oh no!! spilled the baby oil!!!!!!!!
Deb_from_Pa
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Comments (12)Come visit us over in the hot pepper forum then, we'll be happy to tell you our hard earned war stories about dealing with superhots. A few words of warning in the mean time: 1) Buy vinyl gloves now. Not latex, vinyl. You *MUST* wear gloves at all times while cutting those peppers. They are hot enough to burn your skin, and the capsaicin will bleed through latex. If you have a nurse friend, ask them to teach you how to take infected gloves off. You'll thank me later. 2) Never go to the bathroom the same day as handling the peppers. Trust me on this. Even with gloves, even with hand washing with lava soap that make your hands raw, the first time you go pee after cutting superhots you will regret it. Oh holy hannah will you regret it. 3) Store your peppers whole. Do not cut them, do not prepare them in any way unless you intend to use them then and there. I had a friend that lived across town that wanted to try one of my bhuts, so I cut it up into 4 pieces, put each piece in it's own little baggy and drove across town to give them to him. Half way there I could smell the peppers through the bags. 3/4 of the way there it became like mace. By the time I pulled into his driveway my eyes were watering so badly I could barely see enough to keep the car on the road (and it was middle of winter so I couldn't roll the windows down without freezing to death). And that was for a bhut, which is milder than a Butch T. 4) Never, *EVER* be tempted to eat one yourself. This is the big one. You will want to try one after you put so much time and energy into growing them. You will think its only fair that if you're going to say you're man enough to grow them you have to be man enough to eat at least one. Don't do it. The flavor of superhots is soul searing pain followed up by the aftertaste of wishing for death with a slight dash of "Oh sweet Jesus, what have I done?!?" Not that this warning will do you any good, it didn't do any good for me either. I had to try one, and it was half an hour later before I stopped praying for a merciful death, so you'll probably have to learn it on your own as well. Never. Eat. Superhots. =)...See MoreA sad spiderplant spill....
Comments (3)Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Yes, they are a fairly common plant, but that doesn't make them any less lovable. And yours is uncommonly big and happy. I've never managed to have one get anywhere near that large. (I may have mentioned that spider plants don't seem to do well in my current house, though I had one that was beautiful and happy before I moved here.) Did the hanging pot fail, or was it what it was hanging from? Or do you live anywhere prone to earthquake activity? Or do you have an upstairs neighbor who was the source of your 'earthquake'? That is kind of a joke, but kind of serious too. I've had upstairs neighbors in the past who would stomp around a lot, and chances are that if you are able to hear them that well, then there are vibrations traveling through the floorboards, and who knows. Wishing Charlotte a quick recovery. Hope you can find homes for the babies too. I am trying to start some spider plant babies from a number of plants at work, and I hope I can keep them alive and thriving. I have one that is doing alright in Hydroton, which seems to be the only way I can grow spider plants here for some reason, but it is different from the ones at work. It has broader leaves with a wider white stripe down the middle. The ones from work are very grasslike, but they have some pretty flowers when they bloom. I guess because the leaves are narrower, the flowers are more noticeable. I tend to think the flowers may actually be a little larger than the average spider plant though....See MoreOil spill on nylon
Comments (1)Cornstarch will absorb the oil. Vacuum and repeat. Might help!...See MoreAbout that oil spill...
Comments (6)No sense in going "overboard"! I find it hard to believe that BP doesn't want it stopped and fast, but the reality is, they're working on the fix that hopefully will work and it will take another month or two for that to happen. Not very logical to think that they don't want it stopped! Face it, the faster it's stopped the sooner the debates can come to an end. The longer this goes on, the worse they look. The ocean has taken a LOT of garbage over the years. Will it clean itself? Eventually, probably. But part of the cleaning is washing it to the shore. Damage to environment? Sure. But again, in reality, the size of the ocean, it's not going to make the ocean totally useless. I assume the ELE you reference is referring to an extinction level event which I can't see this approaching at least from the albeit very limited info we now have. Unless you count the local small businesses. In Minnesota our lakes mean a lot to most of us. I'm really saddened to see the oil slicks on the lakes from leaking motors and such. But the lakes survive. Yes, there's not millions of gallons of oil in there, but then again, the lake doesn't have the volume of water the ocean has either. Ships are on the ocean continually and dump unknown amounts of unknown material into the ocean but we still want to have our cruises and think nothing of impact. We survived Valdez and we'll survive this. My question is how long people will go before they take that bimbo from nowhere, duct tape her mouth shut and toss her into the Bering Sea with her drill baby drill rhetoric. But then I suppose we'd kill off the crab stocks. I'm definitely concerned about conservation and the environment. I'm no tree hugger, but few people have as many trees as I have in my yard. I've planted literally thousands of trees in my life and truly enjoy the woods. It annoys me to see people bulldoze the woods and put up a place, then maybe put a twig in the front yard. But I'm pragmatic. Clearly there were safeguards in place, it's not reasonable to say there were none. It's like saying there were no safeguards in mines when there's a cave-in, or no safeguards in the World Trade Center. But things aren't foolproof. And safeguards have to be maintained. Now THERE is where BP really fell down on the job, and the responsibility. They didn't maintain the rig. My question is what kind of maintenance has been performed on the other rigs? I have to question whether they could recoup more of the oil. Even gathering 20% of it would be better than nothing. Shove a pipe in there and salvage what you can. The biggest problem with this whole thing is complacency. Things have gone well for so long. It endured huge hurricanes - so what could happen? That is essentially a quote from Newt Gingrich. And having an oily shrub in office letting these outfits get away with murder, literally, for all those years certainly didn't help. Now they blame anyone nearby for lack of inspections and lack of maintenance. I'm saddened to see the wildlife impact and also the impact on the small businesses being damaged by this. The owner/operator businesses that make their livings from hard work only to be destroyed by a spoiled brat corporation who paid their way to get their way. But I'm also pragmatic enough to know that going to extremes the other way isn't going to be a solution either. Dotmom is right though, that we DON'T know a lot of things about it as far as damage. Let's be realistic, we were kept in the dark as to actually how much oil was being leaked. It was being far downplayed. AFAIC, they should be rounding up a bunch of people and putting them in jail for this as an example for the future. But how do you determine who is actually responsible? You can't....See Moretrekaren
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