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No other major network has been successfully sued for knowingly and repeatedly lying about a major news story. That's the difference between FOX and the other major players.
Contributing to those higher prices are the taxes states collect on petrol.
No doubt that gas price pic above is real in California, ave price here is about $3.45/gal right now. As for bias in the news media, yes fox, msnbc, cnn, etc show bias. I don't mind bias as long as it's truthful bias which bases it's bias on the facts. The night time line up on fox bases most of their bias on rumors, accusations, and innuendo more than the facts. One of these nights Laura Ingraham's necklace is going to burst into flames. The most straight news still comes on for 30 minutes in the evening on the 3 major networks, they're not perfect but they just report the news of the day as unbiased as they can.
I bought two a few days ago. They're bumpy, have the Bravocado brand name printed on the sticker and identify as California avocados. I'm going to guess they are the predominent Hass (or Haas) variety that prevails here. This variety is most common in California because the fruit is considered more tasty and creamy than others but it cannot tolerate the heat and humidity that prevails in tropical or subtropical places like Florida. Those avocados tend to be larger too.
In that the growing season has just begun and it hasn't yet been that warm, my guess remains that they are either the trimmings from tree thinning or are just small avocados that are removed just the same before prime harvesting season begins some months from now.
OK - I defer to you. My wife is the normal avocado buyer, I specialize in other things at the market. ;-)
There are many, many avocado varieties - here's just a few, from UC Riverside. You can click the names to see what they look like...
That’s quite a list, Carol! I’m most familiar with, Hass, Fuerte and Bacon.
OP, do you live in or near Katy, Tx?
Seems likely!
I first glanced too quickly at the title of this thread and misread it. I put together the lowercase "r" and the following "n" to make "m". I thought, Hmm, I'm really not very tomato savvy, this one isn't for me.
The only time I've been near a tornado was in the 1960s. I was driving to work when a minor tornado appeared. There had been no warnings. I drove my little Healey into a low spot beside the two lane road -- not quite a ditch but lower than the road -- and waited as it whipped past. Weather was dry everywhere else. It was very minor, quickly gone, no serious damage.
LOL @ Elmer
When my son was about three, a friend of mine was in a new job at the local radio station. It was his first day "live" on air, and the tornado sirens went off while driving home from work with my son in the truck.
My friend lost his cool a bit, and exclaimed something like this ... a tornado is on the ground! Take shelter immediately!
My son instantly became just as excited, loudly proclaiming ... Mama! A tomato is coming! A tomato is coming! Go home, Mama!
A woman with a lot of spunk and presence. It was sad to see the decline in her health in recent times. apparent with her comments and irregular participation. I hope her last days were comfortable and spent with her family, she deserved nothing less.
I am so sorry to hear this. I was just thinking about her.
I haven't seen her post in a while. She will be very missed. I will get her a empty chair. Sending condolences to her family.
She was such a help to people and shared great recipes and cooking advice.
Hand made food is about the only thing I appreciate. I don't necessarily share my friends' taste and I don't need any more stuff. But I'll always enjoy food. That's also the only handmade gift I give, apart from woolies for the grandchild.
Yes.
It was a civil discussion and was so intended. For some, truth hurts and is best suppressed, ignored, or both. .
Woops! Missed this. Fooey.
Somebody please tell chisue ... "where to go" ... (with a smile, please).
At the grocer, early covid, a masked person used to direct us to which was preferable checkout, and sometimes I said "It's nice to sometimes have someone tell you 'where to go' - with a smile!"
On one such occasion another person in the waiting line asked "what do you mean - "With a smile - you can't see her face for the mask?!"
I said "You can see her eyes".
You too, bro.
I was reading some of the negative reviews (lots of positive ones) and some people say they don't dissolve fully and leave white lint on dark clothes. They also have a scent which is a no-go for me. They don't have a Q&A on their website either. I would ask if anything is sourced in China.
They're not meant to dissolve. It's also a dryer sheet?
Good question, but who would you ask? Who would know if it's sourced in China in any way?
I don't do wildlife. Larger ones are not completely absent from where I live but most try to avoid human contact. The smaller ones, large rats (for which we have lots of trap boxes and a service to maintain them) and skunks, about the same. Not often seen, not often encountered.
Thars bears in them there woods!!!
Lovely scene, arcy!
Deer, coyotes, and others can travel from Southern Illinois up through Wisconsin and Michigan -- probably to Canada -- right through Chicago and small towns, thanks to forest preserves.
We have very few in our north suburb now though, thanks to contraceptives meant to thin deer herds. Still, 'the wild' will probably outlast humans. Last week I saw a hawk lunching on a rabbit in our back yard. Small animals are about to have a feast here for about six weeks as the 17-year cicadas emerge. Will we have enough coyotes to deal with the result?
" lesser known cultivars are way too delicate for commercial production "
I thought I addressed this directly in my comments. That the two best known varieties used for mass production were chosen for their ability to be picked green, survive ocean transport, and then be artificially ripened.
Yeah, wool is doing fine. It dipped a bit in the early 2000's, but it's been stable with increases for over a decade. The bigger difference is how the wool is being used. After a drop in the 90's apparel wool has kept declining. Less demand, so less is being made. Interior wools have increased a lot and far overtaken apparel wool.
I love chocolate, the dark kind, always buy a bar when grocery shopping.
There are multiple sellers offering the Julie Andrews version on Ebay for around $5. For someone who's so excited about it being on a streaming service that costs more than that per month, who doesn't want to stop by a library where it's always available and free, $5 is a cheap and easy solution. And not a waste of money, it's hardly enough to think about. Less than one or two stops at Starbucks.
The OP has changed the discussion in the thread from being a big deal to dissing suggestions for easy alternatives.. It's not worth a small amount of time to stop to pick it up for free or a very small amount of money to buy it. All the bases are covered.
" I didn't see anyone asking for suggestions, tho...? "
The suggestions arose to explain that it never went away nor was it ever unavailable.
Most laptops have optical drives and these can be easily connected to a TV. Or, a useful DVD player can be purchased for $25 and open up the whole world of content from the library.
"I think that streaming is the best thing to happen to home entertainment since color TV."
You can't beat the convenience, that's for sure. There's almost too much available, it can be hard to look. I rely on newspaper articles offering suggestions like "the best movies on Netflix this month" or similar to make it easier.
Also as with my library suggestion above, we find it easy and quick to flip jewel boxes on the DVD shelves at the library to come upon movies and programs of interest. We're often there anyway, it doesn't take much time.
That's available free on the streaming platforms Tubi, FreeVee, Plex, and Peacock Kids, Donna - I love it too 🙂
Back in my artistic roller skating days I was cast as a roller skating nun and villager in the production of SOM we did for a Gold Skate Classic. Hundreds of hand sewn spangles is what I still remember. Our habit reversed to villager and back again. We had to switch them in the dark and had less than two minutes to do so. Getting those wimples and veils on was an experience. Thank goodness for the costume makers making them in one piece. Fun times. Coach was going through a Disney phase. We did Cinderella the following year I believe.
In common with a few other commenters, I started on Garden Web at the very beginning of the aughts, looking for ideas for a significant house remodel we were planning and ultimately did. I'm not sure exactly when my attention shifted from the more specifically themed forums and came to this one of general discussions. Sometime in the mid-aughts I think. Several different user names along the way as a few attracted childish catcalls. It's still the same me.
If you click on the Internet Archive link I posted above, you can click through the links and browse old pages from various dates and see all those long ago names...
Here's Sep. 2004...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040921235304/http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/kitchentable/
Seeing the old format is a blast from the past too 😀
P.S. Some of the posts are archived too, but not all, so when you click on some of them you can read them.
Not sure when I first joined Gardenweb - I miss it. I much preferred it to what is now the discussion forum of HOUZZ. So much arrogance and snark here now. Nothing like it used to be.
If you have more than one grandchild and want to give money fairly, decide how much your "grandparents' gift" amount will be for each on such occasions and then each gets that at the appropriate time. Irrespective of need.
One grandchild whose life is one with greater means than others is not a greater or lesser grandchild than one with different finances.
I think the donate to charity thing is great if that’s what the couple requests. But if it’s not, it’s not much of a gift at all. I’d give them money and if THEY decide to forward it to a charity, great, let them do that and let them take the deduction. But it’s not like rich people don’t need, want, and buy things. Being 1-percenters does not necessarily mean they have unlimited funds to spend however they want without thinking. Maybe they’ll decide to buy something for their home with the money, something they’ll remember they bought with grandma’s gift. Something that they wouldn’t otherwise splurge on. Whatever they choose to do, that’s the gift they received.
Wedding presents have rather gone out of fashion amongst couples I know of. Both our children asked for donations to be sent to charities. I'm not convinced youngsters today would appreciate some of the traditional suggestions such as silverware, engraved items or heirlooms. They might just be put in an embarrassing position by feeling obliged to look excited by something not to their taste. Has the couple set up a registry? I loath the concept but at least they get what they want.
I suspect as Fun2B suggests, the fun is for the preparer and not much for the eaters.
Like the person who periodically posts artistic displays of food. They are talented and clever but if I were waiting to eat, I'd offer the compliment such creativity deserves but hope that it not cool off too much before being served.
Oh, I can imagine some little boys I knew having fun plucking the ”hair” off the fairy so she was bald! (or her dress!) But you do have a point, Elmer. It’s why we switched from theme birthday cakes to brownies, then pie. The kids didn’t care or even notice what the cake looked like, and ate either the icing, or the cake, but rarely both. Brownies were,a universal favorite and extra pieces could be easily sent home with kids or boxed up. In later years, pies were a birthday activity, with each kid selecting the filing for their slice, and making a way to identify that slice on the crust. (Making pizza was a similar activity.)
I think it’s like sushi, really pretty but then you just pop it in your mouth.
I see the rice now, eld, but is the yellow an omelette? It’s really cute.
Yes, both, the yellow is eggs.
We did theme parties, but never themed cakes.
No commotion intended, alisande. I was responding to what seemed an overreaction to an article of questionable creds. The uninformed vilification of modern medical practices and broad baseless assertions seemed typical to me of a lot of the drivel too easily found on the internet.
It's not the tip of an iceberg. There's no iceberg. We all need to find authoritative sources and experts to rely on and to know when something falls short of that standard. .
Deviating from the current topic - I agree with you, Alisande about the tragic case of Ignaz Semmelweis who, as you pointed out, urged medical staff to wash their hands between examining different patients to avoid the spread of disease. Women of the time were aware of the high rate of mortality in hospitals and would prefer to give birth elsewhere if at all possible. Semmelweis was ridiculed, as you point out and certainly not recognized for his observations. I had read a biography of this medical visionary with his "unconventional" theory. Back to regular programming ...