Subj : ¿Travelling Light To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sun Nov 16 2025 17:20:30 Hi Dave, (Atlanta) DD> When I was trailer trucking the big rigs were not allowed "downtown" DD> unless there was a bill of lading for a local address. RH> We were either going thru with just our vehicle (car or truck) or RH> vehicle plus camper; the January trip was with the camper. We'd been RH> out west to visit our girls for Christmas, came home the southern route RH> so we could visit some friends in Alabama along the way. Also avoided RH> any storms going thru the central or northern part of the country. (G) DD> Through or around varied depending on time of day and day of ther DD> week. Cincinatti was *always eaqsier to go around. Indianapolis DD> usually was a clear shot thru. And Chicago ... let's not e'ven go DD> there BV)= We usually do the "go 'round" option and try to avoid hitting cities during "rush" hour. Going to have to deal with Chicago at some point; we've got a donation to make to the Chicago Public Library. When my maternal grandmother died, her daughters donated some of the family paperwork (books of poems, etc) to the Library. A few years ago when my dad passed away, we were up for the funeral and found my younger brother burning papers from my aunt's apartment. We rescued a box--found out it was more of my great grandfather's writings, including the handwritten manuscript for a 4th (unpublished) book. We figure he passed away before it could be published. CPL has copies of the first 3, including the scarce 3rd, and in 2019 said they would welcome the additional papers. Well, covid hit, then this and that, hopefully we'll get there next year. RH> We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to RH> radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I DD> We got our 1st TV when I was 10 - do 1952. It got two stations since DD> the UHF band was but a glimmer in Lee DeForrest's eyes. RH> We got our first one in the early 60s, maybe a year or so (don't RH> remember exactly) before the JFK assassination. Only got one station RH> for the first few years, then only 2 until I was in college & the local DD> Our first "Community Antenna" was just that - A very tall antenna that DD> pulled Stations from100 or so miles away (St. Louis/Champaign/Peoria) DD> so we had a good selection of nrtweork and 'ocal-ish programming. Opened up a big wide, world to you? DD> I remember when my dad came home with a 17" table-top TV and it was DD> the "cutting edge" of technology. Heck, my confuser's monitor on RH> this DD> unit is 27" And Dennis is usig the 45" boob tube in the RH> front room as a monitor. RH> Steve used our only tv as a monitor for his C-64 for the first year or RH> so. I'd ask him to be done so I could catch news/weather at 10; he'd RH> say "OK" but Johnny Carson would be almost over before he'd quit. After RH> a 3 month TDY, he used some of the pay saved from that to get a proper RH> monitor. DD> My first Commode Door 64 has the factory 1702 monitor. It stayed as a DD> VCR monitor long after the confuser was upgraded. When we went to Germany, we got a multi system set so we could watch German (and in Berlin, British) tv. That one finally died, IIRC, when we were in HI, where, it was fun, with cable, to watch Asian channels, as well as a German one. Saw some of the original (in Japanese, with no translation) Iron Chef shows. DD> Title: Lemon-Sage Roadkilled Goose DD> Categories: Poultry, Herbs, Citrus DD> Yield: 1 Goose I'll rescue my goose from the supermarket, thank you very much. When my mother started working in the school library, she started buying a goose (instead of) turkey for Christmas dinner. We'd go to her mother's for Thanksgiving so had turkey there and ham was served varioous times during the year so I guess she wanted something different--but the traditional German Christmas dinner. She did all the sides generally associated with an American Thanksgiving dinner with the goose but it didn't last as long as a turkey and couldn't hold as much stuffing (usually only one meal's worth). --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... If you think you are confused now, wait until I explain it! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .