Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> > And those who depend on electronics in one form or another
 ML> would be >  ML> up
 ML> >  ML> That being most of us!
 ML> > Need to depend on them to be able to read this. (G)

 ML> No gees about that!

That's why I had the (G) with my comment.

 ML> >  ML> > the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.
 ML> >  ML> For sure, and it's another set of reasons why people
 ML> >  ML> should keep up the knowledge of how to make change,
 ML> >  ML> look both ways before crossing, and write longhand.
 ML> > All skills that I posses. I also know how to dial a rotary phone and
 ML> > balance a check book.

 ML> When was the last time you saw a working rotary phone?
 ML> For me it must have been years.

I know my parents had them for years, don't know if there was still one
in use when I was last up there (November, 2017). My brother had moved
into the house a couple of years before that and probably got rid of all
rotary phones but do know they were in the house a good long time.

 ML> >  ML> le deluge, the youngsters born in the '50s, '60s, and beyond,
 ML> >  ML> from most of whom there was little to be learned, and why
 ML> >  ML> bother reading?
 ML> > I had to read what was available, which was the Times. We didn't get
 ML> the > local daily paper (parents did buy it some years after I left
 ML> home) and > the weeklies had no food section.

 ML> I'm not knocking the Times in general but found
 ML> the sports coverage less than "fit to print."

Still kept me up on the Mets, even if I just checked box scores. I do
more of that than read write ups (very few of them for the Mets) in the
Raleigh paper.


 ML> >  ML> >  ML> In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> The instruction was the same, the endowments different.
 ML> >  ML> > Quite so. (G)
 ML> >  ML> Now they're one, with the original Radcliffe resources
 ML> >  ML> funneled into an "institute" that encompasses a few
 ML> >  ML> symposia, a library of early women's stuff (largely
 ML> >  ML> cookbooks), and to my knowledge not much else.
 ML> > Good for those that want to go into women's studies in one area or
 ML> > another. Maybe if they have some issues of "Godey's Ladies Book"
 for ML> > fashions and suchlike design students would find interesting.

 ML> I'm sure that would have been available at least in
 ML> microfiche in the main library.

Quite possibly so.


 ML> >  ML> >  ML> its 4:1 ratio.
 ML> >  ML> > The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.
 ML> >  ML> Enlightened.
 ML> > It was founded as an alternative to the taverns and such like
 ML> visited by > the canalers in the area.

 ML> There had to have been something in between!

Don't know, it was (and still is) a very small town. Very little in it
besides the college.

 ML> >  ML> I could navigate Moscow because I can transliterate Cyrillic,
 ML> >  ML> slowly. Plus the underground is in fact color-coded.
 ML> > Color coding is a big help, unless you're color blind. (G) I've
 ML> never > gotten into Cyrillic so have no idea how to transliterate or
 ML> translate > it.

 ML> Probably Wikipedia has a chart that would help.

If I'm that desperite.

 ML> >  ML> Counting the hours and the minutes, too ... .
 ML> > That would work if we knew when we were going to see the kids again.
 ML> We > did see Rachel's, via Face Time, (or some other phone chat, not
 ML> sure
 ML> > what Steve ended up connecting with) the other day.

 ML> I've still never had a phone chat.

It works--allows you to be more mobile than Skype. She walked to the
various kid's rooms so they could all see us/wish me a happy birthday.
(G)

 ML> >  ML> Roast Muscovy Duck
 ML> >  ML> 1 Muscovy duck (4 lb)
 ML> > Presumably some other type of duck would work if you couldn't get a
 ML> > Muscovy?

 ML> Any old domestic duck should be fine: I
 ML> prefer the fattier Pekin and the tastier
 ML> Moulard anyway.

I've had duck a few times but never found out what kind it was. Tried an
Alton Brown recipe for duck with chard once; it was ok, not great. Dont
knoww if we kept the recipe or ditched it, figuring it wasn't worth the
fuss for what the end result was. OTOH, I was going thru a bunch of old
newspaper clippings last week, found one for lemon blueberry bars. Made
it, it's definately a keeper.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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