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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Gail Collins did a great opinion piece in the NYT about reality shows for 
disgraced politicians:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20collins.html

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Technology, was Tractors was: A homestead plan


> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>  I quarted, thin sliced, and
> > chopped the entire stack of cabbages.  It is admittedly a practiced
> > regimen.  But once the hands know it, it is deadly efficient.  In a
> > short time I was wiping up the board and knife and one of the people
> > gabbing there remarked, "I can't believe you made slaw out of all
> > that cabbage with just a knife while we've been standing here!"   Yet
> >  people are so convinced that the Slice'em Dice'em Chop-o-matic just
> > HAS to be so much faster than a knife, there's no reason to even
> > consider the latter.
>
> On TV the other night, on the reality show, "There Goes the
> Neighborhood" I saw a woman supposedly cutting up chicken for dinner.  I
> could NOT stop laughing.  Obviously, this woman had never cut chicken or
> any other meat in her life.  It appeared to be a boneless breast, and
> she couldn't even half it!  I'd bet she had never cut anything with a
> knife, and she was at least 35 years old.  Now there is a woman who eats
> out.  It is typical of our society.
> BTW, I usually hate this type of reality show, and I would not recommend
> this one, but watched it only because it was filmed in my old stomping
> grounds, real close to where I moved from before we lived here...It's
> filmed down in Kennesaw.
>
> Now, as a contrast to this, and since it pertains to the thread, I have
> to say that I was totally amazed at a machine I used the other day.  My
> friend and I were processing apples with a corer/peeler/slicer that
> mounts on the counter.  WOW.  I had heard of these things and seen them,
> but I would not have believed that it would work faster than a skilled
> peeler with a sharp knife.  Not only was it faster, but there was
> relatively no waste.  I gotta get me one of those!  I could slice apples
> for drying in no time!
>
>   And yet I knew that
> > even if he saw it with his own eyes, he'd still be walking in a world
> >  where the string trimmer was faster and less work.
>
> My shoulder and bicep hurt right now from a weedeater.  Faster and less
> work is arguable when you feel the work two days later.  Also, talking
> about food processors, they are usually a bitch to clean.  Knives are
> much easier, if you, as you do, have the skill.
>
>
>  For day to day reminders to aid my rapidly failing short term memory,
> > I beging the day with a blank sheet of copy paper folded in quarters
> > which gives me eight writing surfaces.  That with a pencil keeps my
> > shop notes, kitchen notes, and garden notes so I don't keep showing
> > up in a rush somewhere and ask myself, "What was it I came here for?"
> >  At the end of the day the sheet is dated, unfolded and put in a
> > notebook and constitutes a fairly accurate daily record of what's
> > going on around here.
>
> Cool.
>
> Bev
> --
> Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is
> protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed
> somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go Navy!
> EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
>
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