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[drumstick diva]

The picture gremlins must have been at work again

 

[perchie.girl]

Good afternoon everyone. FYI, I have changed my user name from Hagar3 to Highcotton.

How in the heck do you change your user name.... without creating a whole new account?

 

[ronott1]

How in the heck do you change your user name.... without creating a whole new account?

You have to ask a Moderator to change it and they will only do it once for you. Make sure you pick a username that you really like.

 

[bamadude]

I really like mine. I hate my wife's

 

[bamachicks8]

For some strange reason we were selected to be a Nielson household. We are being paid to keep a diary of everything we watch on TV...I doubt they see the curve ball headed their way.

Oh my...

 

[bamadude]

Hey Oz: the heating element for the LG 9300/ 10300/ 11300. The 9300 is still air with the same heating element. 10300 has a fan (barely). 11300 is the 10300 with the auto egg turner.

 

[bamadude]

the controls

 

[bamadude]

Imho a major design flaw:

Its a clear piece of plastic stapled to the sensor. Miller mfg says "do not remove clear plastic from sensor". It moves all around with the auto turner. I have a brinsea spot check and a accurite that reads the same as the brinsea. When the sensor moves the temp spikes.
And when a chick hatches and moves the sensor...It goes haywire

 

[perchie.girl]

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Aah.... good to know

 

[Arielle]

Catching up. Internet provider changed my passwords with out telling me.

Deb: its hard to think that some of our neighbors to the north have never tasted real greens...I have mailed about 10 lbs of mustards, georgia collards, and turnips seeds to our neighbors.

Love then all!!! DIdnt know colards were in the cabbage family when I bought the first bunch. A bit tough, but good enough to try again and again. Try turnips and potatos together, roughly mashed.

Kida like cactus fruit too--finally!!! Only took 3-4 years taste testing. lol

Quote: Ron, he is wonderful!! Now I have a face to match the name.

Fiskars = great AMERICAN MADE product!!! I actually live a little more than an hour or so drive from their factory. Every summer they have a huge factory sale where I scoop up all our sewing, household and garden/farm cutting cutting implements. The savings are more than worth the ride. Their ratcheting loppers can take all the abuse I can give them keeping our acres of "lawn" trimmed up and I pick up scissors for as little as 25 cents a pair

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@Alaskan - loved the parade pics

BTW - have you read the book titled "If you Lived Here I'd Know Your Name" ? It really is a lot like your writing style.

According to Wikipedia:
The Fiskars Corporation (Fiskars Oyj Abp) is a metal and consumer brands company founded in 1649 at Fiskars Bruk (Finnish: Fiskarsin Ruukki), a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 km west of Helsinki on the old main road from Turku to Vyborg. Fiskars is best known today for its scissors, axes and high-quality knives.



It has companies around the world in 36 countries!

They manufacture here and there. Toyota and Mercedes have US factories too, but I wouldn't call them Mercan cars.

Gerber to my understanding is originally founded in the US even though Fiskars owns them now. So the US made shovels that your mimitary uses are also designed in Finland

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Fiskars is Finland's oldest company that's still in business.

GOt Fiskars and Wiss!!

Exactly Oz, design, materials and quality control is what matters, where it's made isn't as significant. Except for the job creating factor, which you could consider important too. Chinese people are interesting, this is a very generalized view based on a week long business trip, but when our team was outsourced to Beijing, I went there to teach them how to do our job. It was a bit frustrating, because somehow I got the feeling that the employees there were not as creative, they learned quickly to follow a very specified set of instructions, but when I tried to get them to understand more general concepts, it was a bit difficult for them.

lol hmm could it be that the Oriental cultures strive for unity. Stepping out of the box has been punished, by death, for many centuries. THe people know better than to behave other than follow instructions. It is in the genes. ( please dont misunderstand; there is m uch to admire in these old cultures.)

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Thanks, Aliciahess, I am feeling better and still putting off going to the doctor (against BYC advice

you know who you are.) Iron is a possibility, I couldn't give blood, one time, because my iron was too low. I was offended. It felt like they were saying my blood wasn't good enough! I was in my 40's and it hasn't happened since although I don't jump up to give blood as often as I used to.
LOL I was offended when I was declined too.

Led to some serious conversions and a minor sugery, which didnt help in my case. The second surgery worked. THen I donated platelets for a while because turns out I'm a universal donar for platelets, and the opposite for whole blood. Wisher--- please please please get it checked out. NOW.

I'm sorry about blabbing on about details, but it seems my way of processing is to turn excessively analytical.

Sorry for the loss. SPew-- makes it feel better.

Even if they didn't have the death penalty, I don't think I would want to spend much time in a prison in those countries either. Yesterday I caught the end of a documentary from Norway, they had a pretty interesting prison there. Basically an island with ~115 inmates, they are free to roam about, they keep animals and do gardening, live in small cottages with 3-4 inmates. Internet access and TV, although no E-mail or facebook etc. I think they said that the rate of repeat offenders was around 15%, that's pretty good.

OMG. THat is heaven. DH had his "workers" reassigned to BOston to help with the clean up. Bet they wish for a little NOrwegian island instead of 7 feet of snow removal.

I have never tried those canola greens. I will keep an eye out for the seeds

CLever you!! Keeping outa trouble.

Quote: Haahaa I remember a early reader book based on this theme. Mice-cats-dogs- lions-elephants- mice! lol

Canola oil is a little iffy, healthy but chemically processed kinda like corn syrup. They use hexane to extract the oil, hexane is also used as a glue for shoes leather and roofing and it is a contaminant potentially present in all soy food products also using the technique, which is not regulated by the FDA. Hexanes come from refining crude oil.

And I thought I was being so health conscious using only canola oil.

Pretty much all fats and oils are contaminated to some extent in the US. People just dont know it.

You have lots of company.

First real snow of the year.

Precious!!!

Just found one of my seven year old hens dead.

-Kathy

Sorry Kathy, SHe had a long life!

In 2008 there were 1,000,000 feral camels in Oz, with an estimated rate of doubling every 8 years. They have culled them back to 300,000.

Hope someone got a few steaks to braise!!

the new lg 9300 and 10300 have digital thermostats. The heating element is 4x4 inches. The sensor moves all around. The temp spikes sometimes 5 degrees F. In hindsight I should have bought the older 9200 model

THus is normal to have momentary spikes. Just the way the LG works.

Good afternoon everyone. FYI, I have changed my user name from Hagar3 to Highcotton.

You will always be Hagar3 to me.

Quote: lol I feel the same way!!