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Skriven 2014-03-23 20:50:52 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11228 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Italian etc 10
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> Understandable, some people are more comfortable with doing it with
 RH> paper and others with electrons. Choose whichever method you feel
 RH> better about and be glad there is an alternative, should you decide
 RH> to try it.

 NB> In a more general way, I have found that to be a good thing... at one
 NB> point when helping my neighbor, before she added me to her bank
 NB> account as a signatory, she was totally incapable for a couple of
 NB> months to do
 NB> anything with her finances...  her daughter being very online savvy,
 NB> and me knowing what needed to be done, the two of us took care of
 NB> things
 NB> online until Gwen was able to sign her checks again... Shortly before,
 NB> in an effort to get some old bank statements for her, the bank officer
 NB> had set up an online account, just to retreive those... we'd never
 NB> planned to use that afterwards, but, providentially, it was already in
 NB> place so that we could....  :)

My dad was doing a combination of both. He took over from Mom when he
saw she was having trouble but now my brother is doing most of the
banking work for him.

 NB> (credit union,  NB>> actually) is fine with it.  Last year, I called
 NB> them before we tried  NB>> setting it up, just to make sure that it
 NB> wouldn't be an issue...  :)

 RH> We've dealt primarily with a credit union here in NC since
 RH> 1980--talked about changing it when we got to our first duty station
 RH> but never did. The PX does have a bank connected with it; I was trying
 RH> to use that one instead of the one not associated with the store,
 RH> which, in hindsight, might have been more co-operative. But, all's well
 RH> that ends well--I was able to get it taken care of--eventually.

 NB> Good thing... :)  Hard sometimes in some situations to know what the
 NB> best options are... and what will work, given which scenarios...  :)
 NB> We've found that when available, a credit union is far superior to
 NB> most commercial banks...  :)

Depends--we've had accounts in both. Depends on the branch sometimes
too, helps to know the people there.

 NB> probably visit  RH>> our friends in central PA, then head up to NY.
 NB>  NB>> We'll hope he gets that driving OK soon... :)

 RH> As of earlier this afternoon, still spinning our wheels. DMV has the
 RH> paperwork; we're waiting for them to act on it.

 NB> Eventually....

As Steve said, they move at a semi-glacial pace.

 NB>  NB>> Wednesday we did have quite the storm... I think the most
 NB> snowfall in  NB>> a single storm yet this season... I was laughing,

 RH> Hopefully you were well stocked on groceries and didn't have to go out
 RH> for vitals.

 NB> Since we do our shopping on Friday usually... yes, we were well enough
 NB> stocked... and could just watch the snow accumulate and dig out the
 NB> next day at somewhat leisure..  ;)  Didn't have anywhere to go until
 NB> Friday anyway..  ;)

We're OK for now but will need some basics by the end of the week. The
latest storm system will be gone by then. Yesterday was beautiful--we
walked down to the farmer's market and got spinach, a banana-nut bread
(for Steve), a veggie egg pie piece (for me) and a rhubarb tart (for
me).  The latter 2 were my lunch. (G)


 RH> I know, we had the slow down. Deborah and boys left this morning--
 RH> today the weather is the best since Saturday, warm and sunny.

 NB> Go figure...  ;)

 RH> Sunday thru yesterday were cold, rainy, icy, etc so we did more indoor
 RH> things, including having a lot of kid friendly DVDs on the tv. Steve

 NB> At least you had things you could do inside, so that you could still
 NB> enjoy their visit...  ;)

Yes, it beat having nothing. Helped to have friends with young kids who
loaned us toys and a bouncer for Jaxon.

 RH> did get both a pork shoulder and a corned beef smoked (former turned
 RH> into kalua pork, latter, pastrami) even tho the weather was bad.

 NB> Not bad enough to keep him from getting the smoker going, at least. :)

The smoker is on the front porch--easy access and covered.


 NB> It is the season to get the corned beef reasonable...  ;)  We bought
 NB> our annual corned beef round, and had it for two meals so far of
 NB> "boiled
 NB> dinner"... (G)  Corned beef, cabbage, little red potatoes, baby
 NB> carrots, onions... and Irish soda bread to accompany...  Today I'm

We did the traditional dinner but no onions or soda bread. Still have a
bit of the beef yet; it'll probably go into sandwiches. Some of the left
over cabbage will go into cole slaw, some as hot slaw.

 NB> turning the
 NB> leftovers into a soup to be served with the bread... even the broth
 NB> turned out pretty tasty... so all I need to do is cut down the meat
 NB> and veggies into smaller chunks...  :)  If we didn't have the rest of
 NB> the
 NB> loaf, I might have made some biscuits to accompany, but that's not
 NB> necessary... need to finish up the bread, too... :)

Yes, we're working on using up some rye bread we got at the market a few
weeks ago (had been frozen). Need to get Steve to grind the next batch
of wheat to make more regular bread.

 NB>  RH>> It was, even tho my alfredo sauce didn't turn out that great.
 NB> I'll  RH>> try it again but not rush the sauce making.
 NB>  NB>> Trickier than it seemed, eh...?   :)

 RH> Not really, I just didn't give it the attention I should have. Kept
 RH> the heat a bit too low so the cheese didn't melt like it should have.
 RH> But, it still tasted good.

 NB> Ah.  That could do it...  :)

Attention to detail, no multi tasking. I'd done it before so knew it was
possible.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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