We have a beer mug a champagne glass and a coffee mug (better be from Tim Hortons). Why not a milk bottle?
mm [:)] (in place of the milk bottle)
We have to go to an antique store to see what milk bottles look like! Plus the petting zoo to see what cows look like!
More seriously, obviously the icon list wasn't developed in Utah. Growing up, the coffee mug was iffy; the rest, don't think so.
You can add an image from anywhere, you aren't limited to the ones on the smiley menu. Just click the paperclip and choose "from URL" and paste in the URL of an image you find on the internet (using Google Images search).
There was an article in one of our local papers that said the milkman in the city was going the way of the dodo bird. Some of my customers are day cares and I sometimes ask the kids where they think milk comes from. One of two replies - 1. The milkman 2. the store. Yeah what's a cow and glass bottles? Although I think they either still have or had up to recently glass bottles in British Columbia.
I can remember when we got milk delivered in Indiana. Sometimes the milkman would be late and we couldn't bring it in before going to school—in the winter the bottle would shatter from the expansion of the frozen milk.
Yes, we still have glass bottles here in Vancouver. Avalon Dairy has been around for over 100 years. Certified organic. Happy cows.
There are apparently still plenty of dairies that do home milk delivery, according to a Google search. And Avalon contracts with various owner operated milk delivery services, so I could get it at home if I wanted. But why pay extra when I can walk one block to the grocery store and buy some? And stop at and the organic butcher on the way back to pick up some grass-fed beef and one of the two produce stores to get some fresh organic local veggies? I'm very blessed to live in such a walkable and health-friendly neighborhood!
I can remember when we got milk delivered in Indiana.
I remember when we got milk delivered in Massachusetts. The milkman would come up into our house and put the milk and other dairy products away for us in our refrigerator! While we were eating breakfast at the table right there in the kitchen. No problems with milk bottles shattering in the winter. :-)
Home Service is our biggest business. Although we/I do schools, offices, day cares, the Manitoba museum etc., the milkman still delivers to the door. Now, when it's -40 or so, I either put the product, because its more than just milk I deliver, between the doors or in coolers. I'm up at mid-night, get to my first house at 2 am and finish home service at 7 am just in time for the schools to open. Then after that small offices etc. I get home around 11, walk the dog (Skeeter, my buddy) do my paper work which takes a couple of hours have something to eat, 'try' to work out and hit the hay around 5 and start it all over again at mid-night.
Yes indeed Rosie, I used to delivery milk in Kamloops. After graduating from a Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, we moved to Kamloops. I worked (no pay) as a minister of education along side of a man by the name of Billy Heath. So in order to pay the bills, I worked for Blackwell dairies. Worked in the plant and home delivery as well. My training as a milkman while at Seminary came in handy. Sounds like you have it made regarding the fresh and organic foods. The only way to go. I think.
But then you miss out on all of those preservatives ! How could I possibly make it to my 39th birthday if I didn't have preservatives? [:D]
There are apparently still plenty of dairies that do home milk delivery, according to a Google search. And Avalon contracts with various owner operated milk delivery services, so I could get it at home if I wanted. But why pay extra when I can walk one block to the grocery store and buy some? And stop at and the organic butcher on the way back to pick up some grass-fed beef and one of the two produce stores to get some fresh organic local veggies? I'm very blessed to live in such a walkable and health-friendly neighborhood! But then you miss out on all of those preservatives ! How could I possibly make it to my 39th birthday if I didn't have preservatives?
But then you miss out on all of those preservatives ! How could I possibly make it to my 39th birthday if I didn't have preservatives?
I could always order Twinkies online from Amazon.com to get my fill of preservatives, now that Twinkies are back. But frankly, I think you'll be more likely to make it to your 39th birthday (and beyond) if you avoid foods with preservatives. Oh wait a minute, you're never going to make it beyond your 39th birthday anyway, so why should you worry?
Milk delivery twice daily:
You talk'in to me??
My first job was delivering milk (in bottles) in Karuizawa, Japan.
I loved that job.
yup I love my job too. Especially early in the morning, not winter (-50) yesterday. I love it when the birds come out, the early morning smells of dew and trees, no traffic, nice and quiet and a real sense of solitude. Hard to beat those times.
This post has memories twirling in my mind. [:)]
I was probably too young at the time to know the ins and outs of work, but I can remember the glass milk bottles with the foil top. Later, the glass milk bottles were replaced with square wax lined cardboard bottles with cardboard caps. Now we have the plastic bottles with plastic caps. Memories, memories. :-)
Very cool. I"ve been to Japan a couple of times as my sister was a missionary there for over 35 years. Although I've never been to Karuizawa I did hear that it was a beautiful place where missionaries would often go for personal renewal.
I love it when the birds come out, the early morning smells of dew and trees, no traffic, nice and quiet and a real sense of solitude.
Very well described.
