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Skriven 2007-05-10 13:44:01 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15203 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
Ärende: The bastids!                                             [1]
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Hi Carol,

 CS> Ah.  Makes Hawaii sense there <g>. You never really grow old or die
 CS> there, you just become an ancestor.

RH> Yes, and you're always "aunty" or "uncle" to somebody.

 CS> True!

Good way of teaching children respect for their elders.

RH> I enjoyed whatever I had, whenever I had it.  Most of the time pot luc
RH> at the church had at least one dish with it in.  Steve had some once i
RH> a home made "egg mcmuffin" type thing he was given and didn't entirel
RH> disdain it. (G)

 CS> Cool.  Progress <g>.

Slowly.  Our youth group is having a Boston Butt sale as a fundraiser;
we are getting one and Steve said he might give it a try--covered with
lots of bbq sauce.


RH> more; Alton brown is still our favorite.  He had a neat way to peel
RH> mangoes last night--slice a thin layer of peel from the top and botom,

 CS> Humm!  Sounds interesting.  I've taken to the asian way, cut 2 thick
 CS> slices off along the 'bone' (center stone) and then crosscut that to
 CS> squares and eat off the rind.  The part along the 'bone' you just
 CS> knarf down as is.

RH> Alton was eating the what was left on the stone like a popsicle.  He
RH> said that the way he showed was best for slices; your way works good f
RH> cubes or a dice.

 CS> Yes, you get cubes that way and slices.  It's fairly easy to do with a
 CS> sharp knife. Non-serrated type sharp knife.

We've got a better knife set now. Steve's cut himself a time or two but
I've not, yet.



 CS> *sigh* 6 years and counting....  It's been lovely but I wanna go home
 CS> and see the things others do again. There's this series called 'Angel'
 CS> that we can only buy in DVD but have never seen.  I'm not sure if it's

RH> I'm pretty sure that one is gone; I don't watch that much tv to know f
RH> sure.  I understand about the "I wanna go home" mentality; our girls h
RH> it in Germany.  I would have preferred a short (6 months or so) stay,

 CS> Same here.  What irks me is my family has had a real 6 years here but
 CS> I've been at sea 9 months a year or so, all of that.  You get these
 CS> isolated times where I'm in for a month or 2, but mostly I'm away.
 CS> More so this last 3 years than the first 3.  I have a 2 month stint in
 CS> port just before i leave which will be nice. (sorry for whining, but
 CS> sometimes ya just gotta.  Chief's who arent so good at their job get
 CS> left behind all the time for various things but never me).

You're just too good at what you do. (G)  I understand the whining;
living overseas isn't much fun if you're gone most of the time.  At
least Don & Charlotte didn't stay in "little America" when you were out.
Living in the cho made it almost manditory to get out and meet the
locals.


 CS> In fact, post 9/11 USA culture, we havent seen.  Yes, been out here
 CS> that long. I watched you move to Hawaii from Sasebo and have seen you

RH> No, we moved to HI in March of 01 and I got back on to Fido April 7.
RH> Got all caught up & broke my elbow later that day.

 CS> Ah yes, 'my bad'.  I was enroute.  Got here in May/June.  I watched
 CS> you move while I was in Virginia Beach, came back online to see you
 CS> with the broken elbow getting established again around it.

That was not a fun time but I do have probably 95% of the range of
motion back altho I can't quite hyper extend it like I used to be able
to. It still lacks a bit in strength, probably because the wrist is bad
also.

 CS> the heck is a Hummer?  Fancy SUV it sounds like?

RH> Hummer is what the civilians are calling a big SUV, most commonly the
RH> put out by (I think) Chevy.  It's nothing like the military Hummer.
RH> the other day--I don't see nearly the number of mini Coopers and
RH> vehicles like that on the main land that I did in HI.

 CS> What's a 'Cooper'?  It sounds familiar someplace but am not placing it
 CS> just now.

Looks like a station wagon severely shrunk in the wash! I understand
some of the original British ones were in James Bond movies.  Most of
the ones I've seen are one color for the body and the roof is white.
Not as ugly as some vehicles but not what I'd want parked in our garage.

 CS> As the ingredients in each dish are unique, so should be the dish it
 CS> is displayed in (or such is what I am taught here). Hence 'square

RH> I can see that.  Still, the dish (plate, bowl, etc) might be the only
RH> unifier to a meal.

 CS> Naw, they arent intended to 'unify' but to complement a varigated
 CS> color table. It's sort of like having a wild flower garden that makes
 CS> a total picture but each is distinctly unique.  The flavors of the
 CS> foods though are made to complement.  I dont know the background
 CS> enough better than to say what i see.

RH> I sort of see what you mean (from my art studies).  There usually is
RH> some common thread that brings it all together, whether it's in the
RH> dishes, the food or whatever, sometimes so subtle you really have to
RH> look hard to find it.

 CS> I'm not sure if the common thread isnt just a wild-flower garden look.
 CS>  Then again, I never understood feng-shui (right spelling?) stuff.

I'm not into it (and yes, you did spell right) but do understand
balance, harmony and such like.

RH> Sounds like fun. We've an assortment of mugs--my main tea one is one
RH> given to me by a friend in Germany after I'd had many a cuppa tea with

 CS> I have some interesting coffee mugs here.  I like unique ones and some
 CS> are shaped oddly as well as the 'picture' is different.

Our mugs are all pretty basic shape but the outside varies from
advertising CFC to the Berlin Kristkindelmart to Dr. Who to a couple of
churhes we've visited, etc.  Plus, I've got a super sized mug I hand
painted last year (at one of our coffees) in my sewing room for odds and
ends of rulers, seam rippers, marking pencils, etc.  It has a turquiose
blue back ground with different sewing items (spool of thread, rotary
cutter, tomato pincushion w/ threaded needles stuck into it & scissors)
that I free hand painted on.  It's a one of a kind. (G)  Most of the
other ladies took plates and small trays & traced a stencil on, then
painted the tracing.

RH> (sewing) magazine the other day; it had an article on the Oriental
RH> (Asian) influences in available in fabric and how to use it.  I picked
RH> up some Asian print fat quarters in HI; I want to do  color block jack
RH> (quilted) with them.

 CS> Darn, I never did get home to get you that jacket did I? I'll look
 CS> about but wrong season now.

Nope, not yet.  They may hit the stores before you return, if not, I
just missed out.  If so, remember XL.


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