[robtcorl]

but before the ravenous hoards of biting, chewing, blood sucking atrocities take to the air.

Lawyers, up there, can fly?

[robtcorl]

Yep, we might even get snow on Wednesday.....grrrrrr

High of 70F today, high of 41F tomorrow with rain changing to snow and a low of 32F.
Our area is supposed to only get a dusting.

[SOS7]

Backwards compatibility is strongest suit Pentax have...

[Racer X 69]

Backwards compatibility is strongest suit Pentax have...

Bacon.

Makes every Pentax camera backwards compatible.

Get some.

[stevebrot]

Backwards compatibility is strongest suit Pentax have...

Bacon.

Makes every Pentax camera backwards compatible.

Get some.

...the LIVE HOCIR likes the smell too.


Steve

[bertwert]

Backwards compatibility is strongest suit Pentax have...

It certainly is a real strong point, now some of them modern lenses are pretty strong suits of Pentax too, like that fancy D FA* 50... I think there's even a giveaway going on for that, encouraging posting, I wonder if you'd happen to know about that?

[robtcorl]

I think there's even a giveaway going on for that, encouraging posting

So that's why strangers keep showing up at our door, very astute observation young man.

[lesmore49]

When I was a kid my grandparents' house was about a half mile from a DeMonte plant that made, among other products, ketchup. The smell was unbelievably mouth watering.
I'll put on a big ol pot of boiling water.

Back in the late '50's, very early '60's in my part of town, there were still a few small stores that catered to people's basic food needs.

There was a butcher, a baker, not a candle stick maker that I can recall, but there was a fruiterer.

The wares they offered always seemed a bit better, than grocery stores.

As a kid if I had the price of admission, I would stop off at the bakery...to get an eccles Cake or maybe a jambuster...or a large glazed donut. They were delicious .

As I came close to the bakery....the aroma would emanate out of the shop....it would draw me in...I found I would suddenly be in the bakery...only because the little door bell had tinkled .

I would search my pockets for a dime, one thin dime and get ...usually...an eccles cake.

Now at the supermarket bakery, they may have jambusters...but usually with ersatz jam, rarely an eccles cake, and when it comes to donuts, you usually have to buy a six pack of donuts that to me, just don't taste like the donuts of yore.

In my suburb of over 100,000 people, I don't think there is one, old fashioned bakery left. Can't compete with prices of a supermarket I suppose, but unfortunately the supermarkets can't compete with the taste treats of an old fashioned, small bakery.

Just my bobservation.

[lesmore49]

I'm sure he did, he's a fart smeller, I mean smart feller.

I see you have the same, unfortunate tendency to get words all mixed up, as I do. Must be something to do with either advanced age, or being a Bob...I lean towards being a Bob.

[lesmore49]

Gramps got bitten a lot. Once when coming back from working in the woods he complained over an itchy back, and when he pulled off his shirt a viper fell out

......and then it was Grandma's Viper fazool soup the next day...with the viper meatballs .....floating in the mix. Right ?

[lesmore49]

Careful so you don't sprain anything, Bob

Too late...I think I sprained a frontal lobe....ouch....it only hurts when I think...

[lesmore49]

Amazon used to sell crocodile biltong, but it's no longer available. Not that it matters, because they refuse to send anything but books to Norway anyway. I have no idea why. They let me put stuff in the cart, even telling me shipping will be free, but at checkout time they've decided that this item can't be shipped to that destination. And, of course, if they do ship (books only) there's always a shipping fee, usually considerably higher than the value of what you want to buy.

Oh, sorry, that's not true. They still haven't charged for shipping of ebooks

My daughter and her family used to live in Newfoundland and shipping was not always possible there. Also getting in and out of NL ...flying, by ship...is sometimes held up by weather.

Norway does surprise me a bit.

[robtcorl]

eccles

Another word in my quest to learn a foreign language, Canadian.

[lesmore49]

Another word in my quest to learn a foreign language, Canadian.

...and I'm here to help you in your quest to learn a foreign language. BTW when we're finished, you'll be....bilingual....fluent in both American and Canadian.

Now the first step... 'eh'.

Eh is a spoken interjection used in Canadianese, and would be...' excuse me'.....'please repeat that' ......(please is never optional in Canadian) and it roughly translates to American....as....'huh'.

Eh....is quite complex as it can also be effectively used to as a way for the speaker to express solidarity, with the listener about an opinion or explanation.

Essentially eh can be used to say ....hey we're on the same page...eh ?

Another example of this use of 'eh' would be:

' Parallax seems to boil all foods...eh ?'

Eccles cakes...definition.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8...v8tZ6_V7KVxlZb

[Parallax]

Eh is a spoken interjection used in Canadianese, and would be...' excuse me'.....'please repeat that' ......(please is never optional in Canadian) and it roughly translates to American....as....'huh'.

Eh....is quite complex as it can also be effectively used to as a way for the speaker to express solidarity, with the listener about an opinion or explanation.

Essentially eh can be used to say ....hey we're on the same page...eh ?

Interesting. Apparently I'm bilingual and didn't know it. It's the same in this part (upper Midwest) of 'merica with a slight variation. Here that would be we're on the same page...hey?

' Parallax seems to boil all foods...eh ?'

Not all, but I did just finished a supper of ribs and biscuits dontchaknow. Alternatively, in regional linguistics, "I just finished a supper of ribs and biscuits, I did"
(Yes, I boiled them before finishing them in the oven. My apologies to #1)