Seriously, if I remember, a Peta ad went over the top....and it all cascaded from that. I am all outraged out - right now it is firmly aimed at CBS and the media....

Nice 'maters! I've never had any success growing full-size tomatoes here in Seattle.

just moved there a few months ago. One of our favorite cities -we can't wait to visit her!

Thinking of seeing if I can cause a Seattle area DU meet up when we get out there!

Hope you're able to make it out-- the city has changed soooooo much in the past 20 years.

I've only managed to make it to one DU meetup here, plus Andy's memorial. Pretty standoffish folks here, in general. Post in the Washington group if you're coming out!

I will make the rounds to book stores (where they still exist!) - I suspect Seattle, Portland, etc has some non-chain, indy book stores that would work!

The year we lived in Seattle, I tried to grow tomatoes with little success....then again, here in NC, we have a great, long growing season - but every disease and critter possible that goes after them!

Shocking how they've dried up, though.

We've still got Left Bank, Third Place, Open Book, Santoro's, Elliott Bay (but not in Pioneer Square anymore!)... most of the big ones are still around. Be sure to try to hit Eagle Harbor bookstore-- Bainbridge has lots of frustrated tomato-growing failures. (I was one.)

Aside from the store being bibliophile heaven, I imagine you'd do quite well in that food and gardening obsessed city.

we did a vacation a few years ago that went from Portland to Astoria, down to Yachats, over to Mt Hood - across to Trout Lake WA, winding up back in Portland...it was heaven!

The fights about when, how and whether to shop for the holidays should overtake them soon enough. DU is nothing if not predictable.

Thanksgiving is always super-fun** day for the V/V/AR folks. Isn't the wonderful potato chip and Pepsi story your Thanksgiving story? That never fails to crack me up!



**super-stupid

Flvegan's mom makes him vegan brownies. I am exceedingly jealous, I don't think my mother could make a simple salad without using half a stick of butter somehow.

Salad for dinner every Thanksgiving. Mom is not lactose-intolerant, but her kids are.

She makes turkey, creamed onions, whipped potatoes with milk, pureed squash with butter, butterflake rolls, and pie with butter in the pie crust. Best Thanksgiving: she tried to deep-fry the turkey and destroyed it. The Unturkey I brought that year saved the day!

Love you mom, but please let me bring a dish!