Sheldon wrote:

> Gregory Morrow wrote:
> >> Jill "The Bitter Old Spinster" McQuown wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sure. Did the Irish neighbor with all the children and grands tell you
> >>> they needed oats? I cannot think of any reason why you would buy 50 lb.
> >>> sacks of steel cut oats. Perhaps you're feeling a tad irregular...
> >>
> >>
> >> At least Sheldon is on "neighborly" terms with his neighbors...howzabout
> >> you...???
>
> I've met most of my neighbors, which with such large properties there
> aren't a great many... but we are mostly neighborly in rural places,
> not so much best buds, we don't socialize but we all get along just
> fine, and we'll all stop to chat for a few minutes if we happen to see
> each other outside, usually in the driveway. I met that Irish family
> because two of their teenage sons will do chores and I pay them...
> btw, for $10/hr they'll work a lot harder than cleaning houses. And I
> already posted all about the Honeyville steel cut oats several times,
> and that I buy them in 50 lb sacks because they cost a whole lot less
> per pound than buying them in those fancy schmancy tins imported from
> Ireland. Those from Honeyville are grown in Canada, they are
> excellent quality, but they come in a heavy paper sack like a C-menta
> bag. I must have made a dozen posts about how I cook them in a slow
> cooker to save all that stirring... steel cut oats are the only thing
> I found a slow cooker good for.


Yup...anyone claiming to be a "regular" would *know* that...


About two years ago I lost my
> interest in eating oatmeal every day so I gave my slow cooker away. I
> still had about ten pounds of steel cut oats left, I mixed it in with
> my bird seed... at that time Honeyville steel cut oats cost the same
> as I paid for bird seed, less than a dollar a pound.


Methinks you are a fine neighbor - both to people *and* to the animal/wildlife around you...

What it comes down to is that you've had a successful life, and you continue to enjoy that life...some peeps here are simply jealous of that, a not - so - good reflection on *them"...sad and twisted they are!

A Happy - and prosperous! - New Year to you, Sheldon. You are one of a small handful of posters that keeps me reading this group ;-)


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Best
Greg