Harriet, My grandmother was a pickle making expert who'se expertise I'd put up against your Ph.D professor any day. People used to come from miles around just to hear my grandmother talk about puttin' up a pickle. Just kidding, but she did make great dill, sweet and bread and butter pickles. My grandfather grew the cucumbers and she did the pickling. I'm not sure what method they used but the pickles were usually pretty uniform in size. Those are day I miss. Going down in Grandma's basement for a jar of whatever you might want. If you could can it, my grandmother could put it in a jar and everything home grown. Every vegatable you can imagine, tomato and grape juice, pickles and one of my favorites as a boy, pickled beets. I have not had a good pickled beet since my grandmother got too old to can. I guess I think about this now because two weeks ago would have been her 109th birthday. Grandma fed us all well. Ken, I know what you mean about your first car. My family never had the nicest car around either. In the early 60's we had a German Ford called a Taunus. Ugly little thing. My senior year in high school, my father let me have his old 1965 Rambler 770 Classic 2 door hard top. It hadn't run in 6 months and I had to work to get the money to get it going. $200 later I was tooling down the road in a copper colored beauty that others thought terrible. It had a 287 V-8 with a 3 speed on the column transmission. It burnt a quart of oil a week, had no lock on the trunk, would occasionaly get stuck in first gear and the only window that rolled up and down on it's own was the front passenger window. The others had to be pulled or pushed by hand. I doubt that car still exists, but if it did I would love for someone to contact me and send a picture. I'd love to have it back. That was a nice thing you did getting in touch with those previous owners. Here's the link with a picture of a 65 Rambler 770 Classic. Just imagine it in a copper or bronze color. I never figured out exactly what that color was. http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/ramb6503.htm Harry in Salem, VA _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
