Greetings

I'm not a slave to my phone & I refuse to talk on it in a restaurant, etc. I have 10 voice mails right now but I'm not stressed about it. The messages are all from people who owe me money.....

Life on the road just plain sucks but you get used to it. Everybody in my family gets to do pretty much whatever they want & we don't have money woes. That's the trade off.... Is it worth it? Hard to call but I know I can go on the road for a year & make a bunch of money if I need to.
 
Stormer said:
I have 10 voice mails right now but I'm not stressed about it. The messages are all from people who owe me money.....
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That's the deal breaker for me. I owe nothing to anybody and I don't want anybody owing me anything. In my own way I am an extreme isolationist.
 
I meant customers who owe me money. Getting the money from the insurance company can take up to 90 days & then the mortgage company is on the check if the claim is over 10K. Not simple....
 
That's exactly what I meant. I knew the work I did for the week up to Saturday got me a guaranteed check the following Wednesday afternoon electronically deposited in my bank.
What price can you put on security like that?
 
That's the only phone I have. Never get calls in the restaurant with that.

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Forcing American food and movies on us and lamenting when we want to go there with your cars. Shouldn't have taken away our liverwurst. :)
 
polara71 said:
So you admit its our way of life you desire
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As most anything else it can enrich your life if you don't overdose. Being near the French border, I also enjoy their environment. Their swap meets have some completely different atmosphere and some foreign food treats as well like a very hot lamb sausage typical of that border area.
 
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cm23uoc said:
Shouldn't have taken away our liverwurst. :)
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I definitely had nothing to do with taking your liverwurst... When I was still too young to be in School, likely 4 years old, my mother made me eat braunschweiger on a sandwich, and said if I ate it all and didn't like it, that I would never have to eat it again. She kept her word and I haven't touched the stuff in about 40 years now. I made the same bargain with lima beans. I guess my Swiss side trumped my German side in that instance, however I may be guilty if your missing some sourkraut?

cm23uoc said:
As most anything else it can enrich your life if you don't overdose. Being near the French border, I also enjoy their environment. Their swap meets have some completely different atmosphere and some foreign food treats as well like a very hot lamb sausage typical of that border area.
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I had a friend that was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army in the 80s. He said that you needed no signs to tell you that you had crossed the border into France, as the everything was clean and well maintained in Germany, and as soon as you crossed the border, everything turned to crap, with garbage, weeds and abandoned appliances etc. scattered around anywhere and everywhere.
 
The nearest French border that is about 25 mls from me are mostly small towns and villages, they take rather good care in these communities with lots of green and flowers and there have been some renewal of public places the past 20 years. What I notice is there are far more older homes that are cared for but not renovated with new plastic framed windows, entrance doors etc, they’re somehow “period correct”, they tear everything out here in Germany to upgrade to modern specs. Also many more old farm houses with barns left over and a little lower prices for real estate. We don’t want to commute with the car every day through traffic jams, otherwise we’d have considered moving over there. There’s a large Mercedes truck plant near the border and many employees live in France.
Your friend was probably a bit further west near Bitche (not misspelled J ), maybe a bit rougher there I think, but haven’t really been there lately.

I haven’t tasted a run-of-the-mill sausage or wurst with a German name in the US that had anything to do with what I know from here. I should send you a can of home slaughtered liverwurst, but I don’t know if it would make it through Homeland Security. Your dog at least would love it. J
 
I'd like to make it over to Europe one of these days.
i used to eat liver wurst sandwiches when I was a kid and still go for the sauerkraut when set in front of me, usually a holiday meal.
 
has2bmopar said:
I had a friend that was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army in the 80s. He said that you needed no signs to tell you that you had crossed the border into France, as the everything was clean and well maintained in Germany, and as soon as you crossed the border, everything turned to crap, with garbage, weeds and abandoned appliances etc. scattered around anywhere and everywhere.
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While not to that extreme, the same can be said while traveling around the island of St Maarten. There is no doubt telling when you have crossed from the Dutch side into the French side.
 
cm23uoc said:
The nearest French border that is about 25 mls from me are mostly small towns and villages, they take rather good care in these communities with lots of green and flowers and there have been some renewal of public places the past 20 years. What I notice is there are far more older homes that are cared for but not renovated with new plastic framed windows, entrance doors etc, they’re somehow “period correct”, they tear everything out here in Germany to upgrade to modern specs. Also many more old farm houses with barns left over and a little lower prices for real estate. We don’t want to commute with the car every day through traffic jams, otherwise we’d have considered moving over there. There’s a large Mercedes truck plant near the border and many employees live in France.
Your friend was probably a bit further west near Bitche (not misspelled J ), maybe a bit rougher there I think, but haven’t really been there lately.

I haven’t tasted a run-of-the-mill sausage or wurst with a German name in the US that had anything to do with what I know from here. I should send you a can of home slaughtered liverwurst, but I don’t know if it would make it through Homeland Security. Your dog at least would love it. J
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Hands down the best Liverwurst on the planet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Usinger immigrated to Milwaukee from Germany in 1880. Every US President had eaten their stuff since. My family (My Dad's parents from Frankfurt 1860 and Ma's parents from Austria 1932) have been eating their stuff since then too. Another place is Klement's in Milwaukee. I just brought a giant cooler of liverwurst, kielbasa, brats, weiners, etc, back to Maryland. You can go online and order and have it sent to your door. I don't know if they can send to Germany or not.

http://www.usinger.com/

http://www.usinger.com/
 
detmatt said:
I'd like to make it over to Europe one of these days.
i used to eat liver wurst sandwiches when I was a kid and still go for the sauerkraut when set in front of me, usually a holiday meal.
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Did you say Sauerkraut??? The best is Frank's Kraut. It is processed in Freemont, Ohio and should be on the shelf in Detroit. I buy it in Milwaukee at any grocery store. I brought a bunch back to Maryland along with Milwaukee Dill Pickles. I have a killer recipe for Roulaten from my great grandparents if anyone is interested.

http://www.sauerkraut.com/brands.htm



Yep Dave, we're talking about making some killer German food now!!! LOL!!!
 
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