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Skriven 2008-06-17 12:35:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 9061 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: veggie tales
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Hi Hap,

-> 90s of the past week or so.  Still, the low 60s sounds good, if even a
-> bit chilly.

 hn> Juuuust right! Today will be sunny and high 60's maybe
 hn> up as high as the low 70's...my kind of weather!

Send some of it our way--espcially if there's some rain mixed in.

->  hn> Many Hawaiian families had homes built of nothing more
->  hn> than corregated tin, and cases of beer bottles!

-> The standard of housing has improved, even tho the prices haven't.  Whe
-> nwe first got over there in March of 2001,we could have gotten something
-> basic for about $200,000, as some friends did. They sold it 3 years
-> later at about $360,000.  By the time we left 2 1/2 years after that,
-> houses like that were geting close to the $600,000-$750,000 range. Had

 hn> Hmmm, you obviously missed my object lesson from
 hn> the early 70's...I have related it here several times
 hn> over the years. I could have bought a house in Ewa
 hn> Beach for $79,000 but thought it too overpriced by
 hn> a huge margin. A shipmate and his wife did buy that
 hn> house...and sold it 5 years later for several hundreds
 hn> of thousands...a very good return on that investment!

I know--but we didn't go over, planning to stay more than 3 years. The
extra 2 1/2 years were nice tho. (G) As it was, about the time we were
leaving, it wasn't as great a seller's market as it had been even a few
months before.  Now that Del Monte has stopped growing pineapple, I'm
wondering what the land is being used for.  They were leasing the land
from the Campbell estate but when it got to be cheaper to import
pineapple from the Phillipines, they decided to stop growing it.


->  hn> Anne wants to hold off on the plants until after the
->  hn> Luthier's convention (starts today). Amanda is here

-> Sounds like a smart idea.

->  hn> to be my PA and boy o boy is she being kept busy!
->  hn> Still it's so GOOOD to see her!

-> But a different kind of busy than her work/school routine.  Big plus is
-> that she's visiting Mom & Dad instead of them visiting her.  Take her to
-> your/her favorite places if you have the time; I think I saw that you
-> went out for sushi.

 hn> Yep, that was her first night here, before the convention
 hn> started...once it did it was 5am to midnight for me everyday!

Probably a "grab whatever you can on a break" type eating? Some
conventions give you decent meal breaks; others make you hit whatever's
fast and cheap.

 hn> It's over now, and I only have about 4 days worth of work to
 hn> organize all the photos and get them burned to CD's for the

Sounds like fun.  Do you do it in the shop near the Hawaiian place? Is
the place still doing well?


 hn> Guild. I work baseball tuesday and wednesday, the rest of
 hn> the time I'll be catching up on chores or doing the photo

Busier now in your retirement than when you worked full time? (G)

 hn> work...Amanda went back to Cal on Sunday..she was a
 hn> tremendous help!

I imagine so! But, even tho you were working, you still got to see her.
We talked to both of our girls on Sunday; Rachel finished the school
year last week.  Deborah was on her way in from a trip to Reno and takes
off again Sunday for a week in Alaska, both trips work related. She's
racking up the FF miles big time this spring

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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