Subj : Bits & Bobs [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Jan 19 2025 20:43:45
Hi Dave,
RH> Shouldn't, but the old "guys rule" mentality is hard to break.
DD> It's both a fact and a mystery. Women are just as smart or smarter can
DD> be as strong and do handle pain better, But men don't get their bodies
DD> all stretched out of shape growing babies internally and they have
DD> taken a lot of advantage from that.
But some guys will never "get it".
DD> best boss I ever had was a woman. I was so impressed with her that I
DD> told her one day "If I were 40 years younger and you weren't already
DD> married .... "Besides being a joy to work for she was a genuinely nice
DD> person. And drop dead gorgeous, I've stayed in touch and tried a time
DD> or three to entice her into coming back to AutoZone. But, she's happy
DD> catching babies in the Labor & Delivery department at a local
DD> hospital.
RH> She's found her niche. One of my friends down here worked in Labor and
RH> Delivery for about 10 years, was finally transferred but she missed
RH> working with new moms/babies. There is something special about seeing a
RH> new life coming into the world and the new parent's reactions.
DD> I don't know nabout that first hand. Never raised a child of my own.
DD> Did raise a girl. Must have done an OK job as I got invited to her
DD> wedding and her birtg father was told, rather pointedly, to stay away.
You don't have to have been the biological parent to be a good/great
parent.
RH> Root beer making--takes me back years. My folks did it from time to
RH> time; I think the last time they did it was in 1967. Got harder to find
RH> the caps and root beer extract in their small town and they didn't do a
DD> The Boy Sprout root beer is bottled in old wine bottles and corked,
DD> noy capped. And it has to be refrigerated lest it "blow its cork".
We kept itt in the unheaed or cooled cellar, only bringing up bottles to
be used with a meal. I can recall a few blow outs, but not many. I think
part of it was that my folks usually made root beer in the winter.
DD> 8<----- SHIFT ----->8
DD> Me too. When Illinois outlawed smoking in offices and enclosed public
DD> spaces nearly all of the saloon and restaurant owners had much
DD> weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. But,it opened up new vistas
DD> for me as there were some pretty decent places I wouls have gone to
DD> for meals but for the excess smokiness. It all played out in the end.
RH> Typical reaction it seems. NC didn't outlaw it until shortly after we
RH> moved up here in 2009. Nice to walk into a restaurant and not have to
RH> specifly "non smoking, as far away from smoking as possible". Over the
RH> years we walked out of a number of places that tried seating us really
RH> close to the smokers.
DD> Dennis has a round, fat inhaler he hits twice a day then gargles. I
DD> can always tell when he's dne his inhaler. Him gargling sounds like
DD> an Opera singer warming up to warble. Bv)=
RH> Ever ask him when his debut at the Met is scheduled for?
DD> He wouldn't "get" it. Some days he can be pretty thick. Bv)=
RH> That does look like a place where thick would be really good.
DD> The BBQ sauce is especially good. And enough different from KC/Texas
DD> or Carolinas sauces to be in a category of its own.
DD> I really like the fruit-forward BBQ sauces. But I'm reduced to making
DD> my own as I've never seen them offered for sale around here..
So make what you like and leave the other sauces to the folks that like
them. For the most part, I don't do any sauce on my meat but eastern NC
style pulled pork usually gets a bit more of the vinegar "mop" added to
my serving.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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