Subj : Packrats was: Al K. Haul [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Jan 06 2024 10:05:02
Hi Dave,
DD> I'm going to do it the evening before trash day so it doesn't have
DD> time to take over the wheelie bin. Or attract raccooons, tree rats and
DD> opossums.
RH> Sounds good; our trash day is Friday but because of the holiday, pushed
RH> to Saturday again this week. I've done the "clean out the fridge" thing
RH> the night before also.
DD> Ours did the same - except our usual day is Wednesday. I use Waste
DD> Management (because they're union) who e-mails me a "heads up" before
DD> every holidays which changes their usual schedule.
I'm pretty sure we use those folks too. Town of WF contracts with them
and their fee is included in our water/sewer bill. The WF town web site
and local newspaper publish their holiday schedule but we can usually
figure on a week with a federal holiday, trash pick up will be a day
later. Green waste is usually picked up sometime during the week, after
the Monday holiday.
DD> 8<----- EDIT -----.8
DD> Most farms these days are strictly "ca$h grain" and the farmers shop
DD> at stupormarkups. Our family farm rotated crops between corn, soybeans,
DD> wheat, oats, alfalfa, rye and sorghum (a relative of corn). And we had
DD> a small orchard with apples, peaches, apricots and paw-paw trees. The
RH> My dad planted a couple of gardens for family eating. Mom canned a lot,
RH> then got a freezer in 1973. Dad usually put in rhubarb, sweet corn,
RH> lettuce, beets, carrots, yellow wax beans and tomatoes when I was
RH> growing up, later added brussels sprouts and a couple of other veggies.
RH> He had a small (6?) vines for grapes, on the property also had a couple
RH> of apple trees and a pear tree. Neighbor's property had blackberry
RH> bushes we had free picking on, strawberries were wild (but not
RH> abundant) on both properties.
DD> When I was still a pre-teen I used that garden for summer income. I
DD> had an iron wheeled pushcart which I loaded with freshly picked
DD> produce. I had tomatoes, both green and wax beans, radishes, carrots,
DD> cucumbers, sweet corn, popcorn, cabbages muskmelon and asparagus ....
DD> all "in
DD> season". At that time (early 1950s) most wives were "house" wives. And
DD> they knew when they heard the iron wheels on the sidewalk that I had
DD> just picked vegetables on offer at good prices.
Dad also planted cucumbers, only way Mom used them was in a mild pickle
(about half and half water and vinegar with a bit of sugar and celery
seed). Between his fussy eating an her non creative cooking, we were fed
but it wasn't until I went to college, then got married, that I found
out about a wider range of foods. Joining the echo here expanded my
cooking/eating horizons even more.
DD> Railroad dining car galleys are, of necessity, very tight quarters.
DD> And they put out some amazing dishes. Airlines, OTOH, use pre-made,
DD> nuked
DD> to serving temperature dishes for their in-flight offerings. If you've
DD> eaten airline food you'll know it's all lowest common denominator
DD> stuff.
RH> I've had airline food, think the last regular meal we had was coming
RH> back from Berlin in 1992.
DD> My first railroad meal was on the Rock Island Twin Cities Rocket
DD> and I was 14 years old. Roast Duckling w/Orange Sauce. I managed
DD> to get more of it in me than on me. Bv)=
RH> That's commendable. (G)
DD> Here's another bread recipe. I'll be making this again tonight for
DD> a potluck at my work tomorrow ...... well, one loaf. The other is
DD> going to get turned into Reuben sandwiches at home.
OK, my "standard" rye bread is the Pillsbury one, thanks to you digging
up the recipe for me. I know I had it for years, but probably in one of
our military moves it got thrown out or shredded with other papers.
Next day--correction, we use Republic for trash pick up. Used to use
Waste Management, have in other places but saw the Republic truck today,
across the street.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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