Bill_G, retired, affluence of effluent, and errata

[bill_g]

Just a thought if you have a nearby Community Theater group the may be interested in the Hoover (or other things) for use as a prop or set dressing.

:out-of-the-box-thinking:

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Hmm ....

Yeah. My husband had two tuxes. I didn't give them to Goodwill as I think a theater group might be interested.

Our office used to be across the street from the Oregon Ballet Theater craft shop where they built sets et al. They would borrow our forklift, or come for our help with some electrics. I have contacts, but they may no longer be there.

[northland10]

:out-of-the-box-thinking:

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Hmm ....

Yeah. My husband had two tuxes. I didn't give them to Goodwill as I think a theater group might be interested.

Our office used to be across the street from the Oregon Ballet Theater craft shop where they built sets et al. They would borrow our forklift, or come for our help with some electrics. I have contacts, but they may no longer be there.

Don't take offense if you get a polite no. Theater groups have to always deal with the lack of storage spaces.

On a related note, if you were to try and donate a vacuum to my parish, you would be cast into the pit where there id great weeping and gnashing if teeth.

NO MORE VACUUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bill_g]

Don't take offense if you get a polite no. Theater groups have to always deal with the lack of storage spaces.

On a related note, if you were to try and donate a vacuum to my parish, you would be cast into the pit where there id great weeping and gnashing if teeth.

NO MORE VACUUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me restate that - the saber saw is my best option.

[sugar magnolia]

Yeah. My husband had two tuxes. I didn't give them to Goodwill as I think a theater group might be interested.

Our office used to be across the street from the Oregon Ballet Theater craft shop where they built sets et al. They would borrow our forklift, or come for our help with some electrics. I have contacts, but they may no longer be there.

Don't take offense if you get a polite no. Theater groups have to always deal with the lack of storage spaces.

On a related note, if you were to try and donate a vacuum to my parish, you would be cast into the pit where there id great weeping and gnashing if teeth.

NO MORE VACUUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty sure all non-profits are in the same position.
Would any of you like a very heavy, bulky, hand made, huge floor loom with no assembly instructions for weaving? We've had them donated (and turned down donations) and we can't even give them away.

[northland10]

Pretty sure all non-profits are in the same position.
Would any of you like a very heavy, bulky, hand made, huge floor loom with no assembly instructions for weaving? We've had them donated (and turned down donations) and we can't even give them away.

Yep. The camp I worked at had a bunch of mowers but only one or two even worked. We also had to large boxes of phones, but they were for a Centrex system or something similar. They were hardly interchangeable with the simple setup at the camp. I guess we were not allowed to say no when somebody came with crap.

[pipistrelle]

Don't take offense if you get a polite no. Theater groups have to always deal with the lack of storage spaces.

On a related note, if you were to try and donate a vacuum to my parish, you would be cast into the pit where there id great weeping and gnashing if teeth.

NO MORE VACUUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me restate that - the saber saw is my best option.

If you left it out here, it’d be gone in five minutes.

[Reddog]

Yeah, im close to killing the landline too. I just need to train my sisters to call the mobile instead.

I’m late to this thread, but I recently went through almost exactly the same situation.
We cancelled cable years ago because of unrelenting price increases. Since then we’ve had aDSL with a landline number we have had for probably 40 years.
Fiber came through, so we converted. Numbers almost identical to Bill’s except 200/200 on lowest tier. We still have antenna in the attic so we could get by without streaming.
One thing we did different was the landline (originally POTS, then through aDSL), we had the number ported to a cheap carrier (tello) for $6.00 a month. The reason, (I rationalize), is that there were still several contacts that only had that number. Some of the contacts were distant family and friends. Others were various businesses/utilities e.g. blood donation that would call the house and not bother our cell phone. Too, also some registrations require a phone number, we give our old house phone number. I like it like that. We get very few spam calls on my cellphone, and we can ignore house phone for the most part.

[sugar magnolia]

Don't take offense if you get a polite no. Theater groups have to always deal with the lack of storage spaces.

On a related note, if you were to try and donate a vacuum to my parish, you would be cast into the pit where there id great weeping and gnashing if teeth.

NO MORE VACUUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me restate that - the saber saw is my best option.

If you left it out here, it’d be gone in five minutes.

We have a perfectly good dryer (except the timer buzzer doesn't work) that has been sitting on out curb since Friday. My husband even put a sign on it that says "works" and nobody has even slowed down. I'm going to be reduced to putting it on NextDoor so the trash doesn't pick it up in the morning.

[bbflatt]

Usually around here, nothing gets picked up unless it has value as scrap metal. A dryer would likely last less than an hour.

[MN-Skeptic]

It's hard to complain when people are trying to do the right thing. You own something that you no longer need but it's in perfectly good shape - electronics, furniture, appliances, etc. - so you want it give it to someone who needs it. But tastes change, systems evolve, etc. No one wants your perfectly good hand-me-downs. My youngest sister took Mom's lovely china and silverware. Younger generations no longer want those things. I have a beautiful Scandinavian cabinet for stereo & other equipment. I'll try to give it away, but at 36" wide, it's too narrow for current televisions.

[bill_g]

Pretty sure all non-profits are in the same position.
Would any of you like a very heavy, bulky, hand made, huge floor loom with no assembly instructions for weaving? We've had them donated (and turned down donations) and we can't even give them away.

That's what I fear when considering The Doll House. It's bigger than 2ft x 2ft x 2ft with a pitched roof, a porch, and a bit of a widow's walk on the third floor built on a laquered plywood board. She wanted it. We bought it. I built it. She painted it. She decorated it. She spent weeks playing with it. She lost interest before putting doll people in it, but not before making curtains, tiny little seat pads, table cloths, and rugs. She put a lot of effort into it, and then *CLICK* - no more. Done. Not interesting anymore.

It slowly made its way from the dinner table, to a display table, to a cherished location in the guest bedroom, and ultimately banished to the third bedroom "slash" storeroom. As my sister and I dug through the layers early last May, that corner was revealed offering the first glimpse in perhaps a decade.

It's a work of art. It's a piece of crap. Nobody will want this. I should just get a burn barrel now. I'm going to need it.

I'm still in search of a third sewing machine, and a serger. They're in there someplace. There is interest in those items, but not in old vaccums, or her half finished craft projects.

[sugar magnolia]

Pretty sure all non-profits are in the same position.
Would any of you like a very heavy, bulky, hand made, huge floor loom with no assembly instructions for weaving? We've had them donated (and turned down donations) and we can't even give them away.

That's what I fear when considering The Doll House. It's bigger than 2ft x 2ft x 2ft with a pitched roof, a porch, and a bit of a widow's walk on the third floor built on a laquered plywood board. She wanted it. We bought it. I built it. She painted it. She decorated it. She spent weeks playing with it. She lost interest before putting doll people in it, but not before making curtains, tiny little seat pads, table cloths, and rugs. She put a lot of effort into it, and then *CLICK* - no more. Done. Not interesting anymore.

It slowly made its way from the dinner table, to a display table, to a cherished location in the guest bedroom, and ultimately banished to the third bedroom "slash" storeroom. As my sister and I dug through the layers early last May, that corner was revealed offering the first glimpse in perhaps a decade.

It's a work of art. It's a piece of crap. Nobody will want this. I should just get a burn barrel now. I'm going to need it.

I'm still in search of a third sewing machine, and a serger. They're in there someplace. There is interest in those items, but not in old vaccums, or her half finished craft projects.

I relate to this. My dad built a doll house when my oldest daughter was born. Then he added electricity. Then wood floors and wallpaper and light switches and baseboards and chandeliers, wainscoting and, and, and.......
He wanted a cedar shake roof on it because it was Victorian but he didn't want that cheesy, easy to find embossed "fake shake" wood roof. Nope. He hand cut and set each one. As he did the individual bricks, inside and out, on 3 floors of the fireplaces and chimneys. Each one painstakingly painted just a shade or tone different than the one next to it, and then mortar of course. And real porcelain tub, sinks and toilet. After spending days (weeks?) researching the colors and patterns and all that, he started painting it, got 90% through with it and just....stopped. He even got the damn thing a special table to sit on. It has a drawer full of the bits and pieces of electrical, window and door glass, all sorts of minutia that he was obsessed with. He painted model train people right down to the color of their eyes.

When my daughter was about 8, she commented that she would be a dinosaur before he finished it. She'll be 40 in January and she was right. He never did finish it. It now sits on the special house table in my youngest daughter's living room.

[bill_g]

One of the commentariots from Oregon3000 took his wife's ashes to Hawaii this week to return her home. I offered him a Mrs_G teeshirt a few weeks ago at our recent O3K picnic without knowing of his planned trip. He wore it at their family ceremony up on Kilauea. I'm both humbled and delighted.

[p0rtia]

How wonderful!

[Slim Cognito]

[bill_g]

Happy Fourth everyone. I just made fresh cherry cordial. Neeners!
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A neighbor brought over a bunch of fresh black cherries from their tree yesterday. I stemmed them, rinsed them, and boiled them for a half hour in water until the skins peeled back. I left the pits in. I cored and quartered an apple, chunked it, and added it to the pot. Half cup of sugar. Quarter cup of lemon juice. A smidge of salt. And a short stick of cinnamon. Let it stand on the burner until it stopped boiling on it's own. Ran it through our super fine woven stainless steel wire conical sieve. Smooshed it good until the pulp was pretty dry. Sterilized six half cup jars and lids. Brought the simple syrup back to a boil. Ladled it into five and 3/4 jars. Setting the lids with inversion method.

I'll share it with the neighbors tonight.

[AndyinPA]

Yum!

[sugar magnolia]

I love black cherries in any form. Cherry bounce may be my favorite though.

[bill_g]

I love black cherries in any form. Cherry bounce may be my favorite though.

I considered that, and may still do it. I certainly have the jars, and it's high season for cherries.

Yum!

It was good. I thinned mine down with some Port, cranberry juice and water.

[bill_g]

Our local weather report is HOT. The heat dome may revisit. That wasn't fun the last time it was here. I'll get some watering done this morning just to stay ahead of it. I'm putting out water buckets for the critters too. The AC is already set for 75F. Heavy drapes already closed. I should get the oregano harvested, and the comfrey cut back.

[MsDaisy 2]

Happy Fourth everyone. I just made fresh cherry cordial. Neeners!
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A neighbor brought over a bunch of fresh black cherries from their tree yesterday. I stemmed them, rinsed them, and boiled them for a half hour in water until the skins peeled back. I left the pits in. I cored and quartered an apple, chunked it, and added it to the pot. Half cup of sugar. Quarter cup of lemon juice. A smidge of salt. And a short stick of cinnamon. Let it stand on the burner until it stopped boiling on it's own. Ran it through our super fine woven stainless steel wire conical sieve. Smooshed it good until the pulp was pretty dry. Sterilized six half cup jars and lids. Brought the simple syrup back to a boil. Ladled it into five and 3/4 jars. Setting the lids with inversion method.

I'll share it with the neighbors tonight.

I do a lot of canning too, jams, tomatoes, green beans & such, but why do you turn your jars inside down?

[bill_g]

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I do a lot of canning too, jams, tomatoes, green beans & such, but why do you turn your jars inside down?

Inversion method to seal the lids.

Rather than pressure cooking, I pour hot product into warmed sterialized jars, place a boiled hot lid on, screw down the ring tightly, and invert the jar for at least a half hour. You right the jars when they are cooled enough to hold in your hand. Now you just wait for the lids to snap meaning the vacume has formed successfully.

[bill_g]

Well, I enjoyed the cherry cordial so much, I made more with blueberries this time. A lot of different fruits are coming on right now, and there are blueberries aplenty. I had a fresh pint on hand, and at least two in the freezer from last year that I never prepared. Poured them altogether in a pot, two cups of water, lemon juice, half stick of cinnamon, a whole apple cored and chunked, half cup of sugar, pinch of salt, and we were off to the races.

This was going to be another small batch. Rather than making a big pot of boiling water to dip the jars in to sterilize, I filled them with water, arranged them in a plastic Pampered Chef pot, and microwaved them for 8 minutes until they were boiling. I always wanted to try that, but Mrs was adamant about using the big ass pot of boiling water method. And when we had big batches, it got sweaty in the kitchen. With this method they were ready in 8 minutes, used less than 3 cups of water, and zero stove space.

Thinking about this, I may be able to make batches of jams this way.

[keith]

Don't forget Summer Pudding!

Or Stephanie Alexander's version (famous Aussie Chef)

There are many versions on the web, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, etc. They are all roughly the same - just choose your own fruit mix and go for it.

[MsDaisy 2]

We have a big farm just a couple miles down the road from us that has the sweetest sweet corn you’ve ever had. I’ve canned lots of stuff in my life but never corn. I read that corn is canned best in a pressure canner and I do pressure can some stuff but I’ve never canned corn at all. I guess I always thought of that summer sweet corn as something that you just had to wait for, deferred gratification and all that but I think I am going to give it a go this year.

My mom grew up a country girl and canned loads of stuff every year but she never to my recollection used a pressure canner. I do remember one year she canned a bunch of applesauce. We had a finished basement with a big cupboard under the stairs where she had her pantry with lots of shelves and put all her canned goods including the apple sauce. I don’t know what she did wrong (I was probably about 11 at the time) but every damn jar of that apple sauce exploded and made one hell of a mess. My dad and I helped her clean it all up but we both had a hell of a hard time not laughing as she cussed a bloody blue streak about it. She never canned applesauce again after that.