Coffee Break #63

Heard she is on vacation.

Taken by aliens

Just checking in. We are in Michigan now and I'm on our friend's computer, cuz I left my new ipad in the hotel in Boise, Idaho. The front desk guy foun d it and is Fedexing it home to NJ, so, I'll be back in commission then. See you all next week. It has been a wonderful adventure.

Oooh, how lucky, Jan! Weeze is on vacation, she dmailed me......

Glad they found it

and lucky admitted to finding it!

How ya feeling Bill?

feeling a bit better jen - thx

that was nice of them Jan.. hope you are having a wonderful time!!

Going through my canning jars. I have to get on the same items.

Quarts
Ball wide mouth and regular mouth
Golden Harvest wide mouth and regular mouth

Pints
Ball wide mouth and regular mouth
Golden Harvest wide mouth and regular mouth

You have to be a mathamatician to figure out what to buy !!!!

Old jellyjar lid, given to us back in the early 90's by a neighbor who also made the jelly.

Read the wording.

Never saw on like that. If you have a jar with the confederate flag its worth boo coo bucks.

The neighbors were in their 90's but not old enough for any glasses with the Confederate flag!

Things do get handed down and around. You never know.

"Icebox."

What my grandfather called the fridge.

When I was a kid I remember the ice truck coming to deliver ice to a neighbor who still had an icebox.

During WWII the ice 'truck' was horse drawn.

My Dad had a friend called Eddie Ice, because he used to deliver ice for iceboxes......

My dad helped deliver ice as a kid.

Well, there was certainly a need for it! A lot of the ice that was used around here came from Bantam Lake.....there is still a foundation where the ice house was, but the structure is long gone....

If I remember correctly from a History Channel documentary, the large "ice house" storage buildings would use a lot of sawdust around all the ice blocks, as insulation.

By the time the supply started dwindling, autumn would arrive with a new "supply."

I enjoyed the slivers of ice we'd find as the driver was inside delivering the ice. Heavenly on a hot day.

I'm too young to remember Ice boxes, but I remember coal deliveries. I have however seen the remnants of Ice sheds in the woods in upper NY state.

The neighbor who had the ice box also had coal heat. I used to watch my friend shovel the coal into the furnace. We loved standing over the grate in the floor, between living and dining rooms, on really cold days.

They also had a wood stove in the kitchen - not for show, for real!

My grandparents in Omaha had both a frig & an ice bos. Jug of cold water in the fridge as the cold water out of the tap wasn't cold.

I remember ice boxes well. We had one when I was 4 or 5 and I remember the iceman. We also had a wood cookstove. When we moved in 49 we upgraded to a refrigerator and gas range. Here in Hallowell it used to be busy in the trade of ice and granite. The ice (Kennebec Ice) was shipped worldwide. Even into the earlly 60's I remember some farms where I lived that had "spring houses" where they kept the milk cans cool until a delivery man came and picked them up to take them to the cheese factory. A spring house is built over a small running stream (of course spring fed).

Nice memories, Frank! My Grandma had a coal furnace....I would steal a piece & write on the sidewalks....Ran into my birding buddy behind the dam this morning....he was in NH this past weekend as well, & ended up in Kennebunk the morning I left....very small world!

The lake nearby - Rockland Lake, was a major source of ice for NYC. They would cut it and put in on nearby barges to go down the Hudson.

Commercial just made me laugh. Walking by the TV and saw a pretty purple bush plant. All of a sudden a bottle of Lysole pops up. Still chuckling

Last Saturday we attended a big birthday party for a neighbor and a couple from Loudon, NH was at our table - not far from today's birthday girl, Louise!

should have popped into the RU Pirl

How? The party was five houses away from us, Allison, right here in Southold.

I know why they got out of Loudon....it was a big race weekend, I got caught in the traffic on Sunday as I traveled to Maine.....Route 4 in NH was jammed....

oh oh.. sorry misunderstood

Yes, Marilyn, that's true about the races and they said there would be a detour for the trip home due to the races. The local birthday girl and the Loudon girl have known each other and been visiting each other for the last 52 years. They went to college together and never lost touch.

A lot less traveling for us, Allison!

The views were so fantastic.

I can't see anything, that palm tree is in the way.

Bad placement. What can I say?

Here's a collage of the view.

Nice!

Might be some debris in the Hudson River for awhile,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/environment/caution-urged-in-nj-as-wastewater-treatment-plant-fire-sends-raw-sewage-into-hudson-river/2011/07/21/gIQAkkqNSI_story.html

Thats not good. Up here in NH there was a truck crash that had 4 rolls of toilet paper. They were HUGE rolls that was going to be recut to size. They ended up in a small river/stream and poofed up and clogged the stream!