-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 08-31-16  22:47 <=-

 RH>> Yes, we loaded the peaches picked up in Pa into it to keep them
 RH>> from going bad. They were quite ripe, had to trim the bad spot here
 RH>> & there while putting them up but not too much lost, thankfully.
 NB>> Kept them cool, but couldn't totally protect against bruising, I'd
 NB>> guess... :)

 RH> Not quite, given how ripe they were.

That's what I figured.... :)
 
 RH>>> Yes--we had very few left overs this year as compared to last.
 RH>>> May tweak the list more if we go next year to reduce them even
 RH>>> more.
 NB>>> Sounds like you are getting the knack of it, for sure...  :)
 RH>> Helps to have shopped for Life Group cooking and a good many more
 RH>> years of family shopping than any of the other team members. We
 RH>> came in under budget for the food.
 NB>> I'm not at all surprised... :)  Lots of experience on many levels
 NB>> of food shopping, both bulk and not.... and of knowing how much
 NB>> to get and whether something is a bargain or not...  :)

 RH> The store brand (Hanniford's) is of a decent quality; we had no qualms
 RH> about buying a lot of that. Some things we had to get name brands but
 RH> tried to keep that to a minimum. We went with a better grade of ground
 RH> beef to avoid a lot of waste from fat--all in all, shopping the way we
 RH> did was much better than the way we did it last year.

And this year you had the benefit of last year's experience... :) 
 
 NB>>> I never needed any more cards... probably still have some
 NB>>> tucked away somewhere......
 RH>> I've needed new ones every time we've moved. (G)
 NB>> As long as the phone number didn't change, you might have been
 NB>> able to keep using the old... ;)  But if you put your address
 NB>> on there too... yeah, that changes...... ;)

 RH> We had just a land line when I got my first couple of sets of cards.
 RH> Once I got a cell phone, that number went on instead (and has changed
 RH> several times). I've always put my address on them so yes, that has
 RH> made for a change in cards several times. I've only done a major change
 RH> in design once tho, in close to 20 years.
 
Why mess with a good thing, after all...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... A fast food place that feeds thousands, grosses millions.

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