Updates On grasswire, Gravensteins, hippywife, Etsy, And Local Cheddar

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy grasswire really has a thing for Gravenstein apples. Gotta admit I've never heard of them except for these DUmp threads. Sounds more like a breed of draft horses. The Budweiser Gravensteins.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-18-11 09:24 PM
Original message
the sweet life

Sunday supper: basil omelet with local cheddar, heirloom tomatoes on the side, followed by Gravenstein apple pie. -- all foodstuffs from a sweet walk to the farmers market this morning. (The first Gravensteins of the season.) A million dollar river view out my window. A landlord who's a Democrat. And news of twins in the family clan in March.

I feel really blessed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x89276
Why is "local" cheddar preferable? It's not like freshness counts.
And a democrat landlord? I guess the former friend who evicted her from the bonus room was a repuke.

housewolf  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-19-11 01:38 AM
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2. Sounds like a lively day
Did you move?

How go the pie shop plans? Haven't heard anything about it from you for a while.

Now, DUmmy housewolf, it isn't nice to laugh at poor addled grasswire.
She's not bothering anyone as she wanders around town, bundled up against the heat, towing her little red wagon piled high with junk and Gravenstein apples.

yellerpup  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-19-11 08:15 AM
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4. You have so much to be thankful for!
Home, food, family. You just can't get much better than that! Happy for you, grasswire.

 
 

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-20-11 01:35 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. Yes, indeed.
Hippywife has a beautiful life and I am trying my best for her return to C&B. Some internet gossips just gossip about all of us. Nothing to worry about, in my estimation.

Internet gossips - who the hell cares, eh? FTS!

I don't recall ever seeing a single word about a DUmmy called pengilliannumbers. Just another useless, faceless unterprimitiven.
Hippywife, who may have been cut into small pieces and grilled by her husband, is another case altogether.

 

yellerpup  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-20-11 08:37 AM
Response to Reply #5
6. I hope you succeed.
I miss her sunny presence in C&B. I have no clue bout internet gossips, but I'm with you. WTFC?

Sunny presence!?! The hateful hippywife? The nursing home martinet? Forcing the oldtimers to sign over their SS checks for costume jewelry or go hungry? DUmmy yellerpup should use that stupid "sarcasm" thingy.

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-21-11 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #7
8. Yes she is.
Busy growing her business at live events, but folks can always find her --- hippywife at etsy. She's whipping up something unique for me --- as I type.

I surely miss her here at C&B. But it doesn't sound like she will be back anytime soon.

For anyone who cares, you can see Monica's junk at  http://www.etsy.com/shop/hippywife?ref=si_shop

It looks like she went to Claire's and filled up a garbage bag.

Anyway, all indications are she has not been eaten.

[Delmar]

For my 50 years on this earth before last weekend I had never heard of Gravenstein apples.  Now they seem to be coming out of the woodwork or falling out of the trees all around me.

[franksolich]

Damn.

Thanks for the update, sir; it's greatly comforting to know that hippyhubby Wild Bill didn't eat hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer after all--although one has to understand my speculations about that were wholly plausible, credible, believeable.

[tanstaafl]

Damn.

Thanks for the update, sir; it's greatly comforting to know that hippyhubby Wild Bill didn't eat hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer after all--although one has to understand my speculations about that were wholly plausible, credible, believeable.

Well, I'll accept the "wholly plausible and credible", but c'mon Franksolich, believable?
They were good stories, tho. Made me laugh.

[thundley4]

For my 50 years on this earth before last weekend I had never heard of Gravenstein apples.  Now they seem to be coming out of the woodwork or falling out of the trees all around me.

Same here, and I have a feeling they'll be in vogue at the DUmp until the next shiny object comes along.

[GOBUCKS]

Well, I'll accept the "wholly plausible and credible", but c'mon Franksolich, believable?
They were good stories, tho. Made me laugh.

I'd suggest that we still don't have confirmation that she wasn't eaten. It appears that way, but she could have shuffled off this mortal coil in a nice meaty fricassee. After several dinners on warmed-up leftovers, the notorious cannibal could have taken over the website to finish selling off hippywife's overpriced gewgaws.

The cat ladies who prefer her style may think they're buying from Monica, when it's actually the blood-stained, ravenous Alfred.

[delilahmused]

For my 50 years on this earth before last weekend I had never heard of Gravenstein apples.  Now they seem to be coming out of the woodwork or falling out of the trees all around me.

Excellent pie apples. The trees are plentiful up here. I think they originated in CA.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Some of her designs are really nice!

Cindie

[shadeaux]

I can't wear any of the earrings but I like the necklaces.  Her stuff is nice.  You can tell she puts time and detail into each piece.

The Vintage Brass with Glass Pearls and Beads I'd buy.  I really like it.

The apples I've never heard of.

[Celtic Rose]

I can't wear any of the earrings but I like the necklaces.  Her stuff is nice.  You can tell she puts time and detail into each piece.

The Vintage Brass with Glass Pearls and Beads I'd buy.  I really like it.

The apples I've never heard of.

I agree, her jewelry is very nice and I would totally wear it.  I like the brass earrings with the green glass gems. 

I'll admit that I, like the DUmmies, have a preference for local food as well.  I see it as a way to support my local economy, and while cheddar may not be something to eat fresh, having local dairy farmers is a good thing.

[Tucker]

I'd bet that the attic dweller couldn't tell the difference between an omelet using cheddar cheese and tomato's from Aldi and a pie using granny smith apples that come in a prepackaged bag.

[Paul Heinzman]

And a democrat landlord?

That comment stood out like a sore dick. Is a democrat landlord gonna let her slide on her rent longer than a republican? Fix the furnace quicker? Who even asks that question when apartment shopping?

Oh, yeah, DUmmies, that's who. 

[franksolich]

That comment stood out like a sore dick. Is a democrat landlord gonna let her slide on her rent longer than a republican? Fix the furnace quicker? Who even asks that question when apartment shopping?

Oh, yeah, DUmmies, that's who. 

Her other landlord, at the farmette, was a relative who let her live there rent-free.

[Karin]

Who uses the word "foodstuffs?"  

I'm glad that Hippywife isn't a kabob.  I couldn't wear her jewelry, I'd feel like gypsy in them.  They look like they'd clank when you walked.  That and get caught in your hair.  Good luck to her, though.  21 sales so far since April.  


P.S.  Grasswire never answered about the pie shop.  It still astounds me that she stated very clearly right in the newspaper that her pie was going to be free of charge to government employees.  Just sit and think that one all the way through, Grasswire. 

[franksolich]

pengillian101  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-21-11 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #7

8. Yes she is.

Busy growing her business at live events, but folks can always find her --- hippywife at etsy. She's whipping up something unique for me --- as I type.

I surely miss her here at C&B. But it doesn't sound like she will be back anytime soon.

Why not?

Where's Mrs. Alfred Packer's sense of obligation to society?

She was the heart, soul, and wit of the now-moribund cooking and baking forum; if she had any sense of social responsibility, she'd resume hanging out there, to illuminate the primitives and to amuse the rest of us.

Nothing, nothing at all, is stopping hippywife from hanging around Skins's island.

Unless hippyhubby Wild Bill is.

[SherryBaby]

I agree, her jewelry is very nice and I would totally wear it.  I like the brass earrings with the green glass gems. 

I'll admit that I, like the DUmmies, have a preference for local food as well.  I see it as a way to support my local economy, and while cheddar may not be something to eat fresh, having local dairy farmers is a good thing.

Local food is better because of the smaller footprint on the environment.  I like knowing where my food has been.     I'd rather pay a local merchant or farmer for my food than Monsanto...boosting the local economy.  If that makes me a hippy so be it!