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Skriven 2014-10-08 21:00:37 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17850 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Italian etc 10
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> A start, much more to come. I did get a bit done on the next Santa
 RH> shirt on Thursday but yesterday & today were busy enough I've not
 RH> gotten to the sewing machine. I've got to iron a couple of shirts yet
 RH> tonight but supper was easy--we supported the JROTC fish fry. (G)

 NB> I trust that it was tasty as well as charitable...  ;)

The fish was very good--flounder. Served with canned boiled potatoes and
canned green beans, plus hush puppies. We both ate the beans, saved the
potatoes for another meal (had with the lamb on Monday night) and still
have some hush puppies in the fridge.

 NB> before. It was only  RH>> about 18 hours difference but
 NB> still....................gave me
 NB>  RH>> something to do while Steve was gone. (G)
 NB>  NB>> Makes sense...  :)

 RH> As if I didn't have any other projects I could have done. (G)

 NB> Well, yeah... true...  (G)

I'm working on the shirt--have it somewhere in the halfway range done.
Also packing up bits and pieces in the sewing room. After I finish the
shirt and a couple of repair jobs, I'll work on packing all but basics
there, then move on to another room and get all but basics. The kitchen
will be the last one--and the hardest to pack down to a minimum. I'll
have to do some creative cooking as we get closer to the big move so all
the non essentials can be boxed up.

 NB> beans.  NB>> Guess nobody was in the mood for them...  Or figured that
 NB> someone else  NB>> would likely be supplying them, and decided not to
 NB> risk duplicating...

 RH> Steve suggested it but I like to baby my beans in the last few hours
 RH> of cooking (keep checking, stirring, etc). Couldn't have done it during
 RH> church & Sunday School times.

 NB> Not without skipping out periodically... or skipping altogether..  not
 NB> exactly a cool thing to be doing... ;)

Definately not a cool thing.


 NB> can get them.  RH>> If it's the latter, that's something new to me.
 NB>  NB>> It's "Milky Way Simply Caramel" in the fun size bar.  Only the
 NB>  NB>> chocolate coating with only caramel inside, no nougat.  I saw
 NB> them  NB>> and thought of you, and bought a bag to try...

 RH> I've not seen them down here so yes, go ahead & grab another bag. (G)

 NB> I figured that you'd say that...  There's a bag with your name on it
 NB> in our freezer now...  ;)  I had to hunt to find where they (the small
 NB> amount left of them) had been put, so figured that if I waited another
 NB> week there might not be any at all...  ;)

Sounds good, hope the mail man isn't a chocoholic. (G)


 RH> I was going to buy our end of month candy yesterday but Steve asked
 RH> that I hold off a couple more weeks.

 NB> Around here, they seem to only buy some set amount of the Halloween
 NB> (same thing with Valentine and Christmas) candy... and it shows up
 NB> months in advance... anyone that has paid any attention over the years
 NB> grabs what they want early on, since come time to normally buy it,
 NB> there's nothing left...  I've been caught like that before...

 NB>  NB>> I've noticed that the Fun Size seem only to be available with
 NB> the  NB>> Halloween candy selection... and some special varieties only
 NB> show up

 RH> We see the fun size year round, huge bags of it only in October. Watch
 RH> for various different types of M&Ms too. A bag of each of the various
 RH> types, mixed together and "seasoned" with a bag of Skittles is M&M
 RH> Soup, a recipe from a friend of mine.

 NB> There's also the huge bags of mixes, also only available this time of
 NB> year, here.  But usually we only see the full-size bars and the bags
 NB> of minis throughout the year...

I try to tune it out but we do get chocolate bars at Aldi's and some
other things (choc covered mints, caramels, espresso beans, almonds,
etc) at Trader Joe's from time to time. The days of enjoying a full size
bar are gone but a fun size bar is good in that the carb count is very
reasonable--well within my allowance. A few months ago at TJ's I picked
up a small bag of dark choc covered peanut butter cup minis for Steve.
Next time we were there, he had to get a bigger container. (G)

 NB>  NB>> at Halloween as well.  My favorite is the Snickers with Almonds,
 NB> and  NB>> that only shows up now at Halloween, and only in the Fun
 NB> size...
 NB>  NB>> Richard rather likes the PB Squared version of Snickers, and
 NB> that  NB>> likewise now only shows up at Halloween.  And this was the
 NB> first

 RH> Steve likes various peanut butter things; he is good about keeping
 RH> them away from my chocolate.

 NB> I don't detest them as you do, but they aren't my favorite thing.  :)

There are so many other things that go well with chocolate--mint, for
example. (G)

 NB>  NB>> year I saw the Simply Caramel Milky Way....

 RH> Sounds simply yummy....

 NB> Thought you'd think so...  :)

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Ruth
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