I agree TriX. Here in So. Oregon I've been noticing that at most supermarkets & malls the mask wearing requirement is near 100%. If you go into a hardware store the number of people wearing masks is much worse. I'd estimate about 30% of people never wear a mask and the stores do not require them.
While people working in the hardware stores have masks on, they never enforce the wearing requirement on people coming into the stores even tho signs are at each entrance saying "Masks required".

Poor management, IMHO.

I too have an older (2013) MB Pro and love the use of the touch pad to do all of the cursor movements.
My wife has an I Pad pro but the use of the finger movements on the touch pad is not the same as on my Mac. I therefore suggest the MacBook Air is the closest to what you're using in regards to similar touch screen actions.
If you have an apple store near you I would go and test drive each of the Macs and then decide. Each of the newer units are so much more powerful than what you have now it should then be an easy transition.
The Mac Air is also the cheapest of the newer models.

I'm confused!!

That is such a great menu you didn't mention what wine you're suggesting to have with that appetizer.
Enjoy!!!

Alex

I have to say ya-all are making me Hungry with all this talk about BLTs.

I love a good BLT but have to have them hold the Mayo as I can't enjoy the taste the rest of the ingredients with Mayo over everything!

I fortunately grew up in the 50s across the road from a farmer who had a 120 acres in tomatoes for Campbell soup and we always carried a salt shaker with us as we walked thru his fields with our 22s, eating tomatoes as we walked!!

[quote=robertjerl]My Grandfather took dried corn from the crib* into town where there was a guy who had a commercial grinder and one "corn sheller" and a sack sewing machine. He ground the grain as coarse or fine as you wanted then sacked it.

Robert; your memory is wonderful to be able to recall all of the nuances of your childhood.
I see you grew up in the western edge of Kentucky and my wife grew up in the western edge of Virginia. They were probably 2-300 miles apart but the food (cornbread at least) seems to be made exactly the same. I sure am lucky to have married her and getting the old style food is just icing on the cornbread!!! As you said, the cornmeal here out west is more like cake than cornmeal.
My wife gets her cornmeal from a man who lives in the same Virginia community and has a small corn mill and will coarse grind corn the way it's always made back in the hills. She gets a 5 or 10 pound bag every few months.
Now I'm getting hungry and she's going to make some buttermilk biscuits and fried apples. I bet you have fond memories of those too! We have an old Gravenstein apple tree on the property so those are what she uses.
Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.
Alex

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I forgot to say that my Grandmother always popped the hot cornbread out of the skillet onto a platter so the dark brown side was up before she sliced it.[/quote]

Robert; My wife is from Pound, Virginia in Southeastern Virginia. Quite close to Kentucky. She makes cornbread exactly as you describe. She has to buy her corn meal from back east as none of the meal we get here in Oregon is acceptable as its too sweet and nothing like she grew up with. We eat it with either snap beans or soup beans.

Never had good cornbread until I married her!!

I can learn many good things from all the good comments here on UHH.

In my case I live in the country so virtually all cell phone carriers lie when they say they have good coverage. I just turned in a T-Mobile phone that they said had good coverage but they lied, lied, lied!!
Went back to US Cellular and have coverage but not good coverage, as I have to turn around and walk around to get a decent signal.
As for phones, the one thing I love about the iPhone is the ability to pair it to my hearing aids so I can understand every word being said. I noticed you said it has to be 'loud' but most phones do not have a good speaker that a person hard of hearing can understand. If you need hearing aids consider getting an iPhone as I do not believe the Android phones have that pairing capability. Hope I'm wrong about that but maybe someone who uses an Android phone will comment.

Jerry,
Heres another company that makes very good, reasonably priced masks..

http://www.tombihn.com/

Alex

Well, you are obviously not aware of how a ‘good politican' will put your idea into effect!
A previous governor in Oregon dealt with a similar problem of bloated state agencies.
First he told the people who complained of too many workers getting too high a wage that he vowed to eliminate one complete layer of the state workers to bring the government down to a reasonable size.

Therefore he made all state management take a title change down to the title of their next lower level. Directors became Managers, Managers became Supervisors and one complete layer of the state goverment was eliminated. The governor bragged about his accomplishment enough to win the next election handily!
What was never told is that not one person had their salary changed to reflect a lower pay. No one was eliminated in the state agencies. In fact the state budget stayed just the same and no one was laid off.
Thats the way a crappy government works!!

[quote=home brewer]

I am rebuilding the deck and porch on our house and am thinking about using composite decking. Any idea as to whether the stuff is any good. Some online reviews say it warps and sags.

I used the new Trex ( some old Trex had a delamination problem). A neighbor had her complete deck replaced by Trex because of this but that problem supposedly went away over 5 years ago.
I have a stairway on the North side of our house and it has stood up well. The only problem here in Oregon is the rain/sleet freezes on the boards and the Trex has a coating which makes the boards slicker than snot when below freezing. I had to add non-slip tape to the boards to prevent my feet from going out from under me when walking down the stairs.
The second problem was the surface of the Trex is so smooth that making the non-skid tape stick to each step caused me to rough up each stair board under the tape so the tape would adhere even when it rained for some days. If I had to do it over I would purchase a composite material that had a rough/er surface to eliminate the slipping problem.

I realize the problem only showed up on the front boards of the steps but it sure caused a lot of extra work to make the stairs useable on certain winter days.

Boy, Howdy!!

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/boy-howdy

I had a similar problem so tried using my microwave oven to heat the sheet and remove prints from a 50s photo album.
I started at 2-3 seconds then kept boosting the time in similar increments and kept testing each print to see if it started to peel off. This allowed me to peel many old B&W photos off the album pages without any print damage.
I found some photos never came loose, while others located right next to the firmly attached prints would easily unstick. Never could understand why the difference on the same album page.
This technique seemed to work primarily on the page adhesive and did not damage the prints but I never used more than 2-3 seconds at a time. I also had a small spatula used to spread adhesive on aircraft parts that was very thin to pry under the print edges so I could then peel the print from the page adhesive.
Just a thought.
Good luck!

Just wonderful to read first thing this morning. Thanks!!

Well Rich, I have had the exact same experience!
In fact, I was so surprised that the hummers had gone away a few weeks ago, I just knew I had done something to effect their staying around.
Seems I was wrong. Our other house (about 30 miles away and closer to town) had hummers all over the feeders during this time but here, farther out in the country, nary a one.

I changed all the feeder water/sugar mixture but to no effect. Then a day ago they came back and have been feeding nonstop!
I’m suspecting the springtime mating call had gotten to the birds as about the time the hummers disappeared, the turkeys were going thru their mating dances.
Could be wrong but I’m glad to see it was not something I had done wrong with their feeders.
They will be back to yours too in just a little while.
Have faith that you are doing thing correctly.
Alex