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This will be the. ----” just when you think you've heard it all” ---daily doggy... my TV does stay on all night ----usually on doctor Pol and the zoos but last night it was on discovering Mexico and their foods.. I was fascinated to watch them make stringy cheese which they then proceeded to layer on a big grape leaf with what looked like bacon bits roll the whole thing up into a circular sort of thing and cut it into 1/2 inch pieces and you have a circular sort of roll up to eat it was kind of pretty green things like that..... but the woman asked what the bacon bits were actually and she was told that they were dried grasshoppers and went on to explain that there was a lot of protein in grasshoppers... and how her ancestor had survived on dried grasshoppers... Which goes to show that we humans can be trained to accept anything if you get a trial young enough and have them believe something is normal then it stays normal---why should I accept ground up hog meat or.

 pigs and call it bacon and I find ground up grasshoppers to be beyond the fringe of my normal eating habits....

 

I have to comment that I think new england's habit of a dinner plate containing some meat some potato and some vegetable as a nice normal way to go and I am slightly suspicious of the ethnic type foods which gets so many ingredients mixed up together that you're really not too sure of what you're eating and it could be the ground up grasshoppers could be normal protein ingredient.... I can lapse back to my friend who used to feed her young children the horse food which did have a touch of molasses in it----and when I questioned that.. she said she had worked in the grain mills and the ingredients bagged as horse food were the same ingredients that went into Cheerios---- it's just the package was different and I think she's probably right---- we don't know about those grasshoppers they're not listed on the ingredients but she said don't kid yourself they're there..

 

getting away from food---- my next would you believe it ------comes from some in laws of mine... who decided to move to Florida to get away from wisconsin's blustery winters... and in the process of searching for a nice place to live they stumbled over a cruise ship about to leave... so they hopped on the cruise ship and spend the next week wondering about real estate in Florida... and their cruise ship came back home and parked right next to another cruise ship going somewhere else...  so you got it !!! they got on the next one..  now it turns out they are about 3 years into this bit of just staying on a cruise ship... and maybe living a day or two in a hotel between cruise ships...  but they apparently have been around the world twice and are having a wonderful time and they don't own any real estate in Florida..  Plus they own a minimum of the kind of junk that fills our houses...  the couple changes of clothing is really all they need.. There is a pretty good example.. of my aunt Mildred philosophy of blessed be nothing----especially the state of having nothing to worry about---To say the wife and this couple did not own a vacuum cleaner or a dishwasher or a lot of other things that we land lovers find necessary.

Among other things it certainly does eliminate the paraphernalia that we acquire as sort of personal relics.. as Gwen got on the plane to go back to wherever she goes Carolinas---she said I taught her that when going on a trip, she should only take with her what she could  physically carry...... The airlines have finally come to that--- and the days of the well dressed woman with six pieces of matching luggage are gone forever-

I remember as a freshman at Colby college my mother was careful to be sure I had one big suitcase 1 sort of half size and then a small rectangular overnighter. of light tan Amelia earhart luggage...all matching of course.....   Plus I traveled in three inch high heels. struggling to put that overnight suitcase in the overhead rack in a small  2 x 2 seated plane which flew from Boston to Waterville ME.. and of course I was in a skirt. and all those matching kind of things that you wore to travel....  now I swear there's a sign that says “must wear shoes” even if you do have to take them off and put them back on again to prove you're not carry some explosive device in there by your little toe.

 

I will be very glad to have Judy get back from vacation... her pile of give it to Judy is overflowing plus.... I can't find anything after having her gone for nearly a month----I certainly have had super company and care... plus we have had time to check out things like the egg cooking contraption which somebody sent at mail call--- turns out it did produce 6 peelable hard boiled eggs which were right out of the chicken coop fresh regardless of what all those "how to" articles say.

 

I say out of the chicken coop--- Elizabeth does not have her chickens well trained at all and these eggs are ones that are found in more obvious places like on top of the food bin.....and on top of the trash can. ---- this sort of chicken management will eventually produce a pile of 30 eggs hidden behind a door and obviously too old to even think of eating----with chickens you gotta pick up the eggs every day or you will run into some hen who wants to pile them  up and then convince some other chicken to sit on them to hatch them. ----the hatching hen is called a broody hen... I think....