Text 9199, 118 rader
Skriven 2008-06-18 13:55:12 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 9039 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: food, fast & poor                                        [1]
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Hi Ruth!

>> > Hope all goes (went) well with your exam. I don't envy you going to

>> All went just fine as usual, just have to make my appearance :)

> Good; that's the kind of news you want to hear. I have an appointment
> next month with the radiation oncolgy doctor; based on the mammogram and
> ultrasound results, it should go well also.

That's good.  Best of luck with that and I hope you hear only good news!  We
had some bad news here.. My mom may have suffered a stroke this week, we're
waiting for details from the JFK Stroke center in Palm Beach Florida.. Test
results aren't back yet, the doctor should be calling my sister in Palm Beach
today sometime..  we may be taking off for florida any day. I'm hoping for the
best for her though!  She definitely fell in her room, but they're not sure why
so they have to assume a stroke to be on the safe side..  This isn't the first
time she's fallen, but obvisiously this time they had trouble getting her to
make sense I think.. We'll know more as the day goes on I hope. :(

>> Nah, we decided to head right for home, we were just too busy this
>> week.. it's been a busy week over here.

> I can understand.

That and the heat.. it was a miserable day in Manhatten that day with the heat
at over 95 this early in June.. who knows what the heat index was there :) It
was miserable though, I know that much.. walking out of the airconditioned
office into the heat blast was about enough to knock you over :)

>> When we buy it we buy Bryers all Natural so there's no HFCS.. other
> That's generally what we buy too.  Reading labels, tho, sometimes a
> store brand will be just as good, surprisingly.

Yep.. we read carefully :)

>> than that I also make it with my wooden bucket ice cream maker.. it's
>> neat, you fill it up with ice cubes and layer the ice with salt and
>> cold water, and put a canister filled with cream in it, that has a
>> paddle in it in the midst of the bucket of ice.. a contraption on the
>> top turns the paddle in the canister.. it's
>> electric.. and yup, 15 or 20 minutes later you have ice cream.. but

> That's what my parents used to have. My mom would set it on the kitchen
> floor over newspaper as the salt and ice water leaked out as the ice
> melted.  If we had enough snow outside, she would put it into a snow
> bank to harden.

Hmm.. Mine doesn't leak.. least I don't remember it leaking (grin).. I think :)
I'll have to pay attention next time :)  I really don't remember it leaking
though :)  I used it last summer when Ron's Aunt's came by for the 4th of July
:) There is a whole at the top of the bucket that if you over fill it, will
spill out the overflow, but I don't overfill it to that point.

>> off (g) Even aspirin helps a little. They sell vests now to cool off
>> people who have MS but I've never bought one :) They sound very

> Anything to help.  Sit in front of an air conditioner going full blast.

Yeah, that works well!

>> strange.. I have another ice cream maker that is a faster in a sense..
>> you freeze the bowl overnight, then fill it the next day, attach it to
>> machine etc.. and 15/20 minutes later you have ice cream.. same story

> It just makes you think it's faster. (G)

hehe.. yep.. and the icecream is softer too... you don't get nice hard
icecream.. eventually it hardens though.. but it's not the same texture.. :( I
guess it's kind of re-frozen and it's 'ruined'.. :)

>> > compounding of the year's events for the exteded family but there's
>> no > real narraion as to what it is, who's who, etc.

>> My aunts had theirs copied over to a CD recently so I guess that's the
>> new method of transport (g).

> Until something newer in technology comes out,like blu-ray.

haha.. yep.. more new toys for the grandchildren.. or for the hubby I guess (g)

>> Figured that's what you meant for the price, really (soda or tea), but
>> $15.00 is very inexpensive for two :)

> And good food too, if you liked it.  We took friends who had come to HI
> a few weeks after we did to one. They ordered the regular plates with 2
> scoops of rice and 4 vegetable choices in addition to the meat. He's
> very much a meat and potatoes guy so he ordered the teriyaki steak.  She
> can't stand anything hotter than a bell pepper asked for kim chee as one

ouch :) :)

> of her vegetable choices. (We weren't aware of their choices or would
> have made other suggestions.)  Needless to say, neither of them ever
> wanted to go back to places like that again. OTOH, I took other friends
> who enjoyed it, but not all of them ordered kim chee. (G)

haha :)  I like kim chee.. in moderation :) :)  I can eat it .. with a
mouthfull of rice directly following haha :) but I do like it a lot :)  I like
making it was well.. I had a great time growing the cabbage in my garden last
year and was going to grow this year, but time got away from me.. :(  I could
probably throw some seed in now.. might make it.. we're back down to 60's again
for the next 7 days..(what weird weather :( :( ).. I give up on my garden this
year!

>> so > will go thru the mountains in western VA and NC.
>> Should get your mountain fix at least :)

> For a bit, anyways. Wrong time of the year for a color display but gotta
> take what I can get.

That's the truth :)

Take care,
Janis

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