-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 07-28-16  22:49 <=-

 >> I doubt there was anything that was critical over here ... my second
 >> oldest sister would often have some kind of "emergency" ("I Have to
 >> take this phone call !!!" (grin)).. so I would just finish up.. I
 >> thought it was funny and very obvious :)
 > I'd probably have gone, sat down and read a book until the "emergency"
 > was over and then get us both back to work on the dishes... ;)

 JK> :)  I don't know how that would have gone over with my parents if I'd
 JK> done that.. Mom and Dad loved to read but... AAMOF one of my fondest
 JK> memories of that crazy household was fighting my Mom for sections of
 JK> the NY Times I was sure she must be done with :)

As the oldest child of two oldest children, they did understand a little
of the dynamics... if called on it, I'd've merely said I was waiting for
the other sibling to be done with the "emergency" so we could get back
to work together... They also agreed that reading was a way of filling
in the holes in a schedule... ;)

 >> One of her older relatives on her
 >> husband's side of the family taught her (amidst protests) how to
 >> wrangle a live chicken's neck.. glad I wasn't there :)  But I think it
 >> so shocked her that she had to uh... instruct me on the method Lol
 > One must pass on the lessons learned... ;)

 JK> hahahaha yes.. otherwise the art is lost. (G)

Precisely..   ;)
 
 >>>> Yes. Or worse.. IIRC, the surgery she had means that her intestinal
 >>>> tract is very very short.  It is very intense to me.  It is downright
 >>>> horrid.  She thinks she can live forever.. :(
 >>> Or doesn't much care if she isn't around....  :(
 >> But if you talk to her, she is full of life and doesn't want to "go".
 >> It's worrisome to me.. but then again she's a tough kid.  So maybe she
 >> knows her body better than the docs and the tests.  Geez, I see that
 >> kind of stuff with me often enough... :)
 > It might be partly putting a good face on things... But, true, it's
 > quite possible that she has been learning her body and does have a clue
 > what's best for her... one can hope....  :)

 JK> Yes, that's my best hope for her.  Perhaps she'll settle at a weight
 JK> that isn't as bad as it was for her early on (she's only about 5' if
 JK> that :() 

It's also possible that something else is happening in her body that
makes her gain the weight, possibly not easily controlled...

 >>>>> it was a "chain restaurant".. Later upon checking it out online, it was
 >>>>> one though. I guess it's like any restaurant... it's as good as it's
 >>>>> manager :)
 >>>> Seems a bit odd, though... being that it is housed in a converted house,
 >>>> not in a typical "chain" restaurant building....  Maybe there's also a
 >>>> chain elsewhere that has the same name.....??
 >>> No, it's not a "same name kind of thing".. check out this page.. two
 >>> locations.. Ithaca and Milwaukee  IIRC
 >>> http://www.maxies.com/
 >> Ok, maybe not a "chain" with only two locations.. but still... :)
 > Are the proprietors related...?  Or is it a chain in the making.... But
 > at this point it doesn't sound like a chain, especially with only two
 > locations, even if not close by... :)

 JK> Yes I agree.. doesn't sound like a chain.. but the fare for both are
 JK> similar :) I checked out the Milwaukee Menu and darn, I want to go
 JK> there :) 
 JK> I can probably get the same items at the Ithaca Maxie's though :)

Sound to me like you should go to the Ithaca Maxie's, and ask the owner
what is the connection between the two restaurants...  :)  My take on it
is that one of them is a second location for the original location...

We have a couple of those locally, both Indian places, which expanded to
a second location...  Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, there
are other types of restaurants locally that have done the same thing...
not chains, just opening up a second location...  sometimes it takes,
sometimes they move totally to the new location, sometimes they just
shut down the second and stay with just the first...  

It's probably less common to have the two locations so widely separated,
though... :)  Unless one is a summer home, or something... ;)

ttyl       neb

... I'd love to, but I'm observing National Apathy Week.

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