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[Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>]

hi all, didn't expect to see so many answers so soon!  I did find a recipe 
for crabapple butter, so I'm gonna modify it for the crockpot (saves stirring 
the butter over the stove as it condenses down).  We don't eat a lot of jam 
or jelly, but we do like apple butter by itself or mixed into things like 
yogurt, cottage cheese, or a sweet barbecue sauce.  I didn't make any regular 
apple butter this year, as all the apples we didn't can or give away ended up 
in the spouse's hard cider experiment.  I think we have 10 gallons of hard 
cider of both pear and apple bubbling away right now, plus several gallons of 
sweet cider that we drank and gave to friends.  Some of the crabapples did 
make their way into the sweet cider.  Really put some snap into it.
 
> Hi Rebecca; I know nothing about crabapples; but I'm sure one of the goup 
> will eventually notice and anwer your question. How did the man save your 
> 401K? ...............bobford
 
George publicises his stock picks and states why he is making them, with the 
advisory that it's not advice, but just what he's doing for himself.  He did 
say earlier this year that, judging from what he and his cohorts at 
HalfPastHuman were seeing in their linguistic reports, it would be a GREAT 
idea to get out of the stock market and into things like DirectTreasury 
accounts.  I'm no financial genuis and I couldn't get the spouse to read 
George's reports and get his feedback, as at the time he dismissed George's 
work as complete hooey.  But the spouse did give into my nagging and moved 
the 401K out of stocks and into the money markets.  Unfortunately he kept the 
kids' education funds in stocks (which are now toast).  Most of the people in 
his office didn't move their funds, and.... yeah.  They're all pretty sad 
right now.  Not sure what financial moves we need to do next, as I'm not 
convinced that the money markets aren't going to need bailing out soon.  Kind 
of late to buy gold, and you can't eat gold anyway.  We are going to sit down 
and  take a look at our options over the weekend, as George thinks there's 
going to be another abrupt drop in the stock market later this month, with 
worse to come in early 2009.
 
well, back to processing those crabapples....  I had been hoping for lunch to 
try some chantarelle mushrooms that popped up under one of our apple trees, 
but I think some varmint (2-or 4-legged, I don't know which) spotted them 
from the sidewalk and got 'em first.  I had a BUNCH of them growing there 
yesterday, now there are none!  I'll get some on the next round....
 
-Rebecca in the great Northwest
 
 
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