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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: almost baseball time                                     [1]
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Hiya Ruth!

-> -> That's how I get most of my sports news/scores--thru the paper. TV 
local
-> -> sportscasters are only interested in the local teams & we've an
-> -> excessive amount of them here. It's hard to get any kind of national 
or
-> -> international story of over 15 seconds (not worth their breath)
unless
-> -> it involves a local team or hometown athlete (eg Josh Hamilton).
-> 
->  HN> We do not subscribe to the local
->  HN> paper any more either...over the
-> 
-> Steve would rather I read it on line but I like to curl up with the
-> print edition. What's not used in other ways goes into the recylcle bag
-> so it doesn't sit around half of forever.
->
Most of the time I never
got around to reading the paper
unless it was a specific story.
I did get the coupons and grocery
specials all laid out. 
 
->  HN> years it has become more and more a
->  HN> poorly executed badly written and
->  HN> seldom proof read rag. I get news
-> 
-> Sounds like somebody needs to step in and reform it. There's only the
-> one in the area tho? I would have thought your area would be large
-> enough to support a couple.
->
It's mostly "computer run" now...and not
very well at that. Staff has been reduced
several times and there are few actual
workers there anymore. Tacoma has one
daily paper, and three "freebees"; The
Weekly, the Volcano, and the "airlifter/
Ranger (a combined one for the AF and Army
respectively.)
Seattle has one daily, one Online
only daily (Seattle Times) and also
several "Freebees".
 
->  HN> from TV, Radio, and the internet
->  HN> mostly. For Sports...read baseball,
->  HN> I go to a couple of blogs I like
->  HN> and the team's website as well.
-> 
-> As well as all kinds of food web sites that'll give you recipes and
-> ideas. I dropped 3 sewing magazines (a machine embroidey, a quilting and
-> an all around fine handwork--but it dealt with a lot of areas I wasn't
-> interested in) this past year. Renewed "Cooking Light" and subscribed to
-> "Cooks Illustrated" but dropped Food Network magazine. Every time I went
-> to Fresh Market, I'd buy a CI; decided to subscribe so I'd get it more
-> regularly.
->
We get Sunset magazine...I've dropped
all three of my photo magazine subscriptions,
and when I feel the need for one I can buy
it at the local supermarket. or Barnes
and Noble.
 
-> ->  hn> Currently I have two that I am
-> ->  hn> reading when the mood strikes.
-> ->  hn> I'm re reading Tinker Tailor, Soldier
-> ->  hn> Spy again, and a book on color theory
-> 
-> -> I've not read TTSS--any good? I downloaded the last Jean Auel book,
-> -> might do a couple of Ken Follette ones. Browsing thru Target, found 
out
-> -> that Nicholas Sparks set a story in Swansboro so might pick that one 
up.
-> -> Current book is the 18th edition of Emily Post
-> 
->  HN> VERY good! But I like John Le Carre's books
->  HN> quiet a bit as well as Helen Macinnes and
->  HN> a few others...I like spy novels.
-> 
-> I like a good action one--used to read Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan ones as
-> soon as they came out in paperback but haven't read any since leaving
-> HI. Too many other irons in the fire.
->
I liked Clancy's and read all of
them...when the first, Hunt for
Red October came out I was amazed
at some of the things he revealed
in the book...they were so classified
when I was in the navy that you were
not even allowed to talk about them
off base or off the boat!
 
-> ->  hn> in watercolors.
-> 
-> -> Color theory sounds interesting. I've read a bit on it as relates to
-> -> quilts. Most of the time I go with what looks good together--and it
-> -> works out as I have some knowledge of color theory. I've got the 
fabrics
-> -> for a monochromatic Rail Fence quilt to cut out--5 shades of blue
-> -> ranging from light to dark and, I don't think a solid in them.
-> 
->  HN> Color theory can be fairly simple and
->  HN> straight forward...or very (VERY) complex.
->  HN> I'm often over my head in it and am
->  HN> working to understand it better.
-> 
-> I like working with color and fabric; that's why I do the creative end
-> of our machine embrodery work, I quilt, sew, etc.
-> 
It has the ability to give a great
amount of impact to a bit of art!
-> 
-> ->  hn> I left home to join the navy and
-> ->  hn> the next duty station came for
-> ->  hn> my folks...most of my "stuff" went
-> ->  hn> into the trash bin.
-> 
-> -> Sort of a lost childhood. I know; I kept a few things of our girls 
that
-> -> they did in early school years but couldn't keep all. Most clothes 
were
-> -> passed on as they were outgrown; now I wish I'd kept a few more 
things.
-> -> But, that old bear of a weight allowance..................
-> 
->  HN> Precisely. Most of my childhood "things"
->  HN> were "passed on" as we moved from duty
->  HN> station to duty station over the years.
-> 
-> As were a number of things the girls had that now I wish I'd kept. A
-> good number of our things went the same way, even moving here after
-> Steve retired.
-> 
-> ->  hn> See even 11 years after we left you
-> ->  hn> only had one station! ( way more than
-> ->  hn> WE had though).
-> 
-> -> Be glad you had the radio--tho it would have been hard to do a
cooking
-> -> demo on the order of Julia Child via radio.
-> 
->  HN> Oh we were VERY glad to have the
->  HN> radio...it was a major social tool
->  HN> in those days! A "date" was often
->  HN> going over to a girl's apartment and
->  HN> sitting around the living room listening
->  HN> to radio programs and "studying". There
->  HN> were also the Teen club dances on weekends,
->  HN> and the rather long bus rides from the main
->  HN> base to the various housing areas.
-> 
-> Bringing back memories?
->
Some, I still stay in contact with 
some of my childhood friends from
those days...even have a website
for our old school. And there 
have been several reunions that
I have not been able to attend
but perhaps will someday.
Fairly small club of military
brats who've been educated
overseas...Priscilla Presley
is "one of us".
 
-> ->  hn> Actually she came home feeling pretty
-> ->  hn> good today so we went to one of
-> ->  hn> her favorite places for an late
-> ->  hn> lunch and she had one of her
-> ->  hn> favorite burgers...now we're home
-> 
-> -> Good! We tried a new to us seafood place; best seafood we've had
since
-> -> leaving GA! We will try to make it back there--and it's not in
Raleigh
-> -> either. (G)
-> 
->  HN> We have good local seafood...Anne
->  HN> just does not partake of it! (grin).
-> 
-> We both do, and enjoy it. Well, local to us is trucked in from the
-> coast, about 150 miles away.
-> 
-> ->  hn> and probably will have a very light
-> ->  hn> (if any) dinner and a bit of chocolate.
-> 
-> -> We had clam chowder for supper, with a tossed salad using some greens
-> -> that needed using.
-> 
->  HN> Oddly enough, Anne does
->  HN> like clam chowder!
-> 
-> Which type? This was the milk based one.
->
We are with Clean Dave on the 
subject of Clam Chowder...there
is only "White" the other is 
some sort of abomination (grin).
 
Chat with you soon!
ha
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