[Mike Nolan]

You never find the old egg laying hens in the grocery store, so I wonder what happens to them. Maybe they're used for canned soup and pet food.

Considering how little chicken meat there is in a bowl of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, that chicken must be going into animal feeds. I know Alpo has a big plant in Crete NE that gets daily deliveries from beef and poultry operations.

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I felt good enough this evening that I had leftover pizza for supper rather than chicken noodle soup. I'm not sure if this covid case has affected my taste buds.

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Our local paper has story about thieves stealing hundreds of eggs from a cafe in Seattle, complete with video of a white panel van pulling up, two people bringing out several stacks of egg crates in several trips, getting back into the van and pulling away.

I keep thinking of the Monty Python segment: Your Lupins or your Life!

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Not mild, unfortunately, I tested positive for COVID this evening.

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I spotted a couple more pea-sized tomatoes today, I'm going to keep a log of what I pick, though I'm not really sure if the first one was a Better Bush or Defiant, kind of hard to trace the vines in the middle of that jungle.The first 6 I spotted are now bigger than a ping pong ball but I don't really expect them to show signs of ripening for another few weeks.

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Peter Reinhart's marbled rye bread also use shortening, he says it gives a softness other fats don't.

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We wound up using the tomato in tacos. Although it was fully red, Diane thought it could have stood another day or two of ripening, that's part of the learning curve. But it smelled and tasted like a tomato.

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I'm hoping this is the first of many, otherwise these will be really expensive tomatoes!

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I picked a lovely 2.15 ounce tomato this afternoon, not sure yet how we're going to use it.

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Found several more tiny tomatoes and a couple of not-so-tiny ones, including this one hiding in the forest:

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It was pizza night here.

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I'm seeing reports that wholesale prices for eggs in the midwest are running $7.03 a dozen. Ouch!

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We had a rotisserie chicken before going to see Moulin Rouge the Musical tonight. Great show!

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If I'm reading the news right, both Mexico and Canada have been given a 30 day pause on tariffs in return for some promises on other issues (Mexico will try to deal with fentanyl smuggling), so it may be more of a negotiating tactic.

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I haven't been back to that store to check on it, and maybe I misread it, but it was right across from the case where large eggs were about $4.98/dozen.

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