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Re: HOOKED ON A DANISH
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2012, 06:48:27 AM »

I am going to start with the basic recipe, and add different fruits. I think.

Fruits, nuts, and flakes.....sounds like my kind of people.
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« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2012, 06:55:43 AM »

I am going to start with the basic recipe, and add different fruits. I think.

I like them with dried cranberies.

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Re: HOOKED ON A DANISH
« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2012, 06:56:44 AM »

Today is my father's 86th birthday.  Here is a picture of him with his guitar taken a few years ago - I combined it with a picture of his mother and all his brothers and sisters.....he is the baby in his mother's arms.  This picture was about 1928.

His father died of TB in a sanitarium in North Carolina.  He had gone there for very expensive treatments, and once his money was gone, they sent him home.  He owned the general store and lumber mill in Liberty, Kentucky....and was also the local school teacher. 

My grandmother sold both businesses but never received her money from the men who took it from her.  She moved to Indiana where her brother and sister had families in the early 1930's.

When he was about eight years old, my father contracted polio.  He had several operations on his legs and used a wheelchair for awhile and then walked on crutches.  He has always walked with a limp.

He and my mother will be married 64 years this September.   ;D
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« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2012, 06:58:30 AM »

TOD:

I like muffins very much, especially lemon and poppyseed.

My second favorite- after Bran with raisins

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Re: HOOKED ON A DANISH
« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2012, 07:04:58 AM »

Wow, 64 years! That's awesome!
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Re: HOOKED ON A DANISH
« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2012, 07:06:29 AM »

Are all of those his siblings? Ten children in that family?
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« Reply #36 on: March 20, 2012, 07:08:06 AM »


His father died of TB in a sanitarium in North Carolina.  He had gone there for very expensive treatments, and once his money was gone, they sent him home.
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When he was about eight years old, my father contracted polio.  He had several operations on his legs and used a wheelchair for awhile and then walked on crutches.  He has always walked with a limp.


A reminder of how fortunate we are to live in these times:

Polio is virtually gone

TB is fairly rare and treatable on an out-patient basis

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Ever since high-school I have tested positive for TB - lucky I haven't gotten cancer from all the damn XRays I've had to convince Drs I have no active TB.

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« Reply #37 on: March 20, 2012, 07:12:58 AM »

Happy, happy to JRand's Dad.
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« Reply #38 on: March 20, 2012, 07:15:32 AM »

Last week I listened to Philip Roth's "Nemesis," which was about the polio epidemic and the hysteria surrounding it. It's not an era you encounter much any more, and it must have been scary living during the spread of an illness that no one knew the cause or how to prevent it.
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« Reply #39 on: March 20, 2012, 07:18:44 AM »

Oh yes -- Happy Birthday, Mr. Rand!
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« Reply #40 on: March 20, 2012, 07:19:41 AM »

I just saw the weather for tomorrow and it is supposed to be sunny with a humidex of 30C (which is probably high 80s). Wow.
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« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2012, 07:20:20 AM »

Happy Birthday To DR JRand's dad!
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« Reply #42 on: March 20, 2012, 07:22:04 AM »

Are all of those his siblings? Ten children in that family?

Laura - it was the early twntieth century:

No Pill
No Condoms
No Diaphrams

And with the mortality rate, your needed more than "a pair and a spare" to ensure population growth

Also:

No Social Security
No emploer provided retirement plans
No 401ks

Your retirement plan consisted of rearing  adequate breadwinners to support you in your old age).

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Note also:  in rural communities added children were an ecconomic plus; from about the age of 8, kids "gave more" to the family than they cost to keep.
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« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2012, 07:24:33 AM »

Are all of those his siblings? Ten children in that family?

.....There were eleven, Raymond died as baby......in 1921 - at the age of one.

Thanks for all the Birthday wishes!  When he wakes up, I will tell him.
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« Reply #44 on: March 20, 2012, 07:32:08 AM »

... and it must have been scary living during the spread of an illness that no one knew the cause or how to prevent it.

You bethcha, Red Ryder!

I remember the films of the kids in iron lungs that preceded the ushers passing the can for the March of Dimes at the local movie theaters.

There was a general fear of using public swimming pools for fear of Polio - sure made for lousy summers in the suburbs!

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Also, most folks my age had a relative or two who died at an early age of influenza or a Great Aunt Tilly who succumbed to "consumption", as TB was called.
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« Reply #45 on: March 20, 2012, 07:33:31 AM »

Well, my MIL is one of 13 births, and my mother was one of about 11. My dad was one of 3. It was the way of the times. I shouldn't have been surprised. It's just SEEING all those children. Wow.
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« Reply #46 on: March 20, 2012, 07:34:08 AM »

With all the stupid legislation being passed around the country lately, sounds like we are headed for the Good Old Days.
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Re: HOOKED ON A DANISH
« Reply #47 on: March 20, 2012, 07:44:53 AM »

The Sound of Music Blu Ray - 45th Anniversary BIG BOX collection is available at Amazon today only for $24.99.   I couldn't resist buying it!!!

I have the movie on DVD - but it's something I watch a few times a year, so I guess it's money well spent.  I think this version was spoken of here on HHW, but I forget what was said about the transfer.
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« Reply #48 on: March 20, 2012, 07:48:27 AM »

I remember the relief that I felt around me when the Salk vaccine for polio was introduced....we were all vaccinated in school when I was in the first grade..... 

There was one little girl with polio in my school.   She walked with braces on both her legs......it was too late for her.

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« Reply #49 on: March 20, 2012, 07:51:44 AM »

What a sweet story, JRand, happy birthday to DadRand!
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« Reply #50 on: March 20, 2012, 07:52:36 AM »

My father also came from a huge family--we didn't even know about some of the kids, many of whom died in infancy, until my sister found birth certificates in England and then later we got the foster home records from New York.  I may still have an Aunt somewhere out there we haven't been able to find (Keith--get on that, would you?)  :)
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« Reply #51 on: March 20, 2012, 07:58:40 AM »

Maybe your Aunt is the Queen of Rumania, DR JMK.
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« Reply #52 on: March 20, 2012, 07:59:22 AM »

The 1940 Census will be online on April 2 - although it's not searchable by name....grrrrrrrrrr.......but some more secrets can be revealed.
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« Reply #53 on: March 20, 2012, 08:03:54 AM »

... and it must have been scary living during the spread of an illness that no one knew the cause or how to prevent it.

You bethcha, Red Ryder!

I remember the films of the kids in iron lungs that preceded the ushers passing the can for the March of Dimes at the local movie theaters.

There was a general fear of using public swimming pools for fear of Polio - sure made for lousy summers in the suburbs!

der Brucer

Also, most folks my age had a relative or two who died at an early age of influenza or a Great Aunt Tilly who succumbed to "consumption", as TB was called.
And Roth's central character (hard to call him a hero) is a gym teacher who is a camp counselor during the outbreak, as the children start coming down with the disease. And he feels personally responsible, as if he's Typhoid Mary.
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« Reply #54 on: March 20, 2012, 08:20:32 AM »

Tuesday morning greetings!  Another sleep-in day for me and the first morning since last Thursday that I don't have to be someplace other than home.
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« Reply #55 on: March 20, 2012, 08:23:51 AM »

DR Elmore - I agree with you about the weather.  It's too warm, too early.  Richard has gradually been swapping our storm windows for screens and he's sure that, as soon as he installs the last screen, we'll have a cold snap.
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« Reply #56 on: March 20, 2012, 08:24:21 AM »

Happiest of birthdays to DR JRand's dad!
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« Reply #57 on: March 20, 2012, 08:24:31 AM »

Just read a headline on People.com.....

ASHTON KUTCHER HEADED FOR OUTER SPACE

Do you think he could take the Kardashians with him?
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« Reply #58 on: March 20, 2012, 08:25:20 AM »

Thanks for all the birthday greetings!!!

I just put fresh water in the bird bath so when it gets in the 80's this afternoon, the birdies can cool off.
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