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Skriven 2007-02-20 11:19:00 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: New Mexico
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Hey Ruth!
-> 
-> -> 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.
-> 
I thought of you yesterday....had a friend offer me a quilting frame, and a 
loom...neither of which I have the skills (or the space for) to use. Too bad 
you're so far away!

-> ->  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.
-> 
During the school year we'd have lots of parties at our house...we didn't have 
any furniture so everyone just sat around on the floor...we made tacos and 
sangria and had a great time listening to my stereo! During the summers I'd 
have a summer job and we'd go camping with friends, hiking in the mountains 
and going to the beach...didn't cost much and was a lot of fun!

-> 
->  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.
-> 
Indeed it was!

-> -> 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.
-> 
my hands and wrists were pretty sore and stiff by the time I got through as 
well! Next time I think I'll scale that down a whole lot and not get more than 
one pound of each! We've been eating meatballs like crazy because the 
freezer seems to be full of them (grin)!

-> -> 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).
-> 
Yep, Anne and I spent a lovely weekend and now I'll have to do some cooking 
for the rest of the week as we have eaten most of what I had put 
away....busy weekend and no time for food prep, so the freezer fed us all 
weekend long!

-> ->  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.
-> 
Have you found a peanut sauce that you like? most are peanut butter based 
but if you find one you like it makes a wonderful seasoning agent for lots of 
things!

-> ->  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.
-> 
We'll see (grin)
chat with you soon
hap 
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