-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-17-19  06:34 <=-

 >  ML> Thanks for the heads-up.
 > You are welcome... 
 ML> I'd prefer it if people did so more regularly,
 ML> especially as we are approaching or attaining an age 
 ML> and condition where others have concerns from a 
 ML> substantial absence. 

True... saves some worry that way...  

 ML> By the way, our little field 
 ML> trip to Shirley and Burt's found them in good spirits 
 ML> and reasonably good health. We spent from 12 to 5 
 ML> there, so it was a substantial visit, and then 
 ML> decided we'd best get going eastward before dark.
 
Very good news... I had figured they were doing fairly well from talking
to them on the phone, but it's good to be confirmed.... 

 >  > for my family's camping (also without internet access).... I'll try to
 >  > stay as current as possible in between, and will be taking the 'puter
 >  > with me both trips to be catching up on messages while away...
 >  ML> We're counting on that - the echo operates on a 
 >  ML> delicate balance.
 > So I had a packet to upload when I got back... and then made an effort
 > to read the packets right away, and am getting at least a start on the
 > replies thereof... I'll take packets with me for the camping when I
 > leave tomorrow... and thereby have a packet to upload when I return...
 > but I will be gone for a whole week again.... I'll be home for a few
 > weeks anyway after that...  
 ML> Thank you.

Things went well enough to plan... I did finish up the last huge packet
while I was away.... and now I'm working on what accumulated whilst I
was away... never-ending...  (G)  Not sure when I'm going away again,
sometime in August, though, probably....

 >  ML> I've found often enough that peaches go from unripe to 
 >  ML> rotten without passing through the yummy stage.
 > Yup, some fruit just doesn't do well with being picked unripe...
 ML> We feasted on Maryland peaches over the last week
 ML> - local New York ones weren't ready yet.
 
It'll probably be a little while... although I did note that Wegmans
bakery had their seasonal peach loaves on offer again, so they seem to
have a sufficient supply of ripe enough ones from somewhere... 

 >  ML> Today's berries were giant and beautiful, both the 
 >  ML> blacks and the blues - and they both were almost 
 >  ML> totally lacking in flavor. Not sweet either. I
 >  ML> think possibly Driscoll's again (they were bulk).
 > Sigh... By the time I get back home, the local berries should be in the
 > stores... the harvest is off by about 6 weeks, I've heard....
 ML> Something like that. I was disappointed that the
 ML> produce wasn't local even in the nearby farm stand.
 ML> At least most of it was domestic from within a
 ML> day's cartage.

Saturday I saw that Brown's Berry Farm (local to here) had supplied
blueberries... as I still have a partial box from the week before I
passed for now....  At the family camping, Lydia had a LARGE box of
blueberries she'd bought somewhere (maybe the TOPS or the Aldi's near
the campground)... In the interest of science I sampled a few.... as
they were rather tasteless, I left the rest to her.... ;0  Mine were a
little better (I think they're from Michigan, maybe)....

 >  ML> Some people are as short-sighted in insight as 
 >  ML> I am in eyesight.
 > Unfortunately very true....
 ML> I try to do okay in the other kind of sight but
 ML> sometimes that fails, too.

We all slip sometimes....
 
ttyl        neb

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