-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 02-13-17  14:44 <=-

 RH>> We've not had that much to look at this winter. If we'd not gone
 RH>> out west, it would have been just the left overs from the storm
 RH>> last month. Going to get cold briefly later this week but not wet
 RH>> and cold enough at the same time around here to generate white stuff.
 NB>> This winter things just keep turning to slush and making messes...
 NB>> this morning we woke up to sleety ice on the car windows...
 NB>> fortunately not too hard to clean off to get to church...  Now
 NB>> it's settling down to snow again.... they're predicting 2-4 inches,
 NB>> last I saw... I think that the possible ice we were threatened
 NB>> with earlier is passed by now... I hope, anyway.... (G)

 RH> After hitting a record 83 degrees at the Raleigh airport yesterday,
 RH> today is back into the 50s. But, no rain/snow for the immediate
 RH> future. We've been watching video of what the northeast has gotten,
 RH> glad we're not up there right now.

I'm glad we're as far inland as we are.... While I think we've been
somewhat shortchanged this year for snow, I'd just as soon not be
getting that sort of dumps....!   :)   This weekend we'll be losing all
we got on Monday and from the dustings since.... temps were up into the
50s today and predicted to be so tomorrow and the high 40s for Sunday
and Monday and into next week... NOT normal February weather at all...

 RH>> Tomorrow I'm going to put something into the crock pot before my
 RH>> dental appointment so it can cook while I'm there and at quilting.
 RH>> Supper will be ready for us to enjoy before heading out to church.
 NB>> Good planning..  :)

 RH> I used the leftover beef from making chili, should have gotten a cut
 RH> with more fat on it as this one dried out too much. But, it was easy
 RH> do, just the beef, a small can of V8, some presliced portabello
 RH> mushrooms and leftover diced peppers from the chili.

I suppose you could have saved any fat you cut off for the chili and
added it back in for your crockpot dinner...  ;)   A nice way to use up
your leftovers from the chili makings... :)

 RH> When we set up for retreat, someone put small bags of assorted
 RH> chocolates at each place--mine came home so I wouldn't be tempted. (G)

Good thinking... easier to parcel them out afterwards, too...  :) 
 
 NB>>> I saw where Jim confirmed that "made on demand"....
 NB>>> Besides, how common is durian where you are, anyway..... (G)
 RH>> Not very, we've got a small Asian population, but not that many
 RH>> in/aroundWF. They're more toward the Research Triangle/Durham/Cary
 RH>> area.
 NB>> Well, there you go.... wouldn't be durian, then....  ;)

 RH> No, but it was the first thing that popped into my head for a "D"
 RH> food. 

Been hanging around here too long...  (G)

 RH>> We have only the one Chinese place in WF proper, but it does a
 RH>> good business from non Asians, including, us, from time to time.
 NB>> Lots of people like Chinese food... of one sort or another,
 NB>> anyway...  ;)

 RH> Seems so, most every small town has a Chinese restaurant either in it
 RH> or close to it. (G)

Not always a good one, though...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... My mind is fine but my forgetter is better.

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