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Garages over tighten lug nuts because they can't afford customer's wheels coming off. It's bad for the car to overtighten, but they are more afraid of accident liability than having to replace a brake disc or stripped stud. That's why you need to jump on a wrench sometimes.

I have a real coffee, but interesting little side discussion.
 
Thus we lug along ... some of us luddites ... common labour that carries out the crap assigned whether is is reason or not ... its the rule!

Seems there is a lot of senseless protocol these days ... as intelligence is eliminated ... review the Law Books ...
 
chansen said:
Garages over tighten lug nuts because they can't afford customer's wheels coming off. It's bad for the car to overtighten, but they are more afraid of accident liability than having to replace a brake disc or stripped stud. That's why you need to jump on a wrench sometimes.

I have a real coffee, but interesting little side discussion.
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Side discussions can take one into curious unknowns ... thus that woman was told not to speak to a man so she figured some other way MOG can that happen aside ... out there ... far side? Imagine going that far ...
 
Warm here. Off next week and it's supposed to be a scorcher this time next week. Not sure if happy about that.
 
Cooler today than yesterday. Risk of a shower or storm in the afternoon. At least my mower worked long enough to get the lawn done yesterday. Had it serviced and tuned up in May and it worked find until yesterday. Now it sounds weird and stops starting after a while. Still seems to be cutting okay.
 
Good morning. It's dreary and wet here. I'm waiting for my doctor to call for a phone appointment. It's just routine. Then I'll be going to my former hairdresser for a much needed cut. We'll have a couple visits then leave tomorrow for points west of here.
 
Yay for AC! I grew up without it. Had to leave the windows open at night in hot weather and even that didn't always help. And we had to listen to the neighbours who were out by the pool until all hours (my window faced their place). My parents finally got central AC the year I moved out ... to an unairconditioned bachelor pad.:rolleyes:
 
Before my childhood home got central AC, we had about 3 big box fans to move air around. One advantage was the steady ‘white noise’ they produced, effectively covering over any noise from outside
 
Redbaron said:
Before my childhood home got central AC, we had about 3 big box fans to move air around. One advantage was the steady ‘white noise’ they produced, effectively covering over any noise from outside
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No amount of white noise could have hidden my neighbours' parties. :rolleyes:
 
Hottest day of the year so far here today. I watered a few pots, will have to do more later (or will get Chemguy to do it is a strong probably, the mosquitos were pretty bad yesterday).
 
Extremely pleasant here. A perfect 22 or so, with a light breeze most of the day. Rained quite heavily overnight, so no watering needed.
 
It took 28 hours for my PCR test to come back ( negative) so I went to work at 1 pm. Good to know my symptoms just were my usual allergies. Since the weekend was messed up by isolating, I took my house guest out to Drive-in bingo the Lions put on- and I won the first time! $125, shared among us. I got her hooked on bingo now.
The Lions do a lot of good things with the money in the community.
 
Sounds like a nice celebration for a little more freedom, Mrs. A.!

I'm a bit exhausted already this week (is it only Tuesday?) VBC, and I'm Snack Lady, which I have helped with but never been in charge of. So far, there has been some trauma (unexpected for me, no oven or stove access at the church), but also some great help. Two of my favorite older ladies (one, a former colleague from work, the other, a distant relative of my late husband), neither terribly well, came to help in the kitchen and with registration, so I've been getting all caught up with both of them. And it's been lovely to see former campers as counsellors, and I have GREAT help in the kitchen from a really cool kid. Grand-kid of a long time member of congregation, dead-name Hannah, new name Maxx (I haven't quite got their pronouns), but terrific little baker. Yesterday, produced 3 batches of great sugar cookie dough from notes scribbled on the edge of an envelope (literally, amounts of ingredients, oven temp and time, in my tiny scrawl). Today, after I, yesterday, cut out, baked (long story; this was the trauma) and royal-iced the resulting cookies, Maxx patiently made treasure maps on each of them with black glitter paths and red icing "X"s. Kids loved them.

Tomorrow's theme snack is ants on a log, which won't be all that popular, so I'm glamping up the fruit (putting pineapple and bananas on little skewers and sprinkling with demerera sugar) and adding generic purchased cookies. (There's method to my madness. The theme is treasure island, and God's love is... So Monday, we had heart shaped red jello jigglers (god's love), today was the treasure map, tomorrow is the logs to make the boat to sail for the treasure, Thursday is the boat (sailboats shaped from rice krispie squares, licorice strip masts and fruit roll up sails), and Friday is the treasure (chocolate coconut clusters with a treasure in the centre). This is a lot like work, LOL...
 
Okay Bette - this is the ultra cool snack station you're running! I did 2 days of afternoon snack for the Music Camp at church last week - absolutely nothing like what you're doing! Mini carrots (me- open bag & pile on platter); cucumber (me - slice some into rounds, some into sticks - to my surprise these were more popular than the carrots & rounds beat sticks!); dump bag of cheese strings pkgs into a bowl; dump crackers into a bowl & add serving tongs! Put granola bars into a basket for serving ... not to difficult!
 
Agreed. But unfortunately, I have a precedent-setter to keep up with. Fortunately, he (Snack Jack) has been helping from behind scenes, having withdrawn from being the face of it. I come up with the ideas, he helps two or three days with baking/construction ingredients.
 
Greetings! From lug nuts to weather, PCR tests and VBS-VBC-VB? snacks planning and execution, and air conditioning and white noise, the conversation flows like water. Some of the flowing water has been brewed into coffee and boiled for tea. Gather 'round the coffee cart, for continuing conversation and community.

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BetteTheRed said:
Agreed. But unfortunately, I have a precedent-setter to keep up with. Fortunately, he (Snack Jack) has been helping from behind scenes, having withdrawn from being the face of it. I come up with the ideas, he helps two or three days with baking/construction ingredients.
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Great way for someone to be actively contributing to life of the community, and doing so without having to leave home. These are important opportunities IMO.
 
Yesterday, I watched my great niece and nephew for the day. I have a friend on social media who runs a day care and she always posts what amazing things they are doing each day. I decided not to post one amazing thing we did yesterday: We picked potato bugs off the potato plants in the garden! Kind of gross, but they really enjoyed getting rid of those little invaders!
 
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