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(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.

Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

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But who brings a travel iron with them on trips where they'll be catching pigeons? If you're going to be catching pigeons, you'll be entirely too dirty, and/or wearing clothes that just don't need ironing, to bother bringing an iron. No?

I guess not if you're on a business trip for a really, really cheap company.

OK -- the opening is here and I just can't resist:

Go to amazon.com and look up Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! by CHRIS MAYNARD, BILL SCHELLER

Of course, this assumes you have a rental car on which to cook your pigeon!

I've seen it. It is marvelously funny. The question is though, wouldn't the gas be more expensive that buying a powerbar instead, what with gas prices these days?

its a question of redundancy.
if youre already driving someplace, youre producing energy that can be used to slaughter and cook animals on the way. the only way a power bar becomes efficient is if you give up driving altogether.

i knew a guy once who described his dietary habits as 'roadkill vegan.' the only animals he would eat were those killed accidentally (by automobiles most specifically, although i assume it extends to all accidental killings).

thinking about it, though, high impact killings (i.e. bludgeoning with blunt instruments, such as cars) tend to rupture organs like the stomach and bladder and the subsequent flooding of the body with digestive acid or urine or bile or any of a host of undesirable fluids can change the very edibility of an animal, if not just its palatability. (oh, the things youll learn in a food science class...)

I knew that. But presuming that one is otherwise supposed to be eating pigeon, it would be cheaper not to drive anywhere while on this otherwise either rural or very urban adventure (the best places for pigeons- they don't seem to be suburban birds so much: as far as I can tell, they're extremists). So driving in either environment doesn't seem so productive, especially since you'd have to walk aorund to hunt the pigeon first.

I also have a friend who will eat animal products if they will otherwise be thrown out, but who is otherwise vegan. Makes sense, for many of the reasons that people are vegan...

Interesting- didn't think of that. Thanks for the info.

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