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Skriven 2014-11-02 01:47:04 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 18777 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Peppers                                                  [1]
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Hi Ruth,

>> Propane was only used to heat a few rooms in that house in Windsor as
>> I mentioned, and the hot water heater ... so it wasn't so frequent for

> So you did well with the propane......

It clobbered us when it was time to get the two large tanks filled.  Thankfully
at the time we weren't paying two mortgages though :)

>> us. Filling the oil tank could be painful though depending on the cost

> ...............but not as well with the oil.

Yes, that bill could get up there some years.  Really high.. :(

>> of oil at the time... The cost of oil seems to be down currently and
>> so that's good news for the people looking at our house right now..
>> though the tank is full at the moment.

> Prices are coming down now; we're seeing gas for under $3.00/gallon

I think it's the same here... so strange :)

> around here. I'm not sure what natural gas is running but we will be
> using it for the heat and hot water in the new house. Steve was talking
> with the seller the other day and found out the highest gas bill he had
> last winter was lower than our highest electic bill. He has a family, so
> our bills should be much lower since it's just the 2 of us.

Yes, that's true :)

> I was over the worst of the morning sickness (thanks to tea and toast)
> before the work was started but still, not fun to be cold and queasy &
> not able to do much about either situation for several hours.

Unsalted "saltines" did it for me... but IIRC sometimes nothing helped. :)

>> I remember some of the silliest things with my first... like Ron
>> giving me a ride to college, and me throwing up on the morning
>> newspaper right next to me on the carseat... eek.  (G).  I only got
>> morning sickness with my first though.

> I had it the worst with my first in the early months, especially in the

Yes, first trimester..

> morning but bits of queasyness at other times if I didn't watch my
> eating. Then, with both girls, in the last month or so I had a bit of
> queasyness as well, which was interesting as one was 3 weeks late, the
> other, 3 weeks early.

That is interesting. I found I couldn't eat a lot fatty meats... but would just
get queasy as you did.

>> That's something I would never have thought of trying :)  Makes sense
>> it would work though for some cakes since the heat is slow and even.
>> hehe..now I want to try it (grin).

> Rival put out something called a Cake and Bake (or something like that)
> pan; you might be able to find one on E-bay if you want to try it. I'd
> think a vented coffee can (or something similar) might work just as
> well.

The crockpot I have is very small... compared to some I've seen.  I forget the
volume it can handle.

>> Mom never had one... she was also big on using cast iron and actually
>> more often stainless steel.

> We've got a couple of stainless steel ones, but they don't get used very
> often. (G)

I use the revereware often for things like sausage and pepper, or eggs, or
bacon.. and for sauce and soups, I use my larger farberware pots. I used to use
my cast iron dutch oven for sauce but decided I liked the results better with
the farberware.

>> > Hopefully it'll sell fast.

>> We hope so... The agent let me know she's got someone interested
>> already and she is going to show it Monday.  It will be amazing if we
>> get an offer on the first showing, as it will help incredibly with our
>> finances if it does.  We figure to be flexible with the price, so that
>> should help as well.

> Good, that you've got a showing so fast. I don't know how long the one
> we are buying has been on the market but the day we first looked at it,
> another person did also. We put our offer in a few days later.

When we were first looking up here, houses went so fast in the Ithaca area.
We'd look at a house, go home to think about it and compare it to others we'd
seen that day and they'd be gone :)  When we found this house, we quickly put
in an offer :)  From what I understand in speaking to people in the area,
houses go really fast in the area because of Cornell University.  I guess if we
ever decide to sell this house, we won't have to worry though right now that's
hard to imagine :)

>> >We've had a few days in the lower 70s. It's
>> > supposed to be up near 80 by mid week, then plummet to the upper 50s
>> by > the week end. Possibility of frost even on Sunday morning.

>> <sigh>.... here we had 70's day before yesterday, and today it's in
>> the high 40's.. Fall is definitely here... just in time for Halloween.
>> At least we're not expecting snow like we've seen on some Halloween's
>> over the years :)

> Been there, done that. Today was in the low 60s but tomorrow may not get
> out of the 40s. Snow in the western part of the state but we're supposed
> to get just rain.

Yes, I saw that parts of the country around Ohio got some white stuff.. and I
think Chicago and South Carolina?  Anyway some folks had a white halloween.
Here it just threatened to rain, but didn't.

>> > We've been in some interesting places too. Had a small double wide
>> in > Swansboro for a few years and another trailer (single wide) for a
>> few > months in San Angelo, TX. We think a tornado went over us while
>> we were > in that one.

>> That must have been scary.. even just the sounds I'd imagine.

> Actually, I didn't know about it until after the fact. I just knew it
> was really raining hard, and noisly as is typical in a mobile home.

I bet you were glad that's all you had to deal with.

>> > Very good for kids--hills for sledding, berry patches for picking
>> all we > could, lots of space just to ramble and explore.

>> Yes, same where I grew up... I'll never forget making my very first
>> batch of blackberry jam -  because I spilled it all over my arm!  I
>> still have the scar from that one.  Live and learn (grin)  I think I
>> may have been 11 or so when that happened.  Just a clutz I guess,
>> knocking one of the jars over (g)

> That was a (bad) learning experience. My worst time with blackberries
> was the first or second year my mom was in summer school. My youngest
> sister went "berry picking" (but put the berries into her shorts
> pockets. Getting those clean was a major chore! Then she went out a
> couple of days later and did it again!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

haha... little sisters... I was always having to babysit them - they drove me
crazy sometimes ... but not as bad as my little brother.  I had two younger
sisters and a brother younger than me. We all still laugh at how my brother one
year took my favorite thing, a "kind of real" toy piano apart because he was
playing with this screw driver set he'd gotten as a gift.. and my toy piano was
a pile of wood when he was done.  :) He said he wanted to see how it worked :(

>> That's so neat ;)  It's one of the things I have always liked about
>> older homes or I guess ones where rooms can be moved (like making the
>> dining room a living room, etc.).

> This one was built in 1992 so not as many options. Still, it's one we
> can call our own.

It will be so great.  I'm sure you'll be so happy there.

Take care,
Janis

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