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Sure, y'all come on out here! But there is only a single bed in my guest room, so if you have a spouse one of you will have to sleep on the floor, or on the couch in the living room.
On a more serious note, and as a change of subject, your comment caused me to think about the fact that many City-Data posters have visited each other in person. I think that's pretty nifty, although I personally am very cautious about giving out my personal information. I have met only one other City-Data poster in person (for a most enjoyable breakfast at a restaurant), and he is the only one here who knows my real name or has my email address. Since he and I live almost 2000 miles apart, there's not much chance of weekly lunches!
I have had a few other people ask me for my email address, but I have politely declined on general principles. I am not at all upset that they asked and I especially hope they weren't offended by my refusal, which I tried to put in a nice way.
Any experiences, positive or negative, to share?
If anyone goes to visit ER, make sure bring along a couple dogs - he loves dogs. They can sleep in the guest bed.
Thanks for the warm hat suggestions. I feel a little guilty...I was supposed to buy my son a warm hat for his Christmas gift and after a brief stop at our local REI, I dropped the idea. The sales clerk indicated none of the hats would provide sufficient warmth in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire. While visiting me over the holidays, my son wore a gaiter around his head. Oops. It appears he woke up this morning to face temps below zero and a wind chill of -18 degrees.
Anyway, it is sunny, cold and windy in my neck of the woods. I have decided that it would be foolish to start shoveling the sidewalks as the wind will simply replace the removed snow. This is going to be a long day. <sigh>
I've been on Cape Cod in the winter; it was overwhelming. The were wind, waves, and snow in the air. It wasn't a day for any but a short stroll followed by pleasant reverie watching the wintry beauty from the comfortable window of an inn. For wondrous memories I'll take that in preference to a hot summer day when the beach would no doubt be festooned with noisy and probably verminous children accompanied by parents with cheap yellow mustard and raspberry Kool Aid stained lips.
Re: B & M Brown Bread
Do you steam it and if so for how long?
It's interesting to see the ocean in winter and how totally different it is from the way it is in summer. I like seeing it in all seasons. When it's violent, as with the disastrous storms last winter--or as it is with today's storm you full humble and you have to respect and surrender to its power.
B & M brown bread, we always wrapped it in foil and heated it up in the oven, that's all. Slice off as much as you need and slather it with butter. OMG. I made it from scratch one time and steamed it in a can and it tasted exactly the same, heavy with molasses and raisins, sticky and sweet.
Sure, y'all come on out here! But there is only a single bed in my guest room, so if you have a spouse one of you will have to sleep on the floor, or on the couch in the living room.
On a more serious note, and as a change of subject, your comment caused me to think about the fact that many City-Data posters have visited each other in person. I think that's pretty nifty, although I personally am very cautious about giving out my personal information. I have met only one other City-Data poster in person (for a most enjoyable breakfast at a restaurant), and he is the only one here who knows my real name or has my email address. Since he and I live almost 2000 miles apart, there's not much chance of weekly lunches!
I have had a few other people ask me for my email address, but I have politely declined on general principles. I am not at all upset that they asked and I especially hope they weren't offended by my refusal, which I tried to put in a nice way.
Any experiences, positive or negative, to share?
The friends I have made on C-D have turned out to be terrific folks in real life.
However, we had posted together for at least 3 years b/f we shared personal info.
Also, in some cases, we met in person in a group setting. Our Charlotte forum used to have get-togethers (which one other person and I set up, lol) . . . so we could all meet and greet. I guess the reason we no longer have them is . . . no one else stepped up to arrange things so . . . no more get togethers.
However, I met many folks who are now friends. All share our FB pages with one another. We also have visited in and out of each others homes and if not that, we have brought our spouses along to dinner or had lunch/breakfast together. With very few exceptions, we all have stayed in close touch over the years.
Of course, our forum is dictated by physical region -- so it is not a big deal to get folks together, even if people live an hour apart (as many of us do).
Totally different situation when people come together on a forum that is not related to where folks live.
I have no problem giving out my info -- if they turn out to be a crazy stalker, I will just block them, etc. One person showed up at my house unexpectedly (thank you, Google maps, for making that possible, hee hee) and luckily my hubby was there . . . I fixed us all coffee (male C-D friend I had only met once, but with his spouse). It was a bit awkward but turns out he has been very kind to hubby and me over the years. I am not one for drop in company without someone calling ahead, but not everyone is that way. So for the years I have been involved in C-D, that was the only "drop in" and the rest of the relationships have had boundaries but most have gotten to be very close relationships, as in -- invite them to parties, talk on phone, go to breakfast/lunch, visit back and forth, etc.
Ha ha! Only you guys will appreciate this...my BF is 74, apparently his son thinks his Dad is setting a bad example for his kids, by living "in sin" with me!
Huh. I am obviously a "Jezabel", who coerced his Father, who up to meeting me, lead a virtuous life, by being married for 45 years...(his wife died...was he supposed to be alone?) obviously.
So,we are on the "Do Not Come Over" list...okay.
Stay warm out there, a good weekend for a good book! My Grandma used to make brown bread in a can, using those tall coffee cans. And real baked beans, which taste nothing like the ones from a can!
I would have disowned my father if he had so much as looked at another woman after my mother died. It's disgusting that so many people treat a deceased spouse as a thing of no importance and utterly unworthy of love. I have learned in my psychic practice that women are guilty of this far more than men. Men don't seem to dismiss love so easily.
A committed loving marriage goes to the grave and beyond. What will your "boyfriend" say, what possible excuse will he offer, when he next sees his wife?
What was right a century or a millenium ago is right today.
I would have disowned my father if he had so much as looked at another woman after my mother died. It's disgusting that so many people treat a deceased spouse as a thing of no importance and utterly unworthy of love. I have learned in my psychic practice that women are guilty of this far more than men. Men don't seem to dismiss love so easily.
A committed loving marriage goes to the grave and beyond. What will your "boyfriend" say, what possible excuse will he offer, when he next sees his wife?
What was right a century or a millenium ago is right today.
Speechless.
Well, not really. I just can't use some of the words running through my head on CityData.
I would have disowned my father if he had so much as looked at another woman after my mother died. It's disgusting that so many people treat a deceased spouse as a thing of no importance and utterly unworthy of love. I have learned in my psychic practice that women are guilty of this far more than men. Men don't seem to dismiss love so easily.
A committed loving marriage goes to the grave and beyond. What will your "boyfriend" say, what possible excuse will he offer, when he next sees his wife?
What was right a century or a millenium ago is right today.
Wyoming, life is for the living. We serve no purpose to anyone by living an ascetic life after our spouse or partner passes away. "Till death do us part" means just that—we're together until one is called to the afterlife. The next life is not anything like what we have now, it is totally beyond such specific experience. When we let go of life, we let go of everything. There was nothing "right" a millennium ago, at any rate. People have been repartnering since biblical times and before.
Romans 7:2
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
CCcgirl, how bad is it in upstate NY? It is absolutely frigid here going down below zero. We didn't get much snow in my part of the state but Boston got socked. I also wonder how the "windy city" Chicago is faring. I worry about those without homes and animals without shelter. This is brutal.
Wyoming, life is for the living. We serve no purpose to anyone by living an ascetic life after our spouse or partner passes away. "Till death do us part" means just that—we're together until one is called to the afterlife. The next life is not anything like what we have now, it is totally beyond such specific experience. When we let go of life, we let go of everything. There was nothing "right" a millennium ago, at any rate. People have been repartnering since biblical times and before.
Romans 7:2
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Not in my culture. The great goddess Maedb has decreed that true marriage is eternal. Maedb was there before the Christians; She was there even before the Celts. She and I both scorn the Oriental interlopers with their single god.
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Oops. It appears he woke up this morning to face temps below zero and a wind chill of -18 degrees. 
