as my families' claim that puts me at the junction of
two supposedly pure lines.

AFAIK, my ancestry lines are all German. That's what my parents always
told us.We've been able to trace Mom's paternal line to the town in
Germany where her father's family came from. Dad knew where his paternal grandfather came from--an area of Germany that's now part of Poland.

Borders are funny things, especially in hotly-contested
Europe. China in a way was luckier, being mostly unified
for a very long time, though the outlying areas have
always been disputed, as outlying areas always are.

It's not that big an issue; I just want to get a general

consensus > ML> to > know if I need to make reservations or supper
for Thursday night. > ML> I'm up in the air, and I don't care/

OK, we'll see what Sean, xxCarol and Nancy would prefer.

Looks like, weather permitting, we'll have supper here on Thursday night
and go out for prime rib on Friday. A possiblity, depending on what the general consensus/amount of leftover food, is that we could go to the
Italian place on Sunday.

Sounds good. One thing about leftovers is that we
all like to be generaous and so make more than we
ought, with the inevitable result.

Hopefully it's the first. When does she go for follow up?

Not sure, she's in Turkey, and it was admitted even
by the doctors that it would make sense for her not to
cancel that trip.

Smart doctors--let her enjoy the trip. After my MRSA infection was
pronounced "cleared up" (2 days before Thanksgiving), my doctor let me
delay the start of radiation until January. We'd planned a trip out to
see our daughters over the Christmas holidays--doctor said to enjoy the visit. We did. (G)

Very few conditions are so acute as to justify
messing with a schedule, which would likely cause
disappointment and depression that would be a risk
factor in itself.

not be > fast. The ortho doctor is having me come in weekly for a
check on it.
As above, no sense stressing.

No, and as of the check yesterday, he's still satisfied with the rate of progress. Said that I can come in, in 2 weeks now.

All the better.

Makes life interesting, doesn't it? (G)

Not always in a great way.

Understandable. Sometimes you can laugh about it, sometimes you may

feel > more like crying.
Life in a nutshell.

That's about it, sometimes a bigger nut shell than other times.

I think they flew 737s and 717s (the latter being an
almost but not quite full-size aircraft).

I wouldn't know but the flights to Kauai and Maui--I think we spent more
time taxi-ing than flying. (G)

I used to go from LA to Fresho, and the LAX airport
being so huge, the taxi and wait time was far longer
than the flight, with the joke made more than once
from the cockpit, we're on our way driving to Fresno.

Back then they sold us suntan lotion, which was
supposed to encourage the baking process.

Yes, Steve gave me my first bottle of sun screen in 1975. Before that,
about the best thing available was the zinc oxide stuff that was only
applied to small areas.

You could have looked like a New Guinea headhunter or
something if you'd used lots of that paint.

Get that set of eyes in the back of your head?

Neh, it's probably better not to know.

But it's a trait that all mothers have. (G)

For their offspring. If you have someone else to
protect, sure.

It works. (G)

Species preservation, I guess.

Butter would be available if the family had a milk cow.

That's in another utopia.

Some peasants did have them, but usually not more than one cow. Remember "FOTR"? He was a milk man--sold cups of it door to door in town.

Fiddler, as most of those things, was a pipe dream.

Title: Cornmeal Sally Lunn

Looks good to me but Steve can't have the corn.

There are other kinds of Sally Lunn, which is sort of
between a cake and a bread. It was another G&S allusion.

OK, missed that one.

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Title: Quick Sally Lunn
Categories: Breads, Osg
Servings: 1

4 c Cake flour; sifted
2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c Shortening
4 tb Sugar
1 ea Egg; beaten
1 c Milk

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, and sift again. Cream
shortening, add sugar, cream together thoroughly. Combine egg and milk.
Add
flour to creamed butter and sugar, alternately with milk mixture, small
amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Bake in
greased
muffin pans, or baking sheet, in hot oven 425 F. 25 minutes, or until
done.

Source: Elizabeth Craig, Mason Grange, Warren County, OH

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Hi Michael,

as my families' claim that puts me at the junction of
two supposedly pure lines.

AFAIK, my ancestry lines are all German. That's what my parents

always > told us.We've been able to trace Mom's paternal line to the
town in

Germany where her father's family came from. Dad knew where his

paternal > grandfather came from--an area of Germany that's now part
of Poland.

Borders are funny things, especially in hotly-contested
Europe. China in a way was luckier, being mostly unified
for a very long time, though the outlying areas have
always been disputed, as outlying areas always are.

Europe was a long time organising into countries--lots of city-states
and territories until well into the 19th century.

It's not that big an issue; I just want to get a

general > ML> consensus > ML> to > know if I need to make
reservations or supper > ML> for Thursday night. > ML> I'm up in the air, and I don't care/

OK, we'll see what Sean, xxCarol and Nancy would prefer.

Looks like, weather permitting, we'll have supper here on Thursday

night > and go out for prime rib on Friday. A possiblity, depending on what the > general consensus/amount of leftover food, is that we could
go to the > Italian place on Sunday.

Sounds good. One thing about leftovers is that we
all like to be generaous and so make more than we
ought, with the inevitable result.

That's part of the fun of these events--how well can we shoe-horn things
into the fridge? (G)

Hopefully it's the first. When does she go for follow up?

Not sure, she's in Turkey, and it was admitted even
by the doctors that it would make sense for her not to
cancel that trip.

Smart doctors--let her enjoy the trip. After my MRSA infection was pronounced "cleared up" (2 days before Thanksgiving), my doctor let

me > delay the start of radiation until January. We'd planned a trip
out to > see our daughters over the Christmas holidays--doctor said to enjoy the > visit. We did. (G)

Very few conditions are so acute as to justify
messing with a schedule, which would likely cause
disappointment and depression that would be a risk
factor in itself.

Yes, and the doctor was good about working around things like that.
After I got the diagnosis, he postponed surgery until after we made a
trip up to NY and attended our first picnic--at the Shipp's in MD, in
2007.

not be > fast. The ortho doctor is having me come in weekly for

a > ML> check on it.

As above, no sense stressing.

No, and as of the check yesterday, he's still satisfied with the

rate of > progress. Said that I can come in, in 2 weeks now.

All the better.

Very much so!

Makes life interesting, doesn't it? (G)

Not always in a great way.

Understandable. Sometimes you can laugh about it, sometimes

you may > ML> feel > more like crying.

Life in a nutshell.

That's about it, sometimes a bigger nut shell than other times.

I think they flew 737s and 717s (the latter being an
almost but not quite full-size aircraft).

I wouldn't know but the flights to Kauai and Maui--I think we spent

more > time taxi-ing than flying. (G)

I used to go from LA to Fresho, and the LAX airport
being so huge, the taxi and wait time was far longer
than the flight, with the joke made more than once
from the cockpit, we're on our way driving to Fresno.

Probably seemed like it at times.

Back then they sold us suntan lotion, which was
supposed to encourage the baking process.

Yes, Steve gave me my first bottle of sun screen in 1975. Before

that, > about the best thing available was the zinc oxide stuff that
was only > applied to small areas.

You could have looked like a New Guinea headhunter or
something if you'd used lots of that paint.

Or a member of the rock group KISS.

Get that set of eyes in the back of your head?

Neh, it's probably better not to know.

But it's a trait that all mothers have. (G)

For their offspring. If you have someone else to
protect, sure.

It works. (G)

Species preservation, I guess.

Probably so.

Butter would be available if the family had a milk cow.

That's in another utopia.

Some peasants did have them, but usually not more than one cow.

Remember > "FOTR"? He was a milk man--sold cups of it door to door in town.

Fiddler, as most of those things, was a pipe dream.

Semi in the range of possibility tho.

Title: Cornmeal Sally Lunn

Looks good to me but Steve can't have the corn.

There are other kinds of Sally Lunn, which is sort of
between a cake and a bread. It was another G&S allusion.

OK, missed that one.

Title: Quick Sally Lunn
Categories: Breads, Osg
Servings: 1

4 c Cake flour; sifted

I'd sub whole wheat pastry flour.


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