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Skriven 2006-10-21 16:31:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 6780 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

-> carry is stiff RH> enough to use to write on, and it saves grief.
 RH> ->
-> I've not had that happen in over 30 years of shopping. OTOH, my mom has
-> stories of people (summer visitors to the Catskills) taking stuff out of
-> other (local) people's carts.

 RH> You never know with them Away folk.


My brother calls them "Flatlanders". (G)

-> Yes, and I can afford the better stuff now.

 RH> There is that.  I have champagne tastes and a diet soda (generic)
 RH> budget most of the time.

I can afford something other than the generic stuff from time to time.

-> I've never had poison ivy.  I guess your mom must have really had a bad
-> case of it to need the prednisone.

 RH> Yep.  I've never had it, and my grandmother Hanschka didn't react to
 RH> it until she was post-menopausal.  I hope I never do get any.

Stay out of the brush & good chance you won't.

-> left overs.  Supper is the biggest variable; last night it was at church
-> but tonight it was mall mediocre Chinese.  We had to get something quick

 RH> Ick.  Mall Chinese ... just ... ick.  Of course, for me dinner tonight
 RH> was a bowl of refried bean soup with some veggies tossed in.  It was
 RH> actually pretty good as these things go.  It was leftovers; I was
 RH> headed out to a church rummage sale.  One thing I picked up was a
 RH> child's jumper/pinafore with seminole-style piecing.  What I want to
 RH> know is how everyone else
 RH> missed it!

They didn't know what a gem it was.  We had food court at the PX Chinese
today for lunch; it was a bit better but the rice was lousy.

-> table set up as it's good for lots of things that way, including a small
-> ironing board on the end.
 RH> ->
 RH> It's the only kind of ironing I do.   A few shirts, and sewing stuff.

About the same here since the new style uniforms don't need ironing.

->  RH> I just found a shirt embroidered with hibiscus flowers and other
->  RH> hawaiiana, but it's a ladies' shirt instead of one of those guy
->  RH> things.  Now if it was only my size...
 RH> ->
-> Probably would have fit me. (G) I've got a number of shirts like that,
-> in various prints--some boughten, others I've made.  I have one pattern
-> that I've done non hawaiian print shirts out of as well; I can do a

 RH> I brought it home, but now what to do with it....

If it's a size L, I can send you an address in a couple of weeks. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace.

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