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Skriven 2012-04-23 15:43:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 23952 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: oddities 163
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Hi Ruth,

->  RH> Not if I want to sit down to eat, no. ;-)

-> So take the bowl of ice cream into the living room & enjoy it there
-> while watching the Mets. (G)

 RH> It's a thought, but the TV's in the den. (G)

OK, then take your mango sorbet to the den to watch the Mets. We have
our tv in the living room; grew up with it that way (and my parents
still have it there) after we got a set. I was in 4th grade, only got
one channel, then Dad tweaked the antenna set up & we got another one.
My freshman year of college they not only hooked into a cable system
that gave them a lot of NYC channels, they also got a color set.

-> have much time to come home to get a bite between classes. Sometimes he
-> takes a tin of sardines and some bread or crackers. He eats them
-> outside, weather permitting. A couple of times it wasn't so he got
-> comments about the smell of the fish in the classroom.

 RH> Sardines will do that.  I don't think I've eaten one in years.

I'm not enthusiastic about them but he likes them so I put up with the
smell. He usually buys the ones in mustard or tomato sauce, then adds
some hot sauce to that.

->  RH> I like it, but the store made ones aren't that great.  On the other
->  RH> hand I couldn't have bought the pecans for what I paid for three
 RH> pies.

-> I know what you mean; time is money too and there have been times I've
-> had to go the "cheater" route myself. Next week end I've got class

 RH> The pies were marked down to 41 cents each for an 8-inch pie.

Can't beat that with a stick!

-> co-ordinator is talking about having a pot luck so we'll do something
-> quick & easy. Maybe have Steve brown up some (home) ground beef with
-> onions, mushrooms & peppers, add some jarred spaghetti sauce and a
-> package of cooked pasta of some sort. Pour into a deep disposable pan,
-> grate some cheese on the top & bake for abotu half an hour. The baking

 RH> And it's something they'll eat.  Fancy Indian food or something would
 RH> be a crapshoot.

The've made short work of my lasagnes before. Plans changed; softball
practice will conflict with our meal time so we'll just do
accountability & scatter. We may get together with another couple & go
out to eat tho.


->  RH> ...or not, if a mouse has found his way into it before you got
 RH> there.
 RH> ->
-> The mouse would have some climbing to do to get to our baking powder. We
-> keep it on a shelf in an upper cabinet in the kitchen. Even if we kept

 RH> Never stopped one yet; I've found them climbing my curtains before and
 RH> had them in the rafters.

The ones we've had stayed at floor level--made it easy for them to run
into the snap traps.

-> it in the pantry a mouse would have to climb a ways to get it; it would
-> probably be on an upper shelf.

 RH> Meaning the mouse would probably go for an easier score.

Seeing that the only food we keep on the floor is (home) canned goods,
the mouse would starve here. Probably give up and go over to another
house.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Get shopping while the gettin' is good!!!

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