Text 17175, 117 rader
Skriven 2014-09-19 20:44:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: exactitude 702
==========================
-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-18-14  15:57 <=-

 RH>> Sometimes small, sometimes major. I've been hit with what a
 RH>> lot of people would consider major, but to me, they're minor
 RH>> compared to what others I know are going thru.
 NB>> All depends on one's perspective, after all...

 RH> Yes, and knowing I've not been hit with a number of things, I think
 RH> I'm doing pretty well, overall.

Focusing on what one has been spared, rather than what one's been
through, is probably a healthier outlook...

 RH>> Most likely cooked in much smaller quantities than a place like
 RH>> Strong would have. I doubt there's any sort of chef, more likely
 RH>> a kitchen crew of local folks cooking. Probably following standard
 RH>> recipies, without much, if any, creative enhancements.
 NB>> You could put that master chef in quotes... I suspect there's,
 NB>> usually at least, one person heading the crew...  :)

 RH> Head cook, who probably follows recipies like a robot. Last time Dad
 RH> was in, Don said he thought the meatloaf was good but not much else.
 RH> As he (Don) said, "we all know Dad's tastes" so I guess the meatloaf
 RH> wasn't that great in reality.

Sounds like, except for the presentation, there's not much to choose
between the large or the small kitchens... ;)  And maybe Strong (or the
other big hospitals around here) would do better, as they might put just
a little more effort into it...  :)

 NB>> At 3 I was probably fetching diapers already... at 5 or so I
 NB>> brought my 3yo sister with me to kindergarten one day... walking
 NB>> the half-mile or so with her in tow...  :) 

 RH> Your parents probably "freaked out" over that. This day & age, they'd
 RH> have thought little sister had been abducted by a stranger, not going
 RH> to school with big sister.

No... it was a planned event, and Mommy knew I was taking her with me...
That just left two smaller children home that day... but I still had to
do it alone, as usual... just with Jessie in tow as well...  :)  Daddy
was already gone to teach at the college, I'm sure...  :)
 
 NB>> I was probably changing diapers by then, or at least a year or two
 NB>> later at the latest...  My sister was 4 when she started (on her
 NB>> own initiative) to bring Mommy and Daddy their morning coffee
 NB>> every morning before they got out of bed...  She was the one that
 NB>> took more to the household tasks, too...  ;)

 RH> Is she the farmer's wife now? We weren't allowed any "on our own"
 RH> cooking; it had to be for family or a school event (class bake sale or
 RH> whatever). 

No, this is yet another sister...  ;)  (There's 6 girls in the family,
so five sisters to choose from... [g])  The coffeemaker had been set on
timer to come on in the morning, and it had been Daddy's morning "job"
to get the coffee for Mommy and him for wake-up...  I think Lesesne
poured the coffee, added milk, maybe the sugar too, and grabbed a few
cookies (maybe graham crackers) to go with it, as was the usual practice
when Daddy did it...  :)

 RH> Mom always did almost everything until she started working
 RH> but by then we my next younger sister and I could do some things. It
 RH> wasn't until she moved into the library and started to got to school
 RH> part time that I really moved into the kitchen. Can't say that I
 RH> enjoyed that (or housework--neccessary "evils") but I got to be an OK
 RH> cook (better than either of my sisters) before I left home.

Daddy sometimes helped in the kitchen, sometimes we had "help" come in
to give Mommy a hand for all the housework, but from a fairly early age
we kids were encouraged to do whatever was within our capability.  I
don't really know when I started helping in the kitchen... simple stuff
probably from age 7 or 8 or so...  I think I've mentioned before that I
cooked everything, for all 3 meals, for my 12th birthday... Planned the
menus myself, got Daddy to take me shopping for the special stuff we
didn't have already in the house, and did quite a bit of semi-fancy
stuff (from the Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, mostly)... By
then, helping with the cooking was already one of my regular (rotated)
chores...  ;)  Along with dishes, and various forms of housework...
 
 RH>> Yes, it was good but I'm realising my freezer is getting quite
 RH>> depleted. Don't know if I should do some stock up cooking or just
 RH>> work on emptying it out, filling empty spaces with water jugs.
 NB>> Maybe some of each...  ;)   Has Steve had any responses yet from
 NB>> sending out resumes...?  Or hasn't he sent any out quite yet...?

 RH> He's not sent any out yet. I'm going to wait on the freezer stock
 RH> up a bit more tho.

You just never know...  I suppose if you saw some sales too good to pass
up, the freezer would get more stocked sooner than later...  ;)

 NB>>> Any report yet on how things actually going with Bill?
 RH>> Things are going slow; he's in for quite an extensive rehab
 RH>> because of his neglect of major health issues for the last who
 RH>> knows how many years.
 NB>> Not at all surprising, after all...  I passed that along for prayers
 NB>> Sunday... I know there are a number of people at church that are
 NB>> faithfully praying for him and for Don as well... :)

 RH> We do appreciate it. I think my brothers would go "yeah, whatever; if
 RH> it makes you feel better" (but they don't know that it does---G---).

Maybe one of these days, they'll catch on...  :)  We can pray for that,
too...  ;)

 RH> We're thinking of heading south in a bit to see for ourselves what
 RH> needs doing and also visit Steve's folks.

Very good idea... :)   Especially now that Steve can drive again... and
school isn't an issue...  :)

ttyl        neb

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)