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I finally got to the grocery store today while there was a break in the storms and it seems I wasn't the only one who had the same idea. The store was packed and the traffic was terrible. Makes you wonder where all these people come from as this is supposed to be a fairly small town by most standards. Anyway, I bought a carton of whipping cream and I am going to make some fresh churned butter tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out. :)

Myrna, did you watch the video of the lady shaking the cream in the jar? If not you can go back a couple of pages to see it. Not sure if she said so or not but you need to let the cream set out overnight and sour. You won't have much buttermilk but you could use half and half and you'd have more buttermilk. I'm glad I saw your post because I had forgotten to set the carton out on the counter. Going to do that right now. :)

PS: You can also use a mixer to make it which is probably what I'll end up doing. Not sure I have a jar big enough to allow for the shaking. I can remember using a gallon jar to shake it in when I was growing up. Can't remember why we were churning in a jar because we had a churn. Hmmmm, I'll have to ask my oldest brother, he can remember anything.

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Hi Evelyn,
Looking forward to hearing how this butter comes out. I never thought of buying whipping cream to make butter. Cool idea, I hope it is good. And to have good butter milk. hummmmmmm

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I finally got to the grocery store today while there was a break in the storms and it seems I wasn't the only one who had the same idea. The store was packed and the traffic was terrible. Makes you wonder where all these people come from as this is supposed to be a fairly small town by most standards. Anyway, I bought a carton of whipping cream and I am going to make some fresh churned butter tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out. :)

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Hi Helen, great to see you again. I got this in your email you sent me. :)

You know what? I read all kinds of things on a daily basis that make me angry. :(

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Hello Klatch

This is part of an email I sent to my private email list. I
thought you all should have it, too. Isn't that nice of me?!

You will be utterly amazed what you learn from this video.

Yes, some of it you have heard before but there is some

that will make you angry!

Make a difference and mail this video to as many politicians as you can.
The more they get the more likely they are to finally decide to listen to
the video.

Tell them the world doesn't want engineered foods and you/we don't either.
Until the government outlaws them, we want these foods to be labelled.

Politicians don't know about these things. Indeed, it is not possible for
them to know everything. We've got to educate them. Be a lobbyist
by sending them information. That's what the big companies do. The
only difference is that they do it in person and they lie to them which
we don't have to do. If we don't do this, it will be big, evil companies
like Monsanto that will lobby, teach and influence the politicians. Do
you want that? Our lobbying will have a neutralizing effect on what
the big corporations are doing.

Robyn said things that made it sound like we in Canada are exempt from
some of this engineering but we are not. We are affected from Canola
Oil, Soy and Soy Oil, Corn products etc., and God only knows what else.
A lot of our products come from the USA and are made with engineered
foods. Yes, maybe things aren't as bad in Canada as in the US but this
does affect us and will do so more and more especially if we ignore it and
don't make our objections known.

Below you will find links for both Canadian and US politicians. It is
very easy to do this. Here's what you do....
1) Go find a politician's email address and copy it.
2) Then find this email and hit Forward
3) Paste the email address of the politician into the message you
are composing/editing.
4) Check everything in the email and change anything you think
would better serve your purpose. I don't care if you leave it
as it is. It's up to you.
5) Click Send
6) Find another politician's email address and do it all over again
until you have done at least 5 of them. Why not do 10 of them
while you are on a roll.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA

US Senators - Federal

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

US Congress

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

1) Click any state

2) Click on Congressman's name

3) On the Menu, click on Contact

4) Click on Contact Information (each website is configured

differently so some of these instructions may not apply)

5) Proceed from there. Congressmen don't give an email

address but you can copy and paste this email into the

email system provided on each website. If you do find

an email address, by all means, send to it.


Canadian Members of Parliament

In this website, right on the first page you will find a long list of useless tits
who only know how to spend our money, write themselves big cheques and big
retirement pensions and make our lives more and more miserable while they
live grander and grander lifestyles on our dollar. I digress.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/membersofparliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?Language=E&TimePeriod=Current


Helen

Hello everyone, if you have a FaceBook account you will probably want to read this article. I've already followed the instructions given in this article because what the article says is true. My contact information had been changed to a FB email address. NOT NICE!!

PS: Be sure you click "SAVE" to save your changes.

Facebook's Lame Attempt To Force Its Email Service On You

Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff

Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide...........

You may or may not realize that you have a Facebook email address. It’s an @facebook.com address you can use to correspond with people on external email accounts from your Facebook inbox. Though it was called a “Gmail killer” when it first came out in 2010, it seems instead to have been D.O.A. As far as I can tell, no one really uses it. No one seems to want the Facebook inbox to be their main email account (with good reason). Facebook is trying to change that with a new little nudge. On your profile page, Facebook has taken the liberty of making your Facebook email your default contact address. (See right, and check your own profile.)

For me, this contact email was previously either my Forbes account or my Gmail account — both of which I prefer to be emailed at. While I appreciate Facebook as a “White Pages” that allows me to reach out to just about anyone, I’m not a fan of the social network’s screwy messaging system and the way it auto-sorts your email for you, putting emails from ‘strangers’ in a shadow inbox that’s easy to miss. As a result, I barely check my Facebook inbox.

Cue The Prisoner: 'I am not a number! I'm a free emailer!'

Whether you opted for one or not, you do have a Facebook email address. If you have created a Facebook vanity url (such as “https://www.facebook.com/kashmir.hill“) then your FB email address is that vain phrase at the end plus @Facebook.com. If you haven’t customized your Facebook url, then your email address consists of the random number Facebook has assigned to your profile — which makes for a pretty lame email account. (See right.)

The presumptuous change to your contact preference was first noted by Gervase Markham on his blog. He objects strenuously to Facebook auto-creating email addresses for users and then trying to force those contacting them to use it. It’s an interception of user communications under the light Markham shines on it:

In other words, Facebook silently inserted themselves into the path of formerly-direct unencrypted communications from people who want to email me. In other contexts, this is known as a Man In The Middle (MITM) attack. What on earth do they think they are playing at?

via Facebook MITMed My Email | Hacking for Christ.

Security researcher Ashkan Soltani meanwhile calls it “slightly fishy to auto-replace your default email address with ‘facebook.com’ without any user consent.” After all, it should be up to Facebook users to determine the information in their profile about how they want to be contacted, not Facebook. I hope they don’t start taking other liberties with my profile page, changing my interests, hobbies, and “in a relationship with” to “Facebook. Only Facebook.” I realize that there’s research out there suggesting that oversharing on Facebook is as pleasurable as sex and eating delicious things, but I’m not that into it.

A Facebook spokesperson says the company has been updating Facebook addresses for users since April. Without specifying when exactly the company made this the default contract address for its users, the spokesperson says the site is “rolling out a new setting that gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines.”

“Ever since the launch of timeline, people have had the ability to control what posts they want to show or hide on their own timelines, and today we’re extending that to other information they post, starting with the Facebook address,” says spokesperson Andrew Noyes via email.

This is another in a long line of ‘nudges’ Facebook gives users to try to get them to spend more time on the site, and to make it users’ sole destination when they go online. Facebook would love to be the all-inclusive resort of the Web, replete with complementary digital daiquiris (that you’re forced to chug) upon entry. But this change is more a shove than a nudge, potentially circumventing emails you’d like to go elsewhere.

To assert your actual contact preference, you have to go to your profile page, hide the Facebook.com address from your Timeline, and replace it with another address, assuming you want to be contacted at all.

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