Son of Kitchen Table

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 18 - 02:06 PM

Many thanks. Posting that disclosure yesterday
did me the world of good.
Got something off my chest there.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 06:39 PM

(clears throat nervously)

one thing in human history always brings me up short, personally.
It is, being right is more important than being happy.
Also known as: "Well, who won?"

I have a personal story behind "Well, who won?"   
but I'm too sore to draw any joy from it today,
so the story can wait for another time.

There are a number of examples that are so extreme
that I can't even feel righteous or excitable about them,
because the examples are so sickening and obvious to me.
And I thought of starting a thread along this line --
and then thought better of it!

But let me just carefully sum up the example
that seems so obvious to me, then I'll shut up.

That Anabaptist resistance to the established European churches,
which is the roots of today's Mennonite and Amish among others.

I know that the Amish have something, part propaganda and part history, that the title in English
translates to Martyrs' Mirror or close to that.
It is a literary memorial to those who were imprisoned, persecuted,
and in some cases put to death by the authorities,
for their beliefs.

What bugs me the most about this,
is that the persecuted were/are pacifist or non-violent.
What on earth is the point in an attempt at squashing
people who choose not to bear arms or fight in uniform,
people who focus instead on forgiveness or reconciliation?
See,
already I'm losing my nerve here.

So I'm going to post this, and hold my peace.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 06:05 PM

Is this thread too long to resume?

It's just a lovely idea ...
and a little communal warmth is a needed contrast
to the outbreaks of inflammation that infect other threads.
I just looked at one "other-thread" and could only shake my head.

Sore spots getting sorer, sore heads getting sorer. And to what end?
My apartment is too little for a kitchen table.
The one table I have functions as a desk.

Only in my dreams is there a kitchen table in my life.
But I can dream, can't I ...

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 08:57 PM

Butter chicken, no additional spices. I prefer to keep my taste buds intact.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 02 Aug 15 - 06:23 AM

I know what this lovely kitchen space needs. Some curry heating on the stove! What's your favourite?

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 15 - 10:00 PM

It will be finished Saturday. The electrician had a hurry-up call to a Fire Station.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 15 - 10:05 AM

Recently we had most of the lights in the house converted to LED. Ballasts had to be changed and in the closets we had LED fixtures put in. The light seems to be brighter (and the kitchen floor looks dirtier). My office, with a new paint job and carpet and an additional 2x2 LED ceiling lamp, is BRIGHT!! I can read the titles of my books! The work should, I hope, be finished today.

It's been pricey to do this all at once, but worth it in better light. Our electrical usage (and bill!) should decrease by a third or half. I shouldn't need to change bulbs for 25 years, which is just fine with me!

We did it after considering the down side (cost and a slight mess) against the benefits. I'd recommend it, even in stages, for everyone.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 10:41 PM

I'm still around.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 10:27 PM

Unseasonably cool in all of those places?

I made an observation today on my way to work. There is this ugly building that was a closed daycare, but it didn't look like that was its best or first use. I haven't driven that route for a while, but today there it was, freshly painted with a dark red stain and with a sign for a barbecue restaurant. And I realized then that all of my favorite local restaurants are in ugly buildings. Particularly the good barbecue places. So I may just have to give this place a try.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 08:58 PM

Here as well.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 06:14 PM

Here.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 03:54 PM

Now that's a nice idea Acme! Let's make a start. Oh, by the way, we won't be coming in to cool off here. Unseasonably cold with a nasty wind blowing!

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 15 - 01:36 PM

How many of the kitchen table gang are still visiting mudcat, looking for the old friendly conversations? This seemed to be a good thread to resurrect during the heat of summer, when you might be taking time away from chores to cool off in the house.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 11:48 AM

Hi Jerry, how lovely to see you back in the kitchen, any sign of the two Joes yet? Be careful shovelling that snow. No snow here in the Eastern part of the UK but we certainly had quite a lot around Christmas time!
Going to get a bowl of soup, throw a log on the fire and hope to hear some of your lovely stories, it's catch up time!
Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 06:20 PM

Ity's been so lang awaning that I plumb forgot about this thread. Waddon Pete of Oh Waddon Night tipped me off.

I was thinking of the two Joes last weekend when we had 18 inches of heavy snow. They were nowhere to be found. The snow is now piled almost six feet high on the sides of my driveway and it's a push for me to throw the newly shoveled snow on top of it. Half of it comes rushing back down to the driveway in miniature avalanches.

Today is the first day I haven't shoveled snow in a week. I can't say I minded.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:30 PM

Have just had a very nice dinner of fish & chips followed by the last of the Christmas puddings smothered in cream with a little drop of brandy. And went to the library yesterday and got a lovely selection of books to read at bedtime. Little pleasures keep us going during the winter months.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 11:11 AM

Well, so there you are! And the door was open- how nice. Toasty, too. I like winter but it's gone a bit overboard so far this year.

I'll have a cup of coffee- just straight, please. Thanks, I'll bring this chair over.

Good to see that you're all looking hale and chipper. Was it Jerry who left the door open? 'Twould be like him.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 10:08 AM

Home made soup will always lure me in. Good to see the kitchen spruced up again. I agree with you, Eliza, it is good to have a thread to relax in away from the cut and thrust of opinion, bias and debate!

Welcome back BillyBob, I was afraid you had gone bush. Sorry to hear about the difficult times. Draw your chair near to the fire and relax in our companionship!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:44 AM

I do think this Kitchen Table idea is excellent. Some of the postings in other threads do get a bit unpleasant and heated, which can be hurtful if taken too far. This seems to be relaxing and friendly, not confrontational. So nice of you to hold 'open house' in your kitchen, and I did like the soup very much!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:38 AM

help yourself my dear there is enough for all!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:47 AM

Hello there! Yes, your coffee smells good billybob. Glad you're feeling better now, hope 2011 will be a good year for you. May I try some of your soup please? (I adore soup!)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:39 AM

Just got back into the kitchen after a long time away, place was full of cobwebs so I have had a good spring clean, lit the fire and put some homemade soup on the stove. Hot coffee brewing so I will sit here in my favourite armchair and see who comes in.Sure that the smell of the coffee will lure you in! Need a good old gossip to catch up as I had a really difficalt few months before Christmas but feeling much better now!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 10 Jul 10 - 12:50 PM

No indeed...thanks for the tip....but I thought he would have been in to try some of the cake....it's very good!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 04:43 PM

if you click on his name Pete you can see what he's posted to most recently.

4th July 2010 was his last post so he has not vanished.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 04:40 PM

Thanks for the cake Wendy...just what was needed. Good to hear everyone's news. Indeed, Jerry's story was good...but has anyone seen him lately?

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 02:27 PM

YAY Maggie! so glad that peeps are not letting things like those playbills find their way to landfills.

Wendy... sorry I missed all your news in the spring. glad bill is back in work and liking it.

nice snow Joe story, Jerry.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 02:08 PM

I can count coups this time: I was at an estate sale in the neighborhood last week, and spotted a table covered with old playbills from local theaters. I bought the lot (about 100 pounds, in four boxes) for $35. I work at a university library and will donate them to the Special Collections, after I've sorted them and done a general appraisal (via eBay search on some of them, then generalizing). Though no cash will exchange hands, I'll take a tax deduction for the donation on my itemized taxes. And the library will have a really first rate collection of playbills (the widow kept them because they thought they were important: her husband had been a founding member of one of these theaters. I'll donate this in their names, I found her obituary and spoke with her son, so who knows, there may be more papers to join these.) Somehow the family just couldn't deal with all of this paper so it was sold by the estate sale folks. The family kept a lot of other stuff, but they're thrilled that these things are going to a Special Collection in the area.

This is important and interesting local history. I love it!

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 12:16 PM

Just came in, this kitchen needed a good sweep round did some dusting and put the coffee on there is a cake on the table and iced tea for those who want to cool down!
Good news Billy is in his new job and really enjoying it, my father was in hospital for a month in April but is home again and getting stronger day by day, not bad for 90!
My son played the lead in South Pacific and got standing ovations.
there is my news, going to sit in the corner and see who comes in!
Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 10 - 01:48 PM

My son will graduate from high school next week, so we're busy finishing all of the bits of things for high school, and getting all of his paperwork in place for college (University of Arizona, full scholarship). Beginning to suggest (ardently) that he contact last summer's employer and express an interest in work. Otherwise, I have a lot of chores around here, and I don't pay. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Nathan Moore
Date: 23 May 10 - 09:34 PM

Hey Jerry and the rest of the folks at the kitchen table:

It's been awhile...Life's been busy with gigs, practices, a baby, a job and all the rest of the stuff that keeps one running around and around in circles. I thought I'd just stop in here this evening for a peaceful moment or two.

Hope everyone's enjoying the spring.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 05 May 10 - 06:30 AM

We've had the same further north Pete - except the "warm" sunshine! It's still a tad cool up here. In fact this week I've got a fleece and the fan heater on in my office and I'd not used either for about a month prior to that and certainly not both at once.

Pah!

Roll on summer :-)

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 04 May 10 - 10:18 AM

We forget, don't we....ne'er cast a clout 'til May is out!

A rare mix of weather here. Warm sunshine, followed by rain, strong winds and hail, more warm sunshine and an overnight frost!

Growing okra sounds fun....

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 04 May 10 - 08:46 AM

Oh good, I haven't been able to access the old thread for about 6 months now I guess and I rarely go "below the line", so I've only just tripped over this thread.

It's nice to be back in passing, I'll pop in later after work.

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 10 - 07:02 PM

Gray, cloudy, and likely to snow overnight.

This is May??? This folk, like Chaucer wrote, "longeth to go on pilgrimages" -- to someplace warm and sunny.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 May 10 - 06:48 PM

Now we're into May and I'm sitting under a passing thunderstorm. Not a hovering wet mass like in KY, TN, MS. Just enough to water the newly dug and planted garden.

I've been planting according to what I want to eat, but also according to what I want to give away. Any other gardeners who work this way? It seems so easy, there's a spot where you can stick something so you might as well. I'm going to grow okra this year, and my next door neighbor, who hasn't had good luck growing it, will show me how to cook it (not boiled!) in exchange for probably eating most of what grows. Seems they get pretty tall down here.

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 01:29 PM

Kind of the luck of the draw, I imagine. April, just about anywhere, can be volatile. I remember one year when I was living at the Oregon coast when MARCH, of all things, was so warm that the sand stung bare feet.

(Take lots of water along.)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:58 PM

I'm crossing fingers that, even in early April, the temp doesn't spike real high; the averages aren't too bad, but the highs and lows on record are pretty high and pretty low.
Gotta take the Camry title into our insurance office, and a few other odds and ends, before I let myself mess around here for too much of the afternoon.
                        Dean

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:41 PM

You know, Dean, it's odd but I've never been in Death Valley. I have roamed around in the Mojave desert and found it most interesting. This was in February one year- wouldn't have tried in July or August. On that same trip, my favorite town was Needles, California. Except for its water.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:38 PM

Nutty cinnamin rolls? I knew something would motivate me to stop leaning around the door here, and sit down at the table. A cup of java, with a little cream, please? Actually I made about 4 attempts to drop a word in here last evening, but nobody would listen to me. (never found it so impossible to get a post to enter). I do keep hanging around here, though. Life's been fine for me lately, but nothing has amounted to "news" beyond "I have another shift at the gallery this afternoon".
Just now I have to be shopping for a car. I didn't expect to do that for a couple of years, until my wife pulled out of our subdivision Monday morning with an oncoming car traveling much faster than she anticipated. No one hurt at all, but scratch a nice '04 Camry and a Buick a few years older. So I have to balance that with sorting out reservations and itinerary for a little journey to Las Vegas and Death Valley next month.
                   Dean

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 11:01 AM

Whew! The air out there is crisp and cold, and on the ground this morning is a thin blanket of crunchy snow, the first we have had in a month or more. Any hot chocolate left? I brought a pan of my nutty cinnamon rolls. Help yourselves,

I've thought about your Two Joes, Jerry. A decade from now that day will be one of the stories they tell their kids. :)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 10:31 AM

Hey, Wendy: Sorry to hear about Bill. Who ever thought that being retired was the best protection against losing your job? The GM plant in my hometown closed last summer, and the town is really suffering. I keep in touch with people there, but there's not much good news. There was an article on the news about a man who took a job at another GM plant 1,000 miles away. He's married and has kids and he's just four years from retirement, so he's chosen to live with another man from my home town, sharing an apartment and getting home for the weekend, driving back and forth.

Maybe the job market that has the greatest potential for growth is processing unemployment claims.

We send you all good wishes and prayers.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 07:17 AM

Thanks peter.I am sure bill will get somehing if not I Can train him. To do massage in the salon!what would the. Ladies of frinton think!!   Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:40 AM

Positive thoughts winging their way, Wendy. With all your experience, I'm sure you'll find a niche somewhere.

Nil desperado carborundum!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,b illybob
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:25 AM

Oops that was me on my. New phone. Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:22 AM

Sunny here too peter but doom and gloom, bills company closing sales dept so he will be redundant end of april!positive thoughts needed doing cv this morning. Strong coffee please.                                  Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 05:46 AM

The response I used to get from my Mum was, "Why? Why? 'coz pig's can't fly!"

Lovely sunny day here, but cold!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: maeve
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 12:13 PM

Woody Guthrie asked, "Why Oh Why? too!

m

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 12:01 PM

What is the answer to "why?" My kids used to drive me nuts responding to every answer I could think of with another question, "why." The best answer I could finally come up with was "Because I'm your father and I say so!"

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:16 AM

A Bob Dylan question for you all:

If the true answer to All Questions is "Blowing In The Wind" (having replaced "Love" and narrowly beating out "E-none of the above" in recent polls), shouldn't he have written, "You don't need an answering machine to know which way the wind blows..."?

Too many syllables, I guess, though that never stopped him before...


I'll have the usual two sugar-free Razz-Muffins and and a cup of coffee with just cream and rest a spell, thank you....

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:04 AM

Thanks, Wendy: We had another, muchy lighter snow since the night the two Joes shoveled my driveway. They didn't show up, and I wouldn't have hired them anyway, but it would have been fun to see them. I think they were still exhausted from shoveling that heavy snow.

We're still getting light snow briefly on most days here in Southern Connecticut, but it ain't scaring anyone. It doesn't last long. It's about as terrifying as the rose in The Little Prince who bragged that she could tear a tiger to shreds with her thorns. :-)

Jerry