Huh? Did we miss something? *blink*
Nadine > >I really had a good time last evening and I just wanted to say thank you again >for the thoughtful gifts. I just hope you weren't all bored to tears by the >Doctor Who episode, which probably gave David Tennant the least screen time of >any episode he did, and that I didn't oversell the episode as one of my >all-time favorites. My only complaint is that I feel more than a bit wasted >from not enough sleep this morning because I *had* to get up by 7:30 to watch >both the German Formula 1 Grand Prix race and today's Tour de France stage in >the Pyrenees; many yawns this morning. > >But I wanted to follow up on a couple of things that came up in conversation. > >There are several brands of evaporative cooling cloth products (scarves, >towels, head bands, hat and helmet liners), but the two leading brands seem to >be Chill-Its (from a company called Ergodyne) and Frog Toggs, both of which >are available from Amazon. Some customer reviews for each product do have some >issues, but most reviewers seem to love the products (assuming that they are >real customers and not shills). > >The beef rancher I was trying to think of is Simply Grazin, who actually raise >certified organic pork, veal, and poultry in addition to beef >(http://www.simplygrazin.com/about/). The 220 acre farm they lease is right on >Rt. 206 and Opossum Rd. in Skillman, just south of the Montgomery Blooms >nursery. They used to sell their products at the farm, but a couple of years >ago opened a retail shop on Rt 518 in Blawenburg under the name Mallery's >Grazin Meats (http://www.mallerysgrazinmeats.com/). Then they opened a second >shop in the Knightsbridge Center in Hillsborough (that office/shop complex >cattycorner from the Hillsborough Municipal Center and Library at South Branch >Rd. and Beeckman Rd.) where they also operate Mallery's Eatery >(http://eatery.mallerysgrazinmeats.com/), which serves breakfast and lunch >daily. The news item I saw was apparently they they are now expanding to serve >dinner one night a month with seating by reservation only--not too practical for a no-advanced-planning type like me. I first became aware of their beef when they were serving samples at a specialty foods festival that McCaffery's put on under a tent in the P'ton shopping center courtyard a couple of years ago, which Paul and Sara also went to. I've bought their meat at McCaffery's a couple of times since then--good, but not really exceptional, and pretty pricey. Maybe their retail meat shop might be a source for cooking suet (or pork fat to render into fresh lard), since they get all their cuts directly from the south Jersey organic meat processor/butcher they work with (Bringhurst's in Berlin)? > >Regarding Roku boxes for Ellen to stream video content from the Web to the TV, >there are a couple of options depending on how high the HD needs to be (I'm >not sure whether the TV is a 720p or 1080p). If the TV is only 720p, the most >cost-effective model is the $50 Roku LT >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-2450D-LT-Streaming-Player/dp/B008R7EVE4/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-2&keywords=roku >which is even purple instead of black. >Or for $10 more, you can get the Roku HD, which adds an instant replay feature >on the remote and but has only purple highlights on a mostly black box >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-2500R-HD-Streaming-Player/dp/B007KEZMX4/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-4&keywords=roku >If the TV is a 1080p screen, the same models will provide better-than-DVD >quality, but to get full HD one would need to move up to the $80 Roku 2 XD >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-XD-Streaming-Player-1080p/dp/B005CLPP8E/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-3&keywords=roku >If the TV doesn't have an available HDMI connector (I should have looked...) >only the two lower cost, 720p models are relevant because they have RCA-type >video and stereo audio connectors (the 2 XD has only HDMI).
