Older People 55 and Up

[Iffy]

Gonna miss this one, she sat in my lap from the day she was born.

So sorry tj!

Rainbow Bridge

Even after five years, I still miss my Ginger!

 

[Janet H]

Harleydiva, after reading your post about Kick Bass I put in an order. My Hummingbird Nectar came today and Wow! It's wonderful. It does taste like honeysuckle and I like it because it's light and a little sweet. It's a great all day vape. I'm definitely going to order a bigger bottle tomorrow! Mike ordered 3 flavors and so far he seems to like them too.

It's surprising because you'd think after all those years of smoking I'd want to stick with a tobacco flavor, but I've found I really like the fruit flavors better (or a nice mojito). Just goes to show you that it wasn't really the tobacco flavor that kept me going back to the cigarettes! I got my friend into vaping while she still had a carton of cigs left. It turned out that she couldn't wait to finish the carton because she really enjoyed vaping better. Another success story!

 

[Janet H]

Look everybody, I have an Avatar!! It's a good thing I have Mike. I'm hopeless with computers and would be lost without him! I love birds and last year we put up a hummingbird feeder on our deck and lo and behold they came! Amazing little creatures. I put the feeder out again last week and am now waiting patiently for them to show up again this Spring.

 

[Semiretired]

Looks good Janet. We have 3 hummingbirds around our house. My wife is so friendly with the all the birds in our yard that she can walk up and they stay in the yard or the tree right next to her. She has had a hummingbird right in front of her face before. They know who butters their bread and appreciates her...

 

[harleydiva]

Harleydiva, after reading your post about Kick Bass I put in an order. My Hummingbird Nectar came today and Wow! It's wonderful. It does taste like honeysuckle and I like it because it's light and a little sweet. It's a great all day vape. I'm definitely going to order a bigger bottle tomorrow! Mike ordered 3 flavors and so far he seems to like them too.

It's surprising because you'd think after all those years of smoking I'd want to stick with a tobacco flavor, but I've found I really like the fruit flavors better (or a nice mojito). Just goes to show you that it wasn't really the tobacco flavor that kept me going back to the cigarettes! I got my friend into vaping while she still had a carton of cigs left. It turned out that she couldn't wait to finish the carton because she really enjoyed vaping better. Another success story!

Glad you like it!!! Their stuff gets even better after it steeps, so it will just keep improving...

 

[VapRon]

Look everybody, I have an Avatar!! It's a good thing I have Mike. I'm hopeless with computers and would be lost without him! I love birds and last year we put up a hummingbird feeder on our deck and lo and behold they came! Amazing little creatures. I put the feeder out again last week and am now waiting patiently for them to show up again this Spring.

That is a nice picture Janet H. We set ours up 2 weeks ago and they came right away. Last week we have seen someting that we did not befor. One hummingbird was fighting with a bee or wasp over the feeder. That was amazing. The bee or wasp had won the first few rounds and was feeding but the hummingbird at one point had enough of that and fought so long until the other gave the station up. They are my wifes favorit and she goes crazy about them hihi.

 

[Tiny]

I’m with you TIny. For awhile I thought I was going to have to give up mowing the grass. Try as I might - I just can’t vape and ride the tractor at the same time. (It was a tough ‘trigger’ to break, I always had a cig in my mouth when mowing and when I stopped smoking, just getting on the tractor made me want a cig. It’s about the only time now, I still think about having one).

I'd like to use the 'trigger' argument to get out of doing it, but I don't think it would fly with Mrs. Tiny. I couldn't do it most of last summer because of my busted ankle being in a boot so she had the duty. I think I'll take Old Hippy's suggestion of hooking up a PV to a lanyard so I can vape while mowing.

 

[tj99959]

One lap around the lawn .. vape brake, one lap around the lawn .. vape brake. At our age we can get away with it.

 

[daisygirlie]

One lap around the lawn .. vape brake, one lap around the lawn .. vape brake. At our age we can get away with it.

Pfft - I set my riding mower on cruise control, and vape away while singing at the top of my lungs to the music coming through my headphones. I can't believe no neighbor has *ever* complained! I do get funny looks when I'm out there with my Leo, the Leas look smaller because the bulk is in your hand, the Leo is just there, and big, lol! It takes me 45-60 mins to get the lawn done, depending on how high it is, and I only have to take it out of cruise control to mow around the assorted fir trees that are slowly closing in my back yard So I get to vape, sing, and make the neighbors think I'm a complete fruitcake - and I LOVE it Oh, I guess I do slow down the first lap near the road too, it's 25 but people usually go 40 and I enjoy life.

 

[Tiny]

Dang it!! I just refilled my DCT and the @!#$%&* cartomizer burned out. GRRRRRRR! (If you know what @!#$%&* means then you really do belong with us old timers)

Oh well, it's a good thing I like to finagle.

 

[daisygirlie]

Dang it!! I just refilled my DCT and the @!#$%&* cartomizer burned out. GRRRRRRR! (If you know what @!#$%&* means then you really do belong with us old timers)

Oh well, it's a good thing I like to finagle.

I'd be in there with a syringe pulling out as much liquid as possible from the tank, then deal with the carto. If the juice in the carto isn't bad (didn't taint when the carto blew, I know that can make it nasty if it burns it which happens occasionally), suck that out with a syringe too. I'm a HUGE advocate of syringes with pointy tips even, they can get where blunt steel and plastic tips can't reach. It's been a life saver on a couple of cartos.

Sorry it happened - hopefully you have a spare to vape on while you work on that one - you'll need it, lol!

Somewhere in thread here on ECF I've used $)(#$*)#*$

 

[wendallb]

Good morning folks..well back to work for me today..Ya'll have a good Sunday

 

[Chico'smum]

That Atari reminds me of my son's childhood. We had a Commodore 64. When he was 8 years old, I would read him the BASIC programs in the back of Qlink magazine. We would take turns typing in the code (strings of 5 numbers and letters) and reading. At the end you would get a cute little program. The Commodore was actually a pretty advanced computer for its time. It was color, for one thing! And when you added the two 64K (hahahah) hard drives, you hit the big time.

Fast forward to today, and my son was lucky enough to go to a math and science high school, where the founders of Netscape, PayPal, and YouTube went to school, and the rest is history! He got to compile the code for Netscape, the first free browser!!
He comes in at about 18:37 until 20:00 - the kid with the blond streaks! He got to work at PayPal, and some other places, and now Facebook! I am so proud of him!!!!!

Thank you so much for that vid, I never understood what went on behind the scenes of the internet technology, now i have some idea just how much dedication goes into it. Very informative vid.

 

[Semiretired]

Thank you so much for that vid, I never understood what went on behind the scenes of the internet technology, now i have some idea just how much dedication goes into it. Very informative vid.

Good Morning Cico'smum - and welcome to the group. We share a lot of interesting things on this thread. Pull up a chair share a tale and get comfortable...

Good Morning to everyone else also and of course Wendalb is already up... I sleep in on Sunday - at leas till 7am...

 

[Janet H]

That is a nice picture Janet H. We set ours up 2 weeks ago and they came right away. Last week we have seen someting that we did not befor. One hummingbird was fighting with a bee or wasp over the feeder. That was amazing. The bee or wasp had won the first few rounds and was feeding but the hummingbird at one point had enough of that and fought so long until the other gave the station up. They are my wifes favorit and she goes crazy about them hihi.

Here's 2 photos of a little guy at our deck feeder, frustrated by a bee. We had tons of bees and ants with this feeder so we bought a Humm Zinger feeder that works much better. There are even little caps you can put on the feeder holes that keeps bees and ants out.

 

[Janet H]

Looks good Janet. We have 3 hummingbirds around our house. My wife is so friendly with the all the birds in our yard that she can walk up and they stay in the yard or the tree right next to her. She has had a hummingbird right in front of her face before. They know who butters their bread and appreciates her...

Years ago when we were in the Pocono's I sat outside with birdseed in my hand and the Chickadees actually landed and ate! Almost had the Nuthatches do the same thing, but they're more skittish. I bet if your wife was patient she'd have a good chance of having them land in her hand too! Of course you wouldn't be able to cut any grass while she was doing that...

 

[tj99959]

Years ago when we were in the Pocono's I sat outside with birdseed in my hand and the Chickadees actually landed and ate! Almost had the Nuthatches do the same thing, but they're more skittish. I bet if your wife was patient she'd have a good chance of having them land in her hand too! Of course you wouldn't be able to cut any grass while she was doing that...

Course there are birds in the yard, and then there are ..................

From my daughters apartment window

 

[Janet H]

Pfft - I set my riding mower on cruise control, and vape away while singing at the top of my lungs to the music coming through my headphones. I can't believe no neighbor has *ever* complained! I do get funny looks when I'm out there with my Leo, the Leas look smaller because the bulk is in your hand, the Leo is just there, and big, lol! It takes me 45-60 mins to get the lawn done, depending on how high it is, and I only have to take it out of cruise control to mow around the assorted fir trees that are slowly closing in my back yard So I get to vape, sing, and make the neighbors think I'm a complete fruitcake - and I LOVE it Oh, I guess I do slow down the first lap near the road too, it's 25 but people usually go 40 and I enjoy life.

And here I thought my daughter was the only one who sang while she mowed. What a riot.

 

[Tiny]

Morning All, and welcome to Chico'smum, a lot of good people here hope you'll join in and share a some stories.

Excellent pictures of that hummingbird Janet! Have you thought of a second career as a wildlife photographer?

TJ, that guy looks like proof that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs, I'm not sure I'd enjoy him peering in my window first thing in the morning.

The postman was nice and brought me two 18650 batteries for the ProVari, just put one in and I'll see if I can go all day without having to change it. I was able to salvage the juice from my tank last night after the carto died, why couldn't it have died before I filled the tank? I guess it's proof that Murphy and his Law are hard at work.

I've got to finish up some stuff for work that ran overnight and then attach myself to the lawnmower for a few hours. But I may goof around for a while first.

Catch you all later!

 

[mattiem]

Good Sunday morning everyone. Cool and cloudy here today. Supposed to get up to 80 but I can't see that happening if the sun can't get through.

Nothing special planned for the day so think I will just hang out here.