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Skriven 2014-02-08 17:56:27 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 9614 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
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Hi Nancy,


 NB>  RH>>> They also used to stop at "Bread Alone" sometimes

 RH> Have to see if we can get you a sample.

 NB> Would be nice, but not necessary...  :)

They do a lot of business in NYC, have to spread the word about them in
the western part of the state too. (G)


 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.

 NB> That would be a nice treat for him.  :)  And depending on the timing,
 NB> we could try again to get together...

We're hoping to get up there this spring but don't have any specific
time frame set yet.

 RH> That is, provisional--we might
 RH> have to make a trip to the Catskills for other reasons.

 NB> True.

 NB>  RH>> Our son in law grew up with the white so Rachel keeps that on
 NB> hand, as  RH>> well as some whole grain. Deborah keeps more whole
 NB> grain on hand, but  RH>> the softer wheat (similar to white but for
 NB> the color) types.
 NB>  NB>> He might grow to appreciate the whole grain eventually... ;)
 NB> 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.

 NB> At least they are partway there...  :)

Better than the white stuff sold as bread.

 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.

 NB> I'm sure that it would be well appreciated...  :)

As in disappearing fast, most likely.

 NB>  NB>> Our son grew up with my making breads, my first attempt was
 NB> oatmeal  NB>> molasses... I'd learned how to make that even before I
 NB> got married,  NB>> so he didn't have a chance to get used to white...
 NB> (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.

 NB> Kids will gripe just for the sake of griping...  (G)  If Rob griped
 NB> about my bread, I don't remember it... :)   I also bought store
 NB> breads, like raisin, cracked wheat, rye/pumpernickle, etc...  :)

We got some spelt bread today at the farmer's market. It uses baking
powder as a leavening.

 NB>  NB>> My sister and I pulled off a surprise 25th anniversary party for
 NB> our  NB>> parents, at a place where she was staying for the summer
 NB> that year...  NB>> the main cook there suggested we might want to add
 NB> some home-baked  NB>> rolls to our menu, and showed me how easy it
 NB> was, talked me through  NB>> the process that first time, and sent me
 NB> home with the recipe...  :)

 RH> Nice! My parents wanted a low key 25th so just took us kids out to
 RH> dinner.

 NB> My parents hadn't thought there would be any sort of celebration, I
 NB> think they may have had something small at home, but they were going
 NB> to be on the road for their actual anniversary, planning to visit
 NB> Lesesne
 NB> at that point, and we just took advantage of it.  It was still pretty
 NB> low-key, except for the element of surprise.  They had the younger
 NB> kids with them, but I and the next younger wouldn't have been there...
 NB> the
 NB> surprise included the two of us, plus Mommy's parents... nobody else.
 NB> It was enough, though...  :)

Always good to pull off a surprise like that.

 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.

 NB> You never know...  For my parents' 50th, we and they planned a fairly
 NB> elaborate affair at church, complete with some musical offerings from
 NB> the family, from M&D right down to the grandchildren, for the benefit
 NB> of the friends and family that came...  For their 60th we also had

My parents celebrated 63 last year. They had the reception for their
50th and 60th in the Legion Hall for a number of reasons, part of it
being that it was handicap accessable.


 NB> something at church, though not so elaborate...  They didn't quite
 NB> make it to their 61st... Mommy had Daddy's memorial service on what
 NB> would
 NB> have been that... he went home at the beginning of that week.

Probably hard on her but an appropriate date.


 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.

 NB> We haven't really had any major celebrations for any of our
 NB> anniversaries... we had a fun time with two other couples who had
 NB> their 25th within a month of ours, after the fact... we went down to
 NB> Ontario
 NB> Beach Park, rode the carousel, walked the beach, and then had supper
 NB> together at Schallers (a hamburger place down the road)... That was
 NB> all the celebration we had... I think the other couples might have had
 NB> some other celebrations on their anniversaries, though...  :)  For our
 NB> 40th
 NB> we just went out to eat (at Seoul House, as I mentioned then).

We've no idea where we'll go--depends on where we're living at the time.


 NB>  NB>> If I'd been in a locale where there were no good options for
 NB> schooling,  NB>> I might have tried it with our son, but he wasn't
 NB> really a very good  NB>> fit for homeschooling... I couldn't even
 NB> teach him piano, even though  NB>> I had no trouble with teaching any
 NB> one else... he couldn't distinguish  NB>> between my being mom and my
 NB> being teacher as being at all viable... ;)


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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