It would be hard for me to determine this by reading the
back (or front) cover, nor the jacket flaps.

I'll scan them to see what type of a book it is. If it mentions robots
or fairies, I'll put it back where I found it. If neither of them are mentioned, I'll check it out a bit further, taking it if it looks
decent. If not, it stays.

Heh - sometimes the jacket description is the meatiest part
of the book.

Fairies and robots I tend to agree with you about, though
there are interesting ethical speculations to be made
regarding the latter.

I need few books near me. On the desk in front I have 28, most
of them unnecessary. I cannot now read even the titles, but
someday given a little more light or the time to haul them
out one by one close to my face, I will you tell what they are.

Sounds good to me.

Today's dose, from left: Bartok, Six String Quartets
(miniature score); Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia; Accu-Map Metro
Manila; Vest Pocket Arabic; Lonely Planet Thai; Rick Steves'
Portuguese; Collins Italian Phrasebook; Frommer's Berlin;
Cambridge Italian Dictionary; Teach Yourself Italian; Oxford
Self-pronouncing Bible, Sunday School Teachers' Edition;
Winnie Ille Pu; Cox and Forshaw, Why Does E=mc^2?

Many of these I read or consult seldom, but every one I think
I have consulted at least once.

Some professors prefer catering to just an academic audience. Others
like to expand their readership and will write other than academic tomes
for pocket change.

This is true, and some professors (this one) see a
wider range of income sources, er, people to be educated.

full of made-up stuff. Sometimes you can't win any
of them.

Sounds like one that would be best put into the recycle bin.

I thought of tearing it in half (my hands may still be
strong enough to have done so) but figured, why not let
the next reader be disillusioned and do the job.

Either way, not a keeper. Figured if it were recycled, maybe a better
book might come out of it.

I thought somewhat along those lines but figured that
keeping in circulation (with my disparging annotation)
would prevent at least one possible sale.

I think the primary frequencies are similar or in the
same range, plus the beans are a lot closer to my ears.

Reasonable enough. We picked up some more green beans at the farmer's
market today.

For this reason I have come to prefer well-done string beans.

My grandmother would sometimes do beans this way. French cut &

cooked. > While beans are cooking, cook some bacon & crumble it. Save the grease > to saute onion to taste. When all are cooked, combine,
add cider vinegar > to taste. I had to get the recipe from my aunt as
my mom never did it. I > did it most recently last week, at my in laws but didn't French cut the > beans. Still turned out good. (G)
That looks good, thanks.

It tastes as good as it sounds.

We're all that way. A couple days ago my friend and I got
in a massive misunderstanding partially based on our being
infantile and stubborn and partially on her claim of "I'm
hard of hearing, not deaf." She's pretty darn deaf.

But if you signed to her and she signed back, you might not be able to
read it with your eyesight. (G)

She doesn't think she's deaf, and when I compensate by
speaking slowly and distinctly (though not loudly), that's
considered condescending. I'm not sure how to cope with this.

We got it for free, still quite a long shelf life on it.

[chuckle] I'm more inclined to eat it up, and if I needed
it again, get some more for free.

Depends, got this from my ortho doctor. Don't know if my primary care
one has any on hand or not, and not all problems are ortho connected. If
not, I'd not get the honey.

Isn't it a wound healing thing, not specifically
ortho-oriented?

Apricot and honey compote

Looks good, and easy, once you've got the puree made. We made cherry preserves yesterday. It went fast and easy once the cherries were
pitted.

There are pitting machines; or one could do the
initial cooking with the pits and then use a Foley or
just a sieve.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02

Title: Rhubarb Orange Jam
Categories: Jelly/jam, Kooknet, Cyberealm
Yield: 1 quart

4 c Rhubarb, diced
8 ea Oranges
2 1/2 c Sugar

Wash rhubarb and dice. Put oranges through food chopper. Mix fruit
and sugar in large saucepan. Cook to boiling point, then reduce heat
and cook slowly for 2 hours or until jam is thick and clear. Pour
into hot jars and seal. Makes 1 quart (1 Liter).

SOURCE: GRANDMA'S COOKING COMPILED BY: The Recipe Book Committer of
the Mennonite Traditional Cooks

MMMMM
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)

On 06-25-19 08:10, Michael Loo <=-
spoke to Ruth Haffly about 577 overflowxn <=-

<<Lots of other stuff clipped>>

Looks good, and easy, once you've got the puree made. We made cherry preserves yesterday. It went fast and easy once the cherries were
pitted.

There are pitting machines; or one could do the
initial cooking with the pits and then use a Foley or
just a sieve.

I seem to recall a demo in which someone got the cherry pits out just
using a straw, sort of like a small version of an apple core tool.


MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Swedish Cabbage Rolls
Categories: Beef, Turkey, Main dish, Crockpot
Yield: 4 Servings

12 lg Cabbage leaves
1 lb Ground beef or turkey
1 Egg -- beaten
1 c Rice -- cooked
1/4 c Milk
8 oz Tomato sauce
1/4 c Onion -- finely chopped
1 ts Brown sugar
1 ts Salt
1 ts Lemon juice
1/4 ts Pepper
1 ts Worcestershire sauce

Immerse cabbage in large kettle of boiling water until limp, drain.
Combine egg, milk, onion, salt, pepper, beef and cooked rice. Place
about 1/4C. meat
mixture in center of cabbage leaf; fold in sides and roll ends over
meat.

Place in crockpot. Combine tomato sauce with brown sugar, lemon juice
and worcestershire sauce. Pour over cabbage rolls. Cover and cook on
low 7-9 hours.

Serves: 4-6
Posted by: Jo Merrill (ECGJ65B) - Prodigy Reposted by: Debbie
Carlson

From: Debbie Carlson Date: 11-02-96
Cooking

MMMMM


... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 02:41:12, 26 Jun 2019
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

--- Maximus/NT 3.01
* Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466)

Hi Michael,

It would be hard for me to determine this by reading the
back (or front) cover, nor the jacket flaps.

I'll scan them to see what type of a book it is. If it mentions

robots > or fairies, I'll put it back where I found it. If neither of
them are > mentioned, I'll check it out a bit further, taking it if it looks decent. If not, it stays.

Heh - sometimes the jacket description is the meatiest part
of the book.

Most often it's just a bit of a tease, author's bio and some (of course) favorable reviews. Going inside, scanning the book itself gives a better
idea if it's readable.

Fairies and robots I tend to agree with you about, though
there are interesting ethical speculations to be made
regarding the latter.

None that I've ever gotten into. (G)

I need few books near me. On the desk in front I have 28, most
of them unnecessary. I cannot now read even the titles, but
someday given a little more light or the time to haul them
out one by one close to my face, I will you tell what they are.

Sounds good to me.

Today's dose, from left: Bartok, Six String Quartets
(miniature score); Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia; Accu-Map Metro
Manila; Vest Pocket Arabic; Lonely Planet Thai; Rick Steves'
Portuguese; Collins Italian Phrasebook; Frommer's Berlin;
Cambridge Italian Dictionary; Teach Yourself Italian; Oxford Self-pronouncing Bible, Sunday School Teachers' Edition;
Winnie Ille Pu; Cox and Forshaw, Why Does E=mc^2?

Many of these I read or consult seldom, but every one I think
I have consulted at least once.

None really cathcing my eye; we have a number of Bibles (I do like the
self pronouncing when it comes to names-G-) and commentaries. Forgotten
enugh Latin that I'd rather read Winnie in English. Doesn't look like
we'll be doing much, if any international travel any time soon. If the
last one on your list is technical, not up my alley but if it's science explained, in reasonably understandable language, I'd consider it.

Some professors prefer catering to just an academic audience. Others like to expand their readership and will write other than academic

tomes > for pocket change.

This is true, and some professors (this one) see a
wider range of income sources, er, people to be educated.

True to both, actua;;y.

Sounds like one that would be best put into the recycle bin.

I thought of tearing it in half (my hands may still be
strong enough to have done so) but figured, why not let
the next reader be disillusioned and do the job.

Either way, not a keeper. Figured if it were recycled, maybe a

better > book might come out of it.

I thought somewhat along those lines but figured that
keeping in circulation (with my disparging annotation)
would prevent at least one possible sale.

One would hope so.

I think the primary frequencies are similar or in the
same range, plus the beans are a lot closer to my ears.

Reasonable enough. We picked up some more green beans at the

farmer's > market today.

For this reason I have come to prefer well-done string beans.

Hopefully not to the state of mush.

My grandmother would sometimes do beans this way. French cut

recipe from my aunt as > ML> my mom never did it. I > did it most recently last week, at my in laws > ML> but didn't French cut the > beans. Still turned out good. (G)

That looks good, thanks.

It tastes as good as it sounds.

We're all that way. A couple days ago my friend and I got
in a massive misunderstanding partially based on our being infantile and stubborn and partially on her claim of "I'm
hard of hearing, not deaf." She's pretty darn deaf.

But if you signed to her and she signed back, you might not be able

to > read it with your eyesight. (G)

She doesn't think she's deaf, and when I compensate by
speaking slowly and distinctly (though not loudly), that's
considered condescending. I'm not sure how to cope with this.

That's a tough one. Sometimes you just can't win, no matter how hard you
try.

We got it for free, still quite a long shelf life on it.

[chuckle] I'm more inclined to eat it up, and if I needed
it again, get some more for free.

Depends, got this from my ortho doctor. Don't know if my primary

care > one has any on hand or not, and not all problems are ortho connected. If > not, I'd not get the honey.

Isn't it a wound healing thing, not specifically
ortho-oriented?

Yes, but I was seeing the ortho doctor for the knee and he was the one
that brought up the possibility of using the honey/had some on hand.

Apricot and honey compote

Looks good, and easy, once you've got the puree made. We made cherry preserves yesterday. It went fast and easy once the cherries were pitted.

There are pitting machines; or one could do the
initial cooking with the pits and then use a Foley or
just a sieve.

Our pitter works well, just takes a bit of time since you can only do
one at a time. Going to use more of the cherries in a pie.


---
Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28


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

--- PPoint 3.01
* Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28)

Quoting Michael Loo to Ruth Haffly on 06-25-19 08:10 <=-

We're all that way. A couple days ago my friend and I got
in a massive misunderstanding partially based on our being
infantile and stubborn and partially on her claim of "I'm
hard of hearing, not deaf." She's pretty darn deaf.

But if you signed to her and she signed back, you might not be able to
read it with your eyesight. (G)

She doesn't think she's deaf, and when I compensate by
speaking slowly and distinctly (though not loudly), that's
considered condescending. I'm not sure how to cope with this.

Speak a little less slowly, speak distinctly but not exaggeratedly so,
and tell her that you are merely trying to compensate for her being hard
of hearing... ;) And that you understand that yelling only makes it
harder, not easier, to be understood.... ;)

ttyl neb

... Dinner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)