Brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

Oh, you remind me. Didn't I just hear something about hot weather
down the coast? I hope THAT doesn't come up here. BTW, Sheldon,
I just saw my first deer since I moved. It was in front of the
house. I thought it looked confused/scared. :-( I hoped it
would go dine in my back yard, but I don't think it did.

--
Jean B.