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Skriven 2014-05-19 15:09:32 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 13416 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: memory  was: egg-planting
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 17 May 14  22:55:28 <=-

 ->  -> vacuuming has been Richard's job mostly, ever since he started doing
 ->  -> it shortly after our child was born...  His mom taught him all sorts
 ->  -> of useful things when he was growing up..   :)
 ->  RH> We like his mom!  
 -> Absolutely.  :)
 ->  
 RH> If he does his own mending too, he's a keeper.

He's been known to...  Also can fend well for himself for meals when I'm
away or incapacitated... even though cooking isn't his favorite thing to
do... :)   He's a keeper anyway...  :)

 ->  RH> It happens. A friend of mine became a first time husband one month,
 ->  RH> and a first time grandpa about five months later.  Then they had
 ->  RH> one of their own.
 -> Yup... that's how it works with these later marriages... ;)

 RH> Except this time it was her with the kids. 
 
I gathered so, since he was a first time husband..  :)  We had a friend
that married late like that, to a widow with a married daughter... he
was an instant grampa...  I think she was too old to have any more kids
with him, though...  

 ->  ->  RH> Depends on what time of the year it is, and what I'm up to.  
 ->  -> I suppose if one was making a meal, and putting up stuff at the same
 ->  -> time... but that is getting into serious cooking, too...  ;)
 ->  RH> I generally don't can things these days.  
 -> I haven't done it for years, either..  nor blanch and freeze, for that
 -> matter...  :)

 RH> After a while we get too old for that job.

Or at least too tired and without the stamina...  :)
 
 ->  -> Ours is post-WWII, but not by much.  Of course, that is presuming 
 ->  -> the stoves don't just get sent off to be crushed for their metal...  
 ->  RH> It happens, but there are companies who rebuild or replace the
 ->  RH> guts of the old styles.  They're then sold to people doing
 ->  RH> vintage kitchens or who just like the look.
 -> As long as they are making them to last like the originals, it could
 -> also be to people that want something that would last...  ;)

 RH> The price tags make me think that's probable.

Of course it could just be a marketing scheme...  ;)

 ->  ->  RH> It's why they can keep 18th century clocks running, but
 ->  ->  RH> digital watches often die when their batteries do.
 ->  -> Also, the older ones are made with parts that are more likely to 
 ->  -> last... not plastic gears to rub away...  ;)
 ->  RH> Yep, although wooden gears were common.  
 -> Harder wood might not rub away all that quickly, though...

 RH> Lignum vitae wouldn't, for certain.  

Might require special tools to work it...  :)

ttyl          neb

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