The community garden in our new city does a summer camp every year that I know DS 2 would love. He really enjoys plants and takes shockingly good care of the ones he decides are his. Well, all camps here are closed this summer so I just wrote it off as something we'd try to do next year if the COVID situation is different. Then yesterday I saw on their Facebook page that they're doing camp-in-a-box every week and promptly bought us a subscription. It comes with a ton of activities and supplies to do gardening projects at home, plus several pints of produce from the community garden. I can't wait to pick up our first box next week and get both kids working on something I don't have to fully plan every day!
On a somewhat related note, tonight's dinner will be spaghetti with pesto that I'm making with the first basil from our garden.
Post by blondemoment123 on Jun 3, 2020 18:52:24 GMT -5
H couldn’t find the large paint roller, so he used the tiny one to paint 2 walls. It didn’t dawn on him to drive the 10 minutes to the hardware store to get another roller. 🙄
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jun 3, 2020 18:59:07 GMT -5
Oh man, my Girl Scout council just announced a new cookie contract for the 21-22 season. We’re going back to ABC Bakers! All those little old ladies who didn’t buy because we didn’t have Lemonades better get their pocketbooks out.
My husband is an electrician, right now it’s about 110 out every day. He’s developed what I assume is a heat rash. It’s bright red spots that look like burns. They are painful spots all up and down his back. Anyone have any ways to soothe severe heat rash? He comes home and jumps right in the shower to wash off any sweat but I am not sure how else to help.
Second....I have a random package of Biscoff cookies in the pantry and they are smushed to bits! Like almost to crumbs. How would you use them?
My husband is an electrician, right now it’s about 110 out every day. He’s developed what I assume is a heat rash. It’s bright red spots that look like burns. They are painful spots all up and down his back. Anyone have any ways to soothe severe heat rash? He comes home and jumps right in the shower to wash off any sweat but I am not sure how else to help.
Second....I have a random package of Biscoff cookies in the pantry and they are smushed to bits! Like almost to crumbs. How would you use them?
Pie Crust! Or make something like Oreo truffles using them.
soccermama while it's FWP that's frustrating to think what you could have done with 40 minutes of your life.
wildrice I spent the first couple of years of my life closer to your area. My dad refuses to get AC up north because "we don't get heat and umidity as they say like they do in that general area. If we ever get back to visit my plan is April, or wait until the fall just for that reason lol.
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Monica Geller I'm not a parent, but I'm proud of you. From what you shared on here of what you've been through in the last few months, now trying to add what I assume is WFH to that it's a LOT of trauma. Plus, isn't nursing really hard? Like that's why they have lactation specialist because it can be so hard on the mom? All of this to say be gentle on yourself as it seems like you're doing an awesome job.
OMG, you'd have to be insane to choose not to have AC around here. I know some people don't have it in low income housing and and for other reasons related to money, but to choose not to have it seems nuts. It's often in the 90's with fairly high humidity in the summer. This will be my 3rd summer here and it's my least favorite season by far. This one will probably be particularly frustrating because there won't be any fun summer activities to offset some of the BS.
The weather is generally pretty nice in the spring/fall, though.
We don’t have central air, just 2 window units! It’s not an option at all for a lot of houses in the city unless you basically gut the house, we have radiators and a boiler so no existing duct work of any kind. It’s not too bad! Air conditioners have come a long way, one window unit basically cools the whole first floor. I can’t imagine not having even that though! My mom loves the heat and humidity and it was a battle getting her to turn on the air conditioning growing up. We’d only have it on for like the very hottest week of the year. I can’t live like that anymore.
OMG, you'd have to be insane to choose not to have AC around here. I know some people don't have it in low income housing and and for other reasons related to money, but to choose not to have it seems nuts. It's often in the 90's with fairly high humidity in the summer. This will be my 3rd summer here and it's my least favorite season by far. This one will probably be particularly frustrating because there won't be any fun summer activities to offset some of the BS.
The weather is generally pretty nice in the spring/fall, though.
We don’t have central air, just 2 window units! It’s not an option at all for a lot of houses in the city unless you basically gut the house, we have radiators and a boiler so no existing duct work of any kind. It’s not too bad! Air conditioners have come a long way, one window unit basically cools the whole first floor. I can’t imagine not having even that though! My mom loves the heat and humidity and it was a battle getting her to turn on the air conditioning growing up. We’d only have it on for like the very hottest week of the year. I can’t live like that anymore.
I would definitely call that having AC! It sounded like the other poster's dad just didn't have anything, which is nuts (unless you can't afford it, of course). I think it's necessary to have at least a window unit if you have the ability to live in comfort.
My parents would wait forever to run the AC growing up too, but I think that was partly a money saving thing. We also didn't have these long stretches of gross weather most summers. It gets hot and humid in the midwest, but it's not for like 2-3 months straight.
Can people maybe not shoot off fireworks right now? We are all pretty close together here in the city, we’ve had several protests and my eye is already twitching from following the news. What’s the point of shooting off random firecrackers on a Tuesday night at 1 am?
The community garden in our new city does a summer camp every year that I know DS 2 would love. He really enjoys plants and takes shockingly good care of the ones he decides are his. Well, all camps here are closed this summer so I just wrote it off as something we'd try to do next year if the COVID situation is different. Then yesterday I saw on their Facebook page that they're doing camp-in-a-box every week and promptly bought us a subscription. It comes with a ton of activities and supplies to do gardening projects at home, plus several pints of produce from the community garden. I can't wait to pick up our first box next week and get both kids working on something I don't have to fully plan every day!
On a somewhat related note, tonight's dinner will be spaghetti with pesto that I'm making with the first basil from our garden.
That sounds like so much fun! I wish I could “attend” myself!
Post by litskispeciality on Jun 3, 2020 21:19:00 GMT -5
Sorry I meant my dad had AC down in that area, when he moved up north he didn't buy an AC. His reasoning is we didn't "get DC" hot or as many hot days, even though we get a lot of humidity, so we just had a couple fans. Even at my house we only jave one window unit and some fans, but we don't have the ability to redo the whole house with central AC.
I feel bad for DC area, the South, FL etc. Who can't go out and soak up other people (companies) AC this summer.
Second....I have a random package of Biscoff cookies in the pantry and they are smushed to bits! Like almost to crumbs. How would you use them?
If you don’t have enough for a pie crust, you could use them to decorate cupcakes. Put blue icing on a cupcake, sprinkle crumbs on half to look like sand, pop on a paper umbrella and you have an instant beach party.