Subj : Participation (oven baked motherboards) To : Ben Collver From : Ruth Haffly Date : Tue Jan 28 2025 12:26:34 Hi Ben, RH> One of these days, we just might make it. Oregon is one of the states RH> our daughter in AZ has mentioned she might want to move to, now that RH> she's retired from active duty with the National Guard. She has 2 boys, RH> one on the autism spectrum and she mentioned that the state is good for RH> education. Don't know what she was basing that on but... BC> From my perspective my educational experience was good, but my BC> friend's kids in Eugene had even better, going to charter schools, BC> until the BC> Covid thing. Abruptly shifting to distance learning was hard on them, BC> and i personally think that folks aren't aware just how harmful that Covid threw a major curve ball at a lot of kids. Here in NC a lot of kids were distant learning via cell phone; we donated several net books, note books and other small computers to a local drive--helped clean out some of our unused stuff. Steve put a basic internet program on each of them before donating. One down side, a lot of school systems are now calling snow days "remote learning", taking away the fun of an unexpected day off to play in the snow. BC> was. I don't know about autism, but a friend of a friend is a teacher BC> in Seattle, and she said that nearly 100% of her students have a BC> diagnosis of some kind, autism, A.D.D., depression, etc. and that most BC> of them are on a prescription of some kind. Some things are better, BC> like classes BC> teaching about communication, emotional intelligence, and BC> interpersonal skils (wish *I* had learned those as a kid), and some BC> things are far worse. Seems now more kids have learning labels now than when we were growing up. Our older daughter is a teacher in a private chain (Challenger, I know they have schools in Oregon). When she was taking her education classes, she had to learn about how to develop Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for students. She taught public school for several years and had to implement them, something that our teachers never knew about, all kids learned the same thing, altho some were a bit slower on the "uptake". There was "special ed." for those kids that had obvious learning challenges but most kids were mainstreamed. RH> We found that not all parts of Vermont do the creemees. Several years RH> ago we were camping near Manchester, finally found a stand that served RH> us some soft serve ice cream with maple syrup poured over it. Not quite RH> the same but close enough for that night. A couple of days later, we RH> moved up to Washington, and knew we could get (and did) creemees in RH> Barre, about 15 minutes away. BC> Maple syrup poured on soft-serve icecream reminds me of Laura Ingalls BC> book Little House In The Woods where they poured maple syrup on the BC> snow to harden it into a frozen candy. I'd eat that. :9 That's known by different names, Jack's Wax is the name I learned for it. You have to boil the syrup down to a concentrate for it to work. One of my friends in college made it one year; I think she boiled the syrup down to maybe a third of what she started out with--IOW, a gallon was boiled into just a bit over a quart. There's also snow ice cream where eggs, sugar and milk are stirred together, then snow is stirred into that mix. Never had any of that. RH> OK, I'd wondered, when I read the book, what Turkish Delight was. I was RH> thinking that it might be something like the old candy, Turkish Taffy. RH> I'd skip the artificial coloring, and maybe try it with raw sugar as we RH> don't keep refined sugar in the house. RH> Can I leave the nuts out? I like some nuts, but don't really like nuts RH> in most foods. BC> Yes you can leave out the nuts. Aplets and cotlets always have nuts, BC> but i've had other varieties that are nutless. Sometimes you feel like a nut.................. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... It works! Now, if only I could remember what I did. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .