On May 17, 9:30�pm, "Jean B." wrote:
Sheldon wrote:
Thank you for the birthday wishes. �And I'm also a new daddy.

See my babies:
http://i29.tinypic.com/4tu1op.jpg

There they a
http://i29.tinypic.com/r1mw5y.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/34f1m6g.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/10p1xkp.jpg

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Awwww. �They are so cute! �Geese are very good parents too!

Happy Birthday, Sheldon.

Thank you for the Happy Birthdsay wishes. Yes, and Canada geese are
very territorial too. And I love to watch them come in for a landing,
like SSTs with flaps and landing gear down, in perfect formation.

These guys are just as amazing:
http://i31.tinypic.com/jjsprc.jpg

"Sheldon" wrote in message
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"Phyllis Stone" wrote:


Sheldon, when I was a child 60+ yrs. ago. I had a pet goose. I named her
all
by myself. I called her Roseeta, I don't know where I got the name. I
loved
her dearly but as she grew she became a real pain for my dad as he had
lots
of chickens. I also became a little afraid of her when she spread her
wings
and made honking noises. My dad 'sold' her to someone for 50cents and gave
me the money. Ha! This was a farm and I was in my 30s before I found out
what really happened to Roseeta

Phyllis, it sounds like you need a farm again... where are you?



That would be nice but it isn't going to happen in this lifetime. I am in
Houston,Tx. with neighbors on all sides, but they are nice ones.

"Phyllis Stone" wrote:
"Sheldon" wrote:

Phyllis, it sounds like you need a farm again... where are you?

That would be nice but it isn't going to happen in this lifetime. I am in
Houston,Tx. with neighbors on all sides, but they are nice ones.

How did a nice NY girl end up there?
You have to find some way to leave.

"Victor Sack" ha scritto nel messaggio
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Giusi wrote:

I can't remember brand names,

They can be important, though. Some brands here are very bland indeed;
others are rather good.

but lately I have been unhappy with passata
I've bought. It has a cloyingly sweet taste and almost a "used" taste.

I have yet to find a passata that is sweet here. Tomatoes of a certain
brand, whether whole, in pieces, or puréed, tend to taste the same here
and all tend to contain just tomatoes, or sometimes an addition of an
acidifier. Lately, canned whole tomatoes of a brand I usually like,
Sonnen-Bassermann, tended to taste slightly metallic. Tant pis. :-(
Passata here is usually jarred, not canned, so metallic taste usually
does not occur.

Victor

Some is in glass and much is in tetrapak here. I am wondering if some
brands are reconstituting a condensed product. Anyway, I just don't want to
use it. It's too bas, because passata with water was my only version of
tomato juice since the supermarket stopped carrying the horrendously
expensive 125 ml bottles.

On May 17, 12:20*am, Mark Thorson wrote:
Bigbazza wrote:

Were you around then to give a personal taste evaluation or
is it just some knowledge that you have picked up?...:-)

My earliest memories of ice cream were that it was
insipid crap compared to the premium ice creams
you can buy today. *But then again, my parents
always bought the cheapest stuff (technically,
"ice milk"). *I didn't know they had Breyer's
back in the old days.

You should blame your idea of early ice cream on your parents, then.

We had a couple local dairies that sold ice cream (their own), heavy
cream and anything else you would find from a dairy, and it was better
than almost anything except artisanal local ice cream today. This
relates to when I was growing up in the 40s.

Giusi wrote:

[passata]
Some is in glass and much is in tetrapak here. I am wondering if some
brands are reconstituting a condensed product.

Apparently not Mutti, the brand I have here now.
http://www.mutti-parma.com/

Anyway, I just don't want to
use it. It's too bas, because passata with water was my only version of
tomato juice since the supermarket stopped carrying the horrendously
expensive 125 ml bottles.

No tomato juice where you live? Such a pity!

For decades, no good or even just acceptable tomato juice could be found
in Germany. Now, happily, there is a plethora of good brands. I love
tomato juice and, right now, have four brands here, all in TetraPaks.

One is from the Amecke "Sanfte Säfte" line, the only one made from
concentrate, yet it tastes good. I use it for Bloody Marys.

One other is the recently introduced Amecke Bio Tomate. It is a
directly pressed juice and truly an excellent one, very thick. I drink
it "as is" or mixed with just a bit of lemon juice. It is the most
expensive one of the four, costing 1.79 euros a litre (quart).

Yet another one is Vita Verde Bio Tomate, also directly pressed and very
good, though not quite as good as Amecke Bio.

And then I have a Polish-produced Tymbark Pikant Tomate, also directly
pressed and spiced with chile and black pepper. It is rather thin, but
has a very nice taste. It is the cheapest of the lot, costing 1.29
euros a litre. For comparison, a tiny can (5.5 fl. oz./163 ml) of
imported Spicy-Hot V8 costs 1.49 euros and some places sell it for 1.79.

Victor

On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:02:14 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

On Sun 18 May 2008 12:47:28a, sf told us...

On Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:44 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:


Heh! I always knew he was "goosey"! But, then, I shouldn't really
insult
those pretty geese. :-)

You're *bad* Wayne... but I have step dogs and cats, so I know about
these things.


LOL!

All 5 of our kitties were officially adopted.

What was I thinking? I was meant grand-dogs and grand-cats!

One of my grandcats became mine when his "parents" moved to a location
I didn't trust (my intuition was illustrated shortly after they moved
into their new place). He has a dominate personality but has learned
his place as a *cat* in my house.... yep, he doesn't get to run the
show anymore.



The grandpuppy and cat that my DD has love me too - even though they
live with her. When DD visits, the puppy gets excited BLOCKS before
she gets to my house - apparently she recognizes the landscape and
know where she's going.

We visited DD yesterday at her house... their cat was crawling into
our laps and couldn't seem to get enough attention. I asked DD if
he's that way with everyone now or if he remembers us (they lived with
us for a few months) - she claims he remembers us. I dunno, but it's
cute - and the dog (an Australian Shepard) is so excited to see us
it's adorable every time. Sidney (the dog) is maturing, so she's
learning her manners - she still jumps up but she's not touching me
anymore... thank goodness.

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On Sun, 18 May 2008 15:15:20 -0700 (PDT), Sheldon
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These guys are just as amazing:
http://i31.tinypic.com/jjsprc.jpg


I think of them as tiny helicopters.

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On Mon 19 May 2008 09:43:26p, sf told us...

On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:02:14 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

On Sun 18 May 2008 12:47:28a, sf told us...

On Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:44 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:


Heh! I always knew he was "goosey"! But, then, I shouldn't really
insult those pretty geese. :-)

You're *bad* Wayne... but I have step dogs and cats, so I know about
these things.


LOL!

All 5 of our kitties were officially adopted.

What was I thinking? I was meant grand-dogs and grand-cats!

One of my grandcats became mine when his "parents" moved to a location
I didn't trust (my intuition was illustrated shortly after they moved
into their new place). He has a dominate personality but has learned
his place as a *cat* in my house.... yep, he doesn't get to run the
show anymore.



The grandpuppy and cat that my DD has love me too - even though they
live with her. When DD visits, the puppy gets excited BLOCKS before
she gets to my house - apparently she recognizes the landscape and
know where she's going.

We visited DD yesterday at her house... their cat was crawling into
our laps and couldn't seem to get enough attention. I asked DD if
he's that way with everyone now or if he remembers us (they lived with
us for a few months) - she claims he remembers us. I dunno, but it's
cute - and the dog (an Australian Shepard) is so excited to see us
it's adorable every time. Sidney (the dog) is maturing, so she's
learning her manners - she still jumps up but she's not touching me
anymore... thank goodness.


Our cats *definitely* run our house! It's almost as though we come home
from work to visit. :-) I always get home first and I can always predict
exactly what each of them will be doing when I get there. Popie is always
waiting at the door for me. The brothers, PeeWee and Peanut are always
sitting together in one of the back windowsills. Bailey has a special
pillow that he is sleeping on, and Millie is always in David's chair (She
was, from the beginning, David's cat.) On the rare occasion when David
comes home at an odd hour and I haven't arrived, there's no telling where
he'll find them. :-)

PeeWee (the tiniest one, obviously), is always the one who tells me in his
tiny sqeaky voice when it's time to feed them.

I'm sure they remember...people, places, and things. Many years ago when I
was in my twenties I had two cats, a very tiny Siamese and a calico. When
I moved to Chicago for a year and couldn't take them with me, I "boarded"
them with my parents. When I returned, my parents had become so attached
to them that they wouldn't give them back. :-) My mother told me that as
long as Spencer (the calico) lived, she would wait at night by the side
door of the house for me to come. It was so very sad to me. I swore then
that I would never let that kind of situation happen again. If we travel
for a few days, I have a friend come to our house to feed and play with
them, but they are never without "their" home. They're often a bit aloof
when we return, but back to normal within a day.

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"Victor Sack" ha scritto nel messaggio
.. .
Giusi wrote:

was my only version of
tomato juice since the supermarket stopped carrying the horrendously
expensive 125 ml bottles.

No tomato juice where you live? Such a pity!

For decades, no good or even just acceptable tomato juice could be found
in Germany. Now, happily, there is a plethora of good brands. I love
tomato juice and, right now, have four brands here, all in TetraPaks.

I still remember the breakfast buffet at a horrendously expensive Black
Forest hotel years ago, and the extraordinary number of different juices
there were. Wouldn't you think Italians would appreciate tomato juice?
--
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Nancy2 wrote:

On May 17, 12:20 am, Mark Thorson wrote:
Bigbazza wrote:

Were you around then to give a personal taste evaluation or
is it just some knowledge that you have picked up?...:-)

My earliest memories of ice cream were that it was
insipid crap compared to the premium ice creams
you can buy today. But then again, my parents
always bought the cheapest stuff (technically,
"ice milk"). I didn't know they had Breyer's
back in the old days.

You should blame your idea of early ice cream on your parents, then.

We had a couple local dairies that sold ice cream (their own), heavy
cream and anything else you would find from a dairy, and it was better
than almost anything except artisanal local ice cream today. This
relates to when I was growing up in the 40s.

Geez! You're old as dirt! :-)