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Skriven 2006-10-16 12:05:28 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 6494 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

-> My coupons are in a box--too many to carry in a wallet like thing.  As I

 RH> I leave the zipper file at home and just carry what I'm using.
 RH> I've heard one too many horror stories about people losing the entire
 RH> box!

I set the box up in the kiddy seeasy to access for grabbing a copon &
can set the ones I'm using in the lid until check out time.  I can also
put my list in the lid & have a firm surface for scratching out what
I've gotten or writing in extras I need to get if I find something on
special & want to plan a meal around it.  Saves getting home and then
remembering I needed a head of cabbage for cole slaw or more red wine
vinegar to mariade a roast for sauerbraten, etc.

-> My currrent one is a faux suede, doesn't weigh more than a couple of

 RH> I've learned not to use vinyl the hard way; my record for killing a
 RH> vinyl bag is four days.  After that I gave up.

This isn't vinyl; it's a fabric.  The one I generally use is leather, as
is the wallet. I treated myself last year to a couple of quality items.
(G)


->  RH> If they have you on steroids, that isn't helping.  Those things can

-> Tell me about it!  In 2000, I was on prednisone most of the year; I
-> think I'm finally over most of the damage it caused.  Now the only one I
-> up that's produced bronchitis (or worse) and then it's only a 5-10 day
-> "burst" to kick out the nasties faster.

 RH> Yech.  I was on prednisone precisely once; once was enough!

I've been on it more than I care to think about but it does help my
breathing in short term use.
-> The guest quarters here provided real copper bottom & stainless steel
-> Revere ware like my mom has but they didn't provide any copper cleaner.
-> I guess they don't expect guests to use it that much.

 RH> They don't expect anyone to use copper, or to use it so much they
 RH> don't need a cleaner.


Yes, but it gets expensive eating out all the time. We'll be here about
6 weeks, total.  As of October 1, guest housing now includes a (basic)
breakfast so we do save a bit there.

-> It'll be the biggest place we've ever lived in, probably including oour
-> childhood homes.

 RH> And it only took until both kids were out of the house!

Of course, the law of "go figure" again.  Most senior NCOs have teens or
younger kids still at home; we're more the exception than the norm
there.  Then, too, no kids means less clutter to clean up after.

->  RH> Goodie.  Now to pick out the recliners.... and to hit

-> We've got the recliners already.  They were our 25th anniversary gift to
-> each other. (G)

 RH> Smart woman.  Now for the time to USE them!

They did get lots of use in HI; our living room there was more like what
our family room is going to be here.


->  RH> for the shower curtain?  Hula dancer car ornament shower curtains?
 RH> ->
-> I'm thinking of making shower curtain/window curtain sets for the
-> bathrooms.  Not hula dancers but not sure yet what--I want to check out
-> a couple of places to see what they have in sets before deciding if I
-> will or not.

 RH> At least one seriously wild pattern is required.

For the second bathroom probably.  We have a full one off the master
bedroom and a "powder room" downstairs also.

->  RH> I'd get one with rubber duckies all over it if my bathroom wasn't
 RH> pink

-> So do pink flamingos instead!  (G)

 RH> Nope - those go in my sister's house.  My brother-in-law is from
 RH> Florida, and it's a running gag.  They have fish in the spare
 RH> bathroom, but
 RH> flamingos in odd spots in the rest of the house.

Ok, should have let me know when I was in HI and I'd have gotten you big
pink hybiscus in aloha prints. (G)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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