On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:11:28 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> Bags in trees... don't you miss the good old days when we just didn't
>> know about these things? We were so innocent then.
>
>
>http://viralcircus.com/wp-content/up...ts-in-tree.jpg

At least they ate all the bags.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:12:37 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
>I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that have
>been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person, never
>have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
>with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)

Tell him to try the sausage biscuit!

On 10/14/2017 11:12 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle.* It was no different before I moved
>>> here.* I'm a solitary person by nature.* Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly.* Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another.* I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
> have been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social
> person, never have been, more with family than with acquaintances for
> entertainment. DH and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy
> sex talk at McDonald's with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
> Cheri

At Mickey D's????

OMG!

Maybe Arby's...who's got the beef!

On 10/14/2017 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:11:28 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>> Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> Bags in trees... don't you miss the good old days when we just didn't
>>> know about these things? We were so innocent then.
>>
>>
>> http://viralcircus.com/wp-content/up...ts-in-tree.jpg
>
> At least they ate all the bags.
>
http://wwwrollingstones.wpengine.net...01463896_n.jpg

On 10/14/2017 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:12:37 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message ...
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>>
>>> Same here, Jill.
>>
>>
>> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that have
>> been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person, never
>> have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>> and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
>> with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
> Tell him to try the sausage biscuit!
>
https://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/...ie-sausage.png

https://blobsvc.wort.lu/picture/4223...40fd1eaa604875

On 10/14/2017 11:24 AM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>
>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>
> Same here, Jill.
>
I know.

I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin. I'm not sure why lucretia
thinks because I'm the same age as her daughter I should want to jet off
to Italy. Hey, I hope she had a good time, truly. It's not something
I'm interested in doing. I've travelled enough for one lifetime.

There are so many other things I'm more interested in. I've been an
avid bird watcher watcher for 30 years. The only difference now is the
variety of birds. If I didn't live here I would never have seen a great
blue heron strolling across my back yard. LOL

Every day I see birds splashing in the small bird bath on the patio and
it makes me smile. Tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, house and red
finches, Cardinals. Those are the regular visitors to the bird bath.

Butterflies are still abundant! So very pretty to watch.

When it gets cold I'll buy mixed seed and hang up the other
spring-loaded bird feeder. I'll probably buy some suet blocks, too, for
the woodpeckers. For now, there is no shortage of food for wild birds
to find on their own. It still feels like July here. They do always
need a source of fresh water.

I enjoy nature. It doesn't take much to make me smile and feel content.
It has nothing to do with my address.

Jill

On 10/14/2017 1:12 PM, Cheri wrote:
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle.* It was no different before I moved
>>> here.* I'm a solitary person by nature.* Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly.* Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another.* I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
> have been friends since we were kids,

I'm not in touch with anyone from when I was a kid. We moved a lot.
There were promises to be pen-pals, let's keep in touch. That always
petered out.

Even later in life, my friends moved or I did. Marriages, divorces,
etc. So, holiday cards, the occasional phone call. Times change,
circumstances change.

> but I am not a highly social
> person, never have been, more with family than with acquaintances for
> entertainment. DH and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy
> sex talk at McDonald's with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
> Cheri

LOL yes, because of course that's what men do while drinking coffee at
McDonald's!

Jill

On 10/14/2017 11:48 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 10/14/2017 11:24 AM, Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle.Â* It was no different before I moved
>>> here.Â* I'm a solitary person by nature.Â* Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly.Â* Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another.Â* I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>>
> I know.
>
> I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin.Â* I'm not sure why lucretia
> thinks because I'm the same age as her daughter I should want to jet off
> to Italy.Â* Hey, I hope she had a good time, truly.Â* It's not something
> I'm interested in doing.Â* I've travelled enough for one lifetime.
>
> There are so many other things I'm more interested in.Â* I've been an
> avid bird watcher watcher for 30 years.Â* The only difference now is the
> variety of birds.Â* If I didn't live here I would never have seen a great
> blue heron strolling across my back yard. LOL
>
> Every day I see birds splashing in the small bird bath on the patio and
> it makes me smile.Â* Tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, house and red
> finches, Cardinals.Â* Those are the regular visitors to the bird bath.
>
> Butterflies are still abundant!Â* So very pretty to watch.
>
> When it gets cold I'll buy mixed seed and hang up the other
> spring-loaded bird feeder.Â* I'll probably buy some suet blocks, too, for
> the woodpeckers.Â* For now, there is no shortage of food for wild birds
> to find on their own.Â* It still feels like July here.Â* They do always
> need a source of fresh water.
>
> I enjoy nature.Â* It doesn't take much to make me smile and feel content.
> Â*It has nothing to do with my address.
>
> Jill

Gee, that's a very touching rejoinder!

On 10/14/2017 11:56 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's with his raunchy friends
>> once or so a week. ;-)
>>
>> Cheri
>
> LOL yes, because of course that's what men do while drinking coffee at
> McDonald's!
>
> Jill


Have you never been to an Arby's early in the AM???

Even the coffee blushes...

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:48:14 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin.

That's good because it's not like you have a choice.

>I'm not sure why lucretia
>thinks because I'm the same age as her daughter I should want to jet off
>to Italy. Hey, I hope she had a good time, truly. It's not something
>I'm interested in doing. I've travelled enough for one lifetime.
>
>There are so many other things I'm more interested in. I've been an
>avid bird watcher watcher for 30 years.

Does that mean you like to watch people who watch birds?

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:12:37 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
>I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that have
>been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person, never
>have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
>with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
>Cheri

Used to lead a mad life, not so anymore. This condo building is
nicely friendly and some of us like to spend an evening with others,
by agreement none of us wants to cook, so its just nibbles and wine.
In winter, with snow, it is great because the most driving involved is
the elevator.

I do still visit people away from the building, but I am getting to
prefer in the building. When we have family events my eldest grandson
and wife pick me up as I am on their way to any of the others. At
Xmas my granddaughter-in-law and I are giving a family party, with all
sorts of in laws included in the party room here which has a full
kitchen attached and dishwasher. Couldn't be handier. We have done
this once or twice before and it makes it easy to have 30-40 people
and feel no pain

On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 04:19:03 +1100, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:11:28 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>>Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> Bags in trees... don't you miss the good old days when we just didn't
>>> know about these things? We were so innocent then.
>>
>>
>>http://viralcircus.com/wp-content/up...ts-in-tree.jpg
>
>At least they ate all the bags.

Hope they checked the labels first

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:36:49 -0300, wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:29:18 -0700, "Cheri" >
>wrote:
>
>>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>news
>>> On 10/13/2017 9:50 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>>> news >>>>
>>>>> All I said during that discussion is I'd never seen bags in trees. I
>>>>> certainly didn't call her a liar. The thought of plastic bags in trees
>>>>> took me by surprise. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. Nancy, right
>>>>> after that discussion didn't you tell me you saw a plastic bag in a
>>>>> tree?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe I was another that said I hadn't seen them in trees, but plenty
>>>> on the ground when driving around. I used to get a lot trash in my yard
>>>> living across from a high school, but they have been very good these past
>>>> couple of years. I think some people posted pics of the bags in trees so
>>>> I know it happens. but I don't remember anyone being called a liar over
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> Thank you, Cheri. I didn't call her a liar.
>>>
>>> Now she's trying to say it's because I live on Dataw... Inferred I live in
>>> a sheltered world and never actually leave the house. That's crazy talk.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>>
>>I think some might be a tiny bit jealous but fact of the matter is, most
>>places like Dataw don't have some of the problems that other places do,
>>doesn't mean they are sheltered from life, or don't know what going on
>>around them, or most especially that they don't get out and about and see
>>things everyday.
>>
>>Cheri
>>
>>Cheri
>
>If you're inferring me being jealous no, curious, yes. Jill mentioned
>being born in 1960, so was my younger daughter. She has worked hard,
>is now at the top of the tree

Lucky tree... better than settling for an old plastic bag. hehe

>and has just come back from a great trip
>around Italy. Your 50s should surely be the most fulfilling,
>interesting time of life.

At this point in my life I've no desire to go anywhere... I've already
visited more places than I can remember. Now I'm very content to be
home... I sometimes put off going the four miles into town to pick up
mail because I'd rather be home.... there are time I don't feel like
making the trip to the end of my driveway to bring in the trash cans.
Why do people always have be going somewhere?

On 10/14/2017 12:10 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:48:14 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin.
>
> That's good because it's not like you have a choice.
>
>> I'm not sure why lucretia
>> thinks because I'm the same age as her daughter I should want to jet off
>> to Italy. Hey, I hope she had a good time, truly. It's not something
>> I'm interested in doing. I've travelled enough for one lifetime.
>>
>> There are so many other things I'm more interested in. I've been an
>> avid bird watcher watcher for 30 years.
>
> Does that mean you like to watch people who watch birds?
>
With your bird brain she likely watches YOU.

On 10/14/2017 12:37 PM, wrote:
> there are time I don't feel like
> making the trip to the end of my driveway to bring in the trash cans.
> Why do people always have be going somewhere?

That's classic old fart talk...

"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>
>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>
> Same here, Jill.


I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that have
been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person, never
have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)

Cheri

==

You sound a lot like us except he doesn't go to McDonald's



--
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Ed Pawlowski"Â* wrote in message ...
>
> On 10/14/2017 9:57 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>
>>> I remember that old conversation. A little bit over a year ago. I
>>> also remember who said that about the road from an (UK)airport
>>> lined with trees and many plastic bags. STill LOL about that
>>> claim.
>>>
>>> I don't remember but good chance I might have been the one that
>>> called it a lie.Â* ;-)Â* Get real...a few plastic bags in
>>> trees...ok but a road lined with them...fail!
>>>
>>> At the time, I also had NEVER seen a plastic bag in a tree. Not
>>> ever@
>>> To say that a road was "lined with trees and plastic bags" was
>>> silly.
>>>
>>> I did write back about a month or so later. We had a hurricane
>>> pass by...the one that flooded Carol's neighborhood. At a job,
>>> many tree limbs had fallen and were out on the street for trash
>>> pickup. I did see a plastic bag in the branch pile. I did write
>>> here and finally admit that I saw one.
>>>
>>> That's the only time I've seen one though.
>>>
>> Thank you, Gary!Â* I'll have to start scanning the trees when I drive
>> to the grocery store on Lady's Island or the dollar store on St.
>> Helena, just to see if I spot one.
>>
>
> I don
> t recall ever seeing one in a tree, but certainly have as litter in
> other places.Â* Just yesterday on the highway I went over one.
>
> Many people are just slobs and couple that with baggers that use too
> many to start with.Â* Most of the time the bag will hold more than they
> will fit in it.
>
> ==
>
> Do your stores give plastic bags free?Â* Ours have charged for them for a
> long time and it is rare to see a shopper going for a lot of groceries
> without taking their own bags.
>
>
>

Still free in our state. I do use my own bags at times. About half the
time I forget to take them though.

On 10/14/2017 12:49 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cheri"* wrote in message news >
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle.* It was no different before I moved
>>> here.* I'm a solitary person by nature.* Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly.* Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another.* I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that have
> been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person, never
> have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
> and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
> with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
> Cheri
>
> ==
>
> You sound a lot like us except he doesn't go to McDonald's
>
>
>
So where does he hold his raunchy sex talk then?

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:44:36 -0600, Casa lo pensa >
wrote:

>On 10/14/2017 5:36 AM, wrote:
>> Your 50s should surely be the most fulfilling,
>> interesting time of life.
>
>Oh please - WISE UP!
>
>http://www.economist.com/node/17722567/
>
>
>The U-bend of life
>
>Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older
>
>http://andrewgelman.com/2010/12/26/age_and_happine/
>
>Age and happiness: The pattern isn’t as clear as you might think
>Posted by Andrew on 26 December 2010, 8:52 am
>A couple people pointed me to this recent news article which discusses
>“why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older.” Here’s
>the story:
>
>When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty
>cheerful. Things go downhill from youth to middle age until they reach a
>nadir commonly known as the mid-life crisis. So far, so familiar. The
>surprising part happens after that. Although as people move towards old
>age they lose things they treasure–vitality, mental sharpness and
>looks–they also gain what people spend their lives pursuing: happiness.
>
>This curious finding has emerged from a new branch of economics that
>seeks a more satisfactory measure than money of human well-being.
>Conventional economics uses money as a proxy for utility–the dismal way
>in which the discipline talks about happiness. But some economists,
>unconvinced that there is a direct relationship between money and
>well-being, have decided to go to the nub of the matter and measure
>happiness itself. . . There are already a lot of data on the subject
>collected by, for instance, America’s General Social Survey,
>Eurobarometer and Gallup. . . .
>
>And here’s the killer graph: ?

Agreed, I've never been happier than I am now... uttter happiness is
knowing I don't have to go anywhere... truth be known I'm already
there, I've arrived.

On 10/14/2017 1:01 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:44:36 -0600, Casa lo pensa >
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/14/2017 5:36 AM, wrote:
>>> Your 50s should surely be the most fulfilling,
>>> interesting time of life.
>>
>> Oh please - WISE UP!
>>
>> http://www.economist.com/node/17722567/
>>
>>
>> The U-bend of life
>>
>> Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older
>>
>> http://andrewgelman.com/2010/12/26/age_and_happine/
>>
>> Age and happiness: The pattern isnt as clear as you might think
>> Posted by Andrew on 26 December 2010, 8:52 am
>> A couple people pointed me to this recent news article which discusses
>> €œwhy, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older.€� Heres
>> the story:
>>
>> When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty
>> cheerful. Things go downhill from youth to middle age until they reach a
>> nadir commonly known as the mid-life crisis. So far, so familiar. The
>> surprising part happens after that. Although as people move towards old
>> age they lose things they treasure€“vitality, mental sharpness and
>> looks€“they also gain what people spend their lives pursuing: happiness.
>>
>> This curious finding has emerged from a new branch of economics that
>> seeks a more satisfactory measure than money of human well-being.
>> Conventional economics uses money as a proxy for utility€“the dismal way
>> in which the discipline talks about happiness. But some economists,
>> unconvinced that there is a direct relationship between money and
>> well-being, have decided to go to the nub of the matter and measure
>> happiness itself. . . There are already a lot of data on the subject
>> collected by, for instance, Americas General Social Survey,
>> Eurobarometer and Gallup. . . .
>>
>> And heres the killer graph: ?
>
> Agreed, I've never been happier than I am now... uttter happiness is
> knowing I don't have to go anywhere... truth be known I'm already
> there, I've arrived.
>

That's zen thinking, kudos.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:14:09 -0300, wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 04:19:03 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:11:28 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>>Bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bags in trees... don't you miss the good old days when we just didn't
>>>> know about these things? We were so innocent then.
>>>
>>>
>>>http://viralcircus.com/wp-content/up...ts-in-tree.jpg
>>
>>At least they ate all the bags.
>
>Hope they checked the labels first

lol

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:24:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>
>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>
>Same here, Jill.

Gary, Jill is leagues ahead of you on the happiness scale... she has
her cat and you are isolated.
Look at all you're missing:
https://www.chewy.com/s?query=ferrets

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:46:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>news
>> On 10/13/2017 12:10 AM, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:53:07 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:03:14 -0400, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Glass containers can break, particularly in a food drive situation.
>>>>>> The contents from broken containers spill and ruin the surrounding
>>>>>> food.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's easy peasy to keep glass containers separate... and there aren't
>>>>> all that many foods in glass today that people are likely to donate.
>>>>
>>>> Spaghetti sauce, condiment sauces, and baby food (in that order).
>>>> About half the donated baby food now comes in those "pudding cups",
>>>> but a lot of it is still glass - easier to tell if it's safe to eat
>>>> because of the "safety button" and they last longer on the shelves.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> I haven't looked at baby foods in some fifty years.
>>> I can't imagine too many are donating hot sauce, least not around
>>> here... perhaps common in tex mex land. I don't buy spaghetti sauce
>>> but mostly around here I've been seeing it more in cans than in glass
>>> jars... I've also seen it in plastic jars. Packaging keeps changing
>>> and by region. Last Christmas time I was doing some baking and needed
>>> applesauce, no more glass jars, now plastic jars. I like to bake bran
>>> muffins with applesauce rather than with oil.
>>>
>> He didn't mention hot sauce, but the last jar of mayo I bought was glass,
>> ditto Dijon mustard and a jar of jalapeno peppers. With so many people
>> concerned about plastic in landfills I'm surprised at how many food items
>> are packaged in plastic rather than glass containers.
>
>Most plastic can be recycled.

Most plastic is recycled into fabric for clothing etc.
Polartec outerwear was once plastic pop bottles.

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message ...

On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message ...
>
> On 10/14/2017 9:57 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>
>>> I remember that old conversation. A little bit over a year ago. I
>>> also remember who said that about the road from an (UK)airport
>>> lined with trees and many plastic bags. STill LOL about that
>>> claim.
>>>
>>> I don't remember but good chance I might have been the one that
>>> called it a lie. ;-) Get real...a few plastic bags in
>>> trees...ok but a road lined with them...fail!
>>>
>>> At the time, I also had NEVER seen a plastic bag in a tree. Not
>>> ever@
>>> To say that a road was "lined with trees and plastic bags" was
>>> silly.
>>>
>>> I did write back about a month or so later. We had a hurricane
>>> pass by...the one that flooded Carol's neighborhood. At a job,
>>> many tree limbs had fallen and were out on the street for trash
>>> pickup. I did see a plastic bag in the branch pile. I did write
>>> here and finally admit that I saw one.
>>>
>>> That's the only time I've seen one though.
>>>
>> Thank you, Gary! I'll have to start scanning the trees when I drive
>> to the grocery store on Lady's Island or the dollar store on St.
>> Helena, just to see if I spot one.
>>
>
> I don
> t recall ever seeing one in a tree, but certainly have as litter in
> other places. Just yesterday on the highway I went over one.
>
> Many people are just slobs and couple that with baggers that use too
> many to start with. Most of the time the bag will hold more than they
> will fit in it.
>
> ==
>
> Do your stores give plastic bags free? Ours have charged for them for a
> long time and it is rare to see a shopper going for a lot of groceries
> without taking their own bags.
>
>
>

Still free in our state. I do use my own bags at times. About half the
time I forget to take them though.

==

Probably why you still have problems with them.



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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:55:08 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 10/13/2017 9:52 PM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> Really? What a fluke! Why do y'all have such interesting lives?
>>
>>
>> Speaking of interesting, you're not. Don't you have some ingredients to
>> look up or something riveting like that?
>>
>> Cheri
>
>LOL Maybe one of these days he'll tell us what he *does* eat rather
>than telling us what NOT to eat.
>
>If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'm going to grill some hot Italian sausage
>links and corn on the cob tomorrow. We all know what he'll think about
>the ingredients in the sausage. We'll just have to wait to hear why he
>objects to grilled corn on the cob.
>
>What exactly does Bruce eat? No one really knows.
>
>Jill

Bruthie eats tube steak, he'd probably want your saw-seege.

"Casa lo pensa" wrote in message news
On 10/14/2017 12:49 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cheri" wrote in message news >
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>
>> Same here, Jill.
>
>
> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
> have
> been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person,
> never
> have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
> and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
> with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>
> Cheri
>
> ==
>
> You sound a lot like us except he doesn't go to McDonald's
>
>
>
So where does he hold his raunchy sex talk then?

==

What can I say? Unless he does it down the shooting club when I am not
there?

Knowing the rest of the shooters though, I wouldn't have thought it <g>

Who knows)

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:20:43 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 10/13/2017 10:57 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-10-13 10:55 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 10/13/2017 9:52 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> Really? What a fluke! Why do y'all have such interesting lives?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Speaking of interesting, you're not. Don't you have some ingredients
>>>> to look up or something riveting like that?
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> LOL* Maybe one of these days he'll tell us what he *does* eat rather
>>> than telling us what NOT to eat.
>>>
>>> If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'm going to grill some hot Italian
>>> sausage links and corn on the cob
>(snipped self)
>>>
>>> What exactly does Bruce eat?* No one really knows.
>>>
>>
>> Crow?
>>
>Never! Heck, he even objects to the ingredients in the canned cat food
>Buffy likes. It contains meat by products! Yeah, well he's not going
>to eat them so why does he care? He'd have had a fit about the Menudo I
>had for lunch yesterday. It's a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe and
>hominy. Tripe is the lining of a cow's stomach. OMG. People actually
>do eat what he considers "by products". Liver, kidneys, etc.
>Chitlin's. (Okay, I've never had intestines and am not interested.)
>Just because he doesn't eat it doesn't mean no one does.
>
>Remind me again what does he eat?
>
>Jill

Your Italian saw-seege is very likely encased in real intestines.

wrote in message ...

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:46:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
>news
>> On 10/13/2017 12:10 AM, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:53:07 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:03:14 -0400, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Glass containers can break, particularly in a food drive situation.
>>>>>> The contents from broken containers spill and ruin the surrounding
>>>>>> food.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's easy peasy to keep glass containers separate... and there aren't
>>>>> all that many foods in glass today that people are likely to donate.
>>>>
>>>> Spaghetti sauce, condiment sauces, and baby food (in that order).
>>>> About half the donated baby food now comes in those "pudding cups",
>>>> but a lot of it is still glass - easier to tell if it's safe to eat
>>>> because of the "safety button" and they last longer on the shelves.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> I haven't looked at baby foods in some fifty years.
>>> I can't imagine too many are donating hot sauce, least not around
>>> here... perhaps common in tex mex land. I don't buy spaghetti sauce
>>> but mostly around here I've been seeing it more in cans than in glass
>>> jars... I've also seen it in plastic jars. Packaging keeps changing
>>> and by region. Last Christmas time I was doing some baking and needed
>>> applesauce, no more glass jars, now plastic jars. I like to bake bran
>>> muffins with applesauce rather than with oil.
>>>
>> He didn't mention hot sauce, but the last jar of mayo I bought was glass,
>> ditto Dijon mustard and a jar of jalapeno peppers. With so many people
>> concerned about plastic in landfills I'm surprised at how many food items
>> are packaged in plastic rather than glass containers.
>
>Most plastic can be recycled.

Most plastic is recycled into fabric for clothing etc.
Polartec outerwear was once plastic pop bottles.

==

We have a bin for plastic and glass ... together. Odd mix, no?

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:13:23 -0400, wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:24:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>>jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>
>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>
>>Same here, Jill.
>
>Gary, Jill is leagues ahead of you on the happiness scale...

Plus, she's fully prepared for old age. She can keep going until at
least 90 without any change to her lifestyle. McBiddy all the way!

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:35:04 -0600, Casa lo pensa >
wrote:

>On 10/13/2017 10:20 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> you should distinguish between what's
>> naturally in produce and what the food industry has artificially added
>
>You should quit trying to be everyone's dietary nanny, poofter!

Bruthie eats wax lips.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:31:35 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:44:19 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> news >>
>>> Pickles? (dunno, I don't buy pickles)
>>
>> A lot of those are in plastic these days.
>
>I can't think of any pickled product that comes in plastic. What
>major brand uses plastic for most/all of their pickle products? (other
>than the foodservice products which have a short shelf life and come
>in opaque plastic pails).
>
>-sw

Clausen

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:31:35 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:44:19 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> news >>
>>> Pickles? (dunno, I don't buy pickles)
>>
>> A lot of those are in plastic these days.
>
>I can't think of any pickled product that comes in plastic. What
>major brand uses plastic for most/all of their pickle products? (other
>than the foodservice products which have a short shelf life and come
>in opaque plastic pails).
>
>-sw

Kraut.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:38:40 -0400, wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:31:35 -0500, Sqwertz >
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:44:19 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> news >>>
>>>> Pickles? (dunno, I don't buy pickles)
>>>
>>> A lot of those are in plastic these days.
>>
>>I can't think of any pickled product that comes in plastic. What
>>major brand uses plastic for most/all of their pickle products? (other
>>than the foodservice products which have a short shelf life and come
>>in opaque plastic pails).
>>
>>-sw
>
>Kraut.

Uncle Toby's Pickled Hamster Balls! They come individually wrapped in
plastic.

On 10/14/2017 1:27 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Casa lo pensa"* wrote in message news >
> On 10/14/2017 12:49 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Cheri"* wrote in message news >>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle.* It was no different before I moved
>>>> here.* I'm a solitary person by nature.* Give me a good book or a
>>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>>> together constantly.* Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>>> their days with one activity or another.* I'm not one of them.
>>>
>>> Same here, Jill.
>>
>>
>> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
>> have
>> been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person,
>> never
>> have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>> and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at
>> McDonald's
>> with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>>
>> Cheri
>>
>> ==
>>
>> You sound a lot like us except he doesn't go to McDonald's
>>
>>
>>
> So where does he hold his raunchy sex talk then?
>
> ==
>
> What can I say?* Unless he does it down the shooting club when I am not
> there?
>
> Knowing the rest of the shooters though, I wouldn't have thought it <g>
>
> Who knows)
>
LOL!

Fair game!

Or fox and hound, or some such thing...

On 10/14/2017 1:31 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:13:23 -0400, wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:24:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>>
>>> Same here, Jill.
>>
>> Gary, Jill is leagues ahead of you on the happiness scale...
>
> Plus, she's fully prepared for old age. She can keep going until at
> least 90 without any change to her lifestyle. McBiddy all the way!
>

Problem with that is???

On 10/14/2017 1:34 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:35:04 -0600, Casa lo pensa >
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/13/2017 10:20 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> you should distinguish between what's
>>> naturally in produce and what the food industry has artificially added
>>
>> You should quit trying to be everyone's dietary nanny, poofter!
>
> Bruthie eats wax lips.
>

Well, they don't open very well...

"Casa lo pensa" wrote in message news
On 10/14/2017 1:27 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Casa lo pensa" wrote in message news >
> On 10/14/2017 12:49 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Cheri" wrote in message news >>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>>
>>> Same here, Jill.
>>
>>
>> I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
>> have
>> been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person,
>> never
>> have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>> and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at
>> McDonald's
>> with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>>
>> Cheri
>>
>> ==
>>
>> You sound a lot like us except he doesn't go to McDonald's
>>
>>
>>
> So where does he hold his raunchy sex talk then?
>
> ==
>
> What can I say? Unless he does it down the shooting club when I am not
> there?
>
> Knowing the rest of the shooters though, I wouldn't have thought it <g>
>
> Who knows)
>
LOL!

Fair game!

Or fox and hound, or some such thing...

==

<g>



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On 10/14/2017 3:29 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> wrote in message ...
>
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:46:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> On 10/13/2017 12:10 AM, wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:53:07 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:03:14 -0400, wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Glass containers can break, particularly in a food drive situation.
>>>>>>> The contents from broken containers spill and ruin the surrounding
>>>>>>> food.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's easy peasy to keep glass containers separate... and there aren't
>>>>>> all that many foods in glass today that people are likely to donate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Spaghetti sauce, condiment sauces, and baby food (in that order).
>>>>> About half the donated baby food now comes in those "pudding cups",
>>>>> but a lot of it is still glass - easier to tell if it's safe to eat
>>>>> because of the "safety button" and they last longer on the shelves.
>>>>>
>>>>> -sw
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked at baby foods in some fifty years.
>>>> I can't imagine too many are donating hot sauce, least not around
>>>> here... perhaps common in tex mex land.Â* I don't buy spaghetti sauce
>>>> but mostly around here I've been seeing it more in cans than in glass
>>>> jars... I've also seen it in plastic jars.Â* Packaging keeps changing
>>>> and by region.Â* Last Christmas time I was doing some baking and needed
>>>> applesauce, no more glass jars, now plastic jars.Â* I like to bake bran
>>>> muffins with applesauce rather than with oil.
>>>>
>>> He didn't mention hot sauce, but the last jar of mayo I bought was
>>> glass,
>>> ditto Dijon mustard and a jar of jalapeno peppers.Â* With so many people
>>> concerned about plastic in landfills I'm surprised at how many food
>>> items
>>> are packaged in plastic rather than glass containers.
>>
>> Most plastic can be recycled.
>
> Most plastic is recycled into fabric for clothing etc.
> Polartec outerwear was once plastic pop bottles.
>
> ==
>
> We have a bin for plastic and glass ... together.Â* Odd mix, no?
>

Our bit takes everything, separated at a facility and then taken to the
proper place for recycling.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:48:24 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 10/14/2017 3:29 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> wrote in message ...
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:46:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> Most plastic is recycled into fabric for clothing etc.
>> Polartec outerwear was once plastic pop bottles.
>>
>> ==
>>
>> We have a bin for plastic and glass ... together.* Odd mix, no?
>>
>
>Our bit takes everything, separated at a facility and then taken to the
>proper place for recycling.

I read that most plastic waste is of too low quality to be recycled.

> wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:12:37 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>>"Gary" > wrote in message
...
>>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I enjoy a nice quiet lifestyle. It was no different before I moved
>>>> here. I'm a solitary person by nature. Give me a good book or a
>>>> classic film on television and I'm perfectly happy.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small circle of friends but we don't feel the need to hang out
>>>> together constantly. Some people aren't comfortable unless they fill
>>>> their days with one activity or another. I'm not one of them.
>>>
>>> Same here, Jill.
>>
>>
>>I could say the same for myself, I have a couple of close friends that
>>have
>>been friends since we were kids, but I am not a highly social person,
>>never
>>have been, more with family than with acquaintances for entertainment. DH
>>and I are the same that way, except for his raunchy sex talk at McDonald's
>>with his raunchy friends once or so a week. ;-)
>>
>>Cheri
>
> Used to lead a mad life, not so anymore. This condo building is
> nicely friendly and some of us like to spend an evening with others,
> by agreement none of us wants to cook, so its just nibbles and wine.
> In winter, with snow, it is great because the most driving involved is
> the elevator.
>
> I do still visit people away from the building, but I am getting to
> prefer in the building. When we have family events my eldest grandson
> and wife pick me up as I am on their way to any of the others. At
> Xmas my granddaughter-in-law and I are giving a family party, with all
> sorts of in laws included in the party room here which has a full
> kitchen attached and dishwasher. Couldn't be handier. We have done
> this once or twice before and it makes it easy to have 30-40 people
> and feel no pain


Sounds like a good plan for you to enjoy life.

Cheri