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october already!
On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them. I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller. This was at friends hunting camp in central PA. Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem. There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms. These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag. I'm sure I've eaten more than a few. This year's crop appears clean. You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote:
On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut.Â* I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few.Â* This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 4:55 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few.Â* This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG When your trees are fairly isolated from similar trees all the enemies surround them nearby. I had trouble with apple worms and fungus when I had apple trees. I used to bicycle past an orchard on Sunday mornings and saw them spraying. Bet there was not a bug or fungus within a mile after they were done. I also suspect they did not have to spray that often as it would take awhile before they were invaded by surrounding bugs. Probably same for squirrels when I tried to raise English walnuts. If an orchard knocked their population down it would take a much longer time to recover than my trees surrounded by woods full of squirrels. I may be a chemist but do not believe in the liberal use of chemicals but in their judicious use. |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 5:54 PM, Frank wrote:
On 10/2/2017 4:55 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few.Â* This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG When your trees are fairly isolated from similar trees all the enemies surround them nearby.Â* I had trouble with apple worms and fungus when I had apple trees.Â* I used to bicycle past an orchard on Sunday mornings and saw them spraying.Â* Bet there was not a bug or fungus within a mile after they were done.Â* I also suspect they did not have to spray that often as it would take awhile before they were invaded by surrounding bugs. Probably same for squirrels when I tried to raise English walnuts.Â* If an orchard knocked their population down it would take a much longer time to recover than my trees surrounded by woods full of squirrels. I may be a chemist but do not believe in the liberal use of chemicals but in their judicious use. I made my living for sixteen years making chemicals, but not the type you're thinking of, just little stuff like benzene, etc. G After the 16 years as a grunt I moved into management with several different chemical plants and refineries. We were careful in handling the stuff and what we sold off to other companies had the proper paper work for handling them. Unfortunately lots of small companies made really bad chemicals for bugs, etc. that were two steppers, get a good bit of the chemical, walk two steps and fall over dead. Like you I am cautious about any over the counter or home made chemicals and read the cautions part four or five times. Breathing some of that stuff fifty years ago or so didn't help my health. Anyone that handles any kind of chemical, even the ones under the kitchen sink, needs to be fully aware of what happens if you breath it, drink it, or get it on you. Amen! |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 8:03 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 10/2/2017 5:54 PM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 4:55 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few.Â* This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG When your trees are fairly isolated from similar trees all the enemies surround them nearby.Â* I had trouble with apple worms and fungus when I had apple trees.Â* I used to bicycle past an orchard on Sunday mornings and saw them spraying.Â* Bet there was not a bug or fungus within a mile after they were done.Â* I also suspect they did not have to spray that often as it would take awhile before they were invaded by surrounding bugs. Probably same for squirrels when I tried to raise English walnuts.Â* If an orchard knocked their population down it would take a much longer time to recover than my trees surrounded by woods full of squirrels. I may be a chemist but do not believe in the liberal use of chemicals but in their judicious use. I made my living for sixteen years making chemicals, but not the type you're thinking of, just little stuff like benzene, etc. G After the 16 years as a grunt I moved into management with several different chemical plants and refineries. We were careful in handling the stuff and what we sold off to other companies had the proper paper work for handling them. Unfortunately lots of small companies made really bad chemicals for bugs, etc. that were two steppers, get a good bit of the chemical, walk two steps and fall over dead. Like you I am cautious about any over the counter or home made chemicals and read the cautions part four or five times. Breathing some of that stuff fifty years ago or so didn't help my health. Anyone that handles any kind of chemical, even the ones under the kitchen sink, needs to be fully aware of what happens if you breath it, drink it, or get it on you. Amen! No question. I am often telling my wife to be careful with her use of bleach and need for ventilation when cooking. I am very familiar with toxicology and have worked for years with toxicologists and their labs. Now retired I have written and been responsible for thousands of safety data sheets in my consulting. When working, my company often refused to sell chemicals to companies that could not handle them responsibly. |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 7:22 PM, Frank wrote:
On 10/2/2017 8:03 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 5:54 PM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 4:55 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few.Â* This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG When your trees are fairly isolated from similar trees all the enemies surround them nearby.Â* I had trouble with apple worms and fungus when I had apple trees.Â* I used to bicycle past an orchard on Sunday mornings and saw them spraying.Â* Bet there was not a bug or fungus within a mile after they were done.Â* I also suspect they did not have to spray that often as it would take awhile before they were invaded by surrounding bugs. Probably same for squirrels when I tried to raise English walnuts. If an orchard knocked their population down it would take a much longer time to recover than my trees surrounded by woods full of squirrels. I may be a chemist but do not believe in the liberal use of chemicals but in their judicious use. I made my living for sixteen years making chemicals, but not the type you're thinking of, just little stuff like benzene, etc. G After the 16 years as a grunt I moved into management with several different chemical plants and refineries. We were careful in handling the stuff and what we sold off to other companies had the proper paper work for handling them. Unfortunately lots of small companies made really bad chemicals for bugs, etc. that were two steppers, get a good bit of the chemical, walk two steps and fall over dead. Like you I am cautious about any over the counter or home made chemicals and read the cautions part four or five times. Breathing some of that stuff fifty years ago or so didn't help my health. Anyone that handles any kind of chemical, even the ones under the kitchen sink, needs to be fully aware of what happens if you breath it, drink it, or get it on you. Amen! No question.Â* I am often telling my wife to be careful with her use of bleach and need for ventilation when cooking. I do too, my wife often cooks without turning on the fan over the stove, goes straight out through the wall. She's an artist, does that ring a bell about safety? Years ago we lived in a small trailer house and I put in a fan above the stove in the wall. When we built our first home I sold the trailer and got an extra $100 bucks due to the fan, which cost something like ten bucks. In those days I made $2.50 an hour as a top operator in a chemical plant and ten bucks was a lot of money to us. Nowadays guys doing what I did in the sixties are making what sounds like big money but buys about the same amount of grub for us back then. I am very familiar with toxicology and have worked for years with toxicologists and their labs.Â* Now retired I have written and been responsible for thousands of safety data sheets in my consulting. When working, my company often refused to sell chemicals to companies that could not handle them responsibly. I hear that, happily I worked for years for Mobil, then moved on to some of the larger chemical and refining companies. As a safety professional I got several people fired for not doing their due diligence and have pulled wounded and dead out of something that should never have happened. You teach people the right way to do things and then they go dumb on you just once and kaboom! I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to do that anymore. We could certainly throw out some old stories over a cup of coffee. I go to reunions for a couple of companies, now all combined with the big boys, and we revisit our youth and some revisit their foolishness. I'm glad I'm retired. |
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october already!
On 10/2/2017 9:26 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 10/2/2017 7:22 PM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:03 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 5:54 PM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 4:55 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 11:21 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/2/2017 8:00 AM, George Shirley wrote: On 10/2/2017 6:33 AM, Frank wrote: On 10/1/2017 10:30 PM, songbird wrote: Frank wrote: ... I'm into chestnut season.Â* I don't save as many but like to shell and freeze to use with stuffing turkey. I'll chomp on them in the evening with a glass of wine but they last less than 2 months in the refrigerator as they do not keep like fatty nuts such as peanuts. Â*Â* i didn't think there were any of those trees still around any longer? I hate to leave them for the deer and the squirrels and saturate my friends with them.Â* Invited neighbors over today to pick up as much as they wanted. Â*Â* in the days before the fungi they were a major source of fodder for animals in the forest and many people would let pigs run to fatten up and then... Â*Â* songbird Mine are Chinese chestnuts.Â* The American chestnut is supposedly returning and a few years ago I tried a few of these chestnuts and they tasted the same.Â* I don't think the wood of the Chinese tree is as good as the American tree. I have never seen an American chestnut, don't think they grew in my part of Texas. Have eaten Chinese chestnuts, do they have the same taste? George It's been years since I tasted them.Â* I think taste was same as Chinese chestnuts and they were slightly smaller.Â* This was at friends hunting camp in central PA.Â* Guy that brought them in said they were American chestnuts. I tried to sell some to local market years ago but they refused as there is a worm problem.Â* There is a chestnut weevil that I have never seen but it lays eggs on the hull and they burrow into the chestnut. I spray with Sevin but can't reach the tops of both trees and often see a lot of worms.Â* These little buggers can even bore through a plastic bag.Â* I'm sure I've eaten more than a few. This year's crop appears clean.Â* You spray for 3-4 weeks weekly about 6 weeks before harvest. We tried growing everything without sprays, etc. and damned near died from what all was eating our gardens. Now we just spray and then wash stuff from the garden. It's hell trying to grown things "naturally" when the world is full of things that want to screw up your garden. Particularly when you're close enough to the harbor for Houston and all the junk the ships bring in. Some have destroyed crops that have been grown for a very long time. Then the gubmint says "You can't spray that, it might hurt the atmosphere or something else." Heck, I used to flag crop dusters as a kid with just a bandana tied over my face. I think all that "poison" is why I'm still around, sort of like being petrified or so0mething. VBG When your trees are fairly isolated from similar trees all the enemies surround them nearby.Â* I had trouble with apple worms and fungus when I had apple trees.Â* I used to bicycle past an orchard on Sunday mornings and saw them spraying.Â* Bet there was not a bug or fungus within a mile after they were done.Â* I also suspect they did not have to spray that often as it would take awhile before they were invaded by surrounding bugs. Probably same for squirrels when I tried to raise English walnuts. If an orchard knocked their population down it would take a much longer time to recover than my trees surrounded by woods full of squirrels. I may be a chemist but do not believe in the liberal use of chemicals but in their judicious use. I made my living for sixteen years making chemicals, but not the type you're thinking of, just little stuff like benzene, etc. G After the 16 years as a grunt I moved into management with several different chemical plants and refineries. We were careful in handling the stuff and what we sold off to other companies had the proper paper work for handling them. Unfortunately lots of small companies made really bad chemicals for bugs, etc. that were two steppers, get a good bit of the chemical, walk two steps and fall over dead. Like you I am cautious about any over the counter or home made chemicals and read the cautions part four or five times. Breathing some of that stuff fifty years ago or so didn't help my health. Anyone that handles any kind of chemical, even the ones under the kitchen sink, needs to be fully aware of what happens if you breath it, drink it, or get it on you. Amen! No question.Â* I am often telling my wife to be careful with her use of bleach and need for ventilation when cooking. I do too, my wife often cooks without turning on the fan over the stove, goes straight out through the wall. She's an artist, does that ring a bell about safety? Years ago we lived in a small trailer house and I put in a fan above the stove in the wall. When we built our first home I sold the trailer and got an extra $100 bucks due to the fan, which cost something like ten bucks. In those days I made $2.50 an hour as a top operator in a chemical plant and ten bucks was a lot of money to us. Nowadays guys doing what I did in the sixties are making what sounds like big money but buys about the same amount of grub for us back then. I am very familiar with toxicology and have worked for years with toxicologists and their labs.Â* Now retired I have written and been responsible for thousands of safety data sheets in my consulting. When working, my company often refused to sell chemicals to companies that could not handle them responsibly. I hear that, happily I worked for years for Mobil, then moved on to some of the larger chemical and refining companies. As a safety professional I got several people fired for not doing their due diligence and have pulled wounded and dead out of something that should never have happened. You teach people the right way to do things and then they go dumb on you just once and kaboom! I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to do that anymore. We could certainly throw out some old stories over a cup of coffee. I go to reunions for a couple of companies, now all combined with the big boys, and we revisit our youth and some revisit their foolishness. I'm glad I'm retired. I worked for DuPont in fibers and plastics R&D but spent the last 3 years as a regulatory affairs consultant. Had to take early retirement as company began to shrink. They are now Dow-DuPont. The years in regulatory gave me good experience to consult but that is now down to 1-2 days a month. Makes me stay current with computers and new rules. |
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