How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)

Bob

On Oct 24, 7:19?pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)

You'll need a quick backhand so you can whack them twice or you'll
have shoestring tomatoes

Sheldon wrote:
> On Oct 24, 7:19?pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
>> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
>> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
>
> You'll need a quick backhand so you can whack them twice or you'll
> have shoestring tomatoes
>


OK, it might not work very well, but you gotta admit it was a great visual.

Bob

"Thwack (splat)"

On Oct 24, 6:19 pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
>
> Bob


Hire 55 people. Give each one a knife and 10 tomatoes ....

wrote:
> On Oct 24, 6:19 pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
>> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
>> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> Hire 55 people. Give each one a knife and 10 tomatoes ....
>


Math check!

In article >, says...
> wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 6:19 pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
> >> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
> >> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
> >>
> >> Bob
> >
> >
> > Hire 55 people. Give each one a knife and 10 tomatoes ....
> >
>
>
> Math check!
>

50 people, 10 tomatoes. Someone failed algebra!

x*10=500, solve for x.

cybercat wrote:
> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her lipstick,
> and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>
>

Mine too. Minus the cigarette and lipstick.

--
-Gina in Italy

http://www.myspace.com/ravenlynne1975
I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

zxcvbob wrote:
> How about using a tennis racket, restrung with piano wire? (that might
> be kind of fun, actually) HTH ;-)
>
> Bob

1 second burst in a food processor? In many batches


NT

On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
your kitchen.

What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
five hundred tomatoes.

cybercat wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>> your kitchen.
>>
>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>
>
> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"

LOL

Oh pshaw, on Sat 03 Nov 2007 06:43:18a, cybercat meant to say...

>
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ups.com...
>>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>>> your kitchen.
>>>>
>>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>>>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>>>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>>
>> LOL
>
> That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have given an
> attribution.
>
>
>

A great line, nevertheless.

--
Wayne Boatwright

(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
__________________________________________________ ____________

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.

cybercat wrote:
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> cybercat wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ups.com...
>>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>>> your kitchen.
>>>>
>>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife
>>>> and get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled
>>>> to HAVE five hundred tomatoes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>>
>> LOL
>
> That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have
> given an attribution.

I know but It was still funny

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
> five hundred tomatoes.
>

Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her lipstick,
and said, "What fresh hell is this?"

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
> cybercat wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
>>> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
>>> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
>>> your kitchen.
>>>
>>> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
>>> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
>>> five hundred tomatoes.
>>>
>>
>> Not my grandmother. She would have lit a cigarette, reapplied her
>> lipstick, and said, "What fresh hell is this?"
>
> LOL

That is a Dorothy Parker line, as you may know. I should have given an
attribution.

wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:

> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint. She probably would be thrilled to HAVE
> five hundred tomatoes.

At times like this I would very quickly ask myself: do they really
have to be diced?


NT

Well. not 500, but ...

Back in days of yore, I would sometimes get up of a late summer morning and
find the kitchen counters laden with tomatoes that needed to be dealt with
<now>. My husband would get up at dawn, haul the tomatoes in to the kitchen,
and then slip out to work before I was awake. It usually happened on a day
when I had promised to take the kids swimming.

Felice

wrote:
> On Nov 3, 7:38 am, wrote:
> In today's kitchen,...the first thing we think of is....... what
> gadget can I buy to do this job. The gadget probably is already in
> your kitchen.
>
> What would your Grandmother have done....yep...grab a sharp knife and
> get going withough complaint.

Nope. She would have grabbed at least two sharp knives and handed me
one. Then we would have sliced them and laid them out in the Southern
California sun to dry. That is, the ones the supermarket down the
street wouldn't have bought.

B/

Felice Friese wrote:
> Well. not 500, but ...
>
> Back in days of yore, I would sometimes get up of a late summer morning and
> find the kitchen counters laden with tomatoes that needed to be dealt with
> <now>. My husband would get up at dawn, haul the tomatoes in to the kitchen,
> and then slip out to work before I was awake. It usually happened on a day
> when I had promised to take the kids swimming.
>
> Felice
>
>


When we lived in New England we used to go on vacation for one or two
weeks ending on Labor Day. When we got back home, I'd begin laundry and
unpacking and my husband would inspect the garden. Invariably he would
return to the house with a bushel of tomatoes for me to can or freeze,
saying "Happy Birthday."

The tomatoes would be followed by overgrown zucchini, peppers, melons,
corn...and I wouldn't be a happy camper.

gloria p

Puester wrote:
> Felice Friese wrote:
>> Well. not 500, but ...
>>
>> Back in days of yore, I would sometimes get up of a late summer
>> morning and find the kitchen counters laden with tomatoes that needed
>> to be dealt with <now>. My husband would get up at dawn, haul the
>> tomatoes in to the kitchen, and then slip out to work before I was
>> awake. It usually happened on a day when I had promised to take the
>> kids swimming.
>>
>> Felice
>>
>
>
> When we lived in New England we used to go on vacation for one or two
> weeks ending on Labor Day. When we got back home, I'd begin laundry and
> unpacking and my husband would inspect the garden. Invariably he would
> return to the house with a bushel of tomatoes for me to can or freeze,
> saying "Happy Birthday."
>
> The tomatoes would be followed by overgrown zucchini, peppers, melons,
> corn...and I wouldn't be a happy camper.
>
> gloria p
When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we had
a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also had a
large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could take care of
the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what came in. My
favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless blackberry patch
all ripened in one week. My word, we made blackberry jelly, jam, put it
in the freezer, made cobblers every night for dinner, even made about
ten gallons of blackberry wine. I think John's favorite time was when
our tomatoes all got ripe while we were gone, he loved those things and
about made himself and his whole family sick eating them. Not to mention
canning a ton of them. We had fifty tomato plants that year and it was a
good year for tomatoes.

Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but someone else
lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow everything like a
park. Good memories come out of gardening and then putting the food by
you grew.

George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing

George Shirley wrote:

> When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we had
> a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also had a
> large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could take care of
> the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what came in. My
> favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless blackberry patch
> all ripened in one week. My word, we made blackberry jelly, jam, put it
> in the freezer, made cobblers every night for dinner, even made about
> ten gallons of blackberry wine. I think John's favorite time was when
> our tomatoes all got ripe while we were gone, he loved those things and
> about made himself and his whole family sick eating them. Not to mention
> canning a ton of them. We had fifty tomato plants that year and it was a
> good year for tomatoes.
>
> Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but someone else
> lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow everything like a
> park. Good memories come out of gardening and then putting the food by
> you grew.
>
> George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing

I'm speechless. What a picture you paint.

Thanks for posting.

--
Reg

Reg wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>
>> When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we
>> had a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also
>> had a large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could take
>> care of the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what came in.
>> My favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless blackberry
>> patch all ripened in one week. My word, we made blackberry jelly, jam,
>> put it in the freezer, made cobblers every night for dinner, even made
>> about ten gallons of blackberry wine. I think John's favorite time was
>> when our tomatoes all got ripe while we were gone, he loved those
>> things and about made himself and his whole family sick eating them.
>> Not to mention canning a ton of them. We had fifty tomato plants that
>> year and it was a good year for tomatoes.
>>
>> Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but someone else
>> lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow everything like a
>> park. Good memories come out of gardening and then putting the food by
>> you grew.
>>
>> George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing
>
> I'm speechless. What a picture you paint.
>
> Thanks for posting.
>
I probably should mention that thirty years later John and I are still
good friends and we both still garden. He in Ohio and me in Louisiana.
We actually only live exactly 33 miles from where we started our married
life but traveled the world in between those last two moves. I'm glad
you enjoyed the post, at my age short term memory is fleeting but things
that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago are clear. <VBG>

George

George Shirley wrote:
> Reg wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>
>>> When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we
>>> had a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also
>>> had a large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could
>>> take care of the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what
>>> came in. My favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless
>>> blackberry patch all ripened in one week. My word, we made
>>> blackberry jelly, jam, put it in the freezer, made cobblers every
>>> night for dinner, even made about ten gallons of blackberry wine. I
>>> think John's favorite time was when our tomatoes all got ripe while
>>> we were gone, he loved those things and about made himself and his
>>> whole family sick eating them. Not to mention canning a ton of
>>> them. We had fifty tomato plants that year and it was a good year
>>> for tomatoes. Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but
>>> someone
>>> else lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow
>>> everything like a park. Good memories come out of gardening and
>>> then putting the food by you grew.
>>>
>>> George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing
>>
>> I'm speechless. What a picture you paint.
>>
>> Thanks for posting.
>>
> I probably should mention that thirty years later John and I are still
> good friends and we both still garden. He in Ohio and me in Louisiana.
> We actually only live exactly 33 miles from where we started our
> married life but traveled the world in between those last two moves.
> I'm glad you enjoyed the post, at my age short term memory is
> fleeting but things that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago are clear.
> <VBG>

It was indeed a lovely post)) Incidentally, someone (I think it might
have been Dora) who said, she remembers the war years very well but can't
remember why she went to the fridge)

Ophelia wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> Reg wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>
>>>> When we lived in Texas, where I grew up and our kids still live, we
>>>> had a large garden. We also had a good friend and neighbor who also
>>>> had a large garden. We synchronized our trips so the other could
>>>> take care of the garden and for that chore he got to harvest what
>>>> came in. My favorite time we did that is when his huge thornless
>>>> blackberry patch all ripened in one week. My word, we made
>>>> blackberry jelly, jam, put it in the freezer, made cobblers every
>>>> night for dinner, even made about ten gallons of blackberry wine. I
>>>> think John's favorite time was when our tomatoes all got ripe while
>>>> we were gone, he loved those things and about made himself and his
>>>> whole family sick eating them. Not to mention canning a ton of
>>>> them. We had fifty tomato plants that year and it was a good year
>>>> for tomatoes. Sigh! We miss that garden and that old house of ours but
>>>> someone
>>>> else lives there now and they don't even garden, just mow
>>>> everything like a park. Good memories come out of gardening and
>>>> then putting the food by you grew.
>>>>
>>>> George, off to bed after a long day of doing nothing
>>> I'm speechless. What a picture you paint.
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting.
>>>
>> I probably should mention that thirty years later John and I are still
>> good friends and we both still garden. He in Ohio and me in Louisiana.
>> We actually only live exactly 33 miles from where we started our
>> married life but traveled the world in between those last two moves.
>> I'm glad you enjoyed the post, at my age short term memory is
>> fleeting but things that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago are clear.
>> <VBG>
>
> It was indeed a lovely post)) Incidentally, someone (I think it might
> have been Dora) who said, she remembers the war years very well but can't
> remember why she went to the fridge)
>
>
Well, yesterday dear wife put the milk container in the cabinet and put
her glass of milk in the fridge. I'm not at that stage yet but I, too,
remember the war years pretty well even if I was a wee lad at the time.
My grandchildren think granpa has a marvelous memory but that's only
because no schools teach ancient history anymore. Ancient history is
anything prior to 1990 to many Americans.

I do wish I had taped or written down more of what my father had to say
over his latter years. He was the only family member who knew the family
line back past his grandparents. Now I'm having to trace them the hard
way. Nowadays I carry a miniature tape recorder with me when I visit
elderly relatives.

George

George Shirley wrote:
>
> I do wish I had taped or written down more of what my father had to
> say over his latter years. He was the only family member who knew the
> family line back past his grandparents. Now I'm having to trace them
> the hard way. Nowadays I carry a miniature tape recorder with me when
> I visit elderly relatives.

Excellent That is my work, social history) You need to write down
everything you can remember that your father told you.

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:13:31 -0600, George Shirley
> wrote:

>I do wish I had taped or written down more of what my father had to say
>over his latter years. He was the only family member who knew the family
>line back past his grandparents. Now I'm having to trace them the hard
>way. Nowadays I carry a miniature tape recorder with me when I visit
>elderly relatives.

One of the last time I visited my aunt (last of my father's immediate
family) she started to tell a story about when she, uncle Bill and
Daddy were young. I said, "Wait a few minutes" and headed for K Mart
and bought a tape recorder. When I got back I told her to start
again. It was not hard to get everything since she was prone to
repeat herself.

On one trip out my half sister came up for a weekend and we sorted
and divided the pictures. And my aunt could tell us exactly who
everyone in the picture was, when and where it was taken. And
sometime a story about what was going on. And I wrote it all down.

I miss her and find myself thinking that I should ask her about
something. I still have pictures of people on Mother's side that I
need to identify. I did manage to get some done at the last reunion.
I just set up a spot with a sign "Do you know who these are?"

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

Ophelia wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> I do wish I had taped or written down more of what my father had to
>> say over his latter years. He was the only family member who knew the
>> family line back past his grandparents. Now I'm having to trace them
>> the hard way. Nowadays I carry a miniature tape recorder with me when
>> I visit elderly relatives.
>
> Excellent That is my work, social history) You need to write down
> everything you can remember that your father told you.
>
>
Already have, taped actually, haven't transcribed as yet. My base degree
is in sociology with a psychology minor, and the advanced degrees are in
various social sciences. Looks like I should have known better than to
not tape or write down what grannies/grandpa's and the elder aunts and
uncles had to say. Got one uncle left, 93 yo, says he knows nothing
about past family but a wealth of info on he and my Dad growing up in
central Louisiana on dirt farm. Been visiting him and taping as much as
I can.

Shame is, neither my kids or grandkids show any interest in history,
family or otherwise. Heck, they don't even want to learn to can and
preserve, say the store is better. You can't argue with ignorance.

George

George Shirley wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>> I do wish I had taped or written down more of what my father had to
>>> say over his latter years. He was the only family member who knew
>>> the family line back past his grandparents. Now I'm having to trace
>>> them the hard way. Nowadays I carry a miniature tape recorder with
>>> me when I visit elderly relatives.
>>
>> Excellent That is my work, social history) You need to write
>> down everything you can remember that your father told you.
>>
>>
> Already have, taped actually, haven't transcribed as yet. My base
> degree is in sociology with a psychology minor, and the advanced
> degrees are in various social sciences. Looks like I should have
> known better than to not tape or write down what grannies/grandpa's
> and the elder aunts and uncles had to say.

Nodnodnod

Got one uncle left, 93 yo,
> says he knows nothing about past family but a wealth of info on he
> and my Dad growing up in central Louisiana on dirt farm. Been
> visiting him and taping as much as I can.

Good lad))

> Shame is, neither my kids or grandkids show any interest in history,
> family or otherwise.

Ouch! that is really hard But, at some point, someone of your family
will want to know and your work will be very welcome. Please don't stop
what you are doing, if nothing else, you will love knowing about your
family.

Heck, they don't even want to learn to can and
> preserve, say the store is better. You can't argue with ignorance.

Hmmmm the way the world is going they will be very sorry one day!