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Skriven 2009-10-27 13:53:30 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 30402 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: eggplant
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Hi Hap,

-> It's a chilly Sunday evening; I finished the paper and figured I'd do

 hn> Monday eve here now.

And now Tuesday afternoon, doing Fido before I start the paper.
Yesterday sort of got away from us; we ended up heading down toward
Raleigh for some of the shopping.  We will go into Raleigh early next
month to go to WFM again.

->  hn> You can also make green tomato relish, and
->  hn> green tomato pickles!

-> Not enough for relish; these are Romas.  There are maybe 10-12 on the
-> plants but some are rather small.  We can see signs of them starting to
-> turn color so maybe they will ripen yet.  We may have to let them finish
-> ripening inside.

 hn> If you have a place (grarage, carport etc, you can pull
 hn> the plant and hang it upside down...waitta minnit!
 hn> Isnt your plant ALREADY upside down?? (GRIN)

And, we don't have a garage or carport either.  So, we'll just let them
ripen as much as possible outside, then bring them in.  We're only
supposed to have lows in the 50s this week, maybe high 40s near the end.
No frost so the tomatoes will stay put.

->  hn> stiffness, Dr says proceed at my own
->  hn> pace from here. Work on weight bearing
->  hn> and range of motion as I can tolerate it.

-> Getting any professional physical therapy?  If your insurance covers it,
-> it may be helpful--but they really know how to lay a hurt on you.

 hn> Nope, should do fine on my own, if I have
 hn> questions I can go to the Physical Therapy
 hn> dept and ask them, but I don't wanna have to
 hn> pay em to do what I can do myself.

OK, as long as you can.  Sometimes it's easier having someone else
provide resistance for some of the exercises.


->  hn> I also pointed out as she removed the
->  hn> stitches, an area of swelling...which she
->  hn> says is scar tissue underneath, and proceeded
->  hn> to "massage" it to break up the scar tissue...
->  hn> now THAT HURT!!!!!!!! And she expects me to
->  hn> continue doing that.....ouch and a half!

-> That's where the pros will do it--you pay them to hurt you. (G)

 hn> I'm doing fine in that dept with out any
 hn> professional help (if I need it my SIL is a
 hn> Licensed Massage Therapist and can do
 hn> it for me)

OK, that will work.  I've had enough trained (thru the Army) therapists
wrking on various joints over the years.  Kinda surprised some of them
as to how much pain they thought they could put me thru before I'd let
them know they'd reached their limit.

-> He was set enough in his ways. Besides, then the family wouldn't have
-> his income.  I'm not sure what level of school he finished, probably 8th
-> grade.  I'm pretty sure my dad was the first in his family to finish
-> high school but his older bother & sister did get GEDs.

 hn> Times are different, My maternal Grandfather
 hn> went off on his own at age 10 and eventually
 hn> ended up working for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild
 hn> West Show...as a crewmember of Buffalo Bill's
 hn> Train. Eventually he returned back to Tennessee
 hn> and ran the family farm, but I'm not sure how
 hn> far he went in school. He could read and write
 hn> quite well and was a Brickmason as well.

Now, if you don't finish high school, you're at the low end of the totem
pole.  No Wild West sows to work at either.

-> Depends on the sausage I use.  I had a chicken with roasted garlic &
-> herbs sausage that I used last night.  Extra garlic went well with that.

 hn> I like the onions, mushrooms and bell peppers.
 hn> Garlic can go in other dishes (grin)

It's your choice. (G)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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