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[OakLeaf]

What part of NJ, Mimi?

We had our neighbors over for Christmas Eve, and the topic of New Jersey came up. Our next-door neighbor (the husband) is from northern New Jersey, as is my husband and my dad. It turned out our neighbor across the street is from northern New Jersey as well. She'd been living there about four years, just shortly after we moved in. She started asking my husband about mutual friends/acquaintances...



and it turns out she's FIRST COUSIN to my husband's mother. They'd sort of lost touch several years ago.

I've had some small-world experiences, but that left us all dumbfounded. We called my mother-in-law then and there and left her flabbergasted too.


... Every place I've lived has been really white-bread except for two years on the border of the rez. But I miss having some kind of ethnic mix, any kind. At least with my mother being half Chinese (and mostly raised in China), my upbringing wasn't completely white bread.

[salsabike]

That was just about the same ethnic mix where I grew up in NJ. I miss it sometimes. Our menfolk (Salsa's and mine)
are out riding today a 200k. It's the first day in 2 weeks that i can see the pavement on my street. Raleighdon has been going absolutely stir crazy. Glad to have him out of the house, but of course I'm a little nervous because there are only 8 hours of daylight and the ride will last at least 10 hours.

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Ditto. Chris took four tubes with him because of all the expected broken chains/wires therefrom debris.

Biciclista? That chestnut recipe? 325 degrees/20 minutes? 375 degrees? I think it's in the defunct OTA thread.

I am working today.

[Biciclista]

oh sorry. I would say score them and bake at 350 degrees until DONE if you don't want to score them, heat your oven to 425, put them in, then turn it off and check them in the morning..

peel while still hot. If they cool off, just heat them up again.
on the burner, in the microwave (not long, they're little!)

what part of NJ am i from? born in NEWARK, raised in essex county(orange, east orange, newark, nutley, and then spent a few years in Lake Hiawatha before I escaped.

[OakLeaf]

Ha, another one. My dad graduated from Nutley High.

[Biciclista]

what year?
!

[OakLeaf]

not 100% sure, but it would've been around '53.

[Biciclista]

oh, ok, I'm the class of '69 He's a little older than I am.

[Biciclista]

Don't these people look happy?


Anyone know THIS guy? (note, he's standing in slush)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Happy Birthday DebW !!!!

[Zen]

DebW's birthday?
I've got the perfect cake for the occasion

[salsabike]

HUMPH. Mr. Slush is in my living room right now. As a matter of fact, he is looking for one of the bike gloves he borrowed from me to do this insane ride, as we speak. So to speak.

Don't these people look happy?


Anyone know THIS guy? (note, he's standing in slush)

[Zen]

Top photo, guy on the left.
Reminds me of
.....................

[Biciclista]

is he wearing it in the pictures?

[Biciclista]

Top photo, guy on the left.
Reminds me of
.....................

yeah, he's kind of cute but he didn't have mudflaps, very bad for a ride like that.

[salsabike]

"When I'm calling you-hoo-hoo-hoo hoo-hoo-hoo..."

For the rest of you, this is the 200K we were referring to yesterday. Both of our spouses were on this ride and we were a little worried, especially when they got home with body temps of 95. This is in pursuit of the R-12, and they only had a couple more days to do their December 200K. Grrrr.

Mimi, that glove is gone. But I can't get too huffy about it, because originally those were actually HIS gloves, which he gave to me about four years ago and has missed ever since.

Just glad his body temp's back to normal. He also already had a cold before the ride yesterday. Nuts. Coconuts, peanuts, walnuts, any kind of nuts you like--they're just nuts.

By the way, I started training with a triathlon coach this week. Tris are so much shorter than 200Ks. Over before you know it, even. I am having fun.

PS Happy Birthday, Deb. Hope you're tramping around in the winter woods and having fun.