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Post by leatherneckpa on Dec 23, 2011 15:53:03 GMT -4
I saw that article. Don't remember which magazine, probably Hobby Farm. They tend toward the equipment end of the scale, whereas Countryside tends toward more simple approaches. Couldn't be BWH because it wasn't one of their "favored" authors. Could have even MEN, possibly.
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Post by leatherneckpa on Dec 23, 2011 15:55:11 GMT -4
Ever since my student teaching ended I have been making supper during the week. Decent success on the flavors, but not having alot of success finding stuff Cindy LIKES. I'm hoping tonight's scalloped potatoes will hit the spot.
I made the comment at WW's this week that women are no different than men, they don't appreciate the effort that goes into making a meal. And they should, they have experience to compare it to.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Dec 23, 2011 16:58:17 GMT -4
I can cook, the only problem is that Lynn has a very short menu of things that she will eat.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Dec 23, 2011 21:21:40 GMT -4
Sure would be nice to brag about that work of art in the newspaper. If you get the ambition, we will print the story and show the pictures. Not much into braggin'. Besides, prolly 98% of the folk that read the Valley have forgotten more than I know about gardening, but I promise to give it some thought Wayne. I'm just proud that I've come this far with a subject that I was totally ignorant about. This is 180* out from everything I've spent my whole life doing, and further, adversity knocked me down but never out.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Dec 24, 2011 1:15:07 GMT -4
I think the whole story is pretty inspiring.
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Post by leatherneckpa on Dec 24, 2011 9:36:13 GMT -4
prolly 98% of the folk that read the Valley have forgotten more than I know about gardening Rick, I believe your percentage is WAY off. And that is why the Valley is such a success. Most people have forgotten or never learned the basic skills we all write about. They are hungry for someone to teach them or to show them that they are not the only "new kid on the block". And the worse the situation becomes in this country the more people will seek what we provide. Case in point, I love the idea of hunting, but I've never had a mentor to teach me how. My dad was a refugee from Jersey City, NJ. His idea of hunting was four guys in an old Chevy going to the city dump at dark, wait for the rats to start crawling on the car then jump out and blast them. No, really! He used to tell stories about it when I was a kid. Always thought he was making it up, until one of my uncles brought it up one night. I'm trying to teach myself, but it's not easy to be successful at it when all you do is take the rifle for a walk in the woods. Think about it. Have you had one of your own home-grown tomatoes yet? Is there ANY comparison to those supermarket blobs? It seems that ever since WWII this country has been on a down-hill slope. It's getting steeper and more slippery as time goes on. And when you realize that only 2% of the people in this country are involved in growing the food for the other 98%, is it any wonder people yearn for what little we know or have "re-discovered"?
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Dec 24, 2011 10:27:10 GMT -4
Great post Mike. You did describe part of our allure, but there is still something I can not put my hand on. I wish every one of you could be me for a day going about business with the paper, the compliments are too numerous to mention, it makes me so proud of what we have done. I absolutely love that readers talk about our writers by their first name like they are best friends, and I think some folks think of you folks as friends. We are doing a good thing, and there is a lot more good to come.
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Post by azlonerider on Dec 26, 2011 21:48:59 GMT -4
This morning before we milked my wife and I went around and made a list of things that either needed to get done or we would like to do in the near future. After milking we came inside and had breakfast then I goofed off for a while. At about 1:30 I tackled a project that took about 3 hours. I disassembled my daughters laptop, replaced the LCD front cover, the bezel around it, and replaced the keyboard. I got it back together and it works great.
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Post by nhlivefreeordie on Dec 27, 2011 9:10:17 GMT -4
Good job Andy! Lynn and I did surgery on a printer once that had stopped working. Got it all back together and it worked fine for another couple years before we decided to upgrade.
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Post by leatherneckpa on Dec 27, 2011 10:35:28 GMT -4
Andy, I'm REALLY impressed! Is this somehow related to your regular job? Or was it sort of like my attitude, "Well, since it already doesn't, I can't break any worse."
There is a guy in the next valley over who recycles laptops. Three of the teachers I worked with in the fall bought decent laptops off of him for between $150 and $225. They weren't "state of the art" but they most people don't need state of the art. If they would just be satisfied the old versions of their software they could probably get by on the same computers they had in 1995 or 2000.
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Post by azlonerider on Dec 27, 2011 20:54:41 GMT -4
Mike currently my job is a data analyst, I have a BS in Business information Systems. I worked tech support for AOL on the phones, I moved from that into management of multiple teams of tech's. I got burnt out of that and moved into Knowledge management where I rebuilt several support databases and was involved in a team that rolled out a new knowledge management system for AOL world wide. Prior to that I had been around computers my whole life practically. I was taking apart and assembling the old school stuff at 16 or younger.
Laptops though have always intimidated me, but I was happy with the project for my daughter.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Dec 29, 2011 21:28:19 GMT -4
Wow ! I really missed that one Andy ! Never would have pegged you as a computer geek ! LOL ! Wish I had a bit of that, used one for quite a few years at work, but they were on the mainframe setup, and after sprint went to PC's they would not allow ANY internet use at all, so, consequently I learned miserably little, and their attitude killed any desire we had to learn.
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Post by azlonerider on Dec 29, 2011 21:59:06 GMT -4
Less a computer geek and more 'Jack of all trades'. I can frame, roof, drywall, do wiring, program in several computer languages, work on hardware, troubleshoot and repair OS's, design a database taxonomy. Professionally I've managed large teams and motivated them to the point where we led the nation in stats.
I much prefer working for myself building what I want to build accomplishing what I want and not worrying about the fact that my fate rests on the business I work for.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2011 8:28:21 GMT -4
Happy New Year my friends!! As it happens, we have a showing on our house the very first business day of the new year****at the same time as a house has come up for sale we REALLY want to buy! I hope this means I can soon start DOING instead of DREAMING!!! You all may soon be wallowing on the floor laughing at the goofball mistakes I will no-doubt be making!! ;D
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Post by leatherneckpa on Dec 31, 2011 10:07:10 GMT -4
Fred, I doubt that. Remember, we've either "been there, done that" or we will be soon. We'll most likely be chuckling at ourselves as your experiences cause us to reminisce.
Good luck with the showing.
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