually, that sounds a little sexy.
You can use my walk-in fireplace to warm up.
I commonly wear a tinted moisturizer, little blush and waterproof mascara between June and September
The FF'd hairstyle is always in fashion. Thankfully I have just barely shoulder length hair, so a few clips are my best friend.
How do you have a walk-in fireplace? Do you live in a lodge?
Almost, but I don't want to get too specific. Needless to say it's not a very efficient fireplace but it is charming & rustic. There's so much limestone and such a large maw It takes a good 3 hours before it puts out any heat.
That sounded scary for about two minutes til I Googled an image.
This is beautiful:
Wow. I'd add stained glass windows in place of the bars.
I have a lot of pork roasts that live in a Lodge.
Elastic is one of my best friends.
That's a cool pic and a great idea for how to make it more efficient.
Mine is 30% taller so you might need to just stoop a bit to get in there, but you really could stand up in it.
I have the same pot in blue because I'm too cheap to pay La Crueset prices.
My sweetheart researched them thoroughly and while the La Crueset was tons pricier, it was not a better product. I love my Lodge and use it constantly.
Hey, have you seen two little kids that went missing? Hansel and Grettle?
Stripper pole would be nice too.
Hansel and Grettle
Yeah, but that body glitter gets everywhere!
I discovered that first hand. I tried to be sexy for a BF but that stuff gets everywhere and it's impossible to get off you. It's worse than having sex on the beach.
Worst. Thing. EVER.
I've always said that my perfect Christmas would be lights on a palm tree
Although I miss the beautiful leaf colours of Autumn, I no longer miss the snow and ice that follows. When I was much younger, winter was a wonderful season to enjoy.
I've never lived in an area where snow was part of the season. An occasional sprinkling of snow for one day has been my norm.
That's just twisted. I'm not sure what I'd do with myself if I couldn't go X-C skiing right from the deck, or bomb down the local ski hill on a race board.
In fact I'm thinking of moving because the winters here are getting too mild.
XC skiing or a winter hike are one of the few ways to stop cabin fever in mid January. I've went fly fishing in February with and old BF but that is a special kind of crazy when its 15°.
Northerners know that our snowblowers get used more than our mower and that anyone with a blower has millions of friends when the weather report that was partly cloudy and flurries changes to 6" of snow overnite. There isn't anyone on my block that doesn't owe me a favor becaue I like to get out of the house and blow snow because it keeps me from getting cabin fever. I put on my old XC bibs and parka and I can go for an hour easily.
Grilling in the winter is a winter pastime that others fregions of the US just don't understand.
I know what you mean, I grew up in Miami, FL until I was in seventh grade and, then moved to Blowing Rock, N.C., the first winter there I nearly froze to death going to the bus stop for school, we lived in the caretakers house at a campground and, had to walk about a half mile to the stop, I had a Florida winter coat and, regular shoes and, we walked in a foot of snow to get there in the dark. Give me a warm place or, tropical weather and, I'm happy.
Don't get me started ...
I consider myself pretty damned spicy if I do say so myself.
Is that a warning that I'll burn my tongue?
Pffff......it never gets colder than shorts weather in NC.
Ok, tell that to the ski slopes that are there.
At my age, snow and ice are no longer a benefit, but keep in mind that I lived most of my life in Ontario Canada and enjoyed tobogganing, skiing and skating, even snowball fights, and the pristine beauty of a fresh pure white snow covering the landscape and the trees, but the most spectacular sight was the sun shining on the frozen branches after an ice storm creating a crystal paradise. (photo from the internet)
That still looks like shorts weather where I live. It needs to get down to -20F before we'll admit that it's a bit chilly and you might need a hat.
Of course we still lick street poles at that temp.
To me, it is officially cold at about 10°F because at that temperature the snow squeaks when you walk.
It's a damp cold and, the wind is usually going at about 50 mph and, we call that a light breeze, when a storm hits the wind usually goes up to about 90 to 110, at night if you go out when it's like that you could find your car frozen solid.
I guess it would be quite different if you lived near the coast. Years ago I had friends in Hong Kong who always whined about the winters there because the apartments weren't heated or insulated. For me it was too hot anyway. Same thing when I'm working in Pensacola - way too hot and humid for my taste even in December & January.
One of my sisters used to live in Charlotte and we'd go down there for Christmas sometimes. Even the Smokies were warm compared to where I had come from but I guess they could be colder after a good storm.
Charlotte is a world of difference from Blowing Rock or, Boone, the town we moved to when I started high school, they're both up in the mountains, Charlotte is in the Piedmont area and, is close to the South Carolina border so, it is always warmer than the mountains, I think the hottest it got up in Boone when I lived there was 85 degrees F, I have seen it get to 25 degrees below in Boone but, that was just for a few days in Feb or Jan.
I'm surprised by that. That's borderline long pants weather! When I was growing up we usually had a 2 week stretch where it didn't get above -20F, and nights approached -40F. But that hasn't happened here for a long time. We still get temps like that but only for a few days at a time, and the coldest night since the 1970s was in 1984 or 85 at -39F. Things have definitely changed since then.
Oh, that'th juth thexy.
Snow really is beautiful. Especially through windows from a warm house.
Oh dear god. Please never grow up. You make me laugh so stinkin' hard!
Skrekk whispering to cobalt:
I squeak when I walk after I eat cabbage. No matter the weather.
When the love of my life lived in PA, I sent him an "I love you" gift of some silly spray to spray into the lock of his car. I grew up in CA for gosh sake. Who gets frozen out of their car?????
I had an Audi in college that regularly had frozen door locks, even when I lubricated them. Having the door locks freeze open or closed used to be very common winter problem.
I remember I was drving home from Asheville, where my sister lives, in 2003 and there was a dusting of snow on the ground about 7:30am. People on I-40 by Hickory were crawling along at 45mph and I was doing 55-60. The cops pulled me over twice and warned me for too fast for conditions. I told the cops that I was from the Cleveland area and back home we don't slow down to the speed limit until there is more than an inch of snow on the ground.
I love the artsy feel of Boone, except when the leaf peepers show up in the fall.
In China, the people wear their overcoats INSIDE their homes during cold weather rather than use the heat - electricity is expensive. So expensive I can't understand why they light up their buildings in so many colours at night.
I agree, I wear shorts year round, unless I am wading through snow, then some work out pants or jeans.
The trick was to heat the end of the key with a match or lighter, then insert it. Nowadays cars have lock/unlock remotes.
You've obviously done it too.
I would spray all of the locks once a month with WD-40.
Any driver from the northern states or Canada knows how to drive on roads that are snow-covered, slushy, or icy, and shook their heads when they read about the multiple-vehicle crashes in the southern states when there was a little snow on the road. One lesson everyone learns at one point or another is that even if the ice melts on the roads when it starts to warm up, the ice on bridges stays solid because the cold air is also UNDER the bridge, not warm earth.
Whoever invented WD-40 deserves a medal. I keep a can of it in my tool-box.
With a name like "MrFrost" I can understand that. LOL
There is a 4-lane bridge not too far from me that is on a curve at the bottom of the hill. In the winter that becomes a crash site because you speed up as you go down the hill and then you hit the frozen deck and slide sideways into the concrete barrier if you aren't ready for it.
I've never heard of CRC 65-6 before. I use Tri-flow on my bike.
It is good stuff
Best WD-40 of all time was when I was at work and a few doors down, I hear the familiar "psssssssssssssshh" of canned air to clean out crumbs from your computer. All of a sudden, we hear "OH MY FUCKIN' GAWD!!!!!!" Ha! She had a can of WD-40 in her hand and a very very oily keyboard. Ha!
OMG. That's funny. I'm blonde but I haven't done that, yet.
You must be my long lost sister.
I was thinking the same thing!
Finding my relatives ... I think that's a reason to open a bottle of wine!
Sometimes not finding your relatives is a reason to open a bottle of wine!
LMAO!
You can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives.
What did we used say as kids? You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose.
I've heard and, said both girls, gotta love your relatives but, you don't have to like them.
We may be sisters from differing misters!
Wellll...my father was married at least seven times (that we know of...my mother was his third wife, she was 18 and he was 22). So you never know now!
I prefer to think of myself as a love child.
Well, in your case, mother's day must have been very confusing.
Three times by 22??? Holy moley ... Your dad liked marriage but wasn't very good at it, I guess. I'm sure he's a nice man because he's charmed many a woman. That's really very interesting.
Who're you talking about? Yes, that's an apostrophe.
"The First Day Of Fall Is Tomorrow"
Oh ya…..Training for TP day right now !
Make mean something sentimental.
Well, it's the second day of fall, and it's raining (again, or still? It's been a tremendously wet summer here.), sort of chilly, and I'm still scratching bug bites, because those little bastards don't disappear until it freezes. I slept with the windows open last night, and tried to keep the dog near my feet so he could keep them warm.
Omigawd ... I love you let your dog sleep with you. I know a couple of people who don't allow their dogs on their furniture, including their beds. How ridiculous is that??? It's called FURniture for gawd sake!!
The day I brought my dog home as an 8 week old puppy he has slept in my bed. He sits on the back of the couch like he is a cat.
There comes a point where you tire of inhaling loose fur at night. It's best not to get them started to begin with, especially when they eventually get big enough to occupy an entire king-size bed.
Also it's not the best idea where deer ticks & Lymes are prevalent.
Awwwww!! I LOVE him!!
Me in teddy, fuzzy socks and mukluks keeping your place spotless daily.
Nevermind, then.
The dog and cat both sleep with me. I have about 4 inches of mattress, and I have to build a pillow fort around my head to keep the cat from doing "happy paws" on my face at 3 in the morning. The dog sleeps under the covers, because that way, he can be closer to me than the cat. It's good to be loved, I guess.
That sounds like a little piece of heaven. But I laughed at the happy paws. I had two brother Maine Coons that were so adorable, but I had to lock them out of my room at night. I could sleep with one or the other, but when they both wanted to sleep with me, they couldn't resist playing and rolling around and jumpin' on and off the bed. I couldn't get a moment's sleep. Of course, they napped generously while I was at work.
I love it, but I'll also admit that if I'm away from home for a night or two, I really enjoy having the bed to myself.
How much room do 2 wrestling Maine coons take up, anyway?
Do you mean how MANY ROOMS do two wrestling MC's take up?? Because they're so playful, they're all over. I have a great picture of one reaching under the bathroom door to get his toy. Actually, it's a little album. I'll find the link for you. It's hilarious!
I can't let my cat sleep with me because every time I move my feet he attacks them because he thinks that I am playing. That plus the 4 am kneading paws on my face treatment.
If I don't play with him at night he jumps up on my dressing table and knocks my makeup and other bottles off the table one-by-one until he gets the attention that he seeks.
Oh, how funny is that! So typical. Here's where Axel (his brother is Levi) was reaching under the door for his toy. I have a little album where each frame is various ways he's reaching for his fluffy.
This when they were babies:
Are they seal-point siamese?
seal-point siamese?
Since they're rescues, I assumed they were primarily seal points, but the Rescue peeps said they were mostly Maine coons. I guess their momma was a Maine coon. One, Levi, had the Elizabethan collar that are predominate on MCs, but Axel didn't have that.
It's still raining here and apparently, we have intermittent rains for the next 48 hours. It feels very British because it's about 50°, overcast, and drizzle.
I have seen a lot of brown spiders that are about the size of a quarter. The webs are everywhere in the yard and even on my patio.
Make sure they're not brown recluses! Those spiders are deadly as all hell.
been bit by one of those and a black widow too. I'm still here. widow was worse, but I still have the scar from the recluse. oddly enough, I rarely get bit by mosquitoes. wtf?
Which one is the brown recluse?
What type blood are you?
I'm type A and if I'm around a bunch of folks with Type O skeeters leave me alone. They love type O better than they like type A. However, they will pick me over someone with Type B blood.
I read that on the internet
the red type
Thank god it's not green
smarty pants
I'm O positive. That explains a lot.
Both of them. I think it's momma and baby. They resemble each other so they must be related! They have the same eyes color.
Then it must be true.
Actually, I'm O Negative and they don't bite me much.
Like bloody mary red, or pomegranate red, or a red blend red? Or is like your sense of humor ... mauvelous?
These have a light stripe on their back, but it's about the same size.
Epi, please make sure they're not brown recluses. Those little fuckers cause necrosis if they bite you. People die from their bites.
I usually leave spiders alone outside but maybe I should start killing the little brown ones, just in case.
My entomology professor would be so proud of you.
Mr Giggles and both kids are O + and always get bit when they are around me. I guess they don't like O neg which Cobalt says she is
Was it the 'eyes' portion of the comment?? I'm laughin' so hard at your emoji, it's positively juvenile!
I think that's a good idea. I hate killing good spiders, but until you're sure they're not brown recluses, they gotta go!
Okay, now I started feeling guilty about recommending you kill every brown spider on the face of the earth, so I looked it up. The best article I've seen is this one . Very informative, if a little long. But now I'm armed with enough knowledge to be dangerous.
That was it!
Dr. Humphries had good sense of humor, too, which is probably why it's the only core class I ever got an A in....and I don't particularly like bugs
Reading this thread reminded me of something one of my nieces posted on FB, she lives in Florida and, wants the scientists there to cross lightening bugs with mosquitoes, that way you can see them in the dark.
I got tagged by a brown recluse when I was driving truck, I wasn't sure it got me until the spot it tagged rose to the occasion, I still have the scar from it on my arm.
Ok, so now I'm worried, I have purple blood and, I'm type A+. Seriously.
You have too much methane in your blood? Or is it carbon dioxide?
Well, I guess I should have said blue, it just looks more purple to me than blue. Family trait.
Aw, you're perfect. Except for that 'stubborn' thing. But ... is it really 'stubborn'?
I can go with that.
Well, at least I don't look like this,
I'm A+ and that is not me at all.