@Centaurea
of apples and cook with them as well. We have a granny smith in the yard that was a house warming gift, sickly little think from a dying nursery when we got it, but has produced a glut of apples almost every year since.

playing the audience. Joy joy joy.

P.S. I'm glad Johnny brought us the apples.

@QMS
I suppose that this is technically news, though it definitely seemed to have been in the crds for a while now. Another insult to the imperium, I wonder what's next.

Morning all --

In other news...

US lost another ally as Turkey and Russia join forces to patrol Syria...

Trump's budget proposal for fiscal 2020 seeks to cut the office of energy efficiency and renewable energy by 70%.

death by a thousand cuts

@lotlizard
woould be to go straight to the Calvados, but a chacun son gout.

Interesting non-news about Obama, the Obama White House and the Obama years. Maybe a bit broader slice of the public will, as a result, start to catch on a little, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

one of the Frankfurt am Main area’s regional specialties is Ebbelwoi — Hesse dialect for Apfelwein) — apple wine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apfelwein

Edited to add:
Accounts of what it was like to work in the Obama White House? That overcorrecting swing of the pendulum in the Trumpian direction seems less surprising, after reading about this crop of namby-pambies.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/the-obama-boys

@smiley7
chauffeur blues for ya, so I'll just say good luck and enjoy.

windowpanes; it's unusually warm, too. Good day, el.

Damn government agents cut down most of Johnny's orchards during prohibition.

Used to make hard cider; but stopped after an episode one fall when i forget to relieve the pressure from the glass gallon jars; having to pick glass shards from everything and replace the missing closet lover doors left an impression.

Apple sadness around these mountains, the small orchards producing great old varieties haven't competed with the giants supplying grocery stores and have gone by the wayside. And those few remaining have to charge a fortune for their apples, costing me out.

As i've written in OT's before, i've long enjoyed wanderings to find old isolated and abandoned trees along with the occasional wild tree. Usually after it warms and blossoms come, i drive and trek around to see this year's promise.

Praises to Chapman! I've read American Indians appreciated his spirit and he is known to have been a generous man.

Picking kids up from school this week for a young friend; like old times.

Thanks for today's OT and music and "Don't worry, be happy."

@randtntx
they really all that much cheaper. Mushy, mealy, tasteless and don't keep. Wht is their point and why don't varieties like Gala simply drive them out of the market. Says something about the alleged perfection of the market process.

Thanks for reading.

in the U.S. is considered to be the late 19th century.

when scores of apple and other fruit trees were planted in farmstead and kitchen orchards. Their ability to ''keep'' all winter in cold cellars, produce flavorful ciders, and their versatility for cooking and baking made apples a staple in American homes. This period of American horticultural history was preceded by an era of fruit diversification that lasted into the early nineteenth century.

In 1905 there was a popular manual called The Nomenclature of the Apple by W. H. Ragan which listed; "6,654 unique apple varieties referenced in U.S. literature between the years 1804 and 1904". Because of our agricultural practices we have reduced the variety of apples on the market to " a mere 11 apple varieties account for more than 90% of the apples sold in the United States, with 'Red Delicious' making up 41% of this figure."

The above is from an article in Science Daily originally published in American Society for Horticultural Science. According to this article, apple trees can live to be 150 years old and "in many areas, it is still possible to find trees of ''heirloom'' cultivars once abundant at the beginning of the 20th century."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104111731.htm

@magiamma
likely if you were in CA. Black vultures generally don't exit in CA, though some show up on range maps down in the border lands. I'e certainly never seen one, even down there. They're mostly in mexico, central and south America and in the south and southeast. Here's a link to Cornell's range map for hem.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black_Vulture/overview

et al...

sun for a bit on our side of the continent. nice to have a break from the rain. I just saw a ? black vulture ? in the preserve. never have I seen one before, knowingly, let alone in the preserve. the crows were not happy. took flight before I could get a picture.

no news, working in the salt mines of the-climate-breakdown gathering carloads full of broken climate detritus. heh. but just have to say. capitalism isn't working. okay then.

have a good one, one and all...