Which GW members do you remember and what do you remember them for?
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Comments (19)Thanks. A great tip, dedtired. You should post this in the Discussions. Refrigerator works the same way as an air conditioner mechanically. The "coil" is called condensing coil. Sometimes under the unit, sometime vertically in the back. Sometimes there is a little fan to help cool the coil which will also need cleaning. If it is not cleaned, the coil cannot dissipate heat well, the compressor will overwork against greater back pressure, your fridg will not cool efficiently, you will pay more in electric charge, and your unit will breakdown eventually with an expensive compressor replacement fee. For many models, you also should take out the tray under the unit to completely wash it. That's the tray to catch water from the freezer defrosting. It is disgusting the dried up dirt collected on it. Also, there may be a little tube that goes from the freezer to the tray which drains freezer water to the tray. You will find there is a lot of gummy green growth inside the tube which will need to be cleaned. If you have dogs and cats, you will need to clean the coil more often. dcarch...See MoreLGB (little golden books) which ones do you remember want
Comments (0)I remember a while ago a member asking for a particulr golden book and was just able to find it but now can't find the member. I know between my book adict mil and my self we have hundreds of books. I was thinking with the down turn in everything, wouldn't it make us all feel better if you could find a book for a new friend and send it her way and some day pss it along. I think that this would be easy and fun. Or if there are other books that you are looking for list the, we could copy the book o send a copy. I am looking for The Man who didn't wash his dishs. My grandp Deno used to read that to s all the time So what are you looking for, maybe by making a childhood dream come true it would make our day better:) Stacie Sich The forgotten loved book project...See MoreGrandma's kitchen--what do you remember?
Comments (69)My grandparents were all born in the 1880s and my last grandmother died when I was 12. She'd been in a nursing home for some time by that point so I was very young when I was visiting their homes. Both of my grandfather's passed before I was born. My maternal grandmother lived in an old duplex on Toledo, Ohio's south side--right near the big Haughton Elevator plant where my grandfather worked. Very industrial and I remember the neighborhood being very gray--dark, charcoal gray. There were railroad tracks that basically ran behind the house. During the depression, the homeless men who were traveling as hitchers on the train would stop and my grandmother would feed them--whatever she had--which wasn't much. Mom said that it was a daily occurrence. And there was a bar called The Showboat just a few doors down. Some time during my young adulthood, it morphed into a drag club. I never went there, but it was VERY important to my grandpa. LOL That grandmother had a small, dank kitchen with a freestanding gas (heating) stove, lino countertops with the banded edge, and (I think) green painted cabinets--and not many. It just felt dirty and old to me--much like that neighborhood. My uncle lived in that duplex apartment for more than 60 years. He had cerebral palsy and lived at home and never married. What I remember most about that house was the smell of his cologne, believe it or not. By the time he moved in the early 80s, the apartment had fallen into horrendous disrepair. My paternal grandmother was a charcter--my last remaining grandparent. Some time between 1915 and 1920, they sold their large farm in Tontogany, Ohio and moved to the "big city" of Bowling Green. Their house was a traditional 2 story, white, with a big front porch and two catalpa trees out front. I spent hours playing with the seed pods--"Indian cigars" as she called them. Her kitchen wasn't big, but it wasn't small. There was a wall of cabinetry that faced the country road to the east with a sink and symmetrical white painted cabinets. Certainly no dishwasher. LOL The floors were a speckled lino--all kinds of colors but basically white and the cabinets had black rubber toekicks. There was a typical 1930s wallpaper, red, blue, yellow with forks and spoons motif on all of the walls above white (?) ceramic tile. I want to say that it was banded in black tile, but...I don't know...maybe... There was a breakfast alcove with a wooden table and 4 chairs--always covered with a vinyl tablecloth. I remember a lot of red and white checks...LOL The stove and refrigerator stood by themselves on 2 walls, and there was a door in the back corner that led out onto a breezeway with a dirt floor that housed the old wringer washer and beadboard cabinets full of home canned goods. I grew up eating her quince jelly and peanut butter sandwiches. We had her jelly YEARS after she passed away. I can STILL taste it. And lebkuchen. Always lebkuchen. And on your birthday, she would sit down at the big upright piano in the living room and belt out the most raucous "Happy Birthday" you ever heard. She'd been a piano player in the silent movie houses and was quite good--sitting there in her flowered shirtwaist and gingham apron with her white-white hair pulled into a tight bun.... My mom always told me that I reminded her of that grandmother.... I like that....See MoreDo you remember where you were?
Comments (43)Yes. I do remember where I was on that fateful day of 9/11. I had only been recently (and almost forcefully) retired from my job. The Company had decided to greatly reduce the design and engineering support center where I worked. We older engineers got the boot; In my case, the pain of parting was reduced by a buyout offer that was equitable. And now, I sat on the couch that morning watching the news as the World Trade Towers destruction began. I had a lump in my throat, not only for the poor souls caught in the melee, I had a vested interest. My entire life savings in the form of an IRA was in that building, at least, the records were. The offices and records of my Custodian were destroyed! Had the hit happened a few minutes later, the Custodian would have lost many staff people. As it were, only a few people (of my custodian) had entered the building - and they were lost, but miraculously, most of the staff had been spared. My hide was saved because my Custodian was keeping a set of backup records off site and a fresh backup had been made the night before - Whew! Next came the scramble to find temporary office space, set up new computers and install the software and data files, a daunting task indeed. This was done in the next 3 to 5 days. This activity and many others like it, impacted companies all over the land. Computer gear vendors gave priority to this task and put on hold pending orders over the rest of the country. My company was in the midst of their 3 yr cycle of upgrading their engineer's computer. This was put on hold while equipment intended for this order was diverted to the larger task of getting the New York Business centers back in operation. Traffic in downtown NY was snarled to a stand-still. HP vendors rose to the task by trundling computers across the Brooklyn Bridge in wheel barrows. On the day of the disaster, all airplanes were grounded and for the first time in many years, there were no contrails in the skies anywhere in the US. Commerce by air stopped; And then later, we got word that Osama Bin Laden cheered when informed of the news. Yes, I remember. That was one of my really bad couch days....See MoreRelated Professionals
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