My wife is getting ready to do her holiday baking tomorrow.

We'll be without heat for a few hours tomorrow. I'm having a new energy
efficient boiler installed to replace the 30 year old one. I get to go off
to a heated workplace so she is going to stay in the kitchen with the oven
on.

Tomorrow night is a good test of the new boiler also. Single digit
temperatures expected. And the best part is, I'll have a couple of cookies
to munch with my breakfast tea.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> My wife is getting ready to do her holiday baking tomorrow.
>
> We'll be without heat for a few hours tomorrow. I'm having a new energy
> efficient boiler installed to replace the 30 year old one. I get to go off
> to a heated workplace so she is going to stay in the kitchen with the oven
> on.
>
> Tomorrow night is a good test of the new boiler also. Single digit
> temperatures expected. And the best part is, I'll have a couple of cookies
> to munch with my breakfast tea.

Here in the south, most of us use natural gas heaters, and heater is
located in the attic. We replaced our old one, and he had to cut the
heater into smaller pieces, so he could haul it down the stairs. The
noise of the bending and popping metal, frightened my female cat, so
every time she hears thunder, she hides under the bed.

Enjoy your new heating system, and the cookies.

Becca

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> My wife is getting ready to do her holiday baking tomorrow.
>
> We'll be without heat for a few hours tomorrow. I'm having a new energy
> efficient boiler installed to replace the 30 year old one. I get to go off
> to a heated workplace so she is going to stay in the kitchen with the oven
> on.
>
> Tomorrow night is a good test of the new boiler also. Single digit
> temperatures expected. And the best part is, I'll have a couple of cookies
> to munch with my breakfast tea.
>
>

what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
all..(south italy)

"ravenlynne" > wrote in message
...
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> My wife is getting ready to do her holiday baking tomorrow.
>>
>> We'll be without heat for a few hours tomorrow. I'm having a new energy
>> efficient boiler installed to replace the 30 year old one. I get to go
>> off to a heated workplace so she is going to stay in the kitchen with the
>> oven on.
>>
>> Tomorrow night is a good test of the new boiler also. Single digit
>> temperatures expected. And the best part is, I'll have a couple of
>> cookies to munch with my breakfast tea.
>
> what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military housing
> and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at all..(south italy)

Eight stollen, two kinds of biscotti, chocolate chip cookies

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:30 +0100, ravenlynne
> fired up random neurons and synapses
to opine:

>what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
>housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
>all..(south italy)

Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:30 +0100, ravenlynne
> > fired up random neurons and synapses
> to opine:
>
>> what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
>> housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
>> all..(south italy)
>
> Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
> my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
> Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> --
>
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
> old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
> waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
>
> - Duncan Hines
>
> To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"
>
>
>
>

Yes indeed!

I made my easy (4 ingredients) and delicious macaroons and chocolate
matzo for the first night of Hanukkah and they were the usual success.
Happy Holidays to all,
Ellie

ELLIE FRANKEL wrote:
> I made my easy (4 ingredients) and delicious macaroons and chocolate
> matzo for the first night of Hanukkah and they were the usual success.
> Happy Holidays to all,
> Ellie
>

Coconut, cornstarch, condensed milk and vanilla, right? I made those
macaroons as well...so good. I added candied cherries this year for a
twist.

In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:30 +0100, ravenlynne
> > fired up random neurons and synapses
> to opine:
>
> >what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
> >housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
> >all..(south italy)
>
> Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
> my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
> Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>

That doesn't sound right.
We need to take better care of our military!
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:30 +0100, ravenlynne
>> > fired up random neurons and synapses
>> to opine:
>>
>>> what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
>>> housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
>>> all..(south italy)
>> Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
>> my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
>> Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>>
>
> That doesn't sound right.
> We need to take better care of our military!

Here's another one. The navy made us all pack up and go to germany for
4 months on emergency medical orders because the hospital here can't
deliver twins...meaning live in a hotel for that long plus expenses.
They paid us per diem since it's their fault that we had to go. We find
out today, 2 days before christmas, that they're taking all the money
back because they changed regulations halfway through our stay there,
stating that I was an in-patient (I wasn't) and that I was no longer
entitled. We didn't spend the large part of it, but we did a little and
it hurts. My husband has his master chief looking into it because this
whole thing just seems unethical. That means we have to pay for the
crappy air force inn out of pocket...I'm not a happy person.

In article >,
ravenlynne > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:30 +0100, ravenlynne
> >> > fired up random neurons and synapses
> >> to opine:
> >>
> >>> what's she baking? We lost heat in our apartment here in military
> >>> housing and baking helped...luckily it's not very cold here at
> >>> all..(south italy)
> >> Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
> >> my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
> >> Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.
> >>
> >> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
> >>
> >
> > That doesn't sound right.
> > We need to take better care of our military!
>
> Here's another one. The navy made us all pack up and go to germany for
> 4 months on emergency medical orders because the hospital here can't
> deliver twins...meaning live in a hotel for that long plus expenses.
> They paid us per diem since it's their fault that we had to go. We find
> out today, 2 days before christmas, that they're taking all the money
> back because they changed regulations halfway through our stay there,
> stating that I was an in-patient (I wasn't) and that I was no longer
> entitled. We didn't spend the large part of it, but we did a little and
> it hurts. My husband has his master chief looking into it because this
> whole thing just seems unethical. That means we have to pay for the
> crappy air force inn out of pocket...I'm not a happy person.

I hope you can fight it successfully...
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

"ravenlynne" ha scritto nel messaggio
> Here's another one. The navy made us all pack up and go to germany for >
> 4 months on emergency medical orders because the hospital here can't
> deliver twins...meaning live in a hotel for that long plus expenses. They
> paid us per diem since it's their fault that we had to go. We find > out
> today, 2 days before christmas, that they're taking all the money > back
> because they changed regulations halfway through our stay there, > stating
> that I was an in-patient (I wasn't) and that I was no longer entitled. We
> didn't spend the large part of it, but we did a little and > it hurts. My
> husband has his master chief looking into it because this > whole thing
> just seems unethical. That means we have to pay for the > crappy air force
> inn out of pocket...I'm not a happy person.

Cheer up and fight it. They usually lose because the people who pull these
things are stupid. Time after tiome I have seen them reversed.

My BIL contracted hepatitis 3 trying to rescue a sailor in trouble in
Panama. As his case got worse they tried to: throw him out of the military
a few months short of retirement age; claim that he got hep 3 because he was
an injectible drug user; refuse to pay for his medical care.
He is now retired some 12 years, awaiting a liver transplant, has watched
his kids grow up, collects his retirement and the Navy pays for all his
medical needs as well as the dependents'. There is always an as***le
somewhere who will try to Grinch your good times. I know you kept those
orders!

ravenlynne wrote:
>
> Here's another one. The navy made us all pack up and go to germany for
> 4 months on emergency medical orders because the hospital here can't
> deliver twins...


Excuse my ignorance, but what the H*LL kind of hospital "can't deliver
twins"??? It's not like it's that rare a happening!

DO they know how to remove tonsils? Ingrown toenails? Cripes.

gloria p

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:09:50 +0100, ravenlynne
> fired up random neurons and synapses
to opine:

>Omelet wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

>>> Boy, that brings back memories. I'm a military brat and spent most of
>>> my young life in base housing. If Necessity is the mother of
>>> Invention, Necessity lives in base housing.
>>>
>>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't sound right.
>> We need to take better care of our military!

(Posting through ravenlynne's post, as for some reason, OM sneaked
into my killfile and I can't seem to dig her out)

Take better care of our military? HA! Back when the Air Force closed
Lowry AFB in Denver CO, TPTB thought it would be a great idea to turn
base housing over to the local government for use as low income
housing. There was an absolute *stink* that anyone would countenance
such a thing, as the housing wasn't up to the standards required for
low income housing. IOW, it's good enough for military personnel and
their dependents, but not for subsidized civilian housing. Jesus wept.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd...proud to be a military brat

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"