Text 33199, 83 rader
Skriven 2013-01-31 11:27:00 av Nancy Backus (63380.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 33150 av RUTH HAFFLY (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: Mincemeat
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 01-28-13  19:59 <=-

 NB>>> and the third moved to be with family in Arkansas... so now my
 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.

 RH> Steve and I both see our primary care doctor tomorrow. We'll take
 RH> advantage of beingg in Raleigh to do some other shopping as well.
 RH> Don't know if he will want to go to Comp USA or not but plan to go to
 RH> Whole Foods, maybe Jo-Ann's, the halel butcher shop part of the Middle
 RH> Eastern store................. 

That makes sense.  You can get stuff that normally would be a major
trip, as part of a necessary trip... :)

 RH> Other than that, I might go out one day
 RH> with a friend who wants to get spices and maybe get together with her &
 RH> her husband for supper & a movie later this week. Pretty quiet week so
 RH> far--I hemmed a pair of slacks for Steve today. They're a dark
 RH> navy/black and had brown buttons on them that I changed out for black.
 
So far Feb looks pretty quiet for me, though I do plan to schedule lunch
dates with friends... I've managed to get caught up with Fido, and to
pretty much stay caught up, which is nice... :)
 
 RH>> I'm taking a break from basting waste canvas on a Double wedding
 RH>> Ring quilt--some of the inner circles will have things like our
 RH>> initials, wedding date, etc stitched in them. The waste canvas
 RH>> lets me do a neater job of the stitching.
 NB>> That sounds like a nice project.  :)

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

I guess.  :)  Hopefully you'll get it done before you won't want a keep
you warm project any more...  ;) 
 
 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 next thing I knew, they'd gone back to the original location...
 NB>> where they still are.  :)

 RH> Sounds like they had some interesting experiences along the way. Have
 RH> you ever talked with them about the restaurant hopping? Was it an all
 RH> in the family type thing or were the other places not owned by this
 RH> family? 
 
I asked her about it when I found her at the second location... She and
her husband (the cook) had gotten wearied at their original location,
and I think she said that they sold that one to non-family... And then,
after a while, they decided that they missed the business after all, and
the location at the second place opened up, so they jumped at it.  They
may have had some sort of partnership at the second place, and left it
to them.  When they moved back to the original location, it was a family
thing, with the son also involved... I think that the people they sold
that one to got tired of it, and just sold it back to them.  There was a
"letter to our customers" posted in the vestibule of the restaurant
after they moved back telling how happy they were to be back where
people looked for them, or something like that...  Really good food, and
very pleasant people...  That's where one friend of mine and I always go
for lunch when we have our lunch dates...

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

One of the nice things about winter... enjoying the heat of the oven. :) 

ttyl         neb

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