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Sep 28, 2014 04:19AM
No not homemade. Probably a local winery as new York has many now. Both bottles were same but she had just bought them from liquor store Friday night. Biggest mystery is where all the wine went. I didn't clean up 2 bottles worth of floor. We suspect the dog cleaned up the first bottle but he can really hold his alcohol if he did. He didn't seem drunk.
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BWAHAHAHAhA!That's fantastic! And tonight Sarah? I'd say now. 1. as your day needs to get better fast, and 2. the wine is obviously having some issues and you should drink it before it goes bad.
*snicker*
Hope the day gets better Travis. You have made mine though with the mental image.
Lol. Wow. Yes it is a sign... You Need Drink. But i would go back to the liquor store. One may be a fluke but 2? It is probably the whole batch.
that's really crazy... definitely get some kind of credit from that store.
Speaking of "thing that only happens to me". My iphone obviously survived its andventure in the washing machine. Anyone have a ny tips to make sure it keeps working?
Yeah hopefully we can trade them for their non exploding vintages.
Esther wrote: "Speaking of "thing that only happens to me". My iphone obviously survived its andventure in the washing machine. Anyone have a ny tips to make sure it keeps working?"Rice. Lots of rice, and leave it in there for a week or so.
Edit: or a day or two... http://www.wired.com/2014/02/thats-de...
Esther wrote: "Speaking of "thing that only happens to me". My iphone obviously survived its andventure in the washing machine. Anyone have a ny tips to make sure it keeps working?"No tips here but I just switched my iphone4 for a samsung galaxy 4 yesterday...just saying. ;) I'm excited to learn about this new phone, I got annoyed too much with my iphone.
Tasha wrote: "Esther wrote: "Speaking of "thing that only happens to me". My iphone obviously survived its andventure in the washing machine. Anyone have a ny tips to make sure it keeps working?"No tips here b..."
It is a work phone so when i do nt pay for it i do not bitch. That being said i have not issue with it. And it also means that if it dies i will have to explain and i can already hear by boss slipping jokes about this for a loooong time.
LOL! Thanks for the laughter, Travis. And Rusalka's BWAHAHAHAhA! was the icing on the cake! I agree with Sarah - get drinking the remainder now. We tried our hands at making our own wine before it was popular to do so. We didn't have the option to buy the kits to which you just added water, or went to a brewery and ordered your own "homemade wine". We made up a batch of crab apple wine from scratch. Cut up the apples, add sugar, yeast, water and let it ferment. It was evil wine - even adding ginger ale to it didn't make it drinkable. But it's not the wine I wanted to tell you about. While we were at it, we made some rootbeer. One morning we woke up to explosions. Every bottle of rootbeer blew its lid off, and there was rootbeer dripping from the ceiling. That was a nasty mess to clean up.
Janice wrote: "We tried our hands at making our own wine befo..."Yep, I tried something similar. The advice I got was that it was to be fermented undisturbed and in darkness.
My hallway coat closet was one foamy explosive mess! I "made" Kahlua the following week. Mmmm!
Our local Michigan winery has a much better success rate.☺ Debra and I take advantage of their wine tasting w/Jazz trio events. Much more satisfying.
It was only yesterday while out walking along the towpath and seeing all the blackberries and elderberries on the trees that I mentioned to my partner about the possibility of making our own wine. I've not tried before. My dad used to make it a lot (like you Janice before there were actual kits for it). One day upon clearing out the drinks cupboard my dad found a bottle of elderberry wine that had been forgotten about so we opened it up and sampled it (it had been in the cupboard for 15 years!) and while it had a lot of sediment in the bottom, it wasn't bad - very sweet and more like sherry though.
I can imagine the mess we've cleaned twice house still smells like a brewery and still finding new areas that had been bombed.I've never been but we have a place in town to make your own wine.there's kits to take home or you can make it right there. My cousin passed out homemade newly wed wacky mad libs for his wedding reception last year. The one I filled out he picked to be winner. The prize was a bottle of wine he and his wife made. We've never drank it so I don't know how it tasted .
The liquor store will gladly exchange it. Apparently there was a recall and all the cases of that vintage had been picked up from the store. Unfortunately nobody had checked the shelves in the store it would seem. Think it's safe to say the shelves have now been cleared after our call.
Travis of NNY wrote: "I didn't question why the wine cork was on the floor when I woke up. I have kids and a dog random objects are always being left around. 10 minutes later as I eat my breakfast. Pop! The second bo..."The attack of the mad wine-rack...!
Wow Travis, that is so weird!I hurt my back yesterday and this morning it took me 10 minutes to get out of bed, I could only make very small and very slow movements. I still can't stand up straight and as soon as I sit down for a couple of minutes, I have a hard time getting up again. Good thing I planned on working from home today!
Other than that, I can't wait to hear which toppler team I'm in and get involved!
Hope your back fixes itself soon Peggy! I know what a bad back is like.
I hope your back gets better soon too Peggy! Take it easy for a couple of days if you can.
Ewww I had that once Peggy. I tried to get out of bed (nothing like that you lot) and somehow twisted my back and couldn't move for 3 days. I found that stick on heat packs that work like glow sticks were awesome. I twinged in the middle of my back (over the kidneys, the doctor tested kidney function after 3 days) so it was hard to use normal heat packs. Rest, no twisting, and heat are my hints.
Thanks all! Hm, I don't have heat packs but I do have a hot-water bottle lying around. I'll give that a go! The worst part is not the back itself but the pain that radiates to my abdomen and through my legs all the way to my knees. I've had it before and taking it easy for a couple of days should do the trick.
If its the back of your legs may be tight hamstrings. My whole body is about 2000 muscle spasms but tight hamstrings have probably accounted for more pain than most.
Travis is probably right, my husband has had back trouble and tight hamstrings caused some of the problems. So stretch those guys! Hope you feel better soon.
I agree with Rusalka suggestion of heatpads - they are great if you have to go out and about because they stick to you - no having to hold a hot water bottle in place all the time! Another good thing is Epsom Salts which contain magnesium and help to soften muscle tissue and release tension (use a handful or two in a bath).
I feel for you, Peggy. Back pain is horrible. You should check it out with a doctor or chiropractor.
Here it is, 9 in the morning and I'm still in my jammies. I need to get showered and off to my client's. I'm going to have to leave all the unread messages. By the time I get home late tonight (have a board meeting), I will be woefully behind.
Peggy wrote: "Thanks all! Hm, I don't have heat packs but I do have a hot-water bottle lying around. I'll give that a go! The worst part is not the back itself but the pain that radiates to my abdomen and thro..."
Perhaps You should do a MR (sorry, if I'm being meddling); but it sounds like a disc injury. I had (have) that for many years and discover it early is very important to prevent further problems and take the right treatment
@Peggy: the pain in that radiates to Your legs comes probably from some pressure in Your sciatic-nerve. That can be because a muscle contracture OR because a herniated disc. In the first case something warm will help, but in the second case, it must be something COLD (so that the inflammation cedes)
Thanks for the advice Maria :) If it's still the same in a few days I'm going to make a doctor's appointment. The times I had it before it went away after a few days. I went to the doctor the first time it happened (can't remember if it radiated back then too), but there was nothing he could do except give painkillers. It's already much better than this morning!
Finished the C25K (couch to 5 K) training this afternoon! Next step is to actualy run one ;)
Here I am thinking everyone is quiet and I find that GR's notifications are once again not notifying me. :(Peggy, hope your back is feeling better.
Travis, what an adventure! I'd expect that sort of thing in my house. It would amuse me to see my jack russell get drunk. We have made our own wine before... sort of... there is a place in town where you can go there and make one of the kits, and leave it all on their premises to age and ferment and whatever. It wasn't bad, we keep talking about doing it again and never seem to get around to it.
Congrats Tasha! That is an accomplishment!
It's nearly nine and I'm still in my jammies too - love work from home days! but I better get to the actual work before long. going to be a long evening of chauffeuring kids back and forth to school. Keep your fingers crossed daughter passes her drivers test on Friday!
Last night, I went to a group reading hosted by two psychics. There were about 40 people there. I don't know if I believe that it's all legit, but I was rather surprised last night.The psychic walked right up to me and asked, "What is the whale bone?" All I could think of was The Whale Rider (what does that tell you about me?) She said, "It's on a picture or something from up north." My ex-husband brought me a wall hanging from Nunavit when he had to work there. The dowel it used was a spear made of whale bone. She asked if he had passed (no). "Then it's his father." My father-in-law always used to say to me "You're as pretty as a picture, you ought to be hung". So was bringing in the picture his way of letting me know it was him?
The psychic said some things about him that were bang on. But then, the final message was that I'm supposed to drink more red wine, and do a solo journey to the north.
Hmmmmmmmm.....
That is kind of spooky Janice. It seems like rather specific information to have for a person you don't know (as opposed to those psychics who just say 'do you know a tom? thomas? tony?' until they get one right or say things about you that are true for 99% of people like 'you don't like it when people are mad at you'). I don't believe in this kind of thing and I probably won't believe until it happens to me and I'm VERY sure the psychic was unable to know what she tells me, but this is intriguing!
It does make me wonder if it is indeed legit, how does it all work? How would your father-in-law know that you were at the reading and how does he communicate with the psychic? Apparently he can give specifics enough to make clear he means you in a group of 40 people, but then he can't make clear what his relation is to you or be a bit more straightforward than giving references to details on pictures? These type of things always raise a million questions for me.
Janice wrote: " But then, the final message was that I'm supposed to drink more red wine, and do a solo journey to the north.Hmmmmmmmm..... ..."
Any spirit that advises more wine should be welcome, no matter what relation to you.
Maybe you need an Alaskan Cruise., otherwise why go any further north? Go in the summer though!
Swimming in Canada's winter is rough!
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It is weird isn't it? How many people in the room of 40 people would have a wall hanging with a piece of whale bone on it? She walked right up to me too. It wasn't like she was fishing through the crowd. I think part of me wants to believe, and yet there's the skeptic that questions. You often see a psychic on tv saying things like, "They're showing me a white rose which they show to me when someone has died before their time." And then the next thing they're giving a direct message. First they say they get the messages in images and symbols, and then they're giving exact quotes. So why the need to ask, "Who is the "A" name?"
Confused!!
LOL! Almeta. Yes, an Alaskan cruise would be fun. I went on one two years ago. I'd love to go straight to Juneau and do more whale watching tours.
Yes, swimming in the winter is a difficult feat.
I tend to believe in that, as long as there is really specific info like what sounds happened to you, Janice. It's all so very cool. I want to go to one of those readings really badly. I've had friends go and have had really weirdly dead-on readings.
Tasha wrote: "I tend to believe in that, as long as there is really specific info like what sounds happened to you, Janice. It's all so very cool. I want to go to one of those readings really badly. I've had friends go and have had really weirdly dead-on readings. ..."
Yes, some do seem unexplainable.
Debra my sister and I have been to individual readings a couple of times, with a group of friends. Often the "reader" will allow a person to tape the reading, since it is so hard to remember everything that they say, especially after they have blown your mind!☺
Every time my session was finished, I'd just hand my tape over to Debra. I thought it sounded just like a reading for her and not applicable for me at all! Were they "channeling her spirits? 'cause mine left the room.☺
Janice wrote: "The psychic said some things about him that were bang on. But then, the final message was that I'm supposed to drink more red wine, and do a solo journey to the north.Hmmmmmmmm..... ..."
ROFLMAO! Aren't you far enough North already?????
Okay - I've had a really good laugh now, and used my whole lunch time reading through all of the threads.I better get back to work!
@ the swimming. CRAZY!
Janice wrote: "It is weird isn't it? How many people in the room of 40 people would have a wall hanging with a piece of whale bone on it? She walked right up to me too. It wasn't like she was fishing through t..."I'm with Almeta on this one. I wish I have a fortune teller/Psychic who says something like "You should enjoy yourself this week" to me!
Cherie wrote: "ROFLMAO! Aren't you far enough North already????? ..."Apparently not! LOL!
A Brush with the Paranormal: I had a dear friend whom I associated in my mind with owls.I had this beautiful card I wanted to send her after she got aggressive breast cancer. Snowy owl. But I wouldn't send it because owls are a Native American symbol of death, and she was much involved/rooted in this culture.
Then later, after she had passed, her now widowed husband was coming to visit us. One week before his arrival, a young barn owl got into our house, evidently thru the chimney, but it was so weird. I totally felt like it was my friend trying to communicate with me.
Totally irrational I know. But never before or since in my 52 years have I had an owl suddenly make an appearance in my home.
The message was something like, "Just saying hello. Please take care of my guy."
Now, I wish I had sent her the card, but it doesn't matter. I feel like mentally she received it and its message of peace and transcendence any way.
That's a neat experience, TJ. I love owls. They are a beautiful animal. I have quite a few of them in my home in forms of pictures, ornaments, and jewelry. I think that the important thing is that when these things happen, they make us think of our loved one who has passed away. That thought is what keeps their memory alive and with us. It's a comforting thought.
It is comforting. She was such an amazing person. And I feel like I didn't get to spend enough time with her. I love owls and other birds and anything with wings that can propel them through the air. Well, I love flightless birds, too, tho I'm not sure why. I love elephants because they're so big and complicated.
I miss her. Usually light a candle for her, among others, on All Saints Day. I'm not catholic, but where I live I've been very influenced by the power of this date for remembrance.
Janice wrote: "But then, the final message was that I'm supposed to drink more red wine, and do a solo journey to the north."*snort* a Spirited spirit!
Rusalka wrote: "I love wols too."lol! Are wols indigenous to Australia?
Today is my 5 year wedding anniversary. Says traditional gift is wood. LMAO. As if any guys would have a problem getting wood. Wait what type of wood are we talking here.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Today is my 5 year wedding anniversary. Says traditional gift is wood. LMAO. As if any guys would have a problem getting wood. Wait what type of wood are we talking here."lol! Unless she had a fireplace to cozy up to with her man, I don't think a woman would be over-joyed to get a cord of wood for her anniversary! Naughty "wood" maybe!☻
I admit my mind was more on the "naughty" side of things
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