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От : Ruth Haffly 1:396/45.28 27 янв 26 12:38:47
К : Ben Collver 27 янв 26 18:06:01
Тема : Publishing, Crockpots
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Hi Ben,
BC> Thanks for the reminiscing about your folks` careers. I like the part
BC> where when told your mother was told she couldn`t, she did it anyway.
She had to go to summer school (about 250 miles away) for part of it;
as oldest daughter I got the brunt of cooking, cleaning, etc. Did me
well when I left home to get married, neither of my sisters could hardly
boil water when they left home. I tell Steve that I got most (not quite
all) of my cooking mistakes out before we got married.
BC> I befriended the guy in charge of in-house printing where i worked.
BC> He had old-fashioned equipment in the basement. He used to run the
BC> local paper, and told stories about battling with aging equipment
BC> there too. He was quite a character.
Sounds like fun. I remember going to the News (Catskill Mountain News)
office when I was younger, seeing them print the paper. They had to feed
the sheets of paper in one at a time, then pull out and change the
plates to do the other side. Then it was put thru a cutter and folder
machine.
BC> I forget which branch of the military he was in, but he went to BC>
Germany in WWII. He told me they had set up schools in Austria where
BC> they were BC> training people to step into German government
positions after taking BC> possession of the USA. He said they had it
all planned out as though BC> it were a done deal.
Probably Army but working for OSS (precurser to CIA) or a similar
agency. Sounds interesting; I wonder how much of it he could have made
public in a book. It would be interesting reading.
BC> One story he told me was organizing a fund raiser. He advertised it
BC> as a topless car wash, but left out that it would be done by the Boy
BC> Scouts. There was a big turnout, including many of the local preachers
BC> who showed up to protest.
Sounds worse than it ended up being. Quite the "hook" to get a turn out
tho.
RH> Basically, yes. I pulled out the baby crock pot, put the meat, a cut up
RH> onion, a can of tomatoes, and a couple of small cans worth (subdivided
RH> large can) of diced chili peppers in it, let it cook on low all day. For
RH> supper, I cooked some spiral pasta and we served the "chili" over that.
RH> Steve spiced him up a bit with chipotle powder but it was good as is for a
RH> cold day.
BC> That sounds delicious to me. It has been cold here too. Yesterday i
BC> made a crockpot of split pea soup. It was edible but not as awesome
BC> as usual. I blame the expired carton of broth. It`ll likely be better
BC> next time.
I did a chicken casserole and caesar salad last night. Tonight will
probably left overs, clean out the fridge a bit. We`re slowly thawing
out but the weather folks are saying we could get hit with another storm
on Saturday.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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