Subj : Retry Re: Resend Eggs! To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jul 03 2020 08:35:00 Hi Nancy! NB> Trying again on the three you didn't get... ;) Thanks! ...Check for the ones I probably sholud have received yesterday (July 2nd): had zero to download. Normally not an unusual event, just with the intermittent missing messages something to check. NB>> Just waiting for this to cycle back around... ;) Last week, on a NB>> "it's too hot to cook, so let's pick up something cool at Wegmans NB>> for supper" foray (Thursday, I think), I found those 2-pk packages NB>> of hard-cooked and shelled eggs...! There was a whole slew of them NB>> in the "quick-grab" dairy display in the front of the store... funny NB>> I never noticed them there before... :) Grabbed one package, and as NB>> it's good until July 7, haven't done anything with it yet, but NB>> expect it to be an addition to a supper salad at some point... :) BM> Horray! I haven't 'explored' to see if Hy-Vee has the hard boiled BM> eggs. Did buy a dozen eggs at 88› -- advertised special, limit of two; BM> got just one dozen as didn't need two. NB> Our store still has the bags of 6 (cooked, peeled) both in NB> organic and regular... those are in dairy, next to the uncooked NB> eggs... but this finally answered the question of where that odd NB> 2-pk at the checkout had come from (at least potentially).... ;) Yes: doubt the store is just going to buy a case of cooked eggs just for the check out. I still haven't seen any at Hy-Vee; admittedly not doing an all-out search for them but not at the Eggs portion of the store. Which is 'to the left' of some meats which initially seems to not make sense but transitions from (starting partway down to the right) kielbasa, lunch meats, breakfast sausage, bacon, EGGS! So lunch to breakfast! They're clever!! (Milk and orange juice is on the back wall two aisles away.) BM>>> ...I've also noticed while driving in BM>>> my hatchback, trucks and SUVs -- vehicles that sit higher - tend to NB> come BM>>> closer to my rear bumper at a stop than cars. NB> Half-thinking might be BM>>> because the drivers sitting higher NB> can look down and see the actual BM>>> space between us whereas the drivers sitting lower see their hood and BM>>> have to guess the spacing. Or could be just when I see my rear view BM>>> mirror filled with a reflection of a semi it just looks really close! NB>>> Probably some of each... :) BM>> There have been times when I've been tempted to step out and check; BM>> the problem of course is the other driver would probably think I'm BM>> being confrontational just for getting out of the car, much less BM>> approaching. NB>> Yeah... probably best to just stay put and wonder... ;) Maybe you NB>> could set up the experiment with a friend that has the larger NB>> vehicle... have them come up behind as at a light, and then go out NB>> and see... :) There's also the possibility that some of those higher NB>> riding vehicles actually have less stuff in the front of their vehicle NB>> than a shorter normal car's hood would extend... :) BM> Possible, and right on probably best to stay in the car. ...Might be BM> able to get by with it in an eccentric manner: use a tape measure. BM> "Whadaya doin'?!" "Just checking for six feet. COVID-19, y'know!" NB> [wary shake of head] Dunno about that... tempers are likely to NB> be getting short with all the isolating people have had to be NB> doing... even eccentric might not seem very humorous... ;) I'd NB> only do it with someone I knew, and that was already in on the NB> operation... ;) Right: don't want to end up being a news headline! Measuring with someone I knew would be a lot less dangerous (at any time!) but probably skew the results. They would either know ahead of time I was going to check something, so drive differently, or end up being considered even more -- umm, 'eccentric' than they thought I was! BM>>> Better the windshield end! My guess with the «" lift is the hood BM>>> wasn't fully latched, or maybe with all that breeze there was enough BM>>> play in the mechanism: seems some hoods move over and around vs. just BM>>> hinging. NB>>> Definitely with the breeze the higher speed was generating, the air NB>>> was getting up under the hood... whether it was from the latch or the NB>>> grill, I don't really know, but I think it more likely the latter... NB>>> As I recall, the latch end of the hood seemed pretty solidly in NB>>> place, so likely play in the hinge.... scary enough to get me to let NB>>> off on the accelerator... ;) BM>> Would seem when moving there was always air rushing under the hood but BM>> could see where above a certain speed a spring or something else in BM>> the latching assemblies moved/flexed. And yes, that would cause me to BM>> slow down too ==> something's not right and so slow down to be a little BM>> safer/easier to stop, etc. NB>> And just a little concern that in a moment I might have become NB>> airborne, even.... BM> Probably impossible under those conditions but seeing a hood rise and BM> one would wonder what else. NB> Given a slight rise in the road, not totally out of the NB> question... probably not more than an inch or so, but that's NB> enough to not have control of the car until it returns to the NB> pavement... ;) Cue that scene from _Smokey and the Bandit_! BM>>> Right. Autumn's mother forwarded to us an e-mail coupon from a local BM>>> pizza chain for a large pizza, bread sticks and pint of ice cream -- BM>>> they arrived nice and warm (well, fortunately not the ice cream!) and BM>>> so maybe the good delivery experience will break the slump. NB>>> And pizza delivery has a reputation for keeping the pizza nice and NB>>> warm... they probably have the ice cream pints deep-frozen so that NB>>> they'll stay frozen for the trip, too... BM>> Yes, cool pizza, especially the initial pie/slice, isn't all that BM>> desireable. It is expected to be very warm to hot, The ice cream BM>> probably was deep-frozen or at least not freshly scooped out as was BM>> rather solid. NB>> I can eat leftover pizza warm or cold, depending... but fresh NB>> certainly is better nice and warm with melty cheese... :) BM> Agree! I prefer leftover pizza cold just because it never seems to be BM> right when rewarmed: crust gets soggy, hot spots next to cold spots, BM> too hot.... There are devices and techniques to reheat pizza which BM> appear to work, for us generally just something else to store. And BM> often to me the cold leftover slice has a different flavour from when BM> it was originally hot. NB> As long as it still is good, just different, that's not too NB> bad... ;) To me it tastes good and that's all I really am concerned about; wouldn't continue if it didn't! And no, I would not want a fresh pizza that way. Well, unless a dessert pizza and that's another category. BM>> That's for sure! ...I'm guessing "to get one's attention" it's better BM>> to use a paper (so snail-mailed) flyer as is something physically BM>> handled; just too easy to glance and hit with an electronic BM>> advertisement. NB>> Just as easy to glance and toss into recycle, though... ;) But nicely NB>> done might be enough of an eye-catcher to at least read once... BM> Or glance at the back: ooo - blank! Slice with letter opener and BM> becomes scratch paper! 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