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Skriven 2009-12-21 21:30:15 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 32386 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: pumpkin eater
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Hi Ruth,

-> And some things count as antiques if they're 50 years or older.

 RH> Cars and electronics, but I don't know of anything else.


I don't know either, off the top of my head.  I feel very much like an
antique at times. (G)  The other afternoon at choir rehersal, a couple
of the guys were going over one "Deo" (as in Gloria in exchelsis) so I
started with the Banana Boat "day-o".  They caught on and went into
that; the 14 year old daughter of one of them had never heard it before.
She said she wasn't surprised her dad knew it; according to her, he kows
all kinds of wierd songs. (G)


->  RH> I don't think I've ever made ketchup, but it can't be too
 RH> difficult.

-> A lot of time and spurts of intense work.  I'd consider it but now I can
-> buy ketchup without HFCS and some of the other stuff that some
-> manufactorers think neccessary to put in.  Others don't put all that
-> stuff in; I buy theirs.

 RH> Sounds like a plan.

Why buy something that is so horribly bad for you?  We just got some
candy canes; the only artificial thing in them is the red colorng.

->  RH> Sounds good to me.  Or if you want to experiment, bread pudding.

-> Not unless he wants to eat it all himself.

 RH> No?  Not even with brandy sauce?

Not around here.

->  RH> Ground cover.  It grows in full shade, unlike a lot of things.

-> The front yard gets a lot more sun than the back--not so many trees
-> blocking it.

 RH> I have lots of yard that never gets any real sun, so a shade plant is
 RH> a useful thing.

For you, yes. We have part sun areas, low sun areas and intense but not
extesive high sun areas.  We were able to grow the tomatoes in a partial
sun area; they may have done better had they been able to get more sun.
But, we've got to work with what's available.


->  RH> Yep - $35 to $50 around here.  The artificials are higher, but you
->  RH> only have to pay for them once.  I can't stand them though.

-> Plus you have to have a place to store it in the off season. We're
-> seriously lacking in that department.

 RH> Me too, unless we threw it in the attic, a bad idea since I'm allergic
 RH> to dust.

Same here, and no signifigant attic to work with for starters.

->  RH> Yipe.  That's not a trip, it's work-study!

-> Yes, but to get the credit, there has to be some work to do. That's why
-> we're going to school.

 RH> There is that, but I hope you at least get some down time out of it.

We should--it's called a red eye flight back home. (G)  Seriously, there
should be some down time.  We don't have a detailed itinerary yet but
that should give an idea of how much free time we'll have.



->  RH> There is that.  Parents make kids eat some stuff that's good for
 RH> them,
->  RH> and then there's the nasty stuff.

-> Yes, but we managed to live thru it, somehow. Just made me realise what
-> I didn't want served at my table.  Don't know if my siblings feel that
-> way or not.

 RH> One of my BIL's brothers went vegetarian.  That sort of cooking may be
 RH> why....

We branched out into all sorts of international cooking.  Of course
Steve's time in the Army and our moving around with that made an impact
on my cooking/our eating, as well as getting into the echo here.

-> I think I could with Harris Teeter and Lowe's but not sure.

 RH> We don't have either.  There was one in the A&P I think.

We don't have A&P down here.  I doubt the one in Jacksonville is still
there under that name; we shopped there a fair amount when we lived in
Swansboro.  The one where my parents live was taken over by another
store chain last year, raising the prices even higher.

->  RH> Squeakless pigs?  That sounds awfully strange.

-> Oinkless, they squeak instead.

 RH> Like my cat when she climbs stairs, or I pick her up. She's not into
 RH> "up".

And our Jenny-cat, a sweet little German kitty, squeaked instead of
meowing.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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