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Default Anyone making Rhubarb Jam?

On 5/23/2011 4:30 PM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In ews.com>,
> George > wrote:
>
>> On 5/23/2011 11:03 AM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>> Do you really cook down the rhubarb before mixing it with the pectin and
>>> sugar? IMWTK.
>>> I have fresh rhubarb (enough for a batch of jam, I'd expect, though I
>>> haven't picked any due to my resident invalidŠI've been busy running and
>>> fetching), fresh blues (not local, though) for some Bluebarb Jam, and
>>> some frozen raspberries for Raspberry-Rhubarb Jam.
>>>
>>> Talk to me.

>>
>> Okay, open up, who's sick? Do you need help? Did the tornadoes go
>> through north of you?
>>
>> Curious minds and all that.

>
> I'm about 18 miles south of downtown Minneapolis. Tornadoes were on the
> north side of town ‹ in the city limits. Nicht so gut. One died.
>

I'm still trying to get in touch with a cousin, third cousin if I
remember properly, who lives in Joplin, MO. No luck so far but that
could just be downed phone lines. I will go online and see if they have
posted a list of casualties tomorrow. Sometimes they do, sometimes they
don't.