| lesley153
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By heart? Goodness!
I hadn't heard of Aldrich. I can't think why not. |
Reply #1781. Nov 09 10, 2:50 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Maybe because you didn't live with my mother? I swear, the woman must have recited verse to me while I was still in the womb. (And I thank her for it.)
I obviously copied the poem this time (hence the errant 5), but I am able to recite it without looking. I'm not very smart, but I can "photograph" things and recall them. Made me a spelling bee champ!
Nice poem, eh? Just falls short of being sappy, but rescues itself with the last couple of lines.
Reply #1782. Nov 09 10, 3:21 PM
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| lesley153
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"I'm not very smart..."
No comment!
"Made me a spelling bee champ!"
That's more like it!
I agree. Playing for tears or laughs rarely gets them.
One thing puzzled me: What's a blue noon? I've looked for it online but there was nothing beyond the title of a book, published the best part of 100 after Aldrich died.
I read his profile on Wiki, and there's a picture taken near the end of his life, although the dates are vague. It's very odd. The initial impression is that it's a stern-looking picture, but you get closer and discern a trace of a twinkle, and then you get closer still and see sadness permeating his whole face. Of course I might be imagining all of that... |
Reply #1783. Nov 09 10, 3:35 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Call me prosaic, but I'd always envisioned simply a late-May, mid-day hour so saturated with bright blue sky that nothing else stood out save the tower and the wild-rose tree. What do you think?
I think you're right about Aldrich's face registering both gladness and melancholy. He obviously experienced great joy--look at the poem he wrote!--and great joy seldom goes without great sorrow to counterbalance and enhance it.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, and too sloppily romantically.
Reply #1784. Nov 09 10, 4:02 PM
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| Lochalsh
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P.S. I've been in his birthplace (Portsmouth, NH) on a bright blue September day, and on a November evening that turned me blue with piercing cold. Blue was probably an operative term for him!
Reply #1785. Nov 09 10, 4:05 PM
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| lesley153
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I think that's a great description of a spring day with an intense blue sky. Wish I'd thought of that!
The Wiki article says that one of his sons got tuberculosis, and died at 34, a few years before Aldrich died. That would be the great sorrow.
And this would be the rose tree ...
 http://tinyurl.com/2wp54mj
... probably. |
Reply #1786. Nov 09 10, 7:32 PM
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| lesley153
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When we moved here in 1986, we got a very nice microwave oven. Ten years later, I thought I'd killed it, but it had just cut out when I tried to cook a whole chicken. No, I don't know what possessed me to cook a chicken in the microwave. I didn't do it again.
Yesterday I used it to speed up the cooking of two baking potatoes, and it cut out. Today it cut out with just one potato.
I wonder if there's a remedy. Surely it can't be time for a new microwave already? |
Reply #1787. Nov 10 10, 9:34 AM
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Rowena8482 
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Microwaves are very cheap and electrical faults are not to be trifled with. Go and buy a new one! (Can you see my No3 Hard Stare aimed at you?)
Reply #1788. Nov 10 10, 9:57 AM
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satguru
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Mine caught fire years ago when the bread I was heating in a pouch had a foil lining (like we should know?). It's had a bare patch in the lining ever since but no known effects, I've probably ended up nuking the food in the cupboard above every time I use it but no chocolate there has been known to melt as yet.
Reply #1789. Nov 10 10, 10:20 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Yes, the easiest fix is to buy a new microwave. If the new one does the same thing...Well, you have a more serious electrical problem! You knew that though, right?:)
Reply #1791. Nov 10 10, 11:24 AM
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bionic4ever
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Lesley, please don't mess with a cranky, faulty microwave - so dangerous! Mine made a death rattle a few months ago and I tried to warm coffee in it anyway. It starting shooting out sparks!
Like Rowena said, a new one is reasonably cheap; please don't jeopardize your safety!
Reply #1792. Nov 10 10, 11:34 AM
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honeybee4
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Lesley, check to see if it is plugged in all the way. Sometimes mine does that.
Reply #1793. Nov 10 10, 1:22 PM
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guitargoddess
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I think when your microwave is older than your adult child, it IS time for a new one!
Reply #1794. Nov 10 10, 7:26 PM
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MarchHare007
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Lesley, Did you cut the potato / oes into half or smaller?
Some older microwaves had a 'mass' problem - larger items that were dense needed cutting or sectioning or just piercing.
On the other hand - a bright new shiny one would be nice and you could cook anything you like without worry. :)
I love my micro/convection but usually use Just the micro - for vegies (other than potatoes), excellent quick scrambled eggs, rice or porridge.
Reply #1795. Nov 10 10, 9:24 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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OK, waiting to hear that you're back...Otherwise, nothing much matters.
Reply #1796. Nov 10 10, 9:48 PM
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gillimalta
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I think Lesley is still looking for her FT key...
Reply #1797. Nov 11 10, 6:48 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Either that, or she's busy watching the popcorn dance around inside her new microwave. :)
(Is popcorn mostly an American treat? I've had it in Spain, but very rarely.)
Reply #1798. Nov 11 10, 8:09 AM
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| Lochalsh
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A treat in the U.S., I mean....
Reply #1799. Nov 11 10, 8:10 AM
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bionic4ever
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Popcorn, kettle corn, cheese corn, caramel corn - yes, please!
Reply #1800. Nov 11 10, 8:42 AM
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