Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

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That is definitely true. I'll try to remember to take an illustrative picture.

Centipede is neat. So is St Augustine. My lawn is 100% Laissez Faire.
St Augustine is a nicer, thicker grass but requires mowing and lots of water. Centipede, being a native Florida grass, requires neither. I do water the grass in the spring to help it start growing again (it does go dormant in cold weather) but otherwise the only time I water is if we have no rain for a week or more. Not the case this year!

Centipede is, however, invasive so there is that issue.
 

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Do those pitchers that filter water for you? I think Zero Water is supposed to take everything out. Our fridge has filtered water in the door so I rarely drink from the tap. I guess people do get used to "city" water, but I hate the smell and taste. Maybe that's why people put lemon in their water.
Ours is attached to the faucet. We are in an apartment, so no filtered fridge water. Ours has a switch to go from water from the tap to filtered. We use filtered for drinking, cooking, & ice cubes. I can drink the water in most of the towns around us, but ours is horrible. It's PSS!

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Hey I'm watching a show on Hulu if any have it so far is pretty interesting. It is about a guy who finds a portal in time and he is going back to stop the assassination of JFK and change the world as we know it for the better. It's from a Stephen King book called 11 22 63. It's listed under Hulu oringinals. Just got Kings new book on Audible called the Outsider. Haven't started it yet but I like his stuff. The books are always better then the movies. This one I'm watching is really interesting so far. It is an 8 part series.
 

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Have any of you gotten a message on your cell phones to reaffirm your account with IDK who. I just delete them don't open it at all. it of course offers a way to get to it by pressing the spot on the phone. Been getting a lot of weird messages like that. I usually delete and block and later something else comes up. Ginny got one, same one on her phone.
I'm getting a lot of telemarketer calls, & calls from names I don't know. I block & delete, never answer. If I don't recognize the caller it goes to voicemail. Funny, they never leave a message.

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"This is the security department for your bank Visa card. We have important information regarding a change in your interest rate." I get that one pretty often on the phone. Gmail's spam filter saves me from about 12 spam messages per day, based on the 357 spam messages automatically put in the spam folder in the past 30 days.

Regarding centipede grass, I'm technically at the very northern edge of the growing region, and do have the sandy soil that centipede likes, but I think there are too many hard freezes here. That's my story and I'm sticking to it, because one thing I am NOT going to do is spend any time growing or maintaining a lawn.

There's a tough and thick-growing grass or weed that grows on the piece of my property at the cul-de-sac, especially in the area near my neighbor's livestock fence. I have no idea what it is... I just know that if it grows too tall it can be very difficult to mow. It seems to be the same stuff that thrives near my septic tank.
 

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"This is the security department for your bank Visa card. We have important information regarding a change in your interest rate."
I get that one alot also. And also one that says we have been tying to reach you several times about your credit card account. It is very important that you contact us.
 

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And also one that says we have been tying to reach you several times about your credit card account. It is very important that you contact us.
Yes, that one too.
Another one starts something like this: This is Peabody from Medicare Benefits (or, the Health Insurance Billing Dept, or NC Blue Cross, or the Free Government Insurance Carrier Selection Assistance Program, or... endless variations on that theme).

Whether I ever have received a legitimate call from Medicare, or any of the many non-profit, government-authorized health insurance outfits that give free help in selecting Medicare Supplement plans, I will never know. There's just no quick and easy way to tell what's a fraud and what's not, so I hang up on all of them and then block the number from which they called.

I just came up from the laboratory, bwah-hah-hah, where I concocted over 40 ounces of whatever it is I made. The ingredients were: bottled ketchup, vinegar, mustard powder, horseradish powder, honey, almond flour, Frank's Red Hot cayenne pepper sauce, cumin powder and sweet smoked paprika powder. A lot of people would find it too hot... about a teaspoon of the sauce on a hot dog was plenty hot enough for me. If you're going to mix the same ingredients, I suggest you use less cumin than I did... the cumin taste is at the upper limit of reasonable. :w00t:
 

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<snip> I just came up from the laboratory, bwah-hah-hah, where I concocted over 40 ounces of whatever it is I made. The ingredients were: bottled ketchup, vinegar, mustard powder, horseradish powder, honey, almond flour, Frank's Red Hot cayenne pepper sauce, cumin powder and sweet smoked paprika powder. A lot of people would find it too hot... about a teaspoon of the sauce on a hot dog was plenty hot enough for me. If you're going to mix the same ingredients, I suggest you use less cumin than I did... the cumin taste is at the upper limit of reasonable. :w00t:

LOL - I don't need t mix my own sauces. People keep gifting me with hotter and hotter sauces, hoping to find one where I will say, "Too Hot!" Good luck; I would never admit such a thing even if it were so. I could accustom my taste buds to almost anything.

Here are a few recent ones:
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The Sweet Death is too sweet; don't much care for it. The El Chupacabra has carrots in it (although less than any of the peppers) so it has to be good for you.
 

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Yes, that one too.
Another one starts something like this: This is Peabody from Medicare Benefits (or, the Health Insurance Billing Dept, or NC Blue Cross, or the Free Government Insurance Carrier Selection Assistance Program, or... endless variations on that theme).

Whether I ever have received a legitimate call from Medicare, or any of the many non-profit, government-authorized health insurance outfits that give free help in selecting Medicare Supplement plans, I will never know. There's just no quick and easy way to tell what's a fraud and what's not, so I hang up on all of them and then block the number from which they called.

I just came up from the laboratory, bwah-hah-hah, where I concocted over 40 ounces of whatever it is I made. The ingredients were: bottled ketchup, vinegar, mustard powder, horseradish powder, honey, almond flour, Frank's Red Hot cayenne pepper sauce, cumin powder and sweet smoked paprika powder. A lot of people would find it too hot... about a teaspoon of the sauce on a hot dog was plenty hot enough for me. If you're going to mix the same ingredients, I suggest you use less cumin than I did... the cumin taste is at the upper limit of reasonable. :w00t:
[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] You should leave your tastebuds to science!

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[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] You should leave your tastebuds to science!

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I'm willing my body to science but science is contesting the will. (I remember that Iffy really enjoyed that one the last time I told it, a good while back.)

"What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!" -- Bill Murray, in Groundhog Day.
 

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Yes, that one too.
Another one starts something like this: This is Peabody from Medicare Benefits (or, the Health Insurance Billing Dept, or NC Blue Cross, or the Free Government Insurance Carrier Selection Assistance Program, or... endless variations on that theme).

Whether I ever have received a legitimate call from Medicare, or any of the many non-profit, government-authorized health insurance outfits that give free help in selecting Medicare Supplement plans, I will never know. There's just no quick and easy way to tell what's a fraud and what's not, so I hang up on all of them and then block the number from which they called.

I just came up from the laboratory, bwah-hah-hah, where I concocted over 40 ounces of whatever it is I made. The ingredients were: bottled ketchup, vinegar, mustard powder, horseradish powder, honey, almond flour, Frank's Red Hot cayenne pepper sauce, cumin powder and sweet smoked paprika powder. A lot of people would find it too hot... about a teaspoon of the sauce on a hot dog was plenty hot enough for me. If you're going to mix the same ingredients, I suggest you use less cumin than I did... the cumin taste is at the upper limit of reasonable. :w00t:
Is it flammable? Or possibly explosive or does that not happen till it hits your stomach. Guts Galore.
 

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LOL - I don't need t mix my own sauces. People keep gifting me with hotter and hotter sauces, hoping to find one where I will say, "Too Hot!" Good luck; I would never admit such a thing even if it were so. I could accustom my taste buds to almost anything.

Here are a few recent ones:
IMG_1021.jpg

The Sweet Death is too sweet; don't much care for it. The El Chupacabra has carrots in it (although less than any of the peppers) so it has to be good for you.
Should be good for your eyes then. Chupacabra wasn't that the name of a drug kingpin in Mexico. Long since been deported to US.
 

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LOL - I don't need t mix my own sauces. People keep gifting me with hotter and hotter sauces, hoping to find one where I will say, "Too Hot!" Good luck; I would never admit such a thing even if it were so. I could accustom my taste buds to almost anything.

Here are a few recent ones:
IMG_1021.jpg

The Sweet Death is too sweet; don't much care for it. The El Chupacabra has carrots in it (although less than any of the peppers) so it has to be good for you.
Wait you were the one who got the Siren 2 and it didn't work right for you right. Maybe less Chupacabra in the next juice.
 

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These latest ones I've been getting are text messages to my and Ginny's Cell phones. Heres a couple of them word for word. Very suspicious to me.

#1 Hello, please confirm your details now:
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#2 Hello, your Facebook account needs to be reconfigured, check now:
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teuawfzuwg.gppresource

They came from

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Is it flammable? Or possibly explosive or does that not happen till it hits your stomach. Guts Galore.
There's a cartoon where Daffy Duck (I think) drinks a can of gasoline and then, before he lights a match and tosses it down his throat, he says "this is a real neat trick, but you can only do it once".

The stuff I made today is equivalent in heat to a mild wasabi sauce. That means it's pretty hot to me, but for @pwmeek it would be suitable as a pancake topping. :lol:
 

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Should be good for your eyes then. Chupacabra wasn't that the name of a drug kingpin in Mexico. Long since been deported to US.
Oh yeah; "bright-eyes"; that's me. I think you may be right about the gangster; he would have adopted the name (which, incidentally, means "goat-sucker"). The Chupacabra is a (mythical?) creature, mostly in the North American south-west. It's a fairly modern myth since the first reports were in the 1990s. Chupacabra - Wikipedia
 

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There's a cartoon where Daffy Duck (I think) drinks a can of gasoline and then, before he lights a match and tosses it down his throat, he says "this is a real neat trick, but you can only do it once".

The stuff I made today is equivalent in heat to a mild wasabi sauce. That means it's pretty hot to me, but for @pwmeek it would be suitable as a pancake topping. :lol:
Hah. At the sushi bar, I always collect any wasabi paste from the people in my group who don't plan to use all theirs. They never give me enough. Nice heat, but very short duration. My daily lunch includes a quarter cup of ghost pepper covered peanuts (Da Bomb™) and a heaping tablespoon of wasabi covered almonds (Blue Diamond™) plus small handfuls of mixed salted nuts and my wife's trail mix (equal parts unsalted walnuts, pecans, almonds, and dried cherries). Also 2 oz cheese and a couple of apples or other fruit.
 
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