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Skriven 2013-01-28 19:59:42 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 33079 av Nancy Backus (63255.cooking)
Ärende: Mincemeat
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> and the third moved to be with family in Arkansas... so now my
 NB>  NB>> calendar isn't filled with their appointments and needs...

 RH> Nice to have an empty calendar, isn't it?

 NB> EmptiER, anyway...  ;)  Last week and this, I seem to have something
 NB> happening each day... mostly my appointments, but one is for my mom.

Steve and I both see our primary care doctor tomorrow. We'll take
advantage of beingg in Raleigh to do some other shopping as well. Don't
know if he will want to go to Comp USA or not but plan to go to Whole
Foods, maybe Jo-Ann's, the halel butcher shop part of the Middle Eastern
store.................  Other than that, I might go out one day with a
friend who wants to get spices and maybe get together with her & her
husband for supper & a movie later this week. Pretty quiet week so
far--I hemmed a pair of slacks for Steve today. They're a dark
navy/black and had brown buttons on them that I changed out for black.


 RH> After I finished school
 RH> here, I thought I'd have a lot of extra time to catch up on projects.
 RH> Not so; it seems there's always something going on to take my time away
 RH> from what I should be doing.

 NB> Yup... that's the way it happens...  :)

And always a lot to do before you can get going on anything.


 RH> I'm taking a break from basting waste
 RH> canvas on a Double wedding Ring quilt--some of the inner circles will
 RH> have things like our initials, wedding date, etc stitched in them. The
 RH> waste canvas lets me do a neater job of the stitching.

 NB> That sounds like a nice project.  :)

A keep me warm one! I've got everything but the cross with intertwined
rings charted out now so will probably start stitching tomorrow. After I
get that done, I'll sew the binding on (have to finish that by hand) so
it'll keep me busy for a while.


 RH> seemed like there were a lot of Chinese places in Sierra Vista. When we
 RH> went back there earlier this month, it appeared some had closed. I
 RH> guess they were all similar enough that some had to give way so others
 RH> could make a profit.

 NB> Maybe the clientele population dropped... or maybe some of the owners
 NB> decided they'd had enough of the business.  One of the little Chinese
 NB> hole-in-the-wall places I sometimes do lunch with a friend at, the
 NB> owners decided to retire, turned the place over to someone else.  Then
 NB> a little while later, checking out a different place, lo and behold
 NB> there they were again.  They turned that one over after a while... and
 NB> the
 NB> next thing I knew, they'd gone back to the original location... where
 NB> they still are.  :)


Sounds like they had some interesting experiences along the way. Have
you ever talked with them about the restaurant hopping? Was it an all in
the family type thing or were the other places not owned by this family?


 RH> Tonight would be good to have the oven going for baking a pie (tho the
 RH> raisin pie is almost all non bake). We've had snow, sleet & freezeing
 RH> rain since late morning; I did have the oven going to roast some
 RH> butternut squash and beets.

 NB> That's nasty weather for sure!  I'll take single digits and light snow
 NB> over that hands down... [G]  I've been doing a few more oven-prepared
 NB> things lately, too...  :)

I made a meat loaf for supper tonight, baked a couple of sweet potatoes
for Steve at the same time. It was just cool enough in the house that
running the oven warmed up the kitchen nicely.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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