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Sep. 1st, 2025 04:43 pm
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Happy news of the day: Whoopi Goldberg wants people to watch more women's sports. So if you sign up for a free account on Pluto.TV and search for AWSN (All Women's Sports Network) you can watch a selection of women's sports matches and news and documentaries for free. Huzzah!

Thanks to The Happy Newspaper for the tip.

Families and finding things

Aug. 28th, 2025 10:24 pm
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So I asked some friends on a Discord server what items they had from their families and still used.  It came up because I was making tea and using an old metal ball tea-strainer I'd inherited from my namesake great-aunt, who, honestly, left me a lot of things.  And I was wondering what the rest of you have inherited and still have, and which ones do you still use?

I have furniture, and baking gear, and a cookbook from the 1950s from Aunt P.  Mom gave me kitchen stuff for my first apartment in college and those nested mixing bowls are still good and useful (and uncracked; I held them up to the light to see) after at least 60 years and gods know how many moves.  I have a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary from one of Dragon's grandmothers, easily 6" thick of marble endplates doorstopper from the 1950s and honestly, if I have to look up something, it's probably in there.  His other grandmother gifted me cast iron we still have.

What about the rest of y'all?

Oh, and as for what I found?  Aunt P's cookbook has recipe cards tucked in and two recipes written on the front end paper.  Might have to make these cookies soon.

Jumble Cookie 'recipe' )