I hope you had a good holiday! I did. Today’s old cartoon is a bit premature, because Rosetta Stone Day isn’t until July 19, and no, there isn’t really such a thing as “Rosetta Stone Day.” If I remember correctly, the message of the Rosetta Stone was a statement of rules and instructions for a communal bath house. That’s not as laughable as it seems to us today, for the ancients performed all manner of personal ablutions in one another’s company. It wasn’t just hot-tubbing. I should think it was important for everyone to know the rules.
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I thought about mentioning the whey or “buttermilk” but then thought better about it. Of course, the buttermilk is flecked with bits of butter if it is homemade.
Love, Jackie Monies
What if you could ‘reboot’ your life….just where would you start off at?
Me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQS4OE_YoS4
…and I’ve always used the Sunday comics as wrapping paper….with Peanuts on top of the box.
And since I don’t get the Sunday newspaper anymore….I don’t buy gifts 🙂
Wow, you folks are peeking in my windows for sure! I just posted on Facebook less that half an hour ago that I had gone a few yards from my back door and picked a whole lot of lucious berries and that was my lunch. A few hours ago, lunch was; it’s now nearly suppertime in NH. I was mad at Facebook so I didn’t go on it for a while. We call these “Thimbleberries”; they are really black raspberries; they are wild, we never planted them. I just stayed at the berry patch, ate and ate until I could eat no more berries!
Back in the kitchen, I ate some plain, lowfat yogurt (I buy quart containers and do the same thing eMb suggested) … you have the right idea, eMb! I buy the same peanut butter you do, also keep in refrigerator. Wonderful flavor.
Debbe, last evening.
We are a Brummell & Brown couple, though Loon likes a little hot sauce sometimes. 😉
What to do with the whey? I just drink it … it’s pretty good.
Debbe:
“What if you could ‘reboot’ your life….just where would you start off at?” To do that, you’d have to turn back the universe’s clock to that time. If you choose anytime before your last descendant was conceived, your last descendant[s], if any, would be different. Wrote a column about that once.* My last descendant, who will arrive here this coming weekend if all goes as planned, is a 17-year old grandson.
The ‘reboot’ I’d choose, of course, would be > 4 years ago, in time to catch a case of leukemia in time to cure it. But that would change the genetics of all kids on earth, and the equivalent throughout the universe, from that time on.
*That column, as submitted, had a one sentence final paragraph: “What if Adolf Hitler’s mother had ‘had a headache’ on or about 20 July 1888?”
[Hitler was born 20 April ’89.] The night editor took it out. The paper almost never does that to me now, though I’m treading on thin ice with one future column.
Thanks for the old archives! I think I am thanking David in Austin?
Have been reading entire years, read 2001 today. Did NOT know that Arlo and Janis went to Cuba? Or at least Arlo did. Really enjoyed that long series of strips. I cannot see why we do not just resume tourism with Cuba, we are all over Viet Nam, China, Japan, Russia, every country we have ever been at war with.
I am 70 years old and I was in Cuba when I was 14 or maybe 15, then they closed off the country and it has been that way ever since.
My cousin (deceased now) was stationed at Guantanamo Bay. I never figured that one out, he was an OB/GYN and I couldn’t see what a female’s doctor was needed there for? This was after we closed contact with Cuba.
Love, Jackie Monies
On July 19, 2009, a day that will live in ignominy, Jimmy was stuck for an idea.
(Had to post it now because no one will remember to check here on 07.19.14.)
Debbe, Brazil football fans would like to go back to start of the game they lost to Germany by a Brazillion to one.
Jackie – I have a rather scathing response to that question (not directed at you, obviously, but toward our “fearless leaders” in DC). As I try to minimize discussion of politics or religion on public forums, and shall not go further than point out two things: 1. We are, as a nation, not suppose to have economic relations with countries that commit human rights violations. 2. Cuba has no nuclear weapons to use against us.
And yes, I am aware of the Cuban crisis.
Stepping away from the soap box and back to more important matters of Village life:
Jackie – How is Mike doing?
Also, I am forgetting the poster, but isn’t there a Villager who lives in Japan? Hope everyone fares well with the weather.
Mindy:
The typhoon is going to hit the south islands. I flew to Japan with a similar storm and there was a bit of rain before I arrived, then the winds had pretty much died down while I was there.
Great news (I think) on Mike, who just made it back after 12 hour day and bladder surgery in Tulsa. They are stopping any further chemo because they have decided it has done more harm than good as it was prophylactic in case microscopic cancer cells were in body. So, now he is to recover from all the problems like weakness, muscle loss, weight loss, try to regain strength. They will check frequently and should any cancer develop in future they will attack it fast.
Since I was terrified for them to restart chemo, I should be happy. But I have found that with cancer, things come flying at you so fast it takes awhile to realize what has hit or missed you.
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning Villagers…
….Jackie, prayers are still with you and Mike.
running late…have to go in early and sew a canvass belt….
later
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Silly Arlo…. she wants the house to look good for the girls! Besides, as Grandma said, “a little extra effort because we love them.” I would reply “it’s family, they can take us as we are”. Grandma always wins. 🙂
honda Civic…
blog topic…
NO to the blog topic lure!
Prayers continuing, Jackie. Hugs…
Debbe….why do the belts keep breaking? Has the boss tried to figure it out? Maybe the tension is too great? Finding a root cause would at least free you up from the sewing basket. 🙂 I was only allowed in the candling house so the gathering end of the business I don’t know. (And it was all a long time ago) If you feel like it, explain it to me? Or we could talk about plans for the next time the little girl comes to visit. 🙂
Wow, Llee….thank you. I once noted here, that it is a sole, antiquated, proprietorship (houses also came with two feed mills. The house I work in…blue prints are 30 tears old, as is the building..and the canvass belts are “maybe” a little younger…
Candling is now LED….by cracky 🙂
Tension varies on each 40 lines. Had one stuck the other day…passing over a support beam, belt caught on a nail. causing the return to build up tension and d/a me started to pull out the belt away from the nail…and in an “OH NO, SECOND!!!!” Yup, belt snapped…won’t do that again.
Showed my husband your website….great work on your “Lean on Me
Buzzer just went off on the stove….. 😉
Oh, and Llee, her father (Andrew) is going to buy Brooklynne a pink flashlight so she can help me with “get the dead”. Interested in seeing her reaction to a mummified, skeletal (sometimes you just can’t find them all out 75,00 clucks”.
later…………………..
Debbe, there was a most definite reason I did not take poultry courses in ag school which has nothing to do with liking chickens and turkeys and ducks and geese. It actually has to do with liking them. I just could not handle all the dead which is silly because I eat a lot of chickens and I know how they got that way.
Did however take some applicable courses in feeding them under the animal feeds courses. Don’t you use augers to bring their food from storage to the chicken coops? Or has that changed too?
My fryer production friend has all computerized operation except for picking up dead chickens which is done by hand.
Are the feeding troughs fed thru belts also?
Love, Jackie Monies