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Skriven 2015-07-14 21:39:00 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 06-30-15  20:14 <=-

 NB>>> Lots of things have some use...  :)  Mint can take over things,
 NB>>> too, if left uncontrolled...  ;)
 RH>> I know, we had some in our back yard when we lived in the last place
 RH>> in Swansboro. Nice smelling when run over by the lawn mower. (G)
 NB>> Or when stepped on, even... or bruised while picking for cooking...
 NB>> :)

 RH> I didn't use too much of it then. As I recall, it was spearmint.

I think what I had was just some generic mint... not a peppermint or
spearmint... My neighbor had a patch of lemon mint in her backyard
lawn.... :)
 
 NB>>> members... I only knew of Janis at that point, though...  I did know
 NB>>> Dale from the BLUEWAVE echo already....
 RH>> That was the picnic where I made the lasagne that Charlotte ignored
 RH>> but made short work of the meat balls.
 NB>> Yes, I remember...  :)  And I came mostly as an Eat, although I did
 NB>> bring some of my single malt Scotch for tastings...  :)

 RH> Which Steve and I declined. Fords brought that great assortment of
 RH> cheeses for tasting, which we did enjoy.

I remember that, too...  that was a nice assortment... :)

 NB>>> Some of that is that their stomachs do get smaller with age...
 NB>>> and the sense of taste diminishes... and then the teeth and jaws
 NB>>> just don't work as well as they used to...
 RH>> Very understandable. Dad has had a partial plate for years that slowed
 RH>> his eating down somewhat but I guess as he's aged, the plate doesn't
 RH>> fit as well. It could make eating more of a problem.
 NB>> There's that, too...

 RH> Something you don't think about as a kid but becomes more obvious as
 RH> parents age.

Or even as we age... :) 
 
 RH>> Just to have an outing, change in setting from the usual location and
 RH>> table mates can make a difference. It doesn't have to be gourmet food,
 RH>> as long as the company is enjoyable.
 NB>> Gourmet food isn't necessary, very true..  It does help, though, if
 NB>> it's food that the person enjoys, too...  :)

 RH> Yes, but most all of those in the home are not of the McD's
 RH> generation. They were the ones that took us, on rare occasions, to such
 RH> places. We took our children more than we were taken; our children take
 RH> theirs more than we took them.

Maybe there are better places to take them than to McD's...  :)
 
 NB>>> And we always noticed that Mommy would eat more when we took
 NB>>> them to Olde Country Buffet... dunno if that would work as well
 NB>>> nowadays, though...
 RH>> Might be worth a try, ask her if she'd like to go.
 NB>> She doesn't eat nearly as much now as she did then... and it needs to
 NB>> be cut down or ground with lots of sauce or gravy now, or well-cooked
 NB>> soup... not as easy to do out as just doing the buffet...  And her
 NB>> tastes are pickier now, too... she doesn't eat as much or as widely at
 NB>> the church dinners as she used to, either...  And, at the moment,
 NB>> she's going nowhere... ;/

 RH> Going nowhere but hopefully better. At least she's still eating, even
 RH> if it's small amounts. Some "authorities" say small amounts, more
 RH> frequently, are supposed to be better than 3 "big" meals a day,
 RH> anyway. 

She tends to have just 3 small meals a day... although her dinner, in
the middle of the day, tends to be a reasonably larger amount... She's
been making progress still... and talking about getting back to church,
so she has that goal to work towards...  :)

ttyl         neb

... Humor is an acronym for "HUman Management Of Reality"

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