The Island Of Misfit Chatters

I read that the brown on bananas has more good stuff in it than the rest. Never used to eat the brown parts but I do now. Our baker, before he lost his mind and moved to Florida, used to save the browned bananas for banana bread.

 

i don't understand...are you wiping and polishing the pledge or just leaving a coating of just spayed on pledge?

is there scent free pledge...that stuff is awful lemony snicket

 

Rolling... only the Lemon Pledge works so I'd assume the scent has something to do with it. And yeah... you coat the hell out of the underside of the furniture and then don't polish it in. Leave that coating. It'll last about six months and will be a 'no-spider' zone.

 

my baker moved to gd florida too....grew up with the 2 sons...we partied like no tomorrow...my dad would get them concert tickets and every week there would be a massive tray of baked goods on our step.....back when the baker deleivered


and yes i forgot...i also save completely blackened ones for banana bread

 

i am on a break from cutting trees down on the pheasantry property next door...owner just gave me half a dozen standing deads...a grop of 3 trees together with no room for the chain saw in between them...i had to climb up half way and tie them off so i could put a strain on the line with my truck...then i just back sawd them and pulled them over with te truck

i love using the truck to yank things

 

rotting bananas are gross

 

The loggers came and wanted to harvest some old growth on my mountains this year. I'm ashamed to admit that I actually considered it for a day or two. Lotta money. In the end, I told them that they could only take the trees that the storm had knocked down and they decided that they wanted all or nothing.

fk 'em. What they were really after were the old growth black walnut trees. And I'm sure they'd have clear cut and then said.. 'Oops'. Bastidges.

 

I slept in way too late by accident. Good thing I work a night shift today.

 

how many mountains do you have?....acreage?...i am thinking mountains are hectares?

 

I own the front half of two mountains.. my neighbor owns the back half. They call them the Ozark Mountains but they're really only very large hills. Whoever named them mountains hadn't ever seen the Rockies, apparently. Ours are tall enough to have a waterfall and produce some springs but you could climb them in half a day or less. Not really what I'd call mountains.

As for acreage... that's measured oddly here. The footprint of the mountains is about fifty acres. They don't count the land up the hill, if you get what I mean. I have no idea how much land that is. Doesn't matter. We keep it wild and forested anyway. The area we use to grow food and raise animals is about five acres, not counting the pond.

 

We do get the Wolf Spider in Europe, but I had thought it more of a spider that lived in the ground. Though our house is raised on slats and I know spiders would love under the house.. I just have never seen a wolf spider in the house but the bite describes what you say, big red lump except the ones on my finger aren't like this, they really blistered up and still quite red and inflamed looking, but not itchy anymore and also there is no pain. I would have thought I'd notice a wolf spider on my hands and on my face unless it was all while I sleep. My internal body heat does stay warm, almost too warm sometimes so naturally I'd be a good heat source to spiders and attract them, like I do pesky flies.

 

Your hands sound like a contact allergy like poison oak or some new cleaning chem that you recently started using. You can take otc Zantac, which is a stomach med that has a beneficial side-effect of inhibiting histamines that things like Benadryl don't touch. It's an H2 inhibitor and they'll hang a bag of the stuff in the ER for anaphylactic responses. If your hands get better after Zantac, then it isn't a bite, probably... it's an allergic reaction. If not.. then you won't have stomach acid for a day. win/win

Internet doctors are fun, ain't they?

 

That sounds like a beautiful place, BL.

 

It is, Aeri. We looked for a long time to find a place with every thing on our list of 'must-have'. The year-round springs were at the top of the list.

 

That is what a brilliant doc finally put me on when I was having all the allegic reactions to foods. It got me off of prednisone that I'd been taking for months. I'm so glad that young doc knew to do that.

 

Yep... Zantac has saved my life more than once. I learned about it in the ER.. when even Epi pins did nothing. It's amazing to me that more people don't know about it... particularly docs.

 

i know i said this before but that ozark area of south missourri just before oklahoma was one of the nicest places ive seen away from home

to be fair i havent been too many places though ha

traveller I am not

 

I am a grocery bagger/cart pusher. Just started - only worked 5 days so far. I get paid $8.23/h.

Bagging groceries has a certain zen to it. It keeps you in the moment. Especially when bagging paper bags or reusable ones that stand up on their own. Real-life tetris.

Pushing carts can be frustrating, but it definitely kills time. I spent an hour and a half out there and it felt like nothing.

I love my job!

 

Well I've come to sticking a pin in one of them just to teach it who's boss. :d

 

if I could just uke: that would be swell..