-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Sean Dennis <=-  
    
   RH> Just that I need time to sit down and talk over the alternatives with  
   RH> Stephen. I'm sitting now but it's chill time--spent some time at the  
   RH> sewing machine and my back is hurting. Supper is semi home made sauce,  
   RH> home made meat balls and commercial whole wheat spaghetti.  
    
  I understand.  I was just being silly.  
    
   RH> OK, we planted 3 saplings a few years after we moved to this house  
   RH> (fall of 2014), an oak, an elm and the fig. Both of the first 2 have  
   RH> grown into nice tall trees; the fig is more bushy (but easier to get to  
   RH> the figs).  
    
  Like a spaghetti bush?  When I was a teenager, I had a friend convinced that  
  spaghetti grew in bushes...  
    
   RH> We semi plan things--if we have to be somewhere for an event, we will  
   RH> make it but not always a week or so before or stay a week afterward.  
   RH> That's why we generally don't make "on the road" reservations, just  
   RH> stop when and where we want.  
    
  That's the most fun way to travel for me: drive until you get tired then  
  stop  
  for the night, get up early and get on the road.  
    
   RH> Thanks, it's not going to be fun but if it explains why I have the  
   RH> bronchiactasis,...........  
    
  My mom has bronchiactasis from eosinophilic asthma (which she got from  
  having  
  COVID).  She is vewr saensitive to a lot of things as am I.  I am currently  
  starting a five-year plan of allergy shots because my allergies are so  
  severe.  
    
   RH> of all the other hams, partly because he likes to do things like that.  
   RH> (G)  
    
  I am now starting to write grant requests as our post's roof needs replaced  
  so  
  we are trying to raise funds to replace it.  
    
  MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06  
    
        Title: Red Beans and Rice with Smoked Sausage  
   Categories: Pork, Main dish, Spicy  
        Yield: 4 Servings  
    
        1 lb Dried red beans  
        1 ea Garlic clove chopped  
    1 1/2 lb Smoked sausage cut  
        1 ts Dried thyme  
        1 x  Into chunks  
        1 ts Ground pepper  
        8 oz Smoked ham shanks  
      1/2 ts Sage  
        1 ea Large onion chopped  
        1 pn Cayenne pepper  
        1 x  Salt  
        1 x  Freshly cooked rice  
    
    Place beans in Dutch oven and cover generously with water.   Let soak  
    30 minutes. Add remaining ingredients to beans except salt and rice.  
    Bring to boil over  medium  high heat.   Reduce heat to medium low,  
    cover and simmer until  beans  are tender,  adding more water if  
    necessary (about 2 1/2 hours).   Add  salt  to  taste.   Discard ham  
    bones. Remove about 3 tablespoons  of  beans from mixture and mash to  
    paste; return to Dutch oven and stir.  Simmer 15 more minutes. Serve  
    over hot rice.  
    
  MMMMM  
    
  -- Sean  
    
  ... Would a fly without wings be considered a walk?  
    
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