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The Washington Post
By Jason Samenow
June 28
How do nine straight days of 90s with suffocating humidity levels sound?
Starting as soon as Thursday and continuing well into next week, high temperatures are forecast to hit at least 90 in Washington. The hottest stretch is predicted between Saturday and Tuesday, when maximum temperatures in the mid-90s or higher are likely.
But temperatures will tell only part of the story. Especially Sunday through next week, humidity levels become oppressive, adding 5 to 10 degrees to how hot it feels. The combination of heat and humidity will produce heat index values near and above 100 for days on end.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/06/28/a-long-duration-heat-wave-is-beginning-in-washington-when-it-will-frequently-feel-like-100/
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Pretty warm today, now 68 F at 8:15 pm
Under one mile from the ocean in the OC
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Looks lIke a lot of us are going to be under this heat wave. In my corner of the world, the weather soothsayers originally predicted 90+ degrees till Monday. Now they are saying all next week. I'm really ticked because I have heart problems. All last winter I stayed home because being out in the cold for more than a minute would have killed me. So I was looking forward to more moderate temperatures in spring and summer. But now it's too hot for me to go out.
Anyway -- everyone under this heat wave: stay safe. Even if you don't have health issues, this heat can kill you if you aren't careful. Stay well hydrated. Dont overdo. .
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BREAKING!!!!!
HOT IN SUMMER!!!!
News at 11
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BREAKING!!!!!
HOT IN SUMMER!!!!
News at 11
And what coronary ICU should I visit you in?
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And what coronary ICU should I visit you in?
LOL. How old do you think I am?
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Looks lIke a lot of us are going to be under this heat wave. In my corner of the world, the weather soothsayers originally predicted 90+ degrees till Monday. Now they are saying all next week. I'm really ticked because I have heart problems. All last winter I stayed home because being out in the cold for more than a minute would have killed me. So I was looking forward to more moderate temperatures in spring and summer. But now it's too hot for me to go out.
Anyway -- everyone under this heat wave: stay safe. Even if you don't have health issues, this heat can kill you if you aren't careful. Stay well hydrated. Dont overdo. .
Thanks Apple, I also try to keep it within reason being outside. Today helping the son with the lawnmower repair was about enough for me. Had me a cool drink to help me along. As long as that Air inside keeps pumping it is good so far. Take care of yourself.
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How do nine straight days of 90s with suffocating humidity levels sound?
Like pretty much most of the year.
Well, except this one.
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LOL. How old do you think I am?
No idea. But a heart attack can strike you at any age -- especially if you undertake strenuous activity in extreme heat or cold.
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No idea. But a heart attack can strike you at any age -- especially if you undertake strenuous activity in extreme heat or cold.
You can die at any time for any reason. My uncle collapsed and died in mid April in an air conditioned office at his desk.
Life is short.
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LOL. How old do you think I am?
@Frank Cannon
I don’t know, how old are you? My father-in-law had a triple bypass in his forties.
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Thanks Apple, I also try to keep it within reason being outside. Today helping the son with the lawnmower repair was about enough for me. Had me a cool drink to help me along. As long as that Air inside keeps pumping it is good so far. Take care of yourself.
Thank you. Stay cool, my friend. :cool:
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I hate those damn summer weather maps, I hate the meteorologists’ heat index crap, and I hate this garbage season.
Our local weather guy—-“Gonna be a great weekend to go to the beach!†Yeah, a great weekend to lie on hot sand in the middle of a crowd with a burning sun baking me, sweating myself into a puddle, and “cooling off†in water the temperature of lukewarm soup. Idiot.
/bitter rant off
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@Frank Cannon
I don’t know, how old are you? My father-in-law had a triple bypass in his forties.
:shrug:
Listen to your doctor, enjoy life, and know that one day you will die.
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:shrug:
Listen to your doctor, enjoy life, and know that one day you will die.
@Weird Tolkienish Figure
Yep, nobody’s guaranteed another minute.
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I live in an area that has lots of illegal worker activity who do just about all manual labor. Every morning the local gas station is flooded with work trucks and vehicles of all kinds so they can buy their water and snacks for the day.
I see them stuffed in vans and pickup trucks, bristling with ladders and tools. Painters, Roofers, Landscapers, Laborers. I actually feel a little sorry for those guys knowing that they are going to be doing hard labor under the sun all day. I don't see how they do it, but they do it somehow. I would pass out in a couple of hours if I tried to do what they do every day all day long.
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I live in an area that has lots of illegal worker activity who do just about all manual labor. Every morning the local gas station is flooded with work trucks and vehicles of all kinds so they can buy their water and snacks for the day.
I see them stuffed in vans and pickup trucks, bristling with ladders and tools. Painters, Roofers, Landscapers, Laborers. I actually feel a little sorry for those guys knowing that they are going to be doing hard labor under the sun all day. I don't see how they do it, but they do it somehow. I would pass out in a couple of hours if I tried to do what they do every day all day long.
Roofing especially. That one always blew my mind how anyone could do that during the middle of summer. I know it's one of the hardest jobs to do.
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I hate those damn summer weather maps, I hate the meteorologists’ heat index crap, and I hate this garbage season.
Our local weather guy—-“Gonna be a great weekend to go to the beach!†Yeah, a great weekend to lie on hot sand in the middle of a crowd with a burning sun baking me, sweating myself into a puddle, and “cooling off†in water the temperature of lukewarm soup. Idiot.
/bitter rant off
I hate this town in the summer ... won't see another good hair day until Halloween. :laugh:
@CatherineofAragon
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A couple of days ago, at least two people on my shift had to take a break in the "cool zone", both were much younger than me. It will reach 100 in the warehouse today, so I'll drop a few pounds (which I'll gain back after a trip to Smoothie King).
I amazed one coworker by telling him my water jug works like a sun dial...I can tell the time based on how much water I've consumed during a shift. When he asked me, I said "it's about 2:30", he checked his watch and it was 2:25.
Then I told him the rest of the story: there's a time stamp on the shipping labels we print out... :rolling:
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How do nine straight days of 90s with suffocating humidity levels sound?
Sounds like summer. :shrug:
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I live in an area that has lots of illegal worker activity who do just about all manual labor. Every morning the local gas station is flooded with work trucks and vehicles of all kinds so they can buy their water and snacks for the day.
I see them stuffed in vans and pickup trucks, bristling with ladders and tools. Painters, Roofers, Landscapers, Laborers. I actually feel a little sorry for those guys knowing that they are going to be doing hard labor under the sun all day. I don't see how they do it, but they do it somehow. I would pass out in a couple of hours if I tried to do what they do every day all day long.
I remember watching an episode of Mike Rowe's "Dirty Jobs" a few years back. One of the episodes featured him doing roofing in Las Vegas. I don't know the exact month, but it looked pretty hot.
As in many of the episodes of that show, it looked like most of the workers were Hispanic. Whenever he appeared to do a hard job in hot, sticky weather, it seemed most of the workers working with him looked Hispanic. Mexican or around those parts.
Also when watching the "Flipping Vegas" with Scott and Amy, almost all the workers doing the hard, physical labor were Hispanic i.e. Mexican. Many times Scott would converse with the head of the work gang with a little Spanish mixed in.
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I remember watching an episode of Mike Rowe's "Dirty Jobs" a few years back. One of the episodes featured him doing roofing in Las Vegas. I don't know the exact month, but it looked pretty hot.
As in many of the episodes of that show, it looked like most of the workers were Hispanic. Whenever he appeared to do a hard job in hot, sticky weather, it seemed most of the workers working with him looked Hispanic. Mexican or around those parts.
Also when watching the "Flipping Vegas" with Scott and Amy, almost all the workers doing the hard, physical labor were Hispanic i.e. Mexican. Many times Scott would converse with the head of the work gang with a little Spanish mixed in.
We still have a lot of Anglo crews around here. They start at 6am and leave at 3pm. Too brutal after that.
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@Frank Cannon
I don’t know, how old are you? My father-in-law had a triple bypass in his forties.
Was he a food tester at McDonald's.
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How do nine straight days of 90s with suffocating humidity levels sound?
Extremely normal summer for most of the gulf coast. Except for the only lasting 9 days part.
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Roofing especially. That one always blew my mind how anyone could do that during the middle of summer. I know it's one of the hardest jobs to do.
Take the same heat and humidity and require them to work in a refinery or other petroleum/chem plant. Steel toe boots, long sleeves with heavy material of Fire Resistant Clothing. Make it even worse for the welder in heavy gloves with leather sleeves to the shoulders and welding hood.
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It's around 90 here. I did a little work in the garden for barely a half hour and am completely drenched. It's brutal.
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I hate this town in the summer ... won't see another good hair day until Halloween. :laugh:
@CatherineofAragon
@Right_in_Virginia
That's a given....I can feel mine kink up when I sweat.
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Texas has 3 more months of this $hit, humidity a little lighter in the hill country than on the gulf coast but being a skinny ol fart the cold bothers me much more.
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Was he a food tester at McDonald's.
@Frank Cannon
Nah, he owns a successful business. His father died of heart disease in his early fifties. Since that bypass, FIL is in his weight room at four every morning working out.
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Looks lIke a lot of us are going to be under this heat wave. In my corner of the world, the weather soothsayers originally predicted 90+ degrees till Monday. Now they are saying all next week. I'm really ticked because I have heart problems. All last winter I stayed home because being out in the cold for more than a minute would have killed me. So I was looking forward to more moderate temperatures in spring and summer. But now it's too hot for me to go out. Anyway -- everyone under this heat wave: stay safe. Even if you don't have health issues, this heat can kill you if you aren't careful. Stay well hydrated. Dont overdo. .
@Applewood
It is 100 here at 3:36 pm central time, and with heat index feels like 109. Tomorrow will be 101 so it will feel hotter than 109 tomorrow.
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ol Texas Remedy for this excruciating heat:
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@Frank Cannon
Nah, he owns a successful business. His father died of heart disease in his early fifties. Since that bypass, FIL is in his weight room at four every morning working out.
Well @CatherineofAragon since I have a short week I mowed two of my properties and helped one of my guys lug a new hot water heater into a 3rd floor walk up in 95 degree heat and then washed the station wagon when I got home because it looked slightly dusty........AND I AM STILL ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE!!!!!!!
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It's around 90 here. I did a little work in the garden for barely a half hour and am completely drenched. It's brutal.
We did an our on the Pioneer Trail that we picked up in Follansbee. Yep, dripping in sweat minutes in.
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@Applewood
It is 100 here at 3:36 pm central time, and with heat index feels like 109. Tomorrow will be 101 so it will feel hotter than 109 tomorrow.
Ugh! We are at 91 right now with a heat index of 98 100 is a rarity here, but it has happened.
I remember once it was over 100. My brother was out in the garden watering his tomato plants and pulling off dead leaves when he found a bunny trying to nap under one of the plants. Now rabbits usually run off when they encounter humans, but this poor little thing was just too hot to run away. My brother arranged the plant over the rabbit to give him shade and let the poor fella go back to sleep.
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Well @CatherineofAragon since I have a short week I mowed two of my properties and helped one of my guys lug a new hot water heater into a 3rd floor walk up in 95 degree heat and then washed the station wagon when I got home because it looked slightly dusty........AND I AM STILL ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE!!!!!!!
You drive a station wagon? How old are you?
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You drive a station wagon? How old are you?
I'm a Gen X'er. We find that stuff ironically cool just like you probably find buck boards and butter churns cool.
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I'm a Gen X'er. We find that stuff ironically cool just like you probably find buck boards and butter churns cool.
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LOL. No, I'm afraid I wouldn't know what a buckboard was if I tripped over one. But, I know who to go to for information.
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LOL. How old do you think I am?
I'm going with 71.
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LOL. No, I'm afraid I wouldn't know what a buckboard was if I tripped over one. But, I know who to go to for information.
I do too. @corbe seems really old.
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Beautiful Wagon, @Frank Cannon does it have the 455 Rocket under the hood?
Looks like someone splurged and got the UNDERCOAT.
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LOL. No, I'm afraid I wouldn't know what a buckboard was if I tripped over one. But, I know who to go to for information.
Buckboard
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Buckboard
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Oh. It would hurt to trip over it.
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I'm pushing 70 with a short stick but I'm stuck in a time warp and still feel like I'm 50.
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Hit 100 feels like 104. I just took a nap on the couch with the AC set to 78. I'll have to pay, but it's worth it.
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I have the AC on ... 65? :whistle:
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Beautiful Wagon, @Frank Cannon does it have the 455 Rocket under the hood?
Looks like someone splurged and got the UNDERCOAT.
Mine is exactly like that including the vent shades except mine is a much higher quality with the CB whip antenna on the rear bumper. I pulled the detuned stock 455 out and dropped a high compression 455 out of a '70 98 that was rusty but had 45k miles. I also have dual exhaust, Pertronix electronic ignition and I'm thinking about pulling the Quadrajet this summer and bolting on fuel injection.
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Buckboard
Buck never gets bored.....
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Makes me glad I work in the Gulf.
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Makes me glad I work in the Gulf.
Always a nice southeasterly breeze, @Hoodat?
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Makes me glad I work in the Gulf.
Bit of an under achiever, eh?
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It's around 90 here. I did a little work in the garden for barely a half hour and am completely drenched. It's brutal.
I know what you mean... We might break 70 degrees in the next hour or so...
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I have the AC on ... 65? :whistle:
I'm in my underwear. I would freeze at 65. Also that would kill all the homemade wine I have cooking all over the house.
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Always a nice southeasterly breeze, @Hoodat?
It never seems to go much above the water temp. When stormy, the temp will drop. But when sunny and relatively clear, it never goes above 85.
Of course that could change now that summer is finally here.
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Bit of an under achiever, eh?
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Whoa, they caught a picture of Bill and Ted's time travel machine.
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I'm in my underwear. I would freeze at 65. Also that would kill all the homemade wine I have cooking all over the house.
What’s cooking?
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I have the AC on ... 65? :whistle:
65 sounds like heaven to me.
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What’s cooking?
Some Grape wine and Peach wine. I also have a mango, papaya, strawberry mix (tropical flavor) just for fun.
Once I learned how to do it, and found out how freakin easy it is, I do it all the time now. Have a hydrometer on the way from Amazon. Tired of guessing the proof, even though I know it is 5% at the least and 14% at the most.
Thinking about buying a distiller and taking it up notch, but still haven't decided.
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Whoa, they caught a picture of Bill and Ted's time travel machine.
You just outed yourself as old by A) referencing that movie and B) knowing what a phone booth is.
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You just outed yourself as old by A) referencing that movie and B) knowing what a phone booth is.
I wanna know which of those two in front is @Hoodat
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I wanna know which of those two in front is @Hoodat
Doing a lube job under the Caddy.
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One mile from the ocean in the OC 3:30 pm = 70 F
It is brutal, I tell you. Ocean breeze picks up about this time, to keep it cool.
I have never lived in a house with AC.
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Some Grape wine and Peach wine. I also have a mango, papaya, strawberry mix (tropical flavor) just for fun.
Once I learned how to do it, and found out how freakin easy it is, I do it all the time now. Have a hydrometer on the way from Amazon. Tired of guessing the proof, even though I know it is 5% at the least and 14% at the most.
Thinking about buying a distiller and taking it up notch, but still haven't decided.
Fun! We do hard cider in fall after our neighbor has picked all the apples off her tree she wants.
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Some Grape wine and Peach wine. I also have a mango, papaya, strawberry mix (tropical flavor) just for fun.
Once I learned how to do it, and found out how freakin easy it is, I do it all the time now. Have a hydrometer on the way from Amazon. Tired of guessing the proof, even though I know it is 5% at the least and 14% at the most.
Thinking about buying a distiller and taking it up notch, but still haven't decided.
I left my a/c off while traveling. I hope the mead I have going doesn't get destroyed.
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You just outed yourself as old by A) referencing that movie and B) knowing what a phone booth is.
A) You bleep old people don't know about Amazon movies. B) Why would I need a booth for my cell phone?
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Fun! We do hard cider in fall after our neighbor has picked all the apples off her tree she wants.
It is fun. It has becoming something of a hobby for me. It is close to gardening, in the sense that you plant the seed, nurture it as much as you can or should, and watch it grow over time. And the payoff is fun too. Win Win.
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I left my a/c off while traveling. I hope the mead I have going doesn't get destroyed.
That depends entirely on the type of yeast that you used. But regardless of the yeast, if you get to 65 degrees or below, the yeast will likely go dormant. You may or may not be able to revive it depending on the type of yeast and how long it stays at that temp.
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Great. So now I’m going to have to shade the ‘maters. After two straight years of early blight, I’m not about to lose this this years crop!
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Being that I was born in 1976 I've never seen a real soda jerk, but they do actually look like jerks.
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Some Grape wine and Peach wine. I also have a mango, papaya, strawberry mix (tropical flavor) just for fun.
Once I learned how to do it, and found out how freakin easy it is, I do it all the time now. Have a hydrometer on the way from Amazon. Tired of guessing the proof, even though I know it is 5% at the least and 14% at the most.
Thinking about buying a distiller and taking it up notch, but still haven't decided.
Hydrometer. If only I had a hydrometer. When I was in the Navy I went in with 2 shipmates on a 15 gal batch of beer. No hydrometer, we used the "look at the bubbles method". Well it was Sunday and we were pulling out to sea in the morning. Not many bubbles. That cold front couldn't have anything to do with it. It's bottling time! When I got back home again, when I opened the door to my house, the smell of beer took my head off. I had stored my 2cases + 1 6pack in the kitchen closet. There was a lake of beer in the center of the kitchen. The closet door was blown wide open. Glass everywhere. But all was not lost. There were some unexploded bottles. So I'd take a bottle and partially uncap it, letting some/most of the pressure out and then recap it. That was working until a bottle exploded in my hand.
That's another story of how at the Navy hospital a 19 year old Navy corpsman was giving OJT to a 17? yr old newby on how to sew me up.
If I only knew about hydrometers.
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@240B
Have you ever done figs? I'm hoping to have around 20 lbs of figs off my tree soon and we're going to do a batch. I'm picking and freezing them every day. It'll be a first for me and my son. Any xtra and I'll make more preserves.
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@240B
Have you ever done figs? I'm hoping to have around 20 lbs of figs off my tree soon and we're going to do a batch. I'm picking and freezing them every day. It'll be a first for me and my son. Any xtra and I'll make more preserves.
No I have not. But I can tell you that figs will be a chore. Your going to have to peel them or scoop them out. You don't want that green skin in your mash. But that's fine. Add sugar and lukewarm to warm water. (make sure the water is not cold) There are two ways to go after that. You can activate the yeast manually by pouring it in a measuring cup with warm sugar water. When it starts to foam, you know you are good to go. Or, you can just add the yeast to the mash, keep it in a warm place, and just wait.
I don't know if this is the approved method since I am self taught, but the way I do it is to relieve the pressure every day, until it stops foaming and stops making pressure. Shake it to make sure it is really done. And you are good to go. Run it through a strainer or a coffee filter to make it just right. Chill, and enjoy. A cheap hydrometer is less than $10, so it may be worth it so you see what is going on.
Baking yeast will work but it is not the best. Try this for a better product.
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http://www.lallemandbrewing.com/products/home-wine-yeast/
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@240B
Have you ever done figs? I'm hoping to have around 20 lbs of figs off my tree soon and we're going to do a batch. I'm picking and freezing them every day. It'll be a first for me and my son. Any xtra and I'll make more preserves.
I'm getting figs this year!
Normally, they ripen right around the 4th and the birds devour (or at least take one flipping bite out of) every one as soon as they do.
This year, they started a few weeks early, and I've gotten most of them. Seems no one told the stupid birds they'd be coming in early!
Also, normally most of the leaves would be pretty much covered in rust by now. I've tried neem and pruning for air flow, but nothing has worked. This year, all green. I've heard we get two crops per year around here, maybe this year I will too.
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Recipe For Fig Wine
https://www.homebrewit.com/recipe-for-fig-wine (https://www.homebrewit.com/recipe-for-fig-wine)
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That depends entirely on the type of yeast that you used. But regardless of the yeast, if you get to 65 degrees or below, the yeast will likely go dormant. You may or may not be able to revive it depending on the type of yeast and how long it stays at that temp.
With the a/c off, the temp will climb. It's a fragile yeast, so it won't get too dry.
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Great. So now I’m going to have to shade the ‘maters. After two straight years of early blight, I’m not about to lose this this years crop!
An article that may be helpful:
https://www.burpee.com/gardenadvicecenter/areas-of-interest/flower-gardening/hot-weather-tips-for-tomatoes/article10694.html (https://www.burpee.com/gardenadvicecenter/areas-of-interest/flower-gardening/hot-weather-tips-for-tomatoes/article10694.html)
Good luck!
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But I can tell you that figs will be a chore. Your going to have to peel them or scoop them out. You don't want that green skin in your mash.
When I first made fig preserves, I thought I'd have to peel them. It wasn't required. Just lop of the stems and chop them up. What little I've researched fig wine, no one peels them that I have seen.
Thanks for the link.
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I live in an area that has lots of illegal worker activity who do just about all manual labor. Every morning the local gas station is flooded with work trucks and vehicles of all kinds so they can buy their water and snacks for the day. I see them stuffed in vans and pickup trucks, bristling with ladders and tools. Painters, Roofers, Landscapers, Laborers. I actually feel a little sorry for those guys knowing that they are going to be doing hard labor under the sun all day. I don't see how they do it, but they do it somehow. I would pass out in a couple of hours if I tried to do what they do every day all day long.
@240B
It was different in the 1970s: Bob was leading seismic crews in the 1970s in the south, think Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona and illegals would work on the crews. Company lists of the illegals were given to Border Control. Border Control buses would come get them at the weekend and let them out at the border to go back to Mexico. The illegals would get across the line again on late Sunday or early Monday morning, swimming the Rio Grand or sneaking across land to show up to work again. They would repeat that, work all week, border control would send the buses to take them back on the weekend.
In the 1980s, Border Control was still getting the lists from that oil company, but the buses stopped coming to get them. The illegals still went back to Mexico on the weekend to their families. They didn't want to live here because it was cheaper living in Mexico and their families had roots there. They wanted the money for their families.
Sometime in the 1980s, I went to a good Mexican restaurant for lunch. The front of the restaurant had police of some kind standing outside. Then, a number of Mexicans were lead out of the restaurant and put in cop cars. Those were illegals. Not long after that, the restaurant closed. During that time period in general, I didn't see/hear in the news about illegals being rounded up.
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@240B Have you ever done figs? I'm hoping to have around 20 lbs of figs off my tree soon and we're going to do a batch. I'm picking and freezing them every day. It'll be a first for me and my son. Any xtra and I'll make more preserves.
@Elderberry
We had fig trees when I was growing up. Mother and I would pick off the figs. I was about four years old. She gave me a nickel for every gallon I picked. Mother had gallons she picked and I took some of hers to make more gallons for me. That was the first time and last time I stole something. I didn't realize it was stealing until I was older.
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Texas has 3 more months of this $hit, humidity a little lighter in the hill country than on the gulf coast but being a skinny ol fart the cold bothers me much more.
@corbe
My husband had cancer in 2011. I lived just north of Houston. I had him in five hospitals during that time. The temperature was 105/107 every day for a month with no rain. I was going to the hospital every day, parking my car outside and coming back to it after it was sitting in the sun all day. I was so hot, I couldn't eat and I lost 10 pounds from not eating. That area has not seen temps that high for a month since then.
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Whenever we visited my grandparents in Georgia, we would come back with ma-ma's fig preserves and stop at the cannery in Wayside and get a bushel of cull peaches for about a dollar. We didn't have a fig tree at home. When I got my own place, the first tree I planted was a fig tree.
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When I first made fig preserves, I thought I'd have to peel them. It wasn't required. Just lop of the stems and chop them up. What little I've researched fig wine, no one peels them that I have seen.
Thanks for the link.
@Elderberry
I saw that looking at the recipe. Also I notice that it seems to be a lot more involved than I thought. I was thinking of a simple mash, but the recipe seems to be making more of a fruitcake wine. Which is fine. It is more than I normally do, but I would like to try it. It looks like the recipe would work for almost any fruit, apples, oranges, ...anything.
As far as peeling, that would depend on how ripe they are. When I said that, I was thinking of harvesting them before they turn completely purple. As a kid, we could never wait that long because the birds or the bugs would get to them first. You certainly don't want anything green from a fig tree in the mash. So, at least cut the stems off.
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Well, it was 90 degrees at 10:00 am today ... so this must be true. ^-^
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@corbe
My husband had cancer in 2011. I lived just north of Houston. I had him in five hospitals during that time. The temperature was 105/107 every day for a month with no rain. I was going to the hospital every day, parking my car outside and coming back to it after it was sitting in the sun all day. I was so hot, I couldn't eat and I lost 10 pounds from not eating. That area has not seen temps that high for a month since then.
2011 was horrible. We lost a lot of trees, and animal populations died way back. And, the fires were awful.
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Well, it was 90 degrees at 10:00 am today ... so this must be true. ^-^
I have a cousin in Alexandria. When her boys were little, I had the bright idea of visiting them...in August! Won't do that again. 100 degrees plus every day.
My cousin said, "we love you and are happy to have you visit. But next time, come in the spring or fall." LOL
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Well @CatherineofAragon since I have a short week I mowed two of my properties and helped one of my guys lug a new hot water heater into a 3rd floor walk up in 95 degree heat and then washed the station wagon when I got home because it looked slightly dusty........AND I AM STILL ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE!!!!!!!
@Frank Cannon
You’re doing really well! You might catch up to my FIL one day (don’t feel bad, no one has yet). :laugh:
Now, if anybody wants me I’ll be inside in the A/C. That’s why God invented treadmills and free weights.
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ol Texas Remedy for this excruciating heat:
(http://media.click2houston.com/photo/2015/11/22/Blue-Bell-Ice-Cream-Logo-jpg_499718_ver1.0_1280_720.jpg)
@corbe
I really want to try that stuff one day.
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Being that I was born in 1976 I've never seen a real soda jerk, but they do actually look like jerks.
@Weird Tolkienish Figure
I guess baristas are our version, but the jerk label still applies.
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@corbe
My husband had cancer in 2011. I lived just north of Houston. I had him in five hospitals during that time. The temperature was 105/107 every day for a month with no rain. I was going to the hospital every day, parking my car outside and coming back to it after it was sitting in the sun all day. I was so hot, I couldn't eat and I lost 10 pounds from not eating. That area has not seen temps that high for a month since then.
I remember that year. It was bitch hot up in DFW. They started water restrictions that year for the 1st time.
Everyone started to panic. Reservoirs were drying up! Oh Noes. The Possum Kingdom burnt up a few years later. Amarillo was on fire every year for a few years running. The world was coming to an end.
Then a funny thing happened. One year I think in 2014, for no particular reason it started raining. And raining... In a a couple of years the Lake Ray Roberts was full again as were all the lakes.
Nature is a wonderful thing. It does what the hell ever it wants to do. Man isn't even a pimple on her butt.
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@Frank Cannon
You’re doing really well! You might catch up to my FIL one day (don’t feel bad, no one has yet). :laugh:
Now, if anybody wants me I’ll be inside in the A/C. That’s why God invented treadmills and free weights.
I would respond to your post but I walked outside to see what the temperature of the pool was and died from the heat.
From now on please ping Ghost of Frank Cannon, my new handle.
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ol Texas Remedy for this excruciating heat:
(http://media.click2houston.com/photo/2015/11/22/Blue-Bell-Ice-Cream-Logo-jpg_499718_ver1.0_1280_720.jpg)
How about this remedy?
(https://cdn.cdkitchen.com/recipes/images/pinterest/12/frozen-whiskey-sour-128871.jpg)
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@corbe
My husband had cancer in 2011. I lived just north of Houston. I had him in five hospitals during that time. The temperature was 105/107 every day for a month with no rain. I was going to the hospital every day, parking my car outside and coming back to it after it was sitting in the sun all day. I was so hot, I couldn't eat and I lost 10 pounds from not eating. That area has not seen temps that high for a month since then.
@Victoria33
My second year in Texas, 79 I think, I was laying 12 inch concrete blocks (Lowes in Texas City) we
had 30 days where every day it was 100 degrees or hotter. That summer I think we had over 90 days
where it was 90 degrees or hotter. That was one hot summer. Shortly thereafter I decided to go
back to college (night school). It took a while but I finally got out of the heat.
I meant 30 consecutive days
and 90 consecutive days.
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I would respond to your post but I walked outside to see what the temperature of the pool was and died from the heat.
From now on please ping Ghost of Frank Cannon, my new handle.
@Frank Cannon
Listen, you don't understand fair-skinned women with English ancestry, and that's okay! Nobody's holding it against you.
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@Frank Cannon
Listen, you don't understand fair-skinned women with English ancestry, and that's okay! Nobody's holding it against you.
I know all about that shit. I'm married to one. She wears ridiculous sun hats the size of beach umbrellas, but she's hot so she gets a pass.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/98/78/8f98782e77419d5deaa5e53a100a28fe.jpg)
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(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1c/38/1a/1c381a788d59afc4170a64f1cfd33707--natural-redhead-beautiful-redhead.jpg)
My girlfriend says,
I can enjoy the beach for exactly 90 seconds, and then I sunburn.
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I know all about that shit. I'm married to one. She wears ridiculous sun hats the size of beach umbrellas, but she's hot so she gets a pass.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/98/78/8f98782e77419d5deaa5e53a100a28fe.jpg)
@Frank Cannon
Do those hats come with refrigerator units under the brim?
(https://49.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lscudcTmUL1qjyp1io2_250.gif)
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@Victoria33
My second year in Texas, 79 I think, I was laying 12 inch concrete blocks (Lowes in Texas City) we
had 30 days where every day it was 100 degrees or hotter. That summer I think we had over 90 days
where it was 90 degrees or hotter. That was one hot summer. Shortly thereafter I decided to go
back to college (night school). It took a while but I finally got out of the heat.
@jpsb I meant 30 consecutive days
and 90 consecutive days.
@jpsb
In 1988-89, I was the Director of Handicapped Students at College of the Mainland, Texas City. I lived in League City which is north about 12 miles from Texas City. Texas City is on the coast and the humidity you would have had would be high all summer. That would put your 90 degrees feeling like 100, not a place to be working outside as you were. Glad you got out of that.
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@Victoria33
My second year in Texas, 79 I think, I was laying 12 inch concrete blocks (Lowes in Texas City) we
had 30 days where every day it was 100 degrees or hotter. That summer I think we had over 90 days
where it was 90 degrees or hotter. That was one hot summer. Shortly thereafter I decided to go
back to college (night school). It took a while but I finally got out of the heat.
I meant 30 consecutive days
and 90 consecutive days.
I just moved to North Dallas in 79 near the TI campus. It was the next summer (1980) when we had a 42-day string of 100 degree days - the longest heat wave by far in the region's history - was broken. For one day. More triple digits followed, and when autumn mercifully arrived, temperatures had hit the century mark 69 times. The rich people were buying all the block ice and dumping it in their pools! It was wild. People were croaking right and left. The Dalls city morgue was over flowing with the dead. They had to pack them in Ice to keep them from rotting in the hallway.
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@jpsb
In 1988-89, I was the Director of Handicapped Students at College of the Mainland, Texas City. I lived in League City which is north about 12 miles from Texas City. Texas City is on the coast and the humidity you would have had would be high all summer. That would put your 90 degrees feeling like 100, not a place to be working outside as you were. Glad you got out of that.
@Victoria33
How are you feeling these days? PM me if you'd rather.
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So @jpsb, @Fantom and I share with you that we have all been in the Masonry industry at one time.
Loved the sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, unlike being a Coder the rest of my Life.
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So @jpsb, @Fantom and I share with you that we have all been in the Masonry industry at one time.
Loved the sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, unlike being a Coder the rest of my Life.
I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.
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I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.
We had a national contract for about 20 Stop an Robs in Houston did a few homes in the Heights and Roman Forest. Good times indeed, was never healthier.
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I just moved to North Dallas in 79 near the TI campus.
I'm aware of your story. It was very interesting.....
(https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieF-DE)__NorthDallasForty(2).jpg)
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I'm aware of your story. It was very interesting.....
(https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieF-DE)__NorthDallasForty(2).jpg)
I worked with Cliff Harris brother back then. Had a chance to play basketball with him and Staubach and a few other guys. That movie was pretty true for the NFL in general.
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It's a few degrees hotter than usual here in FL as well. I don't think it's a newsflash that it's summer and it can get hot. Good grief!! Damn these weather cycles!
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@Victoria33
How are you feeling these days? PM me if you'd rather.
@CatherineofAragon
I'll regular email in about 30-40 min.
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I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.
This wasn't some of your work, was it?
(https://failedarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wines-Houston-Intederminate-Facade.jpg)
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This wasn't some of your work, was it?
(https://failedarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wines-Houston-Intederminate-Facade.jpg)
LOL, nope, what an ugly building
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Looks like they used dirt instead of sand or one of the Bricklayers was to hung over to get more Lime.
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I worked with Cliff Harris brother back then. Had a chance to play basketball with him and Staubach and a few other guys. That movie was pretty true for the NFL in general.
That you?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/75491476/NolteMug-tightcrop_400x400.jpg)
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Looks like they used dirt instead of sand or one of the Bricklayers was to hung over to get more Lime.
Honest to God, we had a guy out here stacking up cinder blocks with no mortar... stuccoed over, and no one caught it. All that was holding them together was the wire mesh for the stucco. Twenty homes made it about 5 years, and by then he was long gone.
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So I bought a personal "mister" that you hook up to a hose. Wow, these things rock! Easy way to beat the heat.
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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Arctic-Cove-Big-Chill-Personal-Stand-Mister-MSDM009/204767998 (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Arctic-Cove-Big-Chill-Personal-Stand-Mister-MSDM009/204767998)
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(https://failedarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wines-Milwalkee-Inside-Outside-Facade-.jpg)
In the mid 1970s, the Lewis Family (the owners and operators of catalogue company BEST Products) hired Sculpture In The Environment (SITE) to create a series of facades for nine showrooms across the US. Regardless of the project’s relative financial benefits, the clients gave SITE the one thing all designers crave and fear: full creative reign.
https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/ (https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/)
I shopped at the Best store in the first pic.
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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Arctic-Cove-Big-Chill-Personal-Stand-Mister-MSDM009/204767998 (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Arctic-Cove-Big-Chill-Personal-Stand-Mister-MSDM009/204767998)
Those things make a mess inside the house though.
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(https://i.redd.it/qahxbkcnzd711.jpg)
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We here in southern Missouri have had these temps most of June and the next 10 days says more of the same so get a grip a week won't kill you I am surviving and I hate the heat I am a fall winter type of gal. When I moved here it was not like this it was more of a normal cycle with a nice spring but for the last 5 years the heat starts in May and June and doesn't quit till the end of October my A/C runs all the time but you also have to have fans running to be comfortable in the heat of the day. My electric bills almost make me cry.
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Honest to God, we had a guy out here stacking up cinder blocks with no mortar... stuccoed over, and no one caught it. All that was holding them together was the wire mesh for the stucco. Twenty homes made it about 5 years, and by then he was long gone.
Years ago there was a product called Surewall and that is exactly how it was used. I hated the stuff
and considered it an insult to my trade. But it did work and all of the buildings I built with it are
still standing some 40 years later.
The blocks had male and female ends so they interlocked and you used little plastic wedges to
keep the blocks level. The "stucco" was white Portland/white sand with lots of fiberglass fibers in it.
Not sure if they still make it.
Yup they still do https://www.hunker.com/13414507/surewall-directions (https://www.hunker.com/13414507/surewall-directions)
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@raml, I have to admit it's nice not to live in St. Louis anymore. The heat and humidity there can be brutal, but you're right - it can be survived! This, too, shall pass.
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So I bought a personal "mister" that you hook up to a hose. Wow, these things rock! Easy way to beat the heat.
I knew a girl in college with a personal "mister". Called him BOB and kept him in the bedstand bottom drawer.
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Prediction here today is 101 feels like 104. Woohoo! Summertime baby!
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Years ago there was a product called Surewall and that is exactly how it was used. I hated the stuff
and considered it an insult to my trade. But it did work and all of the buildings I built with it are
still standing some 40 years later.
@jpsb
I don't get the percentage. I mean, I have hauled enough hod in my life to have earned my trowel by right (though in fact I am not a mason, I surely do know how it works)...
What is the possible percentage in *not* mortaring? The cost of mortar is a relative pittance, so I guess it is about the labor, or making money on the rise w/o the wait for the mortar to dry... But the labor part of that is the hauling the cinder around part, not the mortaring... And a staggered rise around the building means you never really stop to wait on the mortar (on a decent sized job)... So what the heck is the savings?
The landscaper in me appreciates a dry stack - Properly done, and properly interlocked, it can withstand more than bricks and mortar. And that Surewall product you are talking about seems to lean on that idea (interlocking) , or incorporates it. But the beauty of a dry stack, it's ability to withstand nature, is found in the fact that it is NOT rigid. It can move and settle, and the interlocking keeps it in relative shape - The most magnificent example of that being the ancient cyclopean style of the megalithic era.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WlxR_3ZX97U/U1b-AaqbisI/AAAAAAAABC8/dd-VR0MghSY/s1600/andes6%2520machu5.jpg)
But if you coat the thing in stucco, it becomes rigid, and that capacity is lost. Makes no sense to me.
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/b9/9b/07b99b864212d0e93e606c8087bc4ff1.jpg)
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@jpsb
Makes no sense to me.
It made no sense to me either, but I got paid (well) so I built the buildings.
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We here in southern Missouri have had these temps most of June and the next 10 days says more of the same so get a grip a week won't kill you I am surviving and I hate the heat I am a fall winter type of gal. When I moved here it was not like this it was more of a normal cycle with a nice spring but for the last 5 years the heat starts in May and June and doesn't quit till the end of October my A/C runs all the time but you also have to have fans running to be comfortable in the heat of the day. My electric bills almost make me cry.
@raml
Yeah, Virginia summers are hot and humid so it's a lot more than a week.
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Great News! A cooling front is moving in. Tomorrow it is only going to get to 97! Finally I can turn my AC off.
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Great News! A cooling front is moving in. Tomorrow it is only going to get to 97! Finally I can turn my AC off.
Have you ever noticed the sound that the A/C makes when it kicks on? That dull motorized sensation of sound that drives the air out of the floor vents? That is the EXACT same sound that money makes when it burns.
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Have you ever noticed the sound that the A/C makes when it kicks on? That dull motorized sensation of sound that drives the air out of the floor vents? That is the EXACT same sound that money makes when it burns.
It saddens me to hear that at 3AM. Every night.
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Great News! A cooling front is moving in. Tomorrow it is only going to get to 97! Finally I can turn my AC off.
LOL! Teaser....
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Great News! A cooling front is moving in. Tomorrow it is only going to get to 97! Finally I can turn my AC off.
It's supposed to get here Wednesday, and with a chance of rain. Yaaaay!
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(https://failedarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wines-Milwalkee-Inside-Outside-Facade-.jpg)
In the mid 1970s, the Lewis Family (the owners and operators of catalogue company BEST Products) hired Sculpture In The Environment (SITE) to create a series of facades for nine showrooms across the US. Regardless of the project’s relative financial benefits, the clients gave SITE the one thing all designers crave and fear: full creative reign.
https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/ (https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/)
I shopped at the Best store in the first pic.
LOL. I forgot about Best. We had one of those back in the day.
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Oosy-ZtGY#)
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LOL. I forgot about Best. We had one of those back in the day.
How could you forget about Best? Where else could you get an awesome rain lamp from?
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--IP22HQgsMI/VbqGndTyyMI/AAAAAAAACQw/re_uxvboGGU/s1600/OilRainLamp.gif)
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How could you forget about Best? Where else could you get an awesome rain lamp from?
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--IP22HQgsMI/VbqGndTyyMI/AAAAAAAACQw/re_uxvboGGU/s1600/OilRainLamp.gif)
Oh, I remember those! I really wanted one. My parents didn't seem quite as enamored with it as I was though.
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Oh, I remember those! I really wanted one. My parents didn't seem quite as enamored with it as I was though.
I'm still looking for one. Every time I run across a decent one the guy wants a fortune for it.
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I'm still looking for one. Every time I run across a decent one the guy wants a fortune for it.
They've got some nice ones on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/rain-lamp (https://www.ebay.com/bhp/rain-lamp)
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! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Oosy-ZtGY#)
@corbe, I love you for posting that. I’m going to save it to gaze at now and then. Damn, you know that air is so fresh and cold. â„ï¸â›„ï¸
On the bright side, the days are getting shorter now.
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They've got some nice ones on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/rain-lamp (https://www.ebay.com/bhp/rain-lamp)
I travel through there once in a while but cool ones are between $300-800. My brain is wired as to not reach for my wallet for a 70's novelty at that price.
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I travel through there once in a while but cool ones are between $300-800. My brain is wired as to not reach for my wallet for a 70's novelty at that price.
I'm with you on that. I'll just have to admire them from afar.
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I'm with you on that. I'll just have to admire them from afar.
I'm biding my time. In my business I get into a lot of people houses to buy them. Pick up lots of top notch stuff by passing on the house, but making an offer on some item in the house. Most times people are excited to get rid it for cash.
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I'm biding my time. In my business I get into a lot of people houses to buy them. Pick up lots of top notch stuff by passing on the house, but making an offer on some item in the house. Most times people are excited to get rid it for cash.
@Frank Cannon
Buy a portable air conditioner or two or three. No matter what house you are selling, put the ac in the day before on MAX. Make sure the place is a cold as possible. [selling point] get them out before the pigeons get there.
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@Frank Cannon
Buy a portable air conditioner or two or three. No matter what house you are selling, put the ac in the day before on MAX. Make sure the place is a cold as possible. [selling point] get them out before the pigeons get there.
I don't sell shit. I stick human debris into them and then take their rent money.
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@raml
Yeah, Virginia summers are hot and humid so it's a lot more than a week.
Grew up in IA, spent a few years in VA, then settled in FL. I get a kick out of people in VA thinking they have weather, let alone heat.
I went to Leesburg first week of last September. Of course, I didn't think to take long sleeves or pants or anything, I mean it's the middle of summer. It was 52 degrees when I got there. Fahrenheit. I'm still shivering.
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I don't sell shit. I stick human debris into them and then take their rent money.
same thing
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(https://i.redd.it/xlj0zvbvxj711.jpg)
As the graphic demonstrates, be careful not to stroke out in the heat.
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Thank you @240B People don't realize how fast this heat can kill you if you're not careful.
And yes, it's important to care for our pets. Best to keep them inside, but if they must be outside, have adequate shelter and plenty of cool water.
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(https://i.redd.it/xlj0zvbvxj711.jpg)
As the graphic demonstrates, be careful not to stroke out in the heat.
There is something very very wrong with that picture.
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There is something very very wrong with that picture.
:happyhappy:
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There is something very very wrong with that picture.
Or, something very wrong with those of us who see it that way... :silly:
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(https://i.redd.it/xlj0zvbvxj711.jpg)
As the graphic demonstrates, be careful not to stroke out in the heat.
Now everybody, have you heard, if you're in the game
Then the stroke's the word
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My thermometer goes to at least 150 :whistle:
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My thermometer goes to at least 150 :whistle:
Mine does, too, but I've only seen the actual temperature go over 120 (in the shade) a couple of times. :shrug:
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My thermometer goes to at least 150 :whistle:
Rectal?
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Mine does, too, but I've only seen the actual temperature go over 120 (in the shade) a couple of times. :shrug:
@Cyber Liberty
Weather extremes: 122? Memories of the hottest day in metro Phoenix
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/06/24/phoenix-hottest-day-extreme-weather-arizona/29166901/ (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/06/24/phoenix-hottest-day-extreme-weather-arizona/29166901/)
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Highest recorded temperature
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-recorded-temperature/ (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-recorded-temperature/)
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Aw, I had to go look up the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit. 134 degrees F.
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Aw, I had to go look up the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit. 134 degrees F.
Celsius! Another Canadian evil they tried to foist upon America. That and their metric system!
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Celsius! Another Canadian evil they tried to foist upon America. That and their metric system!
I'm an old lady. I can't convert American standards to metric because my generation never learned how. Makes me nuts when I get, say, a package of crackers and the serving size is X grams. What the H is that? LOL
I guess if I had children or grandchildren, they would be useful for that purpose.
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I'm an old lady. I can't convert American standards to metric because my generation never learned how. Makes me nuts when I get, say, a package of crackers and the serving size is X grams. What the H is that? LOL
I guess if I had children or grandchildren, they would be useful for that purpose.
Then you Remember when asshat Jimmmah "the Peanut" CArter tried to get us to convert. Speed limit signs with the Double Nickle posted in big letters and under it the stupid metric number. equivalent! Then that commie bitch Joan Claybrook the queen of the third tail lamp made car manufactures install Speedometers that only went to 85 MPH and they included speed in Meters!!!
Good God the horror of those days.
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Then you Remember when asshat Jimmmah "the Peanut" CArter tried to get us to convert. Speed limit signs with the Double Nickle posted in big letters and under it the stupid metric number. equivalent! Then that commie bitch Joan Claybrook the queen of the third tail lamp made car manufactures install Speedometers that only went to 85 MPH and they included speed in Meters!!!
Good God the horror of those days.
Only the countries using the Imperial measurements went to the moon.
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Anyone who has done drugs or been involved with drugs knows what a gram and kilogram is. All drug dealers and alcoholics know the metric system. Today alcohol is only sold by the liter, except beer.
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Then you Remember when asshat Jimmmah "the Peanut" CArter tried to get us to convert. Speed limit signs with the Double Nickle posted in big letters and under it the stupid metric number. equivalent! Then that commie bitch Joan Claybrook the queen of the third tail lamp made car manufactures install Speedometers that only went to 85 MPH and they included speed in Meters!!!
Good God the horror of those days.
She is a genuine piece of garbage and worse than that, a lawyer. She can burn in hell.
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Only the countries using the Imperial measurements went to the moon.
I thought the Soviet Union went Metric in 1925.
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I thought the Soviet Union went Metric in 1925.
...and did they land a man on the moon? :smokin:
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I thought the Soviet Union went Metric in 1925.
I'm confused. I know Mensa member Shirley Jackson Lee once asked if the Pathfinder succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong. But when did Russia?
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...and did they land a man on the moon? :smokin:
Whoops, my mistake. Don't know why I didn't remember they canceled before they got there.
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I'm confused. I know Mensa member Shirley Jackson Lee once asked if the Pathfinder succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong. But when did Russia?
Russia once crashed some of the debris they call "a spacecraft" on the moon...
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Whoops, my mistake. Don't know why I didn't remember they canceled before they got there.
Maybe you've been reading Pravda and RT lately?
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Then you Remember when asshat Jimmmah "the Peanut" CArter tried to get us to convert. Speed limit signs with the Double Nickle posted in big letters and under it the stupid metric number. equivalent! Then that commie bitch Joan Claybrook the queen of the third tail lamp made car manufactures install Speedometers that only went to 85 MPH and they included speed in Meters!!!
Good God the horror of those days.
That's one of the troubles with liberal Democrats. They don't believe in American exceptionalism and uniqueness. Always trying to make the US into Europe. If the Founding Fathers wanted us to be like Europe, they would have never lfought the Revolutionary War to get us out from under English tyranny.
Unfortunately, Democrats are still trying to make us a part of Europe. As Cyber pointed out, liquor is mostly measured in metric. And I'm seeing it more and more on groceries and other products. Obama always wanted the US to knuckle under to the UN. If Trump doesn't do anything else right, at least he is making the effort to reverse Obama's efforts to turn us into Euroweenies.
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That was @240B
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One mile from the ocean in the OC 3:30 pm = 70 F
It is brutal, I tell you. Ocean breeze picks up about this time, to keep it cool.
I have never lived in a house with AC.
I can vouch for that. I would have noticed you at the dinner table. And you would have noticed me. I would be the one with the orange toupee and “Trump is God†tattooed across my chest.
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Russia once crashed some of the debris they call "a spacecraft" on the moon...
Glad we got that settled!.
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One mile from the ocean in the OC 3:30 pm = 70 F
It is brutal, I tell you. Ocean breeze picks up about this time, to keep it cool.
I have never lived in a house with AC.
No Alternating Current? Does everything run on batteries? Or solar cells?
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I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well. But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.
@jpsb
It is Tuesday, 1:27 pm, 20 miles north of Dallas and it is 100 degrees.
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I'm confused. I know Mensa member Shirley Jackson Lee once asked if the Pathfinder succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong. But when did Russia?
That is so disparaging to all them Mensonites, alluding that No Count Sheila is a Mensan.
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That is so disparaging to all them Mensonites, alluding that No Count Sheila is a Mensan.
I beg their forgiveness. I surely didn't mean to call Sheila, Shirley, but I did, and for that i truly apologize. :cool:
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I beg their forgiveness. I surely didn't mean to call Sheila, Shirley, but I did, and for that i truly apologize. :cool:
Go, and sin no more, Mr. Nut.
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NWS has issued a local heat alert for my neck of the woods. I guess my brother's planned cookout will be moved indoors:
https://www.wpxi.com/weather/alert-detail?articleId=782256081 (https://www.wpxi.com/weather/alert-detail?articleId=782256081)
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Guys, make sure all your AC filters are all sparking clean. Cleaned mine last night and was amazed at how much better mine performed.
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Poor folks. I just turned my heat back on today...
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And don't be afraid to clean the coils if need be. I've only needed to do this a few times however.
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@Weird Tolkienish Figure
Thank you for the tips. I have whole house air. I had the guy who cuts my grass remove some weeds growing around my outside unit and I changed the furnace filter. What I really need is to get someone to vacuum my ductwork. After years of cat fur and God knows what else, I suspect the ductwork is clogged.
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Poor folks. I just turned my heat back on today...
Where do you live that you can turn the heat on?
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Growing up, we had whole house air too. A big exhaust fan in the hallway that sucked air into the house through all the windows. We didn't get our first window AC until grand-dad moved in with us. I don't know when Houston was considered to be the most air conditioned city. It sure wasn't back then. No AC at school either.
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Where do you live that you can turn the heat on?
NW Montana. We we're in the 50's and rainy all day. I was rolled up in a wool blanket all morning.
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NW Montana. We we're in the 50's and rainy all day. I was rolled up in a wool blanket all morning.
Well, it's hot here. Yesterday was a high of 103. Today only in the 90s because of rain moving in. I just rolled out of bed from under a blanket. I don't use the blanket because of warmth. I only need it to keep the ghosts, and demons, and monsters away while I'm sleeping. They can't hurt me if I'm under a blanket. Those are the universal monster rules that we all go by.
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Growing up I lived in Kansas and we had an attic fan; we opened all the windows and it sucked up the hot air into the attic and circulated the cooler air at night. It worked very well.
I live in SW FL now and it is unusually warmer for this time of year, but we still have a gentle breeze outside and I have central AC and get it checked and serviced every 6 mos.
GOOD NEWS though; it has been predicted that this should be a less than average hurricane season as the waters are cooler (go figure).
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/colorado-state-university-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-less-active-than-first-thought/105918 (https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/colorado-state-university-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-less-active-than-first-thought/105918)
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_e03a4572-7ed8-11e8-9d93-a3f403404687.html (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_e03a4572-7ed8-11e8-9d93-a3f403404687.html)
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Growing up, we had whole house air too. A big exhaust fan in the hallway that sucked air into the house through all the windows. We didn't get our first window AC until grand-dad moved in with us. I don't know when Houston was considered to be the most air conditioned city. It sure wasn't back then. No AC at school either.
I grew up with one of those as well. However we did life north of the M-D line.
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NW Montana. We we're in the 50's and rainy all day. I was rolled up in a wool blanket all morning.
Well it was cold here for a while too, was taking forever to warm up. Was even cold up until July, then suddenly it warmed up. A little bit of heat in summertime is fine.
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Well it was cold here for a while too, was taking forever to warm up. Was even cold up until July, then suddenly it warmed up. A little bit of heat in summertime is fine.
Yep... Todays high is supposed to be 71, tomorrow high 80's then back down to high 70/low 80's for a while... still brilliant spring green here, which is odd, because grass should be easing into summer now...
But we'll get our turn... late july and all of august will be baking hot... high 90's and low 100's... with choke and smoke from forest fires. whee.
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@Weird Tolkienish Figure
Thank you for the tips. I have whole house air. I had the guy who cuts my grass remove some weeds growing around my outside unit and I changed the furnace filter. What I really need is to get someone to vacuum my ductwork. After years of cat fur and God knows what else, I suspect the ductwork is clogged.
@Applewood
If you can afford it, it’s really worth it to have an HVAC check-up twice a year.
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On the bright side, after today the summer clearance sales start in order to make room for fall merchandise. And the days are getting shorter. ^-^
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On the bright side, after today the summer clearance sales start in order to make room for fall merchandise. And the days are getting shorter. ^-^
Those sales started last month -- at least they did in my neck of the woods. I was browsing a couple of days ago looking for sleeveless shirts. Forget it. All picked over. Meanwhile, back to school merchandise was being stocked.
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@Applewood
If you can afford it, it’s really worth it to have an HVAC check-up twice a year.
Thanks. I had mine inspected in April. The company offered a deep discount on check-ups if done early.
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I hate summer. My air conditioning is barely functioning so I have a fan. It’s still over 80 in the apartment
I haven’t slept more than 2 hours a night since this heat wave started. I can’t wait for the temps to go down to 60 again.
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I hate summer. My air conditioning is barely functioning so I have a fan. It’s still over 80 in the apartment
I haven’t slept more than 2 hours a night since this heat wave started. I can’t wait for the temps to go down to 60 again.
Not to worry. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel started a week-long Christmas marathon a couple of days ago. I guess they agree, and are trying to hurry up Christmas. I expect Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff will start popping up any day now.
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Not to worry. Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel started a week-long Christmas marathon a couple of days ago. I guess they agree, and are trying to hurry up Christmas. I expect Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff will start popping up any day now.
I’m going to send my resume to Santa. Thanks for the idea. I want to be an elf, or elfette.
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Growing up I lived in Kansas and we had an attic fan; we opened all the windows and it sucked up the hot air into the attic and circulated the cooler air at night. It worked very well.
I live in SW FL now and it is unusually warmer for this time of year, but we still have a gentle breeze outside and I have central AC and get it checked and serviced every 6 mos.
GOOD NEWS though; it has been predicted that this should be a less than average hurricane season as the waters are cooler (go figure).
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/colorado-state-university-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-less-active-than-first-thought/105918 (https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/colorado-state-university-2018-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-less-active-than-first-thought/105918)
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_e03a4572-7ed8-11e8-9d93-a3f403404687.html (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_e03a4572-7ed8-11e8-9d93-a3f403404687.html)
When I was a teen back in the sixties my father purchased a two-way fan. He and my mother had a window air conditioner for their bedroom. When it got real hot, we kids used poor people's air conditioning......the basement.
However, in the summer the heat went upstairs to my brother's and my bedroom. It could be difficult sleeping some nights.
So father said we could use the two way fan. He put the two-way fan into our window. His idea was that we could suck the hot air out of the house through our bedroom window and into the night air.
I tried to tell my father that we'd just be sucking more hot air into our room and that it would be better to suck the cool, outside night air into our room. My father remained adamant that his way was the right way.
So we tried his method. No good...the room remained hot as an oven. However, he assured us that the room would shortly turn cool as the sweat was pouring down our faces.
So after he left our bedroom (and the room remaining quite hot) I reversed the flow of the air from the fan sucking air out from the house into our room to sucking cool, outside air into our room.
The change in cooler air into our bedroom was almost instantaneous. My father later marched upstairs and looked bewildered that the previously very hot room was now quite cool and sleepworthy.
He never admitted he was wrong ( he never admitted to any mistakes ever) but silently turned around and walked out of the room.
Nevertheless, my brother and I had a pleasant night's sleep with cool air in the room.
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It's amusing to see all the hysteria (not here, the media) over this weather. How the heck did people survive pre-air conditioning? But they did! I'm sweating like crazy, but drinking water by the gallon. We'll be fine. This is supposed to break in a couple days.
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That's new.
The weather just said that it is 90 degress, but it feels like 99. That is kind of a big difference. There must be no wind.
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That's new.
The weather just said that it is 90 degress, but it feels like 99. That is kind of a big difference. There must be no wind.
And, humid. Quite humid.
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It's amusing to see all the hysteria (not here, the media) over this weather. How the heck did people survive pre-air conditioning? But they did! I'm sweating like crazy, but drinking water by the gallon. We'll be fine. This is supposed to break in a couple days.
@mountaineer
My local news leads off with it every night with instructions on how to stay safe in the heat. One of those tips—“If you’re outside and you’re feeling too hot, find some shade and get in it.â€
People need to be told this?
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@mountaineer
My local news leads off with it every night with instructions on how to stay safe in the heat. One of those tips—“If you’re outside and you’re feeling too hot, find some shade and get in it.â€
People need to be told this?
{Nodding}
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I hate summer. My air conditioning is barely functioning so I have a fan. It’s still over 80 in the apartment
I haven’t slept more than 2 hours a night since this heat wave started. I can’t wait for the temps to go down to 60 again.
Only 80? That's nothing. I keep mine between 83 and 85 during the day....and hibernate in the master bedroom where the big tv, computer and window AC is. I do the same in winter, keeping the rest of the house pretty chilly, but use a portable heater. Otherwise, my electric bills would hover around $250-300/month.
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Only 80? That's nothing. I keep mine between 83 and 85 during the day....and hibernate in the master bedroom where the big tv, computer and window AC is. I do the same in winter, keeping the rest of the house pretty chilly, but use a portable heater. Otherwise, my electric bills would hover around $250-300/month.
I fear my bill will be about that this month. Around 100 every day. And, muggy.
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It's amusing to see all the hysteria (not here, the media) over this weather. How the heck did people survive pre-air conditioning? But they did!
Yea, I know what you are saying but that is a common fallacy. People actually did not survive before air conditioning and heating and running water. A lot of them died. But back then it was common for a mother to give birth to 10 or even 12 kids. So losing a few of them was not such a big deal.
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@mountaineer
My local news leads off with it every night with instructions on how to stay safe in the heat. One of those tips—“If you’re outside and you’re feeling too hot, find some shade and get in it.â€
People need to be told this?
I don't know which is more pathetic, the newscaster that believe they are providing a public service, or the folks that probably actually need to be told this.
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It's amusing to see all the hysteria (not here, the media) over this weather. How the heck did people survive pre-air conditioning? But they did! I'm sweating like crazy, but drinking water by the gallon. We'll be fine. This is supposed to break in a couple days.
Up here in the upper Midwest just about everybody had a basement i.e. poor man's air-conditioning. We didn't get a lot of super hot days, but I remember spending some hot days in the summer down there. A little damp but nice and cool.
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I read an article years ago on how there was a sizeable number of workers that did not air condition their homes so that their bodies wouldn't have to transition from the coolness at home to the heat at work.
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We just got almost an inch of rain in an hour, needed it so bad.
Back to 100 tomorrow.
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@mountaineer
People need to be told this?
Alas, we have an abundance of people in this country who are totally lacking in common sense. It's why your hair dryer has a warning not to use it when you are in the shower or in the tub. Some imbecile tried to dry his hair in the shower, was electrocuted and his estate successfully sued the dryer's manufacturer because the company didn't warn him about the dangers of using an electrical appliance on, at or near water. You and I know better, but far too many do not. They need someone to tell them how to breathe. Same with adverse weather conditions like this heat wave. People die because they don't know what to do.
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Surf City, in the OC,3:38 PM it is 72 F
(projected high of 77 F then down to 66 F by about 5 AM tomorrow
breeze too light but picking up.
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We just got almost an inch of rain in an hour, needed it so bad.
Back to 100 tomorrow.
Lots of rain in the Gulf States today. FL, LA, TX, and like you said, it is needed for two reasons. Rain is good to refill the reservoirs, and the lower temperatures gives everyone a break from 100+.
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We just got almost an inch of rain in an hour, needed it so bad.
Back to 100 tomorrow.
Still raining here north of you, @corbe. And, in the low 70's. Feels wonderful.
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I want to go dance in it @Sanguine
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIAdgjzizs0/T1ieI7K3wKI/AAAAAAAAAmk/ATmMd7vgGvw/s1600/dancing+rain+3.jpg)
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I want to go dance in it @Sanguine
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OIAdgjzizs0/T1ieI7K3wKI/AAAAAAAAAmk/ATmMd7vgGvw/s1600/dancing+rain+3.jpg)
You mean you haven't yet?
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Still raining here north of you, @corbe. And, in the low 70's. Feels wonderful.
Damn Where are you?
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Yes I already have, made the dogs come with me. @Sanguine
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY @Weird Tolkienish Figure
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(http://hp2.wright-weather.com/icons/us_heat.gif)
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Damn Where are you?
Central Texas. Weird, right?
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Yes I already have, made the dogs come with me. @Sanguine
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY @Weird Tolkienish Figure
That's how you do it, Corbe!
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{Nodding}
@Cyber Liberty
*sigh* Yep.
Btw, I love your avatar. That's one of my favorite graphics.
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I don't know which is more pathetic, the newscaster that believe they are providing a public service, or the folks that probably actually need to be told this.
@thackney
Right? It's presented like a huge scoop with information no one ever heard of before.
Everybody's crazy.
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Alas, we have an abundance of people in this country who are totally lacking in common sense. It's why your hair dryer has a warning not to use it when you are in the shower or in the tub. Some imbecile tried to dry his hair in the shower, was electrocuted and his estate successfully sued the dryer's manufacturer because the company didn't warn him about the dangers of using an electrical appliance on, at or near water. You and I know better, but far too many do not. They need someone to tell them how to breathe. Same with adverse weather conditions like this heat wave. People die because they don't know what to do.
@Applewood
I'm sitting here trying to come up with a response but I'm too gobsmacked by the hair dryer in the shower.
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@Applewood
I'm sitting here trying to come up with a response but I'm too gobsmacked by the hair dryer in the shower.
I'd like to know what sick MoFo made it necessary to label a curling iron "External Use Only."
(It is a cool Avatar, but I'm going back to the Nuclear Kitten tomorrow.)
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Only 80? That's nothing. I keep mine between 83 and 85 during the day....and hibernate in the master bedroom where the big tv, computer and window AC is. I do the same in winter, keeping the rest of the house pretty chilly, but use a portable heater. Otherwise, my electric bills would hover around $250-300/month.
I live in Tampa, where it is in the mid to low 90s most days, and my house has no shade. I keep my house around 78. I pay about $60/mon for AC. I used to pay a LOT more, but then I spent a few hundred dollars adding way too much insulation to my attic.
Also, when I had to replace my AC, I went with a two compressor unit. One is sized for the house, one is half power. When it fires up, it starts with the half power unit. If that can keep the house cool, it continues on half power. That doesn't really save any money, since it basically has to run twice as long, but the longer it runs the longer it is taking humidity out of the house.
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@Elderberry
I saw that looking at the recipe. Also I notice that it seems to be a lot more involved than I thought. I was thinking of a simple mash, but the recipe seems to be making more of a fruitcake wine. Which is fine. It is more than I normally do, but I would like to try it. It looks like the recipe would work for almost any fruit, apples, oranges, ...anything.
As far as peeling, that would depend on how ripe they are. When I said that, I was thinking of harvesting them before they turn completely purple. As a kid, we could never wait that long because the birds or the bugs would get to them first. You certainly don't want anything green from a fig tree in the mash. So, at least cut the stems off.
@240B
My oldest son is back to working in the oil fields on a 20/10 schedule. He just went back yestdy. The day before he started a 5 to 6 gal batch of wine with 25lbs of figs I had froze. Time will tell how it comes out. He also started a peach batch and a pineapple batch. The time before when he was home, he started 3 batches; Blackberry/Pinot noir, Cabernet Savignon, and Meadow Maple Mead. I still have 20lbs of frozen figs to make preserves with. I've finished harvesting tangerines. I put up 10 gal of juice. I still have grapefruit to deal with, just not as many. And I have only started shelling pecans. I picked over 300# and gave less than half away. They've been drying, hanging in mesh bars in my garage. Time to do something with them. I want to try making pecan butter.