Small Talk: The Quiver

[Morrigan2575]

34 minutes ago, Delphi said:

@Mellowyellow The malaria was a joke from Archer, actually referring to the bayous of Louisiana,  where I'd also like to nor live. 

On the creatures front we'll have to strongly disagree,  you guys have far too many giant spiders and giant snakes fighting saltwater crocodiles for me. 

But can you name/identify every species of Crocodile/Alligator? ??

[BunsenBurner]

@Mellowyellow Lemon Meringue pie is my most favorite pie in the world!! Yummy. Sorry you dropped it.

[tv echo]

Remember when EW's Fall TV Cover Battle started in July and someone here said that Supernatural was excluded from the voting choices because EW planned to do a special Supernatural cover anyway? Well, that person was right...

Get a sneak peek at Supernatural season 13 with EW's special collector's edition
SAMANTHA HIGHFILL SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 
http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/29/supernatural-special-collectors-edition/

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There’s simply no such thing as too much Supernatural. That’s precisely why the show is headed into its 13th season (which premieres Thursday, Oct. 12) with a fandom that only seems to be growing. That’s also why the editors of Entertainment Weekly have put together Entertainment Weekly: The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural, a special issue filled with 96 pages of nothing but Winchester-related content.

 

Edited October 1, 2017 by tv echo

[Morrigan2575]

Oh wow, they actually out Jensen in front. LOL

[bijoux]

Do they normally do it the other way around?

[Morrigan2575]

33 minutes ago, bijoux said:

Do they normally do it the other way around?

CW posters, DVD covers, etc usually (not always) have the boys reversed. Usually Sam/Jared is on the left and in front, Dean/Jensen is on the right and behind. 

I think a large portion of that comes from them reusing the same photoshoot for years and just changing the backgrounds.

Edited October 1, 2017 by Morrigan2575

[Chaser]

The funny thing is, because of the leather jackets and the way they are standing, I couldn't tell who was in front at first. 

[Starfish35]

3 hours ago, Chaser said:

The funny thing is, because of the leather jackets and the way they are standing, I couldn't tell who was in front at first. 

Same here.

[Morrigan2575]

My eyes have been trained to look ?

[statsgirl]

The #PuberMe photos where celebrities share their awkward puberty photos to raise money for Puerto Rico.  Kind of fun seeing if you can guess who the adult is from the child.

Many are good but this one gets my admiration to

Spoiler

Laura Benanti

for the guts to post it.

http://toofab.com/photos/279b397e-802f-45d4-dee7-44ec5fc738af

Edited October 2, 2017 by statsgirl

[Mellowyellow]

On 9/30/2017 at 2:49 AM, BunsenBurner said:

@Mellowyellow Lemon Meringue pie is my most favorite pie in the world!! Yummy. Sorry you dropped it.

Here's a slice of pie for you hun! I was able to rebake and finally move on with my life!

Do you guys have mulberries over there? My mulberry tree is going nuts and I am harvesting about 500g every day. It's driving me insane since I can't stand to waste them! Have frozen many batches, made muffins, jelly (I think you guys call it jello, not the jam jelly), given away but that tree is still killing me with fruit! Might resort to making a pie next although I have no idea how it will taste! 

[statsgirl]

You're so lucky!  I wish I had fruit like that growing near my house.  I have to go to the market if I want to make jam from berries.

I have an apple tree which produces fruit only every second year so I'm impatiently waiting for the apples to ripen now.  I offer one to people who stop by and ask about it but last week I found someone picking a bunch because she "likes sour apples".  I'm still upset because I'm counting on those apple for the winter.  I told her she could take four but I don't trust her not to take more when I'm not looking.

Jello is a clear gelatin dessert, usually for kids but also for pre-op and tender stomachs.  We call preserves jelly is when it's clear, jam when it's got fruit in it.

You asked a few pages back, @Mellowyellow, if we have raccoons.  We have TONS of raccoons, and they get into everything including my house if I leave the door open.  Or even the windows on the second floor.  They've figured out how to climb up the house, and long the roof, and in at the window box.  Downtown one was spotted on a tenth floor balcony, and moved into a bank and one got on the subway. The real problem with that they can carry a dangerous illness that you can breathe in from being around their feces.

On the other hand, the positive is that they don't hurt our pet cats and dogs.  When the local coyote gets hungry in winter it does kill small pets and since a coy-wolf was spotted about half a mile from me, I'm worried whenever our cats are out overnight.

Edited October 2, 2017 by statsgirl

[catrox14]

Welp. This day can kind of just go to Hell.

RIP Tom Petty

Edited October 2, 2017 by catrox14

[Morrigan2575]

He passed away? That's just awful.

[catrox14]

Just now, Morrigan2575 said:

He passed away? That's just awful.

Yup. Heart attack. :(

[Morrigan2575]

That sucks ?

[jay741982]

42 minutes ago, catrox14 said:

Welp. This day can kind of just go to Hell.

RIP Tom Petty

 

I'm so heartbroken I loved this man's music. One of my favorite artists of all time 

[Morrigan2575]

Hmm, TMZ is reporting that Tom Petty is clinging to life but, not expected to last the night.

[bijoux]

I feel like an asshole for changing topics after the news about Tom Petty, but I found water on my kitchen floor just before midnight. It looks like the pipe under the sink is leaking and it's actually the part that goes under the cabinet. I cleaned up the water, shut off the water valves and plugged out the water heater and dishwasher. And stuck some rags under there. Is there anything else I can do to prevent disaster before morning when I can call a plumber and actuall go to sleep relatively calmly?

[catrox14]

6 minutes ago, bijoux said:

I feel like an asshole for changing topics after the news about Tom Petty, but I found water on my kitchen floor just before midnight. It looks like the pipe under the sink is leaking and it's actually the part that goes under the cabinet. I cleaned up the water, shut off the water valves and plugged out the water heater and dishwasher. And stuck some rags under there. Is there anything else I can do to prevent disaster before morning when I can call a plumber and actuall go to sleep relatively calmly?

I think you've done all you can. Sorry you have to deal with that :(

[statsgirl]

2 hours ago, bijoux said:

I cleaned up the water, shut off the water valves and plugged out the water heater and dishwasher. And stuck some rags under there. Is there anything else I can do to prevent disaster before morning when I can call a plumber and actuall go to sleep relatively calmly?

You've done more than I would have thought to do.  If you've shut off the water valves you should be okay.

I hope it's not too big a job to fix.

[Mellowyellow]

@bijoux shutting off the water will prevent any nasty surprises at night! Just don't do what hubby and I did! We got out our silicon gun and attempted to seal the pipe with silicon! Plumber was NOT happy when we called him in a week later! 

I usually pretend I am a pioneer whenever these plumbing troubles arise! Lessens the stress if I'm imagining I'm Laura Ingalls Wilder!

[Jediknight]

And it's official, Petty has passed.

Vegas made the day shit, and this has just added to it.  October 2, 2017, a day that freaking sucked.

Edited October 3, 2017 by Jediknight

[bijoux]

I'm sorry abouut Petty, but nothing about that sounded promising, what with no brain activity when he was brought to the hospital. Although I have to say it's awfully morbid that multiple sites, I believe, reported on his passing before it actually happened.

[tv echo]

Question: how do I create a screenshot and add it to a post?  Thanks.

[bijoux]

What device are you using?

[tv echo]

PC laptop, Google Chrome browser, and Microsoft operating system.

[bijoux]

For a screenshot, it should either be just hitting PrtScr, or Alt and PrtScr simultaneously. I usually paste it into Paint then. For inserting into a post, hit 'Click to choose files' under the text box. 

[tv echo]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[SmallScreenDiva]

2 hours ago, tv echo said:

PC laptop, Google Chrome browser, and Microsoft operating system.

There might also be a clipping tool if you just want to capture a specific area of the screen 

[BkWurm1]

I recently was introduced to the clipping tool.  Very handy and easy.  Worth doing a google search on how.  It's already a feature on Windows.  

[Mellowyellow]

@bijoux did you sort out your leaky pipe?

@statsgirl is it strangers asking you for apples??? I'd go on a rampage if anyone took my fruit! My dad offered to plant bananas in my front yard as well (we have two huge patches at the back) but I told him not too as I'm extremely defensive about my fruit and would spend the rest of my life lying in wait in case anyone tries to chop down a bushel! Plus the gardener would have a fit! Hehe we're notorious for putting in random plants which drives him crazy.  

Oh you should totally look into a mulberry tree! Grows like a weed it does! I hosted a play date and the bunch of kids polished off a kilo for me. Today I picked another kilo off that crazy tree and that's not counting all the fruit it dropped because I was too lazy to harvest yesterday! 

[bijoux]

The plumber came yesterday. It turned out to be the water heater's safety valve. It was repaired relativelty quickly and didn't cost much. Thanks for asking. :) Plus, I'm apparently unaware of my own strength because he commented that, wow, those valves are really shut off. Well, yeah, I wanted to avoid waking up to a full on flood.

[statsgirl]

@bijoux, I'm glad it worked out well.  I had been wondering so thanks for letting us know.

5 hours ago, Mellowyellow said:

Oh you should totally look into a mulberry tree! Grows like a weed it does! I hosted a play date and the bunch of kids polished off a kilo for me. Today I picked another kilo off that crazy tree and that's not counting all the fruit it dropped because I was too lazy to harvest yesterday! 

This is a brilliant idea!  And the red mulberry is an endangered species here so I can feel virtuous planting one.  (There are fewer than 300 left in my province.)  It also feeds raccoons so maybe they will leave my garbage alone.

Yes, it was a stranger who was picking my apples.  Usually when someone comes by and comments on my tree I offer them an apple from it (I did with a little girl yesterday) but it was just that this woman was picking apples to take home with her when I've been waiting two years for my tree to produce some more fruit that upset me.

[Mellowyellow]

@statsgirl can you buy them at a nursery?

That mulberry of mine is messing with me again. I was so hoping to write tonight but had to bake a slice instead. Now I'm waiting for the thing to cool down before I can pack it away and go to sleep. 

I'm going to make jam tomorrow! 

Does your tree bear no fruit every second year at all? My citrus are similar but they'll have about 20 blood oranges (or lemons etc) one year and then 200 the next year, 20  the year after, you get the idea. 

[Delphi]

Ugh,  I get home from work tonight with a leak in my bathroom from the upstairs unit.   Understandably, I'm annoyed and go outside to smoke a cigarette.   My balcony door is tampered with and no longer locks and the frame looks like someone tried to break in.   I'm on the ground floor.   Weekend effectively ruined. 

[catrox14]

4 minutes ago, Delphi said:

Ugh,  I get home from work tonight with a leak in my bathroom from the upstairs unit.   Understandably, I'm annoyed and go outside to smoke a cigarette.   My balcony door is tampered with and no longer locks and the frame looks like someone tried to break in.   I'm on the ground floor.   Weekend effectively ruined. 

oh no. That sucks.  :(

[thegirlsleuth]

6 minutes ago, Delphi said:

Ugh,  I get home from work tonight with a leak in my bathroom from the upstairs unit.   Understandably, I'm annoyed and go outside to smoke a cigarette.   My balcony door is tampered with and no longer locks and the frame looks like someone tried to break in.   I'm on the ground floor.   Weekend effectively ruined. 

That's awful.  I don't know if you have sliding doors, but someone bent the frame of my sliding patio doors and I used a broom handle wedged inside to keep it closed until the my building manager could replace.  Stay safe!

[Delphi]

1 minute ago, thegirlsleuth said:

That's awful.  I don't know if you have sliding doors, but someone bent the frame of my sliding patio doors and I used a broom handle wedged inside to keep it closed until the my building manager could replace.  Stay safe!

We have actual bars that we can use from the inside to do that, which I'm gonna do.   It just sucks that I moved to one of the safer areas of my tricity area and have to worry now.   Before I soldmy house half the time we didn't even bother locking the door and now safety seems like a must have.   We've been here about a year and a half and have had three lgbt hate crime things and now this,  it's all very disheartening. 

[Mellowyellow]

oh you poor thing @Delphi

That must be extremely distressing.

Did you move to an entirely different area or just from a house to an apartment in the same suburb/city?

[Delphi]

Well,  we went from me inheriting a house when I was 18 to being able to keep it up for 10 years.   Turns out junkie parents aren't the best handyman.  So my sister and I sold for when property tax skyrocketed and we couldn't afford to fix and pay.   I moved to an apartment a city away,  but only like three blocks.   Hate crime attacks but the police stop it.   We moved to a close by unit this June and things have been fine until recently. 

We live near a high school,  so I'm sure that has something to do with it as these things always happen early autumn. 

I'll adapt,  I'm from dc,  I'm used to crime.   My partner is an Airman, he's used to worse.  It's just very aggravating. 

[Mellowyellow]

Awww *huggles*

You guys seem to have really bad property tax!

No exemptions if it's your main residence?

[bijoux]

:/ I hope your weekend goes better than it started.

[Delphi]

Thanks for all the sympathy guys,  lock is fixed.   (For those wondering, apparently the bar lock thing on sliding doors is called a Charlie Bar,  no idea why.)  Plumbing situation should be fixed by Monday.   But for now I'm stuck using the guest bathroom.   Wow, I can be super dramatic in the moment of bad things happening. 

[BunsenBurner]

5 hours ago, Delphi said:

Thanks for all the sympathy guys,  lock is fixed.   (For those wondering, apparently the bar lock thing on sliding doors is called a Charlie Bar,  no idea why.)  Plumbing situation should be fixed by Monday.   But for now I'm stuck using the guest bathroom.   Wow, I can be super dramatic in the moment of bad things happening. 

I'd rather you be super dramatic and safe than super dramatic  and unsafe.

[Mellowyellow]

@Delphi I don't think you're being dramatic at all. It's upsetting and sucky so of course you're not going to feel all peachy!

Hope you have a fabulous week this week!

[statsgirl]

Dramatic is good when you're upset about bad things happening.  An insecure nest because someone tried to break in merits the drama.

Are you in an area where you can call the police to check it out?

[Mellowyellow]

Folks explain country clubs to me. Do they really exist or just on TV?

Are they only for the super rich? How rich are we talking?

Are they in every town or only rich places?

[LeighAn]

Aren't country clubs just a fancy word for golf clubs? 

[Mellowyellow]

Ooh really? I didn't know! But they always have the fancy drinks/food and the pool and tennis!