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Skriven 2011-02-28 12:27:32 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: family
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Aloha Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> 15 years after Anne, along came
-> ->  hn> the youngest sister (who lives out
-> 
-> -> That's a help in explaining things. Understanding them, not neccessarily
-> -> but I get a clearer picture of how the situation developed/stands now.
-> 
->  hn> He has other "issues" as well, a back injury
->  hn> (Service related) that he didn't get  taken
->  hn> care of ...for years and years..until it made
->  hn> it impossible for him to do anything else, THEN
->  hn> he went to the VA to get it taken care of.
->  hn> Way too late to "fix" it so now he's semi
->  hn> mobile. and still an idiot.
-> 
-> Can't help the former; the latter doesn't sound too great either. (G)
-> 
He's so set in his ways that I don't think
anyone can help him anymore...he's just
gonna have to learn the hard way.

-> ->  hn> here in WA as well). So Brother
-> ->  hn> was the youngest for a long time.
-> 
-> -> I suspect older sisters did so gladly at first but then he took
-> -> advantage of the situation & woudn't let them quit when they got older 
&
-> -> wiser. Just speculation on my part tho.
-> 
->  hn> Both Anne and her older sister pretty
->  hn> much saw through him from the beginning.
->  hn> When the youngest sister came along...
->  hn> well you can guess that scenario!
-> 
-> Sigh!
->
yup exactly.
-> 
-> ->  hn> My grandparents had a HUGE garden...Probably most of a
-> 
-> -> Lots of good eating in the winter too. My dad put in a couple of good
-> -> sized gardens but not as big as your grandfather's. Mom did a lot of
-> -> canning when we were young, then got a freezer while I was in college.
-> 
->  hn> Grandfather had a great big farm and lots of room,
->  hn> and lots of kids to both help in the garden and
->  hn> put up the harvest.  I can remember weeding
->  hn> in the garden as a little kid.
-> 
-> I did plenty of that too. There were 5 of us kids at home and weeding
-> was expected of all of us at some stage of out growing up. For years
-> after the last one left home, Dad would still put in all the garden he
-> did when all the kids were home. He pretty much stopped doing that 4
-> years ago when he had the first of some major health issues. He got a
-> bit of a garden in the next year, then only some container gardening
-> last year. Don't know what plans he has for this year; I suspect just
-> more of the container type gardening. He wrote that he's going to get
-> rid of most all of the glass canning jars as part of the "flood" clean
-> up. It's not worth my while to have any shipped here; I can get them
-> brand new, cheaper.
-> 
Yep, unless some of those old jars are 
of the collectible variety! I'm sure they
can find someone locally up there who'd
really have a use for them.

-> ->  keep us kids out...we had a tendency hn>  to knock over a shelf now 
and
-> ->  then...
-> 
-> -> And all those hours of hot, hard work concentrated into now broken 
jars.
-> 
->  hn> and whuppins...we got plenty of whuppins
->  hn> for that as well!
-> 
-> No surprise there. (G)
->
Nope, we were a pretty wild bunch
when there was more than two of
us together! 
 
-> ->  hn> If they have Gmail (it's free) and can get a
-> ->  hn> webcam (I think the one I got for Anne cost
-> ->  hn> about $40) they are in like Flynn! Even if you
-> ->  hn> don't have a webcam you can live chat..and
-> 
-> -> I'm not sure what they have, what they can afford.
-> 
->  hn> Might be a good gift from David and
->  hn> the family!
-> 
-> Quite possible; I might suggest it to Rachel.
->
I'm thinking of it for my mom as well...
 
-> ->  hn> we give each other gifts and things
-> ->  hn> all year long (grin)..
-> 
-> -> We do too but there's a CVS on Steve's route to/from school. I needed
-> -> him to drop a perscription off anyway so......
-> 
->  hn> Chocolate is always acceptable!
-> 
-> Helps me breath better too.
->
If that's your story stick to it! (Grin)

chat with you soon!
hap 
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