I'm so old I Remember when:

[R2elk]

Don’t you freeze some after you make it? And don’t you use jars?

Absolutely not.

 

[NanaK]

I used to make mashed potatoes from scratch, too.

I do make these from scratch too. Last summer I even grew my own potatoes.

Did you know the natives of South American tribes - I think it may have been the people in Chile but don't quote me - invented the process of making mashed potato flakes, stomping the liquid out of them and freeze-drying them for off-season use?

I am thankful they got the process started. Someone out there needs some potato flakes.

Me...I ain't stompin' no taters!

I do bake my own bread and have made my own butter and yogurt.

Oh, well....you got me on this although I have made butter and bread in the past. I don't do it regularly.

Age and pain are making these a little more difficult, however. One does what one can.

I share this with you. Back pain, arthritis? I just try to pace myself through the day. If it get too bad I stop. Retired.

 

[NanaK]

Don’t you freeze some after you make it? And don’t you use jars?

Oops. Had to edit.

No. I make a fresh batch everytime.

I use lots of canning jars for tomatoes, jams, etc.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I do make these from scratch too. Last summer I even grew my own potatoes.

Wow! The chickens confiscated our garden. All we can grow out there now are irises lilies. They fertilize and cultivate them, but don't eat them.

I am thankful they got the process started. Someone out there needs some potato flakes.

Me...I ain't stompin' no taters!

Me needer!

Oh, well....you got me on this although I have made butter and bread in the past. I don't do it regularly.

No judgment! I just love the taste and texture of my own bread, that's all. Store bread ... tastes like paste to me.

I share this with you. Back pain, arthritis? I just try to pace myself through the day. If it get too bad I stop. Retired.

Mostly leg pain. Hip, knee, ankle, feet. Arthritis, fibro. But if I can stand, I'm usually at the stove, lol.

 

[BDutch]

Yer prob'bly rite. I should jest up 'n' move to a bit of land. Trouble is, if I move, I'm movin' state and I c'aint decide if'n I wanna be near the grandkids or the brother more Or I could move to the place I've always thought about since I were little.

Hé, I trying to learn English while Im chatting with people on BYC.
You are putting up a lot of obstacles!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hé, I trying to learn English while Im chatting with people on BYC.
You are putting up a lot of obstacles!

You are doing an amazing job of learning English! I would not have known it was not your native tongue.

 

[NanaK]

Hé, I trying to learn English while Im chatting with people on BYC.
You are putting up a lot of obstacles!

You are doing excellent! I'm sure I would not do half as well.

Thankfully you are not able to hear all the different accents people here in the US have. It would probably make it more confusing.

 

[notabitail]

Hé, I trying to learn English while Im chatting with people on BYC.
You are putting up a lot of obstacles!

You write English pretty well.

It seems pretty common for someone with English as a second language to be better at it than a native speaker.

 

[MROO]

I'm so old I remember when the teachers read story books to us in early grade school that always ended in "And the lived happily ever after".

A lot of the "class reading" they do in school now is scary. Have you read "Bridge to Terabithia" (fifth grade) or "The Red Kayak" (middle school?) Both are excellent books - and well worth reading independently - but as required reading and in-depth study? I'm not so sure that's such a good idea. There have GOT to better ways to teach today's kids about social woes and empathy!

SPOILER ALERT:

The first involves two kids living in a wonderful, make-believe world because they don't fit into the real one ... until the adventures cost a life. The other involves grade-school boys whose prank goes horribly wrong and a three-year-old dies. My Mom thought the fight scenes and animal beatings of White Fang were horrible. She'd have an absolute cow over some of today's required reading choices!

 

[BDutch]

You are doing excellent! I'm sure I would not do half as well.

Thankfully you are not able to hear all the different accents people here in the US have. It would probably make it more confusing.

I come across different accents on TV sometimes. Have visited and listened to people with different accents in London /South of England, different provinces in France, etc. And we have lots of dialects in my country too. Accents snd dialects are probably everywhere with established communities. Languages evolve.