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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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