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Last year we took our first major trip with my in-laws. We’re usually at the ranch but a couple of times a year they come down here and stay in a hotel and we go to a show or something. But this was nine days on the road.

I got to drive this trip through some of my old stomping grounds. This is Autumn in Vermont, perhaps someone like Frank Sinatra has sung of the trees here. Above is a picturesque old mill.

Second is me looking at the exact same work bench my grandfather made, probably from the same plans although his vises were different, and which still sits in my aunt’s garage.

Last is Jim’s father Joe opening a lock on the historic Erie Canal. This was a trip about water that even included Niagara Falls.

Other highlights may follow. Dee

Slow Food

No, that’s not when your entree arrives ten minutes later than everyone else’s at the table. It’s a good thing.

I really thought we’d be living in San Francisco for the latest US event, but that was not to be.

The USA has been and is late to the table for what I learned in Italy in 1999 from Peggy Markel and everything we cooked or tasted in Tuscany at La Cucina al Focolare.

Biodiversity. If you care look up slow food movement and check out their international and US websites. Yeah, you’ll have to do about thirty seconds of work to check out slow food. Less time than it’ll take for your fast food burger to arrive.

So be it. You don’t need to write haiku or opine on country music, just an exercise to take the time to do it, look up the Slow Food movement.

Local, fresh ingredients that are responsibly grown/raised. Skip the fast food today and look to tomorrow.

It is so important that everyone sit down at table at least once per day as a family and share food and what happened today, dear, and memories. When my athletic practices intruded into family dinner that was a no-no. We always had solid, healthy meals and it was a must to be at dinner and stay until one was properly excused. As in, “I have two hours of homework left, may I please be excused.”

Don’t get me started on computers. Families, put them where the family spends the most time, monitor activity and keep it to a minimum for kids as they need time outdoors… but this is about slow food and family time. And I’m on my computer before-hours. Dee