Balderdash
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Do you eat it straight or sprinkle it on your food?
Opsimath
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Straight. Started with little bites, but the bites are getting bigger. It's sweet, it's gingery, and it's hot. I claim to not like hot, but I keep eating this ginger and will get another bag when I go to Costco, because I don't want to run out.
davidbeinct
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Is it candied or literally just dried ginger root?
davidbeinct
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I was able to balance my phone across its charging chord but I couldn’t take a picture of it.
Opsimath
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There is sugar added, but less than what is called "candied". Starts out sweet and gingery, then the peppery taste sneaks in. It's hot, but I like it. Canada Dry Bold ginger ale is good, too; kinda peppery.
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It also comes in a crystallized form perhaps that's the version you have...ginger is an anti-inflammatory...if you're aspirin allergic it comes in handy.
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My intention for the weekend....all mundane thoughts, and plenty of late night liquor induced commentary.
It's "Boys Weekend" at an old friend's family vacation home on St George's Island in southern Md. I work in souther md so I was the first here.
(You're looking at Virginia on the other side...to my left is the mouth of the Potomac) This little island has loads of history. First shot of the Revolutionary War in Md.
On standby for cracking crabs and drinking orange crushes.
I caught all the crabs...over a bushel. There will be upwards of 20 of us. All having known each other since at least Jr High. I brought 3 guitars and my travel amp. I have an acoustic, resonator, and my Les Paul. There are several players of the bunch. Some have flown in from Cali, Co, Fla, and NY. A MUCH NEEDED break after having worked the past 2 weekends on a side job.
Currently listening to...The Rolling Stones live @ The El Mocambo 1977 (just recently released!) it's all available on YouTube. A really damn good Stones release!!
It's "Boys Weekend" at an old friend's family vacation home on St George's Island in southern Md. I work in souther md so I was the first here.
(You're looking at Virginia on the other side...to my left is the mouth of the Potomac) This little island has loads of history. First shot of the Revolutionary War in Md.
On standby for cracking crabs and drinking orange crushes.
I caught all the crabs...over a bushel. There will be upwards of 20 of us. All having known each other since at least Jr High. I brought 3 guitars and my travel amp. I have an acoustic, resonator, and my Les Paul. There are several players of the bunch. Some have flown in from Cali, Co, Fla, and NY. A MUCH NEEDED break after having worked the past 2 weekends on a side job.
Currently listening to...The Rolling Stones live @ The El Mocambo 1977 (just recently released!) it's all available on YouTube. A really damn good Stones release!!
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I'm seriously envious. Enjoy!
Nice digs!
Crab is my favorite food.
Crab is my favorite food.
Nuuska
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After seeing that sign " British Landing Prevented " - and the picture being so small that I could not read it - I had too look it up at Google Street View - unfortunately it is not readable there either.
Opsimath
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I'm envious, too, of the food, the location, and the fact that there are 20 of you who have stayed friends since junior high and still get together. That's just fantastic!My intention for the weekend....all mundane thoughts, and plenty of late night liquor induced commentary.
It's "Boys Weekend" at an old friend's family vacation home on St George's Island in southern Md. I work in souther md so I was the first here.
(You're looking at Virginia on the other side...to my left is the mouth of the Potomac) This little island has loads of history. First shot of the Revolutionary War in Md.
On standby for cracking crabs and drinking orange crushes.
I caught all the crabs...over a bushel. There will be upwards of 20 of us. All having known each other since at least Jr High. I brought 3 guitars and my travel amp. I have an acoustic, resonator, and my Les Paul. There are several players of the bunch. Some have flown in from Cali, Co, Fla, and NY. A MUCH NEEDED break after having worked the past 2 weekends on a side job.
Currently listening to...The Rolling Stones live @ The El Mocambo 1977 (just recently released!) it's all available on YouTube. A really damn good Stones release!!
Nuuska
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Reminds me of our class reunion - we finished school @ spring 1972 - first reunion was @ 2002 - all but two were there - one was dead - the other sent us big greetings w apologies not being able to come.
Last time was about an year ago - still over twenty of us - and it felt like going home - got me thinking "Why am I no longer living there?" - of course only very few of us are living there anymore - but it is a dear pleace to meet dear friends and relive dear memories.
We were girls & boys - about fifty-fifty.
for all that 
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Danger!!
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^^^^Also belonging in the “woodworking thread”.. I built that bar 25+ yrs ago. And has been in a few friend’s houses. That sucker has seen some %#@#!!!!
JohnW63
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Cynthia,
Do you wash it down with ginger-ale?
Do you wash it down with ginger-ale?
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Here is a question that has bothered me for years.
Since right-handed persons make up a much greater proportion of the population than those who are left-handed, and it is much easier for righties than those of us who are left-handed to write in languages that are written from left to right, why were the written Semetic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew originally conceived to be written from right to left when it would be more difficult for right-handed persons to do so?
While literacy was limited to far fewer individuals then, is it possible that when these languages' writing evolved, that the proportions of handedness were different with more lefties in the population than are seen today?
RBSinTo
Since right-handed persons make up a much greater proportion of the population than those who are left-handed, and it is much easier for righties than those of us who are left-handed to write in languages that are written from left to right, why were the written Semetic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew originally conceived to be written from right to left when it would be more difficult for right-handed persons to do so?
While literacy was limited to far fewer individuals then, is it possible that when these languages' writing evolved, that the proportions of handedness were different with more lefties in the population than are seen today?
RBSinTo
Excellent question! You remind me of being lefthanded and therefore always getting ink all of over the side of my left hand as I write. Still happens today!
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Walrus,
I posted this in the Gibson Lounge as well, and got a reply from one member who disagreed with my premise about the difficulty for lefties to write from left to right running languages.
To him I replied:
"...I disagree.
I too am left-handed, and have always found that we lefties are at a disadvantage when writing from left to right: awkward angle of the hand leading to it smudging the ink or pencil by as it follows and rubs on the writing surface, as well as fatigue caused by the awkward angle of the hand.
Of course, like many of the other activities I do in a right-handed manner (such as playing golf, and guitar) I have learned to adapt when writing left-right running languages despite being primarily left-handed. This awkwardness disappeared when years ago I had to write Hebrew in religious school, which got me thinking about my question.
However, among my other strange "skills" no doubt caused by my left-right brain flip that resulted in my handedness, is the ability to spontaneously mirror-write, which is to say I can write backwards. Aside from amazing my Grandchildren, it serves me no useful purpose (although Leonado da Vinci, who was a lefty wrote all of his notebooks that way).
And when I do this little parlour trick to amuse my friends, and confound my enemies, I find it much more physically comfortable to write backwards English from right to left than the conventional way.
But none of this answers my original question."
Something to think about.
RBSinTo
I posted this in the Gibson Lounge as well, and got a reply from one member who disagreed with my premise about the difficulty for lefties to write from left to right running languages.
To him I replied:
"...I disagree.
I too am left-handed, and have always found that we lefties are at a disadvantage when writing from left to right: awkward angle of the hand leading to it smudging the ink or pencil by as it follows and rubs on the writing surface, as well as fatigue caused by the awkward angle of the hand.
Of course, like many of the other activities I do in a right-handed manner (such as playing golf, and guitar) I have learned to adapt when writing left-right running languages despite being primarily left-handed. This awkwardness disappeared when years ago I had to write Hebrew in religious school, which got me thinking about my question.
However, among my other strange "skills" no doubt caused by my left-right brain flip that resulted in my handedness, is the ability to spontaneously mirror-write, which is to say I can write backwards. Aside from amazing my Grandchildren, it serves me no useful purpose (although Leonado da Vinci, who was a lefty wrote all of his notebooks that way).
And when I do this little parlour trick to amuse my friends, and confound my enemies, I find it much more physically comfortable to write backwards English from right to left than the conventional way.
But none of this answers my original question."
Something to think about.
RBSinTo