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Post by templeton on Jan 22, 2014 21:08:03 GMT -5
...and our cars will go un-washed. Personally, I'm so environmentally sensitive and responsible that I've not washed my truck thrice since I bought it in '89. That's a corollary of Quentin Crisp's approach to dusting the house isn't it - hereT
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Post by steev on Jan 22, 2014 22:11:48 GMT -5
Will it reflect badly on me if I say I knew that? Will I care, if it does? Really, if I've not needed to use something for so long that it's got a thick coat of dust, so what? I can be impatient with the notion that "looking good" is equivalent to "being good", not that anyone need care (or does) about about my impatience with social mores.
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Post by RpR on Jan 22, 2014 23:55:28 GMT -5
10:50 P.M. -10 F
I am glad we had almost six inches of snow a couple of days ago, helps keep the frost up higher.
Some say this weather is killing a lot more bad bugs than the warm winters we have had for too long.
I went outside to shovel today and the old and large arborvitae by the side walk creaked in the wind the way a branch does when you cut it off but did not have to cut all the way through.
It was kind of eerie.
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 23, 2014 15:52:15 GMT -5
Well, after the whopping 80 degrees I told you about on Monday (which was s a new record for January), it's suddenly dropped today to freezing with an inch of snow predicted for tomorrow. With weather like this it's hard to know what to select for in a landrace, other than plain 'ol survival of the fittest.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 24, 2014 17:40:49 GMT -5
This why we pee in a bucket in the yard (with left over burnt charcoal and bones.) When the bucket is 1/3 full, I add a 1/3 of water and THEN dump it on the citrus.
The gopher's take this personally. I search for holes to pour this in. Nefarious laughter. Steev, maybe if you wash your truck it will rain?
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Post by billw on Jan 24, 2014 17:58:54 GMT -5
Freakish weather just keeps on keepin' on. 61 degrees and beautifully sunny today. I think I can see the weeds growing out there from my office window.
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Post by steev on Jan 24, 2014 20:33:35 GMT -5
If I wash my truck, it will fall apart (even faster); it's a little-known fact that nothing protects automotive paint as well as a seasoned layer of dirt. That washing it would draw rain is just superstition. Further, since it's common knowledge that the Highway Patrol targets red vehicles, I'm pretty sure muting my truck's redness has saved me (some) tickets.
Actually, I think its current apparent decrepitude is also useful. I'm sure more than one officer has said "Must be a malfunction in this radar-gun; that POS couldn't be going that fast."
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Post by billw on Jan 25, 2014 10:23:37 GMT -5
If I wash my truck, it will fall apart (even faster); it's a little-known fact that nothing protects automotive paint as well as a seasoned layer of dirt. That washing it would draw rain is just superstition. Further, since it's common knowledge that the Highway Patrol targets red vehicles, I'm pretty sure muting my truck's redness has saved me (some) tickets. I've never washed a car. Every once in a while, I'll take my car in for service and they'll wash it. It just looks wrong. Considering that we live in a salt air/rapid rust zone, I think there may be something to the idea of protective grime.
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Post by templeton on Jan 25, 2014 16:52:19 GMT -5
If I wash my truck, it will fall apart (even faster); it's a little-known fact that nothing protects automotive paint as well as a seasoned layer of dirt. That washing it would draw rain is just superstition. Further, since it's common knowledge that the Highway Patrol targets red vehicles, I'm pretty sure muting my truck's redness has saved me (some) tickets. I've never washed a car. Every once in a while, I'll take my car in for service and they'll wash it. It just looks wrong. Considering that we live in a salt air/rapid rust zone, I think there may be something to the idea of protective grime. The protective qualities of car dirt are clear, if only from anecdotal evidence. The destructive power of the washing process is less reported, but clearly washing a car ruins it. There's your trusty steed, just like the day you bought her, except for the layer of grime, and the 100,000 on the clock. Just for a treat you decide to give her a wash. Then as you wash, you stand back to admire your handiwork, (not you Bill obviously since you've never done it )and now her previously unblemished complexion is covered with lots of little dints, and scratches all over her, just as if someone has opened their car door into yours, or bumped her with a shopping trolley or scraped her past that bush in the driveway or touch parked in the parking lot! I've given up my infrequent washing regime completely now, if only to preserve her resale value (which is only notional, how could I ever sell her? Can't report on the car washing/precipitation debate, insufficient data points on both counts. T
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Post by templeton on Jan 25, 2014 17:28:15 GMT -5
... Further, since it's common knowledge that the Highway Patrol targets red vehicles, I'm pretty sure muting my truck's redness has saved me (some) tickets. You don't mind the drop in performance brought on by the de-rubifaction? T
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 25, 2014 21:25:19 GMT -5
Steev, I drive a red truck, and haven't been pulled over in years. Must be the "driving within the speed limit"...
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Post by littleminnie on Jan 26, 2014 17:11:01 GMT -5
I also have a red truck and no tickets.
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Post by steev on Jan 26, 2014 23:35:51 GMT -5
I'm more concerned about the drop in performance due to de-crepitude.
Please note my refraining from comments about women drivers.
Actually, I stopped getting tickets when I no longer had to be exposed to my ex's bad vibes every child-visitation week-end; I always came away very angry.
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Post by zeedman on Jan 26, 2014 23:57:20 GMT -5
I can't even tell what color my truck is, beneath the salt... and that is unlikely to change anytime soon. Can't wash it when water freezes on contact. Not much chance of speeding either, since it has been snowing almost every day. Arctic air mass #2 rolls in tonight; the forecast is for 54 continuous hours below 0*F, with a low of -20... and wind chills Tuesday of -50 (!!!!) This is the coldest stretch I've seen since I moved back here in 1993. The only folks who can remember a colder winter, said it was at least as far back as 1988. All points South, get ready to cover anything growing, its probably headed your way. Well, in the U.S. anyway... those in Oz & NZ are probably safe.
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Post by paquebot on Jan 27, 2014 0:51:01 GMT -5
Arctic air mass #2 rolls in tonight; the forecast is for 54 continuous hours below 0*F, with a low of -20... and wind chills Tuesday of -50 (!!!!) This is the coldest stretch I've seen since I moved back here in 1993. The only folks who can remember a colder winter, said it was at least as far back as 1988. All points South, get ready to cover anything growing, its probably headed your way. Madison, WI 1994 1/17 -17º 1/18 -26º 1/19 -27º 1/20 -27º Lone Rock, WI 1951 1/30 -53º Martin
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