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[scottobear]

Yesterday, at the regional home show, there was a huge display regarding "DRYER FIRE" - it turned out to be a $1 bottle brush renamed "Dryer lint safety brush", and selling for $20.

I say, "bah, a mostly synthetic danger cooked up by lint brush salesmen... if you clean the lint trap, how can can it be?"

If I were a more superstitious fellow, I'd fear cruel irony, as we're doing laundry.

That said, I got the idea for a new item.. the smoke detector smoke detector... to detect if your other smoke detector is on fire... because you know that more than nine out of every ten smoke detector fires is started inside a smoke detector. (I wonder how many house fires have started from an electrical short in a smoke detector?)

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Pomonkey - best local Amerindian word / Town name ever. Aww.. Po'Monkey got no nanners! Possibly a place to get a gig re:security and etc, too.

Pomonkey had a dryer fire!

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Garden plan -

Tina, the In-Laws, BHK and I have a garden planned for our back yard - planting begins in March for the first crop.


It'll be in our back yard... Larry's going to bring in a few truckloads of topsoil and rototill by the end of this month... BHK and I will be working the section with broccoli, peas and parsley in March, and then continuing to pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, cilantro, sunflowers, green beans and garlic at the top of may.

Other crops tended by the gang will include potato, onion, carrot, radishes, a few varieties of tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and all sorts of others. I expect it'll be a fun and educational experience... I haven't grown anything on this scale before, but we've got a master gardener, an engineer and a farm boy on our side to help keep things a-rollin'.

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Finally Added Pye and BHK to my bio page... sakes! Pokey puppy Scotto.

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Pictures for the kitties getting along in the loft.

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1 year ago - childhood goat trauma foundation, sleepless in seattle (stalker),
Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches, deerfield has a different sort of fauna than ftl, rainy, quizzes,

2 years ago - smoother sailing, sleeping in airports, Bigfoot 911, weather, Trism lyric

3 years ago - 7 sins meme, hand-foot coordination, stood up for b-day dinner

4 years ago - dreams, haiku, Irish curses, random politeness factoid, more palm-cam pics, nice cards!

5 years ago - Moonflower haiku, bus rides, tulpa-folk, what do people see quiz, miss cleo got in trubbah, quiet apartments

6 years ago - Snorks vs. Smurfs, recovering from sickies, lovey-loves, butch or femme

Comments

[edbook.livejournal.com]

it's surprising how much lint gets by the filter... I get a couple hands full when I reach into the vent from outside about once a year. Several years ago, in my first house, I happened to be walking through the laundry room and put my hand on the dryer... HOT! way too hot... I turned off the dryer and could hear it burning... I had a fire extinguisher and sprayed it through the filter... I then pulled out the dryer and took off the back... the entire inside was full of lint and it had gotten there through the filter and a split in the vent line. The dryer was several years old and probably had been building up for a long time. I was really fortunate that I happened to put my hand on the dryer when I walked through the laundry room. So, I guess a lint brush would be a good thing.


Peace

[(Anonymous)]

Good to know.. I'm glad nobody was hurt! I stand corrected!

Great! Now you have me thinking. Thanks a lot!

[queenmabwords.livejournal.com]

We had to have a new fire detector hard-wired to the house electricity. It's a new building code. The damn thing keeps falling apart. If it causes a fire, I'm going to get cranky.

Re: Great! Now you have me thinking. Thanks a lot!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yikes!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

I just want it on record that the GrayPumpkin loves all monkeys, rich and po.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

You sir, are the Will Rogers of Monkeys.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

And monkeys love pumpkins---or so I've heard.

garden

[edbook.livejournal.com]

'just noticed I forgot to say something else... your gardening efforts will be much more successful if you use "potting soil" instead of "topsoil" is generaly depleted of nutrients (good for grass if augmented by lots of amendments) whereas potting soil is a mix of soils and compost which is what nurseries use for rapid growth. I've used both and found that topsoil grew weeds well but was fairly unsuccessful in my raised beds.

Peace