Text 9614, 162 rader
Skriven 2014-02-07 16:12:24 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Kommentar till text 9516 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: putting up
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 04 Feb 14 20:41:13 <=-
RH>>> They also used to stop at "Bread Alone" sometimes
RH>> I think they've been around a lot longer than Panera Breads. Not
RH>> nearly the choices for sandwiches, don't know if they do soups, but
RH>> much better breads (IMO).
NB>> I'd not be surprised at any of that... ;)
RH> Have to see if we can get you a sample.
Would be nice, but not necessary... :)
RH> We're talking tho, of next time we head north, stopping in western NY
RH> first, then going to the Catskills. We need to make a day trip to
RH> North Tonawanda to stop where my dad used to get sausage (get some for
RH> him, some for us) and visit the cemetary where family is buried.
That would be a nice treat for him. :) And depending on the timing, we
could try again to get together...
RH> That is, provisional--we might
RH> have to make a trip to the Catskills for other reasons.
True.
RH>> Our son in law grew up with the white so Rachel keeps that on hand, as
RH>> well as some whole grain. Deborah keeps more whole grain on hand, but
RH>> the softer wheat (similar to white but for the color) types.
NB>> He might grow to appreciate the whole grain eventually... ;) Which do
NB>> the kids prefer...?
RH> Deborah's kids & "step kids" like the soft wheat but also liked the
RH> whole wheat baslama bread Steve made while there last time. She
RH> doesn't buy white but also doesn't get a good whole wheat bread; I'll
RH> have to make sure they gets some when they come here next month.
At least they are partway there... :)
RH> Rachel's kids eat whatever she buys and also liked the baslama bread;
RH> maybe I need to make some bread while out there sometime.
I'm sure that it would be well appreciated... :)
NB>> Our son grew up with my making breads, my first attempt was oatmeal
NB>> molasses... I'd learned how to make that even before I got married,
NB>> so he didn't have a chance to get used to white... (G)
RH> Our girls grew up on my home made and griped about it. Then they had
RH> to eat school breakfast & lunch for a few days when we packed out for
RH> our move to Germany--and came home complaining about the white bread.
RH> They fussed now and again about the whole wheat bread but overall, I
RH> think they like it better than white.
Kids will gripe just for the sake of griping... (G) If Rob griped
about my bread, I don't remember it... :) I also bought store breads,
like raisin, cracked wheat, rye/pumpernickle, etc... :)
NB>> My sister and I pulled off a surprise 25th anniversary party for our
NB>> parents, at a place where she was staying for the summer that year...
NB>> the main cook there suggested we might want to add some home-baked
NB>> rolls to our menu, and showed me how easy it was, talked me through
NB>> the process that first time, and sent me home with the recipe... :)
RH> Nice! My parents wanted a low key 25th so just took us kids out to
RH> dinner.
My parents hadn't thought there would be any sort of celebration, I
think they may have had something small at home, but they were going to
be on the road for their actual anniversary, planning to visit Lesesne
at that point, and we just took advantage of it. It was still pretty
low-key, except for the element of surprise. They had the younger kids
with them, but I and the next younger wouldn't have been there... the
surprise included the two of us, plus Mommy's parents... nobody else.
It was enough, though... :)
RH> We (parents, youngest sister & I) left the next day to take
RH> some of my things to NC before the wedding (7 weeks later). For both
RH> their 50th and 60th, we had a community open house and dinner for
RH> relatives/close friends. Doubt there will be a 65th, now not even sure
RH> about a 64th.
You never know... For my parents' 50th, we and they planned a fairly
elaborate affair at church, complete with some musical offerings from
the family, from M&D right down to the grandchildren, for the benefit of
the friends and family that came... For their 60th we also had
something at church, though not so elaborate... They didn't quite make
it to their 61st... Mommy had Daddy's memorial service on what would
have been that... he went home at the beginning of that week.
RH> OTOH, Steve and I have been even lower key in celebrating our big
RH> anniversaries. Number 25 was only 10 days after his psuedo aneurism &
RH> I almost lost him so we didn't do anything (except for the ring he
RH> surprised me with). Our 30th was in HI--did an overnight trip to
RH> Honolulu with dinner and an "Elvis" concert; #35 was while we were
RH> both in school and Steve had classes the next day so we just went down
RH> to Raleigh for supper. Our 40th is next year.
We haven't really had any major celebrations for any of our
anniversaries... we had a fun time with two other couples who had their
25th within a month of ours, after the fact... we went down to Ontario
Beach Park, rode the carousel, walked the beach, and then had supper
together at Schallers (a hamburger place down the road)... That was all
the celebration we had... I think the other couples might have had some
other celebrations on their anniversaries, though... :) For our 40th
we just went out to eat (at Seoul House, as I mentioned then).
NB>> If I'd been in a locale where there were no good options for schooling,
NB>> I might have tried it with our son, but he wasn't really a very good
NB>> fit for homeschooling... I couldn't even teach him piano, even though
NB>> I had no trouble with teaching any one else... he couldn't distinguish
NB>> between my being mom and my being teacher as being at all viable... ;)
RH> I had a bit of that when I taught Deborah in our mother's co-operative
RH> preschool in TX and was Girl Scout troop leader for Rachel for a year
RH> in Germany.
Having observed for a while now, I'm of the opinion that not every
situation is viable for homeschooling... it is very nice for many
families, probably even the best option for some... but there are some
children that just aren't good candidates for homeschooling, and some
parents that aren't particularly cut out to teach, either... and some
parent-child combinations that just don't work for it...
NB>> We sent him to Christian school (two different ones) thru 8th grade,
NB>> and then to a public high school that had both the academics and
NB>> technical training... I think that any time you send your kids to
NB>> school, there will be some supplementation at home necessary... I
NB>> did a fair bit along the way, too... :)
RH> To ensure the kid gets a good education, it has to be done.
Quite.
NB>> I don't ever remember having lasagna at home, either that Mommy made
NB>> or that we girls made (the boys were too young still by the time I
NB>> left home)... I'm sure I must have had it, like at church dinners, or
NB>> restaurants or something, before I tried making it on my own... I got
NB>> my recipe probably from a cookbook (possibly from the box, though)...
RH> We had some at a local Italian restaurant--similar to what my MIL
RH> makes so we knew what Mom made was not the real thing. She could pass
RH> it off on us when we were young but as we got older and knew the good
RH> stuff, she quit making it. Then I met/married Steve...................
Aww... you could have just eaten her version, and called it something
else... ;) Unless it was totally lousy, though, I guess... :)
RH>>> No, that's why I call it the "Vanishing Lemon Pound Cake". (G)
NB>>> Indeed. :)
RH>> I'll have to make one some time when I know we'll be seeing you. (G)
NB>> Someday... :)
RH> Somewhere............
NB> Yup... ;)
RH> When the time is right, you will get to try it.
Maybe at a picnic sometime... :) Or the equivalent... :)
ttyl neb
... I may be paranoid, but it doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
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