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That's the Way It Crumbles, Cookie-Wise

Don Alaska said:
You can almost get that now @Mary Stetler with Siri/Alexa and the AI attachment. Do you really want it?
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Like the Chinese say. Be careful what you wish for because you may get it.
No, you are right Don Alaska. I am fine without alexa. I have even gotten faraday cloths and bags. Not just to save from emp's but to encase electronics and phone when I want private conversation.
I wanna do it myself!
I do laugh when they say the tv is watching you. I have it on whether I am watching or not. And no one talks around here.
Went for lunch with a friend a while back. We were going to a place in the boonies. After a while, my friend said how brave I was.
Brave?
Yes, I have no gps in my car. Don't I worry about getting lost?
Uhm, no. I looked at a map before we left. :sneaky:
 
Can't seem to crack an egg anymore without leaving tiny shell crunchies. :confused: Not good for making pumpkin pie. The new strategy is to drop one (an egg, not a pumpkin) from about a foot into a glass dish. Then inspect first for crunchies. None so far. It's also a lot more fun that way. :)
 
Nancy Hart said:
Can't seem to crack an egg anymore without leaving tiny shell crunchies. :confused: Not good for making pumpkin pie. The new strategy is to drop one (an egg, not a pumpkin) from about a foot into a glass dish. Then inspect first for crunchies. None so far. It's also a lot more fun that way. :)
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It i not just you. The shells are different in store bought eggs lately here too.
 
(12/27/25) Saturday

Dragged out the one-year-old leaf blower and rounded up the neighbor's leaves into a big pile at the end of the driveway. They float down the street from up the block in heavy rains and pile up along the curb in front of the house. In the past you would have to use a pitchfork to get them out because they are wet and compacted. The leaf blower is strong enough to lift them out. Unfortunately it doesn't bag them for you.

I'm trying to figure out what to do with them now. Would like to invent a tube made of screen so you could blow the leaves up into the truck bed. Then just haul them off.
 
One year I lived with 3 other girls in a 2-bedroom 1-bath apartment with kitchenette. One roommate, Maria, had exactly one of each: knife, fork, spoon, cup, plate, dish, and glass. We had a shared plastic sink drainer. Whenever she ate anything, Maria would immediately wash her dishes and put them in the drainer. I may try that for a week and see how it goes.
 
Nancy Hart said:
One year I lived with 3 other girls in a 2-bedroom 1-bath apartment with kitchenette. One roommate, Maria, had exactly one of each: knife, fork, spoon, cup, plate, dish, and glass. We had a shared plastic sink drainer. Whenever she ate anything, Maria would immediately wash her dishes and put them in the drainer. I may try that for a week and see how it goes.
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This is how I was raised. We had more than one of each, but there was only my mom, dad, and me, and we each washed whatever dish we used to eat out of and put it in the drainer anytime we used a dish.
Pretty much this is what Bobby and I still do. There is always more cleanup after preparing a meal where pots and pans are used, but otherwise, we just clean up whatever we used to eat with and put it in the drainer.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
This is how I was raised. We had more than one of each, but there was only my mom, dad, and me, and we each washed whatever dish we used to eat out of and put it in the drainer anytime we used a dish.
Pretty much this is what Bobby and I still do. There is always more cleanup after preparing a meal where pots and pans are used, but otherwise, we just clean up whatever we used to eat with and put it in the drainer.
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We could do that as far as the eating goes, but the food prep and cooking would make it tough. In the canning and freezing season, it might be impossible. I do that with the stuff I don't want to go in the dishwasher, like carbon steel knives and cast iron pans.
 
Ran across a YouTube video by a man who finds old pc monitors in the trash and fixes them. My mother's little 18" monitor has a sturdy stand, swivels and tilts easily. Would be nice to keep as a backup. It was working the last time it was used, but not now. Symptoms are exactly like a bad capacitor. Capacitors are cheap. Nothing to lose, so I took it all apart.

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No luck. There are 14 capacitors. Every one looks brand new. They could still be bad, but you can't test them without removing them. :( I could gamble $20, replace all the capacitors. It would be good practice learning how to repair circuit boards (bucket list). I'll think about it tomorrow...
 
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Nancy Hart said:
(12/27/25) Saturday

Dragged out the one-year-old leaf blower and rounded up the neighbor's leaves into a big pile at the end of the driveway. They float down the street from up the block in heavy rains and pile up along the curb in front of the house. In the past you would have to use a pitchfork to get them out because they are wet and compacted. The leaf blower is strong enough to lift them out. Unfortunately it doesn't bag them for you.

I'm trying to figure out what to do with them now. Would like to invent a tube made of screen so you could blow the leaves up into the truck bed. Then just haul them off.
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Maybe you can help me with duck weed that covers the pond in a green blanket in summer?
 
Nancy Hart said:
Ran across a YouTube video by a man who finds old pc monitors in the trash and fixes them. My mother's little 18" monitor has a sturdy stand, swivels and tilts easily. Would be nice to keep as a backup. It was working the last time it was used, but not now. Symptoms are exactly like a bad capacitor. Capacitors are cheap. Nothing to lose, so I took it all apart.

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https://imgur.com/f4odbDL
No luck. There are 14 capacitors. Every one looks brand new. They could still be bad, but you can't test them without removing them. :( I could gamble $20, replace all the capacitors. It would be good practice learning how to repair circuit boards (bucket list). I'll think about it tomorrow...
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Put an ad on craigslist for a free one. They are in demand like fax machines. Make sure they hook it up and show you it works, though.
 
Update on the monitor. I put it back together just enough to test it. Still has the same symptom but a new one (maybe). If you shine a flashlight on the screen, there are horizontal and vertical lines showing faintly. That probably means the screen is shot. Not worth repairing. I may have damaged it taking it apart, who knows. Or it could be the little plastic wire connectors. They are very brittle. You have to squeeze them and the little latches that snap them into place are prone to breaking.

After sleeping on it (ouch!), I've decided to take it apart and test the capacitors, just out of curiosity. It will be a learning experience. Then get rid of it.
 
@Nancy Hart Be mindful of the Flux capacitor!🤩
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