Time To Ring The Dinner Bell!
9 years ago
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Comments (14)I always remove the lids and wipe the jars and threads. No matter how well I clean those threads, I still got rings that rusted to the jars. I distinctly remember a batch of carrots that got put away by the kids without removing the rings. I was almost to the point of throwing the jars away, rings and all, because I couldn't get the darned things off. I finally took a flat head screwdriver and ran it around the top of the ring, then the bottom, and removed them. Bent the heck out of the rings too. Now I always remove the ring, just like the instructions say to. As for the white plastic lids, I like them and have about a dozen of each size. When I open a jar of something, I put a white lid on it. Some things I like cold, like apple cider or tomato juice. I'll put a jar in the refrigerator and forget that it's unopened and open another jar. The white lid reminds me that it's open and needs to be used. Yeah, I know, the memory is the first thing to go. And yes, I know I could use the ring for that, but I tend to remove the rings from the canned goods that are going to the basement and reuse them on the next batch of canning. I have way more jars than I do rings, and so I don't want to use them for refrigerator storage during canning season. Annie...See MoreBell ringing in tower after problem
Comments (6)I love a mystery. I vacuumed out my tower this morning. I still had a problem where some websites would open and some would just be blank....with that yellow triangle warning down in the left hand corner. Soooo I did a system restore back a couple of days. Right now, everything is working fine. The only thing I can think of is that I interrupted an uninstall of a trial version of Adobe 8 Pro and didn't finish the uninstall. That's the only odd thing that I can think of. Mystery is the bell. That would denote a hardware problem to me....but...? And I couldn't find one single reference to a bell ringing in the tower (except real bells in real towers, LOL). I can't be the only person with a bell in my puter. It's not under warranty anymore so I'll just take a wait and see attitude for now. Thanks all for your comments....See More'You can't un-ring the bell'
Comments (11)I find I have to pick and choose what I'm going to ignore, let bother me and not talk/debate, and let bother me and hash out... for example... laundry dropped on the floor... Yes, it annoys me BUT I 100% ignore it.. I only wash what is in the laundry hampers, does this tend to annoy him sometimes, especially when he NEEDS clean laundry and it's not washed? Yes, but then he recognizes it's his fault for not picking up after himself and he has no leg to stand on to complain to me... This same concept works to a point for dirty dishes... but not quite as well so I will loudly complain about dishes left in the sink and make everyone in the house come back to the kitchen to put their dishes in the dishwasher... IF I catch them leaving them behind.... otherwise I bring it up over dinner.... The 'girl friend' I caught him with... oh yeah... I brought this one up... but I waited on my timing until he was wanting something from me and I was NOT being agreeable... and when he started in on what is my problem with not going along with such and such... I CALMLY stated I wasn't doing anything like he was suggesting... until I understood EXACTLY how the girl friend (used her name) fit into our total FAMILY plans... changed the whole course of discussion as you can imagine... Not paying attention/forgetting... typically we're talking about calendar related things here... for example, I'll be at work on Wed when child needs to go somewhere, will you be able to do it and he agrees, and then all of a sudden he no longer can do that as he 'forgot' about his committment and has made other plans... I've taken to making him pull out his calendar and write down committments in front of me if at all possible.... depending on what the event/plan was, sometimes I will make HIM figure out now what will happen, sometimes we just 'skip' whatever it was and 'deal' with the fallout, and sometimes I push hard... Since you haven't really given any indication of what your 'major' harsh topics were... I don't know how well these examples fit for you, but I think you can get the idea I'm going after here... you have to pick and choose when and what you 'debate' and HOW you debate it... straight forward, passively, etc... I tend not to argue, but to state facts... you agreed to do xyz, and now you are dropping the ball and expecting me to pick it up... do I have that right? You left your clothes on the floor knowing I only EVER wash what is in laundry hampers... do you not know where the hampers are in the house? Rudely, this approach tends to make him acknowledge some fault/shortcoming, and cuts the wind right out of his sails for coming after me.... yes, in some ways it 'belittles' him and makes him feel like he's being treated like a child... and then I point out that our children put their clothes in the hampers.. or they have punishments for not doing what they have agrees to or are suppose to do, and that gee since I'm not his mother maybe he should not expect me to act like it and pick up after him or get him out of jams he's gotten himself into.... again... it typcally stops him cold... I also tend not to agrue back... which tends to really annoy him... why don't you say something back? to which I'll say I have nothing to say that you want to hear right now.... interestingly enough when you don't fight back with workds it stops the arguement pretty quickly... one sided debates don't last long... Yes, I can be a pretty cut and dry person... don't know if this helps you or not......See MoreWe taught her to ring the bell, now what?
Comments (6)What an adorable puppy :) Ohh... I wish I had an answer. We trained our pup to ring a bell as well and he too quickly put it to his own uses. He rang to play, he rang when he saw a squirrel, a truck, a runner, etc. He would come back inside from a potty trip and he'd victoriously ran over and rang the bell as if to announce his return to the house. We started to joke it was the 'servant bell'. In the end, we decided to put it away as the original purpose was lost and he was already reliably house broken- though he was having a heck of a good time ringing the bell. Now we only take it out to do tricks with and the rest of the time it is kept well hidden....See More- 9 years ago
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