I trust you are doing ok with all those fires and power outages in
CA...? Or have you moved on from there, in which case, is Lilli ok...?

I addressed this a day or two ago. It's a relatively safe
neighborhood, on a rocky knob, and if the eucalyptus trees
don't go, everything'll be fine.

I've since seen the later reports... so the biggest risk is the power company's prophylactic outages affecting...?

Mostly. It's more than the lawyers' timorousness than
anything else. SDG&E doesn't want to suffer the fate of
PG&E, which declared bankruptcy as a result of having
been found responsible for some of the biggest fires in
its area. So any time there's an even vaguely credible
anticipation of high winds in dry conditions that can
cause wires to snap and spark, they do somewhat carefully
planned outages in problem areas. Which may be all they
can do - it's not their fault that their corporate
predecessors were shortsighted enough to install
above-ground power lines instead of trenching them, which
is what should be standard practice in all but the
wettest environments. It's for the greater good (not
least for that of the investors), but there are those
whose electricity has gone out for multiple days on end,
jeopardizing (ugh, tough to spell, should use imperilling
instead) their freezer contents and sometimes their
health as well.

That said, I escaped (alone) to the east coast a couple days ago.

Always something going on for you... Is a stopover here firming up at all....?

I'm looking at nothing until February or March, and then
only if I can't get my first set of eye operations done then.
Both Lilli and Bonnie are requiring more of my time due to
various concerns, plus the younger generation of Bonnie's
family has been having some major health issues - part of
the reason I came back east at all was for that - I was only
joking about fleeing to escape fire dangers.

I don't think any are what is thought of as heart-shaped... ;) But just about all do seem to have some resemblance to each other, whether bird
or beast.... dunno about fish and reptiles etc...

True, two-chambered hearts might have a better chance of
being heart-shaped.

Somewhat, anyway...

Better chance just meaning nonzero.

Only one of those around here is Popeye's... and yes, I appreciate that about their chicken thighs.... Wegmans' fried chicken tends to have the intact kidneys, too...

I've not had Weggie's fried chicken, but other supermarket
fried chicken is way too salty for me, as it potentially
has to be kept under the lamp for a long time.

We've not found it particularly salty... and we are pretty sensitive to
salt, so you might not mind it...

Possibly worth a try sometime.

... It's Ethnic Holiday X So Lets Make Ethnic Dish Y.

Now that's a Wellerism. Question: isn't everything
ethnic in some context?

Of course.... generally, though, taken to be some cuisine that isn't
what one grew up with....

Well, though some of us tend to forget the fact, we're
all of some ethnicity or another.

Exactly... :) Which is why I found it particularly amusing...

I find it amusing, as does our friend Cathy, who is, for want of a
better term, African-American, when her sister gets squicked out by the places that we take Cathy to eat... including Abyssinia (Ethiopian), and all the various asian places... "Don't they EVER eat anything American...??!!" to which the answer actually is "Yes, quite often, just not when we go out that much"... :)

That's somewhere between amusing and horrifying.

We've (including her) chosen to find the humor in it... She quite enjoys going to the wide variety of restaurants we habituate... only one she's
less enthusiastic about is the Indian, which for some reason her body
doesn't tolerate very well... meanwhile, we just keep finding more neat places to eat... (G)

The funny thing is that most of us think of palefaces
being the as more oblivious in that way.

... I can eat 2 fried eggs, 3 if they're scrambled, 40 if they're devilled

That's singularly perverse. I can choke them down in about
reverse order.

I picked this recipe because I read "dull relish."

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

Title: Devilish Eggs
Categories: Cajun, Appetizers
Yield: 8 servings

6 ea Hard boiled eggs 2 T Mayonnaise
2 T Poupon mustard 1 T Louisiana hot sauce
1 T Pimentos, mashed 3 T Dill relish
1 x Salt, to taste

Cut the eggs in half. Remove yolk from white and set white aside. Mash
yolks with a fork and add the mayonnaise and the rest of the ingredients.
Spoon mixture back into egg whites and serve on a bed of lettuce.
Unattributed

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

Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-11-19 10:11 <=-

Mostly. It's more the lawyers' timorousness than anything else.
SDG&E doesn't want to suffer the fate of PG&E, which declared
bankruptcy as a result of having been found responsible for some
of the biggest fires in its area. So any time there's an even
vaguely credible anticipation of high winds in dry conditions
that can cause wires to snap and spark, they do somewhat
carefully planned outages in problem areas. Which may be all
they can do - it's not their fault that their corporate
predecessors were shortsighted enough to install above-ground
power lines instead of trenching them, which is what should be
standard practice in all but the wettest environments. It's for
the greater good (not least for that of the investors), but
there are those whose electricity has gone out for multiple days
on end, jeopardizing (ugh, tough to spell, should use imperilling
instead) their freezer contents and sometimes their health as well.

Having been a caretaker for someone regularly on O2, I'm very aware of
the endangering health risks of being without electricity... And losing
the contents of the freezer is not a good thing either... although
having a fire come through also isn't....

That said, I escaped (alone) to the east coast a couple days ago.

Always something going on for you... Is a stopover here firming up at all....?

I'm looking at nothing until February or March, and then
only if I can't get my first set of eye operations done then.

Getting the eyes done is also important... At least you did get to see
Fords earlier this year....

Both Lilli and Bonnie are requiring more of my time due to
various concerns, plus the younger generation of Bonnie's
family has been having some major health issues - part of
the reason I came back east at all was for that - I was only
joking about fleeing to escape fire dangers.

I gathered as much...

I don't think any are what is thought of as heart-shaped... ;) But just about all do seem to have some resemblance to each other, whether bird
or beast.... dunno about fish and reptiles etc...

True, two-chambered hearts might have a better chance of
being heart-shaped.

Somewhat, anyway...

Better chance just meaning nonzero.

Yup.

Only one of those around here is Popeye's... and yes, I appreciate that about their chicken thighs.... Wegmans' fried chicken tends to have the intact kidneys, too...

I've not had Weggie's fried chicken, but other supermarket
fried chicken is way too salty for me, as it potentially
has to be kept under the lamp for a long time.

We've not found it particularly salty... and we are pretty sensitive to salt, so you might not mind it...

Possibly worth a try sometime.

Sometime when you are here, maybe... I can only vouch for our store
without reservations... ;)

... It's Ethnic Holiday X So Lets Make Ethnic Dish Y.

Now that's a Wellerism. Question: isn't everything
ethnic in some context?

Of course.... generally, though, taken to be some cuisine that isn't
what one grew up with....

Well, though some of us tend to forget the fact, we're
all of some ethnicity or another.

Exactly... :) Which is why I found it particularly amusing...

I find it amusing, as does our friend Cathy, who is, for want of a
better term, African-American, when her sister gets squicked out by the places that we take Cathy to eat... including Abyssinia (Ethiopian), and all the various asian places... "Don't they EVER eat anything American...??!!" to which the answer actually is "Yes, quite often, just not when we go out that much"... :)

That's somewhere between amusing and horrifying.

We've (including her) chosen to find the humor in it... She quite enjoys going to the wide variety of restaurants we habituate... only one she's
less enthusiastic about is the Indian, which for some reason her body doesn't tolerate very well... meanwhile, we just keep finding more neat places to eat... (G)

The funny thing is that most of us think of palefaces
being the as more oblivious in that way.

True... Cathy's sister acting as though she were a paleface is part of
what Cathy was responding to... Although, American blacks often tend to
be that way as well, in reality... Cathy is more like us than most... :)

... I can eat 2 fried eggs, 3 if they're scrambled, 40 if they're devilled

That's singularly perverse. I can choke them down in about
reverse order.

I grabbed that tag partly because I know some people kinda like that...
The 2 fried eggs or 3 scrambled is pretty accurate for me, but while I
like most deviled eggs, I'd still not eat more than one or two (halves,
that is)... :)

ttyl neb

... "A miracle would definitely be a step in the right direction."-Hawkeye

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