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As always, thank you all for the wealth of information! While these are things that have been talked about before, a lot of the time important info tends to slip by, so seeing and reading it again is always a welcome thing.

I think it's as much about the vinegar as well as the ho I will keep y'all updated as to how things progress. I'm just wondering: the folks who started getting "dingy gray" results: were they using the 1/4 cup of vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser? I thought the vinegar was what "cut"...

I'd vote for choke not functioning properly (relatively cheap and easy to fix), or the computer (Ack!). I used to do tuneups for friends back in the early 80s and one buddy had a Buick that behaved like yours. I did all the things you have, plugs, wires, etc., and it ended up being his computer...

Austin's water is definitely what I'd call "hard" but not the worst compared to some of the other towns here. We are on "city water" which is treated to the max...I've seen some "well water" that leaves such a crust that you'd think it was saltwater. When we were using the liquid detergents, I...

Toggleswitch2: Hadn't seen her before someone forwarded the link to us. Reminds me of the two fellows here in Austin who do fantastic shows based on a fictional small Texas town called "Greater Tuna"...they are phenomenal, and have taken their shows to Broadway before...Jaston Williams and Joe...

We lived on our property for years before we bought it, the previous owner being friends of ours. After a particularly nasty hailstorm, there was some roof damage, but not much. The past owner filed a claim, and they barely paid anything at all. Cost more to repair the damage than the mere...

ronhic: Don't know about front loaders...we're using it our old Maytag A407. Do you generally use more or less detergent in a FL machine? I'd imagine that the vinegar would work regardless of top or front. Launderess: I guess we must have gotten the "modern" kind, as the bar says "contains no...

A little chicken-fried levity for Friday afternoon.

...and we're lovin' it. All the clothes seem brighter, softer, and fluffier. Best of all, there's absolutely NO smell or scent, just the smell of CLEAN. We were afraid that everything would smell like Fels soap or the vinegar, but it really doesn't even enter into the picture as far as the final...

At least the lister has a sense of humor...although I always cringe when I see "yungins" call anything (and everything) from the 50s "Art Deco"...ack! Get your historical design periods straight, kiddos!

Credit Unions rock. No service charges, local, friendly, and not subject to the "takeovers" like banks.

Our little spot is uniquely placed, we're surrounded by a large tract of wild, but that tract is surrounded on all sides by development, so the creekbeds are the main route the critters take in and out of the wild spots. It's like being in the country, but less than a mile away in just about all...

Lawdy... Thanks much for all the tips and the smiles, y'all...not to mention the recipes...although I'm sure Paula Deen would find a way to use a whole quart of mayonnaise, a pound of butter, and a quart of heavy cream when SHE cooks up a raccoon! I'm now officially paranoid of the raccoon...

Sudsmaster, yes, we're pretty sure there's at least one place they use as a den here. We've got just over 3 acres, and our cabins are up on stilts about three feet high in spots, so they can chew/dig their way under the houses with little problem. One year a female actually had a litter under...

Now there's an idea! Cheap and "enviro-friendly" to boot...and if it works on squirrels, it oughta work on these malevolvent li'l beasties, too...thanks!

Raccoons are Evil Pure Evil. They're not cute, cuddly, funny little critters. They're Evil Vermin Of The Night. We live on a creek in a fairly rural setting here in central Texas. We're used to critters. We have lots of different critters, and they're usually not a bad problem, but this last...

Taking The Luddite Route: I have a 1970's Dual 1229 Turntable with Shure M91-ED cartridge, fed into a Dynaco PAS-3X Preamp. The RCA outs from the preamp go into the RCA ins on the M-Audio "Audiophile 2496" card in my Mac MDD Dual 1-gHz. I use an ancient version of Peak recording software...

Dynaco tube stereo equipment and speakers, Dual turntables, all sorts of LPs and 45s. Recordings and memorabilia of The Boswell Sisters.

Oil that Kenmore! Kenmore's from the 60s and earlier are probably some of the most reliable machines ever made. That puppy is probably just fine, and needs to be oiled. Char has a very persnickety old Bernina that is just like an old Jaguar as far as needing "work" and having to coddle the...

Sloppy Thinking, no...Outright Lying, YES... I posted this link in another thread, which quickly got buried. You might want to read this! This Ahmanson creature (a damaged little rich boy with lots of "ISSUES") is one of the main financers of the Prop 8. His goal is nothing short of "the total...