Text 10039, 99 rader
Skriven 2007-01-06 14:33:03 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 9986 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: commisary
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

RH> key, regardless if it's the key you meant to hit or not. (G)

 CS> True!  Catching up the pointers still here.

RH> I'm all caught up and trying to stay so.  Power here is something else
RH> tho I did manage to get a loaf of bread made the other day without
RH> interruption. (As I was typing the last sentance it blinked enough to
RH> set off the UPS's warning beeper.)

Bad weather or something else?  Some base housings have old electrical gear and
that can be a real PITA.

RH> part of that comes from living in Germany for 6 years and enjoying the
RH> fresh white asparagus every spring.

 CS> I've never had 'fresh' be available as cheap as canned.  While i

RH> I know, fresh is a bit "dear" most of the time.  I did see white,
RH> cheaper than the green a few weeks ago at the commissary but didn't ge
RH> any.

I have some frozen spears.  Havent made them up yet.  I'm contemplating dinner
though.

RH> It's your choice.  We'll go for the frozen from time to time but green
RH> "comfort food" is probably spinach. (G)

Charlotte and i love spinach.  Don flees the house when we make it <g>.


 CS> Yes.  No longer a secton of one another.  They were building a ramp
 CS> when I left that had one over the other.  Someplace along Pearl Harbor
 CS> to Waikiki.  Some was separate but some was the same when I was there.

RH> There's a stretch in Pearl City/Aiea where H1 goes over the Kam for a
RH> stetch but now they're pretty much separate.  Depending on where we
RH> wanted to go, we took one or the other.

HI now over KAM all the way from Pearl Harbor base to Wakiki exit now?  Should
be.  They were working the last section when I left.  I dont have a good
memory of the route from Pearl harbor out westawrds to Pearl City. Didnt go
that direction much.


 CS> Funny how that happens. One day you just realize how long it has been.
 CS> 'Howddathappen'?

RH> Yes; at the end of this month, I will have been on Fido for 13 years
RH> now.  My baby is 26; my grandbaby is now 3.

I've been a sysop since 1986, Fidonet since 1989.

 CS> \sigh\ he was so cute!
RH> He WAS (?) so cute?  Not any more?

 CS> Ah he is, just a differnt sort of cute.  Garners *lots* of looks from
 CS> the local female population.  I just remind him that looking is ok,
 CS> but letting them touch isnt or he's gonna spend a week on the sofa
 CS> <G>. (Ahem, you guys can tune out for a moment.  Ruth, he's one of the
 CS> men who went from 'cute' to incredibly sexy as he got older.  You know
 CS> the type.)


RH> (Grin) I don't know if anybody ever used th word "cute" for Steve or m
RH> but he liked to tease our girls about their "cute little dimples".  I
RH> usually refer to him as my "tall, dark & handsome". He didn't have a
RH> white horse but did have a red Pinto when we met (the one that was

Ok, works for me!  I describe Don as having a face only a mother or a wife
could love <g>.  Actually, he's gotten pretty handsome now.

 CS> Well, I lucked up.  Almost no wind at all and not too bad.  A Peacoat
 CS> was enough to keep me fairly comfy.  Probably 45F or so the whole time
 CS> with no windchill to speak of.

RH> That's good. Dry, as well?

Yes.  No rain at all that night.

RH> done on the short cycle with the bread yeast for whole grain breads an
RH> no power failures.  Smells Soooooooooo good!

 CS> Drats.  Mine just flopped.  Ended up with a doorstop here.  Doesnt
 CS> happen often but does sometimes to all of us.

RH> Yes, I know the feeling.  The fun of second guessing what went wrong.
RH> cubed up most of our "brick", oven dried them and ran them thru the
RH> blender for crumbs so it wasn't wasted.

I do that sometimes too, though not with a blender.  I cut it up a bit, throw
it in an old pillow case, and let Charlotte vent her excess energy bashing it
to pulp <G>.  Back in VB, I used such to feed the birds by tossing hunks out
in the yard.
                                       xxcarol

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