Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Woodsdweller]

<**Perk!!**> Did someone mention decoder rings?

 

[perchie.girl]

<**Perk!!**> Did someone mention decoder rings?

Yeah Woods.... decoder wings.. um er rings.

 

[Woodsdweller]

I think decoder wings were used by KFC spies.. I hear none made it out alive with the secret recipe.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
you know I seem to remember the first two letters coresponded to numbers fulfilling the three number area code.

 

[perchie.girl]

I think decoder wings were used by KFC spies.. I hear none made it out alive with the secret recipe.

except what they could ... Oh never mind... wouldnt pass inspection

 

[ExBattChicks]

Coded rings...I remember that...2 short ones for us...2 long ones for the neighbour or something like that...do you suppose that coded rings were the reason decoder rings (@Woodsdweller) were later invented?

Actually, when you think about it, the coded rings were pretty sophisticated!! The problem though was party lines meant that you had no secrets if you had Gladys Cravitz as a neighbour!! hehe!!

 

[Woodsdweller]

Not really much different from today. Ya always have to watch what you say on the phone as you never know who is listening...It's not like any of the alphabet soupers have the technology to listen in to anyone's call.... I'm not PARANOID!! I'm NOT!... it's not paranoia when someone really is out to get ya!

 

[TeaChick]

Hi everyone! I'm not sure if we're still talking about coffee or not, but I like to drink it either black or iced.

Welcome to the thread.
We talk about coffee sometimes, usually complaining when we don't have it and celebrating when we have especially good (or lots) of it.

I like mine about any way I can get it but I like it to be pretty sweet.

Otherwise, we talk about chickens or weather or anything else that comes to mind.

So feel free to jump right in!!!

LOL.

I only get to have coffee in the morning when my mom makes it, or when I go out to eat at ChickFilA.

Oops..I feel like I just said a bad word. XD

But the rest of the time I drink sweet tea.

My DH makes my coffee (Thank God! b/c I stink at making coffee).
I like Chick-Fil-A too; don't tell my chickens. shhhhhhh
I drink coffee in the mornings and tea in the afternoons. =)

 

[TeaChick]

It jumped a six lane freeway.... What is that.... a couple hundred feet...? These fires travel faster than a horse can run.... and some horses can do 45 miles per hour in a sprint. Those ditches here are for the firemen to jump into and cover up with a fire blanket...

Crazy part is these fires create their own wind and will actually push itself down hill. Add to that flash point fuel and constantly blowing wind from or to the desert...

Last year we saw one that went from 20 acres to 6000 acres in a matter of hours...

When they say fire storm ..... thats what they are talking about.

And why I am always advocating an evacuation plan... even if its superceded by the authorities most of it will be in place.

deb

I had no idea about this!!! That makes sense, though; b/c my dad used to dig ditches around tree stumps he was burning out.

This is scary stuff!!! I hope all of you near fires are staying safe or getting out of Dodge!
My DS just found a forestry booklet; now he's going around saying, "Smokey the Bear says, 'Only you can prevent forest fires'."

OK... Wow! You asked that question Deb... So I googled a bit, read this!!


UPDATE: As of Sunday (July 18), the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center reported more than 3.5 million acres total burned this year, making this the third largest fire season in Alaska history. Thursday, when the total was just 3.1 million acres, researcher Eric Kasischke commented: “If dry weather continues into August, we will easily reach the 5-million acre mark.” Alaska’s biggest fire year on record claimed 5 million acres in 1956.



Crazy, huh? If you want to read the entire article:

http://www.alaskascienceoutreach.com/index.php/features/sis_partone/burning_question/

Oh, my!

You're far away from all that, right, @Alaskan ?

Hah! You need "Sleepytime Tea" my kids like it

I am not much of a tea person.

I have only heard how the big one north of Anchorage started... They found out it was a couple that were burning trash without ANY water around!

boggles the mind, huh?

I don't think I remember what started the giant one closer to me.

Oooo "Sleepytime" tea is yummy stuff!!!
The "Sleepytime Extra" has valerian in it as well as the tasty chamomile and spearmint and all in the just "Sleepytime" stuff. I don't like the taste of valerian, but I do like the effect. =)

Agree

people

not really a tea person unless my stomach is up set then I drink peppermint tea.

so I will just say hi to new people and see what kind of trouble I can get into on line.

Peppermint tea is great for all kinds of things...tummy troubles, depression, wake up, wind down...it's good stuff.

DH has had a rough few weeks / months with a new computer thingie at work. He is the only tech guy and is building this wonderful software program from free ware / open source because the company doesnt want to spend money on a department that isnt showing a profit. (cuz DH is labeled the handy man and on commission so they don't pay OT)

Anyway he has been doing alot of programing at home and talking it through to fix issues.

I finally told him the other day when he said something that sounded aweful Nasa ish, That "I was out talking to the silkies today and they said "Bawk dawk thwak squak balk" and it made more sense to me than what you just said" He just shook his head. I know he is stressed and I cant help and that makes me stressed. I just wish there was something I could do, you know besides learning that comp talk networking and codeing and what not.

Aw, Hon! I'm so sorry. My DH does that to me too (not talking computer-y stuff out working out problems, he both talks to me about NASA-ish sounding stuff like I know what he means, when in reality what the chickens say makes more sense to me, and I get stressed when he's stressed; he doesn't even know that he kind of exudes it). Anyway, I sure do hope he gets this computer stuff straightened out soon, so you can both have some peace!

 

[TeaChick]

big fires with alot of fuel can travel underground for quite a distance following roots.... Its like banking the fire in the fireplace... tuck it in with fuel but just a little bit of oxygen.... it only takes a poke to make it ravenous again

like i said sadly for us its very good for the ecology... we just need to be smart about where and how we build and create a safe space...

Unfortunately All of California is dependent on fire for its ecosystem.

Wow I read the link.... This may kick us over to the fast track for climate change.... If it exposes enough permafrost....

weve lost enough water in our aquefers to cause the land to shift... San Andreas usually has water flowing in its cracks... if it "sticks" we are slated for a big earth quake. The kind where pressures build and build and the land snaps..... Last time it did that roads were moved three feet Northridge...

You are not unfamiliar to earthquakes either.... I had a child hood friend that was living on Kodiak Island During that 1964 earthquake that emptied the harbor.... She was about ten at the time....

deb

Climate change???? I'm out. I go as green as I can b/c I want to live naturally, but I'm not even sure what's true and what's nonsense (we'll call it) about all this climate change stuff. I'm sure that ppl are causing it, but I sincerely doubt that, since there were Ice Ages and such before the Industrial Revolution...I lost my train of thought...Oh, point being, I don't think there's much that ppl can stop doing that's actually going to prevent climate change. The climate changes, that's the way the universe works. Do the climate change enthusiasts think that the climate's going to be the exact same as the way they've experienced it forever and ever and it's never going to change??? What's wrong with these ppl????????????????
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for going green and living naturally, but out of good stewardship and reason and common sense.

no talking age deb! I only just missed party lines and wood burning stoves.

And cars that look like the concepts were made out of cardboard boxes, or Atari, or when VCRs came out, or before there were cellphones, or when "mobile phones" were called "bricks".

Oh! In Czech land huh?

I always thought that if I were gonna live in a city....I would live in Prague. I really like the countryside around there too.


( i am drinking coffee while typing... Do I get a prize?)

I lived in the city for a while; I never want to live in a city again!!!

Yes...wait...no, b/c you didn't capitalize the i at the beginning of the sentence in which you were asking for the prize.