Subj : Apples was: Touristy                                     [1]
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Oct 12 2024 21:28:23

Hi Dave,

 DD> My local municipally owned utility sent two crews of volunteers to a
 DD> town in Georgia. The local news rag had a nice story about it. And the
 DD> spokseman said they may be called back to the area after Milton.

 RH> Probably so; it came ashore as a Cat 3, nothing to be messed with.
 RH> Steve's sister and BIL live in Zephyrhills, in a manufactured home.
 RH> Didn't evacutate this time, and appears they got off with little to no
 RH> damage.

 DD> The headline damage was Milty ripping the roof off of sports stadium.
 DD> According to what I've read the tornadoes that were spun off caused a
 DD> lot more damage than the hurricane itself. Go figger.

Hurricaneds do more water than wind damage as a general rule. BTW, the
stadium roof was rated to be ok with winds up to 110mph; the storm winds
were about 150.

 DD> their house, their roof, their everything."

 RH> I'm reading stories like that every day in the Raleigh paper.

 DD> Saw a pixture of a trailer park with ha;f submerged autos. But it
 DD> looked the water hadn't got to the floor level of the mobile homes.

Or had, and was on its way down by the time photographers got there.

 DD> I wonder how many people realise that the Thousand Islands
 archipelago DD> is actually a place. And straddles the border between
 Canada and USA. DD> I discovered it when returning from covering a
 motor race in Quebec DD> for Hoosier racing tire. Up to that point I
 had 'assumed' that the DD> home of the famous dressing had something to
 do with Trader Vic's DD> and the Pacific Ocean.

 RH> No, I grew up knowing better.

 DD> And you gew up a lot closer to the St. Lawrence than I did.  Bv)=

Quite a bit closer. (G)


 RH> More so than some rich folk's offspring.

 DD> My granddad had a saying about the "nouveau riche". Shirtsleeves to
 DD> shirtsleeves in three generations. It was accurate inmany cases. Bv)=

 RH> Seems to have worked out that way with the newspaper my dad worked for,
 RH> for decades. I understand the paper no longer exists.

 DD> TeeVee "news" and the interweb are killing the local papers.
 DD> Especially as the big players like Gannett (USA Today) glom up the
 DD> locals and fold them into the mix. We used to have two daily papers
 DD> here - The State
 DD> Journal which was a morning rag and Republican oriented. And the
 DD> Register which was and afternoon sheet and Democrat slanted. Then they
 DD> merged into the State Journal-Register and were $$$ oriented.  Bv)=

Wake Forest has a weekly, Raleigh and Durham both have dailys. We used
to get the Raleigh print edition but went to on line only when prices
for the hard copy kept going up as the # of pages kept going down. Lots
more in the on line editions than the print.



 DD> Here's an other Biltmore goody that is on my "round-tuit" list.

 DD> When I make it I'll use thighs and cider since I don't stock wine. And
 DD> substitute penne pasta for the gargantuan rigatoni.  Bv)= Might have
 DD> to change the title to reflect the switch in pasta.

 RH> Just change it to "pasta" and use whatever strikes your fancy when
 RH> making it. Or, whatever's on the shelf. (G)

 DD> Good thinking. Although I usually stock penne. My local Hy-Vee does
 DD> whole-wheat pasta - and for the most part that's what I buy. They also
 DD> have "pan length" noodles for the long pastas - which saves breaking
 DD> it by hand and getting "shards". Very handy.

 RH> We've done nothing but whole wheat pasta since the late 70s. Had to do
 RH> some creative searching pre internet/pre popularity to find it, but we
 RH> did. I don't break my longer pasta's for the pan either, just gently
 RH> ease them into the hot water and as the lower ends absorb water, I can
 RH> get the upper parts in and submerged.

 DD> Or use a pot that's wide/deep enough to submerge the sticks in one go.
 DD> I still the "pan length" as it's easier to wind it onto my fork at
 DD> table. But, That's me.

At least you don't cut it into 1" or less pieces. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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