Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> One discovers things, doesn't one.
 ML> > Quite so, a few years ago I started reading Philippa Gregory and
 ML> R.L. > Delderfield. Two different times in English history but good
 ML> reads, both > of them.

 ML> Not my kind of reading at all, but when you
 ML> expressed your enthusiasm for it a couple
 ML> decades ago I saw the Massie biography of
 ML> Catherine the Great on Rosemary's shelf and
 ML> plowed through it before deciding that it
 ML> still wasn't (the last bio of a historical

I got into the earlier history thanks to our older daughter who gave me
a bio of Queen Elizabeth 1. The Delderfield books came from some second
hand source (forget which) when I needed something to fill time.

 ML> figure I'd attempted was Antonia Fraser's
 ML> Mary, Queen of Scots, which I never finished).
 ML> Historical fiction, well, no matter how well
 ML> done, that just could never be my sort of thing.

We each have our own tastes. Reading a condensed chapter of Michener's
"Hawaii" whetted my appetite for more of his books so now I've read most
of them. I'd rather read something like that than a Harlequin romance.
(G)


 ML> >  ML> My attention span is too short to get me
 ML> >  ML> wrapped up in anything for long. Luckily,
 ML> >  ML> I read pretty fast.
 ML> > Depending on what else is going on, I'll go thru a thick book in a
 ML> few > days or a couple of weeks. Now that doctors have taken magazines
 ML> out of > waiting rooms, I take a book with me.

 ML> When things are slow in the waiting room, I
 ML> take Lilli's phone and play Word Connect
 ML> upon it. On the east coast, read Bonnie's
 ML> and Word Life.

I don't have any games on my phone but will browse the internet
sometimes if I've no other "entertainment".


 ML> >  ML> >  ML> If it were a bit irrational, it'd be like pi.
 ML> >  ML> > Apple, cherry, peach or otherwise? (G)
 ML> >  ML> Green tomato and rhubarb, perhaps?
 ML> > Rhubarb is a favorite, never had green tomato--yet.

 ML> Like one, you'll likely like the other. But
 ML> I was referring to putting both in the same
 ML> dish, which would be overkill and seasonally
 ML> senseless as well.

Doesn't pass the sense check.

 ML> >  ML> the real Alton is. I sat with someone once
 ML> >  ML> whom I described as resembling him, but I
 ML> >  ML> rather fliply said that it couldn't be,
 ML> >  ML> because he ate the airplane chicken; it
 ML> >  ML> turns out it was he, and he did eat the
 ML> >  ML> airplane chicken.
 ML> > Surprise!

 ML> tttt, not totally.

About what I thought.


 ML> >  ML> Guessing can be fun, and if the camera work
 ML> >  ML> is deft, one can get a pretty good idea.
 ML> > We did do some guessing but sometimes a description would have been
 ML> > helpful.

 ML> Of course; but what if the real thing turned
 ML> out to be more mundane than what you imagined?

It happens, and we had no chance of eating it, either way.

 ML> >  ML> > Just the nature of some people.
 ML> >  ML> Point too is that if the PTB listened to
 ML> >  ML> those people in the first place, life would
 ML> >  ML> now be better. The world needs complainers
 ML> >  ML> to cancel out the complacent.
 ML> > Probably so, but sometimes I think the complainers overbalance the
 ML> > complacent.

 ML> If that were true, things would get done.
 ML> In real life they're loud enough to annoy
 ML> you but still not loud enough for the PTB
 ML> to pay attention to.

So we have to listen to them complain that nobody's listening.


 ML> >  ML> We might get a few 1/100ths tonight, first
 ML> >  ML> since 11/9 (it's supposed to be the rainy
 ML> >  ML> season).
 ML> > I don't know how much we got the other day but was glad it came down
 ML> as > rain, not snow.

 ML> We ended up getting 0.00, not even a mist
 ML> up here above the valley.

Hopefully not all saving up for one great big gulley washer storm.


 ML> >  ML> affected Lilli's table knives yet, but I've
 ML> >  ML> seen others, perhaps of less quality, that
 ML> >  ML> have had the joints corrode and even come
 ML> >  ML> loose from years of automatic dishwashing.
 ML> > Same here, even years of hand washing isn't good for poor quality
 ML> > knives.

 ML> I suggested it wasn't a great idea for the
 ML> knives, but she reminded me that when she
 ML> goes, the cutlery goes, too, either to
 ML> Goodwill or more likely into the trash.

Sounds like most situations.

 ML> > ... One of these days, I'll quit procrastinating.

 ML> I said that I'd be putting festive and holiday
 ML> recipes in as ontopicizers, but this didn't
 ML> seem festive enough (you could sprinkle it
 ML> with gold leaf or maybe caviar), but it's
 ML> plenty topical.

 ML> Sweet Green Tomato Pie
 ML> Categories: traditional, southern US, dessert
 ML> Servings: 8

We're going to do a peach cobbler for Christmas dinner dessert.


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