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Skriven 2013-10-04 14:44:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: egg-planting
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-02-13  22:33 <=-

 RH>> Hopefully none for mid October.
 NB>> Not likely...  :)  Given the recent forecasts, and the long-rangeish
 NB>> ones, we should still be having reasonable warm weather... currently
 NB>> highs in the low/mid-70s, shouldn't slip much below high 60's...  :)

 RH> IOW, a windbreaker type jacket during the day, maybe something a bit
 RH> warmer for the Catskills. Probably pack more long sleeve shirts and
 RH> roll up the sleeves if it's too warm. Today was in the mid 80s, but the
 RH> upper range so quite warm, even for here, at this time of year.
 
I'm hearing forecasts for high 60's for next week... long-range hasn't
gone to the end of the week yet, though...  Who knows... it could get
warmer, stay around that, maybe take a little dip... but I don't expect
really cold for a while yet...

 RH>> Steve's dad got paid for some work with a bushel of sprouts back when
 RH>> the kids were small. Being on a super tight budget, they ate (and ate
 RH>> and ate) the sprouts but nobody in the family really likes them not.
 NB>> Nothing like overdosing... ;)

 RH> When you don't have much money but lots of brussels sprouts, you eat
 RH> brussels sprouts.
 
You eat what's available... and wasting good food isn't an option...

 RH>> Same as my family, us kids can't look a sweet potato in the eye
 RH>> civilly from having to eat my grandmother's sweet potato casserole
 RH>> every Thanksgiving.
 NB>> An ongoing inoculation, eh...?

 RH> More like a force feeding--"you WILL eat these and you won't
 RH> complain about it" mind set of my parents. An inoculation builds
 RH> up an immunity; I still dislike them now as much as I did from the
 RH> first time I had them.

I was thinking an immunity to ever liking them...  ;)  Our family rule
was "no-thankyou" portions... had to have a little, if you didn't like
it that was ok to not have more... if you liked it after all, you could
have more.  Only time I remember it not being enforced was when Mommy
fixed hominy, and even Daddy didn't like it... then we were allowed to
leave the rest of the portion on the plate after the tiniest taste... ;)

 NB>> That it is.  I was usually getting it for putting up (and saving out
 NB>> a bit for "now"), but sometimes, although there on a mission for
 NB>> something particular for putting up, I'd see something else that
 NB>> caught my eye that I only wanted for a meal or two right away... :)

 RH> And the times when you go, not really knowing what you want, and
 RH> ending up with a lot of odds and ends begetting the "now how am I
 RH> going to use all this?" feeling.
 
One does have to be careful of that... :)

 NB>>> For large economy size lots, it probably does pay to coordinate
 NB>>> efforts to get a reasonable amounnt..  :)
 RH>> Yes, so you're not eating it for weeks (or meals) on end.
 NB>> And getting permanently averse to ever having it again... (G)  (see
 NB>> above [g])

 RH> Got that right!
 
Thought you'd think so... :)

 NB>> ... It only had one fault. It was kind of lousy. - James Thurber

 RH> Appropriate line. (G) Thurber had it right on with that comment.

Thought you'd appreciate that... :)

ttyl        neb

... "And so I thought to myself..."  but who else can you think to?

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