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Skriven 2014-11-08 02:34:50 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 18873 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Hi Ruth,

Still catching up here, but I'm getting there (G)

>> > 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 :)

> And that you didn't have to fill the tanks every week........

Yes, if the propane furnace had to heat more than those few rooms, it would
have been a nightmare, only because it was so expensive to get those two huge
tanks filled.  I'll have to ask Ron later how big they were.  Offhand I'm
thinking they were as tall as I am.

>>> 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 :)

> I'm not complaining tho.

We went out yesterday to get Ron to the doc, and I think gas here in the
Binghamton/Ithaca area was about 3.15 or so.

> But I'll have to get used to cooking on a smooth top stove again. I'm
> going to have to re-learn what I learned in Savannah and forgot when we
> moved up here.

My mom loved her electric smooth top stove.  It was nice to use when I had
one... very even... my fears that the 'low' setting wouldn't get low enough
turned out not to be true.  I guess that would depend on the stove model/age,
etc. I did have to get used to it when I had an electric smooth top stove
though, I know what you mean there :)

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

> I only had one bad day--when Steve made me eat something and I really
> didn't feel good. I lost it, had a touch of a flu bug. Steve came down
> with it a few days later and then understood why I didn't want anything
> to eat.

That makes more sense (g).  Right now, in Ithaca the flu that Ron has is all
over Ithaca according to my daughter.  I haven't gotten it probably since one
of the meds I take for MS is actually a flu vaccine.   Ron usually gets a flu
vaccine but didn't this year, just because we didn't think of it.. he's doing
better tonight now that he's on an antibiotic for his chest.

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

> This was put out for the original 3 quart crock pots.

One of these days I'll measure what the small one I have can handle.  I may use
it then since some days I cook just for the two of us.

>> 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.

> I've got T-Fal stainless steel; I like the pots but not as thrilled with
> the fry pans. Cast iron isn't as good for sauce as the acid from the
> tomato will cook out some of the seasoning.

I think I have two T-Fal fry pans here.  One is very small and the other is a
normal 9-inch.   The small one is good for a quick fried egg though I don't use
it very often.   IIRC, they were in one of a bunch I received when my
mother-in-law died, though really we bought most of the pots I've got.  I think
I purchased most of the cast iron ones in Louisville, since I found a great
shop there with so many shapes and sizes I hadn't seen up north, and all for a
great price.  I couldn't resist :)

>>> > Hopefully it'll sell fast.

No wonder-immediate-interest yet.. guess it will take some time. (g)  It's what
I expected really.. it's a "lot" of house, so it might take a while.  At least
it's on the market now.

>> 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
>> :)

> Sounds good. The one we're buying has been on the market for a few
> months. A couple of the places we looked at have sold, and closed, but
> we asked for a longer time to get all the ducks in a row.

That's understandable.  More time to plan and think :)

>> 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 got the rain yesterday as the western part of the state got snow.
> Tonight we're supposed to go down into the upper 20s tho, January or
> February weather.

Our first snow of the season today ... the forcasters called it snow showers,
but it stuck on the bushes and trees ...It will be gone tomorrow though as
they're forcasting 45F tomorrow and perhaps 50 on Sunday or Monday.  I am not
ready for snow :)


>> > 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.

> Yes, definately. We didn't have much stuff with us but would have hated
> to lose any of it.

I'm sure.  The worst that's ever happened was the frozen pipes in Windsor, and
thankfully we weren't living there when it happened last spring.  We did have
some things get destroyed that we were kind of not ready to move here, but it
wasn't anything important.

Take care,
Janis

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