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Please, people. Get off of your phones when you're driving.
It's not one specific age group, I see all ages, all social classes, all types of people doing this. Moms in their beheamoth SUVs, (the new 'mini van'), business men, (literally, yesterday, the car in front of me in the left lane went wildly into the right lane, almost hitting the car next to him. Older man, business type, driving a Mercedes, on his damn phone!), younger people.
I've never seen so many people with their faces in their phones like I do here. Traffic doesn't get through lights because the first person in line is so involved in their phone that they don't see it turn green, and ya'll 'too nice' to even give a quick beep of the horn. Two cars make it through the light, extending the long line for the next light change.
People going way under the speed limit because they are on their phone while driving.
People pulling out in front of other cars because they are on their phone while they pull out of a parking lot, a side street, a driveway...
Come on. Nothing on that phone is that important.
I drive around all day. Up to 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week.
I had one SUV sideswipe me because, guess what? She wasn't paying attention.
I've avoided multiple accidents, and in my estimate, 80% of them were on their damn phones.
I see this all day long. I drive all over Raleigh, Cary, Holly Springs, Apex, Morrisville...this is a massive problem. So many people on their phones while behind the wheel.
Nice We had a salad last night with fresh homegrown tomatoes and cukes…then two slices of leftover cheese pizza
We planted two more tomato plants yesterday from rooted suckers. I hope to get tomatoes well into fall.
Do you do anything special to keep your cucumbers from getting bitter? This is my first year trying to grow any vegetables, and I'm having mixed results with the cukes. The one I picked yesterday tasted bitter, but the one I picked a few days before that was fine. I don't know if it's just the hot weather we've been having or something else. I pick the cucumbers when they're small, so it's not that it stayed on the plant too long.
I bought a couple locally grown cucumbers at the store a couple years ago that were both bitter (I'd never had a bitter cucumber in my life, so that was a surprise), so it's not just me!
Do you do anything special to keep your cucumbers from getting bitter?
Not really. I grow mine next to the foundation of the house, and this was the first year in that location. I prepared the soil in each hill by mixing in a generous amount of organic mushroom compost. After setting out each plant I watered them in well with a large watering can with Miracle Grow. I then put some slow release granular fertilizer around the plant. I water daily and these turned out really good. We planted a Burpless Bush variety that would stay fairly compact. We store them in the refrigerator in a tall container of water almost completely submerged. It is by far the best way I’ve found to keep cukes fresh.
Went off-peak to the Southpoint Mall, and stopped by Nordstroms.
Years ago I was in a Nordstroms, NJ I think, and IIRC it lived up to its White Glove service reputation, which I have more heard of than actually experienced as I don't go there.
Not the one in Durham it seems, and not due to Covid - staff in the shoe department were standing around and not servicing customers, one of them close to us was chatting up a customer for the entire 20 minutes we were there, another was playing with his phone and not helping us, then a gaggle of them were together oblivious to us, and after not getting their attention had to approach them for a sale that nearly wasn't.
Maybe Nordstrom isn't Nordstrom anymore.
Last trip to Belk Raleigh was just the opposite - attentive and polite.
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There was a drive-by shooting at Wendy's in Carrboro last night. I was walking in my neighborhood which is about 2 miles from there and I kept hearing sirens, one after the other. I figured there was a big car accident nearby. Yikes! One person was hospitalized and another injured; lots of gun casings on the ground.
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We had a salad last night with fresh homegrown tomatoes and cukes…then two slices of leftover cheese pizza
