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Skriven 2011-08-15 10:55:06 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: Life, one day at a time
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Good Mawnin Miz Ruth!

-> -> trip (out Friday, back Monday) trip to AZ in early October. Then nothing
-> -> until late December.
-> 
->  hn> No travelling for us this year...I am
-> 
-> No surprise but it would be nice if Anne felt well enough to make a trip
-> to California.
-> 
Even if she feels up to it we won't be
able to go with the schedule she's on for
treatments. And I confess to being 
Ultra concerned about her being exposed
to germs in her immune weakened state.

->  hn> thinking about maybe taking Anne to
->  hn> a nice hotel (maybe in Seattle or
->  hn> down to the Oregon coast) for a weekend
->  hn> one of these days...just a get away and
->  hn> some quiet time somewhere we can
->  hn> just sit and relax.
-> 
-> Nice to have those times. I've tried to pull Steve out of his books for
-> a day trip out of the area at least once a semester. It worked th first
-> semester but not the subsequent 3. Maybe this upcoming one will be more
-> successful. We visited an outlet mall an hour or so away, hit up a
-> kitchenware store or two and got me some sweaters.
->
The sell sweaters at kitchenware stores now?? (grin)
 
-> ->  hn> The only thing I ever did in pint jars was
-> ->  hn> my hot pepper jellies. Everything else was
-> ->  hn> always the quart jars...wide mouth Kerr jars
-> ->  hn> if I remember rightly (grin).
-> 
-> -> Mom did both pints (beans, carrots, beets) and quarts (tomatoes & 
other
-> -> fruit). I do pints mostly because quarts would be overkill for just the
-> -> 2 of us. Jams, chutneys, etc get half pints but salsa, chili sauce, etc
-> 
->  hn> You do what works for you...I was
->  hn> canning for the three of us and quarts
->  hn> were better for that. Never canned
->  hn> tomatoes though.
-> 
-> Canning tomatoes is dead easy. Scald, core and slip skins. Stuff into a
-> jar, leave half an inch of headspace. Cap, process in pressure cooker (5
-> pounds of pressure) for 10 minutes. A teaspoon of salt per quart can be
-> added but not necessary.
-> 
Up here we never grew enough tomatoes 
for me to spend any time canning them.
Most were eaten fresh..and a few were
dehydrated for "sundried" tomatoes..

-> -> No, nothing can be as bland as unseasoned tofu.
-> 
->  hn> Yeah...it tastes like chicken breast meat (grin)!
-> 
-> Unseasoned breast meat. OTOH, seasoned is good.
->
As is seasoned Tofu! 
 
-> ->  hn> Little froggies with Popeye arms!
-> 
-> -> Without having to eat canned spinach.
-> 
->  hn> Time is fun when you're having flies!
-> 
-> That's older'n the hills.
->
Yeup...and almost as old as me!
 
-> ->  hn> I'm thinking "succumbs" more than
-> ->  hn> "adjusts"...she had her third (of four)
-> ->  hn> infusion this week. She's still holding
-> ->  hn> her own!
-> 
-> -> Good to hear she's doing well. A break, then radiation? Knock it down
-> -> and kick it out the door.
-> 
->  hn> One more treatment of the first round
->  hn> of chemo...then two weeks later we
->  hn> start the second round of chemo; once
->  hn> a week for 12 weeks...THEN the radiation.
-> 
-> And by then, hopefully all the nasty cells will be deader'n dead. Nice
-> thing about radiation--Anne can lie down (and maybe even take a short
-> nap) on the table while being treated. She'll also become a tatooed
-> lady. (G)
->
I'm hoping she tolerates it well...
 
-> ->  hn> I guess some tigers will never change
-> ->  hn> those stripes!
-> 
-> -> Either that or she was a sweet lady until the cancer hit, then she
-> -> turned into a tiger. I suspect you're right tho and she's been a tiger
-> -> all her life.
-> 
->  hn> Biggest thing to me was she was so
->  hn> nasty and I mean NASTY to the nurses
->  hn> who were giving her the Chemo...poor girls
->  hn> were just smiling and caring and gentle with
->  hn> her...inspite of the way she was acting.
->  hn> I'm sure they were gathering up some
->  hn> good karma points that day!
-> 
-> Don't think it was karma but those workers have so much patience and
-> concern for their patients. They put up with a lot of flack but don't
-> let it show. It's the sweet folks that more than make up for the tigers
-> that make their job rewarding.
->
I certainly know I could not do it!
 
-> ->  hn> we are in the cellar and digging for
-> ->  hn> china!
-> 
-> -> Win some, lose some. We're going to a Carolina Mudcats (Class AA) 
game
-> -> tonight with some friends. Should be fun; they're bringing their 3 year
-> -> old son.
->
We ended up taking two of three from
the BO Sox...but we're still in the cellar!
 
->  hn> Check and see if there's anyone selling
->  hn> boiled peanuts at the game!!
-> 
-> They had peanuts; have to ask the family we went with if they were
-> boiled or not. Seemed to be roasted, hard shelled. Steve & I split a bag
-> of Cracker Jacks (Have they ever cheapened out on the prizes!) and a
-> soft pretzel with very little salt. It was Thirsty Thursday so all soft
-> drinks were $1.00, alcoholic ones were $2.00/ Got to see Muddy the
-> Mudcat up colose; had seats right by the home dugout. Mudcats played 
the
-> Montgomery Biscuits, lost 6-4 but had a few good plays.
->
Too bad you didn't get to see them play 
the Jackson Generals...they are an AA 
team in the Mariners organization and 
seem to be really doing well this year!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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