Subj: 609 the vagaries

that means leasing property, which must be good for you
Churn has to benefit somebody.

Yep, churning is good for Realtors!

A good life - you sit there watching the world go by,
and when it goes by, you charge toll! [not discounting
the fact that toll collection can be hard work].

municipal zoning bylaw

In many of our jurisdictions the voters consider some of these
to be violations of personal freedom

Those voters are of course idiots. I would love to buy a lot next
to their house and start a pig farm!

Perhaps they have pig farms already.

developers coveted to put high-rise apartments on, and she
resolutely refused to sell, so high-rises were built to the
property line, with the little house boxed in by them.

I can only imagine that she had a single family home in an area
zoned for multifamily developments. Even so, she should have been

There were probably no zoning anything that applied.
We're talking Revere, Mass. and the Mafia here.

protected a little bit with setback rules and access to sunlight
regs.

All I can say to that is Hah.

In most incorporated areas in the US there are zoning laws; inconsistently and perhaps sometimes not enforced, but they
exist.

I am against overly restrictive zoning where the municipality
micro-manages development but keeping industrial, commercial and
residential areas separate is sensible. In Canada zoning and

It's wholly sensible except where unscrupulous developers
are concerned, and down here they're the rule rather than
the exception, as you've seen.

building codes do get enforced.

Here it's hit or miss, mostly miss - except that
individual homeowners and their amateur projects get
zinged regularly, whereas the pros don't, and that has
little or nothiing to do with the merits of the projects
in question. There is a town that shall remain nameless
where a good friend of mine is on the zoning board and
another good friend is on the planning board, and despite
said representation and their best efforts, variances get
rammed through that are not only illegal but unethical
and unsanitary. When your well is poisoned by a septic
system that is less than 200' away (the statutory minimum,
by the way), the remedy is - damages in the law courts.
So much for logic and common sense.

At Lilli's, though, she could build a helicopter factory and
nobody could do anything about it. She has had at various times
a horse corral, an art studio, and a commercial smokehouse on her property.

So I'm curious what type of loose multi-use zoning she is subject
too.

The county is the closest jurisdictional entity, and
for the outlying areas has no rules at all. Remember
this is the US of A.

Subj: 610 wines

Schloss Gobelsburg Tradition 12

I remember drinking a cheap, nasty, domestic, imitation German wine
once called Schloss. So I went on Google and the first thing I
learned is that Schloss is German for Chateau and that there are a
lot of Schloss So-And-So wines.

Including the Johannisberg, which I have a date to
drink on July 22.

And then I found the guilty party: "Schloss Laderheim was created
in 1977 by Calona Wines (owned today by Peller). It was one of
numerous foreign-sounding labels. Canadian wine at the time was
losing market share to imported wine, so the Canadian wineries
passed off their generally mediocre wines with European-sounding
labels. Misleading consumers actually worked. Schloss came in a
brown hock bottle with Germanic script all over the label. In 1981
Schloss outsold Baby Duck -- 589,000 cases to 571,000 cases -- to
become the top selling domestic wine in Canada."

That's just amazing. We used to (in some cases still do)
have foreign-sounding so-called wines with names such as
Sauterne and Vino Fino and Tavola Rosso.

The overwhelming success of Schloss inspired other domestic
producers to create a riot of pseudo-label wines, including
Hochtaler, Alpenweiss, Toscana and Tollerkranz. The German wine

I like those names, as the absurdity shines through
quite nicely.

industry was not impressed. Hermann Guntrum of the great Nierstein
house of the same name, remonstrated with Rafe Mair, the minister of
Consumer Affairs in B.C., that the Schloss label had "too many
German words for a clearly named Canadian product." Rafe's deputy
minister said that was beside the point: the label misrepresented
neither the country of origin nor the manufacturer. 'The Calona
label to which you refer is not misleading,' he wrote to Guntrum in
May 1978. That was a dishonest answer, but the provincial government
- then as it does today, was dedicated to protecting the provincial
wine industry. Andrew Peller Ltd still produces Schloss Laderheim
today; you can find it in various sizes and in a box."

Napa and Sonoma Counties in California also wanted
to protect the local wine industry, but they did so
by ensuring fairly high minimum standards. In the
long run this proved to be a good path.

Funny thing is that Peller is capable of producing
quite decent wines, including continent- if not
world-class sweeties.

Calona was the absolute dreck of infant Canadian wines. Peller makes
some decent products today but still carries the lines that got it
started. Hochtaler is drinkable in a pinch; I'll buy it when I'm
overdrawn and don't have any commissions coming in that month.

I'd rather knock over a 7-11.

Subj: 612 kidneys

So tell me what the appeal of Jarlsberg is. I had some recently
and determined that it was funky-smelling wax.

You're not supposed to eat the wax coating! Jarlsberg is similar to
Dutch Leerdammer and a bit like Swiss Emmental. Of the three I do
prefer the Swiss; it's firmer and nuttier.

Some year when I'm bored I'll get a small wheel of
Jarlsberg and age the hell out of it.

... Pizza: a slice a day keeps the sad away.

I actually pretty much agree with that.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

Title: Crab-Melt Canapes
Categories: Appetizers, wwtt, wwtt
Yield: 1 servings

1/2 ea 12-oz package salad-style im 1 x (about 1 cup)
1/4 lb Jarlsberg or swiss cheese (s 1/4 c Mayonnaise or whipped
salad
1/4 t Dry mustard 30 ea Melba toast rounds
1/2 c Sliced pitted ripe olives 1 x Rosemary or
wattercress spri

Calories per serving: 50 Fat grams per serving: 3 Approx. Cook Time:
Cholesterol per serving: 6 ABOUT 30 MINUTES BEFORE SERVING OR EARLY IN
DAY: Chop crabmeat. In small bowl, with fork, mix crabmeat, cheese,
mayonnaise, dry mustard, and 1/4 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper.
Spread
1 heaping teaspoon crabmeat mixture on each Melba toast round. Place on
cookie sheets; sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper.
If
not serving right away, cover and refrigerate. ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE
SERVING: Preheat broiler if manuafcturer directs. Broil canapes about 3
minutes or until cheese melts. Top each canape with a slice of ripe
olive.
Arrange canapes and garnish on platter; serve immediately Makes 2 1/2
dozen
canapes. Source: someone who just didn't care

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