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Skriven 2010-06-07 22:58:20 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 38628 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Dog gone, Kitchen Aid                                    [2]
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Hi Janis,


 JK> > IOW, a 2 hour cycle should work for most of their clothes, linens,

 JK> Yes, I think so.  I could do less with things I dry manually - like
 JK> delicates, etc.  The washer/dryer lets you wash only if you like, so I
 JK> use it that way now and again - in the winter, I do my washable
 JK> sweater-shirts that way.

Now if only we could convince my folks that it would be much easier for
them to do washing & drying of clothes on the main floor.  I'm not
holding my breath on that on tho.

KA
 JK> > It may have & you forgot after you put it up.

 JK> I know :)  I watch for things like bad coverage of the ingredients on
 JK> the bottom of the bowl etc., and that seems fine....I saw a site that
 JK> explains how to 'regrease' your KA mixer, so I might consider that.
 JK> Then again I might rather wait til we have some extra $$ and just get
 JK> it done by a repair shop (vbg).

And now ours is making a strange rattling noise in the head. Mostly
higher speeds but don't know if I trust it even on bread maiking level
(#2).

>> whole kitchen floor there because they had an indoor/outdoor carpet on
>> the floor that was pretty yucky to look at and walk on, and clean..

 JK> > I'd have gotten rid of it as fast as possible too.  Kitchens and
 JK> > carpeting aren't usually compatible.

 JK> Exactly my feeling :)   I don't mind hardwood floors, but they are not
 JK> my favorite either.. you can't wax them much because of silly animals
 JK> racing through at breakneck speed and truly crashing into you and

Do they go skidding out of control? That would be funny to watch, as
long as they don't hurt themselves.

 JK> everything else (g).. I'm not sure yet what we'll do with the floor in
 JK> the kitchen here yet.. we've go so much to do to finish the walls and
 JK> window.  And Ron hasn't been feeling very well so he's mainly just
 JK> working and letting the kitchen wait.  I don't mind since I sure know
 JK> what it feels like to not be up to par.  We'll get it done eventually

Hope he gets better soon; it's not fun not feeling like doing much.
Even basics can be a real drag times like that.

>> I could understand why it looked SO bad (g).  But sometimes you just
>> have to deal with the house as it is.. for any number of reasons.

 JK> > True. We looked at a lot of places that had more strikes against
 JK> them > than here.

 JK> Sure.. sometimes it takes looking around a bit to find one that has
 JK> most everything you need and want in a house.  When we got to
 JK> Kentucky, our first thought was to buy again, so we rented with an
 JK> option to buy.  It was a huge beautiful house, just built but in a
 JK> housing community.. you know, ultra-modern appliances and everything,
 JK> landscaped yard, garage, brick exterior.. but we couldn't stand some
 JK> things about it. No privacy whatsoever..  We put up a really nice
 JK> mailbox and were told we weren't allowed to do that hahaha.. we had to
 JK> get one that matched everyone else's in the development from some
 JK> shyster contractor there.  It was huge and ugly (bg). That burned me
 JK> up, but the kicker was the attitude of some of the people in the
 JK> development.  No one was 'good enough' over there :)

That would have turned me off fast!  We only know our neighbors on one
side fairly well.  Others we know on a "hi, how are you? Fine, see you"
basis.  Not quite as packed as military housing nor does everyone have
that big thing in common, making for faster getting to know others.

 JK> That's when we looked around and finally found the really old historic
 JK> house in Louisville... It was huge and had so much character.. much
 JK> like Mom's house in Warwick. And after we fixed the floor, fixed the
 JK> pipes that kept freezing every year and did other improvements, we
 JK> realized that we didn't have to be in Kentucky to do what we were
 JK> doing regarding work since Ron had been working at home for maybe the
 JK> last year or two.  That's when we moved back to NY (g). Louisville

So had the job brought you down there originally?  Did you learn to make
Kentucky Hot Brown while you were there?

 JK> itself was a neat place to be and live, but it was good to be back
 JK> home.

Home is where the Army (or God) sends you. (G)  We make home wherever we
are.


 JK> And how much of a mess you are willing to clean up (g).  The electric
 JK> large bucket one does get water all over the place sometimes.. and it
 JK> can be really heavy to lift when it's time to dump the ice and water,
 JK> etc.  You layer tons of ice in the large bucket one with salt which
 JK> melts the ice while keeping the water very very cold.. kind of a
 JK> frozen slush.. so the mixture in the can in the bucket can freeze.  As

My parents got one of the electric large bucket ones when I was in about
6th grade.  Had ice cream once a month, on the first Sunday, to go with
the baked beans that Dad came up with the idea of having on a once a
month basis a few years before that.  It did make a mess; Dad would be
the one to dump it. Mom always put newspaper on the kitchen floor before
putting the bucket there and the paper was always soaked.


 JK> you know the frozen bucket one is a bit easier to use :)

Very much so!


>> get a lot of use out of it.  She doesn't have the ravioli maker
>> either, and since they weren't eating dairy, that was ok.

 JK> > We do eat dairy, but not a whole lot.

 JK> She made some really good mushroom ravioli one year for Easter.  They
 JK> were really good.  She brought them over with the sauce (not a red
 JK> sauce) and some of us had those, and some of us had regular ricotta
 JK> raviolis with red sauce.


Sounds interesting, did she give you the recipe?  One of the other
ladies in our Life Group (a church group) collaberated with me on
yesterday's lunch--meatball subs.  I made the meatballs (82), a couple
of salad dressings and sauce; Steve made cookies. Ashley made cookies &
brought rolls & the salad.  We came home with about 3 quarts of sauce
but only 13 meat balls. Gave some away to a family where the mom
couldn't make the meeting, some went with Ashley so her her husband
could have them for a work meal. Looks like we're going to have to cook
lasagne or spaghetti for the group some time; the sauce and meat balls
were very popular. (G)

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Ruth
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