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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: almost baseball time                                     [1]
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Aloha Ruth!
 
-> -> I meant to communicate with your assistants.
-> 
->  HN> Not much talking going on when the shooting
->  HN> starts...hand signals are very small and
->  HN> discreet as to not disturb the animals.
-> 
-> Nope, don't want to spook the critters. But you can get some spectacular
-> shots that way.
->
yep! 
->  HN> If I'm shooting flowers it doesn't matter,
->  HN> the don't seem to mind conversation!
-> 
-> I don't think they would, as long as they know you're harmless. Just be
-> careful around the Venus fly trap so you don't end up as its dinner tho.
->
Somewhere among my  negatives, I have a really
good series on the venus fly trap! I even had 
captured flies for the session!!

-> ->  HN> In Tucson there was a botanical garden
-> ->  HN> we liked, had a nice place for sitting
-> ->  HN> on a shaded veranda with a nice breeze
-> ->  HN> most of the time. Great for watching
-> ->  HN> folks wandering among the different
-> 
-> -> Noticing who was smart enough to bring a hat to keep the sun off
their
-> -> head and a bottle of water so as not to dehydrate? Hats work better 
than
-> -> visors; with the latter you're still exposing a good bit of the head 
to
-> -> the sun. The former shades all of the head and, depending on the
-> -> materials used in construction, can be an improvised evaporative 
cooler
-> -> with the water bottle.
-> 
->  HN> Yep...amazing how people will wear
->  HN> designer sunglasses and no hat.
-> 
-> And wonder why the unprotected areas look lobster red a few hours later.
-> 
Never confuses me that way!!

-> ->  HN> Ahh, they cut off the extra meaty
-> ->  HN> "tips" and probably offer them as a
-> ->  HN> separate menu choice.
-> 
-> -> Didn't notice it on the menu, have to look when we go back. But, it 
was
-> -> brought up that the St. Louis spicing is sweeter than the Memphis
-> -> version.
-> 
->  HN> I try to avoid the sweeter ones, unless
->  HN> I make them myself with sugar substitutes.
-> 
-> Only sugar sub Steve likes is the Stevia type. We don't use white sugar
-> but do use brown & tubinado plus liquids like honey and molasses.
->
We use the stevia aslo, and splenda which
you can use in cooking as well. I like
molasses (Anne does not) but we use honey
and lately she's been liking the agave 
syrup. 

-> ->  HN> Yep, time changes most things...even
-> ->  HN> us!
-> 
-> -> And in some cases, it's a case of the sands of time drifting
downward.
-> 
->  HN> and outward!
-> 
-> Unfortunately so.
-> 
-> ->  HN> would have run between  $600 and
-> ->  HN> $1000 for the meal for the four of
-> 
-> -> Well beyond what we ould have chosen. Not sure where we'll celebrate
-> -> Steve's graduation but will probably have some family in and will
take
-> -> them out to eat after the ceremony.
-> 
->  HN> Well beyond what we would have normally
->  HN> chosen too...but sometimes the once
->  HN> in a lifetime thing comes along and
->  HN> you get a chance to take it. I would
->  HN> have spent it without regret at the
->  HN> time had we had the $$ AND if it would
->  HN> not have been a wasted effort on Amanda's
->  HN> boyfriend.
-> 
-> In time he may come to appreciate it. Does Amanda like a place like
-> that? If so, she may be able to have an influence on his culinary
-> adventures.
-> 
-> ->  HN> us...however Amanda's beau is beyond
-> ->  HN> regular shyness and borders on
-> ->  HN> it being a medical condition. So we
-> 
-> -> Does he talk to you? Our son in law didn't talk much with us when he
-> -> first started dating Rachel, then opened up to me more, then Steve. 
Now
-> -> he's at ease with both of us.
-> 
->  HN> Not much (yet)very little eye contact
->  HN> and uber shy.
-> 
-> If they're serious, he'll get over it, although you may have to wait a
-> while.
->
Yep, important thing to me is that Amanda
is happy and it seems that she is. Anne and 
I will be as patient as needs be. If it takes
time, it takes time.
 
-> ->  HN> the extent that one wonders what the
-> ->  HN> original intent was!!
-> 
-> -> We've got lots of open land so let's build out, not up. Seems to be 
the
-> -> rule in that part of the country. Look at LA. (G)
-> 
->  HN> One would have thought they'd have been
->  HN> a bit further apart...but it seems like
->  HN> they area is all clustered around Phoenix
->  HN> "proper".
-> 
-> Got to be close to where the action is; it costs money to drive in from
-> too far out in the sticks. Could be too, developers had the "east coast
-> cram everything together" mentality. (G)
-> 
May not have been the original intention,
but it sure has gotten that way! 
chat with you soon!
ha
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