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Skriven 2014-03-25 23:19:21 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11285 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: Italian etc 10
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 23 Mar 14  20:50:52 <=-

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

My sister helps my mom with hers, but so far Mommy has to sign all her
checks... hasn't put anyone else on the account with her, and doesn't do
financial things online at all.
 
 RH>> We've dealt primarily with a credit union here in NC since 1980--
 RH>> talked about changing it when we got to our first duty station but
 RH>> 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
 RH>> well 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...  :)

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

That can help too... but bank practices in general tend to be less user
friendly... at least here...  I used to have all my accounts in banks,
and was quite friendly with the branch people, but it didn't help when
the rules started getting prohibitive...  On the other hand, the bank
where the Pond association has its account is just about as good as our
credit union here in town... at least as long as I'm doing business in
the Hermon branch, where the account was actually started...  :)
 
 RH>> As of earlier this afternoon, still spinning our wheels. DMV has
 RH>> the paperwork; we're waiting for them to act on it.
 NB>> Eventually....

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

At least it's only Semi glacial...  ;)

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

 RH> Yes, it beat having nothing. Helped to have friends with young kids
 RH> who loaned us toys and a bouncer for Jaxon.
 
I'm sure that did help!  :)

 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. :)

 RH> The smoker is on the front porch--easy access and covered.
 
Ah... that works... :)
 
 NB>> Corned beef, cabbage, little red potatoes, baby
 NB>> carrots, onions... and Irish soda bread to accompany... 

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

The soda bread was one of the tasting items at Wegmans the Friday
before... I usually look for the Irish potato bread at the season, we
got this instead...  :)   No leftover cabbage except for what was cooked
up in the dinner, so it all got eaten with...  I got just half a
relatively small head of cabbage, just enough for the pot..  :)

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

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

Some things can cook themselves practically, others need to be better
monitored... ;)

ttyl        neb

... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace.
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