Subj : moving or not To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Apr 08 2020 08:36:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Refilled my coffee and noted there was a snow shower! Didn't stick BM>> (it's just above freezing out there). NB>> Pretty typical for this time of year.... :) BM> True, just seemed odd as no indication otherwise. NB> Rain and snow showers do come out of nowhere sometimes.... ;) BM> Yesterday was bright and sunny; today starting off overcast. NB> Yesterday and today here have been bright and sunny, and somewhat NB> warm... I see the forecast for the rest of the week is going to NB> be cooler, more overcast, and a good chance for precipitation NB> every day... Was bright and sunny and hit 80ø here at the house -- went outside and did some more cleanup in the afternoon. A little after 7 p.m. things start to get interesting: warning sirens go off. My window up here faces South: nothing unusual. Check wUnderground: big colourful diagonal band to the northwest about the Cedra Rapids area, 90 miles from here. Hmmm! About 8:15 the storm hits: winds are noticeable but too bad, sounds like big raindrops, then the clunking starts: hail! Saw some which were pretty big: have one in the freezer which is about the size of a ping pong ball. Saving that one for Autum when she's over later this morning. Too early to go our to check for any damage; doesn't look like anything happened to the cars (no garage) when checked from looking out the windows. Also want to check for any damage to the roof and if any windows cracked. Hopefully not! BM>>> I couldn't drink liquid milk for a while; just got the calcium, etc., NB> BM>>> Right. The only thing I missed about not being able to ingest liquid BM>>> milk is couldn't eat cereal. Didn't have cereal all the time but was BM>>> a breakfast option. Water isn't a taste substitute! I don't think the BM>>> milk alternatives were available in the 70's (soy, almond. etc.). BM>>> Powdered milk -- ??; I don't recall one way or another. NB>>> Powdered milk certainly was an option.... my parents started using it NB>>> to stretch out the milk back in the late 50's... we called it "funny NB>>> milk" because it was funny that powder turned into milk... and it NB>>> tasted funny.... ;) BM>> Maybe I had had powdered milk and didn't like the taste so ignored it BM>> as an alternative. Long time ago! NB>> That could well have been the case.... :) I remember that later they NB>> came out with powdered whole milk which was more tolerable... I used NB>> it in cooking after I was married and out on my own... BM> S-t-r-e-t-c-h that budget! NB> Actually, the powdered whole milk wasn't all that inexpensive... NB> it was more a way to keep milk as a shelf-stable staple, NB> particular for baking and cooking... But the skim milk that my NB> parents bought was more an attempt to stretch the budget.... :) I remember growing up my Mother loved skim milk! To me was an odd light blue and tasted watered down. I don't recall anything about prices -- maybe because as delivered and all I had to do was go outside and get it out of the insulated metal box. BM> And this just popped in: I remember something like "Tiger's Milk" which BM> was supposed to be more of a protein or some sort of supplement. As I BM> recall an 'odd' taste. I was probably pre- to early teen then. NB> Yes, I remember that too... probably was fortified with soy and NB> other proteins... not something I was impressed with either.... Maybe was something the adults bought to make up for the nutrients missing in the watered-down skim milk! NB>>> Soy milk was available in the 60's, as I know it was a possible NB>>> substitute for infant formulas (my cousin was given it, since she NB>>> was allergic to cow's milk).... But I don't think the nut milks NB>>> were available yet, nor the grain milks... A friend of mine refers NB>>> to those milk substitutes as mylks.... :) BM>> Just a slight change in spelling to acknowledge the difference. So BM>> the alternatives were around; would seem like I would have been aware. BM>> I did use soy milk and later other milk alternatives but that wasn't BM>> until probably the 90's. And cut with water to stretch - the price!! NB>> True.... one didn't buy the alternatives to economize, the way NB>> powdered skim milk could do.... ;) Even though I have no problems NB>> with real milk (quite the contrary!), I do enjoy getting the dark NB>> chocolate almond milk on occasion... :) BM> One certainly didn't use the milk alternatives for economical BM> reasons!! Some of the quart prices could fund small nations!! LIS, I BM> had the first pour or two 'straight up', then started adding water to BM> extend. NB> I don't think I'd add water to extend the mylks... just drink NB> them in smaller quantities.... Whichever ones I was buying back then, even the store brand, sort of had a slightly too-strong initial flavour ('uncut'). Not unpleasant. not oeverpowering, just noticeable. So the first pour or two (and I didn't use that much) was a treat because of the flavour; cut with water a coupl eof times to extend and save some money -- maybe got four or five extra cereal-for-breakfast out out it, which with my semi-randomness of what to have for breakfast would extend two or three weeks. BM> We did try various physical options, even to the point of stuffing BM> cotton in her ears and holding in place with earmuffs. I think that BM> lasted about four minutes! NB> That's longer than I would have thought it would last... She sort of knew what it was for, but the uncomfortableness or ticklishness or whatever finally got to her! BM>>> ... Too Stressed: Your heart beats in 7/8 time. NB>>> That sounds like a form of Afib.... BM>> Wonder if Stauss, Souza, etc., ever had as a working title The Afib BM>> March?! NB>> (You mean (Johann) Strauss and (John Philip) Sousa...?) BM> Yes. NB>> Probably not, as I don't think that atrial fibrillation was known as NB>> such in their day(s), and almost certainly not shortened to Afib NB>> yet.... BM> You're probably right, and if known of probably known my another name BM> like palpitations Hmm: 'The Palpatation Samba'! By a different BM> composer, of course! NB> Maybe it could be called The Palpitation Polka... then it could NB> still be by Strauss.... ;) That one is better! :) ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Politically Correct Car Crash: "terminal deceleration syndrome." --- 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) .