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Skriven 2014-04-16 14:01:51 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: Rolling Farmer's Market
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 04-15-14 16:54 <=-

 DD>> This year I am raising two type of chile - some Hontaka (japone)
 DD>> chilies from Dr. Bosland at the Chile Pepper Institute at the U of NM.
 DD>> And some (promised to be) extra zippy serranos to see if I can match
 DD>> what Michael got from his supplier in Louisiana - the seed was sent to
 DD>> me by Knox Bill of Midwest Chileheads after I mentioned I was looking
 DD>> for a source on the Chile-heads list.
 NB>> They probably won't be ready even for an early first-fruits harvest
 NB>> before the picnic this year... otherwise you could bring some along.
 NB>> :) They do indeed sound interesting, and promising...  :)

 DD> My inherent laziness saved them from a fate leading to death, though.
 DD> I was going to transplant them to their outdoor containers Sunday
 DD> afternoon. But, I took a nap instead. 

Good timing...  ;)

 DD> Last night the temps took a dive to 25øF with freezing rain.

Nasty weather...  we've just had a couple days of it, too... no freezing
rain, though, but some sleet during the day... woke up this morning to
temps in the 20s... 

 DD> They remained cozy and warm inside until
 DD> this weekend - which ought to be safe enough.
 
Hopefully this will be the last of the really cold spells...  Around
here, though, the folk wisdom is to not transplant anything tender until
after Decoration Day... although it often gets ignored when the weather
does seem to make the positive turn to warm earlier than that... :)

 DD>> Carlinville, IL was then, and is now, small town America and if someone
 DD>> on the west side passes gas the folks on the east side soon know what
 DD>> he had for dinner. So I had a good rephewtation and the ladies who
 DD>> bought from me knew that I had raised and picked the produce personally
 DD>> and that it was fresh-from-the-garden. Also that my prices were
 DD>> reasonable.
 NB>> And that you were a home-town kid that was worthy of support... ;)

 DD> Well, more or less. My grandparents were natives and I was fairly
 DD> well known. 

Close enough...  :)

 NB>> When we were kids, we'd make potholders on those loop looms, and then
 NB>> sell them door-to-door in our neighborhood or just a little ways out,
 NB>> still walking distance from home...  :)  Made single thick or double
 NB>> thick... and would custom make for a particular color scheme, for our
 NB>> regulars, anyway...  :)

 DD> Did that the the summertime playground crafts classes. I often felt
 DD> that the potholders were only accepted by their recipients because they
 DD> were made by related chirrun. I saw more of them used as substitutes
 DD> for a trivet than as an actual pot holder. 
 
I suppose in some circles that probably was the case.  I still have a
couple up to the Pond, that I use interchangebly as either trivet or pot
holder, as needed... still in good shape...  :)

 NB>>> Oh, ok... ;)  We may well have had both at various times... and
 NB>>> since they looked and tasted about the same, easy to conflate them
 NB>>> anyway.. :)
 DD>> Well, yeah. Sort of the old form-follows-function meme. As I remember
 DD>> (over 60 years ago) both were heavy on celery, thick sauce and skimpy
 DD>> on meat of any sort - even mystery meat.
 NB>> Wasn't it usually chicken...?   Daddy would make our usual white rice
 NB>> to serve it over...  It's probably more like only 50 years ago for
 NB>> me... I was still home then... ;) 

 DD> IIRC there were two varieties - chicken and beef. The chicken always
 DD> was preferred by me and my siblings as the beef tasted weird and had a
 DD> funny texture. 

Maybe Daddy only bought the chicken sort...  Don't remember for sure any
more...  :)

 DD> Much like the beef in a Banquet beef pot pie - which I
 DD> wouldn't eat except at gun point.

Daddy would get potpies on sale once in a while... but I think they
were generally the store brand (probably Ann Page)... I don't remember
him getting Banquet...  but again, probably usually chicken, maybe
turkey....  :)

ttyl          neb

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