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Skriven 2011-03-04 17:25:14 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: family
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Hey Ruth!

-> ->  hn> Way too late to "fix" it so now he's semi
-> ->  hn> mobile. and still an idiot.
-> 
-> -> Can't help the former; the latter doesn't sound too great either. (G)
-> 
->  hn> He's so set in his ways that I don't think
->  hn> anyone can help him anymore...he's just
->  hn> gonna have to learn the hard way.
-> 
-> Sounds like it. I think a lot of families have at least one semi
-> dysfunctional member. Some have more than one, some manage to not 
have
-> any in the immediate family but do in the extended one.
-> 
-> ->  hn> Both Anne and her older sister pretty
-> ->  hn> much saw through him from the beginning.
-> ->  hn> When the youngest sister came along...
-> ->  hn> well you can guess that scenario!
-> 
-> -> Sigh!
-> 
->  hn> yup exactly.
-> 
-> Can he boil water without burning it?
-> 
He actually enjoys cooking, he will
occasionally call here asking for some
cooking advice, but he hangs out
in the kitchen more usefully than
any other room in the house. (grin)

-> ->  hn> put up the harvest.  I can remember weeding
-> ->  hn> in the garden as a little kid.
-> 
-> -> I did plenty of that too. There were 5 of us kids at home and weeding
-> -> was expected of all of us at some stage of our growing up. For years
-> -> after the last one left home, Dad would still put in all the garden he
-> -> did when all the kids were home. He pretty much stopped doing that 4
-> -> years ago when he had the first of some major health issues. He got a
-> -> bit of a garden in the next year, then only some container gardening
-> -> last year. Don't know what plans he has for this year; I suspect just
-> -> more of the container type gardening. He wrote that he's going to get
-> -> rid of most all of the glass canning jars as part of the "flood" clean
-> -> up. It's not worth my while to have any shipped here; I can get them
-> -> brand new, cheaper.
-> 
->  hn> Yep, unless some of those old jars are
->  hn> of the collectible variety! I'm sure they
->  hn> can find someone locally up there who'd
->  hn> really have a use for them.
-> 
-> Possibly the old wire bail jars that you need a rubber ring to make a
-> gasket for sealing, all the others are garden variety canning jars. Some
-> are ones I left there when we began our vagabond days; I've not yet
-> canned as much in any year as I did the last year before Steve went into
-> the Army. Started with green beans in May and finished with sweet
-> potatoes in November.

You'd be surprised, collectors see
differences that the rest of us simply
don't notice! 

-> ->  hn> and whuppins...we got plenty of whuppins
-> ->  hn> for that as well!
-> 
-> -> No surprise there. (G)
-> 
->  hn> Nope, we were a pretty wild bunch
->  hn> when there was more than two of
->  hn> us together!
-> 
-> About the norm for cousins, especially boy cousins. Rachel & Deborah had
-> various "alliances" with their cousins over the years but the distance
-> between them sort of made it temporary--whenever we were visiting. Now
-> they're all on Facebook and quite close.
-> 
Most of my cousins were boys, I only have 
about 6 girl cousins, out of about 50 or more
total. And one of those is a "step cousin".

-> ->  hn> Might be a good gift from David and
-> ->  hn> the family!
-> 
-> -> Quite possible; I might suggest it to Rachel.
-> 
->  hn> I'm thinking of it for my mom as well...
-> 
-> Our folks have (thanks to Steve) Skype. Mine talked to Rachel & the kids
-> the other day and enjoyed it.
->
I need to get my Mom off dialup
but I think she may be too 
far out in the country for anything
else.
 
-> ->  hn> Chocolate is always acceptable!
-> 
-> -> Helps me breath better too.
-> 
->  hn> If that's your story stick to it! (Grin)
-> 
-> In the years I've been on Fido, have you ever seen me deny the story?
-> Hmmm, thought so. (G)
-> 
consistency pays off!!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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