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Skriven 2014-03-26 21:26:41 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11360 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Italian etc 10
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Hi Nancy,

 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.

 NB> My sister helps my mom with hers, but so far Mommy has to sign all her
 NB> checks... hasn't put anyone else on the account with her, and doesn't
 NB> do financial things online at all.

My dad still signs the checks but I think my brother can also, using his
POA.

 NB> are... and what will work, given which scenarios...  :)  NB>> We've
 NB> found that when available, a credit union is far superior to  NB>>
 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.

 NB> That can help too... but bank practices in general tend to be less
 NB> user friendly... at least here...  I used to have all my accounts in
 NB> banks,
 NB> and was quite friendly with the branch people, but it didn't help when
 NB> the rules started getting prohibitive...  On the other hand, the bank
 NB> where the Pond association has its account is just about as good as
 NB> our credit union here in town... at least as long as I'm doing
 NB> business in
 NB> the Hermon branch, where the account was actually started...  :)

We had help from a branch bank once--but Steve had known the teller that
helped him so that might have been why we had the extra help.

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

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

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

Hawaii was 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)

 NB> Nice.   :)

And yummy! Steve walked out to Lowe's today but forgot to get one thing
on the list. He did get one thing not on it tho.

 NB>  RH>> Sunday thru yesterday were cold, rainy, icy, etc so we did more
 NB> indoor  RH>> things, including having a lot of kid friendly DVDs on
 NB> the tv. Steve  NB>> At least you had things you could do inside, so
 NB> 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.

 NB> I'm sure that did help!  :)

Very much! Logan tore up the cardboard box the blocks were in so N said
"any bag" would do to put them in. I made a bag out of denim, with
blocks appliqued on, for a replacement.


 NB>  RH>> did get both a pork shoulder and a corned beef smoked (former
 NB> turned  RH>> into kalua pork, latter, pastrami) even tho the weather
 NB> was bad.
 NB>  NB>> Not bad enough to keep him from getting the smoker going, at
 NB> least. :)

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

 NB> Ah... that works... :)

Especially nice in bad weather.

 NB>  NB>> Corned beef, cabbage, little red potatoes, baby
 NB>  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.

 NB> The soda bread was one of the tasting items at Wegmans the Friday
 NB> before... I usually look for the Irish potato bread at the season, we

OK, I've made soda bread before.

 NB> got this instead...  :)   No leftover cabbage except for what was
 NB> cooked up in the dinner, so it all got eaten with...  I got just half
 NB> a
 NB> relatively small head of cabbage, just enough for the pot..  :)

I tried to get a small head but couldn't so made some of the extra into
cole slaw today. The rest might go into hot slaw.

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

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

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

Yes, and the ones that need to be monitored, really need the watching.
It's easy to take your eye off them for a split second and ruin whatever
is being made (speaking from experience).

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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