Text 18182, 81 rader
Skriven 2014-10-17 13:46:52 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 18097 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Peppers                                                  [2]
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Hi Ruth,

>> I can understand that.  You have an advantage of nice weather longer
>> though.. must be nice :)

> It is nice; we're in the transition between air conditioning and
> heating right now. The a/c will kick on from time to time, as needed,
> but is still off, more than on. It's not quite cool enough for the
> heating to kick on in the early morning hours just yet. The new house is
> natural gas heating/cooling so we should spend less, total than our
> total electric house now.

We lived in a total electric apartment very early on in Warick just after we
were married... My dad and his business partner had built these and the utility
company had convinced them that going total electric was going to be "the
future" and cheap. Haha -  Unfortunately, the utility bills were _horrendous_
such that we started calling the O&R company (Orange & Rockland utility
company) the "rape and plunder" co. - it was that bad. :( Luckily we were able
to get out of there and buy our first house in Warwick shortly after.. that
first house had the greatest heating system.. hot water heat with those big
radiators, that held the heat in the radiators for a long time.. what a great
house that was.  This house in Ithaca is natural gas/hot water heat as well,
but only baseboards.. When the house was rebuilt the radiators were removed.
It's still cheaper than our house in Windsor was though, because it's got much
better insulation than the house in Windsor, and that house in Windsor uses
oil.  ouch.  Talk about painful :(


>> > Now we're getting later season produce at the market. Steve brought
>> home > some baby swiss chard, a butternut squash and some bell peppers
>> from the > farmer's market today.

>> That's nice :)  Sometimes you can't beat a farmer's market for really
>> great produce because of the variety.

> Yes, and knowing the farmers is nice too. We trade recipies, ideas for
> cooking, etc.

That is very nice - I imagine it's a place to look forward to. :)

>> me.. but..... I really had to laugh.  I'd bet you have some good tales
>> about things that didn't
>> 'really' need packing from all those years :)
[...]

> We'd lived in a military area before Steve enlisted so we'd heard
> horror stories about packing trash, ash trays, etc. That helped us know
> (Somewhat) what to expect.

Makes sense :)

> The longer Steve stayed in, the better we got
> about being ready for the packers. The night before we were supposed to
> pack out in Berlin, I wanted to get somethng from a box in an upper
> cabinet--stood on my sewing chair, and broke my wrists. Pack out was
> delayed a few weeks, and the move was the worst one we had in regards to
> amount of damage done to our stuff.

That must have been a terrible fall.  :(

>>> Is only the type for mulch?  That's helpful for mulching at least but
>>> not the type for turning in the soil.

>> > Just mulch I think, but will help the beds here before we move.

>> Yes, and it will look really nice.

> The next tenants will appreciate it, as well as other improvements we've
> made to the house.

I can understand that.  We often left houses/apt's in better shape than when we
moved in.  In the house in Louisville, Ron installed a parquet floor in the
kitchen because I got very tired of the kitchen floor which was covered with a
rug.. who could stand a rug in the kitchen?  I guess someone who didn't cook
much :)

Take care,
Janis

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