Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

I note that Coke is going back to cane sugar for its sweetner and
drop kicking the HFCS to the curb. Now I won't have to se3arch out
Mexican Coco Cola if I need the fully leaded stuff as an ingredient.

Or stock up on Mexican Coke or KFP Coke. (G)

That's the sweet part (pun intended) I won't have to play Joe Friday
and track down the Mexican or Jewish stuff.

Easier to find in some places or times of year than others. When we
were in AZ, we weren't too far from the border. I went over once, with some friends (had been over the border in TX in the 80s) for some
shopping (not for Coke). Downside of living that close was the problem with illeagals; had some friends in law enforcement that had been shot
at.

That's why the nabs carry guns - so they can shoot back.

I did discover a Dr. Pepper product Iquite like,mthough. Sugar free
Pwppwe mixed with Cream Soda. Apparently other like it as well

****** ?????

Fat fingers. should have been Pepper

becaouse it's hard to find it not store shelves. Bv)=

May be more available in some stores/areas than others.

I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based partly
on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product that sold
out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the bank. I was
working in a gas station/c-store when Pepsi One was introduced. We sold
out to bare shelves within two days after a delivery. And we could NOT get
the bozo driver to leave more.

8<----- SNYP ----->8

I do tomato juice and the cranberry juice - which my nephrologist
(kidney doc) recommended as being good in several ways for my kidney

So far my kidneys seem to be doing well without cranberry juice. Had a scare a few years ago with some blood work that indicated maybe
otherwise so my primary care dr. referred me to a nephrologist. He said all was well, just come back once a year to keep an eye on things. Last

Saw Dr. Nutt (nephrologist) yeaterday and was informed my kidneys are doing well, told to keep on with the Lasix and "see me in six mon
ths". I like that he's assuming I'll be available in six months. Bv)=

You're planning to stick around, I presume. (G)

Well, yeah. I'm reaqdy if it happens. Dennis gets the house as long as he wants until he go into "other" (assisted living/sheltered care/etc) quarters
at which time it goes to Habitat For Humanity to do with as they will. It's only fair. Other than my bed all the furniture, lamps, etc came from there.

Any money left in my accounts goes (split equally) between St. Jude's
in Memphis and the Shriner's Cripplped Childrens' Hospitals.

Staying hydrated on a long trip is easy for guys. Any bush, tree or
the vehicle itself provides enough of a "fig leaf" for easing of the pressur. Women don't have the same advantageous plumbing.

No, but having the camper has been handy for both of us. Just have to

Not everyone brings their own Extended Stay America suite with then.
Bv)=

No, and there have been times, even with it, that have been close
calls. Worst time without the camper (but just made it safely) was one time coming down from a trip up north. Heard on traffic radio of an accident southbound on I-95, south of DC and just south of where we
would pick it up that morning on our traffic radio station, figured it

And people wonder why I wear black slacks/workm pants. Bv)= No spreading
stain to give me away.

What do you use as a "traffic" radio? Is it part of your GPS or a Sirius/XM channel? Or the good ol' CB radio (if such exists any

Sirius/XM; had it in the first Escape we bought and have continued with it. Steve likes to listen to talk radio (usually Patriot channel 125)
when driving, will switch to Bluegrass Junction, No Shoes Radio or Willie's Roadhouse also. Listening to Andrew Wilkow on Patriot Radio intoduced us to Aaron Lewis; at the ham raido get together a couple of weeks ago, grand prize in the raffle was an autographed special made
for him guitar. No, I didn't win it.

If I'm not listening to Real Jazz or 40s Junction I can be found getting
on on what "the Shadow Knows" on old time radio channel. They did Orson
Welles' 1939 "War Of The Worlds" on 31 October.

Tried a new to us place after church today, Taza Grill. They
advertise RH> themselves as "The Best Mediterranian Food in the
Area!".
We

both had RH> the lamb platter, came with lots of lamb (their words,

but true), very RH> tender and Greek Salad, Cucumber Sauce, Hummus and
Warm Pita Bread RH> (Caps all theirs). It was pretty good, large
servings so I took home RH> maybe about half of my lamb, pita and some
hummus. We'll probably stick RH> with our usual local Mediterranian
place but this one was a good one to RH> try.

Mediterranean gives a wiiiiiiiiide range of cuisines - both European
and Africn from whiuch to choose. Besides my favourites (Greek and Italian) there is Spanish, French, Turkish, Israeli, Egyptian,
Morrocaan, etc. from which to choose.

We've liked most all that we've tried; it's the Middle Eastern/Greece
area I refer to as Mediterranian. Spanish, Italian, French, etc I
classify as European.

I wish we has a decent Greek restaurant here. I get some Greek dishes
from

My favourite Greek soup:

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Hank's Avgolemono Soup
Categories: Soups, Poultry, Citrus, Rice, Eggs
Yield: 7 Servings

2 tb Olive oil
1 c Chopped yellow onion
5 c Chicken stock
+=PLUS=+
1 c Water
1/2 c Orzo or rice
1 lb Chicken; 1/4" cubes
Salt
3 tb Lemon juice
3 lg Eggs
Fresh parsley to garnish

Heat the olive oil in a medium pot and saute the onions
over medium-high heat 'til they are soft & translucent,
4-5 minutes. While the onions are cooking, bring another
pot of salted water to a boil and add the orzo or rice.

When the onions are ready, add the chicken stock and
water and bring to a bare simmer. When the orzo or rice
is nearly done - firm, but mostly cooked - drain the
boiling water and add the pasta or rice to the chicken
broth. Add the diced chicken to the pot. Let this cook
5-8 minutes, then taste the soup for salt.

Beat the eggs in a bowl. Whisking constantly, add the
lemon juice to the eggs. You will need to temper the
eggs before you add the egg-lemon mixture to the soup.
It takes both hands to do this. With one hand, whisk the
egg-lemon mixture vigorously. With the other, slowly
pour in a ladle's worth of hot broth. Do this at least
twice, and you can add as many ladle's worth of broth
as you want to the mixture.

Turn the heat off the soup. Whisk the soup with one
hand while you pour the hot egg-lemon mixture in with
the other. Serve at once, garnished with parsley.

Yield: Serves 6-8.

Recipe by: Hank Shaw

From: http://simplyrecipes.com

Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen

MMMMM

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Hi Dave,

You disappeared off the board for a few days, got me wondering if all
was OK. Good to see you back.

I've just graduaated from "The dog ate my homewoek" to "The dogs atee
my internet". Bv)=

I've had those times, glad I have a resident computer guru/geek on premisis. (G)

The yappies are why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable
they ate was in their yard, not mine. The fur kids we are boarding are much
too well behaved to ever do something like nthat. Bv)=

Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not
be a repeat experience.

8<----- +++++----->8

If you don't sk questions you don't get asnswers. I put Dr. Pepper at (about) #8 on my soft drinks list. And cream soda even lower. But the combination .... WOW! Right up there with Coke Zero.

I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try
the combination tho.

My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink
withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth.

I'll ask what it is before drinking.

I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based
partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product
that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the
bank. I was

They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in
the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines
who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection.

The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same
size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about
1/3 of a US cent. Las Vegas slot machines were flooded with them until
the US mob had a meeting with the Mexican mob - who then got the
Mexican gummint to "re-design" their nickel so it wouldn't fool US
coin mechanisms.

In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage.

As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is a
good five-cent nicklel.

Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away.

8<----- SNYP ----->8

I was in the Navy, stationed at NAS Memphis when Danny Thomas broke
ground for St. Jude's. He done good.

We've driven by it various times either heading out west or coming back from a western trip. Also seen enough fund raising appeals on
syndicated tv channels.

Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating.

Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night, about
8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no slow
downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid afternoon)
rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was even ssmoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour outside the city,
gave the traffic time to clear.

If I'm not listening to Real Jazz or 40s Junction I can be found
getting on on what "the Shadow Knows" on old time radio channel. They
did Orson Welles' 1939 "War Of The Worlds" on 31 October.

We've listened to old time radio sometimes but it's harder to follow

No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as
I wss.

We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to
radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I
don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books.
I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights.

---
Catch you later,
Ruth
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Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

The yappies are why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable
they ate was in their yard, not mine. The fur kids we are boarding are much too well behaved to ever do something like nthat. Bv)=

Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not
be a repeat experience.

Dunno, They're little scutters. Pomeranian/Pekinese size Whereas the smallest here is a blue-tick beagle. . Hopefully AT&T buried the cable deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep down.

8<----- +++++----->8

If you don't sk questions you don't get asnswers. I put Dr. Pepper at (about) #8 on my soft drinks list. And cream soda even lower. But the combination .... WOW! Right up there with Coke Zero.

I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try
the combination tho.

My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink
withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth.

I'll ask what it is before drinking.

This was a relatively stick-in-the-mud typre event with no reasone to
exoect something n the "gotcha" category. But it sure go my attention.

I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based
partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product
that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the
bank. I was

They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in
the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines
who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection.

The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same
size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about
1/3 of a US cent. Las Vegas slot machines were flooded with them until
the US mob had a meeting with the Mexican mob - who then got the
Mexican gummint to "re-design" their nickel so it wouldn't fool US
coin mechanisms.

In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage.

All Ihave left of "odd" coinage is (if I remember where I put them) some Loonies and Teonies (Canadian dollar/two dollar coins.

As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is a
good five-cent nicklel.

Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away.

One of the lacals here quit doing pennies a could years ago. Roundibng each transaction to the neareast nickel. And not doing paper dollarsa.

8<----- SNYP ----->8

Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating.

Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night,
about 8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no slow downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid
afternoon) rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was
even ssmoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour outside the city, gave the traffic time to clear.

When I was trailer trucking the big rigs were not allowed "downtown" unless there was a bill of lading for a local address.

If I'm not listening to Real Jazz or 40s Junction I can be found
getting on on what "the Shadow Knows" on old time radio channel. They
did Orson Welles' 1939 "War Of The Worlds" on 31 October.

We've listened to old time radio sometimes but it's harder to follow

No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as
I wss.

We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to
radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books. I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights.

We got our 1st TV when I was 10 - do 1952. It got two stations since the
UHF band was but a glimmer in Lee DeForrest's eyes.

I remember when my dad came home with a 17" table-top TV and it was the
"cutting edge" of technology. Heck, my confuser's monitor on this unit
is 27" And Dennis is usig the 45" boob tube in the front room as a monitor.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Farm Monitor's Pressed Italian Picnic Sandwich
Categories: Breads, Pork, Beef, Cheese, Vegetables
Yield: 4 servings

1/4 c Olive oil
3 tb Balsamic vinegar
1 ts Dijon mustard
1/4 ts Black pepper; to taste
1/4 c Prepared pesto
1 Loaf Ciabatta bread
1/4 lb Sliced provolone cheese
1/2 lb Salami
1/2 lb Sliced ham
1/4 lb Sliced pepperoni
1 lb Fresh mozzarella; sliced
1/2 c Roasted red peppers; sliced

Combine olive oil, vinegar, pesto and pepper.

Cut bread in half, spread oil mixture evenly on both
cut sides.

Layer provolone and remaining ingredients in order
listed.

Tightly wrap sandwich in plastic wrap, place a heavy
object such a heavy frying pan in top of the sandwich,
refrigerate overnight.

Slice sandwich into serving sizes and wrap in deli paper
to serve.

RECIPE FROM: https://www.farm-monitor.com

Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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Hi Dave,

The yappies are why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable

Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not
be a repeat experience.

Dunno, They're little scutters. Pomeranian/Pekinese size Whereas the smallest here is a blue-tick beagle. . Hopefully AT&T buried the cable deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep down.

Let's hope so. (G) We had a Bichon Frise for a while, about the same
size as the Pom/Peke's but much better behaved. She did chew one of the
rockers on my rocking chair when she was small but it was only slightly damaged--enough to remember her by.

8<----- +++++----->8

I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try
the combination tho.

My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink
withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth.

I'll ask what it is before drinking.

This was a relatively stick-in-the-mud typre event with no reasone to exoect something n the "gotcha" category. But it sure go my attention.

I still try to peruse the available drinks or ask if offered one, what
it is. Did find out that Olive Garden has raspberry diet Coke when we
went there for lunch on Tuesday. I'm wondering if this means it will be
back as a choice in the "pick your own flavor" machines.

I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based
partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product
that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the
bank. I was

They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in
the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines
who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection.

The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same
size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about

In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage.

All Ihave left of "odd" coinage is (if I remember where I put them)
some Loonies and Teonies (Canadian dollar/two dollar coins.

I don't have any of them but do have an assortment of European countries coinage as we were stationed in Germany pre EU. I've got a few Canadian pennies, Mexican pesoes, various Asian coinage, also some Polish paper
money.

As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is

a DD> good five-cent nicklel.

Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away.

One of the lacals here quit doing pennies a could years ago. Roundibng each transaction to the neareast nickel. And not doing paper dollarsa.

When we were stationed in Germany, both the (American) post office and
bank on post dealt with pennies, all other facilities rounded to the
nearest nickel. IIRC, I rolled maybe a dollar or so in pennies over the
almost 6 years we were over there.

8<----- SNYP ----->8

Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating.

Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night,
about 8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no slow downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid
afternoon) rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was
even smoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour outside the city, gave the traffic time to clear.

When I was trailer trucking the big rigs were not allowed "downtown" unless there was a bill of lading for a local address.

We were either going thru with just our vehicle (car or truck) or
vehicle plus camper; the January trip was with the camper. We'd been out
west to visit our girls for Christmas, came home the southern route so
we could visit some friends in Alabama along the way. Also avoided any
storms going thru the central or northern part of the country. (G)

No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as
I wss.

We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to
radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books. I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights.

We got our 1st TV when I was 10 - do 1952. It got two stations since
the UHF band was but a glimmer in Lee DeForrest's eyes.

We got our first one in the early 60s, maybe a year or so (don't
remember exactly) before the JFK assassination. Only got one station for
the first few years, then only 2 until I was in college & the local
cable guy talked my parents into hooking into a system that gave them a
lot of NYC channels. Later on, he tied one in a local (60 miles away)
station so folks could have local news/weather.

I remember when my dad came home with a 17" table-top TV and it was
the "cutting edge" of technology. Heck, my confuser's monitor on

this DD> unit is 27" And Dennis is usig the 45" boob tube in the front
room as DD> a monitor.

Steve used our only tv as a monitor for his C-64 for the first year or
so. I'd ask him to be done so I could catch news/weather at 10; he'd say
"OK" but Johnny Carson would be almost over before he'd quit. After a 3
month TDY, he used some of the pay saved from that to get a proper
monitor.

---
Catch you later,
Ruth
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