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Hi Jozy! Nice to see you here...I emailed you a bit ago. We're keeping you guys in our prayers.

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Happy 45th anniversary to Mike Nolan and wife today!

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When I was a kid, we always had to wait for a hard freeze for the persimmons to be ripe and they'd fall from the tree. Otherwise they were puckery. We were dairy farmers and if the cows ate the persimmons it would dry them up and they'd give no milk for awhile so we had to keep persimmons picked up so the cows didn't get them.

Here are my recipes in case anyone would like to see them.

Persimmon Cookies

Steamed Persimmon Pudding

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I have two persimmon recipes posted here...persimmon cookies and steamed persimmon pudding. I love persimmon pulp in the freezer for baking later in the year after the season is gone. Mine are the common old persimmons found in the country. I always washed them and ran them thru a Foley food mill to get the pulp out into a bowl. They stain things very badly so be careful.

You can find my recipes by typing in persimmon in the Search box on the page Forums. Let me know if you cannot find them.

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Joan...I'm so very glad you guys didn't have terrible damages! RandyD lives in Baxley, GA and I figured he probably got hit but have no idea for certain.

Carol...we're thinking of you and your mom and your places and hoping for the very best for you all!

Hoping this will be the last of the bad storms for a very long time for everyone.

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Here is the peach cobbler recipe I have used for a long time:

Peach Cobbler

It has a biscuit topping and I have used buttermilk for the biscuit dough.

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Thanks so much for letting us know about Nina's safety, rottiedogs.

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Hope you're having a nice birthday, Mike!

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Long before this mess hit Houston, I was very concerned for Michael, Cindy's husband. Thru the years, when they were to get bad storms, I'd ask her if they would be safe from flooding. She said they were up high and would be OK. But that was not anything like what they have now.

Their house was built on a concrete slab so it would get flooding as soon as water got to it rather than having a crawl space or basement that could take the water before it got the whole house.

They had the huge motor home and I hoped Michael could load it with many belongings and he could tow their vehicle and get to higher ground with at least some of their things.

Cindy's daughter lives in Austin and I thought maybe Michael could go that direction to ride out the flooding but I think Austin was getting heavy floods on the edge of the storm, too.

Monday, the lady that works at the farm store we buy bird seed from told us about her brother that works on the gulf oil rigs and lives in Houston. She said he lives in an older section of Houston and he had power and was up high so no flooding yet. He could not get to work but could work from home, doing his petroleum engineering work. The rigs were all shut down but he still could work. We have not heard if he still came out OK as the conditions worsened as the week went on.

I heard last night on the news that 80% of the homes in this flooded area have no flood insurance. Just a total loss for many...no home, no vehicles, no jobs as businesses are lost.

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We were at 98.85% and not very dark at all. We have storms coming the rest of the afternoon.

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Very nice job, Mike! Are you cloudy this morning?

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Not that many here would use a welder's helmet for eclipse viewing, but our local TV experts say the welder's glass must be # 14.

They also say look thru the eclipse glasses no more than three minutes then look away for awhile before looking thru the glasses again. I wouldn't trust the flimsy glasses at all because if they have any scratches on them or other issues they will not protect the eyes. I've seen on TV the many thousands of the glasses being passed out by the sellers or those giving them away and they are quite rough handling them.

We'll just stay in and watch all the events on TV. I have to be outside some of the time but will not be out during the nearly three hours of the whole thing.

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Belated Happy Anniversary wishes for you, BakerAunt and your husband!

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Thanks for the nice comments here and from Carol in the other thread!

It doesn't seem like it could have been 50 years.

On November 30, 1955, my great grandparents celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and way back then that was unheard of. Now, every week's local newspaper has at least one 50th anniversary being celebrated. And on our news radio station there are obituaries of couples married 74 or more years quite often. Now that is a long time.

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We got a jar of the Gold Standard Recipe Miracle Whip on sale a few weeks ago. The expiration date of 9/29/2017 seemed like a short product life compared to the one we'd been buying for several years. Some of those ones had a two year shelf life.

I thought the 'old' is 'new' again had just come back on the market recently. Today, I went to Miracle Whip Facebook page and it shows it came back in April 2017.

https://www.facebook.com/miraclewhip/

I'd read the re-done version of recent years had far less oil in it and they added lots of other stuff to make up for the less oil.

Oil can go rancid after awhile so I'm guessing the Gold Standard Recipe has all the original oil quantity and with more oil the shelf life is considerably shorter.

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