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Skriven 2008-06-21 23:49:14 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av NANCY BACKUS
Ärende: Hominy  was: Grits
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->  RH> We never did that, oddly enough.  There was usually a baseball game
->  RH> on. (I think it was dad's self defense against Mom singing lead...
;-) )
-> 
-> I think maybe we didn't always even have a radio in the car... when we

You must go back a lot further than I do. :-)

-> did, it was usually tuned to the classical station, if there was one. 
-> Plus, Daddy wasn't into sports of any sort, at least to follow on radio

He wouldn't have lasted long in our house.   I'm at least a third
generation baseball fan.

-> (and we never had a TV at home, either).  And, besides, Mommy always
-> sang alto anyway... :)  With 5, 6, 7, 8 children (as time went on), who
-> also could sing, we'd have our own choir in the car... ;)  Daddy wasn't
-> above making up ditty-type songs along the way, either...  When we were
-> out test-driving a VW micro-bus, he was intrigued by the different sort
-> of sound the horn made, and made up a song about it on the spot... which
-> we all remember to this day... (G)

I used to help make up song parodies sometimes; the lyrics to the parodies
have stuck better than the original songs did.
  
->  -> which he had taught to further generations of scouts, as a
scoutmaster.
->  RH> I've done the hymns, do 'em most weeks in fact, but not boy scout
->  RH> songs for obvious reasons.  
-> 
-> When Daddy was scoutmaster, he used to take me with him to scout
-> meetings... ;)  Of course, I was only 3 or 4 at the time... and he was
-> getting me out of Mommy's hair so she could take care of the other 2
-> little ones...  ;)

I went to watch trains with my father at that age, for similar reasons.
  
->  -> his famous peanut butter candy... for which I don't have the recipe
->  -> close at hand... if/when I find it, I may post it... :)
-> 
->  RH> Now that you've mentioned it, you almost have to.
-> 
-> I'm not even sure I have a copy of it... I'll have to go looking.  :)
-> 
-> (snort)  I probably should just move my recipe box up here, since I
-> don't usually use the recipes in it anymore anyway, and then I'll have
-> them at hand for posting...  (G)
-> 
Good idea!  I keep most of the stuff I use on a semi-regular basis on my
hard drive. 
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