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Skriven 2014-10-22 20:22:09 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 18300 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Peppers                                                  [1]
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Hi Janis,

 JK> > I'm glad both girls got thicker hair; mine has always been hard to
 JK> do > much of anything with. To get any sort of curl, I need a super
 JK> strong > heavy duty mega hold perm whereas they both have some natural
 JK> curl.

 JK> Interesting.. for us it was kind of the opposite :)  One year my
 JK> daughter wanted a perm so I tried it with that type perm... it took
 JK> two packages to get it to even give her "a" curl.. Her hair was so
 JK> straight, and so thick.. meanwhile my hair is so much thinner than
 JK> hers, I have to watch the timing for such products carefully.

But, better hair than no hair, especially in colder climates. (G)


 JK> > Deborah actually looked somewhat like Shirley Temple for a while.
 JK> (G)

 JK> Aw that's must have been so cute :) I bet you have some neat pictures
 JK> :)

We did, and they're floating around somewhere, along with a zillion
others. One nice thing about digital pictures is that we don't have so
many more to put into photo albums--eventually.

 JK> My brother has blond naturally curly hair (still to this day, though
 JK> there's some gray there now (g)).. I remember the pictures of him with
 JK> long ringlets of blond hair before they cut it :) When he was growing
 JK> up my dad used to get so upset with him because my brother refused to
 JK> use that "greasy kid's hair stuff" on his blond curly hair. And of
 JK> course all 4 of my sisters and I looked at his hair and said, "how did
 JK> this happen??" Lol

Go figure, the guy got the hair girls would kill for. I'd agree with
your brother and leave out the "greasy kid stuff" if I had hair like
that.

>> > Wake Forest has a good sized deer population, including some albino
>> > ones. Last spring (2013) Steve got a picture of an albino fawn, just
>> up > the street from us.

>> I've never seen one :)  Interesting that they exist :)

 JK> > Yes, and to have a good number of them in one area is surprising.

 JK> It would seem so.  I saw some of them on google, they look incredible!

I've not seen any; Steve just happened to be in the right place at the
right time. Handy to have a camera on the phone too. When we were in
Savannah, we saw a mom raccoon with triplets cross the road ahead of us,
thought we should have had a camera. Then we remembered we'd just gotten
new phones--with cameras. Too late tho.

 JK> > I don't recall what ours was supposed to be temperature wise but I
 JK> think > precipitation was to be below normal. Hopefully more in the
 JK> form of
 JK> > snow, than all the ice we had last winter.

 JK> I can understand that one.. snow is always preferable to me over ice
 JK> storms :(

 JK> >And, I hope the school board
 JK> > had the sense to build more snow days into the calendar for this
 JK> school > year.

 JK> I guess that didn't happen last year?  That's sad.  Maybe budget
 JK> constraints?

I'm not sure what all was involved but the kids had to make up school on
Saturdays and go about a week longer into summer break than originally
scheduled. We've a good mix of traditional calendar and year round
schools in Wake County, with a county wide school board, so it's quite
an involved structure to it, glad we don't have kids in the system tho.


 JK> Temperature-wise we dropped down to the low 40's at night now, maybe
 JK> 50's if we're lucky during the day.. I guess it's a long time until
 JK> summer, so I better get used to it.. (vbg).

>> Should work well... you can keep the cuttings in a plastic bag until
>> you're ready to plant them in a pot with some rooting powder.

 JK> > OK, nice to know. I've enjoyed having fresh rosemary to use instead
 JK> of > the dry.

 JK> Yes, it is so nice having an abundance of fresh herbs. If I have them,
 JK> I use them.  I checked today and at least I did freeze a bunch of
 JK> baggies of Italian and Greek oregano, lots of parsley, basil and
 JK> thyme. Not quite the same as out of the garden fresh but better than
 JK> dry.  I really liked the Greek oregano.. it has a hint of lemon that
 JK> is incredible. I used it in some chicken dishes, that were great.

Sounds good; I think this was the Italian oregano but I'll look up Greek
oregano and maybe plant some of that too. We've got spearmint all over
the place, as well as ornamental strawberries, but I'm not planning to
move any of them.

>> famous English historical setting.  Now I can hear it when Ron and I
>> "go".. my daughter will probably say, "what am I supposed to do with
>> all these dishes!" Lol - Well, hopefully she can sell them to other
>> collectors :)

 JK> > We have 2 sets of dishes but a lot of books, computer, sewing and
 JK> > crafting, cooking, etc, etc stuff.

 JK> Yes, all that as well (grin)  When Nancy was talking about the "boxes
 JK> under the window" I believe that was an overflow of books that we
 JK> didn't want to put in the basement but weren't ready yet to unpack.
 JK> Who knows.. we had so much room in Windsor and so much less space here
 JK> in Ithaca (grin).

We just took a load of books over to the Sharing Shop last night. A mix
of cook books, theology books and some sewing/quilting books that will
hopefully find new homes quickly.


 JK> > But, we will be able to move a lot of
 JK> > things "as is" and put them in their new location right away.

 JK> That's always nice.  Before this move, that's always the way it was
 JK> for us. Moving to a smaller place is a little insane sometimes I've
 JK> learned :)

This will be a bit bigger for us. Our move from GA was a major come down
in space from aboout 2000 sf with a useable attic & garage to about 1000
sf without the attic and garage. The new place has an attic, no garage,
and is about 1250 sf.


>> That's neat and probably a nice break... I have to see if I can

 JK> > I got the pie made today; Steve has already enjoyed one piece.

 JK> Nice :)

Now it's down to one piece left. (G)


>> be useable again which is nice to use for the grandboy's clothes.  I
>> started a denim jacket for Ron this summer that I have to finish soon
>> as well.

 JK> > Nice, to be able to do that.

 JK> The only hard thing is getting that room which is a dining room to be
 JK> "the sewing room" when I'm working on it..  You know, have to move
 JK> this to put that there, etc. etc. etc.. argh... it is what it is.  At
 JK> least I have the room.

I understand; I did that for many years. After Rachel got married I
converted her bedroom into a sewing room. I've already claimed the
larger of the 2 extra bedrooms for a sewing studio.

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