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I bought both creamed corn and saltines at Mann's recently.  So this Thanksgiving I thought I'd try making my Grandmother's corn pudding recipe: front . back But forgot to get milk !  I'll try it on Sunday if I go to the store.  Anyway when I tried it in the past it always came out not quite right, usually too watery.  Maybe my ingredimunts aren't the same as Catherine Olson used to get at the National Tea supermarket ? I wish I could ask my Mom or my Grandmother, but I can't :( Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

Previous post on DigiKey: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/digikey-gets-weird.html I got another email today at the old email address: the only thing is that unwanted emails to old addresses decreases efficiency So I went to the DigiKey site and changed the email address again.  Then I shot off a "Nastygram" (not really) to orders@digikey.com and got a quick reply: DigiKey didn't really answer my question (why) but apparently the problem has been fixed ?  We'll see.     DigiKey is kinda kooky though, I did business with them for years and years with a 6 digit customer number and then one day they changed it to a 7 digit customer number - that must have been the origin of the two files mentioned.  Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

I had to refuse delivery on a FEDEX Smartpost item from Ebay: it clearly says Smartpost It turns out that Smartpost is defunct:   That begs the question:  why didn't FEDEX tell their customers that Smartpost doesn't exist anymore, wouldn't that be the smart thing to do instead of accepting a shipment as Smartpost and then changing it to FEDEX Ground before delivery ? https://www.costanalysts.com/fedex-smartpost/ I guess I am just old now and expect people to do what they say they will do. Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

I remember hearing in high school during Field Day that our radio club advisor, Mr. Gates was a Swiss Miss hot chocolate drinker.  I can't confirm or deny that but I do know that sometimes I'll get an urge for hot chocolate when the November winds are blowing and there's no hot chocolate mix in the house, not even the store brand !  So today I came up with this simple, better than nothing, recipe for hot chocolate mix (taking a recollection of the old pound cake recipe as a guide):  For 1 serving made with 6 oz. of boiling water: 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder 1 tablespoon of dry milk 1 tablespoon of sugar 1 tablespoon of butter (3 pats) Mix the powdered ingredients together in a mug, heat up the water to boiling, pour it in and mix.  Stir like crazy and then finally add the butter pats and keep stirring until melted. Of course marshmallows can be added and vanilla extract too but I didn't have them on hand.  I would take it very easy with mint extract - easy to e...

I thought I'd take a quick bicycle ride, braving the 2nd day of gun+bullet deer season, to the electric co-op to leave my payment in the drop off box.  But after riding 4+ miles to the co-op I realized I had forgotten the little envelope with the payment, idiot ! So I rode back, by this time it was getting close to the Packers-Vikings kickoff so I stopped at the lake home to listen to the first half of the game.   While listening I started looking at some old photos and happened to find these from November 18, 1989, just a little over 36 years ago: Lech Walesa framed by tall people in the crowd Lech Walesa in the blue coat standing next to Gov. Thompson and Mayor Daley with others I don't remember there were banners and there were balloons . a lady in the crowd . this was from earlier when I was at the front by the rope Lech Walesa speaking These are of the plaza in front of the Daley Center in Chicago (aka where the big Picasso sculpture sits).  The reason: a visit ...

I had this box of chocolate cake mix: Over a year out of date so I thought maybe skip using it as cakie.  So I had the idea of using it for pancakes !  To get around the "oldness" I added 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.  I tried 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup of cake mix, one egg and 1 tablespoon of olive oil (I always use that).  The resulting batter seemed runny so I added more cake mix to thicken a little.  Cooked it for about 2 min on first side, 1 min on second side, electric burner set a little under 1/2 way. Got 4 large pancakes - certainly edible but not as good as regular whole wheat pancakes.  Subsequent batches made with maybe 1/4 cup of water so no extra mix needed. I used it all up which took a while but that's one point in favor of the approach, making a whole sheet cake for a special occasion is too tempting for me.    This also begs the question:  what about out of date brownie mix ? :) It turns out that this is not an original ...

I tried searching for the word: caspetitious    found here: Did you really mean: capricious (Google) or captious (Bing) ?   Why no, if I had meant something other than caspetitious I would have entered it, right ? This is the only link Google found: https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/O-P-Q/Pohl_ed%20-%20Assignment%20in%20tomorrow.pdf Which happens to be a link to the same story I was reading but the title is different: The Frightened Tree , page 163.   Here is the one I was reading:  Protective Mimicry , page 37, February 1953 issue of Galaxy Magazine : https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1953-02 I have mentioned the Luminist archives before: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/08/luministorg.html Here is a link to the Luminist site:   https://www.luminist.org/archives/ Plenty of reading material on Luminist. So what does caspetitious mean ?  There is a word: cespititious: Since it's only 2 letters different let's say Galaxy made ...