Hi Dave,


 DD> I have my Two Fat Ladies "Obsessions" cookbook already gift-wrapped
 DD> as a holiday season present for my sister-in-law.

 RH> Don't forget where you stashed it. (G)

 DD> Oh, I won't. It's in the pile (already wrapped) with the rest of the
 DD> gifts I have grabbed over the intervl since last gifting season. It's
 DD> my usual practice to buy that sort of thing when I spot it and think
 DD> to myself "I'll bet (insert recipient) would like that". Saves
 DD> thrashing about at the last minute.  Bv)=

 RH> Good idea there.

 RH> ... Books are better than TV; they exercise your imagination.

 DD> True dat! Especially around election time.

 RH> That's where the mute button on the remote gets a work out. TV is
 RH> only on for a couple of hours (week days), an hour on week ends
 RH> but they sure cram a lot of political ads in that time.

 DD> Dennis has the glass teat running whenever he's in the room with ut.
 DD> And simultaneously streams a news feed (that's not Faux Newx) on his
 DD> laptop. At elevated volume for each. Talk abut a babble box.

Time to tun off the hearing aids if you wear them. We trun our tv on at
5:30 during the week for news and "Jeopardy", off at 7:30. Week ends
it's only on from 6:00 to 7:00--if there's no football pre-empting the
news.

 DD> It's amazing to me that people are (and contine to be) swayed by
 the DD> 30 second "spots" on TeeVee. I've always done my own research
 using my DD> finely honed B.S. detector. And with an eye toward
 what/who will be DD> best for my way of life and values. When I voted
 this year (early) my DD> ballot had votes for both sides on it.  Bv)=

 RH> We'll vote early when we get back home beause Steve will be working at
 RH> one of the local polling places. He's got to be there when it opens and
 RH> can't leave until everything is tabulated and packed up. He'll probably
 RH> pack a lunch and get supper delivered or vice versa.

 DD> They keep mnoving my polling place. For years it was in the back end
 DD> of the "Church of Life" building. Then they "re-aligned" which
 DD> precincts they put in the same polling place (and I think the church
 DD> wanted their hall back). Then we were at the Iron Workers local for
 DD> several years. Then there was a redistricting after the 2020 census I
 DD> although I've not moved I'm in a new precinct which votes at the
 DD> Northender's VFW hall. Same ladies and man were running things. But
 DD> when they sent me that postcard asking if I'h care to vote by mail I
 DD> leapt at it like a hungry trout going for a butterfly.

We've voted in 3 different places over the last 15 years, had to change
polling places when we moved, then they changed our place. Early voting
can be done anywhere in the county so we've gone to more out of the way
places sometimes.

 DD> I have three versions of this recipe - all different, just like DD>
 politica; positions ..... here's one f them:

 DD>       Title: Election Cake
 DD>  Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Citrus, Booze
 DD>       Yield: 16 Servings

 DD>   Election Cake came to be associated with election-day
 DD>   celebrations.

 RH> Makes you wonder how/why/when.

 DD> Lost in ther mists of time - probably in several different versions.

Probably so. (G)

The Rotary Club in the town I grew up in always does a pancake supper on
Election Day. I recall going once, but that was when my mom was taking
college classes on Tuesday nights and Dad "treated" us for supper.


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