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Skriven 2008-02-08 10:11:12 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Kommentar till text 1960 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Hi Ruth!
>> > Probably more relief from the humidity as much as anything.
>> It's true, that would have been a factor.
> Probably so; I'd forgotten how humid it can be in upstate NY. I do like
> my AC--helps me breath better too.
Me too... I'd never lived so close to a major river before Louisville, KY...
that was humid :) I've never had asthma or such bad bronchititis that I needed
repeated treatment. It's the heat I need it for most of the time... but not til
it hits really long streaks of like over 90 ... which is kind of rare.
>> > Catch & eat or catch & release? My dad's old boss used to give our
>> > family a lot of his catch, usually trout but sometimes shad or
>> We caught, cleaned and ate trout.. sun fish.. trying to remember what
>> else we caught.. I think catfish.. it's been too long :) But I do
>> remember cleaning and eating them :)
> Suckers? Perch?
Certainly perch.. I remember those guys :) I remember something else with an
"s".. but I thought they were sunnys or sunnies... haha.. maybe they were
Suckers..
>>> family has been there since about the late 1700's ... We still visit
>>> their graves there, so our kids will know where they are.
>> > had to stop at the cemetary (we didn't understand why when we were
>> kids) > and the Shawnee Meat Market for German style sausages. In
>> later years > (after I go into high school), my folks used to stop at
>> a candy shop on > their way home from NJ. They had all sorts of
>> goodies but the chocolate > chunks and Swedish fish are ones I
>> remember them getting most often.
>> Sounds like great memories there (smile). My mom and dad's family are
> I'd say good but not great.
Ok, for me anything outside of Warwick was "exciting".. It seemed I had
relatives from all over ... even if they weren't blood relatives. I remember my
father's 2nd Cousin Ritchie coming to visit bringing the most incredible
Italian Pastries from South Jersey, and sometimes a fresh Pizza :) Anyway
that's why I thought there would be some good memories there.
>> in Scranton PA and in NY, and in NJ.. We'd go to Scranton every
>> weekend when I was a kid.. then I'd stay with my cousins there for the
>> summer sometimes, or with my grandmother.. walked the tracks to visit
> Easy enough to get to from the Sullivan county area.
It was funny though, our "Binhamton NY" relatives only came around for really
special occaisions... Guess when the roads were bad here, it was really bad
then. Route 17 probably wasn't done yet (g).
>> other relatives there :) Like you, I remember the great food we'd come
>> away with :) There was this one place in Scranton where you could get
>> the best sausage on earth, I'm sure :)
> The best of the wurst?
Lol :) Yes, sometimes it was like that (g).
> Sometimes on our way back from NJ, my parents
> would stop in Monticello to get hard rolls, pastrami (for them,
> occaisionally for the kids) and salami for supper sandwiches when we got
> home (about an hour later). That was some good meat! The rolls were
> pretty good too. (G)
Oh haha.. you mean Kaplan's bakery :) :) Did you ever get to go to Charloo's?
Did you ever have the toasted black date-nut bread and cream cheese? or their
french fries with chicken gravy? :) Boy was they both good.. I finally got
close to figuring the date nut bread out ... I've searched for any kind of
recipe that they might have used and the closet I came to with experimentation
was this:
==Datenut bread with Creamcheese==
Combine:
1 cup boiling coffee
1 cup chopped dates
1 teaspoon soda
Let soak for about 10 minutes.
Mix together:
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 egg
1-1/2 cups flour
pinch of salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon Cocoa
Add date mixture to batter and mix well. Turn into a greased 4-1/2x8-inch loaf
loaf pan or 3 mini-loaves and bake at 300 degrees F until a toothpick comes out
clean, about 1-1/2 hours (45 minutes for mini-loaves). Serve with chilled cream
cheese on the side.
>> > Same here but I've gotten older and wiser. (G) Plus got the asthma
>> > diagnosis which means cold weather isn't good for me.
Yeah.. cold isn't good for me either.. my muscles in my legs can get very
uncooperative (g). That's why I want to do the picnic in July/August.. but not
toooooooo late in august :) I know the temp here can drop.. they close down the
swimming pool at the park like July 15th :( Unheard of in Warwick.. it was warm
in the Valley until Sept (g)... or it seemed :)
>> When my daughter was a baby, the first time I noticed there was a
>> problem with her breathing she actually started turning gray .. I was
>> terrified and called the pediatrician (she was under 1 year old then)
>> and he said to open the window and have her breathe the nighttime
>> air.. it was cold and cut through all the crap in her lungs, thank
> Scary to think about "what if".
Yes, it was ... horribly.. my sister had had asthmatic kids before that who
were rushed to the ER.. scared the crap out of me then ... but really Lauren
was controllable if I watched what she ate and made her keep her room up so to
speak.. She never had a really vicious "rush her to the ER asthmatic attack"
but she sure could have some scarey wheezes...
> A friend in Germany picked up on the > fact I was wheezing
> once and asked if I had asthma. I told her not that > I knew of so she
>suggested I get checked out the next time I went to the > doctor. Sure enough,
> I did (I'm glad I finally found out why I was > always so short of breath.)
Glad you did as well :(
> get it checked and I do have asthma. At the > time it was borderline but it's
> gotten worse over the years.
That's rough :( Lauren's started really when she was a little over a year old..
Every time she got a cold, it would go to her chest... Then one day when she
was about 18 mos. old, she had a tremendous food allery attack... just out of
the blue.. EVERYTHING I gave her to eat made her sick.. That's when the "gray"
face thing happened one night (she just had a cold). After that, the dr. had
me introduce every single food to her all over again, one at a time but first
he had her eat lollypops and jello for two weeks and she didn't mind that :)
.. and then I knew what she was allergic to and we could go from there when
she'd get a cold etc.. It turned out then that the only meats she could eat
were turkey and lamb (later she couldn't), and the only fruit she could
tolerate was uncooked apples.. and the only vegetables that she could eat were
greenbeans ... certainly no dairy :(
>> jobs. It > will get cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer but
>> not the major > swings like you get on the main land.
>> Yeah, I've heard that Hawaii is very expensive for cost of living
>> etc.. I guess we'll have to get rich then (grin)
> Yes, unless you want to live on the beach.
(laugh) don't tell Ron that then haha.. but really he knows already (g). He
could live on a beach like that, so could I :)
> But, the political systems
> are cracking down on the homeless now so......... A lot of the
> homeless folks there are working but are homeless because they don't
> make enough money to afford housing.
That is so sad... cuts to gov't funding probably don't help.. I love these
cities that tried to say that other agencies couldn't hand out food to the
homeless..(well, you know, they'd gather around, looking icky in the 'hood) :(
>> Yes, it gets rough.. even with my mom now down in Florida now...
> I know, I feel the same way with my mom and dad in NY. One good part
> about it tho is that my younger brother lives across the street from
> them and checks on them every day. If he can't, (younger) friends of my
> parents look in on them.
Our problem was that Mom and Dad sold that gigantic house in "yuppieville"
Warwick NY and gave my second oldest sister just about all of the $$ to keep
them when my Dad got so sick with lung cancer. She was to build a new house
with the down payment, and give them two rooms. She did that, and they lived
there for a while and all was good.. then she got crazy.. yelling at Mom all
the time.. it was sad hearing it. It got even worse after my Dad died. I had
her here In Windsor for 3 months, and she was the most innocuous person you
could imagine. I just wish it wasn't so cold here :( But then I didn't have a
problem with my MIL or FIL living with us either. It makes me think that some
people just can't deal with other people in their house, really.
>>> Yes, she would have loved this house.. and the mountains are right
>>> there almost in the backyard. We were going to give her the apartment
>> > The mountains in AZ are what made the difference for me--especially
>> if > they got snow in the winter. Some years it stayed well into
>> No! We are banishing all snow here in the spring (laugh) Doesn't
> This was far enough away so as not to be a problem unless you wanted to
> go up to Carr Canyon or Miller Peak. We were about a mile in elevation
> on post but the peaks were higher.
Ah, so you could look at it but not feel the cold? That would work (vbg)
>> look like I'm going to get an early spring though :(
> Sigh! But then you expect that sort of thing up there.
Yeah, you know I really didn't want to leave KY.. well if we did, I didn't want
to go somewhere _colder_ than where I grew up... but at least this is back up
north (g). I didn't do to well at all with the "warm" down there :) And
sometimes, it seems almost like Orange County here (g) Global Warming?? (grin)
Take care,
Janis
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