Very fascinating points about corn and soybeans and land use. Huh!!!
Also I happily picked option 5. And my “something else” is that while I’m not a big bean eater, if things ever got dire I could live on just a few bucks day, food-wise, if I just bought a big old bag of beans and a bag of rice. Even here in NYC where prices are crazy! It’s very reassuring.
I was happy to see you got your chance at option 5 :)
One more thing about things getting dire. My post tomorrow is a bit light-hearted about people who worry about things getting dire...you will find a source of coffee with quite a shelf-life :)
In re: prices, I would imagine that Amazon has been VERY DISRUPTIVE to the city merchants. They seem to be willing to deliver almost anything it seems. They are one of the primary investors in Rivian, an electric truck maker and they are making a custom delivery van for them to lower their costs and reduce their pollution footprint in major cities. I would imagine a city like NYC would be a great application for electric delivery vans.
When I fantasize of about a great meal, it doesn't have any beans. My wife's turkey dinner is number one. Turkey, homemade dressing, mashed potatoes, freshly baked rolls, and the rest of my family love her rutabagas and sweet potatoes. And don't forget the pumpkin pie. Of course, that might explain the weight difference between you and me. How does the phrase "you are what you eat" relate to this?
On the critique side, I still don't think you reread your writing. There were about three instances when I believe that there was a missing word in a sentence.
I think for a multitude of reasons, Thanksgiving is so wonderful. Cathy also makes rutabagaas and I'm sure I never had them before meeting her. I love them now and have probably written about them. In all seriousness, if I eat what you describe my blood glucose would approach 400 I am afraid. Being insulin resistant has become a big limiter on eating for me. I sample almost everything now. I also take a day off for holidays but having a meal like that is almost impossible for me nowadays.
I love pumpkin pie and sometimes make them from fresh pumpkin now just for fun. I review the writing but I'm sure some clumsiness sneaks through. The red bubble from Grammarly at the end of my posts get reviewed for every issue. When I begin using the pro version I know there will be legions of new things to think about. Onward...
As I reread what I wrote, I am also guilty of not rereading before I send my words of wisdom out to the masses .So far my miscues may have caused groans (from my wife and Mr. Brooks), shaking of heads, and questions, but thank goodness nothing serious.
There is a wonderful difference between what you are doing here and being critical for critical sake. I understood your points in the first comment so it just doesn't matter to me. If Scott looks in the comments (TR lover), he will note that you and I in this far corner of the internet are in the arena as Teddy Roosevelt describes taking a cut. Whether we make small mistakes is not the point to me. I read Chuck's writing nightly and in the beginnning there were stylistic phrases that I did not care for. The truth is, that is about me. He writes for himself and now I just read it for joy. Hehe will never become a phrase in my blog. I might throw in "you are what you eat" For me that is a throwaway phrase and probably could have been chopped. My joke that ususally follows and I think I wrote it when I did Roast Beef on Weck is that if the phrase is true, eating rump roast is a bad choice :)
Thank you so much! The digressions and tangents, for me, are my version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. When I am in the moment, they feel great when they end up in my cloud draft. I now write about 4000 words a week and I feel great about it. I would not trade "catching a few extra bits of clumsiness" for the 4000 words of exploration I get out of this. I shade toward technology and believe my writing is improving. That may seem like opinon to some but I get a weekly report from Grammarly and its synopsis tells me I'm on the right track. Thanks for the lift.
I have considered a roadmap at the top. In my career which included lots of technical writing there was the imperative to be repetitive and to make that first paragraph an executive summary. This sort of writing, in my eye, delights in the surprise as the arc of the story emerges. Some people like to read the same sorts of things all the time. They do not wish for surprise. When I meet people who tell me they've read the same book 100s of times it amazes me. I don't discount it but rather prviately try to process how that could ever make sense for me.
I believe the modern world and the balkanized media has begun to reinforce the same untruths over and over until they become resident in us. Finding a way to be surprised I believe is good for all of us. All the better if it CONFLICTS with what we think. I don't expect others to take what I write at face value. I would imagine very few of my readers are slow cooking two pounds of pinto beans today. I would further wager that at best 1-2 of them might inquire for a recipe. All of that is okay.
Very fascinating points about corn and soybeans and land use. Huh!!!
Also I happily picked option 5. And my “something else” is that while I’m not a big bean eater, if things ever got dire I could live on just a few bucks day, food-wise, if I just bought a big old bag of beans and a bag of rice. Even here in NYC where prices are crazy! It’s very reassuring.
I was happy to see you got your chance at option 5 :)
One more thing about things getting dire. My post tomorrow is a bit light-hearted about people who worry about things getting dire...you will find a source of coffee with quite a shelf-life :)
In re: prices, I would imagine that Amazon has been VERY DISRUPTIVE to the city merchants. They seem to be willing to deliver almost anything it seems. They are one of the primary investors in Rivian, an electric truck maker and they are making a custom delivery van for them to lower their costs and reduce their pollution footprint in major cities. I would imagine a city like NYC would be a great application for electric delivery vans.
Ever other vehicle on the NYC streets is now an Amazon van.
Looking forward the post!
One of my son's works at a company that makes ethanol. The land use is BONKERS :)
Farmland in Iowa is 10K an acre with nothing but 🌽 everywhere.
If u get tired of rice n beans just poach a chicken 🍗 -- Thanks for commenting!
When I fantasize of about a great meal, it doesn't have any beans. My wife's turkey dinner is number one. Turkey, homemade dressing, mashed potatoes, freshly baked rolls, and the rest of my family love her rutabagas and sweet potatoes. And don't forget the pumpkin pie. Of course, that might explain the weight difference between you and me. How does the phrase "you are what you eat" relate to this?
On the critique side, I still don't think you reread your writing. There were about three instances when I believe that there was a missing word in a sentence.
I think for a multitude of reasons, Thanksgiving is so wonderful. Cathy also makes rutabagaas and I'm sure I never had them before meeting her. I love them now and have probably written about them. In all seriousness, if I eat what you describe my blood glucose would approach 400 I am afraid. Being insulin resistant has become a big limiter on eating for me. I sample almost everything now. I also take a day off for holidays but having a meal like that is almost impossible for me nowadays.
I love pumpkin pie and sometimes make them from fresh pumpkin now just for fun. I review the writing but I'm sure some clumsiness sneaks through. The red bubble from Grammarly at the end of my posts get reviewed for every issue. When I begin using the pro version I know there will be legions of new things to think about. Onward...
As I reread what I wrote, I am also guilty of not rereading before I send my words of wisdom out to the masses .So far my miscues may have caused groans (from my wife and Mr. Brooks), shaking of heads, and questions, but thank goodness nothing serious.
There is a wonderful difference between what you are doing here and being critical for critical sake. I understood your points in the first comment so it just doesn't matter to me. If Scott looks in the comments (TR lover), he will note that you and I in this far corner of the internet are in the arena as Teddy Roosevelt describes taking a cut. Whether we make small mistakes is not the point to me. I read Chuck's writing nightly and in the beginnning there were stylistic phrases that I did not care for. The truth is, that is about me. He writes for himself and now I just read it for joy. Hehe will never become a phrase in my blog. I might throw in "you are what you eat" For me that is a throwaway phrase and probably could have been chopped. My joke that ususally follows and I think I wrote it when I did Roast Beef on Weck is that if the phrase is true, eating rump roast is a bad choice :)
Thank you so much! The digressions and tangents, for me, are my version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. When I am in the moment, they feel great when they end up in my cloud draft. I now write about 4000 words a week and I feel great about it. I would not trade "catching a few extra bits of clumsiness" for the 4000 words of exploration I get out of this. I shade toward technology and believe my writing is improving. That may seem like opinon to some but I get a weekly report from Grammarly and its synopsis tells me I'm on the right track. Thanks for the lift.
I have considered a roadmap at the top. In my career which included lots of technical writing there was the imperative to be repetitive and to make that first paragraph an executive summary. This sort of writing, in my eye, delights in the surprise as the arc of the story emerges. Some people like to read the same sorts of things all the time. They do not wish for surprise. When I meet people who tell me they've read the same book 100s of times it amazes me. I don't discount it but rather prviately try to process how that could ever make sense for me.
I believe the modern world and the balkanized media has begun to reinforce the same untruths over and over until they become resident in us. Finding a way to be surprised I believe is good for all of us. All the better if it CONFLICTS with what we think. I don't expect others to take what I write at face value. I would imagine very few of my readers are slow cooking two pounds of pinto beans today. I would further wager that at best 1-2 of them might inquire for a recipe. All of that is okay.