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    I have an outdoor outlet for the swimming pool. One of the big boxy ones for a large GFCI plug. Every year wasps get in through the hole where the cable goes in and make a nest. The first time I got stung. Hand swelled up like a balloon. Now I open it with a stick and blast the nest. I also have a main electrical cutoff switch outside, they like to nest in that as well. I got bitten there as well.

    After I put the pool up ground bees swarm over the water. They never bother us except for being annoying. One time though one landed on the back of my head and I absentmindedly brushed it off and squashed it against my head. It bit me as it died. That one hurt like hell for days.
    I forgot this. When I was much younger I stepped on a mostly rotted tree that had fell. The ground bees most have had a nest there cause they stung the crap out of me.
     

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    My lemon sample flavors are out for delivery. Also some filters for the air purifier. They are coming by USPS from Amazon. USPS shows them out for delivery, Amazon shows them still in transit. Never seen that before, normally they stay in sync. The whole system is starting to get shaky.

    BCF raspberry package is still MIA a week after Fedex picked it up. Fedex never scanned it.

    Now I have to go back to @Zazie blog and copy some lemon recipes. Do some mixing tonight. I've heard lemon fades quickly so I won't have to wait too long to try them. Not sure about that though. Like if you put cream and lemon in a mix do you have to wait for the cream to age? Or maybe make the juice with everything except the lemon and add the lemon later.

    It depends on the lemon flavor and on the cream you use. FE Lemon doesn't fade. It can stand up the steeps needed for creams that need a steep. Some creams need 2-4 weeks to reach their peak. FLV Cream needs about 2 weeks (it is fine after a week, but better with 2). INW Lemon Concentrate and Lemon Mix don't fade much either. FE Lemon is really the best to use for anything that needs a steep. I find that VTA Sweet Cream (less sweet than FLV Cream) doesn't change with a steep so is the perfect cream for S&V.
     

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    FranC

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    I got major shiny today, including the DOT AIO that was in the mailbox, I think from yesterday. The shiny I was waiting for came and that is the couple hundred dollars worth of silver for jewelry. Some beads came but I am waiting on a motherload due to be here in a day or two. Not a good picture below but you can see the blue panels for the DOT. I have not opened the box yet
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    Because I needed something to do while waiting for beads and such I started painting my Ventura beach rocks. I miss the west coast so bad and especially the beach. I hope I do run out of projects before the C virus is over
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    I do feel better very shortly here I am bathing. Then it's cleaning time like under the couch, is where I will start, since I appear to have found a workable coffee solution. Glad I started thinking OUTSIDE the box.

    We are planning to go visit Show Low over the weekend. IDK if it is too soon, but to me it kind of makes sense except it's a 5 hour trip from Douglas so we'd have to stay overnight. IDK if that's possible or how. We don't have a car we could both sleep in, although I think I could keep us fed and watered with a cooler I have a lot of experience, dood. Maybe we can rent some cabin for the night or SOMETHING. IDK.

    My sis confirmed what I thought and said the Trustees probably wouldn't care but if they did if I'm not going back, I'd have to do the EEOC thing and I likely could and even find a lawyer to take it on a contingency basis,, but she could not begin to tell me how many of such cases go through the federal courts and the person has wasted so much time only to lose and to be paid at a paltry rate and my state is an at will employer. I'm not on a contract.

    Oh, my student loan got put on automatic deferment thanks to COVID. So I get my money back and it goes back into remission after like, I am back on SSDI,

    I must say I have a lot to thank COVID for, really. I mean imagine if this happened AFTER we bought land in Douglas and before my work and supervisor had shown their TRUE COLORS? If I didn't have the decision, "I'm done here, and it's okay, really."

    So yeah I am more upbeat. My body is JUST TIRED as is the husband's. I was on a very intense adrenaline rush. I think my sis gets it because she sees the cases. She keeps telling me just to REST and use the entitlements I am ENTITLED to. I don't think anyone who knows me thinks I am faking. I keep crying at unexpected moments but like, I think that's good. I did not cry for like 15 years once (my mom was like hysterical and insane for years on steroids for her illnesses and me and my sis used to have to talk her out of suicide twice a week, which is sort of.... unpleasant. One day I just looked at her and went "If that is crying, I am not going to do it."

    But that wasn't so good because then the alternatives were self injury. For a few years I like burned the soles of my feet with cigarettes. It was the best of stealth and with every step, you feel it. It was pretty messed up, but so was I. So I think crying is fine. My spiritual mommy had to train me in how to cry again, she like, made me watch sad movies and think about events in my life, LOL. I still feel a vague sense of shame when I do it, but eh. WE SHOULD be tired, we are barely arrived here as a couple and now we are thinking move.

    IDK if I should wait, I guess what I find out online will help me decide I just have this feeling about things and stuff.

    Anna
     

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    I do feel better very shortly here I am bathing. Then it's cleaning time like under the couch, is where I will start, since I appear to have found a workable coffee solution. Glad I started thinking OUTSIDE the box.

    We are planning to go visit Show Low over the weekend. IDK if it is too soon, but to me it kind of makes sense except it's a 5 hour trip from Douglas so we'd have to stay overnight. IDK if that's possible or how. We don't have a car we could both sleep in, although I think I could keep us fed and watered with a cooler I have a lot of experience, dood. Maybe we can rent some cabin for the night or SOMETHING. IDK.

    My sis confirmed what I thought and said the Trustees probably wouldn't care but if they did if I'm not going back, I'd have to do the EEOC thing and I likely could and even find a lawyer to take it on a contingency basis,, but she could not begin to tell me how many of such cases go through the federal courts and the person has wasted so much time only to lose and to be paid at a paltry rate and my state is an at will employer. I'm not on a contract.

    Oh, my student loan got put on automatic deferment thanks to COVID. So I get my money back and it goes back into remission after like, I am back on SSDI,

    I must say I have a lot to thank COVID for, really. I mean imagine if this happened AFTER we bought land in Douglas and before my work and supervisor had shown their TRUE COLORS? If I didn't have the decision, "I'm done here, and it's okay, really."

    So yeah I am more upbeat. My body is JUST TIRED as is the husband's. I was on a very intense adrenaline rush. I think my sis gets it because she sees the cases. She keeps telling me just to REST and use the entitlements I am ENTITLED to. I don't think anyone who knows me thinks I am faking. I keep crying at unexpected moments but like, I think that's good. I did not cry for like 15 years once (my mom was like hysterical and insane for years on steroids for her illnesses and me and my sis used to have to talk her out of suicide twice a week, which is sort of.... unpleasant. One day I just looked at her and went "If that is crying, I am not going to do it."

    But that wasn't so good because then the alternatives were self injury. For a few years I like burned the soles of my feet with cigarettes. It was the best of stealth and with every step, you feel it. It was pretty messed up, but so was I. So I think crying is fine. My spiritual mommy had to train me in how to cry again, she like, made me watch sad movies and think about events in my life, LOL. I still feel a vague sense of shame when I do it, but eh. WE SHOULD be tired, we are barely arrived here as a couple and now we are thinking move.

    IDK if I should wait, I guess what I find out online will help me decide I just have this feeling about things and stuff.

    Anna
    You both have a right to be tired. Being worried can pretty much drain you. Still hoping things work out good:)
     

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    I actually don't have too many complaints about my life. It's been a wild ride that's for sure. I have had a successful marriage for 15 years and I still love my husband, well, probably MORE than the day we met, so that is nice. Especially since we had to overcome a lot, but I no longer expect perfection from any human GOD. LOL. I have a son who is so WONDERFUL, he was the perfect gift to keep me living, and I have decided I want to continue. My family loves me and supports me well most of them. LOL.

    I'm not throwing in the towel to the point where my brain is permanently busted. I know there are plenty of things I can do, and I'm GOOD at my job. They did not break me and AMEN to that. I believe in myself so eh, that's a good thing. There's nothing worse than a firing which leaves you crawling out of the company with your brain in pieces and it happens more than you'd think.

    I am not psychotic, I am not in a psych unit, I have never been to jail and I certainly may have deserved to, I am resourceful and I am alive, with no permanent damage other than my teeth, and it was worth it I will say it every time.

    I am not smoking. I cannot wait to encounter Show Low. Okay in a sec here it's chores and whatnot.

    But no, while I am sad about certain aspects of my employment and some people I will miss? I am safe, now. I am on FMLA. They cannot deny me, furlough me, or steal any of my benefits. I am frozen in time. FMLA is a good thing.

    Anything that happens now doesn't apply to me. LOL I was out a day last week and I STILL came in second on encounters.

    These people can have their opinions if they wish. And if they think I will not send a goodbye email to the entire staff, well? IDK I might want a few doc's references. Especially the doc who complained about the Ibuprofen he said he would reference me "anytime." So IDK maybe not.

    It's all good though, I mean what can you do besides plod forward,

    I do know, I will be asking some folks for references, to see. Perhaps not yet, as I well, don't wish to be accused of malingering or whatever but who knows.

    Anna
     

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    I actually don't have too many complaints about my life. It's been a wild ride that's for sure. I have had a successful marriage for 15 years and I still love my husband, well, probably MORE than the day we met, so that is nice. Especially since we had to overcome a lot, but I no longer expect perfection from any human GOD. LOL. I have a son who is so WONDERFUL, he was the perfect gift to keep me living, and I have decided I want to continue. My family loves me and supports me well most of them. LOL.

    I'm not throwing in the towel to the point where my brain is permanently busted. I know there are plenty of things I can do, and I'm GOOD at my job. They did not break me and AMEN to that. I believe in myself so eh, that's a good thing. There's nothing worse than a firing which leaves you crawling out of the company with your brain in pieces and it happens more than you'd think.

    I am not psychotic, I am not in a psych unit, I have never been to jail and I certainly may have deserved to, I am resourceful and I am alive, with no permanent damage other than my teeth, and it was worth it I will say it every time.

    I am not smoking. I cannot wait to encounter Show Low. Okay in a sec here it's chores and whatnot.

    But no, while I am sad about certain aspects of my employment and some people I will miss? I am safe, now. I am on FMLA. They cannot deny me, furlough me, or steal any of my benefits. I am frozen in time. FMLA is a good thing.

    Anything that happens now doesn't apply to me. LOL I was out a day last week and I STILL came in second on encounters.

    These people can have their opinions if they wish. And if they think I will not send a goodbye email to the entire staff, well? IDK I might want a few doc's references. Especially the doc who complained about the Ibuprofen he said he would reference me "anytime." So IDK maybe not.

    It's all good though, I mean what can you do besides plod forward,

    I do know, I will be asking some folks for references, to see. Perhaps not yet, as I well, don't wish to be accused of malingering or whatever but who knows.

    Anna
    I’m happy that you sound so good. Hope you can continue doing so.
     

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    I hope most of the people realize and know what trolling and spamming is. Lately too many of both, again here as watching the latest post. Greetings and stay safe.
    I don’t think you’ll find anyone here trolling or spamming. BTW welcome to the random thread .
     

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    I refuse to say what mod I dunked to finally make me say ENOUGH I am JUST gonna say well, ugh. I haven't even tried to fire it back up yet, and I was extremely sorry.
    Better not have been the Dani in its beautiful new sleeve.
     

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