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> On Aug 26, 6:18 pm, George Shirley > wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> On Aug 22, 3:45 pm, "Anny Middon" >
>>> wrote:
>>>> "AnnE" > wrote in message
>>>> . ..
>>>>> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> In article >,
>>>>>> "AnnE" > wrote:
>>>>>>> AnnE how come you never do tomato jam?
>>>>>> I have and I may. Tomatoes are late this year. There's still time. :-)
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
>>>>>> http://web.mac.com/barbschaller, blahblahblog is back and
>>>>>> most recently updated last night, 8-17-2008. Fair entries are DONE!
>>>>> Our tomatoes are not very good this year. Cherry tommies are super but I
>>>>> make BLTs a lot and those don't work very well. <g>
>>>> Alton Brown did a Good Eats episode on tomatoes, and said that cherry
>>>> tomatoes (or maybe it was grape tomatoes) made the best BLT. Then he made a
>>>> BLT salad with them, which I think was sorta cheating.
>>>> But it did get me thinking -- why not chop the tomatoes and mix them with
>>>> the mayo? Sandwich texture would be a tad different, but I'll bet it would
>>>> taste pretty darn good.
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>>> I made that recipe for BLT salad but I think he called it something
>>> else. Anyway, it was good but I prefer a peppercorn ranch dressing to
>>> his vinagrette and I like them better all fresh rather than half
>>> carmelized.
>>> I've been overrun by grape tomatoes from the garden. The Roma's are
>>> coming in slowly but the big tomatoes are just not happy this year for
>>> some reason. It's been colder and was way cold in early summer so
>>> that may be it and they'll be along later on. There is still plenty of
>>> time...
>>> Loki
>> Is that youLoki? Long time no hear from.
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>
> Yep, it's me. We have finally (I hope) settled in the Ozarks in
> Missouri. I'm happy here. We have some acreage and a nice big
> "pond" (Ok, so it's more than an acre and has an island in it) and
> plenty of room for the doggies to run. I've got a small garden this
> year, about enough to use fresh but not enough to put anything by.
> That is for next year.
>
> Took me a long time to find a newsfeed out here. I finally gave up
> and am using Google Groups.
>
> Chuck is doing well at a nice large hospital here. Seems like he'll
> start working directly with the ambulance crews and the helicopter
> folks pretty soon so he's in heaven. LOL.
>
> I saw your post on the hurricane. Damn, seems like anyone down there
> has the drill down pat these days. We do too even though we left
> after Rita. Folks around here are amazed at the stuff we seem to have
> - generator, emergency supplies, food, water, even emergency stuff for
> the dogs and cats. Sad thing is we've used them up here too when we
> were in St Louis and they had 4 weeks that year without electricity
> due to storms in the summer and ice in the winter.
>
> How are the little dog and the wife doing? Heck, how are YOU
> doing????
>
> Loki
We're all doing okay, the new little dog is coming along nicely. Old
Sleepy Dawg died of cancer on 09/24/07 and we got Tilly Dawg a couple of
weeks later. Two different personalities but Tilly is developing well.
DW is still teaching art at the elementary level and plans to retire in
2010, maybe. The school board is building a new school to replace the
one she works in and it will have a really nice art room with water,
separate bathroom (maybe), a kiln room, and built-in cupboards. She
would really like to have a room like that for at least one school year.

I'm still kicking, not aging very gracefully, but still kicking. We're
letting our garden lie fallow this winter and we will be amending the
soil a great deal. First I have to get the extension office to run some
tests for us so we can see what the soil needs. We have high hopes for a
really good garden next spring as this year totally sucked as far as
production goes.

I have lots of relatives up in your new part of the country and it is a
very nice place to live. We thought of retiring to the Berryville,
Arkansas or the Aurora, MO area at one time but the Gulf is in our blood
I guess.

It's good to hear you and Doc Charlie have settled in and are getting
started in a new place. Stay in touch with us.