What does alum do to create a pickle? My mom made tons and tons of pickles throughout my childhood but I never watched what she did or helped with doing that. I think she did most cooking while my brother and I were at school so she was done with all that stuff by the time we got home every day. On the weekend, she just fixed regular meals and nothing like making pickles, cakes, pies, etc.

i think it makes them crisper. i remember biting down on one end of one of their homemade pickles and having to bear down pretty hard which built up pressure at the other end and the meat of the pickle sort of shot out the other side. so from then on i sliced them longways in quarters which took care of the pressure problem. should the pickle be inclined to do that again. but anyway, those were just the kinds of things they would just announce. 'specially my grand pop,

"see those utensils? stainless steel! no aluminum! that frying pan is CAST IRON! see that pot? STAINLESS STEEL!"

and certainly no alum in the pickles!

man i love that whistle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjAVqLhXuo

oh mercy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKZ797AIuwA

this is very excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkRe_m21Z0

i was thinking of this one earlier, a gem i discovered recently, felt like posting again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHfuihoz70

another one i saw, while wandering about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCe0a4zH9is

very excellent

i love this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2CPqX-tLc

afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGkoGxgTLo

i remember some bad times, but also some good. (among us kids, we could share how curious we were with one another a lot of the time. a lot of things that were different to me, and i was certainly different to them)

i guess the military came in after i was there, i only remember the civil unrest (the very real struggles among the civilians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHvn_LJdNAM

same kind of stuff going on in the world still

i really like the song

yesterday's rain was just so pretty. and today's autumn weather!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkmCBS8l--Q

one of the best covers of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOwf3TDygkM

i'd never heard this cover before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp7Ln9q6Yyk

i am a wee bit partial to bob dylan's (it is just so pitiful)

but this is nice