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Skriven 2008-01-25 18:35:54 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: simply shrimply
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Hiya Ruth!

-> 
-> ->  hn> Shrimps is goood! When we lived in South Carolina back in
-> 
-> -> I could eat them year round--and have enjoyed them at various times 
of
-> -> the year, mostly when living in the south.
-> 
->  hn> I love em too! A bunch of years ago one of my
->  hn> co workers had a father
->  hn> who held a commercial Hood Canal Shrimpers
->  hn> license....they are a deep
->  hn> water  species called spot shrimp
->  hn> http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/shelfish/shrimpreg/shrimpspot.htm
->  hn> and they are delicious! We used to buy them
->  hn> fresh caught and frozen for $10/pound and they
->  hn> were worth every penny! I'd buy 20 pounds
->  hn> a year and ration them out over the course
->  hn> of the year. They taste a bit like lobster.
-> 
-> You've got me drooling but I suspect the price has gone up a bit and
-> they're not $10/pound any more. We've really enjoyed the local shrimp;
-> getting spoiled so when we leave this area and have to buy shrimp from
-> who knows where, we probably won't.
-> 
LOL not many local shrimpers in AZ! 

-> ->  hn> days aspired to being a bike racer when I grew up.
-> ->  hn> I'd often get 40 or 50 miles a day on the weekends
-> ->  hn> or during the summers. Met  a lot of good people
-> 
-> -> Sounds like it was a fun time.  Your own Tour de France without worry 
of
-> -> time trials and suchlike.
-> 
->  hn> Most of the times I stayed within 50 miles of Chateauroux
->  hn> so I could make the trip out and back in a single day. Otherwise
-> 
-> Still you got to see quite a bit of the area. More of France than I've
-> ever seen. (G)
-> 
-> 
And some of Spain as well!

->  hn> I'd have to carry camping gear or enough money to stay
->  hn> somewhere overnight. on occaision I could catch a ride
-> 
-> If the weather was decent; you could sleep out under the stars.
-> 
->
True, but you have to find a place, AND you have to carry 
all your supplies...makes for a difficult ride on a bike not 
built to be anything but a racer. I used to carry my books
in a backpack (waaaay ahead of my time there!) when I rode
to school and back.

->  hn> with someone I knew (parents of friends who rode also) and
->  hn> they'd drop us off somewhere and we'd ride back home from
->  hn> there. Still it's a good way to see a lot of country at a
->  hn> more enjoyable pace!
-> 
-> Very much so, and if you had friends that liked doing the same thing, it
-> would make a nice outing.
-> 
I had about 6 friends who were bike nuts like I was
and we even had a few french kids who hung around 
and rode with us fairly regularly as well.

-> ->  hn> only hung out at the snack bar on base.
-> ->  hn> Not that I didn't put in my hours there as well! (grin)
-> 
-> -> Why am I not surprised? (G)
-> 
->  hn> Closest thing to a malt shop to be found there!
->  hn> Used to get the best vanilla cokes and milkshakes!
-> 
-> Now the bases/posts don't have snack bars as such.  There are a number
-> of fast food chain places available in a food court in the PX/BX area
-> but nothing of great quality for the most part. Sometimes I've a hard
-> time deciding what's the least offensive of the offerings; other times,
-> the selection will have just what I was craving. Same selection too. (G)
-> 
Not all changes are  good changes!

-> ->  hn> out on the "economy" it's often smarter to
-> ->  hn> blend in than stand out if you know what
-> ->  hn> I mean!
-> 
-> -> I know exactly what you mean; I did it somewhat
-> -> in Germany when we were there.
-> 
->  hn> Thought you'd understand (grin)
-> 
-> Part of the understanding tht goes with being part of the military. It
-> helped that my coloring, features, etc were typical German; I'd have
-> stood out like a sore thumb in Japan.
-> 
When we first got to France I'd say 
I pretty much stood out like a sore thumb!

-> ->  hn> Lots of sources for glycemic index info now!
-> 
-> -> The book we got was our first good source--got it when we were in HI.
-> 
->  hn> I have several charts saved as .pdf files and there's lots of
->  hn> resources on the web these days!
-> 
-> Yes, the web seems to have most anything you want to find these days,
-> even parts for an older sewing machine. (G)
-> 
Yeh...but I don't sew! (grin)
chat with you soon
hap 
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