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Skriven 2012-02-21 16:32:39 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 21488 av HAP NEWSOM (1:123/140)
Ärende: almost baseball time                                     [1]
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Hi Hap,

-> That's how I get most of my sports news/scores--thru the paper. TV local
-> sportscasters are only interested in the local teams & we've an
-> excessive amount of them here. It's hard to get any kind of national or
-> international story of over 15 seconds (not worth their breath) unless
-> it involves a local team or hometown athlete (eg Josh Hamilton).

 HN> We do not subscribe to the local
 HN> paper any more either...over the

Steve would rather I read it on line but I like to curl up with the
print edition. What's not used in other ways goes into the recylcle bag
so it doesn't sit around half of forever.

 HN> years it has become more and more a
 HN> poorly executed badly written and
 HN> seldom proof read rag. I get news

Sounds like somebody needs to step in and reform it. There's only the
one in the area tho? I would have thought your area would be large
enough to support a couple.

 HN> from TV, Radio, and the internet
 HN> mostly. For Sports...read baseball,
 HN> I go to a couple of blogs I like
 HN> and the team's website as well.

As well as all kinds of food web sites that'll give you recipes and
ideas. I dropped 3 sewing magazines (a machine embroidey, a quilting and
an all around fine handwork--but it dealt with a lot of areas I wasn't
interested in) this past year. Renewed "Cooking Light" and subscribed to
"Cooks Illustrated" but dropped Food Network magazine. Every time I went
to Fresh Market, I'd buy a CI; decided to subscribe so I'd get it more
regularly.

->  hn> Currently I have two that I am
->  hn> reading when the mood strikes.
->  hn> I'm re reading Tinker Tailor, Soldier
->  hn> Spy again, and a book on color theory

-> I've not read TTSS--any good? I downloaded the last Jean Auel book,
-> might do a couple of Ken Follette ones. Browsing thru Target, found out
-> that Nicholas Sparks set a story in Swansboro so might pick that one up.
-> Current book is the 18th edition of Emily Post

 HN> VERY good! But I like John Le Carre's books
 HN> quiet a bit as well as Helen Macinnes and
 HN> a few others...I like spy novels.

I like a good action one--used to read Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan ones as
soon as they came out in paperback but haven't read any since leaving
HI. Too many other irons in the fire.

->  hn> in watercolors.

-> Color theory sounds interesting. I've read a bit on it as relates to
-> quilts. Most of the time I go with what looks good together--and it
-> works out as I have some knowledge of color theory. I've got the fabrics
-> for a monochromatic Rail Fence quilt to cut out--5 shades of blue
-> ranging from light to dark and, I don't think a solid in them.

 HN> Color theory can be fairly simple and
 HN> straight forward...or very (VERY) complex.
 HN> I'm often over my head in it and am
 HN> working to understand it better.

I like working with color and fabric; that's why I do the creative end
of our machine embrodery work, I quilt, sew, etc.


->  hn> I left home to join the navy and
->  hn> the next duty station came for
->  hn> my folks...most of my "stuff" went
->  hn> into the trash bin.

-> Sort of a lost childhood. I know; I kept a few things of our girls that
-> they did in early school years but couldn't keep all. Most clothes were
-> passed on as they were outgrown; now I wish I'd kept a few more things.
-> But, that old bear of a weight allowance..................

 HN> Precisely. Most of my childhood "things"
 HN> were "passed on" as we moved from duty
 HN> station to duty station over the years.

As were a number of things the girls had that now I wish I'd kept. A
good number of our things went the same way, even moving here after
Steve retired.

->  hn> See even 11 years after we left you
->  hn> only had one station! ( way more than
->  hn> WE had though).

-> Be glad you had the radio--tho it would have been hard to do a cooking
-> demo on the order of Julia Child via radio.

 HN> Oh we were VERY glad to have the
 HN> radio...it was a major social tool
 HN> in those days! A "date" was often
 HN> going over to a girl's apartment and
 HN> sitting around the living room listening
 HN> to radio programs and "studying". There
 HN> were also the Teen club dances on weekends,
 HN> and the rather long bus rides from the main
 HN> base to the various housing areas.

Bringing back memories?

->  hn> Actually she came home feeling pretty
->  hn> good today so we went to one of
->  hn> her favorite places for an late
->  hn> lunch and she had one of her
->  hn> favorite burgers...now we're home

-> Good! We tried a new to us seafood place; best seafood we've had since
-> leaving GA! We will try to make it back there--and it's not in Raleigh
-> either. (G)

 HN> We have good local seafood...Anne
 HN> just does not partake of it! (grin).

We both do, and enjoy it. Well, local to us is trucked in from the
coast, about 150 miles away.

->  hn> and probably will have a very light
->  hn> (if any) dinner and a bit of chocolate.

-> We had clam chowder for supper, with a tossed salad using some greens
-> that needed using.

 HN> Oddly enough, Anne does
 HN> like clam chowder!

Which type? This was the milk based one.

->  hn> I'm retired...they're all saturday nights!
->  hn> (grin)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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