Norms Bait and Tackle

patricia19 · July 22, 2021, 01:15:48 PM

MaryPage, what's a measly 4,162 miles trip between friends? Or a 73 hour, 19 minute car ride?

In any case, enjoy that scrumptious meal! And please tell me what is shore jam, or do I want to know?

I'm another with a bag filled with gift bags and a whole lot of colored tissue paper!

Shall I tell you I crossed that thirty-first birthday about 29 years ago? Lets let it be our secret,

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 01:56:06 PM

We're now going to see if MaryPage's instructions are as perfect as they seem. (But don't forget what a dunce I am!)

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 01:57:05 PM

Still didn't work for me, but thanks everyone for trying to help out this dunce.

Cottoncandy · July 22, 2021, 02:29:38 PM

Tome...same here...I can't get the size or color.....CC

CallieOK · July 22, 2021, 03:00:31 PM

Tome and CottonCandy, After you type in the b, size, color - look to see where your cursor (I think that's what it's called) is flashing click on it and type there. It should be between the brackets around color and /color.

Beverly, so great to see you here. I'm so very sorry about your health issues and offer Congratulations on the new Great-Grand.

Patricia, There used to be a magic bus that would cyber-pick us up to go around the country. Maybe you could get that going again and we could all show up at the restaurant in Maryland.

MaryPage, what a delightful time you had at Bru-Mar. I'm unable to go to the Farmer's Market here any more and it's Peach season in Oklahoma, too.
I'm also curious about Traffic Jam.

Domestic Duties are the Plan du Jour and I have a few more to do.

Wishing Everyfriend Everywhere an Enjoyable Day.

patricia19 · July 22, 2021, 03:14:34 PM

Starting from the left, click once on the B. Next click once on the blue Capital A. Then click once on the blue capital A with a red arrow next to it on the left. If you want a color, click once on the squared group of colors after the second blue capital A with the red arrow.

Each time you click on one of these, a selection drops down and you need to pick one of the items to use from the selection. You do not want and spaces between your words any of the coding.

Marilyne · July 22, 2021, 03:21:06 PM

Joanne/Tome - I sent you an email with instructions that might be easier to follow?

Cottoncandy - If it works for Tome, I'll send you email too.

MaryPage · July 22, 2021, 03:21:52 PM

Oh, when I said "Shore Jam," Patricia, it was not the name of one of the jams. I meant ALL of the jams that were for sale at my local nursery, as they were made on the Eastern Shore.

On the other hand, "Traffic Jam" was indeed the name of one of their products, Callie, and I did buy and bring home a jar for my granddaughter. The sticker on it says it is made up of a fruit blend: peaches, strawberries, red raspberries, cranberries, sugar and pectin. I have copied down EXactly what that sticker says, including the words "fruit blend". Sounds like someone threw together some leftovers after a day of jam making, and liked the results. There may not even be a recipe. Likely not, I'll bet!

They had "Toe Jam" for sale, as well and all, and Chip pointed out to me that his brother, my son Rob, gave me a jar of that a few years back. And that I liked it. I did feel a sense of deja vu, but could not recall the way Chip did. Well, Rob lives here in Maryland; 45 minutes (at most) from us in one of those planned towns, this one called Columbia. It turned out to be a huge success, that place.

patricia19 · July 22, 2021, 03:23:25 PM

Callie, we do need a magic flying bus!

Homemade jams, preserves, and jellies are big business here as well at the local farmers' markets, local stores such as the Loose Moose and The Great Alaskan Bowl Company as well as sold at Alaskaland and various ethnic markets. You may also purchase some through exchanges with multiple local farms. Besides the usual jellies, meat jellies, flower and or spice jams and jellies are also on offer.

MaryPage · July 22, 2021, 03:52:28 PM

We had a flying school bus that went around the country and picked up folks who were headed for the Pennsylvania Bash in Williamsport in 2001. For some reason I cannot now recall, there were some cage of chickens on that old bus, and some of them had gotten loose. Pat Scott, as she was then, was the bus driver. What a talented lady! She played the piano like a professional, and really banged it out for a bunch of us, me strictly in the audience, did line dancing. I remember Gladys Barry in the front middle of the line of the several lines of dancers stepping away at about a trillion miles an hour. Gladys was older than God at that point in time, and she danced away as though she were only fifteen!

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 03:54:34 PM

We had a ladies craft sale here once a year at Christmas time. It was a divine thing to go to. If you went during the day, for a paltry sum, you could get a home made sandwich, drink and a dessert of some kind. Then you wandered thru the house to see the beautiful handsewn crafts. One of their special jams/jellies was one called "Christmas Brunch Jam". Made from Cranberries, Pineapple, Apple & Lemon Juice. No recipe attached or given, could have been just an accident of nature or the wee fairies tossed in the various fruits. Oh, my, it was delicious; on your breakfast toast, a scone or just a slice of bread and peanut butter. I still have about a quarter inch of it in the jar, and am being parsimonious with it because when it's gone...well, that will be that. I know they had to cease the Sale because of Covid in 2020 and doubt that it will be up again this year.

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 04:00:35 PM

We shall see if this works, I truly hope so!

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 04:01:20 PM

Wow! I did it, I did it. (with lots of help, I might add)

MaryPage · July 22, 2021, 04:06:06 PM

Let's hear it for Tomereader!
Three cheers!

Amy · July 22, 2021, 04:06:47 PM

Way to go Tome, you did it!!!

MarsGal · July 22, 2021, 05:53:14 PM

I just received my e-newsletter from The Guardian. In it they have a big article on the Siberian fires. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-on-fire-siberia-hit-by-unprecedented-burning

Cottoncandy · July 22, 2021, 06:56:34 PM

Tome good job CC

MaryPage · July 22, 2021, 08:57:08 PM

Yeah! Three cheers for Cotton Candy as well!
Hip, hip Hurrah!

And three for Marilyne for being a great teacher! Woo hoo!

patricia19 · July 22, 2021, 09:52:25 PM

I posted two photos onsite showing the smoke in town, not from any Alaskan fires, but from the Siberian fires. All the world is either set ablaze or flooded.

RAMMEL · July 22, 2021, 10:50:50 PM

Get on board -------------------Quick
I think this is the wrong bus.

Tomereader1 · July 22, 2021, 11:51:59 PM

Not the Clampetts, but a dandy group. Wish I could have been on any of the Bash Buses!

Marilyne · July 23, 2021, 12:17:51 AM

Wonderful "picture" of a busload of Senior Netters! I recognize more faces than I do names. I see Jenny and Shirley, and I think Bunny? Ruth Ann in the back, and maybe Mary Page, wearing the pink blouse? I don't recognize any of the men? I was a member back then, but never made it to a bash.

RAMMEL · July 23, 2021, 12:48:56 AM

I think Glen is on the hood, and I'm on the upper deck.

Vanilla-Jackie · July 23, 2021, 02:29:37 AM

Rammel - All...that is one bus i never made it onto, think a tad before i joined, although i do recognise many of the smiling faces...Oh so this is the rickety old bus our Joan FL was always on about that would collect everyone from all corners of the globe...Now if my eyes aren't playing up, do i see a black, white and brown dogs face crouched in behind the wheel, behind, NOT at the wheel...

so_P_bubble · July 23, 2021, 08:40:06 AM

Vanilla, could that be Gordie (sp?)?

Vanilla-Jackie · July 23, 2021, 08:48:34 AM

Bubble... Is anyone else seeing what i am seeing, a dog in the centre...with large black nose, white beard and white above each eye..somehow a dog crept on board....

RAMMEL · July 23, 2021, 09:22:05 AM

QuoteBubble... Is anyone else seeing what i am seeing, a dog in the centre...with large black nose, white beard and white above each eye..somehow a dog crept on board....

I see it.

MaryPage · July 23, 2021, 10:22:04 AM

Not I in the pink blouse. Never owned that. Wore/wear glasses. Can see why you might think it I, but twasn't. See about mebbe 3 or 4 familiar faces, but this was not a bus I took.

Our bus had Pat Scott behind the wheel and chickens scattered around and falling off the bus and it was a bright yellow school bus.

What was the name of that brewery we practically lived in that week? Right across the street from the hotel. Did it have "frog" in the name? Am I losing my mind? Don't answer that!

I went to the last Bash, the 20th Anniversary Bash, and it really wasn't one. It was a Senior Net Convention held at a hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, which is right handy to me as it is part of the Washington, DC, Virginia, Baltimore megalopolis here. I felt quite uneasy, albeit there being quite a few people there whom I knew, though I did not have the brains to figure out Senior Net was on the wane. I remember going to a Spanish Tapas restaurant with a bunch of friends, and navigating in the dark for Mary Howland driving, and I got us lost, though not much. Anyone else here who was there? Bob & I went to the Virginia Bash in Richmond in May of 2004, but he got sick and we had to leave after one night. I remember we had dinner that 1st night with India & Sparky. Gladys was there, and Eloise, Joan Grimes, Doug & Pat Howe, Adrienne, Ginger, and many others.

RAMMEL · July 23, 2021, 11:02:34 AM

Quote from: MaryPage on July 23, 2021, 10:22:04 AMNot I in the pink blouse. Never owned that. Wore/wear glasses. Can see why you might think it I, but twasn't. See about mebbe 3 or 4 familiar faces, but this was not a bus I took.

Our bus had Pat Scott behind the wheel and chickens scattered around and falling off the bus and it was a bright yellow school bus.

I think this was the "Camp Bus" but the one you mention was the "Bash Bus". I remember it but haven't found it on my computer yet. I thought I lost pictures when my computer crashed but after rummaging around my hard drive I found some. I'll keep looking

patricia19 · July 23, 2021, 11:42:27 AM

The dog Geordie was Pat Scott's dog, who went everywhere with her and was from her first marriage to Jack. He had given Geordie to Pat.

I am on that bus, the redhead second row, bottom left. There are so many faces I recognize and remember from long ago! This was when Glen was teaching many of us in PSP how to do so many fun projects.

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