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Post by Kimby on Dec 24, 2019 16:42:12 GMT
I have also found some very old steel cans with church key holes in the top, both in the lake and in an old dump at water’s edge that’s eroding into the lake.
Also finding many bits of old ceramic dishes and LOTS of broken glass. I pick up about a quart of broken glass every summer. Only a little of it is rounded like sea glass. Most could slice into a bare foot pretty easily...
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2019 19:20:35 GMT
You need bigger storms if you want to turn lake glass into sea glass.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 24, 2019 21:28:36 GMT
Or more decades....
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 2, 2020 4:58:08 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2020 5:01:48 GMT
I suppose it is the reason that cheques in France are valid for one year and 8 days.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 11, 2020 20:26:18 GMT
I remember when staph infections were pretty common and boils (carbuncles) were not unusual. I thought they were “staff inflections”, I was so young.
My family certainly had boils from time to time, and I remember when my Dad got one in his nose and we were all terrified it might get into his brain and kill him.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 11, 2020 20:28:33 GMT
I also remember “styes” that developed on your eyelids and hurt like hell besides looking awful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 11, 2020 22:43:10 GMT
Boils and styes are the reason that people should never share towels, even within a family.
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Post by questa on Jan 12, 2020 0:14:25 GMT
How about the horror of a burst of acne. I was lucky to just get the odd zit but my friend suffered the full catastrophe of Saturday night and a fresh batch of pimples.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 12, 2020 1:44:50 GMT
Acne isnt life-threatening. Social-life threatening yes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2020 2:48:41 GMT
All of this is kind of icky!
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Post by Kimby on Jan 12, 2020 16:01:31 GMT
I remember when US Presidents weren’t “icky”.
Well, Tricky Dick was a bit creepy. But Trump is just icky.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 17:38:56 GMT
I remember when it made sense to save rubber bands that came on things because you could use them for something else. But for about the last 20 years they have just become dried up brittle things that I find in the bottom of a drawer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2020 17:42:03 GMT
Even though I buy the little bags of mixed rubber bands, I am incapable of throwing away the rare ones that I get on things. My favorites are the ones that come on bundles of asparagus. They are as gold and rubies to me.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2020 17:45:14 GMT
I just cut them off now. Off the radishes, off the green onions, off the parsley, the hell with them!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2020 23:34:19 GMT
When I buy that stuff, it's from the market & tied up with a strip of leaf or something, meaning that the rubber bands from the asparagus, which is a supermarket item, are all the more precious.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2020 5:05:57 GMT
The Chinese supermarket uses a plant strip for the cilantro and the mint.
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Post by questa on Feb 26, 2020 6:31:31 GMT
Tell me...what colour are the rubber bands on the asparagus? All our bunches of "sparrow-grass" come from South America and have purple bands, never another colour.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 26, 2020 10:03:14 GMT
Can't you grow your own then? That's an awful lot of miles for it to come.
When I was in Oz we always had tinned asparagus. I liked that.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 26, 2020 17:24:59 GMT
Just catching up. I love crosswords...I'm rubbish at completing them tho. I can whizz through the Guardian and i 'quick' crosswords...you know...the ones for the intellectually challenged (me) but I can't do the complicated ones. I just don't have the education nor the brain cells...
I like the word wheels too...where there are 8 letters around the outside and one letter in the middle...you have to come up with as many 3 - 9 letter words as possible ALL including the middle letter...they'll say '60 is excellent, 50 good and 40 average' then I struggle to get 17.....*sigh*
I love pencils. I tend to use B and 2B (or not 2B that is the question) for drawing. I keep them very sharp. I rescued my Dad's technical drawing pencils, pens and drawing equipment, and a lot of the weird stencils that he used for his job as a design engineer...nowadays the work would all be done on a computer but I remember Daddy's drawing table taking up half of the dining room at home. He designed several telescopes for various universities and societies...I rescued a lot of the blueprints too...my sisters and brother had put them all out for the bin men.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2020 17:35:48 GMT
Can't you grow your own then? Gosh, Mick ~ I don't think anyone grows rubber bands!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2020 17:37:28 GMT
He designed several telescopes for various universities and societies...I rescued a lot of the blueprints too...my sisters and brother had put them all out for the bin men. Wow! That is so impressive about your dad. I imagine some of the blueprints would make great framed pictures.
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Post by bjd on Feb 27, 2020 7:11:03 GMT
I'm with you on the crosswords, Cheery. Guardian's Quick and Speedy are fine, even though the occasional British slang confuses me. And I can do the NY Times crosswords too, but am totally confused by the cryptic crosswords. I don't even understand the clues, let alone guessing the answers.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 29, 2020 15:23:05 GMT
We also use wooden pencils for elections.
And I also save asparagus rubber bands. I've always found uses for them. If they are a supermarket item, I guess the Mexican ones are mostly for export. When they aren't local here, they usually come from Mexico. I refuse to buy the Peruvian ones as that is simply too far (though I sometimes buy wine from Chile and Argentina, which are farther). However wine is rarely flown in. We get asparagus from New Jersey for a few weeks before local marvels show up, but by that time I just bide my time; there are other, earlier greens by then. This time of year I'm just aching for fresh, local greens.
Probably because there are so many more hours of sunlight. Maple syrup wasn't only a treat, it was a lifesaver in the hungry time at winter's end, among Indigenous people and French settlers; later also British ones.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2020 15:46:57 GMT
Great point about necessary nutrients at winter's end, LaGatta. We've all seen the phrase Spring greens used in perky "wellness" articles or on menus, but the real, foraged Spring greens, including dandelions, lambs' quarters, and other weeds, were true lifesavers back in the days before vegetables being flown around the world to our supermarkets.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 7, 2020 17:33:58 GMT
I’m thinking we should all have greenhouses if our climate isn’t conducive to gardening, and grow some of our own produce. Or at least support local greenhouses that do.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 7, 2020 18:12:09 GMT
I was fascinated by my grandfather's hothouse prowess. There was a little frame at the back of the garden with window panes to protect it. Many of the garden items would grow there at the beginning of the season before being transplanted into the main kitchen garden. I think that only parsley lived there permanently.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 30, 2020 4:48:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2020 5:27:48 GMT
Yes, and silver certificates bills.
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Post by questa on Apr 30, 2020 11:43:06 GMT
Australia changed from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents in Feb 1966. PM Menzies was a devoted subject of HM Elizabeth II and declared that in honour to her the currency would be a 'Royal' divided into 100 cents. It is a wonder you in the northern hemisphere did not hear the screams of mockery and derision that rang around the country. Eventually he was made to see reason and we escaped an almost Trump-like situation.
I would have liked the new currency to carrry the slang names that were used for the old currency. 1 cent = a penny, a trey= 3 pence, a zak = 6 pence (5 cents)a bob= a shilling or 10 cents . Among the notes were brick and a bluey ...I've forgotten the rest.
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