Son of Kitchen Table

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: maeve
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 06:14 PM

Here.

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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 15 - 10:41 PM

I'm still around.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 02 Sep 18 - 02:06 PM

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