Taking his Turkey experience and translating it over here?

Don't think so... Driving the roads direct to Potsdam, we had seen some evidence of some massive clearing happening on one large plot of land...
RJ was concerned that someone might have bought it to do some mining, although he was thinking that another possibility might just have been
some rich dude from downstate planning to put in a large farm... The
sound did seem to be coming from that direction....

I'm wondering why clearing for development should make
that kind of noise.

Thing is we're in a different time and situation, where middle-class children are encouraged to take music up as a mind-expander rather
than training for a trade. And with transport not being great, and heating in the winter not being great. circumstances were certainly
more tough for a church music director in olden times.

At least from our perspective... I do think though of the Bach extended family, with church (and other) musicians for generations, the training happening in the family, and available for use in the church...

Not too many music directors had 21 kids.

tttt, there have been some to whom entrusting my
safety would have been not so great an idea.

There is that...

I've seen all sorts. Some have been really good. Some, not so.

As would be expected...

Now when Lilli took the Austrian Airlines flight attendant
training, the instructors at least seemed crackerjack.

Ah. And a rose still smells like a rose even if one calls it a
violet... ;)

Eh, something like that. Others might be inclined to use
other similes.

You mean, like one can take the pugilist out of the ring, and he'll
still fight....? ;)

Put it that way, yes. You can take the A out of B, but you
can't take the B out of A.

have such a striking effect. Maybe by the time we see each other
I'll have worked my way up to two Advil.

Odd. I never heard of Advil giving a high before... none of them have
done anything for me... except making me dizzy, possibly... not a
feeling I'd chase after...

Of course, you're not typical, and neither am I.

This all may be something analogous to the ibuprofen at
one time causing false positive results for THC. Maybe my
body is being fooled in this way.

year-round, and for certain school children also free breakfast

during

the school year... I'm sure it's low-income based... There's

also free

or low-cost meals for seniors at some of the senior centers....

I figure all kids should get the basics free, with
adults paying as they can for themselves and others.

That does seem to be the trend here, anyway...

And that's a good thing, if the community can afford it.

Apparently it can... or at least the extended community... :)

The one extreme makes the most effect for a few clients,
but the extended community, though it makes mistakes and
inefficiency, has the greatest reach, of course.

To each according to need, from each according to
ability, the old Communist motto, works well here.

Especially when used in the pure form...

It's such a pity that practicalities get in the way
of theories. It takes only one nutcase to ruin it for
everyone, and when you have two, such as Lenin and Stalin.
anything goes. Or everything goes.

Indeed.

We're hoping against hope that humanity is perfectible.

+

and we didn't have any milk, so I just omitted it.

So you just used water....?

Yeah, I was toying with the idea of adding another egg but
didn't.

Mine wasn't always noticed... ;)

You didn't stamp your little feet and threaten to hold
your breath until you turned blue? That was my sister's
technique.

No, I just quietly didn't do something, generally... other siblings were
more dramatic... but they tended to get in trouble more for their
resistance than I did...

Heh, the quintessential survivor.

Daddy was similar.... fortunately, I guess, Mommy did see the humor, and went along with it, though I don't remember her indulging in it much if
at all... :)

So in that regard you took more after her? You seem to be
the appreciator here more than the perpetrator. Unlike
both Ruths, for example.

My mind just isn't so inclined to think quickly... sometimes stuff just
slips out, though.... ;)

It's more studied than we like to pretend.

Maybe the propellant has changed over the years...? Or your

lungs are

more sensitive now...?

They tell you it's nitrous oxide - sort of a big neon
sign saying "get fat and get high."

I've always liked the whipped cream by itself... but usually propelled
it out into my hand... ;)

I usually whipped it myself with a whisk.

Neither the canned stuff nor the heavy cream were often in our house
when I was a child... I've bought both on my own, generally the heavy
cream, but have often used it without whipping it, too...

Cream is a good thing in many contexts. I seldom use
whipped cream except for company. It tastes good on
company, er, pudding.

I still do grab the occasional slice of raw bacon, the few times I actually have bacon to cook... ;) Tasty stuff, after all... ;)

Caution: eating raw pork is not recommended in countries
with minimal hygiene and poor animal husbandry practices.
Do this at your own risk.

(So I noticed in the recipe you appended below) ;) I might be more
careful elsewhere....

It's not fully jocular ... and our own system is
not at all the best one.

Lilli was bugging me as I cooked the other day and said What
can I do? I was silent. Get the bleep out of the kitchen, she
suggested. I said, OK, get the bleep out of the kitchen. She
was sore for several minutes until she realized she'd brought
it on herself.

Good that she did figure it out... ;)

If my friends are that dense, they're not my friends.

Dark chocolate mousse
categories: dessert, really easy
yield: 1 batch

200 g dark chocolate
30 g sugar
4 eggs, separated

Melt the chocolate in a terrine. Add the beaten egg yolks.

Beat the egg whites into stiff peaks while adding the sugar.

Fold the whites carefully into the chocolate mixture.

Refrigerate before serving.

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