Subj : Cramping                                                 [1]
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Jun 10 2024 11:40:43

Hi Dave,


 RH> My favorite was the ferris wheel. Steve went to the Florida park the
 RH> year after it opened; the girls both went to the California one on
 RH> school trips when we were in AZ.

 DD> Our Ferris Wheel was copied from one the owner of the Eli Bridge Co.
 DD> had seen at the Columbian Exposition. This first “Big Eli” Wheel
 DD> debuted in Jacksonville, Illinois’ own Central Park on May 23, 1900.
 DD> (corner Main and Morton streets. The Wheel was a great success and, in
 DD> 1906, Sullivan incorporated the Eli Bridge Company by taking on
 DD> capital investors to
 DD> mass-produce his wheels.

 DD> Big Eli #17 is a nice sized working/display wheel located at the main
 DD> intersection in town. The north-east corner of what used to the main
 DD> insane asylum and is now a school for "developmentally disabled".  The
 DD> Jacksonville Rotary Clud still operated the ride with profits going to
 DD> their charitable works.

Sounds like fun. One day I may get to ride the big ferris wheel in
London. I don't think it was there when I visited the city in the late
80s.

 DD>      8<----- Coffee Break ----->8

 DD> Never tackled a French press. I've a Hamilton-Beach single cup coffee
 DD> aker which uses either loose coffe or pods. And my 12 cup (5 of my big
 DD> cups/mugs) Sears & Roebuck automatic drip unit. It's a Cuisinart under
 DD> the Serious & Getback branding. It has an internal water filter, uses
 DD> the conical coffee filters and I can set it to the start brewing on
 DD> the built in timer. So at 04:00 the Yehudi wakes up and makes my
 DD> coffee.

 RH> I've kidded Steve about being a coffee snob but he's not really. No
 RH> gourmet beans, ground just before use but he does grind his own.

 DD> I developed a blend if pre-roasted beans that I quite liked and would
 DD> grind them in my R2-D2 spice/coffee grinder. But I discovered Maxwell
 DD> House Intense Bold and Folger's Black Silk and alternated between
 DD> those depending on which is on sale when I need to re-stock.

He usually gets his beans at Cost Plus World Market or one of the big
savings stores (Costco).

 DD> (boiling or nearly so) water. For multiple cups - or for Iced Tea I
 DD> use the Mary Dunbar/Jewel Tea tea pot that my grandmother had and an
 DD> aluminum tea ball/infuser to hold loose tea leaves. A pixture of one
 DD> very like it (except in stainless steel) is at
 DD> https://tinyurl.com/TEA-BAWL

 RH> We've got one of those ball infusers; it was one part of a number of
 RH> things I got from my grandmother's estate 50 years ago.

 DD> My usual non-morning tea is Brown & Bigelow's "Constant Comment". Up
 DD> until (and including) lunchtime my go-to is Twining's Breakfast Tea or
 DD> Lipton if the market was out of Twinings.

 RH> I go for Tetley British Blend most mornings, treat myself on Sunday
 RH> mornings to Good Earth's Original Sweet and Spicy.

 DD> I tried the well-known and much ballyhooed Earl Grey tea ... once. I
 DD> do NOT like oil of bergamot as a beverage. Although it is useful in
 DD> some recipes.

Not one of our favorites either.

 DD> All straight up - like my coffee. No milk, no sugar, no sweetners.

 RH> One packet of stevia for me, unless we're hitting the road. Then the
 RH> tea is brewed just a bit longer, goes into a travel mug that keeps it
 RH> warm about 8 hours. It gets 2 packets of stevia then.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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