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Skriven 2011-02-14 09:58:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Prep work
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 02-12-11  22:41 <=-

 NB>> thought about the ramifications of a flat roof...  Apparently there
 NB>> were other factors in their minds about the property... price,
 NB>> maybe... or maybe availability... ;)  Let's hope there was a lesson
 NB>> learned (and hopefully also the RIGHT lesson... [G]) here...  :)

 RH> I strongly suspect price was a big factor in the decision making. How
 RH> much house could they get for their money? At the time they bought it,
 RH> he was working too but they had several of his kids from his first
 RH> wife living with them. Now they're all gone but this house was probably
 RH> a good bit paid off and beat trying to find another one.

And since they'd not had an inkling of any problems with the roof, yet,
that didn't enter into the thought process now...

 NB>> Building, rebuilding... both very similar...  :)  I got to watch
 NB>> various remodeling jobs happen next door to us, and then we had all

 RH> Including a kitchen? From all the places we've lived, I could fit

Including a kitchen.  I even went with her for some of her shopping
expeditions, like looking for the right floor tiles...  :)  

 RH> Including a kitchen? From all the places we've lived, I could fit
 RH> together bits and pieces of most to make a decent kitchen. Let's
 RH> see--the slide outs in the pantry and the space of the Berlin kitchen,
 RH> the storage of the one in AZ.....................

Of course, you'd need a large enough space to begin with... and a
workable configuration of that existing space as to windows, doors and
walls... ;)  Unless you were building new, and could design it all from
the bottom up... :)

 NB>> the fun of having a part of our attic rebuilt after the attic
 NB>> fire...  ;)  Along with all the remodeling necessary to repair
 NB>> the water damage below the attic...

 RH> That was probably not a job you would want to repeat.

No, once was certainly enough.  :)   But the house is in better shape
now than when we bought it...  [g]

 RH>> stash left overs. I'm thinking of making chicken long rice--basically
 RH>> stewed chicken with bean thread noodles, cooked with a bit of
 RH>> ginger--but haven't decided for sure yet.
 NB>> Ah...  Freezer choreography...  [g]  That chicken sounds good.  :)  I
 NB>> have some leftover chicken and rice in the fridge that will be turned
 NB>> into congee either today or tomorrow... :)

 RH> We ended up going out for supper tonight. Had to run over to Harris
 RH> Teeter for a few things, it was getting late & we'd been in the
 RH> kitchen all afternoon cooking for the Life Group--baked ziti & a
 RH> trifle. I did the first, Steve the 2nd. Ended up trying a new to us
 RH> Italian place that was pretty good--worth a trip back.  The chicken was
 RH> cooked but will be eaten next week.

And did you make the chicken long rice, or something more basic?  ;)  My
congee was made and eaten... yum, yum and gone!  ;)

ttyl      neb

... Despite of the cost of living, it remains popular!

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