What's on your mind? (2025) - good way to start... even if a bit early... :-)

Thanks. I was going on the info the guy who excavated the hole gave me (sorry, I wasn’t clear that the hole is already excavated so the roots and stuff are already loose in the dirt pile - I just don’t want them going back in as we start refilling).

Anyway, he’s often using both but told me the skid steer was harder for noobs.

“Beam me up, Scotty” and “Land of Confusion” are two phrases are on my mind.:dizzy_face:

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It’s a ridiculous statement.
Some jokes about it were making the rounds on BlueSky.


That’s why I posted it.

We have Goya products on sale in Canada.

I had never heard of him or his family before last night. I guess I remember seeing something about some ppl choosing to boycott Goya products a while back.

Goya has been owned by his family for almost 90 years. Not surprising that it’s hard to make him leave.

(I’m not getting into party politics.)

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Love my Sennheiser :star_struck:

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We live in an area surrounded by orchards, many of them walnut. About 20 years ago, there was a rash of thefts of walnut trees. Thieves were cutting the tree a few feet up, then digging and pulling the stumps - apparently, walnut stumps can have a really beautiful grain which make unique patterns in furniture and gun stocks. The local paper reported faithfully that the thefts required a lot of work, since pulling stumps took a large vehicle and many wenches to extract the stumps from the ground. Wenches. Throughout the article, and every follow-up article. So many wenches. Nary a mention of whether there were any tarts involved or not.

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Yeah, that’s known as being good.

In the article is the quote, “You can hear when someone is smiling on a recording,” she said. I agree. I always thought that it was curious that it was the case, on one recording in particular that I have.

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@Babette

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I have their earphones.

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Too funny. At first i thought it was multiple levels funny because my mind jumped to “wrenches” first, before settling on “winches”.

As an aside, I used to have my wife’s contact in my phone simply named “Wife”. When she objected I said, “Well, it’s better than Wench”. (But I did rename it “Wife Firstname Lastname”.)

You can hear someone smile over the phone, too.

My phone has a default entry in the contacts called ICE “in Case of Emergency”. In the instructions that came with the phone, the manufacturer wanted the user to put someone in there that should be called in the event of an emergency.

So maybe in addition to your wife’s first and last name, add another entry ICE (same number) - so if you are knocked out in an accident, the first responders will know who to contact, first.

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Thanks for thinking of me! I’ll be down there the following weekend for the chocolate fest, maybe he’ll have another sale.

There are 2 small chocolatiers near me who are also closing and one who is moving to the midwest, I could probably have way more used equipment than I have room for.

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Is there a sound more calming, more comforting than kitteh snores? I don’t think so.

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I get them in stereo every night from the back of my couch. Both have a little whistling “hitch” to their snores. It’s my reading music.

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Nowadays, though, most peeps phones being fingerprint locked, how do first responders access contacts?

You are correct, I didn’t think about that as I still have an old “flip phone”.

You just open it up and my contacts are all there – no security on it.

And if that’s not bad enough, here is my land line phone – still works!!

If you’re unconscious but haven’t lost your fingers and face, they could still use your fingerprint or face ID, though I don’t know the legality of that :woman_shrugging:

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There is a “Medical ID” option on iPhone in the same place that you would use a passcode to unlock the phone.

You can select contacts for that in Settings (Emergency Contacts via Health).

Or you can go your Contacts list, open the person’s contact information, and “Add To Emergency Contacts”.

ETA: Similar for Android. Easiest is to search for “Emergency” in Settings again, or you can also do it from Contacts.

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