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UPDATE: Part 2!!! O.B.F. Members Summertime Swap
Comments (151)Really nice packages being sent out there! How FUN is this swap?!!!!!! It's so FUN that I couldn't wipe the smile off my face while I was going through my box from Vina! Vina was very inventive with the letters from SUMMERTIME ... check this out .... ....................OScolor = red>trich Fern Iris; Tropical BUcolor = red>tterfly ................AlliuMcolor = red>; Hair ...........Iris; BuMcolor = red>blebee Delilte .............Lily; NEcolor = red>ttie's Pride ........Daylily; PRcolor = red>estor John ...............EgypTcolor = red>ian Walking Onion ........................Icolor = red>ris; Boo .................Iris:Mcolor = red>ohawk Brave ..............Iris: REcolor = red>d Zinger (it took me some time to get these letters to all line up ... Whew!) Vina, I love them all! I'm so happy to have BOO back, and Red Zinger iris (Shirley had given me this years ago and it disappeared one winter). And a Fern ... Thank you! And believe it or not the Egyptian Walking Onion is new for me, it seems like it would be perfect for Shish Kabobs! This was a Super Box! sharon...See MoreSummertime laundry odors?
Comments (21)Wash and rewash everything in hottest possible setting. Use several rinses on top of it even if you think it is rinsed enough. Use one cycle after this without any detergent. Use extra detergent (at least double)in first rewashing. Switch detergents too.I had problem like this about year ago w/my BF clothing and some of the towels even thou I never had any smell, mildew etc. in my FL's.I posted info about this somewhere here before. My BF started throwing things away, but after I rewashed everything many times over, it stopped and we have no problems now. You can soak and resoak, ton of laundry together in the bath tub and transfer it in wash machine to finish it out. I use only Persil now which is the wonder soap for me. We have hard city water. I used Cascade on regular basis in past plus Borax, baking soda but it is just hassle to have all sitting around. I never used bleach b/c I'm allergic to it. I use splash of vinegar in the rinse. If you have some mildew in the machine and you do all the rewashing in hot and sanitary (preferably sanitary only)w/adding Cascade to it, it will help clean your machines inside too. When it comes to our laundry, I don't care if I use more water for all the extra rinsing. It is absolutely necessary for me knowing that no detergent residue is left in b/c my BF has bad dermatitis. Todays machine cycles don't rinse properly specialy if you fill them up w/ full load. Use mixed loads too. It helps a lot! CS did not work for me either. P.S. Interesting thing about Tide. I was almost out of Persil so I got some Tide powder and did few loads and my towels are getting grey again and my BF started itching and breaking out too! Even w/ all the extra rinsing! He doesn't know I switched. Can't wait for the Persil to come....See MoreCornbread & Beans & All 'o' Them Things: A Trip in the Wayback Machine
Comments (16)The first hospital that I ever worked in was a small one in the downtown of my smallish hometown. Every Thursday the same thing was served for lunch in the cafeteria -- soup beans and cornbread -- and every Thursday the cafeteria would be packed with people coming from all the offices and shops for lunch. My mother's split pea soup is something I think of when the weather starts to get chilly, and my grandmother's green beans and chicken'n'dumplings. Cornbread was usually eaten with chili (Cincinnati style) at my house. Apples are something else that I associate with childhood. Although we had a couple of apple trees on our property, they were Red Delicious which none of us particularly cared for. My parents would take us all out to a local orchard and select 2 or 3 different varieties - Winesap for one, always my favorite- and buy a couple bushels to keep in the cold storage room over the winter. Mom would make applesauce and pies from the supply and we of course ate them out of hand. I still drive nearly an hour away to the only orchard that I know of that has Wealthy apples, to get some for my pies....See MoreSummertime and the Rosin' is Challenging!
Comments (918)Yikes! I am getting behind, and if I don't get caught up, I'll be left behind forever in summer (I can think of worse things). Cori Ann, how wonderful about your acceptance into your first choice of schools. Will you begin soon, or are there more classes to plow through like physics? I love your positive attitude, and I'm sure lots of success awaits you. Meanwhile, we'll all have some fall fun. Like a virtual Halloween party, maybe? I'm sure Jim can supply some gruesome photos! Vampire armadillos, perhaps? Jim, is that some kind of white filament growing under the bark of your Double Knockout rose? I just read on the Antique Rose Forum about oak root fungus in a rose, and the photo shows the white fungus filaments growing under the bark of the infected rose. I guess it can invade roses where it is wet. The thread is entitled Death of a Rose, and the OP was Rosefolly. I'm sorry I don't give a link, but I'm a computer illiterate old lady.....Your photos of Julia and MotH are beautiful. I keep saying you must grow more Julia with those marigolds. Carol, I was getting worried about you again, and am so glad you posted. Phooey on snow already. Our weather turned cold, windy, and wet several days ago, and it's really inhibited blooming and any ripening of cukes or tomatoes. Summer came to a crashing halt. I think the cold continued on up your way. Last year, summer and a warm fall just went on and on. We've had four days straight of light rain which is amazing here. Thank you for your nice rose compliment. How are your flowers and roses doing in the snow? I hope it melted promptly. Kate, I hope you'll be posting in the fall thread. I'm sorry you lost roses to the summer heat. And how are you doing yourself? Ready to plant all those replacement roses? I've got to do some tearing out and planting yet, and it's nearly October. I'll be doing this stuff on Christmas Eve if the weather doesn't let up.....As far as loading a lengthy thread--have you tried just going straight to the bottom of the thread using the "End" button? Some people have to hold down CTrl and End at the same time. I just punch End. Speaking of end, this is the end of this post, and it's onward to fall. See you all there. Diane...See Morechickencoupe
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