jmcquown wrote:
>
> It's been a while since I dragged out this old chestnut.
>
> The National Weather Service is predicting snow/sleet and ice (aka
> "wintry mix") for the South Carolina Lowcountry tommorrow night and
> Wednesday. Hazardous driving conditions are possible. (Yeah, having
> your car slide off the road into the marsh probably wouldn't be fun.)

> Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
> important if you can't get to the store.
>
> Milk
> Eggs
>
> Next?

Maybe just an extra loaf of bread for me. I've got plenty of food
here. I just watched our weather forecast and they are predicting up
to 9" of snow for Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. That
amount will shut down our roads for days.

G.

Nancy Young wrote:
>
> On 1/27/2014 10:24 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
> > Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
> > important if you can't get to the store.
> >
> > Milk
> > Eggs
> >
> > Next?
>
> Marshmallow Fluff!

LOL! Get out of here! If the stores shut down do to weather, you
would run out and buy marshmallow fluff? LMAO!

G.

On 1/27/2014 5:54 PM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> It's been a while since I dragged out this old chestnut.
>>
>> The National Weather Service is predicting snow/sleet and ice (aka
>> "wintry mix") for the South Carolina Lowcountry tommorrow night and
>> Wednesday. Hazardous driving conditions are possible. (Yeah, having
>> your car slide off the road into the marsh probably wouldn't be fun.)
>
>> Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
>> important if you can't get to the store.
>>
>> Milk
>> Eggs
>>
>> Next?
>
> Maybe just an extra loaf of bread for me. I've got plenty of food
> here. I just watched our weather forecast and they are predicting up
> to 9" of snow for Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. That
> amount will shut down our roads for days.
>
> G.
>
I've got plenty of food, too. Milk, bread, eggs, all the basic stuff.

I *did* go buy more toilet paper. Not because of the weather. I was
running low anyway and tp is one thing you don't want to run out of.

While at the store a woman said she checked Facebook and someone said
Beaufort County Schools are closed tomorrow. Good lord. It got up to
70°F today and it's 57° right now. It's not even raining, much less
snowing. But it was on FB so it must be true! LOL

Jill

ImStillMags wrote:
>
> On Monday, January 27, 2014 7:24:06 AM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
>
> > Milk
> >
> > Eggs
> >
> >
> >
> > Next?
> >
> >
>
> russet potatoes
> rice

If you're snowed in for days, plenty of white wine would rule.

G.

On 1/27/2014 5:58 PM, Gary wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> On 1/27/2014 10:24 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
>>> important if you can't get to the store.
>>>
>>> Milk
>>> Eggs
>>>
>>> Next?
>>
>> Marshmallow Fluff!
>
> LOL! Get out of here! If the stores shut down do to weather, you
> would run out and buy marshmallow fluff? LMAO!
>
> G.
>
Hey, it's white! And no one said the stores would shut down.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
>
> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.

Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O

I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
down to a wafer.

G.

jmcquown wrote:

> I have two battery powered Coleman type lanterns and a book light.

I have a 60 amp generator and a pair of heavy gauge, long extension
cords. We run the generator in our stand-alone garage, run the
extension cords into the house, usually one to the basement one to the
first floor, and we're all set. The kids even watched TV during the
last big power outage.

-S-

On 1/27/2014 6:18 PM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>
> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>
> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
> down to a wafer.
>
> G.
>
I guess I just lucked out on good (and inexpensive) goose down pillows.
They don't smash down flat at all. I have a problem with those
polyester fiberfilled pillows getting flattened.

I wouldn't want to sleep under a down comforter, that's for sure. I'm
always kicking the covers off. I don't care if it's 20 degrees outside,
I have to have a fan running. The room has to be cold and have air
circulating, otherwise I can't sleep.

Jill

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:58:16 -0500, Gary > wrote:

> Nancy Young wrote:
> >
> > On 1/27/2014 10:24 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> >
> > > Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
> > > important if you can't get to the store.
> > >
> > > Milk
> > > Eggs
> > >
> > > Next?
> >
> > Marshmallow Fluff!
>
> LOL! Get out of here! If the stores shut down do to weather, you
> would run out and buy marshmallow fluff? LMAO!
>

She didn't say that.

She said:

When I was working in Memphis we'd always talk about how everything
"white" disappeared from grocery store shelves when snow was
predicted. People panicked. (It's not limited to food, mind you.
Toilet paper ranks right up there. )

For fun, we started a list of White Food, trying to name as many white
foods as we could think of.



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Good Friends.
Good Memories.

On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:18:16 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
> >
>
> > I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>
>
>
> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>
> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>
> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>
> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>
> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>
> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>
>
>
> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>
> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>
> down to a wafer.

IKWYM. Currently, I have two down pillows stuffed into one pillow cover and they are just the ticket. They stay nice and fluffy, yet comfy.

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>
> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>
> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
> down to a wafer.

My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.

On 1/27/2014 7:26 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:18:16 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>>
>> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>>
>> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>>
>> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>>
>> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>>
>> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>>
>>
>>
>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>>
>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>>
>> down to a wafer.
>
> IKWYM. Currently, I have two down pillows stuffed into one pillow cover and they are just the ticket. They stay nice and fluffy, yet comfy.
>
>
>
You folks must have really bad down pillows. I didn't pay a fortune for
mine. They're nice and fluffy. One standard down pillow barely fits in
the standard white cotton pillow case.

Jill

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2014 7:26 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>> On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:18:16 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>>>
>>> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>>>
>>> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>>>
>>> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>>>
>>> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>>>
>>> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>>>
>>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>>>
>>> down to a wafer.
>>
>> IKWYM. Currently, I have two down pillows stuffed into one pillow cover
>> and they are just the ticket. They stay nice and fluffy, yet comfy.
>>
>>
>>
> You folks must have really bad down pillows. I didn't pay a fortune for
> mine. They're nice and fluffy. One standard down pillow barely fits in
> the standard white cotton pillow case.

The one my MIL had was HUGE! But anything but comfortable.

I currently have one from Costco. Memory foam with a gel side. I hardly
ever use the gel side as it is for overheating. I bought it for summer but
it's just like when I buy boots for winter. Buy boots? Won't snow. Buy
pillow for overheating? No hot weather.

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:01:46 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

> You folks must have really bad down pillows. I didn't pay a fortune for
> mine. They're nice and fluffy. One standard down pillow barely fits in
> the standard white cotton pillow case.

Where did you find yours? I want to buy down pillows that I can keep
down at my DD's for when I stay with her. So, I bought two from
Costco a few weeks ago - one soft and one medium. I didn't intend to
sleep on the soft one, but use it to support a bad shoulder when I'm
in bed and I wanted to use the medium one for sleeping, but the medium
one is too hard for me. I don't even like the down-stopping material
on that one. It's crackles and sounds more like plastic than
material.


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Good Friends.
Good Memories.

On 1/27/2014 9:42 AM, Ophelia wrote:

>> Marshmallow fluff
>
> I saw that this morning at the supermarket! What do you do with it?

I stir in 1 - 2 teaspoons of really hot water and stir and stir until it
is smooth and creamy. It then goes on top of chocolate ice cream. This
is really the best if you use top quality chocolate ice cream. I love
this stuff!! (don't tell any of my doctors!)

--
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I intend to live forever....so far, so good.
......Steven Wright

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:51:46 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>>
>> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>>
>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>> down to a wafer.
>
>My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
>little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.

It was a very poor quality goose down pillow if it was like that.

We have a down featherbed - it lives under the bottom fitted sheet on
the bed - and I never get poked by feathers from it. Our comforter is
some sort of synthetic material rather than down, and it is quite
warm, but I love the soft comfort of the featherbed.

Doris

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:09:49 -0500, Doris Night
> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:51:46 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
> >> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
> >> down to a wafer.
> >
> >My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
> >little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.
>
> It was a very poor quality goose down pillow if it was like that.

It sounds more like her MIL washed it and didn't dry it properly. I
know that down/feather pillows, quilts need to be dried with
something to beat them while they toss in the dryer - like tennis
balls or washable athletic shoes, so goose down is probably the same
(although I suspect that Julie's MIL did not have a *goose* down
pillow)
>



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Good Memories.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:09:49 -0500, Doris Night
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:51:46 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>> >> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>> >> down to a wafer.
>> >
>> >My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
>> >little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.
>>
>> It was a very poor quality goose down pillow if it was like that.
>
> It sounds more like her MIL washed it and didn't dry it properly. I
> know that down/feather pillows, quilts need to be dried with
> something to beat them while they toss in the dryer - like tennis
> balls or washable athletic shoes, so goose down is probably the same
> (although I suspect that Julie's MIL did not have a *goose* down
> pillow)

Well maybe it wasn't. I didn't ask her what it was. I do know that it
wasn't a normal pillow.

On 27-Jan-2014, "Steve Freides" > wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
> > I have two battery powered Coleman type lanterns and a book light.
>
> I have a 60 amp generator and a pair of heavy gauge, long extension
> cords. We run the generator in our stand-alone garage, run the
> extension cords into the house, usually one to the basement one to the
> first floor, and we're all set. The kids even watched TV during the
> last big power outage.
>
> -S-

Worst case, I move in with my son who lives a block away in a house I
inherited when my mother passed. It has a whole-house natural gas powered
generator. During the last two power outages, my son didn't even know they
had happened until quite a bit after the fact.

In her final years, my mother required oxygen therapy 24x7; the only way to
ensure she would survive an outage of more than a few minutes was to install
the generator. It is an automatic fail-over system, requiring no
intervention to provide continuous power.

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:36:32 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:

> Worst case, I move in with my son who lives a block away in a house I
> inherited when my mother passed. It has a whole-house natural gas powered
> generator. During the last two power outages, my son didn't even know they
> had happened until quite a bit after the fact.

Wow! How much did that set her back (ballpark it) and how many years
ago was it installed?


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Good Friends.
Good Memories.

On Monday, January 27, 2014 8:21:26 PM UTC-8, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:09:49 -0500, Doris Night
>
> > wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:51:46 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>
> > > wrote:
>
> >
>
> > >>
>
> > >> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>
> > >> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>
> > >> down to a wafer.
>
> > >
>
> > >My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
>
> > >little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.
>
> >
>
> > It was a very poor quality goose down pillow if it was like that.
>
>
>
> It sounds more like her MIL washed it and didn't dry it properly. I
>
> know that down/feather pillows, quilts need to be dried with
>
> something to beat them while they toss in the dryer - like tennis
>
> balls or washable athletic shoes, so goose down is probably the same
>
> (although I suspect that Julie's MIL did not have a *goose* down
>
> pillow)
>

I have one of those down jackets with the vertical channels that seem to be de rigueur in the SF Bay Area.

They are light as a well, as a feather, come in a myriad of bright colors, and compact into a tiny bag about eight inches long and ~3 in. in diameter.

I love mine, but even in a San Francisco winter (meaning not that cold) one needs a warm sweater underneath.

But yes, to the point, they come with the advice to dry it with a couple of tennis balls. That seems rather brutal to me and may cause some damage so I am trying to think of something else to use. Any thoughts?

Julie P.

> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > It sounds more like her MIL washed it and didn't dry it properly. I
>
> >
>
> > know that down/feather pillows, quilts need to be dried with
>
> >
>
> > something to beat them while they toss in the dryer - like tennis
>
> >
>
> > balls or washable athletic shoes, so goose down is probably the same
>
> >
>
> > (although I suspect that Julie's MIL did not have a *goose* down
>
> >
>
> > pillow)
>
> >
>
>
>
> I have one of those down jackets with the vertical channels that seem to be de rigueur in the SF Bay Area.
>
>
>
> They are light as a well, as a feather, come in a myriad of bright colors, and compact into a tiny bag about eight inches long and ~3 in. in diameter.
>
>
>
> I love mine, but even in a San Francisco winter (meaning not that cold) one needs a warm sweater underneath.
>
>
>
> But yes, to the point, they come with the advice to dry it with a couple of tennis balls. That seems rather brutal to me and may cause some damage so I am trying to think of something else to use. Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Julie P.


Whoops, I meant horizontal channels, not vertical.

Julie P.

In article >, says...
>
> "Gary" > wrote in message ...
> > jmcquown wrote:
> >>
> >> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
> >
> > Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
> > speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
> > bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
> > actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
> > sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
> > and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
> >
> > I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
> > comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
> > down to a wafer.
>
> My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
> little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.

That sounds like a (bad) feather pillow. Pure goose down is soft, has
no feathers and pokey bits, and is as light as, well, a feather.

Janet UK

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2014 6:18 PM, Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>>
>> Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>> speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>> bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>> actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>> sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>> and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>>
>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>> down to a wafer.
>>
>> G.
>>
> I guess I just lucked out on good (and inexpensive) goose down pillows.
> They don't smash down flat at all. I have a problem with those polyester
> fiberfilled pillows getting flattened.
>
> I wouldn't want to sleep under a down comforter, that's for sure. I'm
> always kicking the covers off. I don't care if it's 20 degrees outside, I
> have to have a fan running. The room has to be cold and have air
> circulating, otherwise I can't sleep.

I have to keep a fan running for the breathing.

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:10:40 -0800 (PST), wrote:

> But yes, to the point, they come with the advice to dry it with a couple of tennis balls. That seems rather brutal to me and may cause some damage so I am trying to think of something else to use. Any thoughts?

Down needs something to beat it while it tumbles and tennis balls do
work. As I mentioned previously, shoes do too - but I'd go with the
balls. Buy a canister of tennis balls the next time you see them on
sale or drop by a tennis club and pick up some dead balls to use.


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Good Memories.

jmcquown > wrote in news:bknc0oFto3eU1
@mid.individual.net:

>
> When I was working in Memphis we'd always talk about how everything
> "white" disappeared from grocery store shelves when snow was predicted.
> People panicked. (It's not limited to food, mind you. Toilet paper
> ranks right up there. )
>
Not an item for your list, but the checkout staff at my go-to
supermarket in New England call the rush that descends on the store when
snow is predicted "The French Toast Panic". Everyone comes in for milk,
eggs, and bread.

We had snow on the weekend of the NFL conference championships, and the
store manager was walking around with a huge smile on his face. He told
me he figured between the weather and football, he was going to make his
month's numbers in one day.

"DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
...
> On 1/27/2014 9:42 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
> >> Marshmallow fluff
>>
>> I saw that this morning at the supermarket! What do you do with it?
>
> I stir in 1 - 2 teaspoons of really hot water and stir and stir until it
> is smooth and creamy. It then goes on top of chocolate ice cream. This
> is really the best if you use top quality chocolate ice cream. I love
> this stuff!! (don't tell any of my doctors!)

Good grief!! Would that be a thousand calories ?? )

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"Janet" > wrote in message
t...
> In article >, says...
>>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > jmcquown wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>> >
>> > Goose down pillows are expensive, lame, and a waste of good money. I
>> > speak from experience too. hehh Back when I was married, my wife
>> > bought me a large one for a christmas present. Seemed nice until I
>> > actually slept on it. I had to fold it like 12 times (because it kept
>> > sinking down), I ended up with a king size down pillow, folded over
>> > and over to about the size of a washcloth. ;-O
>> >
>> > I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>> > comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>> > down to a wafer.
>>
>> My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
>> little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.
>
> That sounds like a (bad) feather pillow. Pure goose down is soft, has
> no feathers and pokey bits, and is as light as, well, a feather.
>
> Janet UK

Could be then.

On 27-Jan-2014, sf > wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:36:32 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
>
> > Worst case, I move in with my son who lives a block away in a house I
> > inherited when my mother passed. It has a whole-house natural gas
> > powered
> > generator. During the last two power outages, my son didn't even know
> > they
> > had happened until quite a bit after the fact.
>
> Wow! How much did that set her back (ballpark it) and how many years
> ago was it installed?

~$9,000 installed, $125/year service contract. It was installed nearly 5
years ago.

On 1/27/2014 9:08 PM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:01:46 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> You folks must have really bad down pillows. I didn't pay a fortune for
>> mine. They're nice and fluffy. One standard down pillow barely fits in
>> the standard white cotton pillow case.
>
> Where did you find yours? I want to buy down pillows that I can keep
> down at my DD's for when I stay with her. So, I bought two from
> Costco a few weeks ago - one soft and one medium. I didn't intend to
> sleep on the soft one, but use it to support a bad shoulder when I'm
> in bed and I wanted to use the medium one for sleeping, but the medium
> one is too hard for me. I don't even like the down-stopping material
> on that one. It's crackles and sounds more like plastic than
> material.
>
>
I ordered them from JC Penney, I think it was last year. IIRC the two
cost $30. I probably also found a coupon code for either free shipping
or a % off. (I always look for those.)

Jill

On 1/28/2014 10:24 AM, barbie gee wrote:
>
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> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "DreadfulBitch" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 1/27/2014 9:42 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> >> Marshmallow fluff
>>>>
>>>> I saw that this morning at the supermarket! What do you do with it?
>>>
>>> I stir in 1 - 2 teaspoons of really hot water and stir and stir until
>>> it is smooth and creamy. It then goes on top of chocolate ice
>>> cream. This is really the best if you use top quality chocolate ice
>>> cream. I love this stuff!! (don't tell any of my doctors!)
>>
>> Good grief!! Would that be a thousand calories ?? )
>
> I thought the only thing it was for was making Rice Krispy Treats, no?
>
I forgot about Rice Krispy treats!

Jill

On 1/27/2014 10:53 AM, Cheri wrote:
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> It's been a while since I dragged out this old chestnut.
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>> For fun, we started a list of White Food, trying to name as many white
>> foods as we could think of. Of course you wouldn't necessarily run
>> out and buy these things just because you're expecting snow. But it
>> lead to some fun discussions. (And we were all hoping for a "snow day".)
>>
>> Toilet paper aside, I'll start with two items which probably are
>> important if you can't get to the store.
>>
>> Milk
>> Eggs
>>
>> Next?
>>
>> Jill
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> Not necessarily important, but it's what I could think up.
>
> Lard
> Sugar

I'll add:

cauliflower

Hey, it's white! usually...

Jill

On 1/27/2014 11:20 AM, l not -l wrote:
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> On 27-Jan-2014, jmcquown > wrote:
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>> Milk
>> Eggs
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>> Next?
> Splenda 8-)
>
> Seriously - rice
>
White cheddar

Jill

Doris Night wrote:
>"Julie Bove" wrote:
>>"Gary" wrote:
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>>>
>>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>>> down to a wafer.
>>
>> I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had little pokey bits in it.

The pokey bits are the best parts.

>It was a very poor quality goose down pillow if it was like that.

These are very high quality pillows:
http://tinyurl.com/pwfoppq

l not -l wrote:
> On 27-Jan-2014, sf > wrote:
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>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:36:32 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
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>>> Worst case, I move in with my son who lives a block away in a house
>>> I inherited when my mother passed. It has a whole-house natural gas
>>> powered
>>> generator. During the last two power outages, my son didn't even
>>> know they
>>> had happened until quite a bit after the fact.
>>
>> Wow! How much did that set her back (ballpark it) and how many years
>> ago was it installed?
>
> ~$9,000 installed, $125/year service contract. It was installed
> nearly 5 years ago.

We've considered doing that but, so far, our situation hasn't warranted
it.

There are also some issues in our part of the world with gas supply,
e.g., someone else in our town was told that there wasn't enough gas
pressure/volume/capacity in his block to support a big generator - it
wouldn't work properly and would cause problems for his neighbors, so he
couldn't do it. Our electrician told us this isn't uncommon and you
have to check with the local utility before you install one of these
things. That was about the quote we got, too, $10k if memory serves.

Our house has gas heat, so we need only a tiny bit of electricity to
power the circuit that works the thermostat and turns the boiler on and
off. Our is actually a construction generator we picked up a hurricane
or two ago - battery-powered starter with pull-cord backup, makes a
racket but it we had it running for 24 hours continuously and it worked
great. It runs about 8 hours on one of its tanks of gasoline (don't
recall how big that is - a few gallones, I think) so we keep a spare can
or two of gasoline plus a hose to siphon from one of the cars if
necessary.

Another fail-safe thing we're going to install is a sump pump driven by
municipal water pressure - since the sumps don't work when the
electricity doesn't, you can end up with a flooded basement, which we
did once. Our plumber recommended a water-powered sump over a battery
backup for the electric kind, so we're going to replace of our electric
pumps with a pressure-driven kind. We have two holes in the lowest
section of basement in our house and what's called a French drain so
only one pump needs to be working at a time, and one powered by
electricity and one powered by water pressure - which, like the gas
supply, rarely goes out of service - seems like a good thing.

-S-

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:22:50 AM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> >"Julie Bove" wrote:
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> >>"Gary" wrote:
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> >>> jmcquown wrote:
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> >>>>
>
> >>>> I do have two goose down pillows on my bed.
>
> >>>
>
> >>> I did not like it. Goose down would be excellent insulation for a
>
> >>> comforter but not for a pillow where your head keeps compressing it
>
> >>> down to a wafer.
>
> >>
>
> >> I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had little pokey bits in it.
>
>
>
> The pokey bits are the best parts.
>
Sheldon, I really don't think that Julie is free for the poking.
She frequently mentions a husband. Perhaps you should re-focus
your attentions on the vomit chick. I mean, you could put a barf
bag over her face. Just make sure it's one of the heavy duty ones.

--B

On 28-Jan-2014, "Steve Freides" > wrote:

> l not -l wrote:
> > On 27-Jan-2014, sf > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:36:32 GMT, "l not -l" > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Worst case, I move in with my son who lives a block away in a house
> >>> I inherited when my mother passed. It has a whole-house natural gas
> >>> powered
> >>> generator. During the last two power outages, my son didn't even
> >>> know they
> >>> had happened until quite a bit after the fact.
> >>
> >> Wow! How much did that set her back (ballpark it) and how many years
> >> ago was it installed?
> >
> > ~$9,000 installed, $125/year service contract. It was installed
> > nearly 5 years ago.
>
> We've considered doing that but, so far, our situation hasn't warranted
> it.
>
> There are also some issues in our part of the world with gas supply,
> e.g., someone else in our town was told that there wasn't enough gas
> pressure/volume/capacity in his block to support a big generator - it
> wouldn't work properly and would cause problems for his neighbors, so he
> couldn't do it. Our electrician told us this isn't uncommon and you
> have to check with the local utility before you install one of these
> things. That was about the quote we got, too, $10k if memory serves.

We did have to have a new, higher capacity METER installed, at no charge, by
the gas company. There was a large capacity supply line run from the new
meter to the generator as part of the install.

The only issue we had in getting it installed was from the electric company
and fire department over the number and placement of warning decals. The
two had different ideas about where the decals should be to keep their
employees safe; it could be disastrous for a worker/firefighter who thought
they had cut off power only to have the generator take over.

Janet wrote:
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> juliebove says...
> > My MIL had one on the spare bed. I hated the thing! Heavy, lumpy, had
> > little pokey bits in it. Plus I am allergic to feathers.
>
> That sounds like a (bad) feather pillow. Pure goose down is soft, has
> no feathers and pokey bits, and is as light as, well, a feather.

Very true, Janet UK! A true down pillow uses only goose down feathers
and they are soft as can be...even the quills. Many cheaper pillows
might claim goose down but they also include regular feathers and
those quills will poke through the fabric.

I had an authentic goose down feather pillow...king size...and the
darn thing compacted down to the size of a washcloth! As I said,
goose down would be great for an insulating comforter but NOT for a
pillow. I've been there and done that. I forget the price of what my
wife paid but it was very expensive for a stupid pillow.
G.

jmcquown wrote:
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> I forgot about Rice Krispy treats!

And what a worthless food/treat that is. I can't believe anyone would
waste their time making those and then offering them to anyone.

G.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:36:43 AM UTC-8, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:10:40 -0800 (PST), wrote:
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> > But yes, to the point, they come with the advice to dry it with a couple of tennis balls. That seems rather brutal to me and may cause some damage so I am trying to think of something else to use. Any thoughts?
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> Down needs something to beat it while it tumbles and tennis balls do
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> work. As I mentioned previously, shoes do too - but I'd go with the
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> balls. Buy a canister of tennis balls the next time you see them on
>
> sale or drop by a tennis club and pick up some dead balls to use.
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> --
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> Good Food.
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> Good Friends.
>
> Good Memories.

I think tennis balls would destroy the fabric. Maybe I'll look for something smaller and softer, a dog or cat toy maybe.
Thanks, though.

Julie P.