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Skriven 2014-11-17 17:57:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Sunday dinners
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-13-14  19:58 <=-

 NB>>> Kids that marry into our family now have a lot more
 NB>>> relatives to meet, though...  ;)
 RH>> The big family keeps getting bigger.
 NB>> Tends to, anyway...  ;)

 RH> Can't help but do so, and then keeping track of how who's related
 RH> to who gets interesting. (G)

Especially when the generations start overlapping...  ;)
 
 NB>> If all were living fairly close
 NB>> to another, it's easy enough to at least get a quick introduction to
 NB>> them all... keeping them straight might be a problem, but at least one
 NB>> would be exposed to them all....

 RH> Most all of my FIL's siblings lived/live in the central PA area where
 RH> they were born/raised. One is (was?) in the Pittsburg area and my FIL
 RH> is in Florida but the others didn't go too far from home. The town
 RH> where most of them live is noted for a bean soup festival every fall.
 RH> (I've not been to that yet.)

Now that would provide an excuse to go and meet the family... (G)

 NB>> but when they live all over, chances are reduced that one would
 NB>> connect to them all.  One of Daddy's aunts had settled in California,
 NB>> and her kids (and theirs) tended to all stay there...  I don't think
 NB>> I would have met them at all, if we hadn't taken a trip to California
 NB>> (I was in my teens at the time)... partly to meet family, partly
 NB>> because our church's General Assembly was being held there that year.

 RH> I've gut cousins in CA I've met a few times when they came back east
 RH> to visit their mom/grandmother who was Dad's only sister.

I now have a cousin that lives in CA (her husband ended up being
stationed at the Navy base there, long-term, and they set down roots),
and some of my sister's kids ended up going out there for work... I only
see them when they come east for whatever...  :)

 NB>>> Now that we are past Halloween, it won't be long before the
 NB>>> fruitcakes appear in the store...  :)   Just like the Halloween
 NB>>> candy, I think they only order in just so much for the season, put
 NB>>> it out early, and when it's gone, that's all there was... ;)
 RH>> I've seen the Claxton ones already. There's one called "Southern
 RH>> Supreme" that is very much like what Steve's mom makes, made west of
 RH>> here, (between here & Charlotte) that is really good. We saw it in The
 RH>> Fresh Market a few years ago, after friends gave us some to try. A bit
 RH>> pricy but much better than the Claxton type cakes.
 NB>> I forgot to look for them when we last went shopping... they generally
 NB>> turn up in a part of the bakery section that we don't always walk
 NB>> through unless intentionally...  :)

 RH> We generally don't buy them either. Maybe next year, since we'll be
 RH> more settled, I'll dig out my MIL's recipe and make some for Steve.

Claxton cakes made it to our store, too... I saw them last shopping
trip... they aren't the worst thing, just not the best, either...
Sometimes Wegmans has a pretty nice one available, but I haven't seen
any this year yet..
 
 RH>> I'll have to check it out when we move in. Right now we're packing
 RH>> up and most likely won't get to go into the house again until
 RH>> after we sign.
 NB>> Got your hands full of packing anyway...  :)  Just have to go on
 NB>> memory for the moment... and figure out details later when you get
 NB>> your full access...  :)

 RH> We've got boxes all over the living room, some in other rooms as well.
 RH> The storage unit is getting full but I can see now that progress is
 RH> being made. We needed some room to maneuver boxes and other stuff so
 RH> we've been trying to get a lot of the non essentials over to the
 RH> storage unit for now. 

It's a shuffling act... :)

 RH> Starting next Thursday, tho, we will be able to
 RH> take things directly to the house.

I know that will be a lot easier...  :)  Getting shorter... :)

ttyl        neb

... Skier:  Someone who pays an arm and a leg to break them.

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