A Tiresome Wedding
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Opa!!! Cooking Greek yet?
Comments (49)Teresa, nothing offends me. I'm sure there are variations of paximadia out there that include chopped nuts. I know that many Greeks use chopped almonds in their kourabiedes even though my grandmother did not. How could you get less Greek when using nuts? They're in just about all the traditional desserts. After making baklava & melomacarona this week, I'm pretty much all honeyed - nutted - and cinnamoned out. This always happens to me at Chrstmas time. I get tired of that particular flavor combination quickly. I think it comes from years & years of my mom & grandmother making numerous pans of baklava....See Morewhat to do with 30 guests???
Comments (17)Dear goldsilver, Congratulations on this special step you are taking. I'll share our recent experience with two family weddings. The most recent one was held at an historic lighthouse on an island. The reception for all 29 guests was in a small dining room in a nearby country club. No DJ, no dancing. It was great fun! We had a harpist playing in the background and everyone enjoyed visiting in an unhurried way. We had passed hors'doeuvres followed by a buffet. The buffet gave people a chance to move around and table hop, so we could get acquainted with the other family. The honeymoon "getaway" vehicle was actually the ferry and all the guests accompanied the couple there. Great fun! Wedding favors were a CD of tunes by the harpist with the bridal couple's picture in front of the lighthouse on the cover. These costs us almost nothing to put together, but looked professional. Gel candles with sand and shells from the island were a second memento for the guests. The earlier wedding was a larger one, but it was held at an Indian museum in the desert southwest. The guests were mostly from out of town & could tour the museum before the ceremony. We had a jazz quartet of 4 elderly musicians who charged practically nothing & had been recommneded by the caterer. They were so special that many of the guests individually tipped them more than their original fee as they played long forgotten favorite standards. This setting gave us all a chance to learn something about local culture, despite the fact that neither the couple nor the participants were Indian themselves. Wedding favors were scrolls with the Indian Wedding Prayer tied in the theme colors at each place setting. Both weddings were unique and done on a relatively small budget. You mentioned your setting is in an historic building. Can you add some elements of interest connected to that setting? Whether it is related to city history, religion, school affiliation or culture, the building's history or theme (or something drawn from the immediate area) may be of special interest to your out of town guests and educate them about your part of the world. This might take the form of individual favors for the guests (which can cost almost nothing if you are creative and have a color printer). You might inquire at a local college music department or church and get a musician for background music at less than a DJ would have charged. Good luck with all your plans. If you are comfortable with the arrangements, your guests will be comfortable as well. People can enjoy music without dancing, but having some music is definitely worth it for setting the mood....See MoreIf you DIY'd your kitchen...
Comments (29)This was an excellent thread to get a glimpse into how many different ways there are to accomplish the same goal of a kitchen remodel. We hired a GC and have a project manager who comes by every day. The scope of our project is fairly large which means I'm solidly in the good/fast (aka expensive) part of the graphic above. DH has been supportive, but he did comment that we have delayed our retirement by at least two years (uh, we're 20 years away from even thinkin' about it) - that was a depressing statement. My justification on all this - if we were to sell our house & buy something new we'd pay a pretty penny in realtor fees and state excise taxes. I'm staying put and doubling down on my kitchen budget - refreshing the rest of the main level at the same time. (paint, floors, furniture). Appliances, cabinets, lighting, plumbing fixtures, and counters have put me in at ~ $75K. Add GC fees, interior construction, plumbing, electrical, hardwood, etc. I'm well into the 6 figures. Back to the original question: I'm not afraid to get in there and do stuff. Over the years, I've tiled, sanded and stained interior doors, sanded and stained kitchen cabinets, drywall (install, mud, tape, texture), etc. But now, I just don't have time and it would take 10 years for me to finish even a tiny scale project. If I had time and the project was a bit larger in scale, things I would definitely outsource: electrical - particularly to make sure you meet code requirements, plumbing if it is more than a simple linear move, solid surface fabrication, construction rough in (assuming your changing walls - want to keep house structurally safe). Other nice to outsource items would be drywall and trim paint (we are partial to oil paint on trim). In a prior life, I did a DIY and it took about a year. We did not hire out anything and I probably spent < $4,000 on a .10' x 10' kitchen. New Maple doors (ordered from Canyon Creek); clear coat poly. Sand and gel poly-stain (cherry) existing cabinet box Replace exterior hinges with interior European style and add new door hardware. Hinges were definitely more than the knobs. Replace drawer fronts with slabs of solid maple with clear coat poly. We purchased premium wood and had great hardware store that would plane down the maple to match cabinet door depth. The planer left burn marks on the maple and I was panicked - sanded out just fine. New sink and faucet (HD special) New range - felt like a splurge at the time, but it was a scratch & dent for 50% off. Granite tile counter, purchased tile from granite importer (chose the cheapest thing I liked) - finished edge with 3/8" x 1.5" trim piece of maple. Large format porcelain tile on floor - again cheapest thing I liked from a importers yard. It might have been stone (travertine), but I just can't remember. Long comment. sorry for that. =)...See MoreKilling a Black Walnut Tree with Roundup? Area contamination?
Comments (39)I'm going to unsubscribe to this thread soon, because it's getting tiresome...but, some adult in the room needs to remind a lot of people here, you simply don't completely understand what you're talking about. The level of glyphosate-o-phobia we've reached is just the latest trendy pseudoscientific hoax, like EMFs from powerlines in the 1980s. This IS NOT to say the stuff is completely innocuous - consider the stupid juror who asked the Monsanto lawyer to drink a glass of it. In a trial for the safety of household bleach and ammonia, would we ask people to drink glass fulls of those chemicals? No, of course not. Drinking a glass of any three of those would be a bad idea! (and btw this is not to say a test couldn't be designed to show it is ACTUALLY carcinogenic in some context...you could design a test to demonstrate that, about all sorts of substances that have not caused a mass triggering of Mencken's "booboisie"!) But insofar as I can stomach reading about these ambulance chasing lawsuits...every person claiming to be terminally affected by roundup (just going to use the trademark name from now on, because it's easier to type) has some other factors far more likely to have contributed to their cancer. One guy had not one, but two long-term hepatitis infections! One of them being Hep C, which is linked to NHL. Or the one who had some kind of gross misuse of the product...was it spraying it on himself to stay cool? I can't remember such banality. I worked in pharma research for a couple years after graduation. Even at a junior level, I realized that studies can and are designed to prove whatever the investigator wants them to prove. This is not some occult, cabalistic mystery...it's a widely known truth. https://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/believe-it-or-not-most-published-research-findings-are-probably-false This paper https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-018-0184-7 states that "IARC concludes there is 'strong evidence' that exposure to glyphosate is genotoxic through at least two mechanisms known to be associated with human carcinogens (DNA damage, oxidative stress). " (my emphasis) but look at this report about bleach in water, from guess who, IARC: "Sodium hypochlorite induced genotoxic effects in bacteria. In single studies, chromosomal aberrations were observed in cultured mammalian cells, whereas sister chromatid exchange but no chromosomal aberration was seen in cultured human cells". So, it too causes 'mechanisms known to be associated with carcinogens'...but, elsewhere in the summary, "did not increase the proportion of rats or mice with tumours." I see nothing in the first summary (of roundup) about conclusive studies of actual carcinogenicity; i.e., how many rats or mice get tumors vs. controls. ________________________ The amount used in home gardens contribute probably like 0.001% of the human "bioburden". So I hope everyone who freaks out about a suggestion to properly use roundup to kill stumps, is eating 100% organic foods. And that means 100%. Don't think because something isn't genetically engineered, it won't have roundup in it. I was surprised myself, to find out that oats...not genetically engineered, yet - are sprayed with roundup at harvest, to force the crop to die and dry faster! If roundup is carcinogenic, it's no more carcinogenic than scads of other things not facing multi-billion dollar lawsuits: red meat, dairy, high sugar diets, high fat diets for some populations, alcohol, certain legal food additives, etc. etc. etc....See MoreChi
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