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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: kitchen  was: exactit
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-27-14  20:15 <=-

 NB>> Well... he was a scientist, so was comfortable in the lab, not that
 NB>> much different from a kitchen after all...  ;)  I'm pretty sure he
 NB>> lived on his own, though, when he was in grad school, and did his
 NB>> own cooking then... :)  and his mom probably did allow him into the
 NB>> kitchen when he was younger... or his maiden aunts taught him
 NB>> cooking... :)  With Granddad off to sea (career Navy) most of the
 NB>> time, Grandmother relied on her family (she was oldest of 8 girls)
 NB>> to help her raise the boys, when she wasn't tootling up and down
 NB>> the coast following "Dad's ship"...

 RH> He was quite well taught then. Surprising, as most males of that
 RH> generation still thought that the kitchen was not the place for them.
 RH> But, his mom's teaching served him well; the years he was on his own
 RH> he could fend for himself quite well.
 
Grandmother was a bit of a modern woman... she had to wait until her dad
died to actually get a paying job, but she was working as a secretary
for the YWCA in NYC when Granddad came home on leave for his sister's
wedding and ended up first eloping with her...  ;)  Apparently they
stole the show at Fanny's wedding, but as his sisters all had worried
about Fred finding a good girl, nobody minded...  ;)  At least that's
how the story goes, told me by Fanny's daughter... ;)

 NB>> Unless one has an independent source of income (pension, etc), the odd
 NB>> jobs supply the food on the table..  ;)   I remember one seminary
 NB>> student that was teaching at the Christian high school where I was...
 NB>> his wife was rather put out that on the forms there was a question,
 NB>> "Will your wife work while you are in school? If not, why not?"  She
 NB>> thought that was a rather presumptuous assumption...

 RH> Quite presumptuous, but considering the intensity of a full time
 RH> seminary course load, they probably figured the husband would not
 RH> work. 

Exactly... both sides of it... ;)

 RH> We know a lot of guys that are married, going thru just a couple
 RH> of courses per semester, so they can work and the wife stay at home
 RH> with the kids. It takes longer that way but well worth it if Mom
 RH> doesn't have to work outside the home. I didn't, because the Post 9/11
 RH> GI Bill had enough benefits that neither of us needed to work to
 RH> suppliment Steve's retirement and VA disability pay.

And, with retirement and disability pay, you had some income coming
in...  I think every family/couple has to work out what's best for them,
both school-wise and income-wise... and family-wise...  The balance may
well be different in each instance, but some balance needs to be set. :)

 NB>> Most memorable for me has to be my 12th birthday fixing all the
 NB>> meals...  I was totally exhausted at the end of the day!  But it
 NB>> was a good exhaustion...  And, I was quite content to go back to
 NB>> just helping with the cooking, and only for a meal at a time... (G)
 NB>> At least for quite a while...   ;)

 RH> A birthday to remember, for sure tho.
 
Absolutely.   :)

 RH>> I ought to grab it next time I'm up and send it to Sarah & Audrey.
 RH>> Sarah is old enough to start using it; she will be 6 in a couple of
 RH>> weeks.
 NB>> Hopefully they will treasure it and use it happily.. :)  Mine got so
 NB>> much use that it's rather battered now... wouldn't pass along too
 NB>> well, unless to someone that could be very gentle with it...  :)

 RH> I'll have to check the condition of mine. Mom used it almost every
 RH> year as Don liked the snow man cake for his January birthday.

I bet that page got a bit messier than the rest of the book..  ;)

 NB>>> You can take some advantage of it just for current meals...  :)
 RH>> I'm going to hold off--too close to the end of the month to be
 RH>> comfortable spending much more money.
 NB>> There is that.  :)

 RH> Also trying to empty out the freezer a bit to facilitate moving it.
 
Now that you know that you are moving... :)  You can refill it once it's
properly moved... :)

 RH>> Thanks, got the word Bill was in a private room because of some sort
 RH>> of infection. Hope it wasn't a MERSA type but wouldn't be surprised if
 RH>> it were. He's standing a bit longer now but still a long way to go.
 NB>> Might be just a precaution, to keep him from being exposed to other
 NB>> infections while he's fighting off this one...  As has been said, this
 NB>> isn't going to be a short rehab, given the circumstances...

 RH> Not short, and not fun. It's been 2 1/2 months since the stroke, since
 RH> he's been home. Don't know how much longer he has to go.

Good question.  Hope it all is going well, though.  :)

ttyl         neb

... I don't eat natural foods; most people die of natural causes.

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