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Skriven 2014-11-27 12:39:00 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 11-25-14  20:26 <=-

 RH>> A fun time for tracing the family lines. (G)
 NB>> One has to do some serious tracing to keep families straight.  ;)

 RH> And pay pretty close attention to who's parents are who's with
 RH> overlapping generations and names carried for multiple generations.
 RH> Fun times. (G)

Not too hard with the ones one sees all the time, or at least on a
regular basis...  :)   Names carried down can confuse the issue, of
course...  :)  Bad enough when the same name is used in various families
in the same generation...  :) 

 NB>>> Things like that can bring the scattered family back together,
 NB>>> if only for a little while.  :)
 RH>> In some instances, more than weddings and funerals.
 NB>> Less formal than weddings, and generally with less angst than
 NB>> funerals.

 RH> And a big pot of chowder both times as I recall. My younger brother is
 RH> supposed to, at some time, go out to WI to get the family chowder pot.

No one in that branch of the family is interested in keeping it...?

 RH> Don't know if he'll ever make any, Mom's copy of the recipe is
 RH> somewhere in the house but we don't know where.

If it's still in the house, it'll turn up eventually...  :)   And,
maybe, when Don goes to pick up the pot, he can ask for a copy of their
copy of the recipe..   :)

 RH>>> Southern Supreme, but that's personal preference. Guess I'll
 RH>>> have to get a Wegman's one at some point to compare, tho.
 NB>>> The Claxton seem to be ubiquitous...  :)   They aren't horrible,
 NB>>> just not as nice as one would like...  :)
 RH>> Too sticky sweet for my tastes--makes my teeth itch. (G)
 NB>> A read of the ingredients turned up, among all the sugars, HFCS...

 RH> BLEURGH! It won't enter my house!

That's the reaction I was expecting... (G)  If you do get a chance to
try the Wegmans' premium one, though, that is a lot better... I don't
think it has the suspect ingredients in it... they've been pulling back
from using a lot of the bad stuff in their own baking.  Just came out
with a new line of pastries without any trans fats... still lots of
sugar and carbs, of course, but somewhat healthier for you...  :) 
 
 RH>> You're not just whistling "Dixie' there!  I took a break from packing
 RH>> today as my elbow started hurting from pulling the tape gun so much
 RH>> over the past few days.
 NB>> I can imagine... I'm surprised your wrists weren't complaining as
 NB>> well...

 RH> I've been wearing a light support on the left one almost constantly
 RH> the past couple of weeks, may have to go with the heavier duty one
 RH> soon. The right one is fine but it don't break as badly.

That was good planning...  When you go to the heavier duty one for the
left, the right might appreciater the light support, too..  :)

 RH>> A few have gone over but Steve wanted to get some work taken care of
 RH>> while the place was relatively empty. He should wind that up by Monday
 NB>> That makes sense.  Some things are much easier before you actually
 NB>> move in...  :)

 RH> Yes, and it gets them done sooner, rather than later. He said it
 RH> looked like the oven had never been cleaned, dishwasher was almost
 RH> as bad and fridge was bad, but not as bad as the first 2.

Yeah, harder to get to them quite so quickly once you start using
them... or when you are busy trying to figure out where to put other
things away...  :)   Those sound like they really did need doing before
you tried to use them, though...!   :)

 RH>> night or so, then the boxes will go over as fast as we can load the
 RH>> car, drive over, unload the car, return and repeat until finished.
 NB>> Probably over the course of a a few days...  :)

 RH> Yes, and it'll free up space here to continue packing.

Otherwise, after a while, one runs out of staging areas... ;)

 RH>> Always. but we're closed now. Got a nice kitchen knife as a present
 RH>> from our realter--a serrated utility one.
 NB>> That's nice.  :)   Did he know you were into cooking, or is that his
 NB>> standard gift...?

 RH> In this case, she knew we like to cook. She's also a friend, and
 RH> member of our church.

Ah.  That makes plenty of sense, then...  And probably she got you a
fairly good quality one, too, then... :)

ttyl          neb

... I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself, some day.

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