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1957 Ford? My parents had a 58 Ford. I had already learned something about driving because from an 8-9 year old, I was the person driving the hay truck while Dad and Bro stacked the bales. (We went back to Dad driving later ;).) For some reason, it was the Dodge pickup that I first drove out...

The origins of words are a good place to start the mental wheels turning – etymology. I mispronounce words, commonly. That is common to hard of hearing people. Looking at the word "harbinger," i realized that it doesn't have 3 "r's!" Har-bringer is not correct. Perhaps "arriving before" is a...

I seem .. . to have .. . struck the right chord with @flowerbug :D!

DirtMechanic, it looks like you may be on the opposite side of Birmingham from Cullman County. I should have a news source for that place. We now have a very dear and longtime friend who lives there. She grew up there and after the passing of her husband, returned to be near family. Elderly, I...

Early in the Industrial Revolution and .. . about the same time as Watt's improvement on the steam engine and .. . Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. Steve

Prompted by @Dahlia 's post on tomatoes, I have been reading about grilled cheese sandwiches. :D. Okay, that might have been an alternative to the corner of last night's cornbread in almond milk that I had for breakfast (along with a canned peach). I mentioned somewhere about the similarities...

Liniers comics often feature the ocean and the little girl reading books. "...they could have been parts of a story or a play." A couple of weeks ago, Liniers was on Poe's A Dream within a Dream (LINK).

Flavor is likely very complex, probably includes a combination of proteins, minerals and starches. That sentence indicates that I really don't know anything about it ;). But ... I'm gonna guess that sugar is only a part of the complexity. If sweetness is high, other flavorful compounds may be...

For those of you experiencing the Winter Cold!

Yesterday, the sun was out and shining all day! Today, we had afternoon sun. The clouds and fog blew away just about noon. It was 15°f (-9°C) this morning and didn't rise above freezing but it sure was a pretty afternoon with sun & blue sky. In the weather 2026 thread, I related how we...

I had an interesting dream this morning. I woke up and thought, "that was so realistic but totally unlike what is the normal way things happen. So different but maybe it could work like that. I just don't know ..." Thirty minutes later, I was trying to remember what it was and didn't even have...

24 January 1848 – James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento. The result is the California Gold Rush.