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Skriven 2010-06-18 22:40:18 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 38917 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: X-ray stuff                                              [1]
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Hi Janis,

 JK> > At a point where I can catch up on Fido again. The dress is ready
 JK> for a > final fitting & marking the hem on Monday.  Tuesday will be a
 JK> long day > of sewing so I can give it to the young lady that evening.
 JK> She wanted it > fitted sotighitthatIcan'tbreath in the bodice.

 JK> Perhaps she is used to really fitted garments..

More fitted than this pattern, apparantly. Anyway, I refitted it on
Monday and put it all together for the final time on Tuesday (about 8
hours of work).  She came over Tuesday evening, tried it on (and was
happy), paid me and took the dress.  Wedding is tomorrow in MA.

 JK> >  We decided to gather the
 JK> > skirt in back and pin it with a fancy pin instead of taking it off
 JK> the > bodice to redo that as well.

 JK> I can imagine.. good solution because the bodice reworking with
 JK> delicate fabrics would probably have been near to impossible to hide.
 JK> :(

Very true.  This fabric might have been able to take one more remake but
the lining was beginning to say "enough already!" so we stopped.  In the
time I was waiting before the fitting appointmenton Monday, I was able
to do my usual Monday laundry and make a batch of strawberry jam. (G)


 JK> > Good that you found a gp in that area.  Does he take veggies in
 JK> barter? > (G)

 JK> haha I WISH :)  He knows I garden as I've brought in summer squash,
 JK> etc. for his staff at times .. but he's never mentioned a barter
 JK> system (g).

Have you ever asked?  He might consider it.

>> with him as well.  I'd been to a different one in the area when we
>> first moved back to NY, but I wasn't crazy about his attitude in
>> general... nor of his office workers.

 JK> > The office workers on the first dr we visited were great!  He was
 JK> the > one we couldn't tolerate. The one we changed to has office staff
 JK> as good > as she is.

 JK> This particular office is one of those where you can tell that the
 JK> staff is under duress (g).. but I'm glad you were able to find a good
 JK> combination there..  that's how our GP's office is.. great staff and
 JK> great doctor.


Makes for the best care that way.


 JK> > Yes, that's true.  A lot of medical knowledge has only come about
 JK> over > the last 15 years or so.  The advances of computerised medicine
 JK> > made for better research, tests and trials.  A lot can be done
 JK> virtually > that saves "wear & tear" on anmals and humans alike.

 JK> Yes,  very true.  It is incredible what research is able to accomplish
 JK> with computer models.

But not quite everything.  The human factor is a big variable.

>> specialists had to break both her legs and straighten them..
>> naturally, it required a lot of X-Ray proceedures and surgeries.  She

 JK> > Ouch!  I think they do a lot with casting and braces now.

 JK> That makes so much sense when you think about the state of braces
 JK> these days... though they had to stunt the growth of one of her legs
 JK> so that the other one could catch up as well.  She was always in casts
 JK> as a small child.

Not fun at all!

 JK> > interesting (G) when a pipe from our HI kitchen sink broke and had
 JK> to be > replaced--jackhammered up the slab to get to it.  It was a
 JK> Priority 1 > job tho.

 JK> I bet!  going without a kitchen sink is about the pits :)  When the
 JK> pipes froze in that house in Louisville, it was so horrid waiting for
 JK> someone to get there to repair things.

They probably had lots of other customers. (G)

 JK> > We took over payments on a double wide mobile home in NC in 1980,
 JK> passed > it on to someone else when Steve joined the Army in 83.
 JK> That's the
 JK> > closest we've been to being home owners.

 JK> Ron's parents never owned a house except for one very early on, they
 JK> just didn't believe it was of benefit to them.  It worked well for
 JK> them and they never minded it at all.

OTOH, my folks have been in the same area for 59 years; the same house
for 53.  They just moved across the street.


 JK> > And we're in the south east. (G)

 JK> Yes, I know.  Well, they don't know everything after all :)

Nope! (G)

 JK> > We use the microwave most of the time but if we want to make a pot
 JK> of > tea, we'll use a pot and boil the water on the stove in a tea
 JK> kettle.

 JK> That's what he does as well, but when I make a pot of tea, I take off
 JK> the darn whistle thingy :) :) He says, "I can tell when it boils..
 JK> from the sound".. I tell him "I can tell given how long I've been away
 JK> from the pot" (laugh)..

I can tell by the sound but the whistle is nice if I'm doing my usual
multi tasking.  I proccessed the jams I made this week in a boiling
water bath so used the tea kettle to top off the water level in my
pressure cooker.  Used that as the hot water kettle--a dual purpose pot.
(G)


>> water though; the water stays hotter longer when you use the stove..
>> I'm guessing that temperature difference may make a difference in the
>> flavor when you are steeping tea, but I can't tell (g).

 JK> > Probably but more likely, it's the little bit higher heat that
 JK> extracts > the essential oils & flavors faster.

 JK> Could be.. I wouldn't be surprised.  I still would microwave it though
 JK> I think.. most of the teas we buy are very flavorful it seems.


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