-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 07-25-19  14:01 <=-

 NB>>>> Or you're too young for him to be that old!  
 RH>>> That's more like it.
 NB>>> I know the feeling well...  (G)
 RH>> I think most all of us on the echo are of the same feeling.
 NB>> At least those of us that aren't youngsters anymore...  

 RH> Which is probably most all of us regulars.

Yeah... I suppose that even the somewhat youngsters aren't all that
young any more, either.... I don't think we have anyone at the moment
that's younger than in the 40's...  
 
 RH>>> Quite so. Another family had #2 (#1 was born before they moved
 RH>>> here) just a few days after Audrey was born. He turned 8 in
 RH>>> April, just a few weeks after becoming a big brother to #6.
 NB>>> Reminds one of the song from Fiddler... Sunrise, Sunset...  
 RH>> One of my favorites. I saw the movie for the first time (but not the
 RH>> last) while in college.
 NB>> I've seen it a few times also... and listened to the soundtrack
 NB>> recording many more times... 

 RH> Same here--some good lines in the movie but our favorite song has been
 RH> Tevye and Goldie's duet "Do You Lov-a Me?".
 
That's another of my favorites, too...    ["...I suppose I do..."
"Then I suppose I love you, too..."]

 RH>>> They both were, and both gone now so I'll be making another pie
 RH>>> tomorrow. This time it will be with local (We know the grower.)
 RH>>> blueberries. Got some more cherries but I think Steve is going
 RH>>> to try drying them.
 NB>>> A worthy experiment... has he done that before with the
 NB>>> cherries...?
 RH>> No, but we've got the resources to tell him how to do it and they
 RH>> dried nicely. I could (almost) eat them like candy.
 NB>> Probably just a little bit healthier for you than candy, at
 NB>> least... 

 RH> They came out well--the jar is in the pantry. So far I've resisted
 RH> digging into it. Guess I ought to put it in the back so I won't see
 RH> it. (G)

That might help...  (G)
 
 NB>>> is perforce rather busy for me... I didn't get home from the
 NB>>> Pond until Wednesday late afternoon, and so lost a day for
 NB>>> getting ready for going off on the Elder family camping week
 NB>>> which starts Saturday....
 RH>> So you should be at camp when this comes in; my Fido was out
 RH>> of commission for a few days, probably because of Barry.
 RH>> Hopefully you're having fun, eating lots of goodies and
 RH>> catching up with everybody.
 NB>> I was indeed at the family camping... this set of messages was
 NB>> in the huge packet I downloaded when I got home...   We did
 NB>> have fun, catching up with each other... not really so many
 NB>> goodies this year... fewer people showed up this year than in
 NB>> other years, and of those, a fairly significant percentage
 NB>> only came on a day trip, or to drop off their kids to be there
 NB>> (under grandparent supervision)...

 RH> Good to see everybody, even if it is just for a short time.

Very true...  I missed my cousin & family... they showed up on the first
day as a day trip, and were only at my sister MG's campsite... I never
was told they were there until after the fact... at the time, I was in
my cabin getting settled, I think... 

 NB>>> Got a week's worth of Fido etc messages read yesterday, starting
 NB>>> in on replies now... what doesn't get done goes with me to work
 NB>>> on there... 
 RH>> I only had 3 days of back mail, plus today, so not that bad to
 RH>> catch up on.
 NB>> I took about half of it with me, and, as you saw, I uploaded
 NB>> those when I got back from Selkirk Shores....   Now, I'm
 NB>> tackling that week's message packet....   At least I'm not
 NB>> planning any more trips for a few weeks... 

 RH> We're not planning any until September but will be working on odds and
 RH> ends around the house until then. Baby shower is August 9, got the
 RH> quilt pieces cut yesterday for that.
 
You should be in good shape on that...  

 RH>> We cooked for LG yesterday, ended up only being 2 others
 RH>> besides Steve and me. Did a taco salad with blueberry cobbler
 RH>> (local berries) for dessert. Cobbler was enhanced by vanilla
 RH>> ice cream--yummy!
 NB>> Had you known ahead of time how few people there were to be
 NB>> there...? Sounds like a fairly simple and easy meal...   Did
 NB>> you have lots of leftovers....?

 RH> We knew one family wasn't going to be there, found out 2 more people
 RH> couldn't make it at the last minute. We were able to adjust the
 RH> cooking so as not to have a lot of "use right away" left overs--extra
 RH> beans into the pantry, greens into salad, tortillas into the freezer,
 RH> etc. Nice flexible meal. (G)

That worked out nicely, then...  

ttyl         neb

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