The Drop in Centre

[Kitt]

Just now, chris191070 said:

All good here. I made a pasta Bolognese for dinner today. Otherwise a quiet Saturday as the weather was wet and miserable.

Does sunny and very humid count as wet and miserable? Had 91% this am so we changed our plans for the day. So much for our day off!

[Reader1810]

2 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

All good here. I made a pasta Bolognese for dinner today. Otherwise a quiet Saturday as the weather was wet and miserable.

I’ll send you some of my heat seeing as how Natty has given me too much. 

[Starrynight22]

Hello all. 

 

Its miserable here with temp at 92F but with the sky high humidity the feel is 103. I dread my electric bill next month. But not enough to suffer so it'll stay 71 in here.  

 

I'm making pickle batch #3 today.  The first were strong and too salty. Second were not quite right, a bit too sweet but very crunchy as I prefer.  

[MichaelS36]

11 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Does sunny and very humid count as wet and miserable? Had 91% this am so we changed our plans for the day. So much for our day off!

Seriously will not be unhappy to see the back of this weather.  tim is cooking chili today, I love that boy!  Even though our air con bill will be crazy. 

[MichaelS36]

14 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

I’ll send you some of my heat seeing as how Natty has given me too much. 

Insane weather.  Stay cool, Reader. 

[MichaelS36]

Oh, tim tells me the A/c  bill wasn't too bad after all. 

[rickproehl]

1 hour ago, mollyhousemouse said:

not too bad rick, thanks for asking. was told to stay in bed late, then got some bedding into the wash. hit the farmers market for bread, tomatoes & cucumbers. ordered a ROKU for the TV in the bedroom as we cancelled the dish, curbside pickup later today.

the kids are vacuuming the house now & we'll do the menu & order groceries later.

went to our farmers market and got  new potatoes , green beans , and homemade pickles. Sunday dinner will be the green beans , bacon and potatoes and pot roast in crock pot.

molly have you heard of peacock the NBC free and pay service which just started up this week?   
they have a lot of the older TV shows. 
 

[Fae Briona]

47 minutes ago, Starrynight22 said:

Hello all. 

Its miserable here with temp at 92F but with the sky high humidity the feel is 103. I dread my electric bill next month. But not enough to suffer so it'll stay 71 in here.  

I'm making pickle batch #3 today.  The first were strong and too salty. Second were not quite right, a bit too sweet but very crunchy as I prefer.  

Weather sounds familiar -- 93F, 54% humidity, and a heat index of 105F; but it's July, and could be a lot worse.

Second batch of pickles sounds pretty good to me. I like sweet and crunchy pickles.

[Starrynight22]

2 hours ago, Fae Briona said:

Weather sounds familiar -- 93F, 54% humidity, and a heat index of 105F; but it's July, and could be a lot worse.

Second batch of pickles sounds pretty good to me. I like sweet and crunchy pickles.

I'm 4 days I'll report back on batch3

 

You might think with as much as I whine about hot weather I didn't spend almost my entire life without AC  in my home. 

Even growing up in Florida we rarely had a place with functioning AC, then again I grew up really poor. 

[MichaelS36]

5 minutes ago, Starrynight22 said:

I'm 4 days I'll report back on batch3

 

You might think with as much as I whine about hot weather I didn't spend almost my entire life without AC  in my home. 

Even growing up in Florida we rarely had a place with functioning AC, then again I grew up really poor. 

My parents never had A/C.  We used lots of fans.  Especially box fans in the windows upstairs to blow the hot air out.  But even when I was a kid, the weather wasn't like it is now. 

[Reader1810]

11 minutes ago, MichaelS36 said:

My parents never had A/C.  We used lots of fans.  Especially box fans in the windows upstairs to blow the hot air out.  But even when I was a kid, the weather wasn't like it is now. 

We didn’t either. I can still picture the fan I had when I was a kid. Not exactly meeting child safety standards is it? 

 Weren’t the 60s and 70s grand?  

[Ashi]

On 7/17/2020 at 1:18 PM, Mikiesboy said:

Gotta be careful with that sword.  Queen looks happy that day. 

[Ashi]

1 minute ago, Reader1810 said:

We didn’t either. I can still picture the fan I had when I was a kid. Not exactly meeting child safety standards is it? 

 Weren’t the 60s and 70s grand?  

It wasn't looking exactly like this, but I vaguely remember my mom had to constantly swat my hand off the fan guard.

[Reader1810]

1 minute ago, Ashi said:

It wasn't looking exactly like this, but I vaguely remember my mom had to constantly swat my hand off the fan guard.

Fan guard, what’s that?   jk...

What you see is what I had. Mine didn’t have anything remotely resembling a guard. 

[Ashi]

6 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

Fan guard, what’s that?   jk...

I suppose you don't know what's an *ss protector, either.

Spoiler

Just in case....  It's that piece of paper you put on top of the public toilet. 

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by Ashi

[mollyhousemouse]

37 minutes ago, MichaelS36 said:

My parents never had A/C.  We used lots of fans.  Especially box fans in the windows upstairs to blow the hot air out.  But even when I was a kid, the weather wasn't like it is now. 

very much the same at our house Michael Sir
we had fans in the downstairs windows to pull air in, and in the upstairs windows facing out. we also had this really loud attic fan. there was a hatch that Dad would crack open, and then the noise would start!
 

 

21 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

We didn’t either. I can still picture the fan I had when I was a kid. Not exactly meeting child safety standards is it? 

 Weren’t the 60s and 70s grand?  

that's kinda scary looking!

[Ashi]

8 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

that's kinda scary looking!

It is..., that's how they make Soylent Green.

[kbois]

48 minutes ago, Starrynight22 said:

Even growing up in Florida we rarely had a place with functioning AC, then again I grew up really poor. 

I gotta give you props...I nearly melted just getting my mom from the car to the house (it's all of 20 shuffling old lady steps)

 

44 minutes ago, MichaelS36 said:

My parents never had A/C.  We used lots of fans.  Especially box fans in the windows upstairs to blow the hot air out.  But even when I was a kid, the weather wasn't like it is now. 

We had a/c but my dad would shut it off at night, so it was windows opened wide with noisy fans all night. I still can't sleep without a fan going!

 

27 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

We didn’t either. I can still picture the fan I had when I was a kid. Not exactly meeting child safety standards is it? 

 Weren’t the 60s and 70s grand?  

That looks exactly like the one my Grandma had!😂 Not complete without electrical tape wrapped around the frayed cord. 🤦‍♀️How the hell did we survive?

[Ashi]

4 minutes ago, kbois said:

That looks exactly like the one my Grandma had!😂 Not complete without electrical tape wrapped around the frayed cord. 🤦‍♀️How the hell did we survive?

Yup.  LOL.  I think ours was with electric tape also....  LOL.  And old fashioned hair blower..., which probably weighs a ton, and you can smell your burning hair.

[Reader1810]

13 minutes ago, kbois said:

I gotta give you props...I nearly melted just getting my mom from the car to the house (it's all of 20 shuffling old lady steps)

 

We had a/c but my dad would shut it off at night, so it was windows opened wide with noisy fans all night. I still can't sleep without a fan going!

 

That looks exactly like the one my Grandma had!😂 Not complete without electrical tape wrapped around the frayed cord. 🤦‍♀️How the hell did we survive?

Not sure if you’re of the generation @Carlos Hazday speaks of in this blog, but it’s how we survived, so I thought I’d share this little gem - written almost five years ago - with you all.  

 

 

[kbois]

4 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

Not sure if you’re of the generation @Carlos Hazday speaks of in this blog, but it’s how we survived, so I thought I’d share this little gem - written almost five years ago - with you all.  

 

 

My entire childhood summed up in bullet points! Thanks for sharing Reader! 

[kbois]

16 minutes ago, Ashi said:

Yup.  LOL.  I think ours was with electric tape also....  LOL.  And old fashioned hair blower..., which probably weighs a ton, and you can smell your burning hair.

Between the hair dryer and the curling iron we'd cover up the burnt hair smell with half a can of Aquanet🤣

[Reader1810]

7 minutes ago, kbois said:

My entire childhood summed up in bullet points! Thanks for sharing Reader! 

Mine too.  

[Ashi]

1 minute ago, Reader1810 said:

Mine too.  

Yup, and my diaper was made of cheese clothe.  And they said you shouldn't let kids suck on pacifiers because....  Well, just because I turned out to be gay.... 

[Mikiesboy]

Good night friends ...  get some rest when you go xoxxo