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[ronott1]

Hey! I resemble that!

Seriously, chiggers are the one thing I have yet to encounter in Missouri, thank GOD! I had them all over my arm once back in IL when I volunteered to clean out a neighbors flower bed for her after her husband died.

Here in the Show Me! state, everything bites, claws, scratches or gives you a rash. It's just a fact of life. I think I read once that there are 15 types of poison Ivy here and a few of them don't even look like poison ivy.

You can kill the little buggers (chiggers) dead in their tracks if you dab a bit of clear fingernail polish on the bite and try not to scratch the bite then before the polish dries. I've never tried it but hey! I stayed at Holiday Inn once!

Okay, I'm punchy tired. Sorry....nah not really. I need to get up and get moving before I nod off.
Thanks for the tip!
@CapricornFarm, I'm sure the Amish around here would argue that point with us but even they use gas powered motors.

 

[pennyJo1960]

we have a Honda generator

 

[bruceha2000]

This is my Generac.

Generac quilter or generac generator? I'm so confused.....nothing new tho.

Long arm purchased with the money that had been saved up to buy a Generac generator. When a deal comes along, you just can't pass it up!

 

[microchick]

Yep. Agreed. That rig makes me drool.

I saw a regular 'Amish' quilting rack for sale at the local general store last year for 100$. DH offered to buy it for me but in all truthfulness I have no unused room to set something that big up in, at least not without a lot of work involved.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes I got rid of the spare room on Craigslist to make room for it.
My arthritis hurt bad when trying to move the quilt under the domestic machine. Glad I got the longarm it doesn't hurt as bad.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thanks guys, very interesting. It does seem expensive but maybe worth it? I don’t know that much if anything about generators tbh I just thought it sounded like a good one and I liked how it said it hooks up to the electric so it automatically comes on when you need it. That was cool. But maybe others do that? Idk. They were of course trying to get people to buy them for the hurricane, it was an ad on the weather channel, but I was just curious if anyone had heard of them or knew about them or anything since I know like nothing and thought it was a good ad. I think one guy said his power was out like a week or a month or something crazy? And he had coffee, shower, lights, etc cause of it

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks guys, very interesting. It does seem expensive but maybe worth it? I don’t know that much if anything about generators tbh I just thought it sounded like a good one and I liked how it said it hooks up to the electric so it automatically comes on when you need it. That was cool. But maybe others do that? Idk. They were of course trying to get people to buy them for the hurricane, it was an ad on the weather channel, but I was just curious if anyone had heard of them or knew about them or anything since I know like nothing and thought it was a good ad. I think one guy said his power was out like a week or a month or something crazy? And he had coffee, shower, lights, etc cause of it

Well you still need gas to run it.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Anyway, speaking of storms, we’ve been getting some bands of torrential rains haha slowed down a lot now but still raining. Started maybe an hour ago? Maybe two. Idk but still raining but at first it came down really fast and sudden and was bad for a while. Now it’s slower and will maybe soak in but either way, rain is good cause we need the rain haha not that it’s been dry here, been a pretty wet summer actually, and just rained last week I think, but still. That was actually a nice all day type rain too but still. Gets dry fast in between rains in the summer cause of the heat and sun. And more rain is good cause it means I have barely had to water at all this summer.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well you still need gas to run it.

That makes sense, I think it did mention something about gas. But it still is neat to me it just turns on. Unless a lot of generators do that now?

Also probably a stupid question but do you just leave gas in it or do you only fill it when you need it? Cause it seems to me like leaving gas just sitting in it for long periods of time wouldn’t be good for it?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh and DB’s birthday was yesterday so we had a nice dinner tonight with DB, FSIL, myself, and my parents. Mine was particularly good ha but all looked very good.