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Weinermr | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 04:09 pm     You guys are cooool!  |
Fruitbat | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 04:14 pm     Yes, we are. It is a cross to bear but we manage. |
Weinermr | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 04:28 pm     And you manage very nicely!  |
Tess | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 05:12 pm     Car, didn't you see somewhere that MsBat takes a very zen approach to something or other? Neat lines in the sand is a very zen thing to do. I like your new look, btw. I may need to borrow it from time to time. |
Car54 | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 05:21 pm     zen/anal retentive... potatoh/potahtoh.... Survivors raking the sand!!!!!! no, no, we cool, we too cool for school... |
Tess | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:03 pm     I have a feeling another smack is in your near future. |
Fruitbat | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:06 pm     I am too cool to go to school but I .<smaaaaaack>. |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:08 pm     Wait a minute! I think the lightbulb just came on about the twist this thread has taken!
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Fruitbat | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:42 pm     See? I knew we could help. Screw the wiring and get a contact high on crazy. It will light up your life. |
Sia | Monday, April 15, 2002 - 09:22 pm     In regard to light bulbs, I have been extremely pleased with the fluorescent lighting fixtures that were recently installed in my kitchen during our seemingly-unending remodeling project. There is a big, beautiful round glass and metal fixture mounted flush to the ceiling over the table and there are four four-foot fluorescent tubes over my sink/dishwasher mounted in an L-shaped hand-built wooden valance. In other places in the house where I have not yet had new light fixtures installed, I have swapped some of the old incandescent (standard) light bulbs for the new compact fluorescent bulbs. I am extremely pleased with the energy savings and the light output yielded. Look for the "EnergyStar" rating on the packaging of new light fixtures (as well as on stickers on new appliances) to compare your current energy use with projected savings (in kwh as well as in dollars) that can be realized by switching to the new fluorescent/energy-conserving home improvement products. The original part of our house was built in 1863 and was retrofitted with wiring at a much later date. When wiring in new lights and circuits for electrical outlets/light switches, my Dad came across what he called old "BX-cable" (flat-coiled aluminum-looking large-diameter wiring) in the upstairs of the house and advised that we not run any new splits off it (as in the aforementioned admonition against mixing old and new wiring), not knowing whether adding to the electrical load would overload the circuit and cause a wiring fire. We left the old (circa 1930s) BX-cable in place and replaced the old standard ceiling fan/light fixture with a new ceiling fan/light fixture that has miniature decorator bulbs topped by tiny lampshades. Additional task lighting is provided by two antique (but electric) hurricane lamps (standard bulbs), a 50-year-old floor-lamp (standard bulb), and an existing fluorescent small-tube task-light. If you are concerned about the load your circuits carry, I respectfully suggest that you consider researching fluorescent lighting; I just love it. I'll love my kitchen even more when the last cabinet/counter is built. |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 07:46 am     Sia, you have sold me, and I am going to put in all fluorescent as soon as possible. I may not have mentioned earlier that this house is pretty much preserved in the state it was in 1971 minus the shag carpeting and funky wallpaper (there were two rooms remaining with gaudy wallpaper, so I KNOW it was all over the house). We are eventually going to redo the whole house and are starting with the kitchen. |
Sia | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:12 pm     Advice requested from the chemists here: what will remove lime/calcium deposits from stainless steel mixing bowls? I have tried "The Works" toilet bowl cleaner, which removed part of the white, crusty build-up, but I can't get rid of it entirely. (Backstory: when my now-husband was a lonely but creative bachelor, he set metal bowls of water on the gas heater as a make-shift humidifier. Gotta love him!) I think the bowls are of stainless, but could be aluminum, I suppose. What I've done so far has caused no discoloration of the metal. Thanks for your help. |
Weinermr | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:23 pm     Sia, try CLR, available at Home Depot and other major hardware stores. (CLR stands for Calcium, Lime, and Rust) |
Sia | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 09:27 pm     Right, but I thought that stuff was the same stuff that is in the toilet bowl cleaner, Weiner. Isn't it? I don't think I have a bottle of CLR on-hand and don't want to invest $4 or so in cleaning solution that I won't use much; I won't be out anything if I just throw the bowls away. Thanks  |
Urgrace | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 11:53 am     Sia, CLR is a cleaning solution that can be used for all sorts of things. We live in an area with very hard lime deposits in the water. We use CLR for cleaning the drip coffee maker, to rid the shower tiles and shower head, and all faucets in the house of deposits. Our refrigerator has a water and ice dispenser which uses a filter to rid the appliance itself of lime, but the line going from the plumbing to the fridge (dishwasher too) can get clogged, so we run CLR through it. Vases that have had flowers in them for a week or so also need to be de-limed, so I soak them for a while with a CLR solution to rid of spots and deposits. The list goes on. Check the back of the bottle for more suggestions. It is definitely worth the $4 or so. |
Ryn | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 01:00 pm     vinager will clean lime as well ;) just let it soak a good long time |
Misslibra | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 03:57 pm     Vinegar will kill certain types of bacteria to or have someone already said that? I didn't read through all of the post here. |
Sia | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 03:58 pm     Okay, Grace, I'll break down and buy some CLR. I have already tried baking soda/vinegar mixture; I did that before I tried the toilet-bowl cleaner. I just really thought the Calcium/Lime/Rust stuff had the same active ingredients as the toilet-bowl chemicals. They're strong and took off part of it (the stuff foams and really acts like it's working!), but I can't get all of the gunk off the metal. I will keep trying, as now it has become somewhat of a challenge. |
Weinermr | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 05:30 pm     Sia, toilet bowl cleaner is more volatile than CLR, but not necessarily more effective in ridding your bowls of the stains you've described. I think the finish on your bowls stands a greater chance of being harmed than if you use the CLR. Give it a try. And as Grace suggested, you'll find many more uses for it. |
Sia | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 08:52 pm     'Kay, guys! I give up. Tomorrow I'll get a bottle of CLR. See, I knew I was gonna regret not taking chemistry. I got away with Geology and Astronomy as science requirements and skipped chemistry altogether! (Confession of an English major! And this from one who took bowling, weight-lifting and tennis as p.e. requirements!! Man, that was EONS ago!) |
Weinermr | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 09:05 pm     Nothing wrong with bowling Sia. If you can spare the time, strike out to Home Depot, pin down where the CLR is located, score a bottle, and have a ball cleaning your bowls. You may find that CLR is right up your alley. If not, don't pour it down the gutter. They may find out and frame you. (No, I'm not a crazy person. I just play one on TVCH.) |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:02 pm     Weinermr, you are one Looney Tunes. And, of course, I don't mean that in a BAD way.
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Karuuna | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 01:42 pm     The thing I admire about bowling lanes is how they'll sell you those spiffy multi-color, go-with-anything shoes for about a dollar! Sometimes you get a really new pair, sometimes a really old pair, but at those prices, you just can't beat 'em. I get all my shoes there. Now if I could just figure out how to get those silly numbers off the back of 'em... maybe MacGyWeinermr has some ideas.... |
Sia | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 02:31 pm     Oh, Weiner, that made me groannnn!! You're too much. I did like bowling when I was a young woman, and I was verrryy "average" as a bowler. I was always on "pins" and needles about my team's final score, however, as the office manager was on my team and winning was extremely important to her. On nights when I bowled poorly, I was actually afraid she might "strike" me, but that never happened. We had a "ball" every night, except for the night of the bowling banquet, which was the occasion of my first real anxiety attack. Such trauma! Being in social situations like that can still put me in the same "frame" of mind, you know? |
Sia | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 02:36 pm     Karuuna, ya mean they let you KEEP those snazzy shoes? Here I always gave them back. Shucks, I could-a had a whole wardrobe of two-tone shoes and never knew it. Darn!!!  |
Urgrace | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 08:22 pm     LOL at the 'bowling' humor Sia, Kar and Weiner! I'm an average bowler too, but I took tennis in college. Loved it. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 08:32 pm     Weiner "strikes me" as a punster, At heart, he's almost a youngster, Give him a pun, He'll spin some fun, Because he's really a funster! |
Weinermr | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 08:53 pm     You all know I like to be silly, Though it's not cause I breathed first in Philly, But those numbers on shoes, What to do? - I will muse..... Oh I know - wear socks that are frilly! |
Buttercup | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 09:05 pm     I am always counting on Weiner, Never have I met any finer, With such poise and fine grace He puts a smile on my face, And I always think of him while eating hot dogs at the diner! |
Juju2bigdog | Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 11:16 pm     Oh dear!
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Weinermr | Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 06:45 am     Thanks Buttercup! Everything will be OK Juju. |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 08:44 am     I was gasping about Weener's puns Then Butter and Twiggs got the runs They posted some verse Don't know which was the worse Now they've got me busting my buns.
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Twiggyish | Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 01:25 pm     LOL!! |
Urgrace | Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 02:40 pm     I love all the puns in this thread Makes me go around scratching my head To see all the laughter Immediately after The words are all done and all said. |
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