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Four Generations - jim Young "We didn't realize we were making memories. We thought we were just having fun." - anon We all have a tendency to look back on the proverbial “good old days” with fondness. Of course putting a time frame on when the “good old days” actually were would be impossible. Not only do the “good old days” fluctuate from person to person, but the “good old days” can refer to several different periods of time to even just one person.      It’s all relative. The “good old days” to a five year old might be “last week” or even “yesterday”. When seniors talk about the “good old days” they may be referring to any number of years over their accumulated decades of experience. It could refer to moments spent as a child, memories from their youth as teenagers, their days of wonder and discovery as they set out on their own to seek their fortune or even the happy days of their early years of marriage and raising a family.      In my recent article...

- jim Young “The devil is in the details.” - popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche This is a screenshot of part of a Math Quiz I recently came across on Facebook.  The first answer is wrong. There are actually 11 months (all but February) that have 30 days. Some months have only 30 days, but that wasn't the question, was it? Even using the premise that the question was “How many months have only 30 days?” the answer is still wrong.   There are only 4 months that have only 30 days in them. Remember the poem "30 days hath September, April, June and November…" ? All the rest (excluding February) have 31 days. Ie: January, March, May, July, August, October, December. However it is not incorrect to say that these months have 30 days as well. It's kind of like the adage, “take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”.* Learn to question even the small stuff you read on Facebook and the internet and you'll be less likely to get caught on the big ...

- jim young In the December 15 edition of the Great North Arrow, Issue 16, Volume 9 published in 2022, I shared with you my recipe for “Slow Cooker Stove Top Turkey Stuffing”. Who can’t use some extra stuffing with their Christmas Dinner? If you cut that recipe out of the Great North Arrow and saved it as I suggested, you’ll be happy to have it to use again this year. If you didn’t save it, you can either try to find a back issue of the Great North Arrow or you can find it here. Or you might want to try this “Stovetop Beer & Herb Stuffing” which is also very good. Serves: 8 - 10 Stuff Required: 5 stalks celery, chopped 1 large onion, chopped 2 eggs, beaten ½ cup butter, melted 1 cup chicken broth ⅓ cup chopped parsley 1 tbsp thyme 1 tbsp sage ¼ tsp pepper 1 ½  tsp salt, divided 1 clove garlic, minced ½ cup beer 600 gm stale bread cut into small pcs Do This: In a large frying pan, sauté celery and onion on low until soft, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhil...