What is your opinion on 'Farewell Sparklers'?
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Roses that make stupid songs run through your head
Comments (26)Among the more inane things I do upon seeing certain roses, is to utter particular words or phrases -- some of which happen to be song lyrics. There are three of the roses linked below planted next to my compost bin. Every single time I visit that distant part of the garden and see her ever-present and always cheerful blooms, I spontaneously greet her by saying, "Well, coo coo ca-choo to you!" A somewhat wacky lyric fragment from a really terrific song . . . The gardener's compulsive utterances, however, probably qualify as being stupid. Here is a link that might be useful: Apologies to Simon & Garfunkel...See MoreYour Best Tomato Keeper
Comments (13)Well! I hadn't realized that I would be defending my lack of ethics from all sides on this subject. First, I want to insist that notions on tomato moral values and truths are not absolute but are relative to the person holding them. Now that said, here was my recipe - made up yesterday, on the spot. As you can tell by its slap-dash nature, it falls far short of any kind of self-justification: 1 slice of bacon 4 Tablespoons yellow onion, chopped 2 beefsteak tomatoes, chopped 1/2 Yukon Gold potato, cooked 1/2 cup Progresso chicken broth 1/4 cup half and half black pepper Cook bacon until crisp. Pour off most of the bacon fat and saute onion until tender. Microwave tomatoes for 4 minutes at 50% power. Place in blender with potato, onion, and bacon. Add enough broth to blend ingredients. Pour contents into bowl and add remaining broth, half and half, and pepper. Microwave until thoroughly heated. Serve. Now remember, these are beefsteak tomatoes not beef steaks! I probably should have included a slice of celery root and probably beef bacon would have been preferable to pork but I have trouble finding that these days. We eat so many eggs that it is probably not wise for us to buy beef in bulk but we do. We also have it dry aged and it is remarkably tender and flavorful. I just wish that they would make some of it into bacon for us. For some reason, my cholesterol numbers are darn good. It might be because eating too much beef was such a vice for me, in earlier years. I have moderated that more than just a little. Otherwise, I might be like Mark Twain's moral pauper. She was the woman who was ill and Twain said that she would be on her feet again if she would give up swearing, drinking and smoking. Unfortunately, she didn’t swear, smoke or drink so she didn’t have anything to give up. Twain referred to her as a moral pauper having neglected her vices with none to give up. . . . I may have to give up microwaving tomatoes sometime in the future. Steve...See MoreHis/her point of view
Comments (7)This is what happens when people try to have things both ways instead of making a choice. I agree that he should've chosen the wedding, but that isn't the point. It was trying to do both that made the trouble. Some people haven't yet responded to my daughter's wedding invitation, and in a couple of cases I suspect it is because there are FOUR weddings in our community that evening and they are among the people that are invited to more than one. One couple, very good friends who are even closer with one of the other families, told us they aren't coming to our wedding but will come to one of the other weekend events. Another got lucky and didn't have to choose, because they have a family event out of town that day. Others chose our wedding. Our rabbi will have to leave after our ceremony to go perform one of the others -- they moved the time for him, so he has to! -- and then return for dinner. It will mean missing the appetizers, so his wife is still deciding what to do. :) But I know to order dinner for them. But there is one couple that I have a hunch is going to try to do something complicated -- they often do. Honestly, although we would love to have them (I mean, we invited them), I wish they would just choose one and have done. I know it is awkward to have to choose (don't blame us -- we had the date first of all of them :) !), when it gets super complex, it starts to feel less like they are doing it because both weddings mean so much to them and more like they feel all their friends will be devastated if they don't choose them. I can live with a "no." I vastly prefer what my friend above did -- say no, and ask if there is some other point in the weekend at which they could celebrate with us. What I really don't want is to get a "yes" from people, put them at a table, order food and liquor for them, and then find out that they aren't going to stay for dinner. That usually happens with someone who is sick or something at the last minute anyway, but please don't set me up for it just so you can play musical parties without deciding your schedule in advance....See MoreWhat if your parents had chosen your mate?
Comments (37)>but it does seem that the inlaw drama is virtually nonexistent, again, maybe b/c decision to commit is a group rather than a couple effort.>> For Asians there is a cultural difference in viewing marriage. A woman LEAVES her family and marries INTO her husband's. There is "in law" tension but it is not something you are ever going to see unless you know one of the principals very, very, very well. Asians do not display 'dirty laundry' in public; it is a serious "loss of face" for a family's reputation. One of the biggest tension points between me and my in-laws was that I am thoroughly American in attitudes and upbringing, and they were very traditionalist Asian; e.g., the social equivalent of my grandparents who emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1880's. It wasn't easy for them to accept a DIL who was a different religion and non-Chinese. I give them full kudos for doing it graciously. But as I said to a friend once, "It wouldn't break their hearts if I died in a car crash and DH married his father's goddaughter, the way they secretly wanted him to."...See Morepenny_sav
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