@jon-nyc said: @Daniel said: The water has been standing for six months in Sub-Tropical Florida. It's bio-hazard wastewater. I can't really do that and put the towels in my dryer. Go spend a night or two in a hotel and steal their towels. I could put something solid and absorbent in it, but then I'd just have get that out of it. They'll certainly just look inside and want want so see nothing. I bought bleach to replace the small bottle that was left here. I was all set to add bleach (much too late anyway because I had put take over the washer lid and stopped thinking about it but I was going to do it). Then my shower assembly came apart and I put it off. I needed 3 towels to take a shower,very myself, and mop up the floor and dry the back of the bathroom door before I repaired my ceiling and replaced the part. This episode lasted 4vdays before I could fix it. The 3 towels had to be put in a bucket and wrung out by hand, then sprayed with one of my homemade rubbing alcohol and water spray bottles, and then dried in the dryer, and the metal fan had to be run on the highest setting for a couple hours. Every time . It was exhausting Kudos to me for fixing it. If you knew you would know I'm not handy. I'm what I call "not mechanically inclined" (I think this term went out of fashion years ago but I don't care). I've figured out a plan to fix and have fixed 100 things by now. I mean there came a point when it became necessary to develop skills. So I didn't get to the bleach. But I do have enough bleach now to last a long time. I love my towels not that they're anything special. I can't wait until I can wash them all properly.. I have to wash 1 or 2 at a time depending on the size, by hand in the sink and let them dry all day on the porch before I can put them in the dryer. Exhausting. All my other clothes are washed by hand. I refuse to wash and burn other people's chemicals and dirt into my clothes, towels, and bedding. Hard no. I could go to Salvation Army in theory. Thrifting isn't my thing (nothing against, I just hate shopping in any store for anything). jon, I think you have the best idea. Stay in a hotel, steal their towels, replace my towels with nice ones, and keep my towels for utilitarian purposes. Hahaha! I'll figure it out. I'm supposed to make a Walmart wish list anyway. Hopefully Christmas will come early. I still need a lot for the house, mainly the kitchen, but curtains, lamps outside lighting, better tools than Hyper Tough brand (my father had Klein tools back in the day- these to are garbage), more house supplies, etc. I'm getting a new phone. No more waiting on that front. I'll post my choice for you all's opinions. I'm not going to put a 1k phone one my wish list unfortunately for the same reason I'm getting a $500 washer. Don't get me wrong. The $500 washer looks like an oasis in the desert to me at this point.

It will be interesting to see how the Oxford Street initiative works out. Any number of cities, including Chicago, have tried various flavors of shutting down a major thoroughfare to vehicle traffic. They've met with varying degrees of success. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/03/11/why-was-the-state-street-pedestrian-mall-a-failure

Hope I do as well. My father had a big stroke three days after his big 90th birthday party. He died three days after that. Also not a bad way to go.

If that gang was not dangerous they would be funnier.

Gun dog puppy owners fired cap pistols around newborn puppies to avoid raising dogs that feared gunfire years ago. I suppose they use something similar now.

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It sure is. Well done.

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I can agree with all of it completely without the need to conjour empathy for a psychopath.

I harvested all the basil because it was getting down into the 40s and it wasn’t going to last much longer. But the parsley is lush, still going great guns (how can I use it all?) Rosemary, sage and tarragon still fine.

Ironically, the insurance companies haven’t figured out how to give you a safety discount for having such a high tech marvel that is auto breaking.

@ShiroKuro Pull up the covers, SK. Sleep. It’s the best watch to get past this. It will all be over before you know it!

The Democrats are currently at 254 seats in the House and it ain't over yet. "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." --Lindsey Graham

I'm getting lost in time and space reading that website. LOL! I need to get some work done here! I might just have to get a copy of his book.

A month ago, according to rumor "news" Toyota was bringing an EV with a battery that would charge quickly and be good for over 600 miles to market. A couple of days ago, the "news" was that Toyota will produce an AREV (advance range electric vehicle), battery powered, but with a small motor running a generator to charge the batteries. General Motors early EV was electric with a small motor generator, but they were poorly made and caught fire too often from what I read. Many locomotives are electrical with diesel powered generators and have been for years.

@Axtremus said: (If you like what happened, you should pay me to travel again in 2028. ) Great photos! I won’t embarrass myself by trying to guess, although some of them I have an idea.