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Skriven 2008-08-15 14:18:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11990 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: summer gardens in ny                                     [1]
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Hi Janis,

 JK>  I > know that jelly can be made from the apples but what else?

 JK> I've heard of crabapple pie, but shuddered to think about it (grin)

Same here; you'd need lots of sugar in it.  Besides, the apples are puny
thing if I remember right.  It would take a lot to fill hte pie.

 JK> > overall.  Beat what we came back to in GA--99 on Tuesday, 102 on
 JK> Wed. > and 100 on Thursday.  Then a front came thru and we've been in
 JK> the low > 90s, low humidity since.

 JK> It was about the same here Monday/Tues. after the picnic.. then it
 JK> turned very cold (to MY taste (grin)). It's been like that since..
 JK> chilly in the morning (me running around in shorts, freezing (grin)),
 JK> then in the afternoon warming up to about 75+.. Ron says this is
 JK> unusual.. wish my memory was better (grin).. I also don't remember it
 JK> being this chilly in August last year.. I'm really worried about my

It iss unusual for your area but not a bit east in the Catskills.  The
river should keepyour temps more moderated--if it has had a chance to
warm up over the summer.



 JK> tomatoes.. I know it takes warm weather (generally) to get them to
 JK> turn red.. there are a few that look like they might be turning
 JK> 'lighter green'.. bummer :( :(  Ah well.. if that happens, I'll go to
 JK> the orchard in September, they always have a LOT of Romas they've
 JK> grown in their garden's there.  They probably use greenhouses.

Dad is finally getting a bit of a blush on his tomatoes.  He always
picks them at the frst sign ofthae blush, never waits until any are vine
ripened.  Ergo, the house can have rows of tomatoes along windowsills
and other places in various stages of ripeness.


>> mostly, but some nice stores (grin).  This would have been about
>> 1967-68.. Pretty much all of them left town when Nyland died though..
>> I guess they didn't feel that attached to Gurdgief's philosophy.. or
>> money ran out when Nyland wasn't supporting them any longer (that's
>> what I think (g)).


 JK> > Sounds logical. That's about the time frame that the "hippies" (as
 JK> my > dad would call them) started discovering the Catskills.

 JK> The Gurdgief movement was a pretty quiet one (at least in our area, I
 JK> don't know about others), but still always felt very cultish to me.. I
 JK> don't think they made it upstate to Sullivan County, etc though.  Very
 JK> closed group.  They weren't quite hippies.. more "back to basics" and
 JK> "physical-work-to-releive stress", "purify yourself" people. But yes,
 JK> it would have been about the time I think.

I don't think that movement ever really took hold seriously in the
Catskills. They got more of the hippies,

>> Yes, I'm sure it can be for some doctors.. but that's why I go to NYC.

 JK> > And, having finally found a good doctor, you don't want to change. I
 JK> > know the feeling; I've dealt with so many doctors and dentists all
 JK> my > (married) life.  Some I wished I could keep forever; others, good
 JK> bye > was not very painful.

 JK> haha.. you are not kidding.. The first neurologist I went to was of
 JK> the "so long, goodbye, good riddance" type.. the first doctor I had in
 JK> NYC was amazing.. I felt very bad when he retired. hehe.. I can hear
 JK> him now, "janis, what are we to do with you??"  ... because I refused
 JK> so many of the new treatments (g). But he was always cool about it,
 JK> because he understood that all of these new treatments were so new and
 JK> so really experimental.  He didn't blame me one bit for resisting.

He's one that was worth keeping. Too bad he retired but if he had that
outlook all his medical career, he did well.  Lots better than the
"let's try this or that" practioners.


 JK> > And too, now I know what to look for in certain illnesses.

 JK> Sniffles constantly (grin).. allerigies..   Walk outside on a lovely
 JK> spring or summer day, and start holding your head and/or wiping your
 JK> eyes (pollen allergies). Mow the lawn and want to die. (grass pollen
 JK> allergies).. Walk in a house with plaster walls and dirt basement

And I could add to that list.


 JK> (mold allergies) .. It's like the world is against you sometimes :)
 JK> Thank goodness for sudafed, it's one of the few things that help. Not
 JK> everyone can take that though.  I can tell though when it's going to
 JK> rain before everyone else (laugh).

I can too, with all the broken bones I've had.(G)


>> moved to Louisville.  I still made some Italian food, but I made more
>> pulled pork, and burgoo,etc. since that's what was around :) It was a
>> cool place to be really.. a touch of the North there, and a good solid
>> southern cooking tradition as well. Plus being not 'huge' city ..

 JK> > Sounds like it was an interesting place.  We've adapted some
 JK> southern > cooking into our way of life but tried to make them
 JK> healthier.  Done
 JK> > that with quite a number of cultures and foods actually.

 JK> It was very intersting :)  We have always eaten healthy so I'd do the
 JK> same pretty much.  I found it very interesting that the "Mediterranean
 JK> Diet" was more recently espoused as one the best way for people to
 JK> eat... it's the way we've eaten for years. I guess that comes mainly
 JK> from the sicilian side of my family, as opposed to the "calabrian" or
 JK> "northern Italian" family members...

And we've always tried to eat "healthy".  Steve's mom cooked that way
more than my mom but we've gone further than she did.  The use of whole
grains in our diet is one major change from the way we were brought
up--on white everything.


>> Well, your opinions will be funny, that's for sure :)  Between this
>> miserable "no-spring" spring, and then that drug I was taking, my
>> garden really took a hit.  But there's some stuff doing quite well..
>> Lovely asparagus fern Lol..

 JK> > It was a nice looking jungle for a few days. (G) But, we all enjoyed
 JK> > ourselves.  Any comments from the trash pick up crew about the
 JK> remains


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