No wonder my skin is so dry it feels like alligator hide

@sammydog01 It’s supposed be plug and play. I bought this one because I didn’t have the outside piece. So I bought the same make and similar model, and now they both talk to the same outside piece. The older one also said 1%, and when I transplanted it to the game room in the basement it switched to 5%, so they are reading something. The outside reading is accurate with the weather online. We’ve got a chance of rain starting tomorrow, so the outdoor humidity is supposed to get up to 21% tonight, hopefully I can get some of that inside.

@f00l I thought it was gonna be about mazola and a kiddie pool.

@Barney Everything is yellow here. We get little yellow tornados when it’s windy. It’s creepy.

@sammydog01 Hmm, yellow is not my color.

@sammydog01 must be lots of pine trees around you. Back when I lived in a house the yard was thick in pine trees (and raking pine needles was a PITA - 50 or more 30 gal bags) and in the spring everything was yellow - the ghetto van, the house, the grass, everything. On the plus side my kid was willing to rake when I provided the bags and we sold the pine needs on craigslist for $3 bag. She made around $190 or so the first year and a bit over $300 the next year (I went broke buying bags). The neighbors thought it was weird she was willing to rake their yards for free and then we took away the bags. If they only knew. Gold, in more than one way, in their yards LOL.

@Kidsandliz Yep, pine trees. It’s a mess. I need to dust my car dashboard every day.

@Kidsandliz
Why do people purchase pine needles? For the scent?

@f00l Gardening around here. Both years she did this a professional gardener actually bought over half of what she sold. Rain on pine needles makes the water somewhat acidic (eg makes tannic acid which used to be used to tan hides)

@Kidsandliz
Is somewhat acidic water good for gardening?

I used to love walking barefoot in the sandy pine forests and groves on the keys right next to the beach in Florida. Perhaps I liked that better than the beach almost. It was a little magical. A deep quiet peace.

@f00l I have no clue. Likely it depends on the natural ph of the soil where you are and what you are trying to grow.

@Kidsandliz

Now we’re sending acidic water to the f00l?

@f00l Here in Kentucky they import pine straw from North Carolina to cover flower beds. I asked some landscapers about it. I told them they could go to my parents’ house in Georgia and take all they wanted from the yard for free.

I hated raking that crap. The needles would get woven into the rake, so I’d have to stop every dozen strokes or so to pull them out.

These are little needles like the kind that are on Christmas trees but big foot-long things.

And that pollen. I remember drifts of it along the side of the road. Everyone had a yellow car.

@craigthom

If you were to participate in a mexchange and you happened to get my name, I honestly wouldn’t mind being sent pine straw.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin I no longer live in pine straw country. Around here they pay for it.

@craigthom

I blame @ruouttaurmind.

@Barney - Not yellow? What is your color?

@PlacidPenguin Nah - cheaper to send pine needles. The ones around here are 5-7" but we have to wait until the fall when they are brown and dry and fall off the trees.

@Barney It’s actually the color wheel opposite of your color. It’s your nemesis.

@craigthom You think?

@Barney Free shipping on orders of $50 from AcuRite, so I had to get four of those indoor sensors. Had to.

@craigthom Free shipping? Yep, you had to.

@craigthom that’s actually pretty cool. Wonder what I would want to monitor with that setup…?
Walk-in Humidor… no, wait, I don’t smoke…
Wine cellar… but which one: red, white, or sprarkling, all of them…?
Smoker? No, I already have a meh purchased (BT to boot) device for that… using it right now!
Chick brooder… nah, that would be a chickenshit use for that gear
Guess I will just stick with the one I have that monitors just 2 spots currently until I can come up with a more creative use.
(but the techie in me is still fascinated by the possibilities… do you have a link to details on that system?)

@chienfou weewx is the software generally. Search for it and sdr for using it with a radio, reading sensors directly.

What about putting in vents you can open and close electrically and using the data to be better at zone climate control?

@chienfou

Wine cellar… but which one: red, white, or sprarkling, all of them…?

I vote for Sprarkling. I’ll even volunteer to drink some.

/giphy spackle

@f00l Jealous. We have a 10% chance tomorrow and Wednesday but a 60% chance tomorrow night. Hope it starts early enough for me to sit out a bit. In this neighborhood everyone comes out on their front porch to watch it rain.

@f00l Not here. I have that song stuck in my head:

@OldCatLady
Here’s another one for you.

@OldCatLady cat tv

@OldCatLady do you use plastic or metal (steel or aluminum) rivets… just curious??

@chienfou …sigh…

@chienfou
I bet she uses Trivets. AKA Trivial Rivets.

/giphy trivets

@f00l
like the gif, so leaving it

@chienfou The leather gets dry and cracks, wood also. OTOH, no rust or mold…

@moondrake yeah, I bet. Probably hell on your hair as well tho…

@chienfou Before we moved to the desert my hair was down to my ass, now the best it can manage is mid back. That’s the main reason I’ve never even considered cutting it short, there’s a good chance it would never grow back.

@moondrake
Most people can no longer grow nice ass-length hair past their early 20’s. You cut that, it’s gone. You don’t cut it, it breaks and it’s gone. : (

@f00l my hair is butt length right now. I had it to my mid thighs once… If it wasn’t so prone to splitting, I’d try to keep it a little longer. I end up having to keep trimming it at this point, so I end up trimming off most of my growth.