Subj : Cramping [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu May 09 2024 20:05:18
Hi Dave,
DD> I only did Boy Sprouts for a couple years since one of the leaders
DD> made me nervous (today I'd say "He set my gay-dar off") and later made
DD> headlines in the local daily paper. But, I did my share (and then
RH> I've read about them and wondered about some I've known.
DD> This clown was ucky the law locked him up. There were a couple irate
DD> fathers who would have cheerfully wreaked havoc on him.
Not to mention mothers. (G)
DD> weater, and rolling uot my sleeping bag.
RH> Easier (and generally safer) for a guy to do than a girl.
DD> Oh, I dunno. If you go by stereotypes - then yes, you're right. But
DD> I've known - and dated - some women/girls who could hold their own
DD> against
DD> nearly anyone wanting to cause them problems.
Yes, but overall, girls aren't as tough as guys. I've met a few tough
girls/women in my life, also some not so tough boys/men.
RH> Dad was a city boy, raised in North Tonawanda, NY. He was active with
RH> kids, camping was the cheapest way to go (true) for vacations, tho we
RH> didn't start travelling until the youngest was around 7.
DD> I knew a racer, Jim Hurtubise, from that Buffalo suburb. Met him when
DD> the USAC cars raced at the state fairgrounds.
Dad was born in 1922, joined the Navy in late 41 andwent to college
after the war. Married in 1950 but his parents both passed away the year
before. Trips to NT to see his siblings were few and far between.
DD> I split the difference between town and country. My grandparents had
DD> the 800+ acres family farm originally deeded to an ancestore for
DD> services in the Revolutionary War as a "section" (640 acres). And they
RH> Nice that you've got the back story for it. Does it still raise the
RH> crops it did initially or have they changed as the country got more
RH> urban?
DD> Don't know for sure. My grandmother was deeding the property to my
DD> mother in parcels that let them avoid paying taxes on the
DD> transferrence and would let them avoid inheritance tax. Them mom
DD> predeceased her and Grndmother sold the whole thing. Up until then I
DD> had entertained the idea of becoming a "gentleman farmer" when the
DD> land passed to me. Ah well.
DD> I doubt that the current owmers farm it as my grandfather and his
DD> tennants did - with crop rotation, companion plantings and a small
DD> livestock part. I'd wager good money that their crops are corn and
DD> soybeans. And that the sorghum, oats, barley, alfalfa, clover, etc.
DD> are but distant memories.
Still, nice to know it's still a working farm. Would you, if interested
be able to buy a couple of acres on the "back 40" and do a bit of crop
raising?
RH> We still prefer to do all the shopping. If I don't go out with Steve,
RH> I'll send a fairly detailed list of what to get.
DD> It's easier for me to parse an advertisement/listing than to trudge
DD> all over what is, after all, a Big Box store. Bv)=
RH> Only paper ad we get is Food Lion but I can go on line for Wegman's,
RH> Lowe's Lidl, Aldi..............
DD> Our local daily rag (I can no longer, in good conscience, call it a
DD> NEWS- paper) mails a selection of grocery store ads dollar store and
DD> coupons every week. But my main source of grocery deals is the e-mails
DD> from the local stores with which I do business.
Wegman's sends out e-mails, probably the others would if I wanted to get
on their lists. I'll usually look over in store specials and if we've
got the store's card, consider them/hhow well they'll fit (or not) with
what I've sort of planned out for upcoming meals.
DD> Back in the day nearly all neighbourhood groceries had delivery
DD> service.
RH> I remember the locally owned grocery store having delivery service but
RH> not the 2 chain stores. We did have a local chicken farmer who
RH> sold/delivered eggs weekly plus a milk man that stopped by twice a
RH> week.
DD> We used to get milk deliveries from a local dairy .... but that was 60
DD> or more years ago when milk was still in glass bottles. I see that the
DD> last delivering dairy in Illinois (Oberweis) has filed for bankruptcy
DD> and laid off a couple hundred workers. Sad.
DD> But I see that Dutch Farms (cheese makers) is working on buying the
DD> wreck and reviving it. They also sell pre-made stuff in the take it
DD> and bake it category. My local Ruler Foods (Korger) and County Market
DD> carry the cheese and the frozen entrees. I've tried their Chicken
DD> Cordon Bleu and it's OK. But, I still prefer mine. Bv)=
We're going to be in an Amish region for the next week; Steve was
noticing all the cheese places when he checked out the area on line
earlier today.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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