Subj : Packrats was: Al K. Haul [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 10:05:02 Hi Dave, DD> I'm going to do it the evening before trash day so it doesn't have DD> time to take over the wheelie bin. Or attract raccooons, tree rats and DD> opossums. RH> Sounds good; our trash day is Friday but because of the holiday, pushed RH> to Saturday again this week. I've done the "clean out the fridge" thing RH> the night before also. DD> Ours did the same - except our usual day is Wednesday. I use Waste DD> Management (because they're union) who e-mails me a "heads up" before DD> every holidays which changes their usual schedule. I'm pretty sure we use those folks too. Town of WF contracts with them and their fee is included in our water/sewer bill. The WF town web site and local newspaper publish their holiday schedule but we can usually figure on a week with a federal holiday, trash pick up will be a day later. Green waste is usually picked up sometime during the week, after the Monday holiday. DD> 8<----- EDIT -----.8 DD> Most farms these days are strictly "ca$h grain" and the farmers shop DD> at stupormarkups. Our family farm rotated crops between corn, soybeans, DD> wheat, oats, alfalfa, rye and sorghum (a relative of corn). And we had DD> a small orchard with apples, peaches, apricots and paw-paw trees. The RH> My dad planted a couple of gardens for family eating. Mom canned a lot, RH> then got a freezer in 1973. Dad usually put in rhubarb, sweet corn, RH> lettuce, beets, carrots, yellow wax beans and tomatoes when I was RH> growing up, later added brussels sprouts and a couple of other veggies. RH> He had a small (6?) vines for grapes, on the property also had a couple RH> of apple trees and a pear tree. Neighbor's property had blackberry RH> bushes we had free picking on, strawberries were wild (but not RH> abundant) on both properties. DD> When I was still a pre-teen I used that garden for summer income. I DD> had an iron wheeled pushcart which I loaded with freshly picked DD> produce. I had tomatoes, both green and wax beans, radishes, carrots, DD> cucumbers, sweet corn, popcorn, cabbages muskmelon and asparagus .... DD> all "in DD> season". At that time (early 1950s) most wives were "house" wives. And DD> they knew when they heard the iron wheels on the sidewalk that I had DD> just picked vegetables on offer at good prices. Dad also planted cucumbers, only way Mom used them was in a mild pickle (about half and half water and vinegar with a bit of sugar and celery seed). Between his fussy eating an her non creative cooking, we were fed but it wasn't until I went to college, then got married, that I found out about a wider range of foods. Joining the echo here expanded my cooking/eating horizons even more. DD> Railroad dining car galleys are, of necessity, very tight quarters. DD> And they put out some amazing dishes. Airlines, OTOH, use pre-made, DD> nuked DD> to serving temperature dishes for their in-flight offerings. If you've DD> eaten airline food you'll know it's all lowest common denominator DD> stuff. RH> I've had airline food, think the last regular meal we had was coming RH> back from Berlin in 1992. DD> My first railroad meal was on the Rock Island Twin Cities Rocket DD> and I was 14 years old. Roast Duckling w/Orange Sauce. I managed DD> to get more of it in me than on me. Bv)= RH> That's commendable. (G) DD> Here's another bread recipe. I'll be making this again tonight for DD> a potluck at my work tomorrow ...... well, one loaf. The other is DD> going to get turned into Reuben sandwiches at home. DD> Title: Rustic Rye Bread DD> Categories: Breads DD> Yield: 24 slices OK, my "standard" rye bread is the Pillsbury one, thanks to you digging up the recipe for me. I know I had it for years, but probably in one of our military moves it got thrown out or shredded with other papers. Next day--correction, we use Republic for trash pick up. Used to use Waste Management, have in other places but saw the Republic truck today, across the street. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... KEYBOARD, A device used to enter errors into a computer. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .