I won’t post details on an open board like this, but I will PM you, just for grins, to kick around the issue. I’m seeing a line in the sand I can draw coming in the near future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
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I won’t post details on an open board like this, but I will PM you, just for grins, to kick around the issue. I’m seeing a line in the sand I can draw coming in the near future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Tybee your SLN mailbox is full.
Sorry, just fixed it. I hope.
It's always been a sore spot for me that I cannot even find a good scraper/brush. They all seem to be pieces of crap that are designed to break within a year or two of normal use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I have a telescoping snow brush/scaper that is about 10 years old and great.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
You're supposed to run the car as long as needed to melt even a corner of the ice so you can then start scraping it off. If you're too green or too cheap to let your car run, then don't complain about how hard it is to scrape the ice off or your broken scraper.
I probably have the same scraper/brush. I bought it several years ago after buying a pickup truck that's tall and wide enough that I simply can't reach the center of the windshield with a standard scraper. It still didn't help me much after Thursday's ice storm which layered about 1/2" of ice on the entire truck, which was then covered with another 2" of frozen sleet and topped with about 4 inches of snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
When I went out to clean it all off on Saturday, the doors were all frozen shut and it took me quite a bit of scraping to get the majority of the snow and some of the sleet/ice off as well as getting one door open, then I started the engine, set the defroster on high and went back inside to let it do it's work. After about 20 minutes I went back out and was able to open the other three doors although not easily and I hopped inside to turn on wipers. While I was there I tried to lower the drivers side window which simply wouldn't move. Although that didn't keep the electric opener mechanism from moving freely, the window actually separated from the mechanism and remained frozen in place. So now I have all 4 windows and doors defrosted although the drivers window is off it's track, dammit!
Alan, a rant for sure!
The newbies here in the city are having their cars stolen left and right when they start them to warm them up and then go back into their house. We had three reports on Nextdoor over the past few days. They can’t believe the criminals are out when it’s cold and snowy.
Experienced city criminals know commuter time in the morning is a really good time to patrol dense city neighborhoods and find the cars running with no one inside.
Haha. Idiots! You sit in your car and play on your phone or listen to the radio while the windows are defrosting. Anyone who leaves their car running without anyone in it deserves to get their car stolen. Stupid is as stupid does.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I'm in a rural area and even I take the key back inside when I warm up the car. The key just needs to be in close proximity to start, but not to run. They can steal my car, but once they turn off the ignition they'd be screwed.Quote:
Experienced city criminals no commuter time in the morning is a really good time to patrol dense city neighborhoods and find the cars running with no one inside.
Funny (not to spouse) story: I usually keep my car key in my jacket pocket. Early on with this car, we went to the airport to pick up my nephew. Spouse dropped me off, so I could be at the gate and call when we needed to be picked up to avoid the high parking charge. Spouse went down the road and parked in some random lot, and the business wanted him to move his car but I had the key and we didn't realize that. He calls on my cell to tell me that, but I can't do anything about that because he has the car, not me.
Luckily he was next to a car rental lot, so pretended he was a customer and got on their shuttle bus for a ride back to the airport to retrieve the key. And a different shuttle bus to get back to his car. We now make sure the driver has the physical key.
Ditto here. I just read that our state has the highest auto theft in the nation. Why Colorado I wonder?Quote:
cars stolen left and right
herbgeek, I have yet to figure out why the keyless ignition helps me in my life. So far it is a negative.
Usually car theft is for trendy that are in demand overseas whole or for parts - that is what I am reading. What kinds of autos are trendy in Colorado?
Subarus mostly. I read that many cars are stolen to be used in crimes and then abandoned. Theft of catalytic converters is huge too.
A sibling had a catalytic converter stolen out of a Prius a couple weeks back. Insurance considered the car "totaled".Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
Here, they will take any car they can grab in an opportunity. Some models are easy to start up.
I told the story several times here of one middle aged station: I didn’t put the club on it one day and it was unlocked. That was two opportunities for thieves, so they took it. They just drove it around and dropped it at a neighborhood bordering ours. Since we knew that was the MO of most of these thieves, DH drove the streets around our area every time he went someplace, taking a different route each time. Sure enough, he spotted it.
We had to call the cops to tell them we had found it because we didn’t want to be driving around with a car that was reported stolen. They sent out their team that gets cars started for people, only that team was unable to get it started. So once again DH was a hero, he went home and got his tools, came back and started up the car. The thieves had wrecked the steering column.
I love my garage for just that reason but few apartments or condos around here include secure parking.
Our neighborhood’s insurance rates go down when someone has a garage.Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
We have two garages in the city but still we have more vehicles than vehicle spaces.
Some freezing rain overnight so I had some ice on my car when I left for work. Ran the car for 10 minutes with me in it and I didn’t even have to scrape.
Work smarter, not harder.
I did the same thing this morning but for a semi different reason. I had frost on my windows but the reason I didn't scrape them was because I had just thrown something out in our trash can and there was something inside the can (probably a raccoon). I tossed the bag in and immediately heard a bunch of commotion going on inside the can so I closed the lid quickly and ran to my car. No way was I going back out and grab the scraper and scrape my windows. Our garage light doesn't always work even though it's motion sensor so I couldn't see what was inside the can (nor did I really want to :))Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Yesterday I managed to drop my ceramic coaster on my favorite dog water bowl breaking it. When I picked up the bowl a piece of ceramic lodged in my thumb and was bleeding a lot right as I should have been leaving for the dentist. I had 3 layers of bandages on before it quit bleeding through. Today I take out my favorite polish pottery coffee mug , fill it with coffee and microwave. Taking it out of the microwave I drop it breaking the cup and making a big mess. The only good thing is that I dropped it on the countertop versus my new glass top stove. I can go years without breaking stuff. Ugh!
Ouch, tt! Hopefully your are done for the next couple of years!
Naw, she has to drop one more thing. Trouble comes in 3’s. Hop to it, TT! Get it all over and done with!
Ugh. Sorry to hear.
IL, you are right that one more thing will probably bite the dust:)).
In today's episode of "My Boss Is An Idiot"...
Officer comes in and asks him how to package a gun and some ammo that was found. I am sitting nearby at my desk listening. Boss gets the gun packaging instructions right but completely messes up the ammo. He told the Officer to take the ammo out of the magazine and package separately. Then tells the Officer to put a spent casing in with the unused ammo. The correct response should have been.... keep the ammo in the magazine as it is safer contained rather than being able to roll around in an envelope. Then package the casing separately as it will be going to the State Lab for analysis.
Boss is a Sergeant and makes over $100,000 a year. I am but a peon yet somehow I know proper Police procedures and he doesn't. Ugh!!!
I hate how much paper I waste at work. There’s no away around it. Every day I have to do a report and then attach the first page of a document to it for accounting. There is no way of knowing how many pages the documents I attach are going to be, so I can’t just print the first page. There is no way to do this paperless. I’ve asked and was absolutely refused. Drives me nuts.
So, we are less than 3 months away from a regional plant society conference that has a national reach.
No information has been distributed. I wouldn't even know the exact dates of this conference if an outlier hadn’t sent email to everyone in our local group (who are expected to pull this off) mentioning the dates. The national organization has published nothing. The regional organization sponsoring the conference has published nothing.
yet, I know it is going forward. Dearest organizers, Please tell us how we are to participate if we cant even get it onto our calendars in THE busiest months of the gardening season?
IL, that is so frustrating. Does someone need to stir the pot as it may be a case of "I thought that you were doing that; no, no that was your job"?
In recent years I have volunteered to take on “programming” of this organization for the sole purpose of getting the events calendar distributed in a timely way. Sometimes it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
For this upcoming conference, planning originally started in 2018. Iris plants have to be obtained from hybridizers to plant in “guest” gardens so that they would be fully mature by May 2020, the original date of the conference.
Covid killed the 2020 conference, and sadly, the past two years have brought cancer and disease and death to FOUR key people who had jobs assigned. But the core group is putting their heads down to charge through carrying out the entire big package of bus tours, lunches and dinners, meetings, etc. as initially planned, plus we are still inviting one of the national iris groups, the biggest one, to attend. I think it is madness, but then, I didnt attend the initial planning meetings because I didnt want to waste my time. I volunteered to be Registrar, a major job, and they didnt take me up on that.
there isnt much else I am willing to do for these conferences since I think so much of it is unnecessary. Already it looks as though I will be attending 3 major conferences this year and I am plotting my escape from the interminable banquet dinners where yacking at the podium goes on and on.
Our garden club is still trying to recover from the pandemic. And the December windstorm that devastated their community gardens.
Our family partition lawsuit continues on. It just got a re-start since a major party who had not been served with court summons returned from long term vacation and so can now be served.
I had phone call with this party and clearly communicated:
1) I aint happy being a defendant in a lawsuit when I agree with the plantiff
2) no money will be coming from the Irislilies household coffers to pay an attorney—any share DH is expected to cough up will come from his personal funds (his IRA)
3) I want to see the property sold NOW not in some fantasy future
My name is on the deed which is why I am included in this bullshit.
A family lawsuit is never good. Always a shame to fight over money.
oh honey, it is FAR less tangible than money which is why it is ridiculous as well as impossible to quantify.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
It is about Feelings, Daddy wanted, small farms dying, fairness, family farm, little brother wants, feelings, emo emo, …blech.
so much bullshit. In today’s phone call it was clarified: I have clear legal standing here
because my name is on the deed, so that gives me a clear signal for a path forward.
A mockingbird has taken over our yard. We've always had mockingbirds, and I've always enjoyed them, but not Evil Bully Mockingbird! None of the other birds are allowed to go to the feeder, to get a drink, or to even go into the tree where the feeder hangs. I never thought I would find myself wanting to kill a mockingbird - ha!
I've hung another feeder some distance away that is working well for the little birds, but the cardinals won't use that feeder. I've got another somewhat makeshift feeder for the cardinals but they haven't gone to it. I've never been so angry at a bird before!
What do think might have lead to this bullying tactic? Ego? Impress a mate? Just feeling feisty? Repeating past actions? Give the bird some needed therapy?:devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Razz: When I googled, I learned that they often engage in this kind of behavior when there is a nest nearby and others get too close to the nest, but I'm only observing the behavior when others approach the food or water resources, and there is not a nest in that immediate vicinity. My best guess is that the bird is planning to set up housekeeping in our little Garden of Eden and doesn't want to share the resources. It's funny too, because mockingbirds don't tend to frequent our feeders; they go more for the berries we grow on the other side of our house.
I'd just amplify what you're already doing, and supply multiple food and water stations. The little hoarder can only be in one place at a time.
If you want it sold, can't you force a partition sale if you are on the deed?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
And I agree, these things are never about money but about feelings and family dynamics, very sad, really. Sorry you are all going through this, once it goes to court, it seems like the family is over.
”could” sure by joining the sibling who brings the lawsuit. But that has non-financial consequences as in pretty risky for my marriage since DH is opposed to my point of view.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
But first things first — I have to find out if I really am on the deed. I have a vague memory of signing some thing months ago, but don’t really remember. The executor of the estate said I’m on the deed. DH says I’m not. So, after more than 10 weeks since we were served with court summons I still don’t understand some basic things. If I’m on the deed I have authority to act. If I’m not on the deed, well, my legal interest in the property is much murkier.
Iris.
How do the property taxes work? When my mom was on my grandmothers house, her name was also listed on the property taxes.
Could you find out if your on it from the taxes via a online search?