Ok,
gotta ask:
Why were you melting tin an hour before midnight on NYE?
NHBX has the right answer
We have that saying that everybody is casting his own fortune. More of a meaning that everybody is responsible for his own deeds. But once in a year we take that literally
Maybe this?
The casting of tin is an age-old Finnish New Year's Eve tradition that can give you a glance of what the upcoming year holds
www.voguescandinavia.com
You are right !
Only difference is - I don't give a damn about lead. as we are doing
metallurgy outdoors, I don't think it might bring anything
delicious cuisine, including dishes like grey peas with bacon, speķrauši (smoked bacon rolls), and Latvian rye bread
Helo, this is what I read about Latvia.
seems everything really does go better with bacon...
I love rye bread, what makes Latvian different?
i hate to ask, but do you eat reindeer?
About rye I am not an expert, but I believe several hundred years back, when weather was colder here summers was not long / warm enough for wheat.
Tho
Winter rye is any breed of rye planted in the autumn to provide ground cover for the winter. It grows during warmer days of the winter when sunlight temporarily warms the plant above freezing, even while there is general snow cover.
This is how our bread looks like.
The unique and delicious Latvian-made rye-bread gorgeously smells like a cornfield and a wood stove. Each slice is tasty and rich; you won't find anything like it anywhere else in the world! This kind of bread is now listed among the icons of Latvian culture; it is easy to take with you like a...
www.liveriga.com
Dark and heavy. Like my soul
Reindeer is not a Latvian thing.
Tho in our forests we have deer, doe and elks, all of them you might find in my fridge.
I am not hunter myself (my father and his brother was), but few friends are
suppliers of forest meat.
Reindeers are living more North - North FIN, SWE, NOR, near Polar circle
Speķarauši from our table:
I hope the lessons of the past have helped Japan because they were greeted
to the new year with a massive earthquake and alarms about 15 foot high tidal waves.
gives new meaning to having a seaside home
I bet a lot of their nuke plant operators must be gulping Tums.
It would be really nice to have someone here from the Far East.
though we are blessed with our friends from NZ and Australia.
In the "old days" guys from around the world used to chat on their short wave radios.
long before cell phones or the internet
I bet some still do.
I'm more visual, and like to write, so this works better for me.
If both Helo and I were online at the same time, and I posted a message here, I wonder how long it takes
for all that to pop up on his pc? Pretty sure it goes across the Atlantic in one of many big underwater cables.
and bounced through a lot of universities and big business servers.
I'm guessing they are fiber optic.
It all seems like magic to me.
when you start out with a multifamily shared phone line and no tv
it all seems like magic now
I mean, electricity travel at almost speed of light. I would say - it should take less than second to transfer messages.
We can do Teams/Zoom across continents like from the same room.
But message at TBN is much "lighter" than video stream
What shapes did your melting tin produce and what was the interpretation of the figures for 2024?
With wife we both agreed that our fortunes looked just like trip to Shri-lanka
Kids are always existed to interpret that chunk of thin.
It is so much in human nature to try to guess future. On smaller kids that is so obvious. Later they grow up and become cynical and practical
