ton van der sluijs

Goodmorning Mr Kattumaram
A working windmill is a machine of it's own.. when you are inside you feel the wind is moving the whole structure and the sound of the wooden shafts and gears. One get's the feeling that you're in the belly of something; the smell of old wood.
We do have a big grainmill and we do obtain our grain there to bake our own bread every day. Fresh bread made from grain from the mill if soo nice and better for our health.

oops , have to go to the workshop... somebody comes there to meet me in 15 minutes.

greetz Ton

Kattumaram

I was surprised to learn that grain mills are still in use. The wife says how wonderful the experience must be to witness the operation of that old machine with its creaking, groaning and shaking....and the fresh-baked bread from fresh-ground grain is something to be treasured.

Those old mills attest to the artistry and engineering expertise of their builders and the quality and durability of their construction. I often wonder if the designers of those old mills realised what aesthetic appeal they would generate in later years.

ton van der sluijs

Morning
I know, I know It's off topic... who cares? Because your wife is interested I shall tell you both some more about it.

Grain mills has always been in use, mostly for the exxentric people and people who only eat biological food. The last ten years we see a tendency in a broad market ( fourniture, cars, clothes, sixties haircut and..bread) that people want to go back to the old days. ten years ago they started selling little table breadovens; add water, salt and flour, and in 3 hours a fresh , nice smelling bread!
Grainmills produce a far better quality flour, because the grain goes one time thru the stones (letting it a coarse texture) and flour from a factory goes thru five or seven steel wheels. In that process a lot of flavour dissappears and they add a lot of nutricianless stuff to let the dough rise fast, so they can make more production. You eat bread, but actually nothing!
A Sundaymorning with the smell of fresh baking bread.. ahhhhhhh

And especially for the Americans who believe we still walk on wooden clogs.... NO wo don't EXCEPT! People who has to lay hot tarmac on the road (good isolation from the heat), farmers who walk on cold muddy ground... and at last... me, working in the garden!

best regards Ton

Kattumaram

My taste-buds are tingling....make room at the breakfast table; I'll be over in the morning for some of that fresh-flour-fresh-baked bread. (Be sure you have a good supply of orange marmalade on hand.)

The wife thanks you for the information, but she says she knows all about that from the reference books she has on windmolens.

This morning at Wal-Mart I thought I heard a Dutchman walking in wooden clogs....it turned out to be a guy from Arizona wearing western boots.

FYI: I wear western boots regularly. They go well with my Austalian leather hats an example of which you see in my avatar.

ton van der sluijs

Sorry for the late and short reaction.. bit ill , gotta flu (the half of the Dutch at this moment)

regards Ton

Kattumaram

If you can find it there in Breezand, get a large bottle of vitamin C tablets and start taking 3000 milligrams every hour until the flu symptoms subside. Then take 1000 milligrams every hour until you get a watery stool (bowel) at which point reduce the intake of the vitamin just short of the loose stool syndrom. After the flu is gone, begin taking 500 milligrams of vitamin C every three to four hours.....for the rest of your life. This therapy will help prevent any virus disease making you sick and in the long term will prevent heart disease as well.

Don't worry about overdosing with the vitamin; there is no quantity that is toxic in any way.

BTW: We are way off topic. Perhaps it's time to end this thread. Cheers, Katt.

ton van der sluijs

THanks for you advice.... I shall use vita C Was nice to talk with you.

Ton

flareside4x4

wow i learned alot from this thread from valve guides to softening stools! lol