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Skriven 2014-06-02 22:37:48 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Re: memory  was: egg-planting
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->  -> away or incapacitated... even though cooking isn't his favorite
thing 
to
->  -> do... :)   He's a keeper anyway...  :)
->  -> 
->  RH> Even if he weren't, at this point it's too late to go around 
breaking
->  RH> in a new model anyway.
-> 
-> Total agreement from this corner..  :)   Although, I keep hearing of
-> people that don't seem to understand that concept...  ;)
-> 
A couple of friends of mine are doing it, more power to them.  Then again
in 
one case his first wife did all the heavy lifting. (they were also both
over 
70) 

->  -> 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> Thankfully?  A friend did that - first marriage for both, and both
->  RH> almost 60.
-> 
-> At that point, one would have to adopt whole families...  or just be
-> satisfied with wonderful companionship just themselves...  ;)

I think he adopted her extended family pretty quickly.  
 
->  ->  RH> After a while we get too old for that job.
->  -> Or at least too tired and without the stamina...  :)
-> 
->  RH> And too wobbly to handle the pots.  Or too banged up to lift them.
-> 
-> Something like that..  :)   That's when we call in the younger
-> generation... or call it quits...  ;)

Or both.
  
->  -> Of course it could just be a marketing scheme...  ;)
-> 
->  RH> It is an awful lot of work.  Most of it's probably labor.
-> 
-> I suppose that for at least some, it might be a labor of love... keeping
-> the traditions and all alive...  :)

Nahhh.  More like a paycheck most of the time.
  
->  ->  ->  -> 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...  :)
-> 
->  RH> Diamond tipped drills, for instance?  They've done it in the 
Caribbean
->  RH> forever without them, but it grows down there.
-> 
-> And people learn the skills early, I'd guess...
-> 
These days they import stuff from China like the rest of us. The trees are 
endangered and no one cuts them now.
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