I've had some issues with e-mail too. There are
reports not only of nonreceipt of my messages,
which is normal, but messages that have been
received, archived, and disappeared (this on
the recipient's side, which raises the level
of mystery a notch).

SOW, I responded to an email from you a little while ago... did you get
my response...? I heard nothing back from you.

Oh, yeah - I eventually got your mail and thought
I'd responded to it with a brief answer that went
something like "no wiggle room in July, maybe in
the fall."

And that is now the case pretty much across the board, both with the gas having the ethanol, and the cars being all adapted to be able to use it.... I was talking of a time and a car of at least three decades

ago...

That's the 1980s ... like last month to me.

Yes, probably 1984-5 or so... And that could explain a thing or
three... ;)

Might, but not the Volvo issue two decades later.

As I said, this was at least 3 decades ago.. it was an 82 Aries, and
said car totally died somewhere around 1990... I don't think the ethanol experience hastened the demise... it had plenty of other issues... ;)

That company as I recall didn't have the
greatest of reputations - see recipe below.

The Aries was our only really bad experience with ChryslerCorp... and it
was only a grapefruit, not quite a lemon....

One of your taglines, as I recall, says
something about that.

associated with one of the great shoulda woulda
couldas of my life, which was very fun.

That certainly wouldn't have hurt the impression, for sure... :)

Nup. She was quite cute, a little plump (never
a problem), but definitely looking for that
MRS degree.

And that last scared you off...? ;)

Rather.

Oh, well... :)

I thought about the prospect of raising children
with a plump and very pretty businesswoman until
the end of forever. It didn't work for me.

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Driscoll's strawberries (product of USA) - these were
prettty good looking, good rich color. Not much aroma and
less taste. Even the big blushing beauties had a hard white
core and didn't have much appeal. Cooking fruit, you might
say; all I can add is that I hope the US farmers get their
act together before the season is over.

Haven't seen anything local yet.... the season seems to have been slowed
down by the cool temps to date....

Pretty much. It's hard to see where the summer will
go, and if the lowered ambient energies will mean a
less severe hurricane season, the way people are hoping.

Naturipe blueberries (product of Georgia) - a mix of sizes,

I just the other day was telling Ruth that I got some of that brand (I
typoed the a as a u, though) but it said it was from NC, not GA....

It must be a pretty big operation if it has separate
labels for the states its produce is grown in. A smaller
or cheaper operation would say simply USA.

more smaller ones, some unripe. Okay flavor, not as good as
some of the Mexican and Peruvian Driscoll's ones we've had
in the winter, but certainly better than the strangely fibrous
Mexican ones that Driscoll foisted off on us twice this year
so far.

What I got was a nice mix of sizes and more ripe than not... nice flavor
from the ripe ones... :)

As I recall a fair number of redder ones,
which not only were sour but lacked much flavor.

American blueberries (product of USA) - a mixture of smallish
very sour berries and medium-to-large sweetish but tasteless
ones. These were inferior to most we've had, which made the
"patriotic berry" nonsense on the box particularly irritating.

Oh, dear.....

Oh, dear ... but some percentage of buyers will be
swayed more by the flag on the package than the
quality inside. It would have been nice if the
berries were as good as the country they came from.

... Heatless habaneros. That'll benefit society as much as seedless corn.

There are a number of Capsicum sinense (chinense or chinese,
depending on your level of unfamiliarity with the taxonomic
system) that have varying to no heat.

Garlic chicken with thyme and lemon
categories: Belgian. poultry, main
servings: 4

1 broiler-fryer
2 eggs
4 cloves garlic
2 lemons
6 sprigs thyme
250 mL chicken bouillon
olive oil
pepper
salt

Knoflookkip met tijm en citroen

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F.

Rinse the lemons with hot water and cut into
slices. Peel the onions and cut them into
wedges. Peel and crush the garlic.

Cut the chicken into 8 serving pieces and
season. Brown in oil and put them in a baking
dish with the onion, garlic and lemon. Put the
sprigs of thyme in between and add some stock.

Bake the chicken for 35 min, basting with
a little broth periodically.

Delicious with baked potatoes.

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