Subj : moving or not To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Feb 03 2020 19:48:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>> LIS some time back Autumn loves to eat pancakes and help with the BM>>> preparation, especially the mixing part. She had a fascination with BM>>> mixing the dry mix and sometimes got a little over-exuberant. Now she BM>>> kind of sneaks that into the occasional overmixing of the batter. BM>>> Rarely splatters, but sometimes that bowl starts to spin pretty good! NB>>> She's learned some control of the exuberance, then.... :) And still NB>>> has fun doing the cooking... :) BM>> Yes, essentially rules-learning: mixing the dry mix really fast may be BM>> fun but makes a mess the adults don't like. Mixing slower might not BM>> be quite as much fun but can do it longer because doesn't make the mess BM>> the adults don't like. And the pouring of the batter into shapes, BM>> well, that's legally playing with food! NB>> Besides, by now, she's probably learning that by not making too much NB>> of a mess, the finished product is better, since the proportions are NB>> more like they should be (even if she doesn't realize that's the NB>> reason)... :) BM> Yes: "subtle learning". Though that type of learning has been going BM> on probably since Cave Man Times: when Ogg throw stick on fire make BM> pretty sparks but some pretty sparks burn Ogg - wrong type heat! Ogg BM> learn to place stick in fire. And no, Autumn has not been burned while BM> cooking. NB> That's a good thing... Agree. We're somewhat prepared for such an emergency but of course don't want it to happen. She will sometimes start to get a little close or careless and given a reminder warning. Better safe than sorry! We try not to get overly protective; hopefully coming across more as a 'we care about you'. BM>>> She also gets to make a pancake: batter is poured into her special BM>>> pitcher -- a metal creamer. She can make whatever size (well, not BM>>> HUGE!), shape, pattern, etc., pancake she wants. NB>>> Size being limited by the amount of batter and the size of the pan, NB>>> for one thing... ;) BM>> Yes. LIS earlier, sort of a legal playing with her food, plus BM>> participating in creating the meal. OTOH it's hers and only hers. NB>> Yup... learning that cooking can be fun... ;) In fact, one of my NB>> childhood cookbooks was called just that... Fun With Cooking.. :) BM> Some adult cookbooks should better incorporate that concept, BM> especially for the everyday cooking. OTOH I'm not sure how I'd react BM> to seeing a dish of spaghetti and meatballs presented with the BM> meatballs arranged in a smiley face pattern!! NB> I don't remember that being the sort of thing they were referring NB> to as having fun with cooking.... :) But the recipes were NB> reasonably simple and produced good food... :) We'll probably start introducing some simple meals shortly. LIS some times back I'm getting a little pancaked out; one of favourite meals so.... Not going to force her; same as she is given a choice for dinner and it's what we'll have. (She eats meats, vegetables, at home - just here she's on the Pancake Kick.) BM>>>> There's a country-western song "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere". :) NB>>>> Yup.... :) BM>>> They play that on the PBS stations?! NB>>> Of course not (at least not usually [g])... But I do have some other NB>>> experiences besides PBS... ;) BM>> Nancy! You wild woman you! NB>> I hung out at the campus radio station when I was in college... Wide NB>> range of music there, from top 40 to oldies, to jazz, to progressive, NB>> with even some folk, C&W, and classical, depending on which student NB>> DJ was doing the show.... ;) Heavy metal was just coming in before NB>> I graduated... ;) BM> Sort of sounds (pun?) like my Pandora station: nothing I'd classify as BM> 'heavy metal' -- maybe "approaching but still a block away". ...When BM> I first moved out here in 1975 there was a station which advertised it BM> as a heavy metal station; per my 'Boston standards' (raised 50 miles BM> north) wasn't close. NB> The midwest equivalent, perhaps.... They thought so! Neither the Boston nor local version was something I was something I'm into, just there are some crazy little outlayign quirks in my musical and art tastes! :) BM>> The old way had the various television stations in the state identified BM>> by their call letters: locally KQIN. Now simply IowaPBS. So all dozen BM>> or so stations now are identified the same. BM>> Although "I-o-wa P-B-S" is easier and faster to say than "Iowa Public BM>> Television Network". :) NB>> Unless the corporate heads explain it out, guess you'll not really NB>> know... ;) BM> No, and I'm not all that interested in finding out. More just the BM> mental notation of the change and possibly relaxation of the some of BM> the FCC's rules. Last year the local station was identified as KQIN, BM> with the call sign; this year just "IowaPBS" so don't know if it's the BM> Quad Cities' or Iowa City station (other than what channel one tunes BM> to: 36.x and 12.x, respectively). ...Slipping into that technical mode BM> again! NB> What I see as the most iffy part of it is not being able to tell NB> just from listening which particular station you are tuned to... NB> but that goes by the boards anyway when they announce all the NB> different stations you might be listening to... eg here, "WXXI NB> 91.5 Rochester, WXXY 90.3 Houghton, streaming from wxxi.org, or NB> from your phone app (etc)" So essentially WXXY is repeating what originates on WXXI; essentially the same as the Iowa PBS network is the source and the transmitters throughout the state are the repeaters. I'm quite sure displaying "IowaPBS" is quite legal, just I like the call signs for identifcation from my old radio DXing days. ("DX" is [long] distance.) BM>> And good news: AFAICT no one lost their job with the merger (?) / new BM>> affiliation: Abby and Dan are the two humans doing most of the BM>> hosting, DanBot the robot (who thinks he's Dan's son) are still BM>> present. Not recalling if I've seen Steve, the guy who plays the BM>> guitar -- sort of. NB>> Just have to keep your eyes and ears open, I guess.... BM> He's still on the website. NB> As an icon, or actually doing things...? So far I've just seen him in 'group' commercials advertising IowaPBS, nothing specifically of him. BM>> ... Cat Haiku BM>> Oh no! Big One BM>> has been trapped by newspaper! BM>> Cat to the rescue! NB>> POUNCE!! (rattle, crinkle, shred.... ;) ) BM> When I had my dog I did learn quickly not to leave BM> paperwork on the floor: sometimes pawed at, sometimes sat/laid on. BM> OTOH we did leave newspaper on the carpet: she liked to run and slide BM> on the sheets. NB> Which is fine if you are done with the paper... :) It did takes us once to learn that detail! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... A group of cats is a pounce and kittens an intrigue (aww). --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .