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Skriven 2008-05-20 10:53:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: fresh milk
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 05-15-08  14:29 <=-

 RH>> Are you still in Rochester?
 
 NB> Yes, we are still in Rochester.  Still in the same house we bought
 NB> over 30 years ago, when the kid was a year old.

 RH> Our younger daughter is in the city until Saturday, has been there
 RH> since last Saturday. She's taking a class for her National Guard
 RH> training. (She's on active duty with them in AZ, the Phoneix area.) 
 RH> The longest we lived any one place was in AZ; we don't even have a
 RH> house to retire to some day.

Here's the back story...  My parents moved to Rochester the summer
before my senior year in high school, as Daddy took a job teaching at
RIT.  Since his kids got tuition free there, that's where I went to
college... and met hubby there.  Before he was through completely, he
had taken a summer job at Kodak which turned into a full-time one, and
we ended up staying in Rochester.  But before that, I'd never been in
one place more than 6 years...  Born in PA, lived across the river in
NJ, moved to WY when less than a year old, and a year later to the DC
area for 3 years, then to IN for 2 and MS for 4, then back to the Philly
area for the aforementioned 6 years.  The amazing thing is that we are
still here... ;)  And that my parents never up and moved again... there
was some talk at one point or two, but nothing ever came of it.  They
now live with my sister in Bloomfield, just outside of Rochester (near
Victor and Canandaigua).

 NB>> We have a dairy farmer friend that lives near where we have a summer
 NB>> camp, and we've enjoyed his "fresh-from-the-tank" milk over the years.

 RH> Is that the Gilbert Lake Camp Area you menitoned?  Our church used to
 RH> have picnics up there during the summer; I grew up in Margaretville so
 RH> it was about a 90 minute drive.
 
No, this will be the first time we'll be going to Gilbert Lake, the
family had been going down into PA to a private campground in Gaines (on
Rte 6), but needed to find a place more handicap-accessible for Daddy
this year.  Hubby and I own property up in St Lawrence county (NYS, near
the Adirondack Park preserve), part of which he inherited from his
grandfather.  Our friend lives near there.  :)

 NB>> Last few years we've not been up there long enough to trek over to his
 NB>> farm for the milk (he's about 45 minutes away, so the drive there
 NB>> isn't insignificant).  So, yes, I know whereof you speak... and miss
 NB>> it also.

 RH> It's worth it for the milk. When we started, we were about a 15-20
 RH> minute drive away.  A move out of town added another 10 minutes or so
 RH> to it so we tried to combine trips with a bit of grocery shopping in

Our friend's farm is near where we go for church when we are up there...
when we were younger, we were able to be more active there during the
week, so we would combine trips that way.  The store where we shop is
only(!) about half an hour from the camp, and the farm still another 15
minutes away.  Back then, we'd also be up for at least 2 weeks, often
with the weekends at either end as well, and didn't need to just veg at
the camp for the time we had there...  <G>

 RH> town. One night we'd done the shopping and were about to turn (right)
 RH> out of the parking lot to head home.  The fire siren went off so we
 RH> turned left (Steve was a voluteer) instead.  While waiting back at the
 RH> station for him, I had to change our younger daughter's diaper. We'd
 RH> not planned to be out so long so I'd not brought any clean ones (I used
 RH> cloth) along. Good thing I'd bought a roll of paper towels--a few of
 RH> them made a good improvised diaper for about half an hour until we got
 RH> home. (G)  The milk was't affected by the extra wait to get it into the
 RH> fridge. 

Fresh hath its benefits...  :)  And necessity IS the mother of
invention...  <G>  A memorable experience... :)

ttyl     neb

... Ambidextrose: Able to put creamer in coffee using either hand.

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