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Skriven 2008-11-20 14:31:43 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16605 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: socks & books
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> We'd get an orange in the toe, an apple in the heel, and a
 NB> tangerine  NB>> near the top.  Mixed nuts in the shell made it nice
 NB> and lumpy... :)  NB>> Small (and very inexpensive) toys, and wrapped

 RH> Sounds like you had pretty good sized socks.  When I was in junior
 RH> high school, somehow my dad or mom got some sock samples.  There were
 RH> just enough for our family to use as stockings, no duplicates.  Last I

 NB> I think Daddy found a bunch of hunting socks on sale one year... and
 NB> before that, we used olive-green knee socks... dunno where they came
 NB> from, could have been army surplus...?  :)  They were men's socks,

Sounds like military surplus. Steve started his military career in green
socks, then they went to black.  A while ago, they went back to green.
He will have a bunch of them as surplus in a few months. (G)

 NB> though.  Later, when the family got a lot bigger (as my siblings
 NB> married and had kids, too) we ended up buying more hunting socks on
 NB> sale, and
 NB> added to the collection.  I took over the stocking part... I think we
 NB> still did stockings as an extended family for about 10-15 years after
 NB> I had gotten married... as oldest of 8, it took a while for the
 NB> youngest
 NB> to grow up and have families of their* own...  The tradition evolved
 NB> to work with the family, until things just got TOO unwieldy... (G)  At
 NB> one point I was stuffing 30+ stockings...  (G)


That's quite a few boxes of raisins, tangerines, etc and even more nuts.
Ever get tempted to do one sock with all raisins, another all tangerines
and a third of just nuts? (G)

 NB>  NB>> we just go to the supermarket and get them, any time of year and
 NB>  RH>> So true--and sad to say, that's how a lot of kids think food is
 NB>  RH>> produced.
 NB>  NB>> Schools have been trying to counteract that lately, though, with
 NB> field  NB>> trips or at least lesson plan segments on where the food
 NB> really comes  NB>> from...

 RH> Sounds like a good idea. I'll have to ask Rachel or David what
 RH> Challenger Schools do. (It's a private charter school with campuses in
 RH> NV, OR, WA, CA & UT.)   Rachel has taught in the elementary level;
 RH> David is a Headmaster but has been a pre-school director.

 NB> That would be interesting to find out... One would hope that they
 NB> would have a good approach to things like that.  :)

I don't know how they work things like that.  The school is very
academically oriented. Robert is doing things in pre school that most
public school don't teach until kindergarten or first grade.  Rachel
hasn't mentioned field trips so I sort of think that the school doesn't
do them. It's too bad, in a way, if they don't as kids enjoy going to
the bakery, fire department, sap house, etc.

 NB> recall  RH>> spilling something but the next time I pull out the book,
 NB> there will  RH>> be a stain near where I was last using it. The only

 NB>  NB>> Sticky fingers, maybe... an unnoticed splash, perhaps... or
 NB> something  NB>> that changes color as it ages...  or some combination
 NB> thereof...  ;)

 RH> Probably; it just seems odd that you would think you would remember a
 RH> spill or splash.

 NB> I guess it partly depends on how engrossed you are in the cooking
 NB> procedures themselves... as well as how messy one tends to be when in
 NB> the midst of a project.  For some, probably the only spills or
 NB> splashes remembered would be the really memorable ones...  Others

I try to make sure the book is up and out of the way but that isn't a
"given" all the time.

 NB> might be so
 NB> ultra-careful and neat that they would see the flour fly towards the
 NB> cookbook, while sifting at the other end of the counter...  (G)

I've seen these acrylic stands that you can put your cook book behind to
keep it clean.  My problem with those is that it holds the cook book in
a vertical position; I'd have to put it high up to read.  I usually put
my cook books horizontal on the couter, flour cannister or where ever I
can find a suitable spot.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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