Text 34333, 66 rader
Skriven 2006-07-23 13:14:01 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 34246 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Re: IQ Test
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*** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Snicker, ok.  That could take a weekend!

RW> He always enjoyed that sort of thing. I couldn't stomach 'Bullheads'
RW> though. They tasted like mud, which is the enviornment they lived in.
RW> river never saw a day of clear water, in fact it was named for it's co
RW> Yellow Creek. As was the other river around that area, Pecatonica, whi
RW> in the indian language it was derived from meant; muddy water.

Would that be a varient of catfish perchance?  I'm notfamiliar with 'bullhead'
for a fish but it might be descriptive?

 CS> Sounds like a good trade!  Our neighbor in Virginia Beach had a tree
 CS> swing in our communal tree (grows technically on his side but just
 CS> barely) so we added the other stuff like some flower pots and a
 CS> little table to the side so you could set down your iced tea and
 CS> stuff.

RW> That sounds like a nice setting for relaxing on a hot summer evening.

Thats what it was.  Rather pretty looking too.  The only 'hassle' was really
minor (had to shift where I park slightly so the swing could be fully used as
it went slightly over my driveway at full extension).  I used to park my car
there so the tree would help keep it cooler in high summer.  Like I said,
minor adjustment and the driveway was a double wide so very easy to shift a
few feet over and still get mostly shade.

 CS> stuff from their garden and trim our rose bushes come the right time
 CS> for that.

RW> Heh...my dad was getting up in years and tried to climb a ladder on th
RW> bottom side, rather than walk around the fence to get to it. He had pu
RW> over the fence to get it to lean on his garage to paint the sides, of
RW> course he couldn't do it and fell on his butt. Maybe when he was young
RW> he could, but at 70+, he wasn't able.

Yes, long before my father in law died, Don was taking care of that sort of
thing for them.  They lived only 2 miles away and his Mom would pick him up. 
We kept it up til we left Norfolk, having spent our last weekend there fixing
up everything we could at her house.

RW> It was always around Xmas time that I'd go visit with my folks. They h
RW> plenty of stuff from the garden in the freezer. I know that when they
RW> left-overs, mom would put them in old frozen food containers that she
RW> saved from 'frozen dinner nite' when they were both working. She wasn'
RW> much of a cook and dad liked everything burned, so it turned out to be
RW> happy marriage.

Heheh Well, My Mom is a lovely woman, but her cooking wasnt up to my levels and
we used to pray for TV Dinners as a kid. <grin>.

Don by the way, is a very good cook so we take turns.  He made beef jerky last
night (still drying out a bit) with my Korean sauce (something I get a jug of
everytime I get to Korea but cant give you a name of as there's no 'enlish
character set' used on the bottle).  Added all sorts of things to that in a
blender and used as a marinade.  Major yummy and Charlotte and i keep
snitching some warm from the drydrator as it goes along.  We also had canned
asparagus (which we happen to like canned and soft like that) and rice, with a
mild dashi (fish broth) soup starter to which Charlotte added a handful of
'kangkoon' (Hollow stem spinach, Asian) to the bottom of each bowl.

                                       xxcarol

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