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| janewayjunkie74656 | Oct 12 2011, 12:17 AM Post #5761 |
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Geez, life is stressful.
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 12 2011, 12:52 PM Post #5762 |
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Yum, yum. Plain sandwiches and chips can get old fast. How quickly to you have to get beets to the distributors, or to whoever you sell them too? |
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| Swidden | Oct 12 2011, 09:56 PM Post #5763 |
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Beets being root vegetables are pretty stable. We still have a bit of beet industry here. Spreckles, located between Salinas and Monterey, was at one time years ago well noted as a hub of sugar beet production. We have a lot berry and lettuce growers around here. Those pretty much have to be harvested and transported to the cooler the same day. Also, you really can't take your time harvesting the berries or they will over ripen and be good for nothing other than juice and jam, etc. Peak season you are rounding the field every few days. |
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| Swidden | Oct 12 2011, 09:58 PM Post #5764 |
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Noticing the name of a local hair salon the other day made me wonder: Just how many towns/communities have establishments called "Curl Up and Dye"? Or "A Cut Above" or some other similarly cliched name? |
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 13 2011, 11:27 AM Post #5765 |
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I like beets, but I don't think I've ever eaten fresh beets (usually out of a can). I have eaten fresh uncooked turnips. I wonder if they taste similarly to beets in the uncooked form. Fresh turnips taste a lot like mild radishes to me (sweet when they are cooked). Slice one up, they make good snacks when in the spring/summer. They go good in salads too. |
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| Nimor | Oct 13 2011, 11:35 AM Post #5766 |
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24 made it for me - I won the pick a number contest.
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| StarTrekFanatic1701 | Oct 14 2011, 01:18 AM Post #5767 |
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Its really lovely
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| StarTrekFanatic1701 | Oct 14 2011, 06:11 AM Post #5768 |
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Oh wow, I just found out maggie Smith had breast cancer whilst doing HP6 and while filming Deathly Hallows part 2!! Thank goodness she made a full recovery!
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 14 2011, 08:21 AM Post #5769 |
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^^ Indeed. I was reading the other day about how Kevin Sorbo had three strokes during the filming of "Hercules: Legendary Journeys". It limited his abilities in someways, but he kept on working anyway. He said he suffered a lot of pain for about two years. I was only vaguely aware that he had a health scare back then, but didn't know the extent. I also remember the way he physically interacted on the show changed too. LINK |
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| ImpulseEngine | Oct 14 2011, 09:36 AM Post #5770 |
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It looks like I'm in one of those busy periods again. Life seems to go up and down that way. My daughter is getting piled in homework. I can't believe how much she is getting in 4th grade. It's taking so much time, she has gotten to bed at about 11:30pm every night this week even with my helping her through much of it (which is why I have no time at home). She's getting a lot of stuff that I never saw until middle school when I was growing up. The performance-based school funding has turned real education upside down IMO. And work is non-stop crazy too. I'll keep dropping by when I can, but it has been getting more difficult to find much time lately. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 14 2011, 11:29 AM Post #5771 |
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How much homework are they giving kids these days that would require them to still be doing homework that late in the evening? ![]() They are already in school for most of the day. |
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| Nimor | Oct 14 2011, 11:44 AM Post #5772 |
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That reminds me I've got a lot of homework for the weekend.
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| StarTrekFanatic1701 | Oct 14 2011, 04:04 PM Post #5773 |
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Oh wow, I had no idea. He has quite a dominant role in that movie doesn't he? Maggie Smith, was in the middle of chemo therapy and described herself as a "boiled egg." Its really amazing because she had such a powerful role in the Deathly hallows part 2. I find it incredible that she kept going, despite the pain she was going through! Wat an amazing person! You can always tell who the dedicated actors and actresses are. LINK |
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 14 2011, 08:00 PM Post #5774 |
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Well, it was a series. He pretty much had to be in every episode (six seasons).
Takes a lot of courage to keep on keeping on when you have a major health problem. |
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| Swidden | Oct 14 2011, 08:03 PM Post #5775 |
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Haven't gone looking or anything, but word is that Gerard Butler has been in the area (Santa Cruz) filming a movie about the late surfer Jay Moriarty. Today was supposed to be the big surfer memorial scene. Recreating about 1,000 folks on surf boards and, guess what? It's not CGI, they're using about a thousand extras! |
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| CO_Fowler | Oct 14 2011, 09:14 PM Post #5776 |
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We take our sugar beets to a reciving station, or pile ground, and then they are hauled to the sugar factory for slicing and being made into sugar. We haul ours from the field this month and they'll be hauling them to the factory at least into mid January usually. I'll try to get some pics put up |
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| CO_Fowler | Oct 14 2011, 10:06 PM Post #5777 |
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![]() Dusty and dirty and then rainy ![]() And a traffic jam of trucks ![]() I'm next to get a load of beets on my truck ![]() Hope these aren't too big Edited by CO_Fowler, Oct 14 2011, 10:08 PM.
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| StarTrekFanatic1701 | Oct 14 2011, 10:14 PM Post #5778 |
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Oh. Series, sorry, I could've sworn that was a movie, oh well! Got a few things mixed up, its been a long week! I've actually looked it up now! Oops!I always admire people who continue to fight whilst battling something as horrible as cancer. |
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| Retro_Fan | Oct 15 2011, 07:00 PM Post #5779 |
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Wow
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| 24thcenstfan | Oct 15 2011, 07:03 PM Post #5780 |
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Wow, are you driving one of those big rigs Fowler? That's pretty cool. Thought there would be more greenery for some reason though. Are the top photos the receiving station... and the bottom photos your farm? |
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