Quoting Michael Loo to Ruth Haffly on 05-11-19 06:33 <=-

That's part of the fun of these events--how well can we shoe-horn things into the fridge? (G)

I still think curbing our generosity from the
start is practically speaking the way to go.

Probably so, but in reality, it doesn't seem to work that well. If half
of us cooked one day, the other half another day, we'd still end up with lots of left overs. (G)

But it would be a start. At Lydia's I tried to stay out
of it, sous-ing (not sousing as I originally wrote) only,
but the occasional something obtruded, and I ended up
being part of the problem.

Particularly your birthday "cake"... ;) But that was a major hit... :)

We've gone a goodly distance from the American-style
farm with lots of goodies at the fingertips to a
landscape where the milkman is the lucky one.

Yes, and I can remember milk being delivered. Tarms would haul it to
local dairies where it would be processed, then sent out. We had a sign
to put in our front door window to indicate how much milk we wanted; if
Mom wanted ice cream or anything else, she'd tell the milk man when when
he delivered & he'd get it off the truck.

We had a regular order with Thompson's Honor Dairy and
an insulated metal milkbox outside the back door.

We have one of those on our side porch... In the early days of our
marriage, we were still able to get whole milk in glass bottles
delivered... The milk box was still able to handle two plastic jugs,
when the dairy stopped delivering the glass bottles... But even that
went by the boards, and now we just use it as an alternate mail
receptacle... :)

ttyl neb

... Of all the people I've met, you're certainly one of them.

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