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To: Janice Shell who wrote (4035)10/22/1997 7:13:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Janice, I'm so glad you have come to me with this problem, even if you didn't. Because I have two pepper grinders and I often spend hours wondering which of them I should use. I pick one up and then I put it down. And then I pick the other one up, and then I put it down. It's so hard to decide these things that sometimes I use both-and other times, I wind up using neither! <ggg>
One grinds by hand, and is very natural and environmentally friendly, which makes me feel very good and productive, but the other has batteries and a little light, which can double as a flashlight during those clandestine midnight snacks. So you can see the dilemma!!!<ggg>
My favorite is the hand grinder, although once I was grinding up those little peppercorns (why do they call them corns? Do they come from little cobs, do you think?) and a spider crawled into the top. Oh well, I though. He'll come out the bottom and I can get him then. But do you know he never did! Why, he must still be in there! <ggg>
I sure hope I've helped you with your problem. Maybe someone can help me with mine. Today when I opened a can of cat food, which I noted is made of sawdust and liver, which explains why Blue gets so excited when Dan chops wood, and the can opener only opened 15/16 of the can. I didn't know what to do! THe can opener is dying!!!! I tried to open all the cans in the pantry and sure enough. It only opened 15/16 of each one.
We are having canned peaches, beef broth, tuna, olives, and baked beans for dinner.
Now I think I will have to buy another can opener. Everyone was so surprised when I told them!!! They had no idea!!! But now I have to decide what kind!!!! Do I get one with a knife sharpener?
I would write you a poem, but I'm worn out from all this stress and besides, I'm imagining you falling into a very large pepper grinder.
I really treasure you so.



To: Janice Shell who wrote (4035)10/23/1997 1:08:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Of course I am published, but I can't tell you where. And just now I am very very busy running my many companies. I've told you a zillion times about my companies, don't you pay attention? I am so busy I barely have time to write this, but it is so important that I share with you that I do write poetry. Much of it is published on CASIP. You can imagine how good it must be to be published there. And of course I have won awards, but I can't tell you right now what they were, too busy. But I did break my pepper grinder in a household accident. I also shot off my left toe, but not with the pepper grinder. Now I need to buy a new one(pepper grinder, not toe). I have asked JF for his opinion as to whether I should go hand operated (natural, ecological, soothingly quiet ginding noises), or electric (technical, fast, information age, impressive). And there are the further choices of materials, wood, plastic, metal. I would be interested in your opinin as we seem to have a common problem here. I am leaning toward wood, because of the aura the wood gives off, and the silken sensual touch of the polished wood in my hand. The wooden pepper grinders at my local handicrafts store are specially made by tribes of aboriginal indians from somewhere, I forget where. I read about them on the internet but can't find the URL or recall any of what I read. But I think it is really cool that I am supporting them, whoever they are!!! One world, one co-op. And you know aboriginal people have such hardships to overcome, like poverty, and that is really bad. Do you think poverty is really bad? I do. And crime is scary.

And what about your poetry or lack thereof? I would really like to read it. And what do you do? I am always really interested in people's occupations. It says so much about them that I always try to pay really close attention.



To: Janice Shell who wrote (4035)10/23/1997 11:39:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Of course Alexa is published, J. I have heard that the Doctor Zorba Home for the Criminally Insane has a house newsletter, and Alexa is poetry editor. The Pepper Grinder of Truth is a recent opus of the multi-talented and multi-personalitied Alexa.