Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-18-19 10:00 <=-

There has to be a cheaper and less annoying way.

Could be it's what's at hand, and the annoyance factor isn't taken into account... Just asked the kid if he ever found out what had caused what
we heard, and he said no, but that it definitely was blasting of some sort... speculated that maybe it was being used to blast out rock for a
road realignment... he heard it again a few days later... There are a number of newly resurfaced roads in the area, and some of them I'd not
been on previously so don't know if the alignment was changed any...

The annoyance is as much as to the workers as to the neighbors.
One problem with using explosives for such a purpose, especially
in a state like New York, is the costs of permitting, bonding, and oversight. We can be thankful for government in some situations,
and this is one of them.
I'm putting my money on governmental involvement in the blasting.

Which makes the road work a more likely option... although, there are a
number of people that I know of that already hold permits for such...

I was also thinking of the generations before JS Bach... And there
were other family musical dynasties at the time...

True, but they had to be pretty ragtag orchestras.

Not necessarily... Think of the Schubert or Mendelsohn soirees....

No families involved there, unless you count a
brother-sister piano duo, which doesn't apply to
the issue at hand.

My point being that musical families often had multiple good musicians
at a time... and wouldn't have to be ragtag...

Every time we figure things are getting better, something
happens that dashes our hopes.

My answers to this are skating on off-topic, so I'll desist... Should I
take it to email...?

Nope. Skating toward and falling over the edge are
distinguishable to the cop at least.

Ok, then... you may change your mind on that... :) I'd say that we
should know better than to think things are actually getting better here
on earth, given mankind's fallen nature...

Adding protein sometimes has unexpected consequences,
in dessert-making anyway.

Or subtracting it, for that matter...

Subtracting protein always has predictable consequences!

It always fails in the same way....?

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

I do take some of that sort of thing into account... such as, I'd not
get raw milk from certain dairy farmers I know, whose farms are not at all very sanitary.... Skip's, on the other hand, I have no issues with
at all...

So why don't they crack down on the unsanitary farms?

I'm guessing that either they fly under the radar (being primarily only
for personal use) or they manage to meet minimum standards....

If it's personal use, that shouldn't come to anybody's
attention, unless the kids come down with one of the -oses.
Minimum standards, well, one hopes the regulators are better
than in the days of filled milk and TB.

They most likely are, but that doesn't mean that I'd necessarily be
comfortable with the situation there... :)

I know that when Lydia was living on her in-laws dairy farm for a time,
when she'd come into town, her car would reek of dairy farm... at
Skip's, we'd not smell that even on the farm itself....

To give an out to the in-laws, there are varying levels of
sanitation, not all of which are relevant to the wholesomeness
of the commercial product. Indicative of an attitude, sure,
but one kind of deficit doesn't mean another.

Which I do recognize... but we didn't go out to the Archer farm to pick
up raw milk... though I'd drink it on the farm if offered when I was visiting... But that's kinda what I was referring to above with their
meeting minimum standards, so not falling afoul of the authorities...
And that farm wasn't the one I was particularly thinking about before, either... but another one up in the North Country, where, if they met
minimal standards, those standards were very minimal....but that one
might in fact have been only personal use....

As in the households I've been part of, visual clutter did not
mean bad smells or other sign of possible hazard.

Which I find a little different from dairy farms... :)

ttyl neb

... If you fall in love with a pastry cook he desserts you.

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