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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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You bought trays and stuff? Fascinating!
Naw, I'm using recycled black tv dinner trays that I got when I bought some Swanson's Hungryman TV dinners.
I'll buy and re-use the trays if this works ok. This is just the experimental mode...the prototype, so to speak.
I wish you could get the compartmentalized aluminum trays like the used to come in, but I can't find any just like them. They have some on Ebay that are actually for TV dinners, but I don't want to spend $20 on a few trays.
I'll have to settle for carry-out type trays.
what on earth are thrips?
They look like mites except they fly...very very tiny. The ones on my blackberries were yellow and they were just crawling with them. You couldn't just rinse them off because they were all down in the blackberries.
Gross. Nasty little things.
And they bite. They feel like a little itch just out of nowhere, because you can hardly see them.
The worst experience I've ever had with them was when we were drying our clothes on the line and Matthew was a newborn...they got all in the clothes and when we put them on him they were biting him and we didn't know it. He would cry and wiggle and broke out in a rash. I had no idea what the problem was and the doctor didn't either and prescribed hydrocortisone cream.
Then, sitting in church, I was holding him in a blanket and I saw them...all in his blanket. I literally jumped up and ran out and took all his clothes off him.
I still get a sick feeling over that...
Yeah...we hates them, precious.
Gotta go, Steve said he'd be home by four and it's about 5 minutes till.
See ya!
You'd think they'd sell aluminum trays at the grocery that would work...but I guess they just sell those plastic picnic plates.
We used to have ceramic compartmentalized plates. Dad hated 'em...thought they were silly. I imagine those could go in the oven...but maybe not right after the freezer! Guess not.
What does a non-recluse spider wear under its kilt?
So there's your "more money than brains" thing when it comes to some people.
I can't even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I'm a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn't invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT when food touches! I'm a military man, you understand that? And don't let your food touch either, please?
Heh....I hate it when food runs into my other food.
You could do me a hugh favor by maintaining a ping list for me that I could just paste into the "to" field. Just email me a new text file every once in a while. Thanks.
Nope no thrips. Just some grass clippings and those wash off. The cobbler looks great and the fried green maters were purty darn good. Big'ol ate his with ketchup, I had them with ranch dressing. Muy bien! Might have them again soon because I have several green maters that were shaken loose.
Evening Gentlemen-was able to partake of a great gunshow here. The summer show draws large numbers of high quality dealers and this year there were over 100 displays and 550 tables of assorted weaponries. Darn near sensory overload.
There was a fine display of US Military weapons, one was all the variations of the M-1, another Shotguns, including our favorites, M-97 and M-12 through current.
For the fans of older stuff, there is group that had a display of Lewis and Clark accoutrements, showcasing their air rifles. Learned quite a bit since I knew the gentleman and he likes to visit. They have made several, duplicating the originals, and are taking orders but at the price of new car I was content to look and listen. Those early airrifles were quite impressive.
Similar displays of cartridge coversion colt police models and SW No.3 revolvers most of the SW revolvers being historically attributed.
Got a great walnut flag case for our flag. The right sized for the way it's folded. Didn't know there were two sizes of cases, one for funeral flags and one for regular flags. I knew the ones I usually saw were too big, but didn't know why.
Evening Ruthie: Those are great pics of the trailride. Yes, it looks like Becky has a new friend all right. Sounds the ride was a real adventure, btw, doesn't anyone where cowboy hats anymore?
Evening, yes, artificial Christmas trees are our friend as well. Our luck with buying one fresh enough to last through New Years has dwindled over the years till we took one down the day after Christmas since it was loosing so many needles. The artifical tree takes that worry off the plate and the wire branches allow for more ornate and unusual ornaments which we tend to favor now.
Evening, the plastic plates in my camping set have the comparments, three as I recall but I don't know how well they would hold up to microwaves or heat. They certainly are tough, I've had em for , well a long time. :-)
Evening OT - see previous post on air rifles. :-)
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