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06-01-21, 09:00 AM
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06-01-21, 09:05 AM
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06-01-21, 09:08 AM
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06-01-21, 09:18 AM
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06-01-21, 09:20 AM
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Odd. If I'm reading this correctly, this Walmart powdered milk that costs as much as a regular gallon only makes three quarts. 
https://www.walmart.com/grocery/ip/G...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.walmart.com/grocery/ip/G...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
06-01-21, 09:35 AM
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06-01-21, 09:40 AM
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Odd. If I'm reading this correctly, this Walmart powdered milk that costs as much as a regular gallon only makes three quarts.
https://www.walmart.com/grocery/ip/G...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://www.walmart.com/grocery/ip/G...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
06-01-21, 09:44 AM
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I'm pretty sure it used to be cheaper than regular milk, for the reason stated in post #6693
06-01-21, 11:09 AM
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Hey, so remember how Mrs. GeneJockey's beloved 2001 Sienna wouldn't pass smog because one of the Emmissions Monitors for the Catalytic converters wouldn't show 'Ready'? And the dealer said we needed to get new ones at a cost of about $5000, and Toyota doesn't make them anymore so we had to go to a muffler shop, where Muffler Guy told us that might not be the problem at all, and we should go to a Bureau of Automotive Repair referee and see if we could get them to pass us anyway? And then I spent some time looking up the BAR referee program and drive cycles and stuff like that? I got an OBD2 scanner and sure enough, "Catalyst Mon" showed "INC".We decided we needed to spend some time trying to preform the drive cycle maybe 5 times, just so we could tell the BAR. And we've been putting it off because it's a crazy set of instructions.
So, today we're finally ready to do it. We're dreading it, because 1) it's weird and hard to follow the instructions in the real world, and 2) it might not work anyway and we'd have to decide what to do. I go plug in the OBD2 scanner and start the car to warm up. I go to 'Emissions Monitor Status', and scroll through.
No "INC". Huh. SO I go through more carefully. "Catalyst Mon" now says "OK".
Somehow, after months of driving, something in the last week got it to complete. YAHOO!!! Now we don't have to decide between junking it and paying $5000 to fix a car worth $1500!
Now we gotta get the thing smogged before something else goes wrong!
So, today we're finally ready to do it. We're dreading it, because 1) it's weird and hard to follow the instructions in the real world, and 2) it might not work anyway and we'd have to decide what to do. I go plug in the OBD2 scanner and start the car to warm up. I go to 'Emissions Monitor Status', and scroll through.
No "INC". Huh. SO I go through more carefully. "Catalyst Mon" now says "OK".
Somehow, after months of driving, something in the last week got it to complete. YAHOO!!! Now we don't have to decide between junking it and paying $5000 to fix a car worth $1500!
Now we gotta get the thing smogged before something else goes wrong!
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06-01-21, 11:13 AM
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And at the crack of nine, she took it to the smog place and it passed!
But she forgot to take her credit card, so I had to postpone a meeting to run and get the van out of hock. So much drama!
And now we get to put off thinking about this till the next thing.
But she forgot to take her credit card, so I had to postpone a meeting to run and get the van out of hock. So much drama!
And now we get to put off thinking about this till the next thing.
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06-01-21, 11:17 AM
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I hear ya. Saturdays ride had an intersection that 3 years ago was four corn fields and a 4 way stop.. when you turn right you went up a expressway overpass.
There is a brand new subdivision of high end homes on the right hand side and a roundabout where the intersection used to be today. Kinda freeky.
06-01-21, 11:18 AM
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Sad.
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06-01-21, 11:20 AM
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06-01-21, 11:40 AM
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06-01-21, 11:44 AM
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My old retired guy's ride got stopped today for obstructing traffic by a deputy sheriff. Despite the law being on our side about riding on a state highway, the deputy was verging on arresting somebody if we didn't quit arguing. 
We were technically in the right but the road was definitely busy and pretty scary. It wasn't my choice to ride it but I got overruled.
We were technically in the right but the road was definitely busy and pretty scary. It wasn't my choice to ride it but I got overruled.
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06-01-21, 11:46 AM
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Mom and Dad resisted, and generally didn't buy Wonderbread, but the other bread available wasn't much better. After they went to France, when I was 14, their disappointment with the bread options in rural PA only got worse. After I moved out here, for a while I used to send them care packages of sourdough from Boudin's.
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Also, some high school girls approached us and asked one of the guys if they could take his picture. It seems that they were on a scavenger hunt and they needed a pic of a hero.
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06-01-21, 11:48 AM
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Here's a non-blurry pic of Anne Terpstra's wheels
They still look like these to me though
They still look like these to me though
06-01-21, 11:54 AM
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We tried dry milk once or twice when I was a kid. Bleah. It essentially skim milk, which is also bleah.
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06-01-21, 11:55 AM
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06-01-21, 11:56 AM
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A couple of staples after my parents got divorced.
Love the stew ad as a commentary on the times. Hubby comes home from a hard day at the construction site and the happy wife is there to serve him a hearty meal complete with milk, white bread and butter.
Love the stew ad as a commentary on the times. Hubby comes home from a hard day at the construction site and the happy wife is there to serve him a hearty meal complete with milk, white bread and butter.
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