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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: ethnic  was: move
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 02-12-15  19:49 <=-

 NB>>> Some, of course, were more adventurous than others...
 RH>> About normal for a family with several children. We did the same,
 RH>> in varying degrees, between the 5 of us.
 NB>> Quite.   :)

 RH> Do you have any siblings that rely on just pre done, heat and serve
 RH> type meals? I don't think my brother Bill cooked a meal from scratch
 RH> his entire life.

No, I don't think so...  my brothers cook for themselves when need be,
even when they've had wives to cook for them...  and all my sisters cook
at least basic stuff, some of them pretty fancy stuff...  :)  
 
 NB>>> just like even though we all got
 NB>>> piano lessons from Mommy, only two of us really went very far
 NB>>> with it, although most retained at least a little..  ;)
 RH>> I can read music and pick out a line but playing 2 hands is beyond
 RH>> me. Never had formal lessons and can only stretch 7 notes half
 RH>> comfortably anyway. OTOH, sister below me had lessons as an adult
 RH>> (when her older son took lessons) but plays very mechanically.
 NB>> Part of that could have been her teacher...  Learning piano is more
 NB>> than just the notes on the page... but some teachers don't really
 NB>> get that...

 RH> And, I've noticed some people with very scientific minds play the
 RH> piano very mechanically. One lady in our church in HI was like that
 RH> until the music director got her to loosen up somewhat. She also got
 RH> into quilting and had to learn how to "shake things up a bit" with
 RH> colors & fabrics. 

Sometimes learning how to relax into the music (or the quilting) isn't
as intuitive as some of us find it... ;)  Precision doesn't necessarily
mean that things can't have some creativity and give as well... :)

 NB>>> At one point we were almost fanatical about it... but have
 NB>>> relaxed the standards more over the years.. :)  Not a lot more,
 NB>>> though.. ;)
 RH>> Same here. Other things we've gotten stricter about, like looking for
 RH>> specific ingredients and not buying if the food in question has them.
 NB>> Other than apple, we've not gone quite that far... We do tend to not
 NB>> buy things that have too many things in it that we aren't comfortable
 NB>> with, though...

 RH> If it has a list of chemicals for flavoring and preserving a mile
 RH> long, it goes back on the shelf.

Most of those don't even come off the shelf in the first place... ;)
 
 RH>>> But little time, unfortunatly.
 NB>>> So true..  :)
 RH>> And looking at a late July, early August time frame this year.
 NB>> We'll have to see how things play out as we get closer...  :)

 RH> Yes, maybe we can combine it with a trip to Olindo's when we go
 RH> into Rochester.
 
Possibly you could stay a night with us, and combine with visiting our
church, as well...  :)

 RH>> ... It's as easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841!
 NB>> Yup, quite...  (G)

 RH> Blueberry, pecan or chocolate?

Probably pecan... or something even more labor-intensive... ;)

ttyl          neb

... "Another 7 days has gone by," mused Tom weakly.

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