Dave Smith wrote:
paula wrote:

well if a guy can make a black forest gateaux at 8.am. after a few
drinks the night before, then i would welcome the recipe. how about
it Dave. ta, in advance.

I cheated. It was an Oekter mix. It was good :-)

Wow, you finished the whole cake already?!

Walker wrote:

well if a guy can make a black forest gateaux at 8.am. after a few
drinks the night before, then i would welcome the recipe. how about
it Dave. ta, in advance.

I cheated. It was an Oekter mix. It was good :-)

Wow, you finished the whole cake already?!

It served 8 people on New Years Day, two of us for dessert tonight and
there is enough left for two more servings. :-)

"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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Walker wrote:

well if a guy can make a black forest gateaux at 8.am. after a few
drinks the night before, then i would welcome the recipe. how about
it Dave. ta, in advance.

I cheated. It was an Oekter mix. It was good :-)

Wow, you finished the whole cake already?!

It served 8 people on New Years Day, two of us for dessert tonight and
there is enough left for two more servings. :-)


You sounded like a good cook, Dave. May be you can help me...

I really wanted to learn how to make fancy Christmas cookies last month.
I thought I should practice baking Chocolate Chip cookies first 'cause
everyone says they are easy. I followed the recipe really carefully and
was so pleased when they came out looking just right. Then I tried one
and it tasted like a muffin top. 8-o Where did I go wrong???

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"Dave Smith" wrote in message
...

Walker wrote:

well if a guy can make a black forest gateaux at 8.am. after a few
drinks the night before, then i would welcome the recipe. how about
it Dave. ta, in advance.

I cheated. It was an Oekter mix. It was good :-)

Wow, you finished the whole cake already?!

It served 8 people on New Years Day, two of us for dessert tonight and
there is enough left for two more servings. :-)


You sounded like a good cook, Dave. May be you can help me...

I really wanted to learn how to make fancy Christmas cookies last month.
I thought I should practice baking Chocolate Chip cookies first 'cause
everyone says they are easy. I followed the recipe really carefully and
was so pleased when they came out looking just right. Then I tried one
and it tasted like a muffin top. 8-o Where did I go wrong???

Maybe you were wearing the wrong color apron.

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On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:33:28 +1000, Craig Welch
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 15:59:33 -0600, Gar wrote:

I don't find burning a quarter acre woodpile to entertain a few
couples much to laugh at either. The poster didn't say the origin of
the wood, but it doesn't sound like a weekend tree trimming job. I
could have heated my house for years with that much wood.

It's an annual event, primarily fuelled by tailings from his
sawmill.

No Wonder the American Government finds it necessary to put up
artificially protective tar riff barriers from wood imports if that
is the level of idiocy in their Wood Industry. Anybody else would
have been recycling that material into saleable product.

Harry

I wasn't trying too hard.

One Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale and two Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stouts.

--Blair
"Those guys know how to make beer."

Craig Welch wrote in
:

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:02:23 -0600, Gar wrote:

You got that many trees down there? I pay $160.00 for a cord. In the
city it's much more.

Well, yeah. Same around the world. I don't pay for firewood, I just
pick it up and chop it up a bit. City folk pay about the same as you
do. Not that many city folk have fires ...

More than you think, probably. Quite a lot of homes have those slow
combustion stoves. Enough to cause various councils to be worried about
air pollution in winter.

Walking around my neighbourhood (which, while I wouldn't consider it the
"city", would certainly be the "city" compared to where you are g) on a
winter's evening I smell plenty of smoke. My in-laws have a wood burning
slow combustion heater, though I don't think it gets used much anymore.

We don't have one and I wouldn't consider it. Too much hassle. We have a
reverse cycle air conditioner in the living area, and one in our bedroom.
While it can get chilly in winter (down to O, but not much below, some
nights) and our bedroom gets pretty cold, it's not that hard to get warm.
I'm more concerned about cooling down in summer - the air conditioners
are certainly getting a workout at the moment. A week or more of temps in
high 30s (deg C),

OK, I've drifted enough off topic now, I think.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:31:05 +1000, Craig Welch
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 01:22:20 GMT, Harry Demidavicius
wrote:

I don't find burning a quarter acre woodpile to entertain a few
couples much to laugh at either. The poster didn't say the origin of
the wood, but it doesn't sound like a weekend tree trimming job. I
could have heated my house for years with that much wood.

It's an annual event, primarily fuelled by tailings from his
sawmill.

No Wonder the American Government finds it necessary to put up
artificially protective tar riff barriers from wood imports if that
is the level of idiocy in their Wood Industry. Anybody else would
have been recycling that material into saleable product.

The material, comprising sawmill tailings, underbrush, and green
timber, was not recyclable in any economic sense.

That is not what the Europeans understand. And most Canadian sawmills
are now recycling that type of stuff into 'artificial wood' products.

Harry

"Gar wrote:
On 02 Jan 2004 06:22:39 GMT, tose (Jim) wrote:


snip

I think the rest of the country pretty much universally feels some of
your pain.

I'm certain that is true.

I have family in your state.

I hope that they are safe and well

..I got the attempt at humor, Gar.

It wasn't an attempt at humor. It was irony. We're destroying the
planet, and the story just hit me odd.

Gotcha. I misunderstood what you were saying. My apology. Sometimes the line
between irony/humor/tragedy is ridiculously thin.

I don't find burning a quarter acre woodpile to entertain a few
couples much to laugh at either.

Nor do I.

Ever heard
of our endangered rain forests? Or all the other fires through the
US?

Yes.

I'm not a scientist. But from what I read and hear, even they
can't agree on what what to do about it.

A lot of this can be attributed to mismanagement. Forests/hillsides are
supposed to burn, from time to time.This is the natural way of things But in
the "greater cause" of real estate development, this has not been allowed to
happen for many years. This results in overgrowth of trees and brush, and
disaster waiting to happen. (This is only my observation of my local
situation).

Jim

We had a bottle of Kahlua Banana Mudslides and some Kris pinot grigio wine
Also no hangover
Tara

Craig Welch wrote:
Craig Welch wrote:

We had a great night. A neighbour had a bonfire, the biggest I've
ever seen. I would estimate that it covered about a quarter of an
acre. Just a few families there, sausage sizzle and drinks. Took him
most of the afternoon with the bulldozer to get it set up.

In a sad postscript to this party, one of the kids present, who was
just three years old, drowned yesterday in a flash flood caused by
the current 'worst in decades' storms.

Sorry to hear that Craig