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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 07, 2010, 10:03:23 AM
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Oh my.
Picture alert! Picture of hippyhubby Wild Bill, Mrs. Alfred Packer's husband, at this campfire.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 05:07 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Original message
It's 101 degrees outside and I am eating homemade bread. I have to bake cookies and homemade pop tarts yet.
Sigh.
He's worth it.
surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 06:26 PM
Response to Original message
1. Can't you just make some ice pops instead?
That seems to be what everybody wants around here when it's very hot anyway.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:35 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #1
5. Unfortunately
I can't put ice pops in my husband's lunches this week.
Jazzgirl (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 06:35 PM
Response to Original message
2. LOL! I see you're in Oklahoma. I'm in Texas.
It's 102 right now. It is normal for it to be this hot this time of year. I just made Arroz Con Pollo. It smells too yummy. I'm just chillin' after fixing it until I'm ready to eat. I do feel your pain though.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:35 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #2
6. Pretty normal here, too.
I just don't have to like it.
yellerpup (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 05:55 PM
Response to Reply #6
19. I heat ya, sis.
Come on up Nawth. We had ONE really nice day last week, and one so far this week. On second thought, wait a few weeks when it will be nice here and still hot there. Gotta be double tough to fade the Oklahoma heat in August...I feel for you.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-04-10 06:47 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #19
20. Baaaaaaaaabeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I know you know what I'm talking about. One of the bank signs on the way home tonight was reading 109!
yellerpup (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-05-10 08:27 AM
Response to Reply #20
22. I shudder at the thought of having to live in that environment again. You are one brave, pioneering soul and exceptionally dedicated wife to make fresh bread in that weather. Even here, our electricity bill doubled last month (we've only had AC on twice at night) and this month-hoo boy! I bet it's triple what we usually pay. 109 degrees with, what? 82% humidity? Even if it's bone dry, 109 is enough to make me keel over. Be careful out there, sis. A person could get hurt.
auntAgonist (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 06:59 PM
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3. it's 'only' 85 here and I have homemade bread too!
Blueberry muffins, banana muffins and an apple pie all cooling by the window.
Smells yummy in here.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:34 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #3
4. I bet it does!
It all sounds really good.
auntAgonist (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:53 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. It's therapy of sorts
My job is in jeopardy. I had all of last week off, everyone did. They told us to call in this next wednesday to find out if we're laid of permanently or not ... so, I bake to avoid feeling sorry and scared for myself.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:57 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #7
8. I am so sorry to hear that sweetie.
I really hope it isn't true. Sounds like the whole place is in jeopardy. I will keep you in my thoughts and wish you only the best.
auntAgonist (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-02-10 05:51 PM
Response to Reply #8
15. thanks. I'd be lying if I said I am not scared
This affects everyone I work with. We could all be on unemployment by week's end.
Not to worry; il Duce Bo's in the White House.
The primitives promised us il Duce Bo would take care of all.
elleng (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 08:07 PM
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9. LUCKY that he's worth it, and HE's lucky that you think so!
after which Mrs. Alfred Packer posts a photograph of hippyhubby Wild Bill
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 09:51 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Original message
11. Well, the pop tarts weren't a wise choice in these temps. Even with AC it's still too warm in here for this very soft dough. I keep having to put it in the freezer in different stages to make it workable.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 11:25 PM
THE FARMERETTE FROM UP OVER THERE IN WISCONSIN
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12. mmmm homemade bread
my nose can just smell it! My mom used to make both strawberry jam and homemade bread on a hot summer day. Then we would take the heels of the bread and eat them with the pink "scum" that was scooped off the top of the boiling jam. Good times, good times.
I am pitting a big flat of pie cherries tonight -- couldn't believe I actually snagged some at the farmers market today. I will cook some down for ice cream topping, and freeze the rest.
I also got some transparent apples -- I haven't seen those in a while. I will peel & slice and freeze them. And the farmer gave me a sample apple called "Melba" -- never heard of that variety!
And I bought two beautiful huge bunches of multi-colored carrots to make some refrigerator pickled carrots. I love those.
Love the market!
Tomorrow I am making a batch of whole wheat banana bread for the kid in the family who is working as a fishing coach at summer camp prior to starting college this fall. Gotta keep those care packages in the mail! My mom was very good about sending little care packages to family members, even if it was just a little matchbox car and some gummi bears.
hippywife (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-02-10 06:38 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Response to Reply #12
17. The farmers markets really are so wonderful.
I'm so glad they are really booming and growing all over the country. And really glad you got some cherries. I've never heard of a transparent apple. Hm.
Wonderful memories of your childhood, too, E.
eleny (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-02-10 12:09 AM
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13. He must really appreciate your efforts that you do this every week
And that's really nice all around.
P.S. Earlier, I put a whole wheat bread in the bread baker and walked out the door to go shopping. It makes the kitchen a little hotter plus it's muggy today. But it came out nice for an "all whole wheat flour" bread. Dense but not like a rock.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-02-10 03:55 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Original message
14. It won't help you now but tell Santa Claus that what you want for Xmas is a Sun Oven. With one of those you can do bread, casseroles, baked chickens, roasts, and a small daily batch of cookies from refrigerated dough for the next day's lunch, all without heating up the kitchen. The only problem is the occasional windy day, they're not much good then unless you fancy chasing the reflectors over 3 counties.
I don't think Santa Claus is going to pay any attention to Mrs. Alfred Packer; he didn't last year.
Last year, Mrs. Alfred Packer wanted a chest-style deep-freezer, but Wild Bill said no.
Wild Bill's excuse was that sometimes the electricity goes out, and the stuff in a freezer would deteriorate; but we of course know the real reason; Wild Bill's just a tight old coot.
tigereye (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-05-10 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #14
23. well, that's a really cool idea-we avoided the oven when it was really hot here and grilled outside in the cool of the evening..
Monique1 (279 posts) Wed Aug-04-10 11:05 PM
THE MONICA LEWINSKY PRIMITIVE
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21. It is 106 here in Phx at 8:00 pm
this is the first year I cannot go outside. I'm beginning to find places that will deliver. So far, I am having great luck for deliveries.
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Damn wussies can't stand the heat. They should try Charleston, S.C. when it's around a 100 degrees and the humidity is so high you have to anchor your boat in the driveway so it don't float off.
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It's not all that bad here (I work in OK.) Yeah, it's a little over 100 many days, but there hasn't been much rain, so no horrific humidity.
I wonder if Mrs. Alfred Packer is smart enough to do her baking late at night, or before sunrise? :whatever:
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Oh my.
Picture alert! Picture of hippyhubby Wild Bill, Mrs. Alfred Packer's husband, at this campfire.
Is that Arabic or Judaic lettering on his shirt?
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Is that Arabic or Judaic lettering on his shirt?
Arabic on top, Jewish in the middle, english on the bottom. All say Peace.
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Arabic at the top and Hebrew in the middle.
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Arabic on top, Jewish in the middle, english on the bottom. All say Peace.
Thank You! and UGH! ::)
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93 here with the humidity down to 47%. Lovely day!
What is a pisser is it's only 6 months away from -15! I bet I don't hear DUmmies bitchin about how cold it is in January when it gets close to freezin' in their part of the planet!
Oh wait!
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80 today. Nice and dry. Perfect weather. Windows are all open, and will stay that way all night. Only thing I'm gonna hear are the bikers going down the road and the crickets.
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80 today. Nice and dry. Perfect weather. Windows are all open, and will stay that way all night. Only thing I'm gonna hear are the bikers going down the road and the crickets.
Same here this evening. Sounds of loons in our neck of the woods = heaven.
I'll try to embed a video. If that doesn't work, there's a link afterward.
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It's not all that bad here (I work in OK.) Yeah, it's a little over 100 many days, but there hasn't been much rain, so no horrific humidity.
It's been pouring buckets of rain up here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, about two out of every three days.....since last March. There's more water than air, in the air here.
I wonder if Mrs. Alfred Packer is smart enough to do her baking late at night, or before sunrise?
This reminds me.
I'm still stuck--writer's block--on how Mrs. Alfred Packer manages to pay the pig-tailed bent-back slipper-wearing Celestial for the stainless steel pots and pans (remember, Mrs. Alfred Packer is a notorious racist, a sinophobe), and so I decided to skip working on that part of the War and Peace-length sex novel about Mrs. Alfred Packer, and go a little ahead of the story.
So I get to the part where Mrs. Alfred Packer is delivered of two twin infants, boys.
Wild Bill Jr. is a spitting image of his old man.
But the other twin, Hop Sing, has nothing of hippyhubby Wild Bill.
And now I'm at a second impasse; Wild Bill's reaction to the infant Hop Sing.
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It is friggin hot. I would slay dragons for some rain. My yard looks like dead hay.
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Picture alert! Picture of hippyhubby Wild Bill, Mrs. Alfred Packer's husband, at this campfire.
Gawd!
There is nothing more pathetic than a 65 year-old man with gray hair, stringy, girly pony-tail hanging down his back and a scraggly Medusa beard! Where are the Birkenstocks moron?
GET A FREAKING GRIP!!!111
The 60's are O-V-E-R!
Technology has improved exponentially over the past 40 years!
You CAN buy spare parts for your brain now!
GrASSp the concept of running water, a bar of soap, and a razor!
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 05:07 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
Original message
It's 101 degrees outside and I am eating homemade bread. I have to bake cookies and homemade pop tarts yet.
Sigh.
OMG!
It's very hot in the SUMMER in areas of the nation where it has been VERY hot for the last 70,000 years!!!111EleventySquaredRaisedtothe49thPowerTimesPiCubedPLUSInfinity!
Then, run onto a Internet forum with the newsflash: "It's hot in the summer!!!111"
What's next? In four months run back and post, newsflash: "It's cold in the winter!!!111"
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OMG!
It's very hot in the SUMMER in areas of the nation where it has been VERY hot for the last 70,000 years!!!111EleventySquaredRaisedtothe49thPowerTimesPiCubedPLUSInfinity!
Then, run onto a Internet with the newsflash: "It's hot in the summer!!!111"
What's next? In four months run back and post newsflash: "It's cold in the winter!!!111"
global warming!!! :panic:
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auntAgonist (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-01-10 07:53 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. It's therapy of sorts
My job is in jeopardy. I had all of last week off, everyone did. They told us to call in this next wednesday to find out if we're laid of permanently or not ... so, I bake to avoid feeling sorry and scared for myself.
You and another 25 million Americans. I feel for you, I really do because that kind of worry sucks - especially for those who have ALREADY lost their jobs in this O'conomy and their 'worry' is their unemployment benefits ARE finite and WILL run out soon.
"All hail the Obumbler!"