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[Jane]

People go to the Canadian town next door. But what’s happened there is what I suspect has happened to a lot of towns. A particular area of town gets known for being the best, so all the kids descend on it. Other neighborhoods, seeing fewer kids, have fewer participants, so kids stop going there.

We met up with a few school families in one neighborhood near the kids’ school which is sort of a happy medium. Maybe every other house welcomes trick or treaters.

A happy medium sounds nice.  The more popular areas seem way too crowded.

[Freddie]

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[Jane]

THREE!

[Freddie]

As Yogi Berra might have said, nobody's goes there, it's too crowded.

[Freddie]

THREE!

Ooh, really pretty!

[ChasSmith]

The one time I can remember going to another neighborhood to - hopefully - take in a better haul of candy was in one of our early years in Fort Lauderdale. My parents agreed to drive us over to one of the "canal" neighborhoods near the ocean, but if memory serves, the haul turned out to be no better than where we lived. Luck of the draw, or whatever. I believe we only tried it that one time.

[ChasSmith]

I just ate something delightful.

An onion.

No, really. I was making a sandwich and wanted to add onion to it. I had a leftover red one I'd bought for my tuna pasta salad. But how many weeks ago was that? The little bit left was looking a little pathetic, so I tossed it and sliced the new Vidalia onion I'd just picked up a couple of days ago. Normally, I buy and enjoy the sweet goodness of those all summer long when they're plentiful in the stores here, but for some reason this year that just didn't happen. So it had been a while since I'd had one.

Oh man. Delicious. I love all onions, but there's nothing like being able to take a bite of something liberally loaded with Vidalia, and chomp on that goodness without breathing fire. Yeah, it's still onion and you need to cleanse your breath, but what a different and lovely experience.

[Jrand75]

Potatoes And Staplers.

It's the new War And Peace.

[John G.]

I just ate something delightful.

An onion.

No, really. I was making a sandwich and wanted to add onion to it. I had a leftover red one I'd bought for my tuna pasta salad. But how many weeks ago was that? The little bit left was looking a little pathetic, so I tossed it and sliced the new Vidalia onion I'd just picked up a couple of days ago. Normally, I buy and enjoy the sweet goodness of those all summer long when they're plentiful in the stores here, but for some reason this year that just didn't happen. So it had been a while since I'd had one.

Oh man. Delicious. I love all onions, but there's nothing like being able to take a bite of something liberally loaded with Vidalia, and chomp on that goodness without breathing fire. Yeah, it's still onion and you need to cleanse your breath, but what a different and lovely experience.

I went to a Mexican barbecue joint last night. They give you a steamed onion wrapped in foil and grilled alongside the chicken with every order. That onion was perfection last night. I could have eaten two.

[John G.]

I’m tired.

[John G.]

I need energy. I have to usher in just a few hours for the theater’s big annual fundraiser party. Niles Rodgers of Le Freak fame is going to disco up the place.

[John G.]

Elmore, I cannot preorder Moonshine and Mistletoe from the site you posted on castrecl. It won’t let me enter a ZIP code or birthday. Strange

[ChasSmith]

Been thinking about how the ECHO magazine pages and tracks might be presented digitally.

In the meantime, I found my similarly constructed National Geographic bird songs. These are not the tear-out record pages from the magazines. I think these books were inside a flap in the covers of their earlier hardcover books on birds. (Their earlier books were quite luxurious in comparison with later ones.)

I have no idea how many such things they issued, but I have two:  Bird Sounds (of Marsh, Upland and Shore) and Bird Songs (of Garden, Woodland and Meadow). Here's a roughly scanned example of how they did it.

[ChasSmith]

Size is about 6.5" square, there are 6 records in each book, each double-sided. You flip the record onto the page whose sounds you want to hear, and place it on the turntable that way.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.

[bk]

Got dressed and went right to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes and a couple of teeny-tiny packages that I'll share with you in the new notes.

[bk]

Back now and am taking a chance on the small Marco's Ultimo Pepperoni. Hoping it will be better than the last couple of times.

[bk]

That should be here in thirty minutes.

[Jrand75]

Glad to hear about the Important Envelopes.

[Jrand75]

I remember records that were on the backs of cereal packages....even on my player - the sound wasn't so hot....and I don't think it was my player.

[Freddie]

Size is about 6.5" square, there are 6 records in each book, each double-sided. You flip the record onto the page whose sounds you want to hear, and place it on the turntable that way.

That looks impressive.  I've never seen books like those before.  Thanks for posting that.

[Freddie]

Got dressed and went right to the mail place and picked up two important envelopes and a couple of teeny-tiny packages that I'll share with you in the new notes.

Good to hear the important envelopes arrived!

[Freddie]

I remember records that were on the backs of cereal packages....even on my player - the sound wasn't so hot....and I don't think it was my player.

I remember the playable records on the back of cereal boxes.

[Laura]

Today ... two different veggie boxes. Tomorrow, a nice veggie casserole of some kind for the church potluck.

My DH picked up one box. I went the other direction to get the other one. The place I went is just so disorganized. I won't even bother with them again. Too bad, because although the box is smaller than the first place, it has completely different stuff.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, I cannot preorder Moonshine and Mistletoe from the site you posted on castrecl. It won’t let me enter a ZIP code or birthday. Strange

I'm having thoughts that Joy Machine may be a cockamamie company! Perhaps it won't let you order until the recording is officially released? Maybe the damned recording is cursed?

[Freddie]

Here's a BroadwayWorld article from earlier this year on the Joy Machine label.

"A new record label, Joy Machine Records, has launched with a special focus on developing new musical theater projects and solo projects from new artists."

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Veterans-Launch-Joy-Machine-Records-Spotlighting-the-Development-of-New-Musicals-20250113

[John G.]

I’m dressed.

[John G.]

Still no energy.

[John G.]

But I can hustle, if called upon.

[John G.]

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