What are you doing today 2023

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Jules said:
@MrPants I use the baking soda and vinegar method too. I do have a self-cleaning oven but it’s old and I’m not willing to risk burning out the elements. I’m not stressed anymore on getting it sparkling clean.
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It scares me to even look at the 'clean' setting on my oven. I can just see my Hydo meter spinning as the oven tries to heat up to 1,000,000 degrees 😆
 

MrPants said:
I gently scrape off any 'chunks' of stuff with a plastic spatula then spread on a paste made from combining baking soda & white vinegar. If you have any old dishtowels, soak them in warm water and lay them over flat surfaces where you put the paste on (helps to loosen burned on stuff). Let all that sit for 4-5 hours (overnight is ideal) then wipe up the resulting mess. The oven racks go to the laundry room tub where they soak in hot water for a while then I grab a couple of SOS pads and take off all the crap. It's a pain because you have to rub off each wire separately so it takes a while but they come up pretty clean after that.

Does a decent job. Probably not as good as those caustic store bought oven cleaners but I hate those. Breathing in any fumes is brutal and if any drips on the wrong kind of flooring material, you've got a problem bigger than just a dirty oven.
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Thank you! Another forum member mentioned this too. My oven is not bad yet, but I'd like to prevent it from getting horrible.
 
Pecos said:
I transmitted my taxes a few minutes ago and am happy to have this annual nightmare out of my hair.
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I have already gotten feedback that my tax filing has been accepted by both the Federal and State governments. I assume that they have a computer do a quick assessment to keep these thing moving along. The Federal IRS has told me that I should get me refund in a couple of weeks. South Carolina is a bit slower.
 
RadishRose said:
LOL at:

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Oh my, I was a Backgammon fiend years and years ago! Like you, I've forgotten everything.
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If you remember anything....I could use some pointers!😁
 
~Sent out a couple of emails and texts
~Added important documents to iDrive
~Danced around while straightening up a bit
~Did more organizing
~Spent some time on Facebook. Had photos and posts to add to the groups I manage, as well as respond to the HBD posts for my grandchildren. I also messaged some funny kitten videos of our Krazy Kitten to my son and grandchildren.
 
Today my water delivery is supposed to get here. I changed my order to 2 big bottles and only one case of six 1 gallon bottles. Since I got the new usb water pump, it is easier to use the big bottles and less plastic bottles to discard. Walking with my friend this morning, at least 8 laps around our hall. Looking forward to this every day now. Other than that, not sure about the rest of my day.
 
Been awake since 0415

Busy day today... have to show up at the local hospital this AM for both a bone density scan and a mammogram *joy joy joy*

Then potluck lunch at the senior citizen's club with my Prince Among Men; I'm not sure I'm really ready to play bingo with enthusiasm but I'll be present for him

I have a feeling there'll be a nap this afternoon.

Our choir director is trying to talk me into doing the descant on an up-coming hymn... he sent me a recording so I could learn it. Not sure how well this is going to work as 1) I've never been very good at singing anything other than melody and 2) my voice continues to deepen with age and with all the D's and E's in the part, I have a feeling I'm going to sound like a rusty nail being pulled out of a two-by-four. Ah well, we'll see

Y'all have a great day
 
Wits have been gathered (both of them). Gotta think of something constructive to do with my day...whatever it is, it won't be outside because it's raining pitchforks and hammer handles.

I wanna declutter. Unfortunately, there's nowhere to put boxed up stuff. I can't throw it out because most of the stuff was given to me by DD. There's too damn much stuff. Little stuff. Big stuff. Awkwardly shaped stuff. More stuff than I want or need. Deliver me from stuff.

@Alligatorob At work I sling around 10-20 boxes weighing between 25-50 lbs each work day. Does that qualify for weight lifting?

@CinnamonSugar I had a bone density scan recently. I keep getting messages and letters from my PCP saying I should call to schedule an appointment to discuss medication for my "condition" so that I don't break a hip. No. No more meds. I already take enuf meds. My "condition," according to the scan results is that there's a .4% risk of broken bones. That is point four percent. What? Meds? Again, no.

Letter that I got yesterday says I should take vitamin D and calcium supplements. Says 400 IUD of vitamin D. I already take 1000. Will I get vitamin D poisoning or will it go in one end and out the other?

It also says that I should get more exercise. What? How much more than six hours a day, 4-5 days/week? Reckon that "weight lifting" counts as exercise?

I'm all for preventive medicine, but this seems to go way beyond that. Geez.

DGS had a trip to a music festival somewhere in Europe planned next month. I dunno what country, and I don't think he knows that "Europe" isn't a country but is made up of many different countries. He and a friend were going. His friend backed out, leaving him with $2K in non-refundable airline tickets. The carrier did issue him a credit in that amount. Heck. If I had a current passport, I'd go, even if flying to get there is required.

Imagine hauling your gramma along to a music festival in a country where you don't speak the language. I'd know to ask "ou est la gare" and not "où est la guerre" to find a train in France. I still speak enough German and Spanish to get a hotel room, order a meal, find a bathroom. And aside from being kinda old, I wouldn't be too freaky what with blue hair and tatts and all.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@Kaila and @Shalimar But...can we trust @Trila with demonstrating somersaults? And splits? Let's not even think about that! I mean...keep in mind her ability to break bones with no effort whatsoever...jussayin'

One more thing apropos "extra" fabric...back in the day, when the mantra was "use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" that extra fabric became rag rugs. So help me, we had rag rugs everydamnwhere! Aunts, mother, grandmothers...when they weren't knitting, crocheting, sewing, they were braiding fabric for rag rugs.
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I was raised the same way. To this day, I save old buttons in a jar! I used to love seeing the rag rugs at my Grandma's house when we visited...they always intrigued me! 💖

Those were the days!
 
@MickaC You're probably right. Some of mine came from my grandmother, some from my mother. My mother's button box (which had been my grandmother's) finally just wore out, which is why they're now saved in a jar.

Anybody want 'em? I can add a rider to my will.
 
Georgiagranny said:
My uncle used to tell everybody to hang on to anything that could be made into a braided rug because my aunt would snatch it up and make a rug out of it.

I went to visit them for lunch years ago when I lived in El Paso and they were in Tucson. (In those days, driving 300 miles for lunch was something we didn't give a second thought.) When I got there, all the windows were bare. WTH?

Me: Where are the drapes?
Uncle: Your favorite aunt made them into rag rugs.

True story!

She's the same aunt who could and would make just about anything edible into a casserole. She'd put leftovers in a casserole dish, throw on a biscuit topping and call it dinner. Uncle said he quit asking "What's for dinner?" because he knew it would be whatever they'd had the night before with a biscuit topping 🤣
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Sounds like your aunt's skillset was, as they used to say, narrow and deep: Rag rugs and biscuit topped casseroles.

Georgiagranny said:
I've been wondering for years what to do with my jar of old buttons.
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If this is an earnest question, you might offer them to an elementary school teacher. They're great for kids' arts and crafts projects.
 
StarSong said:
Sounds like your aunt's skillset was, as they used to say, narrow and deep: Rag rugs and biscuit topped casseroles.


If this is an earnest question, you might offer them to an elementary school teacher. They're great for kids' arts and crafts projects.
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LOL to the first.

The second? I really, really can't part with the darned buttons...this one came from/those are a set that were part of/there are only two like this and I'll never find any like them...
 

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