NEPAs Own Off-Topic Thread ( family, home, photos) (Twilight: maintenance, garden)

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by rockky

Wow! Look at the prices of those stoves!!! Repros of basic models can be expensive, huh?

Yeah!! The one I learned to cook on was an original "Royal Bride" with beautiful tan & brown enamel!! We left it up north when we moved (for the new owners)....wonder what THAT was worth!!!!???

[EnyaGirl]

Wow George, it looks like quite an oasis! Just beautiful

[Summering]

Yes, George has himself a real live and kickin' jungle.......I love the new bridge. I think having that greenery all winter long is wonderful.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by EnyaGirl

Wow George, it looks like quite an oasis! Just beautiful

Thanks!! It's a nice, peaceful little place!! This morning I was sitting out under the palms having my coffee, listening to the birds singing & it was so still out (everyone must be still sleeping...) I could hear the surf on the other side of the island!!

Here's 3 more shots I couldn't fit on the last post....1 is of the pile of debris I dragged outta the jungle...the 3rd that size this week!!! (yes, I get my money's worth outta the garbage pickup part of my taxes...they have the claw-truck on "stand-by" for me....)

[Summering]

Hey........Was everyone nice and warm today. Hurray....Spring is on the horizon.
We had a beach day today, it was hot......yes....hot in Surfside Beach, SC...
All I can say is thank goodness January is behind us and February is heading towards a warm spell. I love nice beautiful weather.
I bet JG's jungle is going to have flowers in bloom soon.....

[lialleycat]

Monday Morning Funny

Kitchen Tips for Newlyweds

Never go to bed angry or without checking to see if the stove is off.

Order in. A lot. You can learn to cook later.

Flavored massage oils are not recommended for seasoning new skillets.

No matter how romantic the idea may seem at first, frying bacon for breakfast in the nude is guaranteed to result in a trip to the emergency room for one of you.

When your loved one gets home from a hard day of work, don't burden her with unreasonable expectations: dial Domino's yourself.

Even if it is your refrigerator too, your sneakers and your bait are going to have to find a new home

[Jungle George]

*This is from newshound Dave Barry's colonoscopy journal: *

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an
appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy
showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to
go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis.
Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough,
reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't
really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote,
'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription
for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to
hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now
suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of
America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous.
Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In
accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day;
all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less
flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets
of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with
lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is
about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes
about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like
a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great
sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel
movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump
off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here,
but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the
MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you
wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much
confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything.
And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink
another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your
bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have
not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning
my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I
worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional
return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on
Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers
would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood
and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led
me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a
little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those
hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you
put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand.
Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was
already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in
their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this,
but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy
to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire
Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room,
where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not
see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there
somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over
on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to
the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I
realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy
that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular
procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha
ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for
more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am
going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling
'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I
was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was
looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt
even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my
colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an
internal organ.

ABOUT THE WRITER
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami
Herald.

On the subject of Colonoscopies...

Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite
humorous..... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments
made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their
colonoscopies:

1. 'Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!

2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?'

3. 'Can you hear me NOW?'

4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'

5. 'You know, in Arkansas , we're now legally married.'

6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?'

7. 'You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out...'

8. 'Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!'

9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!

10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.'

11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?'

12. 'God, now I know why I am not gay.'

And the best one of all.

13. 'Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up
there?'

[Jungle George]

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish,
unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la Casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'

A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves
whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the
feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other
computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for
possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be
masculine ('el computador'), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for
themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the
time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had
waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by Summering

Yes, George has himself a real live and kickin' jungle.......I love the new bridge. I think having that greenery all winter long is wonderful.

Now the debris pile has grown to 15 feet long/6 feet high (pix 7)!! They're supposed to come today with the claw-truck to get rid of it finally!!

We can actually walk down both sides of the house now (pix 1 & 2), the "back 40" is all clean (pix 3 & 4) & the grotto is all cleaned out (pix 5 & 6)....getting there...

[lialleycat]

Originally Posted by Jungle George

Now the debris pile has grown to 15 feet long/6 feet high (pix 7)!! They're supposed to come today with the claw-truck to get rid of it finally!!

We can actually walk down both sides of the house now (pix 1 & 2), the "back 40" is all clean (pix 3 & 4) & the grotto is all cleaned out (pix 5 & 6)....getting there...

Hope your garbage people get a good tip at the holidays! Wow! That's a huge pile of stuff!

Garden looks great though. I'm getting the itch to go out and do something in mine, but I know it's too early yet to start. So I just have the seed catalogs and gardening magazines to look though.....