Plenty of cold water in the fridge plus a few one-liters of diet pop, a half gallon of cranberry juice and a gallon of milk.?ÿ Never leave home without at least a single full one-liter of something to drink.?ÿ My vehicles automatically turn in at every convenience store along the route to drain and replace fluids, politely.?ÿ Last evening, during the middle of a meeting I was chairing, someone asked our guest speaker a question.?ÿ I knew he would take a minimum of five minutes responding.?ÿ So, I slipped out of the room to the nearby restroom, then picked up another 12 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper, before returning to my chair to hear the guest still answering the question.?ÿ No one missed me.
I'm a cheapskate.?ÿ Dollar General has a weekly price break on two-liters of pop.?ÿ Normally, the price is three bottles for $3.?ÿ So, I will purchase nine to twelve at a time.?ÿ At home, I will pour the contents of the big bottles into the empty supply of one-liters that fit nicely on the refrigerator door to supply my traveling needs.
That diet stuff isn't good for you either in large quantities.
That's what my doctor keeps telling me, too.?ÿ A non-smoking, non-drinking guy has to have some sort of vice, you know.
I freeze 2/3 of a gallon milk bottle of water overnight and top it off in the morning.?ÿ Drink that and eat salted almonds for lunch and I seem to do alright.
I hesitate to say this but look up jug huggers.?ÿ I ran into an older surveyor at a bluegrass festival last weekend and he had a gallon jug frozen the night before with an insulated cover.?ÿ Great idea.?ÿ I ordered one right away.
I hesitate to say this but look up jug huggers.
I think you now have the attention of the vast majority of this forum.
@holy-cow That diet stuff is what they use to experiment on rats. ?ÿNow I know you grew up on a farm so i know you have participated in rat killens. Lol. I am not a big soda drinker myself. I love my sweat tea though. I am not a big fan of bottled water either. But I have come to the understanding that old fashion water coolers filled with water from my well and ice thrown in is not what everyone considers to be safe for some darn reason. But I am pretty blessed as we have some good water here. I can taste and smell the chlorine in bottled water . ?ÿI do drink it though because that??s what is bought by the company. I just washed up my 5 gallon water cooler the old gatorade ones. It is going in the work van next week . For me. It gets pretty dusty looking on outside because its what i use on days making hay. But inside is clean. Is there some liability thing that these are no longer used. Or is bottled water cheaper than filling it up at home.?ÿ
@jaccen?ÿ?ÿ Gotta be an easier way
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my room is at 57F at sleep time.?ÿ I've wondered often if my lack of needing much sleep and sleeping in wine cellar temps indicates something.... ?????ÿ
We used to keep a refrigerator in the farm shop loaded up with several gallon jugs (mostly old Clorox jugs).?ÿ Would stick a couple in the freezer every night, then the next day take one from the freezer and one from the refrigerator.?ÿ Weren't no need for coolers, a couple of paper fertilizer sacks, one stuffed into the other and rolled shut at the top would keep them both cold enough that by the time the cold one was used up, the frozen one was melting to last the rest of the day.?ÿ If there was a hay or tobacco crew, we used the old metal Igloo coolers with a spout.?ÿ Didn't need cups, just sit it up on the edge of the wagon/truck and drink like a chicken.
Many years ago a carpenter friend of ours used a Clorox jug as his water jug.?ÿ He was working inside of a lady's house one day when he stopped to get a drink.?ÿ Grabbed the wrong Clorox bottle.?ÿ Sputtered and spit and spit and spit.?ÿ Had inhaled some fumes, too.?ÿ Thought he was going to die right there.?ÿ He survived.?ÿ No lasting damage.?ÿ Last day he used a Clorox jug.
It's been high 90s and into the 100s here??æ
I drink water and spit seasoned sunflowerseeds but the real trick to beat the heat is to quit early and head to the river or the bar?????ÿ
If anyone can recomend a class 3 vest for working in hot weather, or any hi-vis clothing for hot weather I am all ears.
?ÿBut I would take that heat over the humidity of Mississippi Tennessee South Carolina or North Carolina and sometimes Virginia any day. ?ÿ
And Georgia...this summer has been a tough one. It wasn't too many years ago that we beat the record for days over 90 degrees in Athens at 87 days (54 straight). We are running a good pace of 90+ days this year too. Muggy mornings blah!
