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Gary <g.majors@att.net>: May 28 07:56AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
 
> 2 eggs, softly scrambled with some grated Fontina cheese and a
> sprinkling of Penzey's Fines Herbes blend. Two strips of bacon and a
> buttered biscuit. Tasty, quick and filling. :)
 
I did the same yesterday - breakfast for dinner and
about the same time of day.
 
3 eggs over easy, some stuffing/dressing on the side
along with 2 slices of toasted and buttered rye bread.
 
First time I ever used stuffing with eggs. Surprisingly,
it was a really tasty combo. I'll do it again.
 
I had made the stuffing earlier to eat with oven roasted
chicken thighs and vegetables. Changed my mind later and
already had the stuffing so I tried it with the eggs.
 
Later that evening, I made a stuffing sandwich.
Just white bread, mayo and stuffing. Also pretty tasty.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 27 08:48PM -0400

I didn't feel much like cooking today. So I made breakfast for dinner.
Or was it a very late lunch? I ate early, around 4PM.
 
2 eggs, softly scrambled with some grated Fontina cheese and a
sprinkling of Penzey's Fines Herbes blend. Two strips of bacon and a
buttered biscuit. Tasty, quick and filling. :)
 
Jill
graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca>: May 28 08:25AM -0600

On 2020-05-27 10:53 p.m., U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> continue to spread, perhaps even spike again. Do you want to go
> through shut down again?
 
> Janet US
 
A *very* sensible reply, Janet! However, you are wasting your time with
that half-wit!
ChristKiller@deathtochristianity.pl: May 28 12:40PM -0500


>Oddly, his mandate is only for "everyone over the age of 10."
>I suspect most parents will/should protect their young
>ones with a mask too. I can't imagine not doing so.
 
 
That mandate is pure stupidity
 
--
 
____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 28 10:57AM -0400

On 5/28/2020 10:25 AM, graham wrote:
 
>> Janet US
 
> A *very* sensible reply, Janet! However, you are wasting your time with
> that half-wit!
 
How true, graham. Then again, anyone who thinks this global pandemic is
a hoax is a a half-wit. Maybe Christkiller lives in a bubble. The
world hasn't seen anything like this virus before. Spanish Flu in 1918
is the only real comparable scenario in terms of numbers and at that
time many doctors didn't have a grasp on the difference between
bacterial and viral infections and how they are spread.
 
The only idiots "in the crowd" not wearing masks are people like the
clueless troll. Perhaps when the people who remove all the gluten from
his food get sick he'll sit up and take notice. ;)
 
Jill
ChristKiller@deathtochristianity.pl: May 28 12:39PM -0500

On Wed, 27 May 2020 22:53:57 -0600, U.S. Janet B. <JB@nospam.com>
wrote:
 
>continue to spread, perhaps even spike again. Do you want to go
>through shut down again?
 
>Janet US
 
Well the shutdown was completely and totally an act of fear and
stupidity that should never have taken place in the first place, but
hey I enjoyed my 1200 bucks! You can NOT stop the spread of anything
which is why it was all over the world in a matter of weeks.
Asymptomatic means immune, if there are people that are immune then
why the hell are they calling it a novel virus? The disease must run
its course, do its damage and wearing masks does nothing for anyone.
If the person is infected they are going to spread the disease whether
they are wearing a mask or not. A mask is NOT going to prevent
anything at all.
 
--
 
____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: May 28 10:06AM -0400

Dave Smith wrote:
> people I saw driving alone in their cars and wearing masks. There seemed
> to be more doing that than wearing them in stores. It seemed so strange
> because there is really no need to wear one in a car by yourself.
 
I agree. I also see many people just walking alone outside
and wearing a mask. Even maintenence workers here.
 
I saw a funny this morning. Woman walking her little dog. Woman
was wearing a face mask. Dog had one hanging around it's neck but
not covering nose and mouth.
 
I talked to her for a few minutes about that. Seems that the dog
was very interested in her once she put a mask on. So she said,
"oh, would like one too?"
 
So she put one on her dog at home and the dog seemed to like it.
She did pull it down on the neck when going for a walk as she
assumed it wouldn't be so good for breathing while walking.
 
Wished I had a camera for that one. Dog with mask was cute.
ChristKiller@deathtochristianity.pl: May 27 10:26PM -0500


>> Oh you are a moron also? I did not know john was a moron but I am glad
>> you recognized it....
 
>Care to tell us what your qualifications are?
 
 
sure but first a joke....
How can you tell who are the idiots in a bit crowd?
The one wearing the masks.
 
--
 
____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 28 10:19AM -0400

On 2020-05-28 10:06 a.m., Gary wrote:
 
> I saw a funny this morning. Woman walking her little dog. Woman
> was wearing a face mask. Dog had one hanging around it's neck but
> not covering nose and mouth.
 
I see a lot of people wearing the improperly and touching their faces a
lot. When I was at Costco a couple days ago they guy at the front
sanitizing the carts had a mask on but it was below his nose.
 
 
I was getting curbside pickup at a pet shop on the weekend and an
elderly English couple came along wearing masks. I got a bit of a dirty
look from the woman, which I thought might have been because I was not
wearing a mask. Then she stood about a foot behind me. I just turned
around and looked at the ground and the narrow space between us and
shook my head.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 27 12:06PM -0400

On 5/27/2020 11:57 AM, Gary wrote:
 
> https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/blue_crab
> http://www.earthintransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Blue-crab-1-012113.jpg
 
> or just google "blue crabs"
 
Or google the ones that are a PITA to pick and yield very little meat.
Oh, j/k. Heh.
 
Jill
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: May 28 09:08AM +1000

On Wed, 27 May 2020 18:57:40 -0400, Dave Smith
 
>> If you consider NBC and ABC fake news, you're no different
>> than Trump. He's always said the same thing about them.
 
>It is not uncommon for the media to use stock photos.
 
Thanks, Dave.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: May 27 01:18PM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
> > Yes, but he was talking specifically about the Virginia Beach story.
> > It used pictures of last year.
 
> We get that. Maybe he should stop watching the fake news.
 
If you consider NBC and ABC fake news, you're no different
than Trump. He's always said the same thing about them.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 27 08:42PM -0400

On 2020-05-27 7:16 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> internet that demands attractive web pages that dazzle the eye. And
> anyway, pople today don't like having to read articles with a lot of
> words.
 
 
I just gave an example of a stock photo used more than 50 years ago.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: May 27 06:57PM -0400

On 2020-05-27 1:18 p.m., Gary wrote:
 
>> We get that. Maybe he should stop watching the fake news.
 
> If you consider NBC and ABC fake news, you're no different
> than Trump. He's always said the same thing about them.
 
It is not uncommon for the media to use stock photos. It has been going
on for year. When I was a kid my friend's father had a Time-Life book
series about WWII. There was a photo of an elderly Frenchman crying as
he watched the German troops marching into Paris. In November 1963 I
saw the same photo in a newspaper. According to the caption, it was a
Frenchman crying at the news of the assassination of JFK.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: May 27 11:20AM -0400

cshenk wrote:
> > respond to, so I let it drop.
 
> LOL! They have areas of protection and areas open to the public for
> fishing.
 
The entire park is open to the public but the official trails
for people only skirts the perimeters. I used to hike out
in the remote places, following animal trails, not the people
trails. Steve is right that you're not supposed to take
anything from the park itself. That's what he read.
 
The difference is that although I parked there
(the 64th St. entrance) down at the water's edge, the
state park ends at the mean high tide mark. All the
seafood from the bay is NOT in the state park.
No problem parking in the state park then getting
fish, crab, clams, oysters from the bay (Broad Bay).
People do that all the time. Perfectly legal.
 
 
> I believe it's some of the better crabbing at the First
> landing park?
 
Maybe on the north end on the Chesapeake Bay. (?)
I've never gone to that side.
 
The south side of the park borders Broad Bay and
don't waste your time crabbing there. Most crabs there
are too small to keep.
 
The very best crab spots at the beach are inside
of Rudee Inlet. I discovered a "honey spot" years
ago. I could go and set out 4 lines and fill two
5-gallon buckets in less than an hour. That's about
8 dozen crabs.
 
Sadly, since then, that whole Croatan area has been all
developed. Massive housing and no where to park for
visitors. Only way for good crabbing there now is
to have a boat to get there.
 
My daughter was born May 1979. We stayed home often
that summer as she was a newborn. Every weekend on
a day off, I would get up at dawn and catch a bushel
of crabs. I was always home before the girls even
got up.
 
Then I would kill them, cook them and put away in the
fridge. Much of our summer was watching tv while picking
crabs. Eating as much as we wanted but also freezing
some in 1/2 pound bags.
 
Buy end of crab season, we had 28 pounds of crabmeat
in the freezer plus had probably eaten that much by then
too.
 
With that surplus, we ended up trying many different
crab recipes. So many good ones.
 
Note to Bruce: The above was a true Dave-like story. :)
Hank Rogers <Nospam@invalid.com>: May 28 02:51PM -0500

dsi1 wrote:
>> No frying bacon first to render the backing fat to precook the onions and garlic. I used EVOO instead! :-)
 
>> John Kuthe....
 
> My daughter made some vegetable soup. I saw that she used a bag of beans that was in the fridge. I don't think she's cooked beans before so I told her that she'd have to cook it for about an hour to an hour and a half. She cooked it perfectly. The kids are going to change the way Hawaii cooks. It tastes like a mainland soup rather than a Hawaii soup. Her soup has a herbal essence in its taste - something that our soups lack. It does take some getting used to.
 
Soon, she'll be serving up chitlins, corn bread, and collards.
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: May 27 11:22AM -0400


>I only say just joking when it really was was a joke.
>Mostly I'll tease mean people.
>Look up the definition of "tease" and "kidding"
 
Tease is what some ladies do to their hair.
Kidding is what nanny goats do.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 27 09:02PM -0400

On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Mike Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 06:23:11 -0700, John Kuthe wrote:
 
>> I will shop at Target today!
 
> Get the Sony 3 inch cube. (Auto daylight time, etc.)
 
3 inches? How on earth would that clearly display the time?
 
Jill
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: May 27 02:39PM -0400

On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:05:43 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:
 
>digital display electric alarm clock with battery backup. John is
>running out of things to post about.
 
>Jill
 
Amazon saves having to expend energy getting to the store... and
that's the nicest clock of the type I've seen, only thing missing is
it needs to be reset manually twice year, but that only takes two
seconds to move the time up or down one hour. I like its extra large
display that can easily be dimmed. I needed the clock because I have
the cable TV box is set to show the channel rather than the time. I
really have no need for an alarm clock, cats are better at getting us
up to feed them and the ferals on the deck at precisely 5 AM every
morning.
Other than foods I do very little in-store shopping anymore. I still
remember how I detested maul shopping. Yesterday I needed to reorder
clear packaging tape, 8 jumb Duck brand rolls ($21) will last 2-3
years, used primarily to hold collapsed corrogated in the recyclables
bin but lots of other uses... one thing about shopping on line it
entails receiving lots of corrogated cardboard cartons... the most are
from Chewys... such nice strong cartons it's a shame to throw them
away. The tape will arrive Friday, after 3 years I was down to my
last roll. Collapsing and taping the corrogated is my job, I also
collapse the aluminum cat food cans, the small ones fit inside the
larger ones... I stomp all the cans. If I wasn't the trash compactor
we'd need the largest bin of the three sizes and that monster won't
fit in the garage... we get along fine with the smallest bin. My wife
chooses to whel the bins out to the curb, I wheel them back after
pick-up and put new bags in. I also clean the bins twice a year. Our
household chores have somehow become fairly well divided. I do all
the cooking and dishwashing by hand, I do most of the laundry. We
share the vacuuming but she does most, I do all the window washing.
She power washes the house exterior, somehow she likes that machine. I
do most of the mowing and I clean and service the tractors, she does
most of the vegetable garden weeding but I prep and cook the veggies.
We never argue over who does more, we both work hard... I'll be mowing
all day tomorrow, she'll be golfing. It's been up to nearly 80ºF and
no rain so hopefully the ground will have dried and I'll be able to
mow without making ruts. I'll ride around enjoying all my trees that
are leafing out, the tractor cab has A/C and stereo radio tuned to the
oldies... I can mow all day no problem. My wife does well with the
small trator but the large tractor intimidates her, it has a lot more
functions to be aware of... the difference is like driving a tandem
semi compared to driving a VW Bug.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 27 09:00PM -0400

On 5/27/2020 2:39 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> really have no need for an alarm clock, cats are better at getting us
> up to feed them and the ferals on the deck at precisely 5 AM every
> morning.
(snippage)
 
Um... that's all well and good but I'm pretty sure John said he can find
an alarm clock at Target. C'mon, give him a chance to drive his
electric car to the store. :)
 
I don't know what the time or settings on your cable TV box has to do
with anyone else wanting to buy an alarm clock.
 
I don't have an Amazon Prime membership. I know many people here love
it but I simply don't order enough from Amazon to justify giving them
$100+ a year just so I can get free shipping on the occasional purchase
of something like a $10 alarm clock. I really don't care about next day
delivery, either. There really isn't anything I need that quickly.
 
Jill
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: May 28 11:31AM -0400

On Wed, 27 May 2020 21:02:20 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:
 
 
>> Get the Sony 3 inch cube. (Auto daylight time, etc.)
 
>3 inches? How on earth would that clearly display the time?
 
>Jill
 
Those numerals are plenty big from 15' away in a darkened bedroom, and
ours is set in the dim mode.
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: May 28 01:03PM -0400

On Thu, 28 May 2020 Gary wrote:
 
>I know that many grow corn in your area.
 
>I was familiar with Galway, NY many years ago. (1980's)
>Somewhat near you, isn't it?
 
The last owners had a good sized vegetable garden that at some point
they abandonded and it became very overrun with giant weeds, we
cleaned it up and now use it. They also used a few acres growing
Christmas trees until the market for live trees died... the last of
the trees are still growing but are too large now for Christmas trees
in someones home, more the size for Rockerfella Center. But on most
of the acreage they grew hay and sold it to the race tracks in NYC and
also to the NYC police departmant for their horses. They grew some
kind of special hay that I know nothing about. The last of their hay
was baled and sold just before we moved here, since then we keep
mowing those fields. Buying haying equipment and maintaining it is
very costly plus I know nothing about haying except that after the hay
is cut all that stubble looks ugly... and haying entails a lot of hard
labor. They had a large family who all did haying. We have a very
small family and none are into farming. The man who lived here killed
himself from all that haying, they found him collapsed in a field. He
was still alive but suffered a major coronary. They both had another
house built ten miles south of here on a small piece of land in hopes
he's quit haying. But after they moved in he was gone in six
months... Fred was very compulsive and refused to follow the doctor's
advice, his wife still lives there and we talk on the phone
occasionally and we exchange email. Fred never accepted computers, he
was a very stubborn Norwegian.
jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>: May 27 01:20PM -0400

On 5/27/2020 12:55 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
 
>> Jill
 
> I still see Newman's Own food products being sold, usually condiments,
> however I've never bought any.
 
That's the brand (Newman's Own) frozen thin crust pizza I buy on
occasion. I've got one in the freezer right now. White pizza with
spinach and mostly white cheeses. No tomato sauce. It's excellent!
 
So is the jarred sauce, although I haven't bought any in a while.
 
I don't know if Ophelia would be able to find Newman's Own brand in
Scotland. I found a link where she could order it from Amazon UK but I
doubt she'd have reason to do that. It's a nice jarred sauce but if I
were her I wouldn't bother.
 
Jill
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: May 28 11:01AM -0400

On Wed, 27 May 2020 21:07:52 -0400, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
wrote:
 
 
>So sorry! What happened to your loving the DiGiorno brand rising crust
>pizza?
 
>Jill
 
We have that too but requires lighting the oven so it's a winter food.
The one from the convenience store wasn't terrible and was faster
Bob <fokker45@hotmail.com>: May 27 02:56PM -0400


> The local Kroger offers many of Newman's Own products. Spaghetti sauce, salad
> dressings, cookies, frozen pizzas, and other items. The frozen pizzas are
> outstanding, at least they are to me.
 
Profits go to charity too
https://newmansownfoundation.org/
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