tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post5338776884097013139..comments2023-10-15T10:48:01.870-04:00Comments on Roxie's World: Better Homes?Roxie Smith Lindemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06455529922082930949noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-9903489411584145022011-10-20T22:51:05.621-04:002011-10-20T22:51:05.621-04:00See you tomorrow and will buy you a drink.See you tomorrow and will buy you a drink.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-83675806133756646992011-10-20T09:39:56.278-04:002011-10-20T09:39:56.278-04:00Thanks, all, for kind thoughts and eloquent commen...Thanks, all, for kind thoughts and eloquent comments. The Mother of the Moosians seems to be settling in to her new abode, but it's a shifting ground we stand upon these days. We will just have to see how it goes.<br /><br />Re. archival cookbooks: Moose actually left her mother's <i>Joy of Cooking</i> behind because it wasn't heavily annotated and didn't figure much into the family's culinary history. Still, she's been regretting that decision a little and may see if she can bring the big book back to <b>Roxie's World</b> after all. She did some re-arranging of the pantry and probably has room on the shelf for one more copy of <i>Joy</i>, right? Right?Roxie Smith Lindemannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06455529922082930949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-20909668072727209452011-10-19T22:16:41.474-04:002011-10-19T22:16:41.474-04:00I remember the day my Mother told me that she had ...I remember the day my Mother told me that she had been bothered by this insect flying around her head all day "trying to give me information."<br /><br />It is a sobering moment in a daughter's life. You know my heartfelt thoughts and friendship are with you.Margaret Swedishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122528070296887747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-61799373008595293202011-10-18T16:10:48.048-04:002011-10-18T16:10:48.048-04:00I remember the ever-looping question cycle -- so h...I remember the ever-looping question cycle -- so hard on the interlocutor(s), and so revelatory of the questioner's anxieties -- all too well. In fact, reading about it it evokes a bit of reminiscent anxiety in me even now, more than twenty years after the questioner's death. My sympathies to all involved. <br /><br />As for the cookbooks, mine is a Joy of Cooking family, with occasional forays into Fannie Farmer and Better Homes, and I have duplicates and even triplicates of several editions. But really, when one copy belonged to one grandmother, and another belonged to another (she of the endlessly-cycling questions in her last decade or so, and of many wonderful culinary creations in the 7 decades before that), and the third belonged to your (deceased) mother, what do you do, especially when all have notes reflective of the former owners' personalities, and you are of an archival turn? <br /><br />For whatever it's worth, my own otherwise fairly conventional mother was, in the 1960s and early 1970s, very much into whole grains. We had brown rice and graham crackers and whole wheat bread and birthday cakes made with 1/2 whole wheat flour (before there was whole wheat cake flour). I cook a good deal with whole grains myself, so I guess it stuck (or recurred).Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-80712221151181653422011-10-17T21:19:08.350-04:002011-10-17T21:19:08.350-04:00Sending love from Denver.Sending love from Denver.Kimberly O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603275348006734592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-88893967576340914852011-10-17T12:47:55.514-04:002011-10-17T12:47:55.514-04:00Here's to Moose's mama, and to a successfu...Here's to Moose's mama, and to a successful and relatively stress-free transition to life in Michigan. I've seen my parents do this for three different parents in the past few years, and with my aunt and uncle earlier this year, so I know how difficult these things can be (from a distance, though.) <br /><br />Love those old cookbooks. Hang onto this one. You never know when you'll need a recipe for a Sunshine Salad mold again! And good luck with the other family archival work. I find that work very diffiult--I don't shed archival-quality tears, unfortunately, and they just mess everything up.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-51328029230343447002011-10-16T14:19:40.205-04:002011-10-16T14:19:40.205-04:00My sympathies. I dread when that decision (or sim...My sympathies. I dread when that decision (or similar ones) comes for my family.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-74834620018082091972011-10-15T20:07:48.013-04:002011-10-15T20:07:48.013-04:00Your virtual hug has been transmitted and received...Your virtual hug has been transmitted and received, Candy Man, with deep appreciation. I assume you felt the one that was sent back to you, far away as you happen to be at this moment.<br /><br />And thank you, Aunt Katie, for an actual hug at a timely moment earlier this week. We are richer for having you in our community of feeling. <3Roxie Smith Lindemannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06455529922082930949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-34636253042288490642011-10-15T18:34:22.211-04:002011-10-15T18:34:22.211-04:00hugs. sym-pathy -- a community of feeling, and com...hugs. sym-pathy -- a community of feeling, and com-passion -- to suffer with, experience with. roxie, moose and goose, all have extended their community of feeling to me, and experienced much with me, and I offer my own arms to hug and know.Katie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901518232103073849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-38649568010180975172011-10-15T16:19:26.819-04:002011-10-15T16:19:26.819-04:00Dear Roxie, maybe somehow in your virtual state of...Dear Roxie, maybe somehow in your virtual state of being you can help facilitate a big ole virtual hug from me to your typist from half-way around the world? Thanks. Much appreciated. I love you, Moose! xoCandy Mannoreply@blogger.com