OT - What are you doing right now?

WeberWho

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Costco Carries this.  It is a DELICIOUS and easy side if you don't want to buy and chop a bunch of stuff.  The kids can't stop eating it.  I am not a salad guy, but I think I could eat an entire bag in one sitting.

Another vote for the dill crack. Good stuff for sure. 

If I could offer one piece of advice, it would be to space out your consumption. Overeating such things is like listening to a song on repeat - it’s not long before you hate it. 

I don't know. I've tried to hate beef jerky by eating too much of it. My jaw gives out way before my stomach does. 

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Costco Carries this.  It is a DELICIOUS and easy side if you don't want to buy and chop a bunch of stuff.  The kids can't stop eating it.  I am not a salad guy, but I think I could eat an entire bag in one sitting.

Another vote for the dill crack. Good stuff for sure. 

If I could offer one piece of advice, it would be to space out your consumption. Overeating such things is like listening to a song on repeat - it’s not long before you hate it. 

Sounds like you’ve had more than your fair share of experience with tossing salad?

I thought I had been fairly clear that I endorsed the crack in my above post. 

nolaegghead

Tossing a salad usually involves (a) crack…

saluki2007

WeberWho said:

GrateEggspectations said:

kl8ton said:

Costco Carries this.  It is a DELICIOUS and easy side if you don't want to buy and chop a bunch of stuff.  The kids can't stop eating it.  I am not a salad guy, but I think I could eat an entire bag in one sitting.

Another vote for the dill crack. Good stuff for sure. 

If I could offer one piece of advice, it would be to space out your consumption. Overeating such things is like listening to a song on repeat - it’s not long before you hate it. 

I don't know. I've tried to hate beef jerky by eating too much of it. My jaw gives out way before my stomach does. 

kl8ton

I'm wishing I got out of some crypto a few days ago. 

JohnInCarolina

kl8ton said:

I'm wishing I got out of some crypto a few days ago. 

Just based on your forum pic, I'm assuming we're talking DogeCoin?  

ColtsFan

kl8ton said:

I'm wishing I got out of some crypto a few days ago. 

I love watching my ethereum and litecoin plummet. Kind of like my 401k...Great times

Mark_B_Good

ColtsFan said:

kl8ton said:

I'm wishing I got out of some crypto a few days ago. 

I love watching my ethereum and litecoin plummet. Kind of like my 401k...Great times

Be glad you're not in LUNA.

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

kl8ton said:

I'm wishing I got out of some crypto a few days ago. 

Just based on your forum pic, I'm assuming we're talking DogeCoin?  

Actually I have none.  Maybe it's doing better than the stuff I do have.  

Gulfcoastguy

I have every thing on charge:mower, car, phone. Afterwards I might cut grass.

ColbyLang

Gulfcoastguy said:

I have every thing on charge:mower, car, phone. Afterwards I might cut grass.

That’s just crazy talk, it’s hot in this bakery…..it got to be hot in Mississippi 

Gulfcoastguy

ColbyLang said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

I have every thing on charge:mower, car, phone. Afterwards I might cut grass.

That’s just crazy talk, it’s hot in this bakery…..it got to be hot in Mississippi 

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out into the noontime sun. Most of my ancestry is from the UK island and I may resemble the other option.

saluki2007

Nothing say May in central IL like triple digits. 

The pool won’t be open for at least another 2 weeks.  So went to wally world and improvised. 

Botch

Mowed the lawn.  They delayed turning on secondary water here a month, and my lawn is mostly dead already, mower just took down the occasional fescue.  

lousubcap

@Botch - Please provide background to the "turning on secondary water" comment above.  I have never heard that term.  Just trying to learn something new dang near every day here.  

ColbyLang

Botch said:

Mowed the lawn.  They delayed turning on secondary water here a month, and my lawn is mostly dead already, mower just took down the occasional fescue.  

The secondary water you speak of is free? If not, why do they determine when you use it? I use my irrigation system at will because I pay for it

Acn

ColbyLang said:

Botch said:

Mowed the lawn.  They delayed turning on secondary water here a month, and my lawn is mostly dead already, mower just took down the occasional fescue.  

The secondary water you speak of is free? If not, why do they determine when you use it? I use my irrigation system at will because I pay for it

The west has a lot more water restrictions because it is a desert with rapidly declining reservoirs.

Battleborn

Secondary water is untreated water used for outdoor irrigation. 

kl8ton

I was yelled at a few years back for trying to wash my fifth wheel in NM. They are on a well but are fined for overages.  I had to hire a company to come wash it.  They trucked in their own water.  This concept was foreign to me as a Michigander.  We have water a plenty. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Acn said:

ColbyLang said:

Botch said:

Mowed the lawn.  They delayed turning on secondary water here a month, and my lawn is mostly dead already, mower just took down the occasional fescue.  

The secondary water you speak of is free? If not, why do they determine when you use it? I use my irrigation system at will because I pay for it

The west has a lot more water restrictions because it is a desert with rapidly declining reservoirs.

Perhaps he has flood irrigation which some folks use.  You are given a day and time when you get to open the gates to flood your yard.  We used to have irrigation parties.  At least it makes having to turn your irrigation on at 3am on a Wednesday more fun.  You can supplement with regular water, but it is pricey.

I do not back up to any canals so flood irrigation is not an option in my current locale.  I mostly see it on horse properties in suburbs of Phoenix.

kl8ton

Just sat down at a bar and the TVs are reporting flood warnings for our area.  Heavy rainfall.  Farmers can't get in the fields right now.  Also it's in the 80s so they're saying even if they could,  the heat and moisture causes the seed to molt?  Wilt?  I wasn't paying attention.  

GrateEggspectations

Battleborn said:

Secondary water is untreated water used for outdoor irrigation. 

Is that what they make some of the second-rate bourbon with?

Botch

Battleborn said:

Secondary water is untreated water used for outdoor irrigation. 

Yup, this.  I live on the benches of the Wasatch mountains, and the secondary is turned off/on each winter, while the "primary" water I shower/cook with is always there.  I often have to turn it off, remove the filter, and clean out mud, plants, and even a former frog.  
Cap'n's question made me think about billing; I get one monthly bill with combined water/trash pickup, a constant amount each month (adjusted yearly).  I know I have meters for both gas and electricity, but I don't think I have meters for either water source. I need to look into that.
 
When our water levels got low last summer, I followed the county's direction and reduced my watering, several of my neighbors did not (they probably didn't wear masks either, but I digress).  They had to cut off secondary early, and most lawns turned brown; two did not and I'm thinking they were using their "primary" water source, which really pissed me off.  
 
Normally, when secondary water is turned off in the fall, my neighbor to the north had his lawn turn brown within a week; he normally watered three effin' times a day, while I had cut back to once every two/three days.  It tickled me that I was still mowing my yard a month later, because (by stressing my own grass) my lawn had much deeper roots, and could keep alive a bit longer (I was usually one of the first to mow in the spring, too, before secondary got turned on).  
 
On a more national level:
Saw, just this morning, pics on the news that the Lake Mead dam's top water intake (to run the generators for 10M people) is now above the reservoir's water level.  Would you like to live in a fifth-floor apartment in Las Vegas, when the electricity goes out?  For the rest of the summer?  And instead of trying to address global warming a bit more seriously, what do we do?  How about dig an even deeper water intake, so it lasts longer?  (in red):
 

 
(once again, so glad I have no kids/grandkids)  
 
EDIT:  Okay, the pic I saw on the news this morning looked more like "Intake 2" on the above graphic, so I may have misunderstood something.  

Battleborn

Botch said:

Battleborn said:

Secondary water is untreated water used for outdoor irrigation. 

Yup, this.  I live on the benches of the Wasatch mountains, and the secondary is turned off/on each winter, while the "primary" water I shower/cook with is always there.  I often have to turn it off, remove the filter, and clean out mud, plants, and even a former frog.  
Cap'n's question made me think about billing; I get one monthly bill with combined water/trash pickup, a constant amount each month (adjusted yearly).  I know I have meters for both gas and electricity, but I don't think I have meters for either water source. I need to look into that.
 
When our water levels got low last summer, I followed the county's direction and reduced my watering, several of my neighbors did not (they probably didn't wear masks either, but I digress).  They had to cut off secondary early, and most lawns turned brown; two did not and I'm thinking they were using their "primary" water source, which really pissed me off.  
 
Normally, when secondary water is turned off in the fall, my neighbor to the north had his lawn turn brown within a week; he normally watered three effin' times a day, while I had cut back to once every two/three days.  It tickled me that I was still mowing my yard a month later, because (by stressing my own grass) my lawn had much deeper roots, and could keep alive a bit longer (I was usually one of the first to mow in the spring, too, before secondary got turned on).  
 
On a more national level:
Saw, just this morning, pics on the news that the Lake Mead dam's top water intake (to run the generators for 10M people) is now above the reservoir's water level.  Would you like to live in a fifth-floor apartment in Las Vegas, when the electricity goes out?  For the rest of the summer?  And instead of trying to address global warming a bit more seriously, what do we do?  How about dig an even deeper water intake, so it lasts longer?  (in red):
 

 
(once again, so glad I have no kids/grandkids)  
 
EDIT:  Okay, the pic I saw on the news this morning looked more like "Intake 2" on the above graphic, so I may have misunderstood something.  

The bright side to our water source drying up is we are now finding all the mob bodies! 

Botch

  
Yeah, I also saw today they've found a few more.
This is happening in our own reservoirs in utard, albeit mostly missing vehicles.  

ColbyLang

@Botch, we too have a primary and “green” meter. Primary you pay for water and water treatment as it goes down the drain. Green stays in the ground. Pay reduced rate due to no treatment but it is the same water as drinking water. We have allocated days and times to run irrigation. Most do not abide by it here either. I just turned my system back on 2 weeks ago. 

fishlessman

Botch said:

Battleborn said:

Secondary water is untreated water used for outdoor irrigation. 

Yup, this.  I live on the benches of the Wasatch mountains, and the secondary is turned off/on each winter, while the "primary" water I shower/cook with is always there.  I often have to turn it off, remove the filter, and clean out mud, plants, and even a former frog.  
Cap'n's question made me think about billing; I get one monthly bill with combined water/trash pickup, a constant amount each month (adjusted yearly).  I know I have meters for both gas and electricity, but I don't think I have meters for either water source. I need to look into that.
 
When our water levels got low last summer, I followed the county's direction and reduced my watering, several of my neighbors did not (they probably didn't wear masks either, but I digress).  They had to cut off secondary early, and most lawns turned brown; two did not and I'm thinking they were using their "primary" water source, which really pissed me off.  
 
Normally, when secondary water is turned off in the fall, my neighbor to the north had his lawn turn brown within a week; he normally watered three effin' times a day, while I had cut back to once every two/three days.  It tickled me that I was still mowing my yard a month later, because (by stressing my own grass) my lawn had much deeper roots, and could keep alive a bit longer (I was usually one of the first to mow in the spring, too, before secondary got turned on).  
 
On a more national level:
Saw, just this morning, pics on the news that the Lake Mead dam's top water intake (to run the generators for 10M people) is now above the reservoir's water level.  Would you like to live in a fifth-floor apartment in Las Vegas, when the electricity goes out?  For the rest of the summer?  And instead of trying to address global warming a bit more seriously, what do we do?  How about dig an even deeper water intake, so it lasts longer?  (in red):
 

 
(once again, so glad I have no kids/grandkids)  
 
EDIT:  Okay, the pic I saw on the news this morning looked more like "Intake 2" on the above graphic, so I may have misunderstood something.  

There's 10000 gallons of water per person in Maine in the lake infront of my house .  there's a ground seep spring under my garden.   It's hard to imagine

WeberWho

Sirens just stopped going off. We recorded 77 mph winds in the city. I'm glad it stayed at that and moved over us. Hopefully it lightens up for the people on where it's headed. 

Botch

fishlessman said:
There's 10000 gallons of water per person in Maine in the lake infront of my house .  there's a ground seep spring under my garden.   It's hard to imagine

Yup.  Geography makes a yuge difference.  Do you want to risk flooding, drought, blizzards, tornados, CA- or NM-wide fires, earthquakes, heat, or cold?  
Personally, give me a place with low humidity and no mosquitoes, and I'll deal with the rest; which is why I live here.  
There are a couple places that avoid almost all of the above, but then the cost of living buries you.  

alaskanassasin

My understanding was that secondary water was treated grey water. Recycled water you can drink but treated wastewater which is not choice. When I lived in Raleigh someone had crossed the pipes on a new construction and they were drinking the grey water. It made the news but again safe to drink.