Attention What are you doing at the moment? 2024-25

[me203]

I'm wondering why I have this:
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The "function keys" or whatever they are called are new.

Something happened the last week or so... I think there was some talk about forum software update. I'm seeing this weirdness. And it seemed the site speed was really bad for me at one point, too.

 

[fredroy]

Something happened the last week or so... I think there was some talk about forum software update. I'm seeing this weirdness. And it seemed the site speed was really bad for me at one point, too.

So I'm not crazy. Well, more than usual......

 

[fredroy]

I'd like a couple of slices of pepperoni / mushroom. With molten cheese. And a Miller High Life..

 

[Alistair]

^ it was good

I’m drying sheets and towels on the line

 

[fredroy]

^ I really need to set up a line. But when I think of it, with a load of wet clothes, nah, into the dryer.

I have the parts.

 

[Alistair]

^ I really need to set up a line. But when I think of it, with a load of wet clothes, nah, into the dryer.

I have the parts.

I’m doing it redneck style. I rigged a wire across hooks on the front of the garage overhang.

 

[me203]

I have lines that I like using in summer. One of the things I did, in fact, the second year I lived in my current hell hole was put lines up.

Wood drying racks also can work--that's what I used for years before having actual lines. At one point, I dried almost everything year round on wood racks--outside on warm days in summer, and in the corner of the living room in winter. Sheets, due to size, were machine dried in winter, though.

Meanwhile, my mother preferred the dryer, even though we had clotheslines in back of my childhood home. I'm not entierely sure why--although I've speculated part of it was living too many years with no other option but line drying. Almost no one had dryers when she was young, and even when they were more common, there was a period when I was young when we lived in an old house with no dryer hookup.

 

[Vannie]

Waiting for an Gelato delivery cause I'm a lazy bitch.

1 pint of Nutella and 1 pint of cookies and cream.

I might eat both.

 

[me203]

I’m doing it redneck style. I rigged a wire across hooks on the front of the garage overhang.

My childhood home, when new, had the garage seperate from the house. Old timers said there was roof connection the house and garage. I've wondered in recent years if there wouldn't have been a set of clothes lines under that roof for winter use. The house was old enough that it very likely the first owner had no dryer.

 

[me203]

Waiting for an Gelato delivery cause I'm a lazy bitch.

1 pint of Nutella and 1 pint of cookies and cream.

I might eat both.

Oh, dear--you forgot to include that 50 gallon order of stuffed cabbage flavor gelato! Run! Run! to the phone. It might not be too late!

 

[fredroy]

My mom had a couple of the accordion folding wood racks. She used them if it looked like rain. The outside line was an umbrella sort of thing. I think that's what I should buy.

We didn't have a dryer. Just a Frigidaire washing machine, the kind where the agitator went up and down. That darn machine did a great job but it would walk all over.

 

[fredroy]

I've wondered in recent years if there wouldn't have been a set of clothes lines under that roof for winter use.
Genius !!!!!

 

[me203]

Last week,I got a couple of cartons of dairy free "ice cream". Painfully expensive--you could probably get more real ice cream for less money a couple of freezer doors down...

I can't say they were particularly good--although at least no worse than what i remember of regular grocery store ice cream.

A fond memory: we had one of those icecream makers with the cylinder that one freezes a day or so before. I'll never forget how good icecream made in that thing could be...

 

[Vannie]

Oh, dear--you forgot to include that 50 gallon order of stuffed cabbage flavor gelato! Run! Run! to the phone. It might not be too late!

I asked. They don't have any. Closest thing was green tea.

 

[Alistair]

I asked. They don't have any. Closest thing was green tea.

Green tea ice cream sounds heavenly

 

[Vannie]

Green tea ice cream sounds heavenly

I've had it before. I was good.

I like the containers they are delivered in. Looks like Dracula's casket.

 

[fredroy]

I have seen the ice cream makers with the tub you freeze. I'll go one better. I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker that has a refrigeration system. Load it up and turn it on. No ice or salt involved.

I don't remember the price. It was a splurge for his b'day present.

 

[Vannie]

Trying to watch

the little things on Netflix

 

[me203]

I have seen the ice cream makers with the tub you freeze. I'll go one better. I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker that has a refrigeration system. Load it up and turn it on. No ice or salt involved.

That probably would work better...but also cost $$$$ compared to what we had!

 

[fredroy]

It was $262 with shipping. From Amazon. Way back in August of 2010. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007XOHN6

I splurged. He loved it.