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Is it just me....or are most of the old threads GONE???
Comments (26)No Blue, I actually think that's one of the threads that we need to keep available...besides, it was probably on one of the 4 pages still available so it didn't knock a thread off. It's just new threads or bumping one from phantom pages 5 to 67 that will knock a thread off. It's good to hear that Daki was able to search and retrieve threads that aren't showing up on the current 4 pages...that gives me hope that "all will be right with the world" as soon as iVillage fixes whatever problem they're having. Has anyone heard from them about it yet? No response to my email. There's also no outage/problem message under "What's New on GardenWeb". I've seen messages there before when they had problems...so either they haven't noticed the problem or read our emails or they haven't had time to post a status message for us....See MoreMansfield Park - Some comments -- Possible spoilers
Comments (15)I have another book memory from that journey, but it concerns my husband and not me. We were doing voluntary work with an organisation called SCI and when we got to Colombo we first stayed in the home of the chairman of the Lankan branch, a politician. She let us sleep in the library, on our sleeping bags. Two other volunteers were sleeping on the other side of the bookshelf, a Belgian girl and a Japanese man, but they had beds. Just above our heads were the family's sociology books (husband and wife were educated at LSE) and my husband started on Max Weber's The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. I don't think he had time to finish it because we had to go on to our destination in a village where we were to help the Japanese dry paddy specialist with his project which first meant slash-and-burn cultivation of onions. We burnt the jungle and Kuni planted onions in the ashes. Later he would plant rice, dry paddy without as much water as conventional rice cultivation. The book made a lasting impression on my husband and when we returned to Sweden after our five months in India and Sri Lanka (called Ceylon then) he began to study sociology. Last year he retired as professor of sociology. He used to tell this story for many years to new students in his introductory lecture on the foundations of sociology at the beginning of each term, until he tired of it....See MoreFreezer, part 2: my replies to your comments. (Can't post on thread)
Comments (14)I have an upright freezer in my kitchen. It has an opening in the oak cabinetry that my DH built when he did the rest of the kitchen cabinetry and looks like the refrig opening (match-matchy). Having it there makes so much more sense than one out in the pole barn (sorry annie1992). I also have a chest freezer in the bakery kitchen. To organize them, I put like things together on the shelves, some in baskets, some not. They are labeled on the outside (plain paper under a magnet) as to what is on each shelf of the upright, and what is in the left, middle, and right of the chest. They do get a lot of scritch-scratch on the papers, but I can finally keep track of all the "just stuff it in there" that may be labeled (like cloudy_christine) from too many years ago. The labels are: poultry, meat, seafood, fruit, veggies (including onions, sweet peppers, mashed potatoes), dairy (cheese/butter/eggs), finished stuff to reheat, and the additives (fat back, dried herbs, ginger, zest, bread &/or crumbs, vodka). All of the labels include dates - it only takes a minute - truthfully! The shelf for stuff to reheat is the wisest thing I've done since there's just the two of us and I cook for an army mostly, old habit having multiple children and/or relatives in the house. Pulling out a pile of waffles, bean soup, cooked rice, or ravioli is a god-send when it comes to lunch or dinner time. No stress. Do invest in a new gasket for whatever you buy new. The freezer will last a long time but the gaskets age and, like you discovered sleeven-dog, the manufactures stop offering them when you need them, years later. Extended warranty on most appliances are totally worthless. The unit is covered, usually by a 1-yr warranty, so what you are buying is just more money out the front door because it is not going to fail the first year. IMO Do buy a Food Saver or other air-sucker to preserve your frozen stuff. Even the lowly Mason pint or quart jars work exceptionally well in the freezer. IMO. Keep a thermometer in it. OF is OK but -10F is better. If you have a lot of open space in the freezer - stuff it heavily with newspaper or rice/flour/cornmeal/cereal/staples, or even ice cubes in a bag. The less air circulates in the open areas the better to maintain the freezing solid temperature in there. Nancy...See MoreWhy are old threads popping up?
Comments (21)Another oddity I've noticed lately is that in the latest Safari for Mac OS, the close button on images has moved within the image itself. Here's what I see with lyfla's screenshots for instance: I don't see it in other browsers....See MoreBunny
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