On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:46:23 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:18 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On May 29, 5:11 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>>>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Why hot just make the crockpot meal on a day you're home, and freeze
>>>>> in small portions the results? Then, on a workday, you can pull a
>>>>> frozen portion that morning and let thaw in the fridge.
>>>> On a day one is home why would they use a crockpot? I despise the
>>>> results from a crockpot, canned is better. But on days I'm home I
>>>> cook conventially and prepare amounts large enough to freeze several
>>>> portions.
>>> Woe is me - I realized that after i hit send. But dared not another
>>> piggy back post.
>>>
>>> When I do a cooking marathon, I never use the crockpot, come to think
>>> of it.
>>>
>>> When are you not home? I thought you were one of those lucky retired
>>> dudes.
>>
>> I never worked so hard before I retired, but I do what I want when I
>> want and as much or as little as I want, and most importantly no one
>> tells me. Actually I'm mostly always home but I don't have a kitchen
>> out on the back forty. During good weather I don't have much time to
>> cook, today was a very stormy day, even tornado warnings. I slow
>> cooked 3 pounds of kielbasa with two big cans of B&M baked beans. I
>> simmered the sausages (barely simmered) for two hours. Then drained,
>> added the beans and simmered (barely simmered) about 4 hours. Now I
>> needn't cook for three days.
>> That's one ominous sky:
>> http://i46.tinypic.com/t63qqo.jpg
>>
>> And then the sky opened:
>> http://i47.tinypic.com/1zplf68.jpg
>>
>> Then the sun... look carefully down that forest path:
>> http://i48.tinypic.com/11qiufa.jpg
>>
>> I didn't see that girl until after I down loaded:
>> http://i45.tinypic.com/4uf7mf.jpg
>>
>> The tele from some 1,500' makes that path look short but it's 600'
>> long, takes me the better part of a day to do maintenence just inside
>> that path, and it's hot, humid, and unbelieveably buggy. My back
>> forty begins at the far end of that path, can spend a week there and
>> hardly make a dent.
>
>Lovely! We finally had a thunderstorm here tonight after being
>threatened by such for days.

Didn't someone say that Beryl couldn't affect the weather in NY, well
very often storms that hit in the south push right up the Hudson river
valley, and bring the briney smell of the sea too.