In article >,
(barbara h davis) wrote:

> We drink club soda - flavored

All the time? I doubt it. What do you use to boil rice in, and make
coffee?

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> blake murphy > dropped this
> news >
> > i suppose land mines would be, um, overkill.
>
> No, those things maim too much and let them live. If I'm going that
> route something that will not ruin my garden and do a fast kill is
> the ticket. Hmmm... maybe a pesticide lethal to humans on contact.
> That would work.

I had a similar problem last year. When the first snow fell, the
carrier started cutting through the ivy bed to get to the front porch,
I guess on the theory that if it's covered in snow it doesn't exist.
This kept up even after the thaw, and was wearing a path through the
plants. I had to get one of my plastic sawhorses and stick it in the
way.

This year, same thing. This time, I put up the barricade as soon as I
saw footprints in the snow leading through the plants.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

blake murphy wrote:

>
> >
> >My mom used to give the mailman a jar of homemade
> >jam or jelly at Christmas. I suppose these days
> >that would be officially disallowed because you
> >never know when somebody would want to poison
> >their mailman.
>
> my mother just gave him a joint.

If he is like most of the mail carriers I used to know, he probably sparked it
up right away. They used to love their job.... smoke a jpint, go for a walk and
drop off some mail along the way.

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
wrote:

>
>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:51:55 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > I may be tempted to give a Christmas tip to my maile carrier if he/she
>>>> > ever manages to deliver all my mail in my mail box, not in thei
>>>> > neighbours, and only my mail in my box. Given my 30 years experience
>>>> > at
>>>> > this location I doubt that will ever happen.
>>>>
>>>> I stopped giving the mail carrier the time of day he started cutting
>>>> through a flower garden to get to the mailbox. I've asked him twice to
>>>> please walk around it and the request doesn't seem to sink in.
>>>
>>>I'll tell ou how thick some of my mail carriers are. Our mail box used to
>>>get
>>>knocked over at least once a year. It was a major job to go out , dig out
>>>the
>>>old post, put in a new one, get a new box, put the lettering on it and
>>>stick
>>>it on. After replacing a number of them I thought maybe it wouldn't be hot
>>>so
>>>often if it were a little further off the road, so I moved it back 6"
>>
>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>
>> Lou
>
>
>In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>
>When we moved here, they did it twice. Then we bought the cheapest piece of
>crap-mailbox we could find. The pole sways and DH will prop it up a bit.
>The numbers bought will get torn off or they peel off in the weather. The
>mail people have written in indelible pencil our address. People who come
>to do work related jobs get ****ed at us for not putting nice numbering on
>the box. (It didn't even matter when we did have nice numbers, they
>couldn't figure out that exactly .75 miles from the caution light was our
>mailbox/driveway.) One mailman, who may be still on the route refuses to
>drive up our driveway. (We keep it in good shape.) He has done some
>irritating things. Then there is another one that I'm not certain about.
>But the good one makes up for the other ones.
>
>We decided that we would continue to use our disgusting looking mailbox as
>long as it will stand and can be put up again, and to keep putting new
>numbers on when they get illegible, but that's it, no more decent mailboxes.
>
>Dee Dee
>

When I was growing up in NC, the boys who cherry bombed mail boxes got
sent to reform school or military school if the parents had enough
influence and money. When I moved to FL, the boys who flushed cherry
bombs down the school toilets were sent to reform school. One of them
also lost some fingers. I believe that tampering with a USPS mail box
is a federal crime.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

"The Cook" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:51:55 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I may be tempted to give a Christmas tip to my maile carrier if
>>>>> > he/she
>>>>> > ever manages to deliver all my mail in my mail box, not in thei
>>>>> > neighbours, and only my mail in my box. Given my 30 years experience
>>>>> > at
>>>>> > this location I doubt that will ever happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I stopped giving the mail carrier the time of day he started cutting
>>>>> through a flower garden to get to the mailbox. I've asked him twice
>>>>> to
>>>>> please walk around it and the request doesn't seem to sink in.
>>>>
>>>>I'll tell ou how thick some of my mail carriers are. Our mail box used
>>>>to
>>>>get
>>>>knocked over at least once a year. It was a major job to go out , dig
>>>>out
>>>>the
>>>>old post, put in a new one, get a new box, put the lettering on it and
>>>>stick
>>>>it on. After replacing a number of them I thought maybe it wouldn't be
>>>>hot
>>>>so
>>>>often if it were a little further off the road, so I moved it back 6"
>>>
>>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>
>>In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>>
>>When we moved here, they did it twice. Then we bought the cheapest piece
>>of
>>crap-mailbox we could find. The pole sways and DH will prop it up a bit.
>>The numbers bought will get torn off or they peel off in the weather. The
>>mail people have written in indelible pencil our address. People who come
>>to do work related jobs get ****ed at us for not putting nice numbering on
>>the box. (It didn't even matter when we did have nice numbers, they
>>couldn't figure out that exactly .75 miles from the caution light was our
>>mailbox/driveway.) One mailman, who may be still on the route refuses to
>>drive up our driveway. (We keep it in good shape.) He has done some
>>irritating things. Then there is another one that I'm not certain about.
>>But the good one makes up for the other ones.
>>
>>We decided that we would continue to use our disgusting looking mailbox as
>>long as it will stand and can be put up again, and to keep putting new
>>numbers on when they get illegible, but that's it, no more decent
>>mailboxes.
>>
>>Dee Dee
>>
>
> When I was growing up in NC, the boys who cherry bombed mail boxes got
> sent to reform school or military school if the parents had enough
> influence and money. When I moved to FL, the boys who flushed cherry
> bombs down the school toilets were sent to reform school. One of them
> also lost some fingers. I believe that tampering with a USPS mail box
> is a federal crime.
>
> --
> Susan N.


I love that. It's supposedly their mail box, but I have to paint it.

Goomba38 wrote:

> sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:08:23 -0500, Julia Altshuler
>
>>> (And some of these restaurants are
>>> excellent in every other way-- friendly, clean, inexpensive, excellent
>>> food, etc.) I've been to businesses that won't give out water on a hot
>>> day. Buy it, or head to the ladies room.
>>
>> I've eaten in many places, some of which want to push the bottled
>> water.... but when I say I want tap water, I'm accommodated. I've
>> never ended up in the bathroom just to find drinking water.
>
> God, nor would I evah! Ugh. Just thinking about getting drinking water
> from a public restroom gives me the willies <shiver>

I don't think the idea was to dip for water there.


--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
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"Mitch Scherer" > wrote in message
...
> "Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> I guess one might call it overkill, but here's what we have.
>>
>> Very hard well water that we have to use loads of salt to condition.
>> Well water is not always cheap, but we finally got it right, as far as
>> the equipment to use.
>
> Besides tasting bad, my parents well water is also very hard. Soap
> doesn't work well. If we try to use it, the scum has to washed off with
> detergent. I will install a softener for my mom when I can.
>
>> We reverse osmosis the conditioned well water with a nice little reverse
>> osmosis system that takes up at least half of under-the-sink-counter
>> space. It does need attending to, and we are on our third one, I believe.
>> This R.O. water in the kitchen is used for most kitchen duties.
>
> Apparently, the membranes must be changed regularly like filter
> cartridges. As the technology evolves, the membranes are lasting longer
> and longer. Chlorine degrades them quickly. We injected a chemical to
> remove the chlorine from the city water at our purification plant.
>
> I will try to find a bigger RO unit than those sold at the hardware stores
> when I get to my new house. While researching equipment for my treatment
> plant, I came across some units suitable for whole-house use for a few
> thousand dollars. I would like something between that and the $150
> jobbies at Home Depot.
>
>> We have a Durolux distiller that makes 1 gallon in about 3 hours. This
>> is our second purchase of this distiller, as we had one in the 70's and
>> loved it. We aren't able to pipe in the distiller water into our
>> kitchen, nor do we want one. It is a little bit unhandy filling the
>> bottles with R.O. water to distill. If we didn't have R.O., then I
>> believe the conditioned hard water would not be good for a distiller and
>> we would be cleaning it out constantly. I love our set up.
>
> RO alone may be good enough for me but I will take a more serious look at
> distilation.
>
>> I was even having a little problem with drinking the reverse osmosis'd
>> water, so all the water previously used before we got the distiller, I
>> always boiled it in the tea kettle.
>
> There are cartridge filters used in the pharmaceutical amd other health
> industries that will remove micro-organisms. I will check those out also.
>
>> As you can see, water is important to us. I realize there are different
>> theories about iodized and mineralized waters, etc., but right now I'm
>> more than satisfied with what I have.
>
> I am usually not impressed with iodized, mineral and flavored waters. I
> do occasionally like some lemon in my water. A restaurant once serve
> water with a cucumber flavor. That would be nice every once and a while.
>
> I am looking forward to designing a water treatment system for my new
> home.
>
>> Enjoyed your information.
>> Dee Dee
>
> Mitch

One more thing, DH has said that he will -- but not got around to it -- buy
some sort of - hoping I am using a correct work -- ionizer, or ultra
something for our reverse osmosis undercounter R.O.

Not sure what it is, but it is a specialty something that will go with our,
the one in the middle here
http://tinyurl.com/yu5zb9
I believe he has been thinking about the $289 no-waste water r.o. also.

Dee Dee

"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
news
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
. ..
>
>>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>
>>In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>
> Aren't kids nice?
>
>> no more decent mailboxes.
>
> I guess it depends on the location. Our boxes are attached to the
> houses here. But I can see one being stolen from a bad area if it's
> too nice. I lived in a place that had a slot in the door. I liked
> that. The last place we lived in had a slot next to the door with
> another little door inside. That was ok, but leaked air.
>
> Lou


We have a 1,000' driveway to our mailbox. I don't want anyone coming up it
that doesn't call first. I can't see the mailbox, so it's fair game.

Leaking air? well, the good thing about that, you aren't breathing stale
air.
Trying to be optimistic,
Dee Dee

"George" > wrote in message
. ..
> Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>
>>>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>>>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>>>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>>>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>>>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>>>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>>>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>>>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>>>
>>>> Lou
>>>
>>> In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>>
>> Aren't kids nice?
>>
> I think 99.9% of the time it is directly related to the (lack of)
> parenting.
>

I can only suspect that you have children who ARE nice.
You are one of the lucky ones, and taking credit for their niceness.
You deserve it!
Dee Dee

"The Cook" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:18:38 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:51:55 -0500, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Michael \"Dog3\" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I may be tempted to give a Christmas tip to my maile carrier if
>>>>> > he/she
>>>>> > ever manages to deliver all my mail in my mail box, not in thei
>>>>> > neighbours, and only my mail in my box. Given my 30 years experience
>>>>> > at
>>>>> > this location I doubt that will ever happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> I stopped giving the mail carrier the time of day he started cutting
>>>>> through a flower garden to get to the mailbox. I've asked him twice
>>>>> to
>>>>> please walk around it and the request doesn't seem to sink in.
>>>>
>>>>I'll tell ou how thick some of my mail carriers are. Our mail box used
>>>>to
>>>>get
>>>>knocked over at least once a year. It was a major job to go out , dig
>>>>out
>>>>the
>>>>old post, put in a new one, get a new box, put the lettering on it and
>>>>stick
>>>>it on. After replacing a number of them I thought maybe it wouldn't be
>>>>hot
>>>>so
>>>>often if it were a little further off the road, so I moved it back 6"
>>>
>>> Years ago one of my dads friends had the same problem, but he knew it
>>> was kids. He lived in a semi-rural subdivision. Teenage boys in an
>>> old pickup truck would take out a bunch of boxes late in the evening.
>>> They did it fast and were getting away with it. So he got his hands
>>> on a long section of train rail and set it in concrete, and boxed it
>>> in with cheapo pine boards. He even painted it a nice bright color to
>>> draw attention. He had to replace the pine once more but the problem
>>> stopped and the kids got caught as the truck was disabled.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>
>>In WA state, they cherry bombed our mailbox loads of times.
>>
>>When we moved here, they did it twice. Then we bought the cheapest piece
>>of
>>crap-mailbox we could find. The pole sways and DH will prop it up a bit.
>>The numbers bought will get torn off or they peel off in the weather. The
>>mail people have written in indelible pencil our address. People who come
>>to do work related jobs get ****ed at us for not putting nice numbering on
>>the box. (It didn't even matter when we did have nice numbers, they
>>couldn't figure out that exactly .75 miles from the caution light was our
>>mailbox/driveway.) One mailman, who may be still on the route refuses to
>>drive up our driveway. (We keep it in good shape.) He has done some
>>irritating things. Then there is another one that I'm not certain about.
>>But the good one makes up for the other ones.
>>
>>We decided that we would continue to use our disgusting looking mailbox as
>>long as it will stand and can be put up again, and to keep putting new
>>numbers on when they get illegible, but that's it, no more decent
>>mailboxes.
>>
>>Dee Dee
>>
>
> When I was growing up in NC, the boys who cherry bombed mail boxes got
> sent to reform school or military school if the parents had enough
> influence and money. When I moved to FL, the boys who flushed cherry
> bombs down the school toilets were sent to reform school. One of them
> also lost some fingers. I believe that tampering with a USPS mail box
> is a federal crime.
>
> --
> Susan N.

We thought so, too. But (paraphrasing) first, after some laughter by some
of the mail clerks, "Oh, they got you, too?"
Yeah, right!
Dee Dee

"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
>>
>> Why kook? The water at some hotels *does* taste odd. I don't know why. It
>> just does. Not just "unfamiliar", but odd. I've tasted odd water at some
>> people's homes, but in those cases, I usually discover that the water is
>> softened, which sometimes explains everything.
> I think it may also have a lot to with 'what you get used to'. When I
> lived in 'civilization' the municipal water tasted just fine to me...
> However, now that we live out in the boonies and only have our 'bore hole'
> water (we pump it up a couple of times a day from 55 meters below ground
> into a holding tank) the same water I drank for 25-odd years tastes
> 'awful' to me whenever I venture into 'town'. When folks come out to the
> boonies to visit us, some have even remarked about how 'good' our water
> tastes. BTW, we have had our water tested by the nearest municipal water
> authorities (at great expense) and were told that it's as good as (if not
> better, IMHO) than "their" water. As it hasn't killed us for the last four
> or five years, I am considering bottling it and selling it - LOL! <just
> kidding>
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy


I'd buy!
At a resort near here that was selling water in the 20's (or 30's) for $2 a
gallon, now they are making it free to everyone who wants to come and get
it -- yes, a long stretch over the hills and dales and mountains.
Yes, it is very good.
Dee Dee

One time on Usenet, blake murphy > said:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:27:18 -0800, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
> >Julia Altshuler wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the post office's rule comes from a desire to make sure giving a
> >> Christmas gift doesn't morph into tipping. Tipping for good service
> >> could morph into tipping for ordinary service the way it has in the food
> >> service industry. That could morph into bribing the letter carrier to
> >> do his job. Inappropriate for a public employee.
> >
> >My mom used to give the mailman a jar of homemade
> >jam or jelly at Christmas. I suppose these days
> >that would be officially disallowed because you
> >never know when somebody would want to poison
> >their mailman.
>
> my mother just gave him a joint.

Beef or pork..?

--
Jani in WA

One time on Usenet, Sqwertz > said:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:21:34 GMT, Little Malice wrote:
>
> > No, you can give gifts, just not big ones:
> >
> > http://www.usps.com/nationalpcc/outsidegift.htm
>
> So if you really hate your mailman, give him/her a check for $25
> and after they deposit it, turn them in.
>
> > We had a couple of nice delivery guys at work; one Fed Ex and one
> > UPS. They once showed up in my office at the same time. You could
> > feel the tension...
>
> I'm sure they go through this several times a day. Maybe if they
> were sales people representing their company they would mind, but
> I doubt the drivers really care.

I'm serious, they were giving each other the hairy eyeball. Maybe they
had personal issues...

--
Jani in WA

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> I think an alarm clock would have to be shot from a canon to break a
>> windshield.
>>
>> Lou
>
>When I was about 10 I broke a car windshield with a water balloon. Who
>knew?
><gulp!>

Huh. Strange.

>The only thing I can imagine is that the balloon was filled with still
>cold water and the windshield was very hot at the time? My girlfriend
>and I just ran like hell when the driver stopped and was yelling at us.
>Goomba, the pre-pubescent juvenile delinquent!

I was a little shit too. <g>

Lou

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:18:37 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:30:50 GMT, Lou Decruss wrote:

>> I think an alarm clock would have to be shot from a canon to break a
>> windshield.
>
>Did you miss the part where I said "second story window"?
>Actually, the car was parked outside the garage, which, since
>this was Pittsburgh (where they have basements), was below the
>level of the ground/first story - by at least 30ft).
>
>Care for me to come to your house and demonstrate? You have too
>much confidence in your windshields.

OK. Assuming the story is true, WTF was the neighbor thinking using
the string for that? Maybe he was the one drinking. LOL

Lou

Dee.Dee wrote:
> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message

>> I think it may also have a lot to with 'what you get used to'. When I
>> lived in 'civilization' the municipal water tasted just fine to me...
>> However, now that we live out in the boonies and only have our 'bore hole'
>> water (we pump it up a couple of times a day from 55 meters below ground
>> into a holding tank) the same water I drank for 25-odd years tastes
>> 'awful' to me whenever I venture into 'town'. When folks come out to the
>> boonies to visit us, some have even remarked about how 'good' our water
>> tastes. BTW, we have had our water tested by the nearest municipal water
>> authorities (at great expense) and were told that it's as good as (if not
>> better, IMHO) than "their" water. As it hasn't killed us for the last four
>> or five years, I am considering bottling it and selling it - LOL! <just
>> kidding>
>
> I'd buy!
> At a resort near here that was selling water in the 20's (or 30's) for $2 a
> gallon, now they are making it free to everyone who wants to come and get
> it -- yes, a long stretch over the hills and dales and mountains.
> Yes, it is very good.
>
Dee Dee, I'll gladly offer you some at a very special price i.e. for
nothing.. The only catch is that you have to come over here to get it...

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:39:28 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
wrote:

>
>"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>
>> I guess it depends on the location. Our boxes are attached to the
>> houses here. But I can see one being stolen from a bad area if it's
>> too nice. I lived in a place that had a slot in the door. I liked
>> that. The last place we lived in had a slot next to the door with
>> another little door inside. That was ok, but leaked air.
>>
>> Lou
>
>
>We have a 1,000' driveway to our mailbox. I don't want anyone coming up it
>that doesn't call first. I can't see the mailbox, so it's fair game.

Wow!! That's one big-ass driveway. Our last place had no driveway.
The garage opened to the alley and all we had was the apron. City
living....<sigh>

>Leaking air? well, the good thing about that, you aren't breathing stale
>air.
>Trying to be optimistic,

LOL.. The heating and cooling there was big money.

Lou

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:08:23 -0500, Julia Altshuler
>
> (And some of these restaurants are excellent in every other way--
> friendly, clean, inexpensive, excellent food, etc.) I've been to
> businesses that won't give out water on a hot day. Buy it, or head to the
> ladies room.

I hardly ever drink out of the toilet. I have to push the dog out of the
way just to get to it and then have to use a straw to get to the water.

Mitch

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:09:05 -0800 (PST), John Kane
> wrote:

>On Feb 3, 6:11 pm, Jo Anne > wrote:

>> There are a lot of dodgy wells around here, because the land is all
>> agricultural. Contaminated wells don't really make any difference to
>> selling a house. Anyone bent out of shape about it could put in a UV
>> system if they wanted.
>>
>> BTW, we use our well water for bathing, brushing our teeth, and
>> cooking vegetables, plus the pets all drink it straight from the tap
>> (well, straight from the tap to their water bowls), and nobody has
>> gotten sick from it.
>>
>> My MIL (20 miles from here) spent *years* having IBS-type symptoms.
>> Husband finally asked if she'd had her well tested recently. Well, no,
>> she hadn't, because "our water tastes just fine." So Husband got a
>> test kit and did it for her. Guess what. The lab actually phoned her
>> the day they tested it and told her to stop drinking it RIGHT NOW. Her
>> gut problems have abated somewhat since she started buying her water.
>>
>> Jo Anne
>
>It sounds like you're sitting on a potential Walkerton! What has the
>local Public Health people or the Ministry of the Environment said
>about this?

What could they possibly do about it? Seriously. Make everyone move
away?

Nobody is being poisoned by their wells. Just the occasional person
has gut-aches and diarrhea. And if they stop drinking their well water
it goes away.

>Also how deep is your well? It sounds like groundwater contamination

I'd have to ask my husband for sure, but I think it's about 15-18 feet
deep. And yes, it's groundwater contamination.

>John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:47:06 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>Jo Anne wrote:
>
>> My MIL (20 miles from here) spent *years* having IBS-type symptoms.
>> Husband finally asked if she'd had her well tested recently. Well, no,
>> she hadn't, because "our water tastes just fine." So Husband got a
>> test kit and did it for her. Guess what. The lab actually phoned her
>> the day they tested it and told her to stop drinking it RIGHT NOW. Her
>> gut problems have abated somewhat since she started buying her water.
>
>I'm curious to what was in her well water? Do you know?

It was e.coli above acceptable limits. She's surrounded by cattle
farms, so it's no big surprize.

Jo Anne

"barbara h davis" > wrote in message
...
> We drink club soda - flavored

My mom drinks club soda - flavored with scotch.

Sheldon wrote:
> DK wrote:
>> Sheldon wrote:
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> Bottle water is a rip-off. I live in the country and use a distiller to
>>>> purify my water, bit when I am in town I drink tap water.
>>> Bottled water is for those with more dollars than brain cells. �For
>>> consumption (drinking/cooking) I have an RO (Reverse Osmosis)
>>> filter... pure water at a nickle a gallon.
>>> SHELDON
>> Do you keep a bucket of that in your car, Shelly? �Some people leave the
>> house and want some decent water and they can afford to pay for it.
>
> Sports bottles are cheap, you ignoranus DK mother****er.
>

And inconvenient, asshole.

-dk

DK wrote:

>
> >> Bottle water is a rip-off. I live in the country and use a distiller to
> >> purify my water, bit when I am in town I drink tap water.
> >
> > Bottled water is for those with more dollars than brain cells. For
> > consumption (drinking/cooking) I have an RO (Reverse Osmosis)
> > filter... pure water at a nickle a gallon.
> >
> > SHELDON
>
> Do you keep a bucket of that in your car, Shelly? Some people leave the
> house and want some decent water and they can afford to pay for it.

Like he said.... for those with more money than brains.


>
>
> -dk

"Jo Anne" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:47:06 -0500, Goomba38 >
> wrote:
>
>>Jo Anne wrote:
>>
>>> My MIL (20 miles from here) spent *years* having IBS-type symptoms.
>>> Husband finally asked if she'd had her well tested recently. Well, no,
>>> she hadn't, because "our water tastes just fine." So Husband got a
>>> test kit and did it for her. Guess what. The lab actually phoned her
>>> the day they tested it and told her to stop drinking it RIGHT NOW. Her
>>> gut problems have abated somewhat since she started buying her water.
>>
>>I'm curious to what was in her well water? Do you know?
>
> It was e.coli above acceptable limits. She's surrounded by cattle
> farms, so it's no big surprize.
>
> Jo Anne


There are cattle in the farm on the hill above me. I've oft thought of
that; however, our well is 500' deep. It probably doesn't come from run-off
from that farm, but to me there's no doubt that it might come from an
underground stream from where there are cattle. Hopefully the rocks the
water flows over will do something to help keep it free from harm. We did
have it tested -- but you never know when something might come along.

Dee Dee

In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:54:42 +1300, Miche wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > (barbara h davis) wrote:
> >
> >> We drink club soda - flavored
> >
> > All the time? I doubt it. What do you use to boil rice in, and make
> > coffee?
>
> I vote this as the most anal post of 2008 (so far).

Others have been talking about getting all their water trucked in.
*shrug*

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

Miche wrote:

>
> > >> We drink club soda - flavored
> > >
> > > All the time? I doubt it. What do you use to boil rice in, and make
> > > coffee?
> >
> > I vote this as the most anal post of 2008 (so far).
>
> Others have been talking about getting all their water trucked in.
> *shrug*

And you think that it is anal to have water trucked in? It is quite common
in rural communities. Most houses have cisterns that hold 1-4,0000 gallons,
many of them collecting water from the roof. When the rain stops coming you
have it trucked in. It costs me $44 for 2,000 gallons.

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:36:58 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:03:08 GMT, Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:18:37 -0600, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:30:50 GMT, Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>>>> I think an alarm clock would have to be shot from a canon to break a
>>>> windshield.
>>>
>>>Did you miss the part where I said "second story window"?
>>>Actually, the car was parked outside the garage, which, since
>>>this was Pittsburgh (where they have basements), was below the
>>>level of the ground/first story - by at least 30ft).
>>>
>>>Care for me to come to your house and demonstrate? You have too
>>>much confidence in your windshields.
>>
>> OK. Assuming the story is true,
>
>His name is/was Jim Jordan on Ridgeview Rd in Pittsburgh, PA.
>Give him a call.

I already said I assuming it was true. Relax.

>> WTF was the neighbor thinking using
>> the string for that? Maybe he was the one drinking. LOL
>
>He was an asshole. He once forgot to set his parking brake and
>let his truck roll down the hill, about 120 yards through 3
>yards, 2 fences, and a stand of very expensive trees that he had
>to replace.

Gotcha. That explains the mentality of the string. Sounds like the
same kind of person who can figure out how to flip a riding lawn
mower. Or lose a car when launching a boat.

Lou

Lou Decruss wrote:

>
>
> Gotcha. That explains the mentality of the string. Sounds like the
> same kind of person who can figure out how to flip a riding lawn
> mower.

LOL. I have seen that. When my neighbours son and DiL were staying with them
I saw the DiL owing the back lawn when I took the dog out to the woods for a
walk. On the way back I saw the lawn tracter at the bottom of a 5 foot
drainage ditch. She must have forgot to turn . She never mowed the lawn
again.

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:05:52 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>Dee.Dee wrote:
>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message

>>> As it hasn't killed us for the last four
>>> or five years, I am considering bottling it and selling it - LOL! <just
>>> kidding>
> >
>> I'd buy!
>> At a resort near here that was selling water in the 20's (or 30's) for $2 a
>> gallon, now they are making it free to everyone who wants to come and get
>> it -- yes, a long stretch over the hills and dales and mountains.
>> Yes, it is very good.
>>
>Dee Dee, I'll gladly offer you some at a very special price i.e. for
>nothing.. The only catch is that you have to come over here to get it...

can't you move south africa a little closer to the u.s.?

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:27:14 -0800, "Mitch Scherer" >
wrote:

>"barbara h davis" > wrote in message
...
>> We drink club soda - flavored
>
>My mom drinks club soda - flavored with scotch.
>

yay mom!

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:38:57 -0500, DK > wrote:

>Sheldon wrote:
>> DK wrote:
>>> Sheldon wrote:
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> Bottle water is a rip-off. I live in the country and use a distiller to
>>>>> purify my water, bit when I am in town I drink tap water.
>>>> Bottled water is for those with more dollars than brain cells. ?For
>>>> consumption (drinking/cooking) I have an RO (Reverse Osmosis)
>>>> filter... pure water at a nickle a gallon.
>>>> SHELDON
>>> Do you keep a bucket of that in your car, Shelly? ?Some people leave the
>>> house and want some decent water and they can afford to pay for it.
>>
>> Sports bottles are cheap, you ignoranus DK mother****er.
>>
>
>And inconvenient, asshole.
>
>-dk

ah! the title for sheldon's autobiography: 'an inconvenient
asshole.' look for it soon!

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:12:14 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> wrote:

>Goomba38 wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:08:23 -0500, Julia Altshuler
>>
>>>> (And some of these restaurants are
>>>> excellent in every other way-- friendly, clean, inexpensive, excellent
>>>> food, etc.) I've been to businesses that won't give out water on a hot
>>>> day. Buy it, or head to the ladies room.
>>>
>>> I've eaten in many places, some of which want to push the bottled
>>> water.... but when I say I want tap water, I'm accommodated. I've
>>> never ended up in the bathroom just to find drinking water.
>>
>> God, nor would I evah! Ugh. Just thinking about getting drinking water
>> from a public restroom gives me the willies <shiver>
>
>I don't think the idea was to dip for water there.

doesn't seem to have any effect on dogs.

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:33:27 GMT, Lou Decruss > wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:04:45 -0500, Goomba38 >
>wrote:
>
>>Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>>> I think an alarm clock would have to be shot from a canon to break a
>>> windshield.
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>>When I was about 10 I broke a car windshield with a water balloon. Who
>>knew?
>><gulp!>
>
>Huh. Strange.
>
>>The only thing I can imagine is that the balloon was filled with still
>>cold water and the windshield was very hot at the time? My girlfriend
>>and I just ran like hell when the driver stopped and was yelling at us.
>>Goomba, the pre-pubescent juvenile delinquent!
>
>I was a little shit too. <g>
>
>Lou

how else are you supposed to know what the little buggers will be up
to?

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

>
> can't you move south africa a little closer to the u.s.?

Sorry. I missed 'Moving Continents 101' when I was at college. I'll have to
see if there is still a course available for 'old farts'. I'll get back to
you.
--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Â*- Fran Lebowitz

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:42:44 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> >
>> >My mom used to give the mailman a jar of homemade
>> >jam or jelly at Christmas. I suppose these days
>> >that would be officially disallowed because you
>> >never know when somebody would want to poison
>> >their mailman.
>>
>> my mother just gave him a joint.
>
>If he is like most of the mail carriers I used to know, he probably sparked it
>up right away. They used to love their job.... smoke a jpint, go for a walk and
>drop off some mail along the way.

i talked to one who was trying to quit smoking crack. unfortunately,
his route was through a couple crack neighborhoods filled with
friendly people...

your pal,
blake

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:25:05 GMT, (Little
Malice) wrote:

>One time on Usenet, blake murphy > said:
>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:27:18 -0800, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Julia Altshuler wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think the post office's rule comes from a desire to make sure giving a
>> >> Christmas gift doesn't morph into tipping. Tipping for good service
>> >> could morph into tipping for ordinary service the way it has in the food
>> >> service industry. That could morph into bribing the letter carrier to
>> >> do his job. Inappropriate for a public employee.
>> >
>> >My mom used to give the mailman a jar of homemade
>> >jam or jelly at Christmas. I suppose these days
>> >that would be officially disallowed because you
>> >never know when somebody would want to poison
>> >their mailman.
>>
>> my mother just gave him a joint.
>
>Beef or pork..?

jesus, you're nosy.

your pal,
blake

On Feb 5, 10:03 am, Dave Smith > wrote:
> Miche wrote:
>
> > > >> We drink club soda - flavored
>
> > > > All the time? I doubt it. What do you use to boil rice in, and make
> > > > coffee?
>
> > > I vote this as the most anal post of 2008 (so far).
>
> > Others have been talking about getting all their water trucked in.
> > *shrug*
>
> And you think that it is anal to have water trucked in? It is quite common
> in rural communities. Most houses have cisterns that hold 1-4,0000 gallons,
> many of them collecting water from the roof. When the rain stops coming you
> have it trucked in. It costs me $44 for 2,000 gallons.

Isnt that a typo ? 4,0000 is a lot of water. $44 for 2,000 sound
like a pretty good price.

I certainly don't find getting water trucked in to be surprising. We
used to do it once in while when it was dry or the snow wasn't
melting.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:56:48 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Gotcha. That explains the mentality of the string. Sounds like the
>> same kind of person who can figure out how to flip a riding lawn
>> mower.
>
>LOL. I have seen that. When my neighbours son and DiL were staying with them
>I saw the DiL owing the back lawn when I took the dog out to the woods for a
>walk. On the way back I saw the lawn tracter at the bottom of a 5 foot
>drainage ditch. She must have forgot to turn . She never mowed the lawn
>again.

I don't get how they do this stuff. People pulling utility trailers
are the worst. I've seen two people flip them and take the tractor
with. I also saw someone with a snow blade flip it. I don't get how
someone can flip something moving slower than a human walks. <shrug>

Lou

Lou Decruss wrote:

>
> >LOL. I have seen that. When my neighbours son and DiL were staying with them
> >I saw the DiL owing the back lawn when I took the dog out to the woods for a
> >walk. On the way back I saw the lawn tracter at the bottom of a 5 foot
> >drainage ditch. She must have forgot to turn . She never mowed the lawn
> >again.
>
> I don't get how they do this stuff. People pulling utility trailers
> are the worst. I've seen two people flip them and take the tractor
> with. I also saw someone with a snow blade flip it. I don't get how
> someone can flip something moving slower than a human walks. <shrug>

Some people aren't too bright. I used to do comemrcial vehicle enforcement work
and load security was one thing for which I very little tolerance. I actually
saw close to 20 incidents of things falling off trucks. Pickup trucks were the
worst, especially those that had the plastic box liners because they are slippery
and most people don't bother tying the load down. When the take off from a
traffic light the load would slide out the back.

blake murphy wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:12:14 -0800, Blinky the Shark
> > wrote:
>
>>Goomba38 wrote:
>>
>>> sf wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:08:23 -0500, Julia Altshuler
>>>
>>>>> (And some of these restaurants are
>>>>> excellent in every other way-- friendly, clean, inexpensive, excellent
>>>>> food, etc.) I've been to businesses that won't give out water on a hot
>>>>> day. Buy it, or head to the ladies room.
>>>>
>>>> I've eaten in many places, some of which want to push the bottled
>>>> water.... but when I say I want tap water, I'm accommodated. I've
>>>> never ended up in the bathroom just to find drinking water.
>>>
>>> God, nor would I evah! Ugh. Just thinking about getting drinking water
>>> from a public restroom gives me the willies <shiver>
>>
>>I don't think the idea was to dip for water there.
>
> doesn't seem to have any effect on dogs.

Ever see one graduate from college?


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