MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Here’s a story I saw today about nursing home residents in Hungary who are able to “visit” Christmas fairs without leaving their beds by using Virtual Reality.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/hungarian-seniors-visit-christmas-fairs-idRW606415122023RP1/
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I have never held a gun in my hands in my life. So no hunting for me, but I’ve gone fishing plenty of times. I do like the taste of game meats though. If I lived out in the country I might have gone hunting by now.
I live in a mid sized city, and there are a lot of animals around. Here’s the herd of deer that I’m thinking about charging rent to. The one who’s staring at me, I remember her. But there are at least 5 other deer in the picture too. I have almost no grass in my yard, it’s all wild flowers and stuff like that. If I mow it at all, it’s about once per year when it rains a lot in the spring. I always tell people my yard is the last remaining piece of prairie land east of the Mississippi.
That doe is a little worried about me, but not too much. I was sitting 20 feet away. She’s seen me before, and she only worries if I’m looking right at her. If I look away, she ignores me and goes back to having her salad. And sometimes she’ll even lay down. I know they sleep back there too. You can’t really tell at this angle, but this pic was taken last May 7th, and she was definitely great with child – Bambi – back then. So maybe next year there’ll be 7 of them.
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Thanks so much for the Livestreams and the whole Advent Calendar! It does feel like I’m getting to know you and your family. You are so close, which is wonderful – watching you smile and laugh the same way, and finish each others’ sentences.
I’m getting to know the Club members better too because of these Livestreams. This was so special. Thanks! You are the best.
I just took the pic below a few minutes ago, but the smile on my face has been there since I joined the Club.
All the best, and much love,
Chris
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Thanks for the recipe Daryl. Sorry – I was joking about hiding it.
That recipe sounds great. It sounds really delicious.
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Daryl,
Sounds to me like that’s a seasonal view. Cooking is one of my hobbies, and I’ve made head cheese before, and I will again sometime – it turned out good. There’s a good butcher in town and he started carrying whole pig’s heads not long ago. At first he wasn’t sure anybody would buy one so he sold them for $5 apiece. I’m like “wow! a week’s worth of food for $5!”
That venison jerky sounds great. I love beef, but would pick venison over beef all day long.
I tried googling studnetz, and did find one recipe, she called it studinetz, and also called it hyshky. My Ukrainian is pretty much limited to Slava Ukraini – so I never heard of either.
https://petroshasblog.wordpress.com/tag/studinetz/
What is your recipe?
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Blissfully quiet, you said.
I remember when I moved from the lake house to where I am now. I’m in a city now, and on a pretty busy road.
It’s funny how sounds and smells can bring back memories. Out on the lake, it was almost totally quiet. In the city, traffic.
The first night I spent in the city, the traffic noise reminded me of being in Bligny-sur-Ouche, (Bligny on the river Ouche), a small town in Burgundy, in France, that I had been in not long before that. It was an old hotel, Les Trois Faisans (the 3 pheasants), which was right on the shoulder of the road.
Funny that it brought me back to that, but that was the last time I had heard that kind of traffic noise. I’ve thought about moving back out to the country, but at this point I don’t think I ever will.
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In Michigan, we call them poplar and cottonwood. If you say Aspen to us, we know it’s a tree, but we think you’re talking about a ski resort. 😄
Cottonwood grow really fast which is why they have a lot of those problems you’re talking about, at least that’s what I’ve always thought.
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Daryl,
That is really nice looking at that fire, and looking out over the deck at the lake.
I used to live on a lake near here that looked like that. I liked that a lot. A lot wilder than the suburbs I grew up in. I remember times when I was growing up where the snow piled on the side of the drive was maybe 9 feet in the air or more. Haven’t seen that in a very long time.
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That looks great in Cologne.
Some people don’t like crowded attractions very much. I understand. I like some of them, some of the time. I went to two American football games this year. I went to a classical music concert a few weeks ago. I love going to the local farmer’s markets, things like that.
I don’t have any little ones around any more who would make a visit to a Christmas fair like that more fun, but I would still go to check it out. But I will see my grand nieces and grand nephews in the next week or so, so that’s good.
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That was great. All the trees lit up in front of the water was a great look, and into the woods.
Very cool. I’ve thought I’d like to visit Vancouver some day. I’ve always thought it must be a beautiful area with the water and the islands and forested mountains.
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Detroit is strong, my friend. It has a ways to go, but it’s working on it.
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Jürgen,
I noticed that you said the markets are built near the cathedrals.
In that picture from New York City, from the place where that shot was taken, St. Patrick’s Cathedral is behind, to the right, about half a block away, maybe 50m.
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Thanks Tim.
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Exactly, Jung. When I expand them, they almost look like they’ve been doctored. Colorized, like old movies, photoshopped, or yes, like Christmas cards. There’s like a sheen to them.
They look great.
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That movie is funny.
My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Carol, with Alastair Sim as Scrooge, from 1951.