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Skriven 2012-12-23 20:38:51 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

->  RH> I think we like Steve. Sounds like you ought to keep him around for

-> Kept him for 37 years and 3 months so far, will keep him longer as it
-> would take too much time & effort to train up a replacement.

 RH> That's what I was thinking.  The younger models take a lot of breaking
 RH> in too, and that's more trouble than it's worth.

At this stage of the game I don't want to even think about anything like
that.

->  RH> of shortbread after dinner.  I still have to get the Stollen done,
 RH> but
->  RH> that's an all-day job.  There's a reason Germans get theirs in
->  RH> bakeries.

-> I passed by (sigh) the stollen this year. Going to have to do that with
-> a lot of the goodies but got to keep that blood sugar in control.

 RH> (sigh)  I got the stollen done, and even the Zimtsternen. The prefab
 RH> almond flour wasn't all it was cracked up to be though.

IOW, should have ground your own. We looked at stollen but left it in
the store.

->  RH> It would make a great place for the long arm, as long as we're
->  RH> dreaming.

-> Might just as well get it. I'd have to seriously add lighting to the
-> barn, probably a combination of windows and electric lights.

 RH> I'd skip the skylights though; they leak and who wants to get on the
 RH> barn roof to do maintenance.

Don't want my fabric stash to spoil while it's aging.

->  RH> And the buy-in around here.  And the reno.  And....

-> ............taxes, the killer.

 RH> If you could afford the full reno and the purchase price, the taxes
 RH> wouldn't
 RH> sound too bad.  That's why it's a pipe dream for me.

It's a pipe dream for us too. I'd settle for a place that has a good
sized kitchen and a room I can make into a bigger sewing area than what
I've got right now. Both rooms have to have a lot of storage of the
appropriate type.

->  RH> Mom put a baby picture of my niece in an old 60s frame.  Every time
 RH> I
->  RH> look at it I do a double-take because it looks like a new photo of
 RH> my
->  RH> sister at the same age.
 RH> ->
-> Not surprising, I slipped a picture of me in with a stack of baby ones
-> of Deborah years ago and gave it to a friend to look at. She was
-> wondering why the b&w in with the color photos until she looked a 2nd
-> time.

 RH> The funny part is my niece also looks a fair bit like me.

Well, she does have half of the genes from your family, probably a fair
number of the same ones you have, so she should look somewhat like you.

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


... I am positive that a definite maybe is probably in order.

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