Text 828, 109 rader
Skriven 2013-04-26 22:36:48 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Railroad Stuff
======================
-> -> And Dad wanted to get something for his cat loving
-> daughter...........
-> 
->  -> RH> And cat-loving dad wanted to get  something for his cat-loving
->  RH> daughter.  My mom doesn't mind cats, but my dad loved them.  He
->  liked RH> anything in a fur coat that wasn't a squirrel or a mouse.  He
->  didn't RH> mind mice much either as long as they weren't pooping in his
->  kitchen RH> or eating the bird seed.
-> 
-> My parents have had cats since I was a kid (dogs as well). The man that
-> gave us our first ones told us that kittens only came in pairs; we used
-> that line on our parents a couple of other times to get 2 kittens.
-> 
Kittens most often come in pairs, but sometimes they come in triplets. I
did 
get a single one once, but he was the runt.  

-> -> He's up and about; it's better for him to keep as active as he can.
We
-> -> took a short walk (around the circle) after lunch; the walks will get
-> -> longer as he improves.
-> 
->  RH> On the other hand, an afternoon nap won't hurt anything; sleep
helps
->  RH> neurological stuff heal faster.
-> 
-> I think he dozes some but he's trying to be somewhat active. As I was
-> working on supper, he thought about setting the table, then realised
-> that he couldn't. Nice thought tho, same as cleaning the wok after
-> supper. He usually does it for me but I did it tonight.

Tell him not to worry about it.  There are some things that will be off his 
menu for a while.  Nap taking however is definitely NOT among them.  
 
->  RH> Never had those.  I do like tarantulas as long as they're in cages 
and
->  RH> not crawling out of my bananas. Dad talked about finding them on
the
->  RH> New Jersey docks when he worked there for a while in college.
-> 
-> Coming in on banana shipments?

Exactly.  The bananas came just like they were picked off the tree, and the 
spiders would hitch a ride.  Wharf cats thought they made good toys.  
 
->  RH> Amen.  Eight ounces a year is about my limit. Maybe every other 
year.
->  RH> Government cheese was the good stuff for a long time. I guess 
nothing
->  RH> lasts.
-> 
-> Sometimes they gave away the good stuff but we never got any. Just that
-> one give away but that was enough. We ate it as fast as we could, then
-> used the food stamps to buy the good stuff.

Namely anything but the pasteurized processed cheese "food".  

->  RH> Same here more or less, although I can manage to rewire a lamp and 
the
->  RH> like.
-> 
-> I probably could, but never had the opportunity to try.
-> 
It's not difficult.  You need some pliers and a screwdriver sometimes, but 
if I can manage you could.
 
-> -> Yes, and you can crank them down so that there's a bare minimum of a
-> -> flame & put a heat diffuser under the pot to create a super low
-> -> temperature. Been there, done that.
-> 
->  RH> These days I usually use the crock pot for that, but yep.  Chem lab
->  RH> training.
-> 
-> I still like stove top instead of the crock pot for some things.
-> Marinara sauce, for one.

Quite probably correct.  Baked beans however work well in a crock.   
 
-> -> I work off a net book, sitting with my feet up, on our love seat.
Much
-> -> better for the neck & shoulders.
-> 
->  RH> Quite likely, but I need the full-sized keyboard.
-> 
-> I don't mind the small one; I've got smaller hands so the reach on a
-> full size keyboard is harder.

I've got bigger ones with longer fingers; I have a hard time with laptops.
 
->  RH> Oddly, some of the cheesecake.  The salami vanished however.  It
was
->  RH> one of those el-cheapo markdownss from the Big Y.  It was good; 
there
->  RH> was a
->  RH> smallish chunk left at the end, and I offered it to a young guy
with 
a
->  RH> hollow leg.  He scarfed it on the way out the door. The cheesecake 
is
->  RH> of course also long gone.
-> 
-> I'm not surprised. I would have stretched it out so as to keep the carb
-> count reasonable but it would probably be gone by now.
-> 
Oddly the chunk I left in the office fridge was still there this afternoon 
when I dropped something off.  That didn't last long once I put it out in 
the open on a conference table.(LOL)
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 Join Us: www.DocsPlace.org (1:123/140)