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Skriven 2010-05-10 23:18:38 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 37570 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Growing potatoes                                         [1]
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Hi Janis,

>> of fact that was probably why Ron bought me the KA in the first
>> place... I couldn't knead dough by hand any longer (the MS was very

 JK> > I broke the radius bone in both wrists at the same time, right up
 JK> near > the hand so that put an effective end to my kneading large
 JK> amounts of > dough.

 JK> Yes, I remember you telling me about that.. what a horror that must
 JK> have been :(

Could have been a lot worse; I do have use of them, even if it is
somewhat limited.

 JK> > While we were in Germany, I slacked off some on making my own as
 JK> > there were so many good German breads. The wrists break was near the
 JK> end > of our time there.  I had further reconstruction in AZ; Steve
 JK> was hoping > they would be strong enough to knead dough.  When I
 JK> tried, and hurt, he > got my first bread machine.

 JK> Good thinking.. you don't want to push things like that.  My mom loves
 JK> telling all my sisters about my house and what it's like here (I hear
 JK> from the sisters (g)).  She tells them that if there is some thing
 JK> that I want to make, Ron goes out and buys me the toy I need to do it
 JK> haha.. it's not quite that bad, honest (g).... but it does help to
 JK> have the tools you need to continue doing the things you love to do :)

Steve likes to get me "toys" too.  Then again, he likes to use them as
well.

 JK> > I've seen this but by using all whole wheat flour, its got enough
 JK> good > stuff in that it doesn't need the Cornell mix.  I always use

 JK> Sure, that's the difference between those b vitamins (and more) in ww,
 JK> as opposed to all the lack of vitamins and proteins in regular white
 JK> bread... not to mention having grains and fibre in your diet.  That
 JK> recipe is kind of a way to get in the grains, etc., without giving me
 JK> agita :)


I can understand you're doig it.  A lot more people should do it but
don't, and buy the white "ballon bread" instead.  Then they wonder why
they aren't getting enough fibre in their diets; (G)


>> I always had a problem with the idea of multiple tools in one base.. I
>> was always afraid say the blender would die, or the mixer would go,

 JK> > At the same time it was nice having the multi function base; it took
 JK> up > less room than the 3 separate appliances.

 JK> Part of it is buying from a good company as well.. that's what I like
 JK> about the Bosch mixers/base,etc.  If I could afford to replace all the
 JK> attachments I have, that one can be bought with a blender, etc., and
 JK> given the company's reputation, I wouldn't be so afraid to chance it
 JK> :)  But those attachments will most likely keep me running this KA
 JK> (g).

We considered the Bosch as well.  The price, availability of parts,
using your KA, etc all steered us toward the KA.

>> counter space in front and on each side.  The sink was directly across
>> from it. Hehe.. when we sold that house to a Doctor in the village,
>> the first thing I thought about was him tearing that island up to make
>> it an office, etc. :(  The hospital was right across the street from
>> our house, so he was really happy we were selling (g).

 JK> > OTOH, maybe he appreciated the island as a chance to spread his
 JK> > instruments out on.

 JK> Hmm.. no, I'd think they'd use more metallic structures for
 JK> sterilization's sake.

Undoubtedly, but sometimes he probably would have liked to spread them
out so he could repack them more efficiently. I do that from time to
time with kitchen and sewing stuff.

 JK> I remember when we'd drive past shortly after we sold that house.. and
 JK> one day I saw the entire front staircase (including handrail) come out
 JK> the front door.. Poor house.. It should have been put on the historic
 JK> register to protect it. If you go back to some historic maps of the
 JK> village of Warwick from say the 1600-1700's, you can see all farmland
 JK> down the street I lived on (Grand Street), except for two houses.. the
 JK> one we bought close to the "corner", and the one my mother and dad
 JK> bought in the 50's. We bought ours in about 1970-something.. can't
 JK> remember now.. but you could see that there were so many similar
 JK> features in the design of two houses interior.  The village historian
 JK> told me that the main house was owned by a very rich fellow .. the
 JK> house we bought was also owned by him, but was for.. the servants -
 JK> that explained the dumb-waiter I found in one of the walls in my
 JK> mother's house.. and why mine didn't have that
 JK> extravagence :)

 JK> It was neat finding all that history.

Yes, and sad to see it so abused.

>> Professional does :)  I fixed my Athena Sewing machine myself once I
>> got a copy of the internals.. It just needed a part around the bobbin
>> case.. forget what it's called now..

 JK> > Not that important, unless you need to do it again.

 JK> I still have the "repair manual" ... so if I need to order some other
 JK> part, I can.. There are a few sites that still provide replacement
 JK> parts for that machine.. which I think is outrageous..

At least you can still find parts.  I tracked down a web site for Pfaff
parts that even my repairman didn't know about when we were in GA.  He
was very appreciative of the knowledge--and ordered a part for my
machine from it.

 JK> ready to arrive. Of course, you know that if you do spend the night,
 JK> no guarantees from the management that you won't get kissed and mugged
 JK> by puppies :)


Sounds like fun to me.  As long as i get equal time from the kitties.
We might just take you up on the offer--it would be around June 30/July
1.

>> Understand :)  We were supposed to get to Connecticutt this month or


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Ruth
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