In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. 10 flights of stairs isn't fun if you're carrying a bunch of things. I didn't consider that.

Do you have, or have you ever considered buying one of those grocery bag carriers? I know how much over-carrying things just from my car to the entry to my house (through 3 doors) can jamb up my fingers because I don't use one of those. Though I'm sure you're not overloading yourself on the walks, they are supposed to do a good job of dispersing the weight and making it easier on the digits.

https://www.amazon.com/Totasak-Grocery-Carrier-2-Pack-Royal/dp/B08DDG1
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They probably have even better ones that would have a nice padded handle, I would imagine.



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I don't think I've seen them up here. I would have to look for them.

I have a shopping bag that I take with me when I go out to carry groceries in but yeah I am careful about over loading even that. It a stretchy one and can hold quite a bit.

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Originally posted by Brenda:

I don't think I've seen them up here. I would have to look for them.

I have a shopping bag that I take with me when I go out to carry groceries in but yeah I am careful about over loading even that. It a stretchy one and can hold quite a bit.

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Yeah. Check out the reviews. People who have used them seem to have nothing but good things to say.

I've never used one of those, but I can tell you that there's a lot to be said about tools like this that redistribute the weight the proper way.

Forearm forklifts are great for moving large appliances and furniture, making it a snap for two guys who would normally struggle getting them up or down stairs and can even make it possible for two people who wouldn't even be able to manage it without them.

I also have a "panel carrier" that makes lifting, moving and controlling a 4'x8' sheet of drywall a piece of cake with only one person and not accidentally hitting it into a wall or dropping it too hard on one of its corners, which are both things you need to be really worried about if you're trying to move them without two people.

If you can find them I think you'll wonder how you lived without them after you start using them.



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I think if anyone has anything useful to say about carrying things, it would be SIX, given his job and personal experience!

I had a four-wheel cart, kind of like a kids' wagon but soft-sided, for when I used to go to the farmer's market. It was very useful until a weld broke on a wheel. Fortunately, hubby was able to kluge it back together with a big bolt and washer.

Yanno, they go thru the trouble of making 99pct of it right, choosing sturdy fabric and decent metal, and then they go cheap on some critical element, like welds, and the whole thing becomes useless. Typical Chinese junk.

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Is it just our area, of has anyone noticed a significant deterioration in food quality control lately?
Eggs... used to be well-sorted. Now you might get an AVERAGE of large eggs, but some are ginormous and some are pretty small.

I just had to throw out a bag of dried beans bc more than half looked like they had been mold-spotted before being dried. Who wants to eat aflatoxin??

Not to mention that breasts from conventionally-raised chickens are quite tough, with fibrous areas that are like wood. They've tracked it down to chickens growing too fast and creating "oxidative stress" in the muscle. "Has the same nutrional value!" they claim, but who the hell wants to be eating wood-like chicken??? I buy organic chicken (the only organic meat I can afford) but I'm detecting the beginnings of the same problem there, too.

Bone chips in ground meat. Moldy produce. Not to mention shortages of random stuff.

I dunno. Prices are going up, too. I guess that's the benefit of having fixed "price points" (For YEARS I could limit purchases to no more than $4/lb for fully-trimmed meat, or $6/lb for cheese, or $2/lb for vegetable/fuits) bc it becomes obvious when I'm hitting or exceeding my price points, which I'm doing more and more often. Especially with beef.

It's a little late in the year for planting is So Cal but my seedlings are coming up, and as soon as this latest hot spell is over I'm going to prep the garden for planting.

Still thinking about raising my own chickens. Our city allows five (no roosters! too noisy!) I would have to keep them out of the garden bc they tend to tear up veggies a they scratch the soil, and protect them and their eggs from raccoons and skunks, butmight be worth it in the end.

Bees, too. Would be nice to have a beehive.

And a still. We have a feijoa, and it produces fruit like apricots - in abundance, all at once. There's only so many we can eat and give away or make jam. But brandy ... now THERE'S a great way to store fruit!

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I have a new organizational system that allows me to keep track of varying tasks that are on different schedules (twice a week, once a week, twice a month, once a month, once every three weeks ...) With all of the random unexpected events popping up lately it's easy for someone with a crappy memory like mine to forget to water the houseplants, for example! I just don't multitask like I used to, and I was never very good at it anyway. But instead of keeping running lists, I just write my "to do" items on little yellow stickies and stick them in my diary (I found keeping a diary at work very helpful bc I could record meetings, and who I talked to and when about some disputed result or policy clarification, and I carried it over to home) and if theyve been completed I just move the sticky to the next scheduled date, and if not completed yo the next day, until it's done. It keeps me on track and eliminates that nagging feeling that I'm forgetting something, so now I can concentrate on the special projects that pop up without worrying about the other stuff. So far it's been working well, and I'm very pleased with it.

You may not realize it BRENDA, but YOU were the inspiration for that system. I like that fact that you have a schedule and have been trying to make my life more predictable and I think I've found my system.



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think if anyone has anything useful to say about carrying things, it would be SIX, given his job and personal experience!

I had a four-wheel cart, kind of like a kids' wagon but soft-sided, for when I used to go to the farmer's market. It was very useful until a weld broke on a wheel. Fortunately, hubby was able to kluge it back together with a big bolt and washer.

Yanno, they go thru the trouble of making 99pct of it right, choosing sturdy fabric and decent metal, and then they go cheap on some critical element, like welds, and the whole thing becomes useless. Typical Chinese junk.

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Yeah. I had a metal mesh wagon from my brother and an important weld broke. Probably a blessing in disguise since I already had a good wagon and it went out with the rest of the hoard a few years back. I was able to save my spreader with it though by taking one of the wheels and drilling some holes in the proper place so I could put the pin through it. The mice had chewed right through one of the wheels when they found the seeds that one year and must have thought it was a pinata.

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Is it just our area, of has anyone noticed a significant deterioration in food quality control lately?

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I haven't noticed, but I don't exactly buy a wide range of food. I usually have around 6 months to a year worth of food stocked up except for frozen vegetables so it would probably be a while until I get to the newer stuff. Hopefully there's no surprises like meal worms in my rice or something. The frozen vegetables have seemed to be fine though, and when I treat myself to cheese and bean dip on occasion here hasn't been any problems.

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Eggs... used to be well-sorted. Now you might get an AVERAGE of large eggs, but some are ginormous and some are pretty small.

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I think this might be a bi-product of the movement to end the caged chicken farms. I'd never even known about how they did that until I was grossed out watching Napoleon Dynamite, and now I've seen some documentaries on it on YouTube. I've heard that they're being phased out. I'd assume that if the chickens can't be in a tightly controlled environment as literal cogs in a machine, you're going to probably have some variance in sizes. Or maybe they're just being more lax in the egg size (while keeping the same overall weight per dozen) as to not have so much waste to keep from having to raise prices too much.

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I just had to throw out a bag of dried beans bc more than half looked like they had been mold-spotted before being dried. Who wants to eat aflatoxin??

Not to mention that breasts from conventionally-raised chickens are quite tough, with fibrous areas that are like wood. They've tracked it down to chickens growing too fast and creating "oxidative stress" in the muscle. "Has the same nutrional value!" they claim, but who the hell wants to be eating wood-like chicken??? I buy organic chicken (the only organic meat I can afford) but I'm detecting the beginnings of the same problem there, too.

Bone chips in ground meat. Moldy produce. Not to mention shortages of random stuff.

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Welcome to the Great Reset. You and I knew that to make everything "equal" would entail everything getting worse for everybody. Nobody is going to be raised up.

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I dunno. Prices are going up, too. I guess that's the benefit of having fixed "price points" (For YEARS I could limit purchases to no more than $4/lb for fully-trimmed meat, or $6/lb for cheese, or $2/lb for vegetable/fuits) bc it becomes obvious when I'm hitting or exceeding my price points, which I'm doing more and more often. Especially with beef.

It's a little late in the year for planting is So Cal but my seedlings are coming up, and as soon as this latest hot spell is over I'm going to prep the garden for planting.

Still thinking about raising my own chickens. Our city allows five (no rooster

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