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Skriven 2014-07-29 21:54:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Italian etc 10
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 07-25-14  15:30 <=-

 RH>> that's OK--we got home last Wed. night and I'm still trying to get
 RH>> caught up on Fido. Catching up on other stuff, I tend to let Fido go
 RH>> and catch as catch can for a bit. Things are settling down tho so I'll
 RH>> be back on, on a more regular basis.
 NB>> Catching up is always fun...  ;)

 RH> Except when your fingers and wrists start aching from all the typing.

I didn't specify what kind of "fun"...  ;)  yeah... I'm still trying to
catch up, too... not being helped by still running off periodically for
a couple of days at a time...  ;)

 RH> I did some damage to the nerve to my middle finger when I broke my
 RH> elbow so it lets me know I've done a lot of typing on top of a lot
 RH> of chopping.
 
Yeah, that would let you know...  :)

 RH>> I doubt any sewing was done. I brought some hand work on our trip but
 RH>> didn't touch it.
 NB>> Sometimes there's extra time available, sometimes really not, or no
 NB>> energy left with the little bit of time...  :)

 RH> And poor lighting compared to what you're used to.

I have better lighting at the Pond usually than what I have at home...
and often also better lighting (outside, anyway) when away at my
family's camping, so I often bring along something to work on if the
mood takes me...  :)

 RH> Actually, I did start sewing the patches on Dad's sweater while we
 RH> were up there so I did do some sewing. 

Not much, but a bit...  :)

 RH> Sewed down the corners of a quilt for Sarah
 RH> yesterday, just have to add the hanging loops and label.
 
Another project about done, now...  :)

 RH>>> Probably when we get home; it'll be an easy do first night back
 RH>>> supper.
 NB>>> When I get back home, I think we'll be eating at Wegmans as part
 NB>>> of a grocery shopping trip...  (G)
 RH>> We had scrapple & eggs the first night back. Had Chubby's bbq pastrami
 RH>> for lunch; we'd stopped there in May but the pastrami was new to the
 RH>> menu since then.
 NB>> Was the pastrami any good...?   Scrapple and eggs sounds like a nice
 NB>> simple first supper back... :)   As it turned out, we did do a grocery
 NB>> run, and did eat at Wegmans...

 RH> The pastrami was really good! We split a platter, each of us getting
 RH> one of our favorite sides, and got another one to split. Steve got
 RH> baked beans, I got potato salad and we split a cole slaw. Had enough
 RH> pastrami on the platter to give us each about 10 or 12 slices, total
 RH> so some went home with us.
 
Sounds perfectly yummy...

 RH>> Today was humid but not that hot, and wet. I spent several hours
 RH>> making salsa (3 1/2 pints) and had a fan going in the kitchen. All the
 RH>> major stuff (tomatoes, peppers & onions) came from the famer's market.
 NB>> Nice.  :)  We're getting a couple of really nice cool days... high
 NB>> 60s, low 70s for the highs, and the lows dipping into the 50s at
 NB>> night...won't likely last, but it's a welcome break from the heat. :)

 RH> After several major thunderstorms last night, we're in the mid 80s
 RH> today. It'll be hot again next week but nice to have a cooler, less
 RH> humid day.
 
Seems to be a mostly cooler, wetter summer than usual here... with a few
really hot days thrown in to remind us what summer usually is... :)
 
 RH>>> Had supper tonight at Cracker Barrel with our friends; did a
 RH>>> fair amount of catching up but still a lot of gaps to fill in. 
 NB>>> That's the way it is when it's been that long... seems sometimes
 NB>>> like there never will be enough time to fill in all the gaps... :)
 RH>> But now we have each other's e-mails so catch up should be better.
 NB>> One can do some keeping current by email, true... and it might make
 NB>> planning future get-togethers easier as well...  :)

 RH> We'll probably try to get together more often as Bel Air is on the
 RH> route we take coming home from or up to NJ, just off I-95.

And having done it once makes it easier to conceive of doing it again,
after all... :)  One just has to calculate it into the plans...  :)

ttyl        neb

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