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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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Hey Ruth!

-> ->  HN> gonna show up...just because you never know
-> ->  HN> what's going to happen once you're there.
-> 
-> -> As long as you watch out for bears. (G) My folks had their annual (or 
so
-> -> it seems) spring destruction of their bird feeder from the local
-> -> nusiance bear coming out of hibernation. And, I was reading, the
-> -> governor of Vermont had a run in with 4 bears as he was trying to
save
-> -> his bird feeders.
-> 
->  HN> While we were down in San Diego
->  HN> we saw a report of a black bear
->  HN> (and a good sized one too!!) loose
->  HN> in a suburban neighborhood (LA I think)
->  HN> and there was this guy walking along
->  HN> texting on his cellphone...he looks
->  HN> up and all he see's is BEAR!! He
->  HN> beat a hasty retreat!!
-> 
-> I think I would have too. In the case of the VT governor, they think he
-> got between a mama & her babies. The bear that gets my parent's bird
-> feeder I think does it out of hunger plus, I think, to see if he can
-> outsmart their attempts to outsmart him. The latest attempt by my dad to
-> outsmart the bear lasted one spring, last year. This year the bear won,
-> again. He didn't quite knock the pole down that has the feeder on it but
-> knocked it to quite an angle. Two years ago after the bear destroyed it,
-> Dad sank the pole with 240 pounds of concrete so you know it was one
-> strong (and hungry) bear that did it in.
-> 
I should think so! 

-> -> Seriously, I know you have to plan prior to shooting photos; I 
remember
-> -> all the work my dad would do to set up just to get a (pre) Christmas
-> -> picture of us kids. One time when we were supposed to say "cheese",
my
-> -> sister below me said "spaghetti" and he got her right in the middle
of
-> -> the "P" pucker on the test shot. He was not happy.
->  HN> ->
->  HN> There are tricks to getting good
->  HN> portraits, and planning is one
->  HN> of them. Nothing worse than
->  HN> standing around while the photog
->  HN> tries to figure out what the next
->  HN> shot will be! Old shooters saying:
->  HN> "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail".
-> 
-> That's something Steve quoted quite a few times once he hit senior NCO
-> status too, expecially when he was serving as a First Sergeant. (G) Dad
-> always wanted to do the test shot which took time, making us more
-> "testy" but we had to go along with it. He started doing the annual
-> photo the year my older brother was born; the last one he took was the
-> year before Steve and I got married.
->
I put out a Christmas photo for
many years, but when Amanda grew up
and went off to college it was not 
as much fun anymore...we still do it
but it's not as much of a "big deal" as
it used to be!
 
-> ->  HN> and so far we have not even gone by the soft
-> ->  HN> drinks.
-> 
-> -> Tried others? I'd probably go for juice or something of that sort.
-> 
->  HN> Never did try a carbonated drink
->  HN> at the hotel, I did have a couple of
->  HN> gin bloody mary's during the course
->  HN> of the week, and Anne had a tropical
->  HN> fruit rum punch. The bloody mary was
->  HN> quite well made for a "manager's
->  HN> reception" sort of bar. Some tried
->  HN> to slurp up the freebie's from 5:30
->  HN> when it started till 7:30 when the
->  HN> shutters got closed...one was enough
->  HN> for Anne and I.
->  HN> I did have a double scotch one night
->  HN> though.
-> 
-> I'd have gone for the fruit punch without the rum, especially if it had
-> fresh fruit in it.
->
You'd have been disappointed! The tropical
fruit rum punch was premixed with the juice
and the rum already combined...they just had a
big dispenser for it.
 
-> -> -> bear (self explanitory) and black bear for molasses.
-> 
->  HN> The only molasses I've ever had was
->  HN> from Sorghum..I've had it from a lighter
->  HN> color than honey to a thick dark strongly
->  HN> flavored molasses.
-> 
-> We mostly use regular molasses; tried some unsulphered once and that was
-> enough. (G)
->
I like molasses...sort of a comfort
food for me.
 
-> ->  HN> Gosh, I don't know for sure...I've
-> ->  HN> been here so long I'm pretty sure
-> ->  HN> each one has been mentioned more
-> 
-> -> By now you have probably read the note I wrote to Michael last night,
-> -> describing the Korean place we went to. First time visit for us but
-> -> hopefully not the last time; it was good food!
-> 
->  HN> Have not seen it, but I've been skimming
->  HN> the echo as things are a bit busy these
->  HN> days.
-> 
-> In a nutshell--most authentic according to a Korean classmate of mine.
-> Steve concurred and we do plan to go back. Started with 9 different
-> small sides put down, as we were eating, a 10th was added and a couple
-> were replenished. Didn't go away hungry.
->
I took Michael to one of my favorites
on one of his visits here...I think we
were the only non Koreans in the place!
I love all the little "condiment" dishes
they put out, I have no idea what they are
but they sure are fun to eat!
 
-> ->  HN> than once. At this point I'm pretty
-> ->  HN> sure I've been in the cooking echo
-> ->  HN> longer than anyone else here.
-> 
-> -> I came on about the end of January, 1994. Michael & Dale were on
-> -> already; I think xxCarol came on not too long after, or maybe just
-> -> before, I did. We'd been in AZ about a year so Fido has moved with me
-> -> from AZ to HI to GA to NC to ?? next.
-> 
->  HN> I joined in the mid 80's when the
->  HN> original moderator was still running
->  HN> the echo. Rich something was his name
->  HN> and he lived in the Denver area. Went
->  HN> through several other mods before
->  HN> Joann in Portland was in charge.
->  HN> Went to our first Echo Picnic there
->  HN> and met Dale and Gail for the first
->  HN> time. Honestly cannot remember who
->  HN> else was there for that one!
-> 
-> So you are indeed, one of the old timers. (G)
-> 
If I'm remembering right the first mod
was Rich Harper who lived in Denver. I 
think Tia Darrow followed his moderatorship
then several others before Joanne Pierce 
came on the scene.
chat with you soon!
ha
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