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@Axtremus That was spectacular!

Perfect!

@wtg Thanks. I ran into Zorba on the Victorian Sweatshop Forum a year or so ago. It's a forum for antique and vintage sewing machine aficionados. https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/

@AdagioM Thanks!

@wtg Thanks! The china is Lenox Rutledge (discontinued). It's very spring pattern and I take it out only at this time of year. Years ago I found a set of 12 place settings and a few serving piece at a local shop for $99! I couldn't believe it. Replacing a single dinner plate now will run about $45.

The lemon curd recipe I use is this one. Very easy. OR you can just buy a jar of the stuff.

Lemon Curd
1 cup sugar
6 Tablespoons soft butter
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
2/3 cup lemon juice
1 Tablespoon lemon zest

Cream the sugar and butter together. Add the eggs one at a time, incorporating each one well. Add the eggs yolks and incorporate. Add the lemon juice and mix well (the mixture may curdle when you add the juice, it's fine and will straighten itself out while cooking). Cook on low heat, stirring, until thick and smooth. It can take a little while. Do NOT boil. Remove from heat and stir in the Tablespoon of lemon zest. Cover with plastic and chill. It will thicken even more as it cools.

I had guests for dinner. The table laid out:

For dessert, I made a new-to-me recipe, a no-bake lemon cheesecake, and it was delish! Tastes very, very much like lemon merinque pie without the meringue (great for those who love lemon but not the meringue). I made the lemon curd Friday and made the cake last night. Will certainly be making it again.

@ShiroKuro His left hand is controlling the sustain pedal. The second video shows and explains the controls available to the person pumping.

I don't know if pumping faster speeds it up but it sort of seems that it does.

He has a great video in which he explains the player mechanism... super cool...

He's still alive!

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-tortoise-death-hoax-jonathan-22e2960833b112c3b873e1ce4b089c20

@AdagioM

Very cool!

I love the space he's in.

She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top House Oversight Democrat, said in a statement.

“She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell. If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”

After yesterday's desperation (attempting to intimidate SCOTUS and a looney tunes speech), he needed a distraction asap. I read that it's been in the works, but I don't think the timing is an accident.

Poor Bondi, a useful patsy while it lasted, now out on her patootie like anyone who sucks up to Trump. I hope she is held accountable for some of her lawlessness.

Perhaps they have something to teach us?

I've never been a fan of Mr. McCartney's music (nor the Beetles, in large measure, for that matter). If I ever have to listen to Band On The Run again it would only be because I've been strapped in a chair and forced to do so under threat of torture.

Don't get me wrong re: The Beetles. There are some pieces that I like, but I've always thought they were over rated.

Went out to do Easter dinner shopping this afternoon and filled the car with gas. $4.69 for 'plus'.

@Mik said:

But this no kings thing is just dumb. It's a tantrum just like the Dems refusal to fund legitimate government agencies.

What legitimate government agencies are the Democrats refusing to fund?

@Mik said:

He has a lot of flaws but lack of love of country is not one of them.

Trump's love of Trump trumps his love of country. He only cares about this country if it can serve him; his actions are ignoble. It's hard to understand how--for over a decade in public life--his vile, demeaning statements and actions, lawlessness, self aggrandizement, and self enrichment, not to mention trampling the US Constitution, are somehow trumped by his love of country. Hitler loved Germany.

Trump is kicking decades of hell down the road. He is doing nothing to help American citizens. His national debt increase, gutting of essential services, alienation of allies, ignoring the climate crisis, stomping out medical research, installing a clown car cabinet, etc. etc. It's going to be a long, hard road to recovery when that asswipe is finally gone.

@Daniel I second a general strike. We just have to be careful not to do something that Trump can use as an excuse for martial law or some other 'emergency' action.