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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2021 22:28:25 GMT
Sounds great, Whatagain. Just think ~ she will be even more beautiful to you after the operation.
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Post by questa on May 22, 2021 0:15:44 GMT
Back in the "olde tymes" when I walked the wards Patients having eye surgery were not allowed to have flowers in their room, pepper on their meal tray. and anything else that could make them sneeze. If you could see the immense skill and delicacy that the ophthalmologist has for inserting a series of stitches and realise that a sneeze would wreck the lot, you could see why this was a good rule. Do they still do it?
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Post by tod2 on May 22, 2021 11:32:01 GMT
Whatagain - I am so happy for you. I hope your wife gives you a discount for cash.....
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Post by whatagain on May 22, 2021 12:56:56 GMT
Thank you all.
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2021 20:12:12 GMT
Today’s trauma. I set a pan of water on the stove to make hummingbird syrup and started playing scrabble on my iPhone while I waited for it to come to a boil.
Flash forward - who knows how long - to a funny burnt odor breaking through my device stupor. I’d boiled the water completely away, fogging the microwave door between the glass panes, and was starting to melt the non-stick surface of the pan!
Luckily, I didn’t burn the whole kitchen down like the child of one of our friends did.
And p.s. This is NOT the first time I’ve done this. I think it’s the 3rd...
But I think the pan will be OK.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2021 22:26:06 GMT
Kimby, we are the people for whom the warning in the pressure cooker manual: "never leave the pot unattended" was meant.
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2021 8:18:17 GMT
Yo Yo Yo Kimby! Take a tip from someone who is cooking in one room and on her computer in another.....set the egg timer!
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Post by whatagain on May 23, 2021 12:56:10 GMT
Join the club.
My petty of the the day is that my car is still not fixed. It broke down in mid feb. Was at the garage for nearly 2 weeks. Broke down again 2 weeks ago and garage probably messing around. May be fixed on Tuesday they say...
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2021 13:38:53 GMT
Yo Yo Yo Kimby! Take a tip from someone who is cooking in one room and on her computer in another.....set the egg timer! I was in the same room, however. But my phone signal is only useable on the windowsill, so had my back to the stove. In the future I could heat the water in a whistling tea-kettle...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2021 15:18:07 GMT
I don't forget the stove too often, generally only with something that takes a while to boil, like large whole potatoes. I have boiled away almost all of the water more than once, besides steaming up the kitchen to make the walls drip with condensation. I still have not gone far enough to determine if induction cookers really do turn themselves off past a certain point.
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Post by tod2 on May 23, 2021 15:21:20 GMT
I still have not gone far enough to determine if induction cookers really do turn themselves off past a certain point. That is encouraging news Kerouac. I have never heard that before. I have a one plate induction cooker but refuse to use it because I have 4 perfectly good ceramic plates on the stove that are used maybe once a day. I cook with my airfryer and micro wave mostly and they are both on Solar power.
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Post by whatagain on May 23, 2021 16:55:10 GMT
I don't forget the stove too often, generally only with something that takes a while to boil, like large whole potatoes. I have boiled away almost all of the water more than once, besides steaming up the kitchen to make the walls drip with condensation. I still have not gone far enough to determine if induction cookers really do turn themselves off past a certain point. They do stop when you take the pan away, this is already something.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2021 17:00:33 GMT
I know that. But what about if you forget the pan completely?
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2021 22:24:49 GMT
My printer has stopped printing nicely.
It had run out of ink so I popped in the spare cartridge and it prints again, but omits a whole line of print every inch or so. Not acceptable.
I have a newer spare cartridge which I installed. Same result. I turned it off and on and tried to print a page, which triggers a cartridge cleaning cycle. Same thing.
The printer head is deep inside the printer, so will be a hassle to get out to clean. But this printer is also a copy machine and scanner, so replacing it will be spendy. It’s a HP5510. Any advice for me?
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2021 4:59:39 GMT
I thought I would have to buy a new printer recently since they are made with programmed obsolescence. I was getting gaps in my printing, too. However, I ran the cleaning cycle twice and things came back to normal.
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Post by questa on May 24, 2021 6:47:22 GMT
My HP is going bonkers as well. It won't print from the computer but if I send the material to my friend"s phone and he sends it to my printer...no troubles. I got a complete rude run-around from HP so When I did their feedback questions I let them have both barrels. HP are cheap and nasty here...less than $40 for the new printer and the ink is $60. And the new machines are sold with minimal ink in them..Grrrr
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Post by mossie on May 24, 2021 6:59:05 GMT
That is the whole idea of printers, sucker you in with a cheap printer, but premium priced ink.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2021 8:09:42 GMT
It's just like cartridges for razors.
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2021 8:13:26 GMT
I set a pan of water on the stove to make hummingbird syrup I used to make it by simply dissolving white castor sugar in boiling or warm, sometimes even cold water. Do you then add some red food colouring? I was told this encourages them to come and drink.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2021 11:32:19 GMT
That is the whole idea of printers, sucker you in with a cheap printer, but premium priced ink. They have a name for this marketing strategy. I forgot which... something like viscous.. Same with manual razors. The cost nithing but the blsfes are very expensive. Same with women actually 😅😅
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Post by questa on May 24, 2021 13:09:37 GMT
I set a pan of water on the stove to make hummingbird syrup Made from fresh local hummimgbirds I presume?
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2021 13:59:07 GMT
I set a pan of water on the stove to make hummingbird syrup I used to make it by simply dissolving white castor sugar in boiling or warm, sometimes even cold water. Do you then add some red food colouring? I was told this encourages them to come and drink. No, no, no! Red dye can cause health problems for the tiny little gems on wings. The red parts on the feeder are more than sufficient to attract them. (I’ve had hummers investigate a red ponytail hair tie.) And using anything other than pure cane sugar as the sweeteners can be deadly as well. 1 cup white granulated sugar stirred into four cups of boiling water is the tried and true recipe. After several days of warm weather you need to dump out and clean the feeders and refill them. Any time the sugar water turns cloudy, it needs changing.
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Post by tod2 on May 24, 2021 16:12:11 GMT
Oh dear. No wonder the bees invaded the syrup mixture and drowned in hordes blocking the spout of the bottle. The food colouring is for cakes,,,still no good?
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2021 20:27:47 GMT
Humans weigh a gazillion times more than a hummingbird, so we can tolerate a lot more red dye than they can.
I draw the line at Red Velvet Cake, though. That can’t be good for you!
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2021 20:33:07 GMT
There are bee guards for hummingbird feeders. Even better is a new design with elongated upturned glass tubing that the hummers have to reach way down into to reach the nectar. Bees just don’t have long enough tongues or proboscises or whatever they drink nectar with.
Ants are a problem for me now me and then. I hang a moat filled with water above the feeder. The ants won’t cross the water. Problem solved. (Ants still feed in the puddles that drip below the feeder, though.)
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2021 21:19:05 GMT
I set a pan of water on the stove to make hummingbird syrup Made from fresh local hummimgbirds I presume?
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2021 7:32:40 GMT
Ha ha Bixa - Kimby - thanks a lot for all the info. My bees used to enter the upturned tube and end up inside the bottle. I'm going to get another feeder and see what happens.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2021 15:11:19 GMT
Make sure your feeder has red parts, and if you can get one with bee guards do it. Perky Pets makes a lot of the feeders I buy. But I toss the included packet of red-dyed sugar.
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2021 16:02:38 GMT
Oh what a beauty!! I can see the guards stopping bees entering. Will start looking tomorrow but may have to improvise and make additions!
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2021 2:34:52 GMT
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