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Skriven 2014-10-26 21:53:37 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 18489 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Peppers                                                  [1]
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Hi Janis,

>> straight, and so thick.. meanwhile my hair is so much thinner than
>> hers, I have to watch the timing for such products carefully.

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

 JK> haha.. very true... :)

A warm hat helps either situation tho.



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

>> 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
 JK> > others. One nice thing about digital pictures is that we don't have
 JK> so > many more to put into photo albums--eventually.

 JK> Yes.. same here. Speaking of old pictures, this week we found some of
 JK> my oldest grandson who was then a maybe 5 or so (he's in college now)
 JK> and he was playing with Toby who was just a little pup.. that was neat
 JK> finding them.

Should scan it and e-mail him a copy; I'm sure he'd love to see it.


>> up my dad used to get so upset with him because my brother refused to
>> use that "greasy kid's hair stuff" on his blond curly hair. And of
>> course all 4 of my sisters and I looked at his hair and said, "how did
>> this happen??" Lol

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

 JK> Yes, no kidding.  My mom always said the same thing. I guess my dad,
 JK> being of the generation that essentially "trained" their hair with
 JK> hair stuff (or thought they did), thought my brother should be able to
 JK> CONTROL those curls with that stuff.  I always wondered if those guys
 JK> were just combing their hair following the natural whatever of their
 JK> hair.. I mean, I could never _make_ my hair do something it didn't
 JK> want to do (G).

I don't know, my dad and brothes used to use the stuff but I never paid
attention to what they did. Actually, my older brother had a crew cut
until he was in high school, younger brother gave it up, went with
greasy kid stuff while still in (younger) grade school.

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

 JK> Ah yes, same here kind of.  One year we saw the smallest bear cub
 JK> cross the highway, but by the time we remembered the phone had a
 JK> camera, it was gone, down the embankment... I guess we'll never make
 JK> on-the-scene reporters (g).

We're getting better. A few years ago, a truck tried cutting us off
(after passing us) on I-85. We caught up to it, I snapped some pictures
and Steve e-mailed them to the company, with a note of what happened.

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

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

 JK> Yeah.. I guess that is one way to make up for unexpected weather.  I'm
 JK> not sure, but I think in NY the powers-that-be prepare for the worst
 JK> snow-wise..

They're better prepared for it up there. Even tho we get snow/ice on a
regular basis, the DOT & school board always seem to be taken by
surprise. DOT is improving-they start brining roads a day or so before a
storm is supposed to hit. Sometimes it does, and they're then
concentrating on plowing, other times, no storm, waste of brining
materials and time.

 JK> Though if they had to take time, when I was in High School, they'd cut
 JK> it off of spring vacation.  Here in Ithaca they never seem to close
 JK> down the schools. Roads can be pretty messy so there are times that
 JK> Ron and I are surprised grade-school/high school are open as well as
 JK> places like Cornell U and the community college here.  Then again in
 JK> the city of Ithaca, they have this MONSTER scraper that litterally
 JK> could peel pavement (but it doesn't Lol). After a snow storm, you'd
 JK> never know it given the looks of the streets in other words.

The monster scraper clears it all. Plus, you have more plows and such
like available. I had heard at one time how many the area has; it was
not enough to do the job properly/in a timely manner.

>> thyme. Not quite the same as out of the garden fresh but better than
>> dry.  I really liked the Greek oregano.. it has a hint of lemon that
>> is incredible. I used it in some chicken dishes, that were great.

 JK> > Sounds good; I think this was the Italian oregano but I'll look up
 JK> Greek > oregano and maybe plant some of that too.

 JK> It is a very flavorful herb - I think you'll like it.  I cleaned out
 JK> all of my earthboxes already thinking ok, tomatoes are more than
 JK> done.. cucumber/pepper plants are dead, summer squash, potatoes might
 JK> as well be dead for all the growth.  But I left the oreganos (both
 JK> kinds), parsley and thyme.  I looked at them today and there is still
 JK> new growth.. neat... :)

I'll get out with a shovel and pot at some point before we move.

 JK> >We've got spearmint all over
 JK> > the place, as well as ornamental strawberries, but I'm not planning
 JK> to > move any of them.

 JK> We had those ornamental strawberries in Louisville all over our yard.
 JK> It's the first time I'd seen them.  Of course it was also the first

They were a bust--we tried eating them the first year we saw them and
were VERY (!) disappointed.

 JK> time I'd ever seen real-live mistletoe in a tree as welll :) :)
 JK> Really, if it existed in NY, I could have missed it but I don't think
 JK> it was there.  I found out we had mistletoe in our pine trees in
 JK> Louisville when some guys showed up in our back yard with rifles to
 JK> shoot it down.  I had to call our pups in because I was afraid for
 JK> them (two goofy black labs, about only a year old).  The fellows got
 JK> their mistletoe.. and the dogs were fine in the end <grin>

It's a southern thing. Don't know if it does grow up north (I've not
really looked) but it does grow around here--our neighbors have it in
their one tree.

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

 JK> > We just took a load of books over to the Sharing Shop last night. A
 JK> mix


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