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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

That all sounds great Susan, and you and all of your friends are kind to the 
dogs , as well.  Wonderful people in too cold of weather .......

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--- On Thu, 12/25/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] What old homesteaders do for Christmas
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
> at least here.
> 
> For the past few years those of us who homestead here who
> don't have 
> family nearby have gotten together on Christmas day to eat.
>  Rules are 
> simple: Bring enough of something you grow to feed
> everybody (we do have 
> someone to call each year to be sure there's a
> variety), and if your dog 
> can't get along with others, leave it home or in the
> truck.
> 
> So this year we had cranberry cheddar cheese spread, whole
> wheat/sesame 
> crackers,standing pork roasted (with Yorkshire--is it
> Yorkshire if made 
> of pork?-- pudding), mashed potatoes, roasted parsnips,
> sweet potatoes, 
> green beans, creamed cute teeny little onions,
> corn/hazelnut stuffing 
> for the pork, butter, blueberry wine, a really good white
> grape wine, 
> cherry brandy, and brandied-blueberry stollen.  Of the
> whole thing, the 
> stollen had cardamom and everything else, including the
> wheats this 
> year, came from right here in the county.  So we "done
> good"....it's 
> always fun to remind ourselves just how good growing can be
> right here, 
> where we are.  The warm house was overfull of people (12)
> and dogs (8) 
> but a good time was had by all.   People and dogs all went
> home full and 
> happy.
> 
> SJ
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