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hollydolly said:
Can't you get your friend to join here?... banned from FB?.. good lord , I don't post on there at all, but if I was ever banned from what I see as the underclass of social media, I would be running away as happy as a sandboy.. :cautious:
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If I could take everyone I know from there with me that would be okay. I would hate to lose contact with them all. A lot of my cousins, friends I have known for years, etc. And all they know how to do is fakebook.
 

checking out all the buttons & features of our new car. So far discovered I don't like the auto engine stop when stopped for a traffic light. That feature is supposed to save on fuel use by shutting off the engine when stopped & foot is on the brake. Starts immediately when foot comes off the brake to push on the gas. I found how to disable that feature so that's one less to think about. Love the navigation feature. When turned on for use just have to say "take me to" wherever it is we want to go & a map & voice show me the route and step by step turns to make. :)

Kind of spooky the lane centering & other vehicles to close warning. No way to disable so guess
I'll have to get used to that. Tinkering later with the sound distribution & tone.

Technology is great, just have to adapt to it.
 
Blessed said:
Thats the problem, I don't know if I could learn to drive a new car, so many gizmos and gadgets. Do they even make them without all the stuff?
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Ditto...I showed my wife the dashboard of a new pick-up truck and she said no way!! LOL
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Today I made a cottage pie, it's made from ground beef with a mixture of vegetables, spices like nutmeg and is topped of with creamed potatoes, grilled until golden brown. Preparation time is about forty minutes, cooking time is around an hour. You can make it with lamb instead of beef, that's when it becomes, shepherd's pie.

Tina is making a pair of trousers that I can wear to the festival that we are going to next week, so the cooking was left to me.
 
Blessed said:
Thats the problem, I don't know if I could learn to drive a new car, so many gizmos and gadgets. Do they even make them without all the stuff?
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It helps to read the owner's manual, which I have not done. Otherwise, you can do it my way - just sit in the car and fiddle with things. My way is the frustrating way. I have too many owner's manuals about various things on my car.

I have turned on and off the rear windshield wiper so many times, with so much trial and error, that I can't remember how to do it.
 
WheatenLover said:
It helps to read the owner's manual, which I have not done. Otherwise, you can do it my way - just sit in the car and fiddle with things. My way is the frustrating way. I have too many owner's manuals about various things on my car.

I have turned on and off the rear windshield wiper so many times, with so much trial and error, that I can't remember how to do it.
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Too many distractions while driving...
 
Blessed said:
Thats the problem, I don't know if I could learn to drive a new car, so many gizmos and gadgets. Do they even make them without all the stuff?
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I'm with you on that. I never got around to getting a driver's license, and it's been so long since I had a permit that I'd have no idea how these newfangled cars work.

Occasionally on Pinterest there are images that say if you know what this is and how to use it, you're old.. one example was the button on the floor to change high/low-beam headlights.. I wonder what the alternative is if that doesn't exist anymore.
 
Walked and shopped this morning. Yesterday I ran a cleaner through the dishwasher and then washed a load of dishes. When I examined the glasses, they were still covered with a hazy film. Scoured them by hand and rinsed with vinegar. Some just wouldn’t come crystal clean. A while back we bought Jet Dry detergent at Costco and are thinking maybe it doesn’t work in our DW. Still have about a million of those tabs left. Things are really boring around here. Too hot to walk again until this evening.
 
Jules said:
Walked and shopped this morning. Yesterday I ran a cleaner through the dishwasher and then washed a load of dishes. When I examined the glasses, they were still covered with a hazy film. Scoured them by hand and rinsed with vinegar. Some just wouldn’t come crystal clean. A while back we bought Jet Dry detergent at Costco and are thinking maybe it doesn’t work in our DW. Still have about a million of those tabs left. Things are really boring around here. Too hot to walk again until this evening.
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I have same problem with my dishwasher. Glasses filmy as you say and sometimes cups still have coffee/tea rims. I have used Cascade and Finish...same thing and by the way a friend tried that Jet Dry and did not like either.
I am also finding that regular dish detergent does not seem to be as effective when hand washing dishes and glasses.
I remember my glasses being sparkling clean in the days when I did not have the DW.
Is anything the same as it was back in the day? :(:(
 
Jules said:
Walked and shopped this morning. Yesterday I ran a cleaner through the dishwasher and then washed a load of dishes. When I examined the glasses, they were still covered with a hazy film. Scoured them by hand and rinsed with vinegar. Some just wouldn’t come crystal clean. A while back we bought Jet Dry detergent at Costco and are thinking maybe it doesn’t work in our DW. Still have about a million of those tabs left. Things are really boring around here. Too hot to walk again until this evening.
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Do you think it could be your water, and not your dishwasher.
 
horseless carriage said:
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Today I made a cottage pie, it's made from ground beef with a mixture of vegetables, spices like nutmeg and is topped of with creamed potatoes, grilled until golden brown. Preparation time is about forty minutes, cooking time is around an hour. You can make it with lamb instead of beef, that's when it becomes, shepherd's pie.

Tina is making a pair of trousers that I can wear to the festival that we are going to next week, so the cooking was left to me.
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That looks so good!
 
I decided to resume packing. First, I piled up a whole lot of things to go to St. Vincent's. I went over all the stuff my daughter left here with her. Sure enough, there's a lot she would like to have. Especially her beloved huge, stuffed pink pig (she claims its a dog).

Then, because I can never stick to one task at a time, I tackled the kitchen. It is hard to believe I once owned 15x the kitchen stuff I have now. Because what I have now seems like a whole lot. I tossed a bunch of stuff, and some is going to St. V's, but I'm taking a lot, too. My cousin has a fully stocked kitchen, but I don't know the condition, quality, or amount of what he has. I didn't bring much from my husband's house, if anything. He doesn't use it, but there is a limit here somewhere.

I am not bringing any of my Christmas stuff, except for the cookie cutters. There is only one thing I want - a huge Rubbermaid bin full of Playmobil Christmas toys, and some others, too. I might reconsider that. I love toys.

The 40 or so books I'm taking look like a lot too. I guess I'm used to my kindle now. I left about 300 books at my husband's house. These are books that are not available for the Kindle, and I want to read them someday. I really don't need my collection of cookbooks and out of print children's books. But I want them.

It is easier to try to be a minimalist when a lot of my stuff is at my husband's house. He is a maximalist, like my daughter. Today, in my own house, I feel like a closet maximalist.
 
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