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Skriven 2007-06-21 11:36:08 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: Sara Moulton
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HOwdy Ruth!
-> 
->  hn> Happy Father's day to Steve!
-> 
-> I'll pass it on to him.  He spent several hours getting the sound to
-> work in my system yesterday.
-> 
-> ->  hn> occaisions and he's always welcome for another go round!
-> 
-> -> We had to go to HI to get to meet him. (G)
-> 
->  hn> Well oddly enough it's less out of the way than fort Waaaaah Chooka!
-> 
-> Yes, but that's where I was introduced to Fido and the Cooking echo, in
-> January, 1994.
-> 
And a pretty interesting area...but still quite out of the way in terms of
locale!

-> ->  hn> prefer SUNSET
-> 
-> -> I got a couple of samples of that while we were in AZ; it did look good
-> -> but the budget didn't look as good at the time.
-> 
->  hn> It was a guilty pleasure for us always, but we did always find a way
->  hn> to fund it!
-> 
-> We had regularly funded magazines (that we still get) and had both girls
-> at home.
-> 
I have a couple of photography magazines that I've subscribed to so long 
that they are a fixture in our house (grin).

-> ->  hn> magazine (very comparable to "Southern Living") and that's the 
one
-> 
-> -> Saw a copy of SL in the doctor's office today (check up on the foot);
-> -> had a recipe for grilled tomatoes and okra.  A note said that grilling
-> -> the okra (about 5 minutes, total, turning once) would get rid of the
-> -> sliminess. Showed that to Steve but he sounded doubtful so I guess 
we'll
-> -> have to try it for ourselves.  Basically, toss a pound or so of okra and
-> -> a pint of cherry tomatoes in a bit of Italian dressing, salt & pepper,
-> -> grill for 3 minutes, take tomatoes off and turn okra, grilling for a
-> -> couple more minutes.  We'd reduce the quantitiy for the 2 of us.
-> 
->  hn> I'm with Steve on this one...I doubt that the okra would be good
->  hn> enough to prompt me to do anything more than give it a try...it's one
->  hn> of the very few foods I don't care for!
-> 
-> We may give it a try just to see if it works as advertised. (G)
-> 
Good luck! We always (well I always...Anne will point them out to me) browse 
through Sunset to look for interesting recipes to try.
-> 
-> -> BTW, news on the foot--healing, not quite as sensitive to doctor's
-> -> poking & prodding, back in 6 months.  Work on  graduating off from use
-> -> of cane as extra support; I'm doing that some around the house but still
-> -> make sure I have it for out and about.
-> 
->  hn> That's great news! If they are saying come back in six months that
->  hn> means you're pretty much back to being on your own! It's when they 
say
->  hn> come back next week and we'll have another look, that you have to
->  hn> worry about!
-> 
-> Don't I know!  It's been going on for so long that people in our Sunday
-> School class were happy to see I was in sandals yesterday instead of
-> walking shoes.  When the weather cools down in a few months, I'll be
-> able to wear my boots again.
-> 
"She's got TOES everybody!! LOOOK!! REAL toes!! (grin)"

-> ->  hn> good time for relaxing reading for me (and prepping for the school
-> ->  hn> week for Anne). ->
-> 
-> -> Isn't she out for the summer yet?  Rachel finished last week but will be
-> -> teaching summer school starting next week.  Talked to her last night;
-> -> she said that Robert helped her make a fruit salad by cutting up a
-> -> banana with a butter knife. He likes working in the kitchen so we may
-> 
->  hn> Anne won't be out till late this coming week, 22nd or 23rd I think.
->  hn> Lots of snow days to make up this year! Not so much due to real 
snow
->  hn> but the
->  hn> associated power outages that took several days to remedy....tough 
to
->  hn> have school in a dark and unheated school building!
-> 
-> No fun at all!  When I was in school, we usually got out the latter part
-> of June so these that finished in May were a surprise to me.  Had about
-> 5 snow days built into the calendar and some were needed into April.
-> 
Anne will be finished on Saturday...she has to move classrooms this year as 
she is going to teach Second Grade next year again...Saturday is a "make up" 
day for the teachers because one of their "work days with out kids" got taken 
over by snow days. She should be finished by then....I hope! I'm not helping 
this year because I'm scheduled to work every ball game this month and will 
be at the ballpark almost every day till the end of the month.
-> 
->  hn> Amanda surprised me by coming up from CA for Father's day..I am
->  hn> blessed! It's so good to see her and have her close enough to hug! 
We
->  hn> went out for sushi last night and had a great time! She leaves on
->  hn> Wednesday so I have a couple of full days left to enjoy with
-> 
-> Nice!  Steve talked to both of his girls but over dinner was wishing
-> they could be here to enjoy it with us. The girls will be getting
-> together nest week end; Rachel and David are selling their house in AZ
-> and are coming down for the last bit of paper work.  Wonder if they're
-> going to the Itailian place where we enjoyed several good meals with
-> them.
-> 
It was wonderful to have her here, and always hard to see her go back 
to "her own life", but it's nice to be back to just Annie and me again too. 

-> -> -> lots of odd jobs to do before I start on any big projects again.
-> 
-> ->  hn> Welcome to Summer in the South...where ambition melts like 
butter
-> ->  hn> out on the counter....heat and humidity can suck the very life out 
of
-> ->  hn> a day's chores. Turn the Air Conditioner down to 54 and you'll get
-> 
-> -> Plus had the wind taken out of my sails with a minor surgical procedure
-> -> (biopsy) yesterday morning.  I should get back into the full swing of
-> -> things next week.  I may even get busy and try adapting our old hand
-> -> made bread recipe into use with the bread machine.  We found the 
secret
-> -> to getting a pretty loaf without a fallen in top--use cool water from
-> 
->  hn> Hope the biopsy comes back with a good result! Anne made me have 
one
-> 
-> I'm waiting; should know later this week.
-> 
-> 
->  hn> done last month on an odd growth on my arm...happily it came back
->  hn> "normal" and now all I have is a tiny scar to show for it!
-> 
-> Good; Steve had a couple done last month as skin cancer is in his family
-> history but they came back negative.  With mine, they put a titanium
-> "marker" in, in case future surgery is needed. Old ounce of prevention
-> thing, they believe it's probably nothing but want to make sure.
-> 
Keep us posted on how it goes!
chat with you soon
hap 
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