We filed the MLS/Realtor claim ... Nothing ventured, and all that...and, as per usual, I've been reading up a storm.
I do have a penchant for 1930s British Murder Mysteries - I think I had read the majority of Agatha Christie books by the time I was 14. Between my library card and Kindle Unlimited, I'm always grabbing a Margery Allingham, Edmund Crispin, Dorothy L Sayers, or any number of other fun who-done-it authors. And magazines... from Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, to Milk Street and Food and Wine for cooking. I'm always picking up something. Just made a great Apple Cake yesterday... https://tjrecipes.com/2024/09/invisible-apple-cake/
Friends of ours from San Francisco bought a condo in Baltimore about 20 years ago for their daughter when she went to Johns Hopkins for Nursing. It was 3br and they rented out the other two rooms to other nursing students. It wasn't the entitled arrogant snobbery apparent in the article, it was simply less expensive overall than student housing at the time and with the rent from the other two, the payments were doable. That people can plop down a cool million or so in cash for a child's college home while other kids are saddled with debt for years and years shows just one of the many inequities we are facing as a society.
And as for the IRS... It's my understanding that they only enforce the rules, they don't make them. HOWEVER... There is a simple "Penalty relief for reasonable cause" that should be available for anyone who was unable to pay or file their taxes while they were captive, somewhere. Yes, it would be nice if Congress specifically cited hostages, but I don't think a hostage filing late would have a problem. Being a hostage is "reasonable cause".
I'm actually trying to avoid a lot of politics, right now. I have a real disdain for the doom and gloom pundits out there. I'm also tired of the incessant texts and emails wanting money. Being a cranky old retired man on a fixed income, I just cant support every down-ticket race across the country. And the verbiage and fear tactics really annoy me.
I love reading your comments, Tim. I hope you and Victor get the money back. I actually thought of the two of you when I saw the piece on refunds (actually in the AARP newsletter).
AND I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE A MYSTERY READER!!! I love mystery books. They're my favourite book escape.
As for the apple cake -- I'm sure it's delicious -- you always bake so well. Here is my apple cake story - when I was in junior high my best friends' grandfather's girlfriend baked the world's most perfect Jewish apple cake. The one in the bundt pan with the cubes of apples, and a texture that was both cake-y and cookie-y. Not to sweet, not too tart. PERFECT. At that age, I had not yet discovered that I could not bake.
I asked for the recipe and she said no.
I asked for the recipe when I was in high school and she said no.
I asked again in college.
Finally, after I'd been out of college a couple years, I pointed out that she'd never given the recipe to anyone, she was in her 90's and someone should have that marvel. She mailed me the recipe, which included ingredients like "a wine glass of sugar" and " 3 ladles of flour".
I drove from New Hampshire, where I lived at the time, down to NYC, with measuring cups and spoons to measure things like her wine glasses and ladles -- needless to say, I couldn't make the recipe work. I gave the recipe to a friend who was a baker in your class, and she couldn't make it work. The recipe died.....
We have recipes that start off "a bag of flour" and include things like 'butter the size of a walnut". And "dollop" or "handful" and other fun, imprecise measurements like "bake in a slow oven until done". I understand your pain! LOL A ladle was probably about a cup and a wine glass probably about 6 ounces, but it's more about figuring out the proportions - mad scientist at work! <g> If you still have a copy of the recipe I'd love to give it a try!
In the meantime, here's Victor's recipe for the perfect Apple Cake baked in a bundt pan with chunks of apples. https://tjrecipes.com/2013/10/apple-cake-2/ It sounds similar...
Yeah, it IS unbelievable - and I really would have expected it in Mad Magazine. But no, our government not at work. I don't know that I'm regressing, I just spent some time this week trying to read things that weren't directly political in nature. Yeah, I know REALLY hard to believe!
Oh... let's see...
We filed the MLS/Realtor claim ... Nothing ventured, and all that...and, as per usual, I've been reading up a storm.
I do have a penchant for 1930s British Murder Mysteries - I think I had read the majority of Agatha Christie books by the time I was 14. Between my library card and Kindle Unlimited, I'm always grabbing a Margery Allingham, Edmund Crispin, Dorothy L Sayers, or any number of other fun who-done-it authors. And magazines... from Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, to Milk Street and Food and Wine for cooking. I'm always picking up something. Just made a great Apple Cake yesterday... https://tjrecipes.com/2024/09/invisible-apple-cake/
Friends of ours from San Francisco bought a condo in Baltimore about 20 years ago for their daughter when she went to Johns Hopkins for Nursing. It was 3br and they rented out the other two rooms to other nursing students. It wasn't the entitled arrogant snobbery apparent in the article, it was simply less expensive overall than student housing at the time and with the rent from the other two, the payments were doable. That people can plop down a cool million or so in cash for a child's college home while other kids are saddled with debt for years and years shows just one of the many inequities we are facing as a society.
And as for the IRS... It's my understanding that they only enforce the rules, they don't make them. HOWEVER... There is a simple "Penalty relief for reasonable cause" that should be available for anyone who was unable to pay or file their taxes while they were captive, somewhere. Yes, it would be nice if Congress specifically cited hostages, but I don't think a hostage filing late would have a problem. Being a hostage is "reasonable cause".
I'm actually trying to avoid a lot of politics, right now. I have a real disdain for the doom and gloom pundits out there. I'm also tired of the incessant texts and emails wanting money. Being a cranky old retired man on a fixed income, I just cant support every down-ticket race across the country. And the verbiage and fear tactics really annoy me.
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!
I love reading your comments, Tim. I hope you and Victor get the money back. I actually thought of the two of you when I saw the piece on refunds (actually in the AARP newsletter).
AND I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE A MYSTERY READER!!! I love mystery books. They're my favourite book escape.
As for the apple cake -- I'm sure it's delicious -- you always bake so well. Here is my apple cake story - when I was in junior high my best friends' grandfather's girlfriend baked the world's most perfect Jewish apple cake. The one in the bundt pan with the cubes of apples, and a texture that was both cake-y and cookie-y. Not to sweet, not too tart. PERFECT. At that age, I had not yet discovered that I could not bake.
I asked for the recipe and she said no.
I asked for the recipe when I was in high school and she said no.
I asked again in college.
Finally, after I'd been out of college a couple years, I pointed out that she'd never given the recipe to anyone, she was in her 90's and someone should have that marvel. She mailed me the recipe, which included ingredients like "a wine glass of sugar" and " 3 ladles of flour".
I drove from New Hampshire, where I lived at the time, down to NYC, with measuring cups and spoons to measure things like her wine glasses and ladles -- needless to say, I couldn't make the recipe work. I gave the recipe to a friend who was a baker in your class, and she couldn't make it work. The recipe died.....
We have recipes that start off "a bag of flour" and include things like 'butter the size of a walnut". And "dollop" or "handful" and other fun, imprecise measurements like "bake in a slow oven until done". I understand your pain! LOL A ladle was probably about a cup and a wine glass probably about 6 ounces, but it's more about figuring out the proportions - mad scientist at work! <g> If you still have a copy of the recipe I'd love to give it a try!
In the meantime, here's Victor's recipe for the perfect Apple Cake baked in a bundt pan with chunks of apples. https://tjrecipes.com/2013/10/apple-cake-2/ It sounds similar...
This was entertaining-Thank you!
I live to serve. LOVE THAT DOG!!!
Are you regressing to Ripley's Believe it Or Not? Loved the one about the IRS,
Yeah, it IS unbelievable - and I really would have expected it in Mad Magazine. But no, our government not at work. I don't know that I'm regressing, I just spent some time this week trying to read things that weren't directly political in nature. Yeah, I know REALLY hard to believe!