There are more calories in them than in a slice of bread from the middle of the loaf. And if that isn't enough, I also found out that toasting bread does also add calories, all-be-it very little. There are also more antioxidants in the crust of breads so don't cut them off for your sandwiches!! One more thing. Culinary Schools will tell you that heat does amazing things to our foods overall. Some bad, many more goods I am told. Now, that's food for thought! Don't you see?
Today during the noon news a weather man talking about the Blizzard coming to New England said, "No blizzard for us unless you go to Dairy Queen for their Blizzard", in paraphrase. And speaking about a blizzard. I survived the Blizzard in the Great Lakes of 1978. I still remember how quiet it was outside afterwards. It was almost eerie. Sounds echoed. My driveway had massive drifts of wind whipped snow. The cold was a crisp and "clean air " cold. It was the winter that temperatures hit minus 17° F. below zero.
Another weather related tale. Back in the mid 70's an East Coast Railroad employed told me that a large national lumber company had a full-time employee that did nothing but track rail cars "lost" in the mountain passes of the Sierra, Rocky Mountains during the winter months and of all places, the mountains of North Carolina to Maine. He later told me that they loved their customers across the Northern States. When I ask him why, he responded that the governments,local and state would order gondola cars of which they then loaded with mounds of snow and shipped them south. When I ask were in the South he responded that it didn't matter because they routed the cars south, and then would upon inspection reroute them North again. Apparently, they snow would melt naturally along the route and by the time it got to their Southernmost point the rail masters would inspect the car to see if they were empty. I have seen dump loads of snow being dumped into waiting rail cars. I had known that some cities had dumped their snow into lakes, rivers and even into the oceans but until informed, never ever thought about how snow could be such a commodity unlike ski areas and the like. While cleaning off the spindle at my desk, I came across a note to myself:"Hey, Hey they're hauling away snow today." The notation on the slip was dated January 22 of this year. So, from that, I can only conclude that it's still being done today somewhere in the northern climes. And therefore, hence, came this part of my post today. Don't you see, I'm not an old bland man. I search for interesting things for this blog regularly in my planning of future photo shoots.
On that same slip's backside, I had penned a note about the lady from Florida that was on her way north to see whatever, saw a post from a young man who takes pictures from travel trips and post them on his social media account with wrongly labeled place names on purpose. When ask why he did that he responded that people love to tell him of his mistake and that is the driving force for his millions of visitors to his account. The lady had gotten off her route in South Carolina to drive North to Gaston, North Carolina to see the beautiful mountains. Well, she was disappointed. She had no clue where Gaston was from the Low Country of South Carolina. I've been to Gaston and if she wanted to see the mountains, she should have continued North West from there to places like Boone or Grand Father's Mountain. She could have even skied at Grand Father's Mountain between Boone and North Wilkesboro, the home of Lowe's Home Improvements. They have now moved their corporate office farther South but still are very much a part of North Wilkesboro. I've been there too--the old Corporate Office and the town. The lady had commented that she loved mountains and where she lived in Florida the closest thing she had to mountains was the landfills. Mountains have that effect on people, including me. The pictures she had seen online were actually Switzerland.
And finally, from the 2020 census comes the news that Dallas is now a city of 1,304,379 people. The Metroplex of Dallas/Ft.Worth is now home to 2,613,539 souls or about half the city of Dallas size or put another way, all the combined suburbs total the same amount of Dallas' size. While researching that fact I noticed that Dallas' original telephone exchange 214, which was one of the 5 major exchanges originally assigned in 1947, is now the only City in the State with 4 exchanged assigned to it. The 214: Dallas area, overlays with 469 and 972 and now in waiting is 945. However, the exchanges 469 and 972 were added for the fast growth that did occur in a couple of hands of 5 years each. But 945 will not activate until all the numbers assigned have been filled. That's not that far into the future, either. Fort Worth has 2 including the original 817 and Houston's 281, 713, 832. Austin has one , the original 512 which the state didn't want another exchange because of all the state's governmental agencies having to change would have cost the state Much dollars. But Central Texas got the other one of 737. El Paso's original is 915. The state has now been split into multiple areas as the state overall continues to grow. El Paso is also called the Boarderplex with a combined statistical area of 2.5 million people, making it the largest bilingual workforce in the Western Hemisphere. No wonder 5G is such a big deal!! And for those other clandestine reason we aren't being told about.
So, things continue to grow in Texas. While Dallas is the 3rd largest city with Houston as number one and San Antonio as number two in population. Dallas ranks number 2 outside Houston in all other groupings but population in raw data by including the Metroplex data grouping of 2,613,539.
Texas Area codes now has Dallas assigned with 4, the most number assigned to a city in Texas. To be fair, the 945 is assigned but "in waiting" for the 972 and 469s to totally fill up. The later two filled up in 10 years. It took the original 214 since 1947 to totally fill while the 972 became so overcrowded the 469 was activated. Both took about 5 years each to reach the point that the 945 has been assigned but will not activate until the 972 and 469 fill up totally. Boy, I want to get a picture of that guy that pushes that button!!!
