The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[betty rose]

Vacation, did I hear vacation????

My favorite vacation!

 

[betty rose]

I sure hope not! Go for a lower caf brew!



Starbucks Brewed Coffee Caffeine by Size
Cup Size USA Caffeine Global* Caffeine
Short 180mg 160mg
Tall 260mg 240mg
Grande 330mg 320mg
Venti 415mg 400mg

*Starbucks lists different caffeine amounts in the UK, Europe, Australia, and other worldwide markets.

Caffeine Amount in Starbucks Popular Roasts
Beverage Short (8 floz) Tall (12 floz) Grande (16 floz) Venti (20 floz)
Pike Place Brewed Coffee 180mg 260mg 330mg 415mg
Blonde Roast 180mg 270mg 360mg 475mg
Clover Brewed Coffee 170mg 280mg 375mg 445mg
Featured Dark Roast 130mg 195mg 260mg 340mg
Caffeine values in coffee can vary enormously. The coffee blend, roast, brewing process, and many other factors can affect the caffeine content. The value above is from Starbucks.

I think that french pressed contains less caffeine.

 

[betty rose]

I have 2 whole hours of peace and quiet to try and get caught up on mount laundry Although I may have taken some of that time to cut out some fabric instead

I hope you are sewing you something!

 

[betty rose]

Ha! Any newbies to this thread may as well be accepting of that from the time they find this thread. While we all often don't agree we are a strange little cyber family that when cooler heads prevail we are a pretty close group that has the skills to Move On. Topics really do move pretty quickly, harsh or happy. Pretty awesome that we don't take ourselves that seriously. Thank goodness.

Agree.

 

[donaldtoo]

DL's PofTC might be my favorite thing ever (besides Star Wars, that is). Have no idea why WDW's is so inferior.

I find it funny that they never sealed the shaft from the Mine Train, so there was a random shaft just sitting there.

Yep, DLs version is definitely superior IMO, too.
The short answer that I've always heard is that it was a bit of a rush job.
When MK opened in '71, Guests complained there was no PotC like at DL. Even if they had never experienced the one at DL before, many had seen what it was when Walt introduced it on his TV show. Initially, Imagineers assumed that east coast guests (particularly southern) wouldn't be interested because of the familiarity with and proximity to the Caribbean. Thus, the originally planned Western River Expedition, that was to have BTMR built above it (the related shaft you mentioned, I believe). Plans were quickly changed after Guest complaints, so the WRE was abandoned for an abbreviated PotC that Disney wanted to have open before Christmas of '73.

 

[betty rose]

Awesome outfit

I want that traveling bag, valise. At the price she paid for it, back in the day.

 

[betty rose]

And mine is:

I love the haunted manshon

 

[betty rose]

I wouldn't say this to anyone else, but I'll bet you're the one person out there, who could sew your own!

I was thinking the same thing. great minds!

 

[donaldtoo]

@donaldtoo
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Hahaaa...!!!
Yep, and it's set to channel 19...the truckers preferred channel...!

 

[betty rose]

Me too, which is why I will have to wait until I actually go to Pandora to see it. Disney just should have had a complete special with Joe Rohde doing the tour.

Favorite ride is BTMM. Favorite nostalgic ride is COP. The "makes me feel warm inside" ride would be the ferry boat to MK and watching the castle come into full view.
Our nice warm weather will be going away for the weekend also. They have 60 for Thursday, but 31 for Saturday and possible snow on Sunday.

My sympathy's. We are cool and rain coming, I hope!

 

[Figgy1]

Our weather has been very windy, around 50 mph. Hubby said he could hardly make it to the mail box. I've been waiting for the smoke to clear, the forest fire is still going and spreading the smoke around.

Sympathy like. I hope you're not having problems with you asthma xoxo

 

[betty rose]

That is my preferred combo too.

Plus, relish and onions, and sauteed peppers. That's the Rocky's dog. Yummy!

 

[Figgy1]

I hope you are sewing you something!

Thank you and FINALLY!

 

[Figgy1]

My sympathy's. We are cool and rain coming, I hope!

What I wouldn't give for rain this week er um

 

[Figgy1]

@betty rose are you going to take your fall trip this year?

 

[betty rose]

Sympathy like. I hope you're not having problems with you asthma xoxo

I'm on allergy, and except at night. I'm doing pretty good. We haven't had any kind of rain or even snow, for a really long time. Yea, for no snow, we could use some rain, though!

 

[betty rose]

What I wouldn't give for rain this week er um

The east is having what we usually have. Our climate changed last year, and it's getting warmer this year. Millions of years ago we were a rainforest. No snow!

 

[betty rose]

@betty rose are you going to take your fall trip this year?

I'm not sure. We have been helping our DD out with expenses, so that may be our trip, in fall.

 

[Figgy1]

I'm not sure. We have been helping our DD out with expenses, so that may be our trip, in fall.

 

[donaldtoo]

OMG -- you are too funny!!! I can just see you doing that -- big fun for kids!

Hahaaa...!
Yea, it was a common thing back then, and was some good fun for us kiddos...!
Also, we did switch out, often enough, between the camper and the cab, especially as we got older. I am the oldest, so I rode with my pop a lot in the cab on about the last 2 trips before we moved back to Texas. It was easier to get truckers attention from there, too.
Through Arizona I remember riding shirtless most of the time. There were plastic seat covers in the cab, so you can imagine that combo, but, we definitely stayed cooler. There was no A/C in either the truck or the camper, so windows in both were pretty much always wide open.
I could write a whole chapter on just those trips alone.
We visited so many places along the way.
Everything from the LBJ Ranch, Grand Canyon, Painted Dessert, Petrified Forrest, Yuma Territorial Prison, to the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville, CA. (now closed), etc.
Again, goooooood memories...!!!!!