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Skriven 2015-01-29 20:28:07 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 23410 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> those in the class. A good half or more of the 63 were within a 25 mile
 RH> radius of Margaretville. Some of them had not been out of the state
 RH> until our senior trip to DC.

 NB> I've seen that lots of places we've been...  Richard has only lived in
 NB> NYS, although in various parts thereof... :)

Did he ever live in the Catskills?

 RH> You lived in several different states before you even graduated from
 RH> high school; I went to the same school, same building even, for all
 RH> 13 years.

 NB> Quite true..  :)  You've seen more of the world, and lived in
 NB> different states over the country, in your adult life... but I had the
 NB> experience of living in totally different parts of the country growing

Did your parents ever acquire a taste for local foods and add them to
their home cooking or did you wait until you got out on your own to try
new foods?

 NB> up..  East, West, Central, South and North...  :)  Never settled in my
 NB> accent, or my culture, just assimilated as I went along...  made it
 NB> easy to assimilate from friends and acquaintances later on, and from
 NB> whatever I was exposed to...  ;)

We assimilated parts--some words have entered our vocabulary that we
picked up in various assignments. Also, as you know, various local foods
are now part of our regular eating. I don't think Steve picked up any
sort of accent but I have more of a southern one. I didn't realise how
much of one I had until we were in HI and I was questioned about it. (G)


 NB>  NB>> Some day...  :)  That was something that I liked about my solo
 NB> trips,  NB>> where I set my own schedule... nobody but me to worry
 NB> about, if I  NB>> wanted to work late, or eat whenever...  ;)  And
 NB> spur-of-the-moment  NB>> decisions to stop in to a museum or
 NB> whatever...   ;)

 RH> Some trips are fun to do with a companion also. You can bounce ideas
 RH> of where to go, eat, etc off of each other. You also have a companion
 RH> for meals; it's more enjoyable to eat with someone than by yourself.

 NB> Or to have someone to share the exciting discoveries with...  That was
 NB> indeed part of the joy of doing the genealogy trips with Mom... we
 NB> could put our heads together to solve the genie puzzles, too...  As

That must have been fun as you were working on the same family for the
most part. I presume you did some research on your birth family while on
some of the trips with your MIL, but mostly they were Backus family
research?

 NB> there's compatibility, I'll agree with the more enjoyable to eat with
 NB> someone... but it's also nice to eat what one wants... ;)  Fortunately
 NB> Richard and I tend to be compatible that way, too...  He just isn't
 NB> into the trip thing so much, though...  :)

We can usually find some place we can agree on for meals, and sometimes
even figure we want to split a certain meal. Other times we agree on
where to go, but both want a different meal.(G)

 NB>  NB>> Rob was a little envious, but he's had lots of other experiences
 NB> that  NB>> I've not had, so we are pretty much even...  :)

 RH> A big family means that more than one person usually has the
 RH> opportunity to see/try different things. One of my younger sisters and
 RH> younger brother went to Italy on a 3 week study tour in high school.
 RH> Neither one has been out of the country except to Canada (while living
 RH> at home) otherwise. Other than Canada, I never got out of the USA until
 RH> about 3 months before I got married. We never thought we'd travel much,
 RH> then Steve joined the Army and, as they say, the rest is history.

 NB> One just doesn't know...  :)

No, and that adds to the equation.

 NB>  NB>> Fun to take the wind out of sails, but that doesn't happen
 NB> much...  NB>> But you certainly one-uped the braggart there... ;)

 RH> T'was the truth. (G)

 NB> True.  ;)   Still fun...  ;)

She couldn't argue the point, tho I think she wanted to.


 NB>  NB>> No matter where you are, people have to eat something... ;)

 RH> Like breathing, a basic, necessary part of living.

 NB> Indeed.

Quit doing either one and your days are limited.

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Ruth
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