CHIT CHAT in VOLTVILLE

[dwsizme]

Thanks for letting me know, I will order a gallon of sweetener too!

Oh my stars and moon!!! No camera, nope, not me!! It's just a chat type thing, not a video call. When I got my laptop, I did the world a favor and just said no to the webcam. If I had one, I would put a sticker over it or something in case it accidentally turned on. (wow, scary thought...auto webcam....*shivers*)

A Gallon!! I don't think you'll need that much!!
I thought that's what it meant to Skype.....be on camera face to face. We've done it with my daughter. Can you Skype text like we do in the forum?

There's a difference between US customer service and the products made out of China. I wasn't referring to the Volt products in particular as much as I was for all the other stuff that comes out of China. You know, all that stuff in WalMart? Refrigerators come to mind. My grandmother had an ancient one that lasted forever. I've not had much luck with mine. They wear out within 8 years or so. One only lasted 4 years and the repairs were as costly as buying a new one. Perhaps we've just become accustomed to being a throw away society, unlike our grandparents/parents that grew up in the depression. Or, I've become the luckiest lemon picker out there!!!

Yeah but what they paid for them back then was alot compared to their salaries. We get cheap stuff....so it breaks, we throw it away and get more cheap stuff. If we paid more and bought American then the stuff would last us longer (and we'd keep people working in our own country). But as a nation we demand cheap stuff.

This is the prettiest pigeon I've ever seen.

The Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. (NOT photoshopped)

It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Wow that is a pretty pigeon! We use to have poulter pigeons. We had a pair. They have really long legs and a big belly. A guy we met at the state fair use to show them and he gave us an old pair that didn't breed anymore. They were cool. I like birds.

For the DIY'ers, here's what I've been using for my nic, PG and VG when I'm making my juice. It comes in very handy and it works well with VG.
Amazon.com: Ezy Dose By Apothecary Products, Inc. Ezy Dose 1 Tea-spoon-dropper With Cleaning Brush (Pack of 6): Health & Personal Care

I got one of those in the baby section at Walmart. I agree, the dropper works pretty good.

My Great Aunt was our resident family seamstress. She would darn socks, turn collar around, shorten pants, take pant in at the rear seam when you lost weight, replace cuffs that frayed and buttons were a no brainer to her. Heck, even my cutoffs had been hemmed, after a "proper" cut off so the legs were exactly the same length. I was always afraid she'd put cuffs on them.

If they economy keeps going the way it is, we'll all be darning and sewing. For survival!!

 

[JoAnnW]

I try to fix things when I notice wear, mostly because I can't stand to shop for new clothes. I have several pair of shorts that used to be jeans, I wore the knees right through. When I do come across something I like I will buy a few of them, because like my favorite show and juice, it's guaranteed to not be available when I come back to look again. I am a jeans and tee shirt type, don't have to worry about collars much.

When I was a kid, my Dad took me to Pennsylvania to visit his Aunt and Uncle. She had a loom in her basement that she made rugs on. Rag rugs. In fact, I think my Gr-Uncle built it for her. She had baskets full of old clothes that had been cut or torn into strips, then she used the loom with heavy threads to make rugs of all sizes. We brought a few of them home with us, I think my sister has saved one of them that is still in decent shape after all these years. Recycling has been around a long time, just wasn't called recycling. I wish I had known that part of the family better, they are all gone now and I have no idea what happened to that loom.

Hopefully someone in the family still has that loom and also learned how to use it. Making things like that seems to be a lost skill that you don't hear about anymore. Creating things by hand... needlepoint, knitting, crochetting... My granddaughter found a matching hat and sweater that I crochetted for my daughter, her mother, when she was a little girl and she couldn't believe that I made it. It was stored in a cedar chest that I had totally forgotten about. I have a tendency to save things like that. It was still in good condition too! She wanted to learn how to crochet... so I pulled out the needles and found some yarn and showed her the basics. Recently, she came over wearing a beautiful crochetted scarf and hat that caught my eye and she proudly told me that she made it! Now she crochets all the time!

 

[dwsizme]

Hopefully someone in the family still has that loom and also learned how to use it. Making things like that seems to be a lost skill that you don't hear about anymore. Creating things by hand... needlepoint, knitting, crochetting... My granddaughter found a matching hat and sweater that I crochetted for my daughter, her mother, when she was a little girl and she couldn't believe that I made it. It was stored in a cedar chest that I had totally forgotten about. I have a tendency to save things like that. It was still in good condition too! She wanted to learn how to crochet... so I pulled out the needles and found some yarn and showed her the basics. Recently, she came over wearing a beautiful crochetted scarf and hat that caught my eye and she proudly told me that she made it! Now she crochets all the time!

I knit. I learned as a little girl and just in the past few years I wanted to pick it up again....so with help from the internet (lots of how to videos) I've been knitting again. My goal was a drawer full of hand knitted socks. Don't have a drawful yet, but I have about 9 pairs. It started because I hate the seam they put over the toes. Always rubbed my toes. So I learned to make my own.
I tried a sweater, tho....hmmmm....didn't turn out really well. But I have tons of scarfs. They are easy. And its a relaxing, zen type thing to do. Relieves stress to do crafts and such.

 

[White Rabbit]

Anyone using an AGA-T or T+? I have been researching these tanks since they look great on a ProVari or Vamo. The downside is rebuilding the coils. Lots of very intricate work to get the coil correct, and it seems you really need to turn it sideways, then back straight to get a good vape. I think I will stick with my home made carto tanks for awhile, they are working good, now that I have found out how to fill them without wasting juice.

Please tell me to stop looking at vaping "stuff"

 

[SandySu]

Hopefully someone in the family still has that loom and also learned how to use it. Making things like that seems to be a lost skill that you don't hear about anymore. Creating things by hand... needlepoint, knitting, crochetting... My granddaughter found a matching hat and sweater that I crochetted for my daughter, her mother, when she was a little girl and she couldn't believe that I made it. It was stored in a cedar chest that I had totally forgotten about. I have a tendency to save things like that. It was still in good condition too! She wanted to learn how to crochet... so I pulled out the needles and found some yarn and showed her the basics. Recently, she came over wearing a beautiful crochetted scarf and hat that caught my eye and she proudly told me that she made it! Now she crochets all the time!

A loom like the Amish lady had takes up a lot of space. She had a shed she used as a workroom where she kept the loom and all her materials. Knitting and crocheting, though, can be done anywhere. I tried knitting and didn't like it much, but there was a time I crocheted a lot. One Christmas, I made snowflake tree ornaments. You use thin stuff that looks like string, a small steel hook, and when the snowflake is done, you starch it to make it stiff. I made a granny afghan while commuting to work on the subway. Since you make it in squares, you don't have to carry the whole thing around with you, just some yarn and the hook and maybe a finished square or 2 that you made while out and about. A granny afghan is easy to make, too. There are only a few stitches to learn, and it's a repeating pattern, so you can easily do it by memory after doing a few squares. I taught myself to crochet and knit from a book that had drawings showing you how to hold the yarn in your hand, etc. So if anyone wants to learn how, it's not hard, and you can learn from a book. My complaints about knitting were that it takes longer to make something because the stitches are smaller or closer together or something, and when I made a mistake and ripped it out, I could never figure out just where I was. I probably could have mastered knitting with some help with finding out how to tell where in the pattern I was after ripping out stitches. I never made a garment, just practice pieces when learning to knit, but I have to laugh when I remember making ribbing -- you know, the ridges that are at the cuffs of sleeves of sweaters? Knit 2, perl 2. That's how you do it. Well, somewhere I guess I knit 3 or whatever, because suddenly the ribbing jumped sideways. I tried a cable knit, and you yarn over, and it kept looking like a big, ugly hole, but I think I should have persisted. I think maybe it would have come out. My favorite, though, was knitting a picture. I found one of a white kitten with a pink nose and blue eyes on a blue background. Or at least those are the colors I did it in. That takes focus, because you have a grid and you knit a certain number of a color, then change colors. I figured out on my own how to feed in the other colors behind so there weren't strings hanging down behind. Hmm … maybe I should try knitting again. I have a friend who's really into knitting, and I bet she'd help me if I got confused about something.

Another really neat thing I've never tried is quilting. I'd love to make a quilt for the bed. I have one, but it's wearing thin in places. The Amish here make lovely quilts, but they are terribly expensive. Way beyond my budget.

Sewing clothes, on the other hand, is way beyond me. I don't know why, but I was a failure at it in school. I know enough to do some mending, but I'm not happy when sewing, so it wouldn't be fun. I had a shirt here that lost a button, and it sat around for about a week before I sewed that button back on. I'm such a procrastinator when I don't want to do something!

 

[dwsizme]

A loom like the Amish lady had takes up a lot of space. She had a shed she used as a workroom where she kept the loom and all her materials. Knitting and crocheting, though, can be done anywhere. I tried knitting and didn't like it much, but there was a time I crocheted a lot. One Christmas, I made snowflake tree ornaments. You use thin stuff that looks like string, a small steel hook, and when the snowflake is done, you starch it to make it stiff. I made a granny afghan while commuting to work on the subway. Since you make it in squares, you don't have to carry the whole thing around with you, just some yarn and the hook and maybe a finished square or 2 that you made while out and about. A granny afghan is easy to make, too. There are only a few stitches to learn, and it's a repeating pattern, so you can easily do it by memory after doing a few squares. I taught myself to crochet and knit from a book that had drawings showing you how to hold the yarn in your hand, etc. So if anyone wants to learn how, it's not hard, and you can learn from a book. My complaints about knitting were that it takes longer to make something because the stitches are smaller or closer together or something, and when I made a mistake and ripped it out, I could never figure out just where I was. I probably could have mastered knitting with some help with finding out how to tell where in the pattern I was after ripping out stitches. I never made a garment, just practice pieces when learning to knit, but I have to laugh when I remember making ribbing -- you know, the ridges that are at the cuffs of sleeves of sweaters? Knit 2, perl 2. That's how you do it. Well, somewhere I guess I knit 3 or whatever, because suddenly the ribbing jumped sideways. I tried a cable knit, and you yarn over, and it kept looking like a big, ugly hole, but I think I should have persisted. I think maybe it would have come out. My favorite, though, was knitting a picture. I found one of a white kitten with a pink nose and blue eyes on a blue background. Or at least those are the colors I did it in. That takes focus, because you have a grid and you knit a certain number of a color, then change colors. I figured out on my own how to feed in the other colors behind so there weren't strings hanging down behind. Hmm … maybe I should try knitting again. I have a friend who's really into knitting, and I bet she'd help me if I got confused about something.

Another really neat thing I've never tried is quilting. I'd love to make a quilt for the bed. I have one, but it's wearing thin in places. The Amish here make lovely quilts, but they are terribly expensive. Way beyond my budget.

Sewing clothes, on the other hand, is way beyond me. I don't know why, but I was a failure at it in school. I know enough to do some mending, but I'm not happy when sewing, so it wouldn't be fun. I had a shirt here that lost a button, and it sat around for about a week before I sewed that button back on. I'm such a procrastinator when I don't want to do something!

Its funny....I want to learn how to crochet and I find it more confusing. People that knit think crochet is hard and people that crochet think knitting is hard. I can't really learn from a book. I need to see the person doing it. If you want to know how to do a stitch there are tons of how to videos everywhere. At your library, on youtube, at different knitting sites. There was a tv show on, too, but they have moved it to 5 in the morning on Saturday and I don't get up that early then and I don't have a DVR (or whatever it's called).
They have a crochet class over at the adult ed center. One of these days when I get the extra time and money I'm going to take it and learn to crochet. I want to make those little animals (anorgorami?? not sure how they spell it). Little tiny things are harder to knit than crochet. I did a little teddy bear once - it was hard. I knitted some hand puppets for my grandson when he was 2 or 3. He loved them. I like doing toys.

I can't sew either. My co-worker does beautiful quilts. I love to see her work. She brings things in that she's working on and I get to see them. She knits, too....and makes cards. She's quite the crafter. I was into making polymer clay stuff for awhile. Jewelry, little figures. That's fun. It's like playing with playdoh and you cook it and it last forever.
I just find it fun and satisfying to create.

 

[dwsizme]

Anyone using an AGA-T or T+? I have been researching these tanks since they look great on a ProVari or Vamo. The downside is rebuilding the coils. Lots of very intricate work to get the coil correct, and it seems you really need to turn it sideways, then back straight to get a good vape. I think I will stick with my home made carto tanks for awhile, they are working good, now that I have found out how to fill them without wasting juice.

Please tell me to stop looking at vaping "stuff"

I wish I understood more about electric things and such. I'd love to be able to make my own "battery & carto box"....box mod??? I'm trying to learn. Was looking at those vamo things. But I already have VV with my batteries. If I need more power I just screw off the 78 and put on the X2. When I need less, I do the opposite. LOL (just teasing!!)

 

[SandySu]

Its funny....I want to learn how to crochet and I find it more confusing. People that knit think crochet is hard and people that crochet think knitting is hard. I can't really learn from a book. I need to see the person doing it. If you want to know how to do a stitch there are tons of how to videos everywhere. At your library, on youtube, at different knitting sites. There was a tv show on, too, but they have moved it to 5 in the morning on Saturday and I don't get up that early then and I don't have a DVR (or whatever it's called).
They have a crochet class over at the adult ed center. One of these days when I get the extra time and money I'm going to take it and learn to crochet. I want to make those little animals (anorgorami?? not sure how they spell it). Little tiny things are harder to knit than crochet. I did a little teddy bear once - it was hard. I knitted some hand puppets for my grandson when he was 2 or 3. He loved them. I like doing toys.

I can't sew either. My co-worker does beautiful quilts. I love to see her work. She brings things in that she's working on and I get to see them. She knits, too....and makes cards. She's quite the crafter. I was into making polymer clay stuff for awhile. Jewelry, little figures. That's fun. It's like playing with playdoh and you cook it and it last forever.
I just find it fun and satisfying to create.

I wish we lived near each other. We could teach each other. I'd teach you to crochet, and you could give me some guidance in knitting, like how to tell where you are when you rip out stitches. Anyway, if you ever learn to crochet, I suggest doing a granny afghan. It takes a while to make it large enough for a bed, but it's easy and portable. If you do it, crochet the squares together. I sewed them together on my first one, and they started coming apart after a little while. You do a slip stitch, I think, to crochet them together. It's been a long time. I'd have to do some review to try a project again.

 

[Renolizzie]

Back home again. Gotta go feed the critters and bring in some wood. Heard it is supposed to go colder and snow in the next couple of days. I'm not expecting too much of the white stuff and I sure could use some moisture in the yard.

Fun thread, guys.

I got to my client's house and he hadn't felt well for several days. He thinks he has one of the flus going around. He asked me to go to the grocery store for him. I did my own shopping at the same time so two fer one I had those bags you put cold stuff in with me and since it was pretty cool out, looks like my food survived

 

[dwsizme]

I wish we lived near each other. We could teach each other. I'd teach you to crochet, and you could give me some guidance in knitting, like how to tell where you are when you rip out stitches. Anyway, if you ever learn to crochet, I suggest doing a granny afghan. It takes a while to make it large enough for a bed, but it's easy and portable. If you do it, crochet the squares together. I sewed them together on my first one, and they started coming apart after a little while. You do a slip stitch, I think, to crochet them together. It's been a long time. I'd have to do some review to try a project again.

When I need to rip out stitches I "tink". You just go backwards one stitch at a time. I can't take it off the needles, rip it out, and put it back on. I'd get lost that way, too. Tinking takes awhile but you keep hold of the stitches. And it depends on how complicated the pattern is. Sometimes you just start over.....or leave it that way and tell everyone you meant to do that. (just kidding)

 

[JoAnnW]

I wish we lived near each other. We could teach each other. I'd teach you to crochet, and you could give me some guidance in knitting, like how to tell where you are when you rip out stitches. Anyway, if you ever learn to crochet, I suggest doing a granny afghan. It takes a while to make it large enough for a bed, but it's easy and portable. If you do it, crochet the squares together. I sewed them together on my first one, and they started coming apart after a little while. You do a slip stitch, I think, to crochet them together. It's been a long time. I'd have to do some review to try a project again.

One thing about either knitting (which I find hard) or crocheting... even if it's been a while since you've done it... it all comes rushing back when you pick it up again. Your fingers seem to remember...

 

[Tail11]

Speaking of rugs made me think of the rug that my grandmother gave me prior to me going into the Navy in 1980. This rug has been around the world with me. My grandmother used a big crochet hook and just her hands to make a lot of these rugs out of fabric scraps that people gave her. She even had the grocery store collect bread bags and she made rugs out of them (same style as the pictures, but not as large). She was so crafty and could do a lot of things like this. The rug is over 30 years old and looks like it will make it at least another 30.

 

[dwsizme]

One thing about either knitting (which I find hard) or crocheting... even if it's been a while since you've done it... it all comes rushing back when you pick it up again. Your fingers seem to remember...

Depends on how long has passed and what you knew to begin with, tho I think. I learned when I was 8 and picked it up again in my
50s. I knew how to cast on, cast off and knit and purl......that was it. Oh, and I could make slippers. My aunt had taught me how to make slippers and I think we made a barbie dress together (I think she did most of the barbie dress at the time)
I wanted to learn socks....that meant ribbing and turning the heel and short rows and the kitchener stitch.... My first pair were a disaster....but I just figured every mistake I made was a learning experience so I kept making them until I didn't have such holes in the gussets anymore. The first few pairs I needed to sew as well as knit.

 

[dwsizme]

Speaking of rugs made me think of the rug that my grandmother gave me prior to me going into the Navy in 1980. This rug has been around the world with me. My grandmother used a big crochet hook and just her hands to make a lot of these rugs out of fabric scraps that people gave her. She even had the grocery store collect bread bags and she made rugs out of them (same style as the pictures, but not as large). She was so crafty and could do a lot of things like this. The rug is over 30 years old and looks like it will make it at least another 30.

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Nice! Plus its nice to have something for years that has been passed down. I have a shawl from my great grandmother. I remember when I was a little girl visiting her and it was always on the back of her rocking chair. I don't use it, it's put away, but it's nice to have something that was hand made that is still around.
I'm hoping with my knitting that my kids and family will pass it down and someday someone will pull something out that I made and remember how I showered everyone with scarfs, etc when i was learning to knit.

 

[awsum140]

Hmmm, no Rave, Blues, or Konstantine. I hope they're all doing OK.

 

[dwsizme]

Hmmm, no Rave, Blues, or Konstantine. I hope they're all doing OK.

Yeah. They need prayers. Kon was saying he was sick. Haven't seen Rave for a bit. I think she said Blue was on the mend but he wouldn't be here like before. Whatever happened to Holly? I enjoyed her posts. She was such a bubbly person. Hope she is ok wherever she is.

 

[Dovahkiin]

Anyone using an AGA-T or T+? I have been researching these tanks since they look great on a ProVari or Vamo. The downside is rebuilding the coils. Lots of very intricate work to get the coil correct, and it seems you really need to turn it sideways, then back straight to get a good vape. I think I will stick with my home made carto tanks for awhile, they are working good, now that I have found out how to fill them without wasting juice.

Please tell me to stop looking at vaping "stuff"

I have the AGA-T+. I would get the AGA-T2. It has the pyrex tank. That is the only difference between the AGA-T+.
As for rebuilding the coils after you get the hang of it, they become easy. Just get mesh 400 or 500. Then canthral 32 guage. four raps get you close to two ohms.

 

[SandySu]

When I need to rip out stitches I "tink". You just go backwards one stitch at a time. I can't take it off the needles, rip it out, and put it back on. I'd get lost that way, too. Tinking takes awhile but you keep hold of the stitches. And it depends on how complicated the pattern is. Sometimes you just start over.....or leave it that way and tell everyone you meant to do that. (just kidding)

I never heard of tinking. See? I don't really know much about knitting! If I ever try it again, I'll see if that helps.

 

[Renolizzie]

I have the AGA-T+. I would get the AGA-T2. It has the pyrex tank. That is the only difference between the AGA-T+.
As for rebuilding the coils after you get the hang of it, they become easy. Just get mesh 400 or 500. Then canthral 32 guage. four raps get you close to two ohms.

Oh yeah, that seems easy alright. mesh and wraps and guages. I think I won't be rebuilding any coils any time soon

 

[JoAnnW]

Depends on how long has passed and what you knew to begin with, tho I think. I learned when I was 8 and picked it up again in my
50s. I knew how to cast on, cast off and knit and purl......that was it. Oh, and I could make slippers. My aunt had taught me how to make slippers and I think we made a barbie dress together (I think she did most of the barbie dress at the time)
I wanted to learn socks....that meant ribbing and turning the heel and short rows and the kitchener stitch.... My first pair were a disaster....but I just figured every mistake I made was a learning experience so I kept making them until I didn't have such holes in the gussets anymore. The first few pairs I needed to sew as well as knit.

You just proved my point... you didn't forget!