Posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:30 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
I know that... ;)
We are having the carpet torn out of the house and having wood and stone installed throughout and expected the crew to arrive on Monday. Right after I posted the thread my doorbell rings ... crew was here and the house has been torn apart ever since. My computer was unplugged all day yesterday and most of today.
I took the opportunity today before relocating the computer to install my wireless router and I had trouble all afternoon. Everything is working well now, but I am totally exhausted, mentally and physically!
I will catch up on the thread tomorrow. Thank you all for your comments! Can't wait to read them all and respond. I appreciate your understanding :)
I admire your energy and ability to juggle so many things in your life. It makes me tired just reading of what you have going on any given Friday and Sat.
I know you are quite the chef, and don’t need this recipe, but for those suffering from a glut of zucchini, here is a recipe from Freeper, TheMom:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2709393/posts?page=14#14
Well, I did something new today, in this heat (it’s over 100 here not counting ‘feels like’, even though the mets say it’s 94), I accidentally left a Coke in the freezer and it didn’t so much as explode but slowly spackle coke slurpee over everything I bought home yesterday and put in the freezer, which I’d cleaned out before I stocked it.
I’m cleaning up the mess with a spoon on the first pass :)
LOL!
Of course, now that got me pondering how to make my own Coke slurpees in a controlled environment. Cans are happy to explode on their own, all I need is a receptacle for the blast, say a 44oz styro cup?
Yes, the heat is getting to me :)
Back in the day, we’d take a sip out of bottled cokes and freeze them. That sip would take care of any overflow. I’d think the same would work for cans.
I was just thinking this morning about back in the day when we were kids, we’d put salted peanuts in Coke bottles. The salt gave it an extra something. We’d eat little cubes of cheddar cheese with Dr. Pepper. Though the cheese would get icky inside the bottle unless you drank it within a few minutes. Of course, the only float was, and is, a rootbeer float with cheap vanilla ice cream, yum!
Back in the day, we’d harvest the ice crystals out of the freezer over a cup of kool-aid after we got off the hour-long bus ride 96o with windows open, and that was heaven on earth.
Somewhere we learned the ice crystals were not good for you, but the ice cubes from the tray were safe.
We used to peanut our cokes, too, for the fizzup before it got flat! Ice cream never lasted long enough for any application other than spoon>container>mouth.
On the way down to the lake to cool off, we knew which creeks on the way were cold, from deep springs, and drank like vampires from them, ignoring those black curly things that suctioned themselves above each springhead. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with us:)
Yep, and the Texas Gardener.
Mine did the same thing. I did get about 8 squashes, then the plants just curled up, dried and died. I don’t know what happened. They did have a LOT of squash bugs on them, I sprayed them, 7 dusted them, but it didn’t seem to help. The pots I put black powder in, have really helped my tomatoes, which were being attacked by something and bean plants are now climbing my double ended tomatoe cages.
Thank you.
Kohlrabi is good sliced and eaten with salt, while you’re sippin’. It’s also good stuffed with hamburger, just hollow out the center and use your fave hamburger recipe.
Been there with and open pony champaign. Almost had to lick the fridge/freezer clean.
It was 97 here in Lago yesterday. I blew up several drinks - beer and sodas - by accidentally leaving them in the freezer overnight.
We were 98 here, that is unusual, you are usually considerably hotter than we are.
I just got back running errands and saw 100 on the overhead digital thermometer. It only stayed that temp for about two miles and dropped back to 99.
My body knows when it’s 100 or higher even when they say it’s only ‘93o’. I can be sociable in the low 90s outdoors but not in the 100s, so I hightail it home for something... cold:)
I guess last year we had two practice months of mid nineties before the 100s started in May. We didn’t have any practice this year... from beautiful 70s/80s to ‘my God’ in a week or so.
I had to get indoors to cool off for a while. I didn’t like the humidity during my walk this morning. Came back and was soaked like a dish rag.
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