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Skriven 2014-12-15 11:19:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Peppers
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 12-12-14  21:56 <=-

 NB>>> we do live in Wegmans' home town...  :)
 RH>> Yes, and they are gradually expanding out. Whole Foods is based
 RH>> in Austin, TX but the first one I was in, was in Las Vegas.
 NB>> Whole Foods spread out some, too...  :)   But then, they are a
 NB>> bigger corporation, too.

 RH> Wegman's might get that way eventually.

Possibly.  Maybe not, at least as long as it's still a family-owned
business... :)
 
 NB>>> That too...  And as I said, old habits are hard to break...
 NB>>> sometimes it takes something catastrophic to break the
 NB>>> pattern...  :)
 RH>> She broke her hip in the summer of 2012 and never got back into the
 RH>> kitchen after she came home from the hospital/rehab. By then, the
 RH>> dementia was getting more pronounced so she probably wouldn't have
 RH>> known what to do.
 NB>> Those last probably put final paid to the whole idea...

 RH> It was at that point Dad wouldn't let her do any more cooking. I think
 RH> she was able to do some rote work like peeling potatoes but he'd cut
 RH> them up and cook them. As I understand, they had several close calls
 RH> with stove coils left one before Dad took over, then he's done it from
 RH> time to time as well, according to Don.

But the putting up part was her job... so that finally was put aside
when she couldn't do it any more... things changed enough to break off
the long-seated habit...  :)

 NB>>> Another habit... can't waste food...  :)
 RH>> That was drilled into our heads!
 NB>> We grew up with it, too..  ;)

 RH> Were you only allowed one open jar of jelly/jam at once & had to use
 RH> that up before opening another? We were--"use up the old before you
 RH> start the new" was also drilled into the brain. I broke that when I
 RH> got married but it took a while to do so.

No...  Daddy liked having some variety...  But one couldn't open a new
jar of the same variety/flavor without finishing up the old jar...  :)

 RH>> A nice day on Friday for moving the big stuff, rain on Saturday so we
 RH>> did a lot of run around, nice on Sunday for a big push, with help from
 RH>> our Life Group. The house on Pearce is just about empty now; the house
 RH>> on Tacy is full of boxes, furniture, etc waiting to be organised.
 NB>> Sounds like the weather didn't do bad at all then...  and you only
 NB>> have the last bits to finish off now... plus, of course, the major job
 NB>> of moving in properly...  :)

 RH> Hopefully the major part of resettling will be done by the end of the
 RH> year, the secondary settling a month or 2 after that and settling the
 RH> dust the rest of the time we're here. I'm finding more kitchen stuff
 RH> now, have the drinking glasses unpacked and put up.

Won't be too long before life will start to feel more normal... at least
in some areas of the house...  (G)

 RH>> Has it ever! We've been adding our personal touches in hardware,
 RH>> extra shelving for the pantry (which is now loaded) and other areas.
 RH>> Tomorrow I'm going to lay down shelf liner, then start opening boxes
 RH>> and putting things away, Just have to figure out what will go where.
 NB>> And before too long, order will start to emerge from the chaos...
 NB>> and you'll be able to enjoy your new house.  :)

 RH> Progress is being made, bit by bit. Got some Christmas lights tonight
 RH> as ours are buried in the storage unit.

Oh, right... the final frontier... (G)  Once you get the stuff IN the
house unpacked, you've still got that storage unit of all the stuff you
didn't need so badly...  ;)

ttyl          neb

... Sorry, I missed the part after "Now listen closely".

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