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Skriven 2010-02-10 16:35:16 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 34586 av HAP NEWSOM (1:123/140)
Ärende: creeping crud
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Hi Hap,

-> I stayed in, Steve took the chili but didn't stay for the judging.
-> Afterward, the pastor let us know it came in second--very close to the
-> winner--out of (he thought) about 10.

 HN> You'd have probably won if you'd been there!

Could be; I could have done a last minute tweak on the spicing.  Still,
2nd isn't bad and I know my chili is well liked among the church family.
I made a big pot of it in October for a Wed. night supper on a raw,
blustery day & got rave reviews then


 HN> (grin) Hope you feel better now though!

Working on it, have a couple of perscriptions to go thru.  One is a 6
day steriod burst, the other is 2 weeks of a Cipro-related antibiotic.
Steve doesn't mind eating out of the freezer & pantry but by next week
at this time I should be back to cooking instead of nuking. (G)

->  hn> today for the rest of the week, freezer
->  hn> is empty at this point. but Anne wanted
->  hn> to get out of the house so we're at a
->  hn> local coffee spot doing wifi.

-> So you're doing Fido Cooking and hope that somebody will say something
-> to give you an idea of what to make. Madness to your method.

 HN> Ended up making a lentil sausage
 HN> dish, yummy!

Sounds like it would have been really good for this kind of weather.
Did you use a recipe "straight" or just as a suggestion? (G)

-> area just before my sophomore year of high school but still weren't very
-> large.  I do remember the cafeteria serving what they called "corned
-> beef hash" but it was given the nickname "Alpo" by students. (G)

 HN> At least ALPO was all meat(Grin)

I don't think this was. Probably not, knowing school budgets.

 HN> I always took lunch so very seldom
 HN> got to eat what the cafeteria put
 HN> out.

Same here, except senior year my folks let us buy more often.  Finaly, a
reprieve from pb&j!

-> I understand another storm is moving in tomorrow too. Hopefully it won't
-> hit my parents in upstate NY--had a call about 5pm from my mom that my
-> dad (88) fell and broke his hip.  He was transferred to a hospital an
-> hour away & she doesn't drive.  No further details so we've got a lot of
-> questions, waiting for answers.

 HN> YIPES! Is there someone nearby who
 HN> can do things for your mom, like
 HN> take her to appts and grocery
 HN> shopping and such? Hope any news
 HN> you get is good news!!

Dad had an artificial hip put in yesterday, will be in that hosptial a
few days, then transferred to the hospital/rehab in the town where they
live. My younger brother lives across the street (but works a good bit
away). He's working from home today & tomorrow because of the storm.
Steve and I have been e-mailing him (and my other siblings) trying to
get a feel for what can be done, both short term and longer term
modifications to the house to handle this and future situations.  We
have some ideas that make sense to us; it's getting my siblings feed
back that we need. Sigh!

There are other people in the area that have worked for them or have
watched out for my parents over the years that are helping to some
extent now.  One gave my mom a ride into town yesterday to pick up a few
groceries ahead of the storm--things like bread and milk.  We're
debating if we ought to try to get up over the seminary's mid term break
(early March) or Easter break (late March into early April); right now
sort of holding back until we see how things work out up there & Steve's
school work load--some of the professors give work over breaks.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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