Everybody Out!

Well, Polly, my dear, you have frightened me to the point that I am letting my laundry stack up for fear of my dryer! It's still raining here, so can't use my clothes line, either. The 'guts' have never been cleaned and it's almost 6 years old now. The hose and vent are still accumulating lint- and a ton of dog hair, I'm sure- from when I moved here almost 3.5 years ago. I guess I'll have to get tough and move the darn thing and do some de-linting..... not looking forward to that as I'm still a bit of a crip from the new hip. But I need to wash- and dry- some necessities!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Waaaaaaaaah! Leslie. Do Not get tough and move that clothes dryer. I thought I'd taught you about bribery. Offer a banana pudding to a neighbor in exchange for the loan of her husband. (A ½ gallon of chocolate ice cream will suffice if you don't feel like cooking.) Ask your church folks and see if there's a couple of high school fellows that might be in need of some gas tank funding. There's a better way than risking harm to that precious new hip. Meanwhile, anybody who can figure out how to manage a walker and stuff 6 rolls of tissue in her clothes (while alarming the furfaces) surely can rig an inside clothes line (for necessities, of course). If the Queen drops in, tell her you're trying out a new decorator. She'll get over it. Please take care of yourself. We care. Polly

Oh Leslie, please be careful doing such an awkward job. If you hurt your leg, that would be terrible. Why not do your necessaries' washing, risk the dryer one more time, keep an eye on it, and then arrange to get someone to help you do it. I haven't been up long and this post gave me a real fright. The other option is to have one/two of those folding clothes dryers. I have two, because a lot of my clothes these days seem to have 'Do not tumble dry' labelling. Things dry overnight most of the time. They are usually very inexpensive. . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Some dried herbs and spices can develop mold and toxins that you can't taste. The concentrated spice flavor covers it up. Obviously not a major health problem, or people would be dropping like flies from their historic turkey stuffing seasoning mix, but OTOH the idea of aflatoxins is pretty scary! Roberta in D

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Sorry- didn't mean to frighten you sweet, dear friends. I'll get some help- I promise. VBG

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Phew! I'll sleep easier >g< . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Don't! LOL Naughty brat that I am..... I decided this was a challenge I could not resist! My washer and dryer are about 12 inches apart- just enough for my chubby backside to fit between the two so I could reach the electrical plug and then brace my back against the wall and shove the dryer out. With vast amounts of encouragement from The HairyButt Gang (it didn't help any that little pieces of dog food had found their way under the dryer) I got it unplugged, shoved out and cleaned up. Now I'm on my way to do the outside vent! I know- I'm in BIG trouble with you and Polly. VBG But I so very much LOVE that feeling of accomplishment..... and being independent! Especially after being a 'crip' for sooooo many years.....

Oh! That set of little vacuum attachments I bought to vac out my sm- the reducer piece doesn't fit on the hose of my Dyson. Bummer.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Well I'm glad that so far you didn't get yourself into any trouble. I've been known to do things just like that Leslie. Like the time I decided to put the snowblower into the attic and when I got it about halfway up the pulldown stairs....realized I was doing it wrong. By this time I had it balanced on my head and had to keep going....there was no going back! What a picture that must have made. The correct way was to go ahead of the blower and pull it up behind. Oh well....next time.

LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Most store products "expiration dates" aren't: they're "sell-by" dates. "Not to be sold after....." Certainly doesn't mean you can't consume them after that date.

And dairy products generally aren't shy about telling you when they've gone off :)

--pig

I thought that submissive message was too good to be true. You rogue. You can just imagine the smacking that you're getting *right now*. I did wonder about harnessing Simon and getting him to pull it out! I hope you are lying down for the rest of the afternoon. Grrrr! . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Don't you go encouraging her; or you pulling stunts like that again. Now I have two of you to worry about! . In message , KJ writes

I had the same sort of thing happen one day. I thought I'd never get the oil all the way gone. I had to mop three or four times. Very clean floor, but I could have lived without doing all that mopping. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Then I won't tell you about the time I got stuck on the roof! The choice was to sit on the hot (Arizona in the summer) asphalt roof and get on the ladder or jump into the pool from the roof. Burned my behind!

Sigh ... ...

In message , KJ writes

You rascal you! I know I shouldn't ask you but I'm going to anyway, but how old are you? Not being nosey just being interested as at the moment I'm getting images of oh heck can't remember her name,, comes in funny cartoons,,, from America,,,, My epal sends me them... really funny.. help! Elly

Now I'm old enough to know better.....come to think of it....I was at the time of these incidents too! the snowblower one was just last yeat....I'm in my mid-50's. The roof one was sometime in my 30's I think. I wish I knew how long I stood on the roof trying to judge how far to jump out to land in the pool and not the cool deck or the diving board. I did a lot of considering.....as the roof was getting hotter and hotter. But I decided that a burn on the butt would heal faster than broken bones...or worse!!!

Taste isn't always a good method of determining if a food is safe to eat. Many foods have enough flavor to taste good despite having gone bad or being tainted by toxins. Take this year's tainted peanut butter recall for example--the peanut butter tasted just fine, but I ended up with mild food poisoning three times just before the recall, and wouldn't you know it, I had been eating from a tainted jar of it. Another problem with using the taste method is that older folks lose part of their sense of taste. You won't be able to taste the difference between good or bad in as many foods when you are older. Debra in VA See my quilts at