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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    Yesterday I went to a garage sale in Selma, Ore., due to old electronics being mentioned in the ad. Ad had wrong address and I wound up in a ditch on a rural road trying to find it. The guy living at that wrong address dragged me out with his 1967 Chevy pickup.
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    That was some good luck. I would have been a mess after that.
    oregano
    oregano
    If he hadn't had oxygen tanks delivered just as I was figuring out how to get out of the ditch, I and my mom (shared card) would have been out 4 big benjamins. (Non-US folx: the $100 bill has Benjamin Franklin on it.) He didn't seem to use oxygen so I presume it was his SO.
    oregano
    oregano
    By then all of the people who had showed up at 9am had driven off. I follow the guy's directions and the sellers are just hanging a SALE sign on their open gate. This was around 9:45. *sigh*
    oregano
    The view from my house at 7:20am on 7 December.

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    oregano
    oregano
    Ugh, I meant 7 FEBRUARY! Yesterday morning. I've really been out of it the last couple days, I've been mixing up December and February for some weird reason. I also have trouble remembering my return date. Sheesh!
    oregano
    Redding is the closest newspaper owned by the owner of the former local paper. They did a handful of stories for the latter out of the Redding newsroom til it just shut down. I cannot cancel online.
    oregano
    The local newspaper was sold and then shut down by the new owners. I am still paying $9.99/mo for website access. Tomorrow I will go to Redding and demand they stop charging me.
    oregano
    The town of Weed, around 40 miles south, exists because of the winds. A lumber company scout noted that the constant southerly winds would dry out lumber faster, and the area was dense with redwood pines. The company built a sawmill and town named after the scout-Abner Weed.
    oregano
    The wind is horrible here right now. 40 mph sustained with 60 mph gusts. It's been howling since around 10:30am local time yesterday. Every so often it shakes my home. Common up here, but takes getting used to.
    oregano
    Got a spare key for my Kia made for half the cost of the dealer bc the salesman who sold me the car is drinking buddies with a guy who owns a mobile key cutting franchise.
    blue_bird
    blue_bird
    I have to get a key card done. The prices for these things from dealerships are ridiculous.
    oregano
    Eurythmics | Here Comes The Rain Again (1984):


    I absolutely love this song when it rains, which is less and less thanks to climate collapse. It is raining today and tomorrow here though.
    oregano
    I have a mouse in my house, and he's being mousy. Fortunately he's stuffed so he won't eat my food.

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    oregano
    oregano
    @Misty Avich: in America "stuffed" can mean "eaten so much food that he can't move". I know you are not American, so it means something different.
    oregano
    oregano
    @Aspychata: I had a family of voles in my house in late 2022, they are mice only bigger. There were 1 male, 2 female, and 2 babies. I caught the male with a glue trap but then had to use snap traps for his paramours. I didn't find the babies until later. This plushie looks almost just like the voles.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Maybe l had a vole, it was big, and had a tail like a rat. It sounded my furniture was moving around at night, it was so loud. It was the size of three mice.
    oregano
    Ate the pumpkin pie, surprisingly good for a Walmart item. No room in my tummy for the stuffing though.
    oregano
    Fortunately Raley's (the local full service grocery store) was open for a few hours so I was able to get a precooked turkey breast. My mom is actually offering to put a little money towards a new generator now.
    oregano
    The local hawks and vultures had a half cooked turkey for Thanksgiving. :mad:
    :(:rolleyes: Of course the cheap old generator I have to use won't restart after refueling.
    oregano
    My mom will have a half dozen people with her, and my uncle has some chef training, so he will supervise cooking the turkey and tell my aunt how to prep stuffing and potatoes and the rest. They all really like each other so they always have a great Thanksgiving.
    oregano
    My generator will likely only have enough gas tank capability to run the oven for 40min or so, but the turkey will have to cook for twice that. I will have to switch it off halfway through, refuel it, and pray that it restarts.
    oregano
    The family members were cordial to each other, so it at least wasn't like some families where they yell and/or get passive aggressive at each other. But my dad would keep telling me, get in from the yard, sit down, and have a conversation with us, you owe it to us.
    oregano
    Bought a frozen turkey breast @ Safeway, heat-and-eat stuffing @ Rays (local supermarket chain), small pumpkin pie from Walmart of all places. Ready for a solo Thanksgiving, and am thankful for a solo Thanksgiving. I always hated Thanksgiving as a kid. I would be forced by my dad to participate in family conversations, which I hated.
    oregano
    is hating the fact that I haven't been able to get started on providing my own food due to my mouth issues. I wasn't able to harvest acorns this year, and now I see the oaks going into hibernation while driving to Yreka.
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    oregano
    oregano
    @tree: to prep acorns, you take off the "cap" then use a small hammer or rock to break the acorn into four pieces. (It does so naturally, you don't pound it.) Then you have to take off the hard outer shell with a knife.
    oregano
    oregano
    Then you have to mash down the inside nutmeat, in precolonizer times the Indigenes would use a mortar and pestle system, today everybody simply uses a blender. Then you cook the resulting mash with water until the bitter "tannin" is all leached out.
    oregano
    oregano
    Then you drain off the tannin-infused water. Then put the acorn meal in a bowl, grab a spoon, and bon appetit.
    oregano
    I got an email from an Ebay posting of mine asking if I was near "Phoenix". At first I said no, then I thought that he probably means the small town near Medford and not the big city. So I email again. After I send that, I look at the guy's profile. He's in Mesa, ARIZONA. I apologized. Sheesh I am stupid.
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    Slime_Punk
    If he can see your profile and that you're in another state, I'm going to say he's the one who needs to get it together. I would've assumed the same as you.
    oregano
    oregano
    I am selling a broken generator, the one that died last summer. My ad clearly says pickup only, and Ebay ads always list a seller's location. I clearly state in the ad that I can deliver along Interstate 5 between Eugene, Oregon, and Corning, California. Nobody can use a map anymore. Sheesh.
    oregano
    The best password manager is an index card box and a notepad. It is pretty difficult to hack, and costs very little. Paying through your butt for an online based password vault only to have it hacked and your social media accounts suddenly touting get rich scams is pretty stupid.
    Misty Avich
    Misty Avich
    Everything's best done on pen and paper. I miss those days.
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