Subj : Participation (oven baked motherboards)
To   : Ben Collver
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Jan 21 2025 12:27:04

Hi Ben,

RH> I "attended" that way several times. In the fall, when we
RH> The last few months tho, we've been working on a merger with another
RH> congregation and AFAIK, they don't broadcast/link in their service
RH> anywhere.

 BC> How'd drive-in style service treat you?

I'd rather have been out on the lawn with the other people. (G) At the
time I was fighting bronchitis and thought it best not to be around
other people. BTW, found out that the church we're merging with does a
broadcast link with f'book so we can keep up with services while
travelling.


 BC> I used to attend a spiritual community in Eugene that gave dharma
 BC> talks. During COVID they set up cameras and a large screen so that
 BC> others
 BC> could attend over the Internet.  It was a huge success for the
 BC> community and they grew in size.

 BC> However, i couldn't adjust to it.  I did not like being on camera.
 BC> For community, meditation, philosophy, song, etc. i strongly prefer it
 BC> to be a small, in-person group.  For me, the Internet sucks the joy
 BC> out of
 BC> that stuff.

I can understand, the personal interaction is important. We went from a
congregation of about 30 to one of 100+/- so we're trying to learn a lot
of new names/faces and figure out where we can fit in with the new
organisation. Found that their music preference is LOUD so we've been
sitting in the overflow room to cut the volume level somewhat.


BC>       Title: Bluenose Strawberry Soup

RH> How did "bluenose" get into the title? I don't see anywhere where it
RH> would be related to what is in it except maybe the brandy--something
RH> only affordable to the upper classes? Srawberry season will be coming in
RH> a few months; I'll consider making this, leaving out the brandy.

 BC> Dave asked the same thing, and the best i could come up with was the
 BC> following theory:

 BC> The recipe came from a cookbook titled The Strawberry Connection and
 BC> it was in a series of cookbooks that began with The Blueberry
 BC> Connection.  My
 BC> guess is that it began as a blueberry recipe and was adapted for
 BC> strawberries.

Sounds logical to me. What other fruits are in the series? Peach would
be a good one.


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