Text 3769, 177 rader
Skriven 2008-03-13 00:21:00 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 3574 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: dishwashers
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Hi Ruth!

>> colds and flus like the schools do :)  so of course he got the flu,
>> and brought it home to his brothers and mom and dad - and then they
>> brought it over here.. oh well.. it's that time of year.

> Nothing like sharing the germs.  My older brother shared the chicken pox

Oh tell me about it.. this entire month has been one big infection for me it
seems sometimes... incredible problems, one after the other.. :(  First the
"little flu" er cold er whatever the heck it was that went straight to my chest
the first day, then the sinus infection that followed that one.. THEN an
abcessed tooth..  hehe.. well finally on the repair?  Sure hope so. Hope things
are going ok over there as you're swinging back into the flow of things.. I
know that's not always easy either.

> and measles with the 3 of us (last one wasn't born yet) kids at home
> when he started school.  Rachel gave the chicken pox to her sister and
> the 2 neighbor girls I was baby sitting.  We'd talked about home
> schooling our girls but the support wasn't there in the early 80s like

Yes, there was none whatsoevever in the years preceeding...

> there is now. So, they went to public school and...............we
> supplimented with library visits, computers, local newspapers, magazine
> subscriptions, etc.

Yeah, we did the same kind of thing :)  Every kids' magazine that looked
interesting at all :)  The more scientific, the better :) I was teaching a lot
of computing at the time though then.. especially to kids.. I had programs I'd
written for each age level so it worked out well.  For instance a 3 yr. old
toddler would come in, this really happened :), and his mom would drop him off,
we'd sit at the computer.. and I'd run this silly program I'd written for the
commodore 64 :)  It plastered the letters of the alphabet on the screen, and
then this clown would come out and point to just one of the letters.. if the
kid found the key on the keyboard and pressed it it made a happy sound (life
was simple then too (g)) :)

>> > But, we are well

>> Yes, we're always well stocked on teas.. Ron is a big fan of tea
>> actually.  I like it also, but really prefer to start the day with
>> plenty of coffee.


> I don't drink coffee at all; Steve does much less than what he used to.
> At home it's always tea.


Oh, no.. no caffeine.. :)  For me, it's a way of life :)  I think I started
drinking coffee when I was 14 with my first job in the hospital as a Medical
Laboratory assistant.  There have been some years I went without it totally..
but not since I got MS.

>> > I've lived in the south long enough, gee, how long has it been?

>> We lived there for only 7 years.. a drop in the hat, really.

> That's less time than I lived in NC before Steve went into the Army. It
> was about 8 years then, 2 1/2 in TX, 8 in AZ and so far, 1 1/2 in GA for
> the mainland.  Add in another 5 1/2 for HI. Long enough to appreciate
> good southern cooking; I made Brunswick stew for supper last night. It's
> from a Paula Deen cook book but uses all chicken vs a chicken/pork mix.
> It's a "do again" so the recipe will be posted here in the next few
> days.

I'll have to check for it :) I'm a bit behind  :(

>>> 'frige that we'll put right in the island, and also a dishwasher that
>>> is actually made of two drawers you pull out and fill .. each draw has
>>> a rack/drain, etc. in it, so you can say wash dishes/glasses in one

>> > I've seen them on tv; they look interesting.  Does the dishwasher
>> hold > as much as a standard one or more? I generally wash pots & pans
>> by hand > but sometimes have lots of "regular" dishes & my standard
>> dishwasher is > rather full.  We generally run it every couple of
>> days, every day over > the week end, unless I've gone on a cooking
>> spell. Then it gets run as > it gets full.

>> Yes, it does.. or it's supposed to :)  I think it will end up holding
>> more, to be honest, given the parts on my current dishwasher that you
>> cannot block. On each basket on my current dishwasher there is a spot
>> where water passes that you can't block with cups, or bowls, etc.. the
>> new dishwasher avoids that.. You sound like you run your dishwasher

> Good; it's something we may want to look into if we ever get our own
> place. Right now we're not allowed to do things like that. (G)

Still not installed.. this flu hit the two of us so bad you can't believe it..
between that and running to the doc/phamacy for drugs and then.. the hardware
shop for the parts.. it's still right where the fellows delivered it, nice and
safe :)

> The machine is a Juki, industrial type.  That came in yesterday; the
> rest will probably come on Monday. It's a framework that gets set on a
> table (like a banquet table) with the machine in it. It's a step between
> a home sewing machine and a long arm quilting machine.

Whew.. almost sounds scarey :) :) :)

>> > My BIL didn't have a chance with those two pie vultures.

>> Lol! but still a testament to your good pies :)

> I guess so. (G) Steve enjoys them too.

:)

>> Sounds like my house when my sisters were married, etc.. they'd come
>> by and say hmm.. what's to eat today, c'mon we know you always have

> That's where it's an advantage to live a good distance away from
> relatives. (G)

>> something good here! :)  I think that was when I'd just gotten the
>> kitchenaid and of course I had to experiment a lot :) :) Matter of
>> fact, I remember making a twisted yeast bread, with raisin, nut
>> filling for my mom.. she brought it to work to share with her
>> co-workers and she told me that she had orders for 22 more of them,
>> because they wanted to buy one no matter what... I laughed so hard!
>> And then I got to work. I did that ONCE (g).  That was enough for me

> Not even calling you to see if you would
 do it first? I'd probably shut

Nope, didn't call first :) :)  She just walked in my kitchen when she got home
from work , all excited and said, you're not gonna believe this.... hehe Her
house was right down the street from mine.. maybe 5 houses down.. "The Big
House" on Grand Street :)

> everything else down and go into overdrive production for a few days,
> getting it all done. At least that's what I'd probably have done at one
> time; now just the thought of it is tiring.

Oh forget it now hahahahahaha (oops, not supposed to laugh quite so hard, huh?
(bg).. but but, really, I did... :)  For three days I think I just baked my
brains out Lol One load in, one load out.. let 'em cool, push the next load
in.. painful it was :) I had the greatest huge country kitchen at the time..
the first house we bought and it was the best... Ron had built the center
island and covered it with mexican tiles so I was working at the island with
 the stove/range in the island, sink to my back,  the wall-ovens right accross
from me, the frige and  microwave right there too.., was perfect. I think they
paid me $12.00 a loaf though so I wasn't going to complain. I guess my mom and
the people set the price hahahahaha.. which is actually good.. think about it..
could you put a price on something you make sometimes? I couldn't.. or at least
I know it can get hard :)


>> > the small one. Took a long time to use it up too. Last night I
>>> made a > "throw together, use up what's on hand that needs using"
>>> chili. Had >> > about 1/3 of a pound of buffalo
>>>(ground) meat in the freezer
>>so I >> used > that. Since it's so lean, I grabbed a small thing of chcken
>>>fat >> I
>>>had in > the fridge and used a couple of tablespoons of that to >> brown the
>>> meat, > pepper and onion.


>>Came out pretty good. (G) >> I bet :)  Often I'll
>>use bacon fat.. or pork fat if that's around or >> chicken fat.. depends on
>>what I have on hand. Most times though I
>> guess I use olive oil though for anything that isn't "pie" ..


> The thought of olive oil did cross my mind but as I was pulling stuff
> out of the fridge, I saw this thing of chicken fat that I had on hand.
> Couldn't tell much in the taste but it did add a different dimension to
> the chili.

Anytime I add chicken to tomato sauce of any type (chili, cacetori, etc), it is
just a divine... Perhaps it's something like that :)

Take care,
Janis

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