Toast of the day

[highup]

Weed is a lot stronger now. They have drive thru dispensaries here in Phoenix. I sure picked a fine time to quit huffin glue!

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Sun is goin down and it’s still 104 out. I’m sippin a Coke Zero just waiting to go to bed.

Looks like paradise except for the 104.

 

[C.J.]

Looks like paradise except for the 104.

You don’t understand, I need trees! Not Oregon trees, those come with taxes and homeless people. I’m ok with southern trees. Hillbillies n **** is just fine with me. This cactus stuff is for the birds.

 

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But it's pretty.
...pretty far away from me.
No you couldn't pay me enough to move there either.
I'd rather have the aroma of myrtlewood trees on a 90° day or walking through a local Forest after a windstorm with the aroma of broken branches and shrapnel from Douglas fir trees. Smells like Christmas times 10.
I like the smell of Christmas more than the day itself but that's just me. I just want the day off.

 

[C.J.]

It is definitely pretty there. I miss rose bushes. Such a simple thing. The wife n I would go to the rose garden up at Washington park all the time and bench sit. Taking in the views was wonderful while the sun was going down. Haven’t seen but a handful of rose bushes since we moved.

Speaking of flowers, they’re cheap again. I bought the wife some lilies for $6.99 at Safeway. The same bunch of lillies cost me maybe $50 from a flower shop in NC. Needlessly to say she didn’t get many flowers when we were in the South.

 

[Jon]

Found this
New Zealand exports a relatively small amount of bottled water – approximately 27.9 million litres every year, or around 10 Olympic swimming pools. Export earnings are around $23.7 million per annum. The United States is New Zealand's most important market for bottled water, taking 46 percent of our exports.

I meant to add Why would The United States people buy water shipped half way around the world from NZ at what cost
Really its only bloody water

 

[highup]

Come on Jon .....it's imported water.
I remember a cartoon years ago for American guy and his wife were in France and they're at a restaurant.
The waiter bring them some wine which was from California and he complains cuz he wanted imported.
I'll never understand it either. If you add up the amount of plastic and the transportation cost and wasted fuel to put it on a ship and then the wasted fuel on the ship to bring it to the United States and then the wasted fuel to unload it and then the wasted fuel to transport it to different states....... These people are definitely not trying to save the Earth by buying water from New Zealand.

 

[Jon]

Come on Jon .....it's imported water.
I remember a cartoon years ago for American guy and his wife were in France and they're at a restaurant.
The waiter bring them some wine which was from California and he complains cuz he wanted imported.
I'll never understand it either. If you add up the amount of plastic and the transportation cost and wasted fuel to put it on a ship and then the wasted fuel on the ship to bring it to the United States and then the wasted fuel to unload it and then the wasted fuel to transport it to different states....... These people are definitely not trying to save the Earth by buying water from New Zealand.

But by you lot buying our water I can live reasonably well
Awhile ago there was all sorts of sh,,, going down here as these water bottlers get the water for free then rip us off in NZ to sell it back to us in a bottle
I have never bought a bottle of water. Water is for showers etc not drinking
I pay for water to our council for the house and they charge me even more per litre which goes into the sewage system
The trouble is the bottlers dont get the water out of a tape so the water is free to them

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Here they complained about a large beef farmer and nestle bottling the water from springs. Taste, water is not pure in areas and it does have an aftertaste. In the Navy I bought Evian, it sure was pure, onboard water sometimes tasted like fuel. My water here has Iron and sulphur. With conditioners it’s tolerable then we run it through reverse osmosis and activated charcoal filters, and the same from fridge through it’s activated charcoal filter. And who knows what’s been dumped into the ground nearby along with environmental spills that have contaminated the acquifer. All the floods, chemicals get mixed in. The breach in the contaminated hazardous waste storage ponds around florida killed massive amounts of sealife in Tampa recently.

I liked the look of Cactus plants when I was there. And the availability and probably the cost of landscape rock. Most of the area looks clean, I did see some rundown areas but that was after a lot of driving around.

 

[Jon]

Here they complained about a large beef farmer and nestle bottling the water from springs. Taste, water is not pure in areas and it does have an aftertaste. In the Navy I bought Evian, it sure was pure, onboard water sometimes tasted like fuel. My water here has Iron and sulphur. With conditioners it’s tolerable then we run it through reverse osmosis and activated charcoal filters, and the same from fridge through it’s activated charcoal filter. And who knows what’s been dumped into the ground nearby along with environmental spills that have contaminated the acquifer. All the floods, chemicals get mixed in. The breach in the contaminated hazardous waste storage ponds around florida killed massive amounts of sealife in Tampa recently.

I liked the look of Cactus plants when I was there. And the availability and probably the cost of landscape rock. Most of the area looks clean, I did see some rundown areas but that was after a lot of driving around

.Thats the trouble with all that Synthetic carpets going into land fills

Our farmers have had to fence of all the streams so that the cattle and other animals are kept away from the streams

 

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But by you lot buying our water I can live reasonably well
Awhile ago there was all sorts of sh,,, going down here as these water bottlers get the water for free then rip us off in NZ to sell it back to us in a bottle
I have never bought a bottle of water. Water is for showers etc not drinking
I pay for water to our council for the house and they charge me even more per litre which goes into the sewage system
The trouble is the bottlers dont get the water out of a tape so the water is free to them

That sounds like a good deal to me Jon. Same goes for the distilleries?

 

[highup]

Here they complained about a large beef farmer and nestle bottling the water from springs. Taste, water is not pure in areas and it does have an aftertaste. In the Navy I bought Evian, it sure was pure, onboard water sometimes tasted like fuel. My water here has Iron and sulphur. With conditioners it’s tolerable then we run it through reverse osmosis and activated charcoal filters, and the same from fridge through it’s activated charcoal filter. And who knows what’s been dumped into the ground nearby along with environmental spills that have contaminated the acquifer. All the floods, chemicals get mixed in. The breach in the contaminated hazardous waste storage ponds around florida killed massive amounts of sealife in Tampa recently.

I liked the look of Cactus plants when I was there. And the availability and probably the cost of landscape rock. Most of the area looks clean, I did see some rundown areas but that was after a lot of driving around.

Back in the twenties we were shipping our coal to San Francisco.
My old landlord has since passed away on but she once told me that the street or should I say road next to her house was built with coal from the nearby mines. And I'm talking a half a mile away from where I live. She told me if the road ever caught fire they never put it out. There is a lot of coal still left underground in our area but it's not feasible to mine it anymore. It's dirty cold and of course being on the landlocked coast, is cost prohibitive to ship it anywhere.
When you have coal, and you have wells. If you have wells, you have sulfur. Not all that hazardous but it makes you water taste like s***
.... I meant crap. Crap is okay but s*** isn't.
I spent most of a month working at a second home for the vice president of a casino down in Las Vegas. This small second home was on the lake. The lake is 15 mi north of me. Once you get to the lake you have to travel about another 30 to 45 minutes up over the hill to the very end of the road to get to their property.
Since they only stay there occasionally, and during the summer months, I stayed there while I worked.
The water tasted something probably similar to of course of water, filtered through 5 gallons of rotten eggs.
Yes they had filters in their water system but I'm taking a wild guess to say nobody knew that they needed to be changed. Holy crap that was the nastiest water I have ever tasted. I used it to brush my teeth on night one. From that point on, I brought gallons of water from the store. It was even nasty taking hot showers with the smell of that water.
If you were vice president of a casino in Las Vegas, one would assume that you might be able to afford to have a better filtration system.
Sorry for rambling, what was the question again?

 

[Jon]

That sounds like a good deal to me Jon. Same goes for the distilleries?

I would guess if they are in a city area they would get water out of a tap
Some of the water which is bottled come from streams off the mountains also I seem to remember a company bored a well and that lowered the water level for others

 

[C.J.]

Nothin special today but I feel as if it would be a waste to not at least have a beer while BBQin some brats.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I'm enjoying my 1 beer of the day as I type this. That is what I allow myself per day.

 

[Don Monfils]

I used to go through 36 or more Heinekens per week. I have had none for 13 months.

 

[Mark Brown]

Hell, I think there was a period of about 10 years I was going through what seemed like 36 old Milwaukee a night
I wasn't so much an alcoholic as a kid who liked to party. This old man probably hasn't drank 36 beer in the last 5 years lol

 

[Floorist]

I have had one beer this year.

 

[highup]

I have had one beer this year.

I have you whooped in the last hour and a half. Not bragging, just trying to create a shortage.

 

[highup]

Hell, I think there was a period of about 10 years I was going through what seemed like 36 old Milwaukee a night
I wasn't so much an alcoholic as a kid who liked to party. This old man probably hasn't drank 36 beer in the last 5 years lol

Be careful on your bragging about being "old man" in these heer parts.
If you weren't born before the invention of dirt you going to get laughed at.

 

[C.J.]

Don’t know if old Milwaukee is a toasting beer as much as a smash the can and grab another. Now I gotta watch Strange Brew again eh.