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Skriven 2011-04-03 21:31:33 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 9037 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: rosemary 944                                             [2]
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Hi Janis,


 JK> > I've got a singer XL5000. Sometimes I think its brain is smarter
 JK> than > mine. (G)

 JK> hahaha know what you mean there.. :)  I think I went with the Futura
 JK> 350 since it seemed you could import more external designs, but now I
 JK> forget how true that is (g).  Anyway, both are good machines.  I think

I've seen ads for, and in real life (in store) Futuras but never got
into the technical details as I didn't need another empbroidery machine.


 JK> of the 350 as a grown up Athena 2000 :)  Boy did I love that Athena,
 JK> too.  It was something back in it's time.

I was contemplating getting one when my mom offered me her Futura 2. As
it was free, compared to spending lots of money, I went for that. Sewed
with it for 10 years before getting my Pfaff when we went to Germany.
Now I'm learning the ins & outs of a new (Baby Lock) serger.


 JK> > Ask Steve the technical details for what and how the machine works.

 JK> I can see the details online, it also looks like a good machine :)
 JK> the thing that almost made me go for it was the bobbin, since it's
 JK> like the athena's I believe.. but the cost didn't justify that.

It is a nice one; some of the bells & whistles are co- branded features
with Brother machines. It's really neat, while working on an embroidry
project, when the bobbin runs out. The machine will pause the embroidery
work, wind a new bobbin and then go back to embroidering. It also
rewinds the thread when it's done with a color.


 JK> (weddings)

>> I finally told my friend, 'go ahead ... set it up'   thinking she'd
>> give up on it haha.. well, she got all
>> the paper work, appointments and such  for us organized, set up etc.
>> etc.. and that was it. :)

 JK> > We sort of were getting to the same conclusion. Then Steve moved to
 JK> NC > just before my senior year of college (Houghton) and I went down
 JK> for
 JK> > Thanksgiving break. He officially proposed the night before, then
 JK> took > me out for seafood. Since it was to be the first wedding in my
 JK> family, > we did the planning--keeping it reasonable but still an
 JK> "event".  We had > a few minor glitches but nothing too great, leading
 JK> up to the ceremony > but all went well there. The deli my younger
 JK> brother worked for catered > it, with the cake made by one of my high
 JK> school classmate's mom.

 JK> That's neat :)

And we've been married for 35 years, 6 months and some odd days now.
Some even days as well. (G)

 JK> > We
 JK> > wrecked the car on our honeymoon but that's another story.

 JK> Ouch.. that sounds bad :(  Is that where your wrists were broken? :(

No, I did that when we were in Berlin, back in 1992. The only thing hurt
was the car, a Pinto. We had it all loaded with wedding presents,
heading from NY to NC and nothing was broken.

 JK> My friends made the wedding cake.. nothing monsterously fancy, but
 JK> beautiful non-the less, and delicous.. It was a garden Wedding, on my
 JK> parents 4 acre lot in Warwick (which was right in the village of
 JK> Warwick).  My mom snuck notice to all our relatives in Scranton, so
 JK> everytone was there, though we'd initially planned a very small
 JK> affair.. I laughed at that when I saw their cars pull up "Oh, you've
 JK> having a wedding this weekend?  We just thought we come by for a visit
 JK> today" LOL  All worked out fine in the end though, and it was great
 JK> having everyone there after all :)

Sounds neat. Don't you know there's no such thing as a small Italian
wedding tho? (G) Ours ended up being rather small because a lot of
family (on both sides) couldn't attend.


>>> I have a great recipe for chicken boullion in my Chinese cookbook (not
>>> sure if it's the one I gave you, it's the same author I believe)..
>>> I'll look that one up if you don't have it in that book.

>> > I'll check it out and get back to you on it.

>> Sounds good :)

 JK> > OK, no bullion recipe but a chicken stock one. Looked good but
 JK> called > for boxthorn seeds--something to hunt down.

 JK> Yes, that sounds like the same one in the big cookbook of her's that I
 JK> have.  I skip the boxthorn seeds (g).  It's still a delicious broth
 JK> without them.

OK, it implies that the taste wouldn't be quite the same. I usually make
my stock with onion, celery, carrot, sometimes odds and ends of other
vegetables and, of course, chicken. I'll usually saute the vegetables,
then add the chicken, water and seasonings then let it simmer for a
couple of hours. After that, I'll strain it, debone the chicken and let
the stock boil down more (I like to use my 12 quart pot for it.) until
it's more concentrated. The meat goes into part of it, with other
veggies for soup that day; the rest of the stock is either frozen or put
into the fridge for other things (as needed) over the next few days.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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