Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-26-19 09:03 <=-

Taking his Turkey experience and translating it over here?

Don't think so... Driving the roads direct to Potsdam, we had seen some evidence of some massive clearing happening on one large plot of land...
RJ was concerned that someone might have bought it to do some mining, although he was thinking that another possibility might just have been
some rich dude from downstate planning to put in a large farm... The
sound did seem to be coming from that direction....

I'm wondering why clearing for development should make
that kind of noise.

They're using that sort of explosives to get the tree trunks out...?

Thing is we're in a different time and situation, where middle-class children are encouraged to take music up as a mind-expander rather
than training for a trade. And with transport not being great, and heating in the winter not being great. circumstances were certainly more tough for a church music director in olden times.

At least from our perspective... I do think though of the Bach extended family, with church (and other) musicians for generations, the training happening in the family, and available for use in the church...

Not too many music directors had 21 kids.

I was also thinking of the generations before JS Bach... And there were
other family musical dynasties at the time...

tttt, there have been some to whom entrusting my
safety would have been not so great an idea.

There is that...

I've seen all sorts. Some have been really good. Some, not so.

As would be expected...

Now when Lilli took the Austrian Airlines flight attendant
training, the instructors at least seemed crackerjack.

You'd hope they would be... :)

have such a striking effect. Maybe by the time we see each other
I'll have worked my way up to two Advil.

Odd. I never heard of Advil giving a high before... none of them have
done anything for me... except making me dizzy, possibly... not a
feeling I'd chase after...

Of course, you're not typical, and neither am I.

True.

This all may be something analogous to the ibuprofen at
one time causing false positive results for THC. Maybe my
body is being fooled in this way.

Possible.. :)

year-round, and for certain school children also free breakfast
during the school year... I'm sure it's low-income based...
There's also free or low-cost meals for seniors at some of the
senior centers....

I figure all kids should get the basics free, with
adults paying as they can for themselves and others.

That does seem to be the trend here, anyway...

And that's a good thing, if the community can afford it.

Apparently it can... or at least the extended community... :)

The one extreme makes the most effect for a few clients,
but the extended community, though it makes mistakes and
inefficiency, has the greatest reach, of course.

Seems to be working pretty well here...

To each according to need, from each according to
ability, the old Communist motto, works well here.

Especially when used in the pure form...

It's such a pity that practicalities get in the way
of theories. It takes only one nutcase to ruin it for
everyone, and when you have two, such as Lenin and Stalin.
anything goes. Or everything goes.

Indeed.

We're hoping against hope that humanity is perfectible.

I know better, at least for here.... but at least humanity doesn't have
to be as bad as it could be.... ;)

and we didn't have any milk, so I just omitted it.

So you just used water....?

Yeah, I was toying with the idea of adding another egg but
didn't.

That can work nicely, too... :)

Mine wasn't always noticed... ;)

You didn't stamp your little feet and threaten to hold
your breath until you turned blue? That was my sister's
technique.

No, I just quietly didn't do something, generally... other siblings were more dramatic... but they tended to get in trouble more for their
resistance than I did...

Heh, the quintessential survivor.

I guess... ;)

Maybe the propellant has changed over the years...? Or your
lungs are more sensitive now...?

They tell you it's nitrous oxide - sort of a big neon
sign saying "get fat and get high."

I've always liked the whipped cream by itself... but usually propelled
it out into my hand... ;)

I usually whipped it myself with a whisk.

Neither the canned stuff nor the heavy cream were often in our house
when I was a child... I've bought both on my own, generally the heavy
cream, but have often used it without whipping it, too...

Cream is a good thing in many contexts. I seldom use
whipped cream except for company. It tastes good on
company, er, pudding.

[snicker]

I still do grab the occasional slice of raw bacon, the few times I actually have bacon to cook... ;) Tasty stuff, after all... ;)

Caution: eating raw pork is not recommended in countries
with minimal hygiene and poor animal husbandry practices.
Do this at your own risk.

(So I noticed in the recipe you appended below) ;) I might be more
careful elsewhere....

It's not fully jocular ... and our own system is
not at all the best one.

I do take some of that sort of thing into account... such as, I'd not
get raw milk from certain dairy farmers I know, whose farms are not at
all very sanitary.... Skip's, on the other hand, I have no issues with
at all...

ttyl neb

... Would a waffle iron give me smooth waffles?

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