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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
Good points, Debra. Also, as people age the sense of
smell is often diminished. Smell is sometimes a clue to 'bad food.' Have you seen that commercial where the woman opens the take out box and faints? Bad food! PAT in VA/USA Debra wrote: Taste isn't always a good method of determining if a food is safe to eat. Many foods have enough flavor to taste good despite having gone bad or being tainted by toxins. Take this year's tainted peanut butter recall for example--the peanut butter tasted just fine, but I ended up with mild food poisoning three times just before the recall, and wouldn't you know it, I had been eating from a tainted jar of it. Another problem with using the taste method is that older folks lose part of their sense of taste. You won't be able to taste the difference between good or bad in as many foods when you are older. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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Everybody Out!
Are you thinking of the cartoon figure, Maxine? She is
a hoot!! Grinning in VA, PAT Elly wrote: On Sep 11, 11:20 pm, "KJ" wrote: Then I won't tell you about the time I got stuck on the roof! The choice was to sit on the hot (Arizona in the summer) asphalt roof and get on the ladder or jump into the pool from the roof. Burned my behind! You rascal you! I know I shouldn't ask you but I'm going to anyway, but how old are you? Not being nosey just being interested as at the moment I'm getting images of oh heck can't remember her name,, comes in funny cartoons,,, from America,,,, My epal sends me them... really funny.. help! Elly |
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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
Howdy!
Oh, bad food is so... well, bad! Like the popsicle that drips onto my blouse, and the hot chocolate that slops over onto my pajamas when I plop down in my favorite chair w/ a snack plate piled w/ toast (for dunking in the chocolate, ya' know), and the chocolate cake that ends too soon: bad food! Baaaaaaaaad! -Bad food! Don't let it near the quilts! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the a/c is working, the flooded floor has been dried & cleared, the plumber fixed the plumbing (where the a/c condenser line empties into the sewer pipe under the sink which the a/c man should NOT have touched but did and broke it and couldn't fix it, causing the flood that covered the floor, so the a/c had to be turned off to stop the condenser water from dripping & adding to the flood [thank goodness we had a cool Tuesday!] which I managed to contain & which will send me to the paint store to find some "dirty white" primer to spray on the ceiling where the flood ended [water travels down, usually]), and just as Life begins to seem like some kind of snowballing circus, everything works out okay (mostly; waiting for the a/c company to reimburse the extra cost of the plumbing), and I am once again grateful that my dad was a carpenter who taught me to "learn to take care of yourself!"-- and other useful household repairs. g I'm especially good w/ the telephone, calling the home warranty people and getting them to send the appropriate repair people. I LOVE to paint, can replace the sheetrock/wallboard and flooring (after I pulled it up to make sure it's really dry under there), but plumbing--I ain't so good w/ plumbing. As Andy Griffith told Aunt Bee: "Call the man!" Knowing when to "call the man" is so handy. ;-P So this afternoon I got to go back to the quilting table... hmmmmmm...seems like those scraps took advantage of my home repair emergency situation and multiplied again! I'm sure there weren't that many scraps in that pile last time I looked. Roberta!!!!!! The scraps are out of control! I need some Lebkuchen... should head to Southlake to the Germany grocery store; they sell German wheat beer at the liquor store in the same shopping center. ... . R/Sandy-- quilting goes better w/ Lebkuchen ;-D On 9/12/07 3:57 PM, in article , "Pat in Virginia" wrote: Good points, Debra. Also, as people age the sense of smell is often diminished. Smell is sometimes a clue to 'bad food.' Have you seen that commercial where the woman opens the take out box and faints? Bad food! PAT in VA/USA Debra wrote: Taste isn't always a good method of determining if a food is safe to eat. Many foods have enough flavor to taste good despite having gone bad or being tainted by toxins. Take this year's tainted peanut butter recall for example--the peanut butter tasted just fine, but I ended up with mild food poisoning three times just before the recall, and wouldn't you know it, I had been eating from a tainted jar of it. Another problem with using the taste method is that older folks lose part of their sense of taste. You won't be able to taste the difference between good or bad in as many foods when you are older. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
In article ,
Sandy Ellison wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the a/c is working, the flooded floor has been dried & cleared, the plumber fixed the plumbing (where the a/c condenser line empties into the sewer pipe under the sink which the a/c man should NOT have touched but did and broke it and couldn't fix it, causing the flood that covered the floor, so the a/c had to be turned off to stop the condenser water from dripping & adding to the flood [thank goodness we had a cool Tuesday!] which I managed to contain & which will send me to the paint store to find some "dirty white" primer to spray on the ceiling where the flood ended [water travels down, usually]), and just as Life begins to seem like some kind of snowballing circus, everything works out okay (mostly; waiting for the a/c company to reimburse the extra cost of the plumbing), and I am once again grateful that my dad was a carpenter who taught me to "learn to take care of yourself!"-- and other useful household repairs. g snip Wow! I somehow missed your announcement of this little "adventure"! I'm glad things are sort of under control again. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
I missed it too! I'm sorry for your woes. I HATE to call repair
people....mostly because I don't have any names at hand for such events. It's always a crap shoot. -- Kathyl (KJ) remove "nospam" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz "Sandy" wrote in message ... In article , Sandy Ellison wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the a/c is working, the flooded floor has been dried & cleared, the plumber fixed the plumbing (where the a/c condenser line empties into the sewer pipe under the sink which the a/c man should NOT have touched but did and broke it and couldn't fix it, causing the flood that covered the floor, so the a/c had to be turned off to stop the condenser water from dripping & adding to the flood [thank goodness we had a cool Tuesday!] which I managed to contain & which will send me to the paint store to find some "dirty white" primer to spray on the ceiling where the flood ended [water travels down, usually]), and just as Life begins to seem like some kind of snowballing circus, everything works out okay (mostly; waiting for the a/c company to reimburse the extra cost of the plumbing), and I am once again grateful that my dad was a carpenter who taught me to "learn to take care of yourself!"-- and other useful household repairs. g snip Wow! I somehow missed your announcement of this little "adventure"! I'm glad things are sort of under control again. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious) http://www.sandymike.net |
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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
Howdy!
Oh, it all started yesterday afternoon. Times does indeed pass quickly when one is having fun.. or something. VBG The thing is, the a/c guy wanted to stop & talk about his wife who sews; she thinks "quilters are on a higher level" of talent and skill. LOL And the plumber just stood & watched me piece some scraps while he waited for a return phone call. I finished a whole scoop of scrap piecing before I left for a church board meeting, calm & collected & all cleaned up (me & the floor). Usually it's fairly quiet around here, but when Things Happen they all seem to want to happen at once. Late afternoon the cable t.v. guy showed up to ask "is the box in your backyard?" No, but I took him to the backyard to peek over the fence where "the box" is in the neighbor's yard; our service is not having problems so he had to look further down the block for the right "box". Ya' know, as long as these repair people are nice and do their job, I'm okay with that. I do have A List of People to Call. I send them away w/ a bottle of cool water, too. Of course, we Quilters perseve the quilts must go on. VBG R/Sandy--quilting w/ one hand, swinging a hammer with the other 8- On 9/12/07 6:57 PM, in article , "Sandy" wrote: In article , Sandy Ellison wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the a/c is working, the flooded floor has been dried & cleared, the plumber fixed the plumbing (where the a/c condenser line empties into the sewer pipe under the sink which the a/c man should NOT have touched but did and broke it and couldn't fix it, causing the flood that covered the floor, so the a/c had to be turned off to stop the condenser water from dripping & adding to the flood [thank goodness we had a cool Tuesday!] which I managed to contain & which will send me to the paint store to find some "dirty white" primer to spray on the ceiling where the flood ended [water travels down, usually]), and just as Life begins to seem like some kind of snowballing circus, everything works out okay (mostly; waiting for the a/c company to reimburse the extra cost of the plumbing), and I am once again grateful that my dad was a carpenter who taught me to "learn to take care of yourself!"-- and other useful household repairs. g snip Wow! I somehow missed your announcement of this little "adventure"! I'm glad things are sort of under control again. |
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OT bad food was Everybody Out!--Old SPices too...
On Sep 12, 10:22 pm, Sandy Ellison wrote:
Howdy! Oh, it all started yesterday afternoon. Times does indeed pass quickly when one is having fun.. or something. VBG The thing is, the a/c guy wanted to stop & talk about his wife who sews; she thinks "quilters are on a higher level" of talent and skill. LOL And the plumber just stood & watched me piece some scraps while he waited for a return phone call. I finished a whole scoop of scrap piecing before I left for a church board meeting, calm & collected & all cleaned up (me & the floor). Usually it's fairly quiet around here, but when Things Happen they all seem to want to happen at once. Late afternoon the cable t.v. guy showed up to ask "is the box in your backyard?" No, but I took him to the backyard to peek over the fence where "the box" is in the neighbor's yard; our service is not having problems so he had to look further down the block for the right "box". Ya' know, as long as these repair people are nice and do their job, I'm okay with that. I do have A List of People to Call. I send them away w/ a bottle of cool water, too. Of course, we Quilters perseve the quilts must go on. VBG R/Sandy--quilting w/ one hand, swinging a hammer with the other 8- On 9/12/07 6:57 PM, in article , "Sandy" wrote: In article , Sandy Ellison wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the a/c is working, the flooded floor has been dried & cleared, the plumber fixed the plumbing (where the a/c condenser line empties into the sewer pipe under the sink which the a/c man should NOT have touched but did and broke it and couldn't fix it, causing the flood that covered the floor, so the a/c had to be turned off to stop the condenser water from dripping & adding to the flood [thank goodness we had a cool Tuesday!] which I managed to contain & which will send me to the paint store to find some "dirty white" primer to spray on the ceiling where the flood ended [water travels down, usually]), and just as Life begins to seem like some kind of snowballing circus, everything works out okay (mostly; waiting for the a/c company to reimburse the extra cost of the plumbing), and I am once again grateful that my dad was a carpenter who taught me to "learn to take care of yourself!"-- and other useful household repairs. g snip Wow! I somehow missed your announcement of this little "adventure"! I'm glad things are sort of under control again. - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - sandy...my dad was in the Navy SeaBees, he and i usually do all our repairs, and believe me...i bought the house from hell. what a money pit. of course, after a divorce, money was tight so i bought the only house on the market in my neighborhood that i could afford. i went from a brand new 4 b/r,2ba luxury home to a 2br/1ba fixerupper.....what a nightmare..but now i just love it. actually it's now on the market. i want to move to Calif. to be w/my DS and DIL and i have to sell. heres the link: http://homes.realtor.com/search/list...srcnt=7#Detail amy |
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Where you moving to Amy? You have an idea of the housing market here? Looks pretty different than there. Taria amy wrote: sandy...my dad was in the Navy SeaBees, he and i usually do all our repairs, and believe me...i bought the house from hell. what a money pit. of course, after a divorce, money was tight so i bought the only house on the market in my neighborhood that i could afford. i went from a brand new 4 b/r,2ba luxury home to a 2br/1ba fixerupper.....what a nightmare..but now i just love it. actually it's now on the market. i want to move to Calif. to be w/my DS and DIL and i have to sell. heres the link: http://homes.realtor.com/search/list...srcnt=7#Detail amy |
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On Sep 18, 11:06 am, Taria wrote:
Where you moving to Amy? You have an idea of the housing market here? Looks pretty different than there. Taria amy wrote: sandy...my dad was in the Navy SeaBees, he and i usually do all our repairs, and believe me...i bought the house from hell. what a money pit. of course, after a divorce, money was tight so i bought the only house on the market in my neighborhood that i could afford. i went from a brand new 4 b/r,2ba luxury home to a 2br/1ba fixerupper.....what a nightmare..but now i just love it. actually it's now on the market. i want to move to Calif. to be w/my DS and DIL and i have to sell. heres the link: http://homes.realtor.com/search/list...=msn&pg=1&sour... amy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - my DS lives in San Pedro, south of LA. right now my DD is in college and finishes in May. I'm hoping the house sells by Xmas and we can go by Feb or so. i visited DS last Sept and then again this past May and traveled the state a bit. I really loved it there. i've lived in the New England area all my life and it's so different in CA. i just cant wait! amy |
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Take a flashlight and screwdriver with you. I want you to go around to the
vent thing from your clothes dryer, open it, peer inside and check for troubles. If they're generally unimportant, at least scrape the fuzzies from the flap so it will close properly and not permit any critters easy entrance. Then. Back inside. Inspect your clothes dryer filter and the area where it's inserted and see if the vacuum cleaner is needed. (probably) Next, pull your dryer from the wall and clean the tube that runs from the dryer to the outside. How to get your body from behind the dryer will be a challenge. If you think this is too much trouble, don't even ask how much trouble you'll have if you don't do it. DSis just survived a clothes dryer fire and the trouble that caused was gruesome. Better just to get rid of the damn dryer. They're one of the commonest causes of house fires. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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