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My grandmother tended the strawberry bed on the farm where I grew up. A job I had when I was little was sitting at the table where we had berries for sale and collecting the money from the customers.
I recall that "Midway" was a variety of strawberry she particularly favored. I believe they're still available.
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Shameful and stupid attempts to suppress history and the heroes who made that history.
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That was a good one, Bernard. A mother's love is infinite. Best Christmas gift ever.
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@ShiroKuro said in My latest piano recording:
I wish I could capture that deliciousness in the recording, but ah well.
I'd say it was pretty delicious as is, more delicious would amaze me. I was happy to be able to watch you play and really enjoy the precision with which you handled that composition. Your tempo was ideal.
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That definitely is an interesting house and the price seems very low for such an extensive structure. I do wonder about the location, having looked at it on Google Earth and finding it more or less in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by crop irrigation circles. As I zoomed out, I saw other houses similarly situated in what I'd regard as crop land, so it must not be an entirely unique property in that region.
Nothing stranger than people, as an old friend of mine would remark.
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I caught a glimpse of it before the Chicago Trib notified me that I had exceeded my free views. I'd never heard of or seen it before. It looks like an answer searching for a question.
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I've enjoyed visits to caves a number of times over the years. I think the last was Ruby Falls near Chattanooga. When I was in college, I went spelunking in caves with the Explorers Club. I had to slither through some tighter spots.
There's an extensive sandstone cave system in western Pennsylvania, Laurel Caverns, that may soon become the state's first underground state park.
Elevators don't normally bother me; what I find frightening is unconfined high places. Those two things once intersected in a downtown Pittsburgh building where I worked. I was stuck between floors in an elevator and learned that a side panel could be opened for access. The maintenance people stopped the elevator in the adjacent shaft next to the one I was in and opened the access panels in both to get me and a couple of other people out. There was nothing much but air in the intervening space, except for a steel beam about shoulder height that we had to pass under to get to the other elevator. I gripped that beam so tightly as I ducked under it that it should still have fingerprints indented in its surface.
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The less dependent countries are on Russia for energy supply or anything else, the better in my opinion.
I hope countries like Canada don't have to make similar choices regarding the USAA>
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Given the attempted coup already underway, I think it is foolish to dismiss almost any possible course of action by Trump, the Republicans, and their minions.
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@AdagioM said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend. Yum.
We've been drinking that sometimes recently. It's been available at Costco. I like it, but the beans are very oily. I've had to clean the grinder and it's discharge hopper frequently.
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@RealPlayer said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Well, I have found a couple of nice coffees that I order consistently. I know there are others out there but it’s Russian Roulette buying random bags and hoping you’ll like them.
I used to follow that practice when I worked in downtown Pittsburgh because there was a coffee roaster just a couple of blocks from my office. I could go there, peruse the many possibilities, and purchase smaller quantities to try at home.
Now I have a few that are reliable go-to's and get to taste a new variety each month thanks to a coffee club that one of my sons enrolled my wife and me in a little over a year ago. I've enjoyed the bit of variety that has lent to my regular cuppa.
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After reading this thread, I wrote short notes to both of my US Senators and my US Representative urging them to do whatever they could to stop this usurpation of authority. Then I made a cash donation to Public Citizen.
Every day seems to bring a fresh outrage.
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Thanks for referencing that WTFer of the month thread. It not only refreshed memories of Teachum. It also brought to mind many other forumites, lots of whom we seldom or never see anymore.
I have been sorry to hear of Teachum's death. The recollections here disprove what Marc Antony said about Caeser, “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
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