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Skriven 2007-02-19 14:09:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av hap newsom
Ärende: New Mexico
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Hi Hap,

-> That's generally when things get jettisoned around here--send the new
-> and get rid of the old--but Steve doesn't do it very often with computer
-> stuff unless it's really, really old.

 hn> Yup, never know when you'll need to kludge something together!

I know, right now Steve is working on making a design originally meant
for trasfer to fabric & paint into digital for stitching.  It's from a
book I got years ago.

->  hn> other...but all the bills were paid! We qualified for food stamps for
->  hn> a while but after using them one time I just couldn't go back...got a

-> We used them for several months. Steve was working full time, going to
-> school half time, on the volunteer fire department and pastoring a
-> church.  Work and school were each 30+/- miles away from home in
-> opposite directions.  I was kept busy at home with 2 little girls.

 hn> Happily it was just Anne and I in those college days, when things got
 hn> tight we just tightened our belts and did what we could to get by.
 hn> This was back in the days of the oil embargo and we'd get up at 3 am
 hn> make coffee and fill a 50 cup thermos and go and sell it for 25 cents
 hn> a cup to people in line at the gas stations. We collected fir cones to

Interesting, looking back to what we had to do to live--and we had fun
then. We used to get together with another couple, let the kids play and
we'd play Uno or Ono 99.  Popcorn & sweet tea were munchies.


 hn> sell to a seed company, delivered phone books, recycled aluminum cans
 hn> and newsprint...any way we could
 hn> figure out to get a few extra washingtons in the bank account.

Not just into the bank, having enough to buy gas to get to work was
somewhat of a challenge at times.

-> Sounds good to me; I can't use pork so use ground beef and turkey in
-> mine.  I will generally use about 3 pounds of meat at a time.

 hn> I used about 3 lbs of pork and 3 lbs of beef.

Mixed and rolled the balls by hand? I'd have problems there.

-> Nice. Today I made bread crumbs (from crusts of home made whole wheat
-> pint box for the fridge freezer); helped Steve a bit with pichu/patchu
-> sauce for tonight's pasta; got more stuff than was on my list at the
-> commissary; etc, etc.  Tomorrow will be light in the food prep
-> department--just braise a piece of beef (so I can just reheat it Sunday
-> after church) and get fixin's for a loaf of bread into the machine.

 hn> sounds like a pretty full day!

It was, but will make another time easier as all the ducks will be in a
row waiting to get shot down (or used at the appropriate time).

->  hn> Anne loves red rice! Specially when I mix it with a peanut sauce!

-> As in with peanut butter? I like it as is, especially if it's been made
-> with a good piece of sausage.

 hn> Well I use peanut butter to make the peanut sauce....but peanut butter
 hn> is about as close to peanut sauce as ketchup is to spaghetti sauce
 hn> (grin) Anne likes it as it is too....but she likes it with peanut
 hn> sauce even better! ->

OK, you know I'm not a fan of peanut butter.

->  hn> I think she'll have plenty of arroz con pollo! (grin)

-> She may find something else, especially if she can be assured it'll fit
-> her heat comfort level.

 hn> I'm hoping so!

That's where I'll try something new but usually asking what the
approximate heat level is before ordering.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Computers run on smoke. They stop when it leaks out.

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