ChasUFarley

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Yes this is still on... Weather here is getting cool and crisp at night, and with highs in the upper 60's during the day. Just perfect! C'mon over!

It's Friday night.... what the hey...

**el bump-o** This is still on....

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I got to see Youngbloods in Hippie Fest a couple of years ago - it a excellent. Great song! Check out the movie "1969" sometime - it's got that song in the soundtrack but even better - it's littered with GREAT music from 1969! The PLOT: In 1969, two best friends, Ralph Karr (Robert Downey Jr.) and Scott Denny (Kiefer Sutherland) live in a stuffy, upper-middle class suburban town in Maryland at the offset of the Vietnam War, and are both in college. While Scott's brother Alden enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war. Scott's attitude alienates him from his father Cliff and he and Ralph decide to spend the summer on the road, living out of their van and experiencing all the freedom the counterculture has to offer. Various events lead them back to town where they learn of the death of Alden. This event proves to be the catalyst needed to bridge the gap between father and son and enlightens them both to the true cost of the war. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Anybody got a match?

I don't know if this is something just new to our area or if it's a trend or what but... Has anyone else tried this kind of yogurt: There's some other labels - but it's all this super-creamy, thick yogurt with sweet toppings like honey, plums, blackberries, strawberries... the texture is like a light cream cheese.... It's soooooooo good! Anyone tried it?? As you can tell, I recommend it!

PLAF? Would you like some rice with that "p-laf"? (Just funnin' with ya!)

Life is a complete waste of time.

Very cool! You earned serious good karma points with that one!!

I just had an eargasm... Man... Check this cat out: http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/andy+timmons+band The Tone Gods blessed this guy tremendously... This isn't great but it will give you an idea... The recordings are better - if you're into Pandora, program his name into your fav guitar station and rock on...

Uh... yah... sure.... *=SPLAT! =* (Chas lobs some mashed taters....)

That's not the whole story... something about air samples from the trunk of her car that tested positive for a decomposing body being present there at some point.... Sorry, she's nuttier than squirrel poo and needs to be locked up - for good.

That site must be run by Dr. Bronner's illegitimate son or something... the rantings are "interesting" at best! (Those of you on staff or in the WC remember who Dr. Bronner was, right?)

Like the old philosophical saying, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" :unsure: I say, "If you start your own thread and kill it in your parent post, do you still have a thread?"

She just got re-arrested. Book 'em, Dan-o. And throw away the key!

I am "The Artist"... followed by a tie of "Thinker" and "Leader" and then "The Motivator" - and everything else was a zero or lower!

I don't know if I'm right about everything - LOL. My husband ceratinly wouldn't agree with that one.... but I've spent a lot of time learning about it because I quit my job three years ago so I could stay home with the kids. Hubby hasn't had a pay increase in three years, so we're surviving on what he was making in 2004. This summer, my mission was to find the best heating alternative I could and to get Hubby on board with the idea so we could implement it before December. Hundreds of hours later, looking at heating alternatives, etc., I learned that we're better off weather proofing the house and cutting expenses in other areas than trying to introduce a secondary heating source. It sounds simple but I had to explore all the options until I believed it. I also took time to talk with several people in the business - they all confirmed what I had found. At least, that's the market and what works for my neck of the woods....

Has anyone been following The Tudors on Showtime? I've been watching it - it's far from being historically accurate but it is well written and darn entertaining. If you can get past the blurring of the facts about the history of England, it's very good. (But very NOT for children!) I downloaded season 1 from iTunes and am waiting patiently (not really...) for season 2.

Hi Fin, You're welcome to post your questions here. I've often asked for advice on various things here with my kids (I have a 7 y/o and a 3 y/o.) Folks have been very helpful, in my opinion. Peace, -Krista

The fact we use heating oil or any other substance - wood, etc. - is more based on history and cost effectiveness (past cost effectiveness, that is) than it is on desire to not do anything. Looking at alternatives now is more costly because EVERYONE is scared that they won't be able to heat their home this winter and they are all looking for alternatives. The price of pellet stoves, wood stoves, etc. has greatly increased and the price of a cord of wood has gone up a good $100 in just two years! If no one desired to change, then we'd still all be burning wood or coal, at least here in NH. The problem is that because no one can truly predict what the market will do, then it makes it hard to make the best choice. Personally, I'd go geo-thermal in a heartbeat - if I had land enough and wasn't sitting on a huge ledge of granite. We couldn't afford the digging and it would take about ten years to pay for itself - we'd be looking at over $20K just to dig. Let me clarify - propane (LP) is processed here in the USA and not something we have to import. The price of it in my area is about $2.70/gal and it's seen only about a $0.60 increase from last year. This is because demand has increased. Fossil fuels are now being questioned as to whether or not they're really fossil fuels. There are scientists who believe that it is not a resource that we will deplete nor that it came from dinosaurs. The price increase we're seeing now is due to a "perfect storm" of factors, starting with hurricane Katrina, the loss of the value in the US Dollar, the increased demand in China and other competing countries for fuel, and the lack of refineries to process the product. Add in the taxes that each state places on the products and there's your increases.

Bamboo, although a renewable resource, would still need to be processed, chopped and formed to pellets. I haven't heard of this being used but I do know that in some areas people are using corn, peach pits, olive pits, etc. as fuel. In my area, there's a guy who is looking into growing a certain type of grass that can be harvested, chopped and formed. He estimates that it can be harvested twice a summer and is looking for people to share crop this product along with him. He's working on determining the BTU's that a ton can produce and the efficiency of the product. If I can find their website, I'll provide a link for you. If his experiment proves to work out, this could be answer to the problem of sourcing pellets. Right now, a ton of pellets is $280 in my area. We've looked into the whole heating oil vs. pellet stove vs. propane stove (Rinnai), etc. option. At this time, we've decided that heating oil is still the most efficient and we belong to an energy co-op so we're getting our oil at dealer's cost plus $0.33/gal. We have tightened up the house quite a bit and seen a difference just in the insulated storm doors, extra weather stripping, thermal drapes, thermal window film and other small changes we've made. We keep the thermostat at 58 degrees during the day and dress in layers. Last winter, even with all the snow and constant winter (no thaws) we used just 500 gal of heating oil. We also placed a sunroom on the south side of the house - we did a couple of years ago - but on a sunny winter day, the sunroom heats up to about 75 degrees and I open the door from the sunroom into the house and place a fan at the door of the sunroom to direct the warm air into the house.

He's a guy.... do you really think he's gonna ask directions??? :blink: By the way, you can't cook and eat a dead lobster or clam - at least, not one that's been dead for a few hours. They release ammonia and other chemicals in the body when they die that makes them unfit for human consumption (in other words, you'll get sick as a dog!) In this area, in the local supermarkets, if you see a cooked lobster wrapped like meat (on a styrofoam plate, covered in plastic) and in the cooler area to be sold, then it's likely that it died either that day or during the evening. I never, ever buy cooked lobsters for that reason!

Annndddddd we have a winnah! Your turn....

There was a time when I was so broken hearted Love wasn't much of a friend of mine