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Mine is the Fannie Farmer Cookbook which I have had for at least 45 years now - I still think the cheesecake recipe is the best I've ever found and I used it every single Christmas for 35 years or more.

I did not know a Nicoise salad required anchovies...I thought there was just tuna (no other fish) and since I don't like anchovies at all, I'm glad I have never included them! (I love Nicoise salad and since I have salad pretty much every day for lunch, I have it at least once a month). Today was mixed greens with a lot of baby arugala. tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and some chopped black forest ham with homemade ranch dressing.

I don't have any info to offer as to where this is, or anything else, but is this not lovely? The spirit of St. Francis is alive and well!

That is true also! Lots of good wisdom was dispensed in the past that people have apparently forgotten or not been taught.

No, for everyone to remember what they should have been taught as children: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me." (and develop both a "thicker skin" and a sense of humor.)

Other than Liverpool, all the teams are struggling with injuries in the EPL this year, especially Arsenal. Having this stupid international breaks is not helping, of course. Nonetheless we already celebrated "Invincibles Day" so another season with no challenger on that front! 😺⚽

Would it not be easier to just dilute the half & half a little? (particularly if you only need 1/4 cup - or just use the half & half as it is...it would make for a little "richer result but that is not necessarily a bad thing, right?) Rather than buying powdered milk specially...

I might have probed a little further, as in: "Is it a particular style of play you are calling "European"? (Because Luka, for example, does play significantly differently than Giannis....but part of that is a difference in sheer size.) It really doesn't sound like racism on the surface, because if you were truly racist IMO you probably won't like watching the NBA at all. (I specialize in trying to give other people the benefit of the doubt...)

My take on your last thought is two-fold: (1) You really can't know what is going on inside other people's marriages, or even more importantly, inside anyone else's head. You only get what you see or what they choose to tell you...and in my experience its not reliable information. (2) You would be surprised what people know about each other and willfully choose to ignore or deny. Your Dad may be very well aware of your Mom's antipathy to his mother, but sees no reason to react to it, or even acknowledge it, for many reasons.

I agree that special needs may require special procedures, but this is not about optometrist vs. specialist - there is new imaging technology that my doctor uses to photograph the inside of my eye that eliminates the need for dilation - he explained this to me carefully when they brought it on board. Made me happy because I am already very light sensitive and the dilation stuff used to last so long that I was confined to indoor, partially darkened rooms for hours after every exam. Peeve: health insurance that covers opthamologists but not optometrists! So unless there is something wrong (like my mom had glaucoma so all her eye exams and meds were entirely paid for by her insurance) you pay out of pocket if you just wear contact lens or glasses and need a regular annual exam (which is expensive!).

I thought they have stopped doing that - well at least my optometrist (and the one before that) hasn't needed to dilate my eyes artificially for 15 years - there is technology now that completely eliminates that. Perhaps you need to look around for a new eye doc that is a little more au courant?

I just finished a remarkable mystery/crime story novel from 2005 called Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. Not only was the mystery quite incredibly well written, the overall prose of this book was exceptionally good. I cannot recommend it enough!!

This is because someone once told them: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease"...so they are being proactively and unproductively squeaky! Its like sending your resume to HR *and* to every other person listed on the website of a company to which you are applying - doesn't do any good and just confuses all the recipients!

That is hurting my brain! Not just the use of the "any more" but the whole sentence! Arrggggggggghhhhhhhh - what do they mean??? 😿

Happy Thanksgiving, Canadians! I am grateful, though, that our U.S. Thanksgiving is not until the end of the November - it is still way too warm here to think about putting a turkey in the oven for hours and all the other prep and cooking...I'm happy to wait another month and more!