Text 4998, 73 rader
Skriven 2008-04-05 17:03:41 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
   Kommentar till text 4952 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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 > Hi Barb,

 >> Thanksgiving break from college and had sweet iced tea
 >> for the first
 >> time.  It was much better!  I drink hot tea as well,
 >> but it has to be
 >> sweet.  I used to put milk in it too but now generally
 >> just sugar.

 >  BM> My mother was a tea drinker, and she liked her tea weak. Once she was
 >  BM> busy with something and asked me to make her a cup of tea, saying not
 >  BM> to leave the teabag in long.  Well, I poured the hot water, then
 >  BM> dunked the teabag and lifted it out immediately without squeezing--I
 >  BM> was a teenager, can you guess?--and gave it to her.  She drank it and
 >  BM> never said a word.  It must have been all right, as it wasn't
 >  BM> characteristic of her to say nothing, otherwise.

 > Sounds like one of my friends in college; she liked
 > her tea that weak
 > also. I generally leave the bag in about 2-4 minutes,
 > timing varies as
 > to what else I'm doing at the same time. I left it in
 > a bit longer a
 > couple of times and knew it from the taste.

To each her own, I guess.  Some things I like strong, and others, weak.


 >>  BM> I'm happy with just vinegar and oil.

 >> Well, this comes from my MIL; I guess it was the only
 >> salad dressing
 >> Steve grew up with.

 >  BM> Miracle Whip was my childhood salad dressing.  That stuff has been
 >  BM> around a long time.

 > My folks always had the store brand of salad dressing
 > (vs mayo).  Down
 > here, I buy Duke's as it's all natural and tastes
 > good.

I don't know if we have that around here, as I haven't bought commercial salad
dressing of any type for years.


 >>  BM> I'm not sure; I think it will be three lanes in each direction.

 >> Gotta keep the road crews wotking on something all the
 >> time. (G) One of
 >> these years we may get over that way again to see how
 >> its changed since
 >> we left.

 >  BM> The area has grown, and many wooden buildings have been razed on
 >  BM> post--old landmarks gone.

 > No surprise. We used to live in Copperas Cove in a
 > (then) new sub
 > division in the Hattie Halsted elementary school
 > district.  We lived on
 > Michelle Drive.

The highway through Cove has always struck me as being very busy, and well
justifying its width.  I go there so seldom that I don't know my way around it.
 For a time, I did go to the HEB there, which by then I discovered had moved
across the street from the shopping center it had been in. Probably this was
during the time the nearby one was preparing to move, and there were so many
items they were not restocking, so they wouldn't then have to turn around and
move a fully stocked store.  Bah!

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