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Air in Davis is mighty thick, although I'm not smelling smoke as such, to the degree I was on Sunday night.

I understand most if not all of the evacuation orders in Solano County (southwest of here) have been called off.

Just for the record, there were some pretty bad fires in the area last year, too--though admittedly nothing on this scale.

Where I come from (Southern Maryland and by observation into Pennsylvania) scrapple and head cheese are two different things. Scrapple has a substantial amount of cornmeal in it, while head cheese is jellied meat (for some value[s] of meat).

I've never actually had a chance to decide whether I wanted to try head cheese; scrapple I can take or leave alone, though it works better for me when sliced fairly thinly and fried crusty on both sides.

I grant you gorgeous, for some value of gorgeous, but I'm unable to see the point as, you know, a book cover. The word that comes to mind is "gimmick" which I suppose is, indeed, a way to make it stand out on the shelf.

Somewhere in my youth I got the notion that dust covers were meant
to be used as bookmarks--I still use them that way (at least on books
of a reasonable thickness). But I, too, have developed the habit of
waiting for the paperback.

I remember the Army-McCarthy hearings, the spring/summer before I turned six.

My earliest memory is of my baby brother's coming home from the hospital; I was not yet three (doing the math, I was two and a half, in fact), but I have a distinct visual memory (my aunt and uncle brought my mother and the baby home, I see them walking into the family room at my grandparents' house).

NelC: And I thought it was just me. It's going a little better in Leopard, though I think it has still done it once or twice.

Stock freezes beautifully. I store it in soup-size batches and also in smaller aliquots for adding to, well, whatever savory dish I'm cooking.

Brother, sister-in-law, Lydia and a vet school classmate. Brother picked one of the colts as deserving high-level stock horse training, which is something to be thankful for although I'd need to sell all the other horses to make it an actuality.

Recrudescing the crock pot theme, those (the actual, you know, crock pot ones) are dandy for making stock. It doesn't boil, which seems to keep it clearer, and it's nice not to have to keep as close an eye on it. I started one batch on Wednesday for gravy purposes and have put the turkey carcase through two more. Mushroom barley soup is in the future.

Don't think I have much more to add to all that's gone before in the way of food, except that the pumpkin tart with damson jam from the Thanksgiving issue of Gourmet is definitely worth making the extra trip to find the damson jam (Bonne Maman makes it, but not all stores carry the full line).

Politics: my brother maintains that immigration is going to be the issue of this election, and that the first Republican to break with the corporate masters and come out with a strong anti-immigrant message will take the nomination and the general, since the Dems appear determined to nominate the least electable of their top three. That was a downer if you like.

#361: Well, we were farm people, never mind how far away central Maryland was from Charles County.

I don't think, if I heard a reference to a "leaf" of hay, I'd take it to mean an alfalfa leaf. That said, I've fed hay in "flakes" all my life.

"Stob" was certainly a usage I grew up with in southern Maryland. I was surprised when it drew funny looks on the west coast.

Jen @ 146, don't forget a breeding injury that could interfere with racing. But I expect the behavior/aggression factor is the biggest single contributor; note that this is pretty specific to TBs, you don't get the same cut and dried "retired to stud" concept with eg QHs, Morgans, Arabians.

JESR: (And for all the tons of hay I've moved in my life, I've never once heard any amount of it called a squeeze).

That reads like a back formation from squeeze loader, the modern contraption that allows a single-handed human to pick up a block of hay and set it--well, anywhere, but originally on a truck.

Obligatory definition: only thing that comes to mind is "kerf," the space taken up (or taken out of the stock) by a saw cut.

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