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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-29-14  13:51 <=-

 RH>>> True, she never made the "leap" in learning.
 NB>>> For some that was an uncrossable chasm... or at least felt like it.
 RH>> And if the mind is beginning to fade, the chasm is wider.
 NB>> If it was already uncrossable, the mind beginning to fade wouldn't
 NB>> really make any difference... one foot or mile too far isn't any
 NB>> worse really than one inch too far...  ;)

 RH> Can't jump the Grand Canyon in 2 leaps. (G)

Nope, even if it came pretty close on the first one...  :)

 RH>>> computer, he's playing Free Cell. 
 NB>>> That can be addicting... and he probably doesn't have the energy
 NB>>> he used to, physical or possibly even mental...
 RH>> From what Don says, it's both physical and mental. He's still
 RH>> mentally sharper than Mom but has his own issues to deal with.
 NB>> As one would be expecting, given his age...  And sometimes the acuity
 NB>> is still there, but it just seems to be too much trouble to use it...

 RH> Hard to tell since we're not up there that often.
 
You might have to be visiting for an extended time to be able to gauge
that sort of thing.

 RH>>> It'll be a few weeks before the kitchen is in order. I'm hoping
 RH>>> to have everything basically in place by Christmas, fine tuning
 RH>>> placements over the rest of the time we're in the house.
 NB>>> That sounds like a possible timeline.  ;)  Fine-tuning is
 NB>>> ongoing... :)
 RH>> Especially as we've got long range plans for what we want to do. Steve
 RH>> asked if I wanted a walk in panty eventually--definate yes there.
 NB>> (That is "pantRy"? [g])  That'll definitely ease up storage... What

 RH> That too. (G)

Where are you going to put it...?  What will need to be changed out to
accomplish it...?
 
 NB>> used to be a walk-in pantry in this house got turned into a downstairs
 NB>> bathroom back in the 50s (along with other remodelings), convenient in
 NB>> its own right, but there are times I wish it was a pantry still...  :)

 RH> Win some, lose some. Nice to have a second bathroom but at the expense
 RH> of a larger pantry can be hard. 

Exactly.  Forty years living here, and I'm still not sure which I'd
really rather have...  :)

My parents' last house had a really nice pantry located between the
kitchen and the dining room... the doorways were at the one end, with
just a counterspace with drawers along the back wall (that was the short
wall, maybe 3 feet), and then the pantry went back towards the front of
the house about 7, 8 feet, with counterspace and drawers beneath along
one long wall and the short wall at the other end... and glass-doored
upper cabinets up to the ceiling (which was a decent height, being an
older house) above them... The back wall had a window in it, and a
skinny upper cabinet next to it.  A two-door metal cabinet that we'd
moved from the Philly house against the other long wall completed the
storage.  Mommy had her cookbooks tucked under the cabinets on the
counter along the short wall, the toaster and toaster oven and cutting
boards were on the counter under the window...  :)

 RH> My grandmother's house never had a proper
 RH> pantry--she had a nice looking free standing unit that was in
 RH> the kitchen tho. Some friends of ours in PA have the only one I've
 RH> seen similar, but their's was built into an exsisting closet.

Both nice solutions.  :)  It's nice to have something that looks nice,
too.  We've added a tall metal cabinet, and a couple of portable metal
lower cabinets with countertops, bookshelves behind where the kitchen
door opens for cookbooks, but it can look pretty hodgepodge...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... Cannibal Tip #102:  First listen to sermon, THEN eat missionary.

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