Some old Photos for your enjoyment
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
'39 was still hard times for sure. It wasn't until Hitler went into expansion mode into Poland late that year and we started supplying the goods for war, on credit I might add, that things got better in '40 and '41. I've read some pretty compelling books that state and give evidence that FDR and co's micro managing of the recovery prolonged it by a few years. Seems pretty believable to me looking at the facts and numbers.
Many older houses the basement was the canned food storage area. I hate stewed tomatoes!! Never liked rhubarb either. She has a few stories about her folks. Three French bros, one got busted out of jail (1700?) and they skedadled to Canada (3 rivers). Another was (supposedly) the first school teacher wife of Jesse James. Even earlier, Sherman's army killed the blind mule they had (near Atlanta). The other side came here early, rowed as far as they could up the river and ended at McCamey, Ar. Hard to verify lots of it. Spelling was mostly poor transcription of peoples (names) that couldn't write or ship lists with the same problem. Many were not from the country where they boarded. Lots left on Dutch ships but were from elsewhere. Tracked some of hers to Nova Scotia and one was granted land in B.C. Other than the fur trappers (seal harvesting & fishing off the great bank), many were here to harvest tall timber as Europe was deforested by that time (1500s).
And un-useful if not outright dangerous.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Not to step on any pharmacological (sp?) toes, but being the husband of an amateur herbalist I sort of agree and disagree. Not about the miracle supplements (hemp oil is the latest), but about the herbal stuff. The good, home grown or picked stuff often works pretty good and always costs a lot less. Of course you have to be careful. My late MIL was having me dig her burdock root AND taking her digitalis, IIRC, and the 2 combined nearly got her hospitalized. The Doc said, "Pick one or the other and stop using what ever you don't choose! You were double doing yourself!" Pretty neat plants, herbs.
fiver
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I think I can explain the fat thing.
Fat Free...
everyone sees the words fat free on a package and are like hey I can eat 37 of those.
and I'm sure they can after some practice.
they don't even see the part right under it that says only 483 grams of sugar per serving.
their body is busy burning up those sugar calories and storing away the carbohydrates it should be burning at the same time.
our bodies are built to safeguard us from starvation by storing anything it can against the lean times, we can't change that, so anything extra going in is put in the larder.
kind of a viscous cycle if you think about it.
Fat Free...
everyone sees the words fat free on a package and are like hey I can eat 37 of those.
and I'm sure they can after some practice.
they don't even see the part right under it that says only 483 grams of sugar per serving.
their body is busy burning up those sugar calories and storing away the carbohydrates it should be burning at the same time.
our bodies are built to safeguard us from starvation by storing anything it can against the lean times, we can't change that, so anything extra going in is put in the larder.
kind of a viscous cycle if you think about it.