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Thanks, I will look into it but for now the MP3 player seems like what I need.

Darlyne, I copied this from the online manual on Kindle.

8.4 Audiobooks and Music

There are two types of materials you can listen to on Kindle. You can purchase, transfer,
and play audiobooks from Audible.com, and you can transfer MP3 files to Kindle to play
as background music while you read.

Audiobooks from Audible.com

Kindle supports the thousands of audiobooks available through Audible.com. You can
purchase and download one or more of these books through your Windows-based
computer using AudibleManager software supplied by Audible or iTunes on your
Macintosh. You can then transfer these books to your Kindle over USB or using an SD
memory card, and listen to them on your Kindle.

Candace

Jerry, accidentally hitting the bar, initially I did but have adjusted. I prop Kindle, its cover folded back, against a small pillow on my lap, rest my hand on the pillow, my thumb at the edge of the bar. I’m still getting used to some of the features. I especially love having a variety of books available so I can switch topics on a whim.

Candace

Can you listen to those things or are they just to read?

Got my Kindle and it looks great but so far one drawback. It’s hard to hold on to without accidentally pressing the forward and back buttons. Maybe I’ll get used to it. I’ve already downloaded “Designated Daughter” into it and that worked perfectly as described in the ads. Candace, do you have the same complaint?
Huggz all,
Jerry

NEVER EVER???????? That is absolutely sinful, Joy. It’s a tart-sweet thing that is sooooooo good

Let me “fess up”———–I have NEVER even tasted rhubarb. It is just not very popular down here.
JOY

`They can sometimes be found with the dried raisins, etc etc. I have found them but not too regularly.

I googled “currant berries” and got quite a bit of information on them and they are around. I didn’t look for where to get them though but if interested you probably could find some. They apparently are still around.

Jerry, I don’t remember hearing about currants until the past few years when some restaurants began to offer black currant iced tea. We had different types of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and very early on gooseberries. My only memory of gooseberries is that they were very small and pale green and my mother took a big pan of them along during rehearsal for the Children’s Day play at our little country church. My impression was that it was a tedious job–don’t know if it was removing stems or seeds or both–and she used that time to do it. There is one company based in Oregon that features a few canned fruits. I have the mental image of a plum on one of their cans. They used to have rhubarb but haven’t for years. That doesn’t explain what happened to currants unless there was some sort of blight. If someone comes up with a test that they have a lot of antioxidants they’ll be popular again.

Candace

This will be the first book I download when I get my Kindle. You’re right Candace, we’re blessed to be acquainted with people such as Phyllis and her family through the internet.

Getting off the rhubarb subject; let’s talk about currants, black and red. We had bushes of both in our back yard when I was young and my mother would make red currant jelly and black currant jam. The government made everyone dig out the black currants dur to their causing some kind of wheat blight. I’m always on the lookout for black currant jam or jelly but haven’t found any lately. Another good thing that has all but disappeared is plum jam. The A&P stores used to have plum jam in huge jars and it was tart and delicious and CHEAP. Can’t find it any more. Found some red plum jelly the other day but it was poor stuff and I’m not crazy about jelly anyway.

Huggz and thanks fer listnin’
Jerry

I downloaded this book and read it immediately. I was a little hesitant because of my own “adjustments” (which I prefer to “concessions”) in aging. We have known that Phyllis has had some health problems the past few years. Essentially the story of the daughter adjusting her life to be available to her mother after her father died, it is rounded out by Phyllis’s views and reactions as circumstances change. It’s a realistic and tender story of two adult women, mother and daughter, who enrich each other’s lives as they face changes in their lives. Everyone who has known Phyllis through this forum will appreciate these insights. It is a gift from our friend to be included in their journey.

Candace

I was interrupted when I started a post and did not send it. Apparently leaving the site does not eliminate it as email does. I need to delete. To finish my rhubarb thought–they found there was rhubarb in abundance–so much so that people were bringing it to them rather than throwing it away. They created a big business in rhubarb sundaes.

Candace

A couple of years ago friends of my son took a new direction with their sons grown. The moved from Texas to a small town in Colorado, took over an old ice cream, candy, sandwich shop. At a church social they were exposed to rhubarb jam and learned that

I got my ’stimulus’ check last week and decided to ’stimulate’ my savings account for the time being.

That Kindle sounds like a good deal but I think I’ll wait a while. What with new hearing aids and plane tickets, I need to bring down my credit card balance. I hate to put ‘good stimulating’ money there!!!!!!!!!!

Got my rebate check from Mr. Bush today so ordered my Kindle from Amazon. Waiting with bated breath. The price dropped to $359 and free shipping.
Huggz all,
Jerry

We do grow wonderful rhubarb here, my brothers and I ate the tender new stalks with salt, it was quite sour but we liked it and as Darlyne wrote, we did not have all the snacks or any of the ones available now. We also ate gooseberries, that grew on bushes in pastures, but I haven’t seen a bush for years. Maybe because we have no pastures around anymore, none of the farmers raise cattle here as you can make more profit from crops.

My favorite pie is rhubarb custard. This morning I made a pan of brownies for our Memorial Day service at the Legion Hall. A young pfc from Texas stationed at the Grand Forks Air Force base gave the talk and said he and his wife moved here in Feb. His little son told me they were moving back to Texas in Nov but he liked the snow and that he could read “chapter books”. He’s in second grade and seemed very bright.

Jacky

I think we ate those too, along with stuff right from the garden, carrots, ground cherries and peas. We just wiped the dirt off with out hands and ate. We didn’t have all the junk food kids have now days. I also remember taking a salt shaker to the garden, picking a ripe tomato, licking it so the salt would stick, and enjoy. There was nothing like it.

Ye gods, it’s been forever and six months since I’ve thought of those; my brother and I used to get them, too. Man oh man, what memories that brought back.

And the little tender red rhubarb stalks; I think it was my grandmother who had them. I don’t remember now - !

When we were kids we’d eat rhubarb right out of the garden. We tried to pull only the small, tender, bright red stalks, which we’d dip into sugar. The large green petioles were great but stringy and sour. I can still the look on a kid’s face in reation to bite of that sour stuff. Kids will eat almost anything! (At least boys will.) We lilved near a sugar factory and the trucks full of beets would line up in front of our hous. We’d hook ‘em down wilth a stilck, peel ‘em with our jack-knives and eat ‘em raw. Another thing we found to be good were what we called “green cheeses”. Tiny little pumpkin-like green things growing in the lawn. You had to get down and look close to find them and it would take a million of ‘em to make a handfull. Some more stuff was elderberries, wild grapes and sweet purslane. Oh yeah! Boys are real foragers.
Huggz all,
Jerry

My super market has it in the spring and it was great. I bought the stuff I planted at a nursery near here so some people must grow it but it sure didn’t thrive for me. I think it needs a cooler climate. My pie was great but I made a cobbler with splenda with the left over and that didn’t work at all. Sigh! I am trying to keep away from sugar so really only bake for other people but I did have a piece of the pie.

Our market in the little town of Milpitas would have it occasionally when it was in season, but I could find it in markets in San Jose. Milpitas was small (less than 1000 people) when we moved there so any major type shopping was done in San Jose. A neighbor gave me some she bought but it was picked too soon and was green and bitter. Whew. I didn’t tell her but I tossed it after keeping it a couple of days, outside the refrigerator, and it never did ripen up even a tad. Shame.

I’ve also bought frozen rhubarb — complain to the management and see if the store won’t order some. Spring just isn’t spring without rhubarb pie, no berries, just rhubarb.

Yes, we had it in our garden too, Darlyne.  Apparently you purchased some in the market.

I have never seen it for sale in the store in Alabama or California.  Someone told me you could buy it frozen, but I’ve never found that either.  I haven’t looked here in Idaho because I don’t cook or bake anymore.  I hated it when I was a kid, but by the time I was 14 or so I had acquired the taste and loved it.

I just got this on Kindle and started it. Amazon sure knew what they were doing, books for $9.99 (some less) instantly available. Just as the remote control eliminated the need to get up to change the channel, now I don’t have to move to another room to get a book for the mood of the moment. How lazy can one get!

Candace

Oh my that’s good stuff. Some of the sauce over ice cream is fantastic. And rhubarb pie is to DIE for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gooseberries are delicious. I found some once, only once, while I lived in CA - (30 years) and made jam (too much trouble to strain and make jelly) and was it good. I used red food coloring - the green was pretty but I couldn’t imagine kids eating green jam on their toast. I can still taste it. I’ve never seen it a gain and nobody makes it for sale. Did somebody blitz all the plants???????