RUTH HAFFLY wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

We've got a lot of wide open space in our front, side (2) and back
yards that a riding mower does a good job. The back yard is the most limited but a regular mower can make short work of the grass there. Stephen has looked at riding mowers but by using the lawn care service, hasn't had the need to buy one.

If I hired a lawn service my Scottish forebears would be "spinning in
their crypts".

It lived in a back corner of the garage until one fine afternoon
when a friend called and asked if I knew where he could find a
reasonably priced mower for his son who had bought a house with a
large yard. The son came by, we fired up the mower and he cut a
lap around the yard. DD> Then he gave me 4 Benjamins and I helped
him load it into his pick up DD> truck.

Good deal. My parents owned about a quarter acre but kept a small strip
of the one neighbor's pace mowed to extend our back yard slightly. Neighbors owned several acres surrounding ours but let us have free run
of most of it, including a good sledding hill. Only part of their
acreage was kept mowed, the rest was left wild.

Like the farm house my Granddad and I stayedin during the week while my Grandmother was working out of town. There was a front and side yard.
The other "side yard"was taken up with a kitchen garden having green
beans, carrots, radishes, sweet crn, popcorn, and asparagus patch, etc.

The backyard contained the well and pump (no runnin water), smokehouse,
tool shed and outhouse. And the other side of the fence was pasture.

8<----- BITE ----->8

Don't look now but we're all edging closer to our "use by" date.

I know, I just had a birthday earlier this week. I'm too young to be
this old!

I'm totally amazed that I've lived thi long since my parents both had their candles go out in their mid-50s. And remembering some of the
bone headed stunts I got up to when IK was young and invulnerable.

My mom lived to a couple weeks short of 86; dad, a couple of months
short of 96. He was 7 years older than mom, married after fighting in
WWII and then going to college (where he met her).

8<----- AGSIN ----->8

I'm gonna Meal Monster that. Expect to see it posted back to you in future. Bv)=

Oh, heck. Why not right now????

Title: Easy Pizza Crust
Categories: Five, Breads
Yield: 1 pizza

Hopefully somebody will benefit from it. We came across this recipe
when we lived in Swansboro; I think we found it around 1978 or 79 but
have used it countless times since. A friend of mine called once,
asking for the recipe so I dictated it over the phone. A while later
she called back saying it was soupy; in trouble shooting, she thought
I'd said 3-4 cups (instead of 3/4 cup) of water. I was able to tell her the extra amounts of flour, yeast, oil and sugar (or honey) to add to
the bowl to make several crusts (the dough freezes well) so she'd have them on hand for a quick meal.

I'll bet you told her three-fourths of a cup where I would have said
three quarters of a cup. My grandpa taught me that when we were making
a sewing table for my grandmother. He had asked me for a measurement
and his ears elided the three fourths inch in the same way your lady mis-heard your
water measure. Sso he instructed me to use quarter instead of fourth.
Bv)=

Probably so, been so long I don't remember. Do you say "oh" or "zero"?
I grew up using the former more but some time ago switched to using the latter.

In casual conversation I use "oh" If giving a number ... phone, address,
etc. I use "zero" and may do phonetic letters like "apple", "hairy", etc.
Not the same as the military but the same principle.

Title: Three Cheese White Pizza
Categories: Five, Breads, Cheese
Yield: 10 slices

Olive oil
1 Recipe pizza dough
4 oz Ricotta cheese
4 oz Mozzarella cheese; sliced
4 oz Parmesan cheese; grated

Interesting, I don't think I've seen a recipe (or on a menu) for a
totally cheese pizza. Most often the "white pizza" recipies/menu
listings have a number of other toppings, most often some sort of
greens like spinach or endive, maybe mushrooms as well. I've tried some
of them but have yet to find one I like as much as a "red" pizza.

I'm not a fan of meatless pizza.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Sausage & Egg Breakfast Pizza
Categories: Pork, Breads, Cheese, Potatoes
Yield: 7 Servings

16 oz Pkg roll sausage; cooked,
- crumbled, drained
8 oz Tube refrigerated crescent
- rolls
1 c Shredded hash browns, thawed
1 c Sharp Cheddar cheese;
- shredded
5 lg Eggs; beaten
1/4 c Milk
1/2 ts Salt
1/8 ts Pepper
2 tb Parmesan cheese

Separate crescent dough into eight triangles. Place in an
ungreased 12" pizza pan with points toward the center.

Press over bottom and up sides to form a crust and seal
perforations. Spoon sausage over crust, sprinkle with
potatoes. Top with cheddar cheese.

Mix eggs, milk, salt and pepper and pour into crust.
Sprinkle over all.

Bake in 375øF/190øC oven for 30 minutes.

Only a loser would eat cold pizza for breakfast when
there's hot Sausage and Egg Breakfast Pizza in the world.

Makes 7 servings

From: http://www.mrbreakfast.com

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