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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2024 23:53:16 GMT
Fingers crossed that the problem turns out to be something petty & the cost a pleasant surprise.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2024 11:39:08 GMT
My credit cards were quickly found and used, about 4 or 5 purchases per card. I have to get a police report before any of the card companies can consider a claim. I filled in the online police form, but I have to wait for them to give me an appointment.
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Post by htmb on Jul 25, 2024 11:45:20 GMT
Sorry to hear that, Kerouac.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 25, 2024 12:13:56 GMT
You are in for some administrative work What a pain.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 25, 2024 13:17:37 GMT
Kerouac your troubles fill me with dread. My son is not in favour of us visiting Paris. He is convinced two old fuddy-duddies will be mugged of all our cards, cash and phones the minute we step off the plane. I hope to hell he is wrong as we are going to be extra vigilant and not going to wander where we could look for trouble. I know Paris has changed quite a bit since we were last there and wandered carefree in all the arrondissements. Not getting flustered is the key - watching each others backs while at ATM's and such like will keep us trouble free. I don't know if other tactics like taking the Airport bus instead of the RER. The bus delivers us right to Gare de Lyon where we have a hotel booking for the initial 6 nights. We are intending to take a Taxi to Gare de Nord when we need to hook up with our Eurostar booking. Little things like that might keep us out of harms way....I hope.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2024 13:43:41 GMT
The RER to Gare de Lyon will be perfectly fine.
The police have given me an appointment for noon tomorrow, so things are moving forward.
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Post by htmb on Jul 25, 2024 19:46:16 GMT
Good news, Kerouac. Hoping the appointment with the police goes smoothly.
As for me, it turns out that my garage door is “super special” and a replacement spring must be custom ordered to the tune of over 600 USD. So, I’m not happy. On the good side, the technician rigged up a temporary spring and my son was able to get my car out of the garage. So now, I won’t be stranded and will be able to make all the appointments I have next week without having to beg for rides.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 25, 2024 20:50:57 GMT
I drank too much. That is my trauma of today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2024 23:02:26 GMT
my garage door is “super special” and a replacement spring must be custom ordered to the tune of over 600 USD. Damn! How much does a brand new door or at least the lifting apparatus cost?
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Post by htmb on Jul 26, 2024 0:08:58 GMT
Doesn’t matter. The door I have is the one I’m stuck with forever. Condo association rules. We’d all have to change, though I will explore a bit further. However, the actual door is not broken. The part that must be replaced is a heavy duty spring, needed to lift the heavy door.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2024 15:13:00 GMT
And garage door soring replacement is not a do-it-yourself job. The spring can kill people if not dealt with correctly.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2024 15:20:54 GMT
I fully expected the irises to be done when I returned to the lake cottage after almost 3 weeks away. But I was hoping to deadhead most and save a couple seed pods from each. No such luck. The deer ate all the blossoms on one clump and the hot dry spell has withered the blooms on the other two clumps.
Not only that, the deer ate the gorgeous columbines and Gaillardia that were about to bloom, in spite of my attempt to protect them with bird netting. Guess I need to get serious about deer control! Tomato cages with netting wired over them?
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2024 15:46:26 GMT
That must be so dispiriting.
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Post by bjd on Aug 2, 2024 16:32:51 GMT
Do tomato cages work? I planted two tomato plants with bigger tomatoes, unlike my usual cherry tomatoes. As they ripen, the blackbirds start pecking holes in them from the bottom. My husband has tried putting some netting on them but it hasn't worked so far.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 2, 2024 18:04:59 GMT
We had a bumper blueberry crop this year, but we haven't had many ourselves. The blackbids, dunnocks, sparrows, thrush, wood pigeons and probably various rodents have had most of them. Jeff's making a fruit cage for next year. To be honest I am quite happy for the birds to have them..I'd just be making loads of jam and muffins if they didn't ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) but Jeffrey has suddenly decided that he needs to protect them. He's not a fresh fruit person...so I don't know why....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 2, 2024 21:43:19 GMT
I'm girding my loins because tomorrow we are going shopping for a new washing machine. Buying any kitchen appliance invariably causes bickering if I have the temerity to express an opinion or question my beloved's expertise I'm ready to make sure that we get the one that I want ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Bring it on.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2024 23:14:39 GMT
Stand your ground -- you'll be living with it for years to come! I love my washing machine, not least because it's the plain & simple kind -- no stoopid electronics to go wrong. My own appliance trauma is that the place I'm moving to has a set-in stove, meaning I have to get rid of my beloved Mabe that I've had for over eleven years. I love that stove. I do not love the one replacing it. ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/b6cin2n3h/cry.gif)
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Post by bjd on Aug 3, 2024 5:31:21 GMT
Maybe you should store your own stove somewhere, Bixa. Just in case you have to move again. Not that I am wishing that for you, but with 3 moves in 2 years you never know.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 5:40:13 GMT
Bjd, the nice new landlord offered to store it for me without my asking. I don't want to impose, but it would certainly be a nice solution, for the very reasons you name.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 3, 2024 5:55:12 GMT
Funnily enough I have to go shopping for a new fridge and of course I look at practicalities whereas Mrs M looks at the aesthetics.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 7:09:03 GMT
If there had to be an appliance I already had in the new house, I wish it had been the fridge and not the stove.
When I replaced my refrigerator several years ago for a more energy-efficient model, I was mostly focused on getting frost-free and the same size, which is 15'. What I discovered when it was delivered is that it's more narrow, but annoyingly deep. It sticks out past counter depth, I look like the witch in Hansel & Gretel whenever I go to get something out of it, and stuff seems to always get lost way in the back.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 3, 2024 12:15:03 GMT
Fifteen feet? Your fridge is fifteen feet deep? No wonder you lose stuff at the back. Do you have to crawl into it like a caver? You could fit two and a half dead bodies in that depth, just in case there are people you want to get rid of. Your choice what you do with the leftover half though.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2024 12:57:02 GMT
😂😂
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 3, 2024 15:14:14 GMT
I'm glad you two are just peeing yourselves laughing. ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/ux9c6om7h/rolleyes.gif) 15' obviously refers to cubic feet and is a standard way of referring to refrigerator size among people like me who don't share your sense of "humour" ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/ux9c6om7h/rolleyes.gif) over something you deliberately misunderstood. Admittedly, places that sell appliances will be likely to say "cubic feet", but among us civilians the designation by merely "foot" is common. Here is a picture of a 15' foot fridge ~ kaystore.com/product/whirlpool-fridge-15ft-2/
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 3, 2024 15:49:12 GMT
Looking at that link it seems quite a normal sized fridge because I can't easily relate to how big 15' is. But then I click on "Additional Information" and the volume, better for me, is given in litres (423L). You know above where I mention I'm looking for one? Well, there's something not right here, because the ones I'm looking at are half the internal size, e.g. about 210L which = 7.5' and they to me are what I'm used to and always seemed to be big enough. Maybe I ought to 'think big'.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 3, 2024 15:59:37 GMT
Aha! Just realised now because I was looking at a Slovenian site that the volume is in reality is 300L, which makes more sense.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2024 16:09:52 GMT
I’ve lost the will to live.....
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 3, 2024 17:05:07 GMT
Can I have your fridge then?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2024 17:13:58 GMT
I confess that I left the U.S. before even having to understand the concept of cubic feet. And I have totally forgotten any concept I ever had of square feet. However, I completely understand square metres and have a fair grasp of litres as a vulume measurement.
One thing I don't think I will ever understand is television screen size. When I say I have a big TV, people ask the measurement size (that's the diagonal distance from the top corner to the bottom corner, isn't it?), and I haven't a clue.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2024 18:14:53 GMT
We went to the shop. We looked at the washing machines, agreed on a few...spoke to the expert (salesman) and I ended up choosing one in the mid price range. It's an 'A' for energy efficiency, has proper turny twisty knobs...altho there is also a digital panel for silly stuff like 'steam' which adds 30 minutes onto the cycle that you choose..removes creases allegedly.
So relatively pain free...and what's even better, we squirrel away the board money our son gives us (ridiculously low but he doesn't have much) and hadn't touched it for months (I usually pay it into the bank every 3 or 4 months)...and were able to pay cash for the machine.
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