Hi Shawn,


RH> Yes, the thought crossed our mind about buying it but we were never
RH> in the place to do so. My brother was so we let him have it.

 SH> I understand that.  I was in a position to buy a family home and I
 SH> did, however times changed and I ended up having to sell it.  Ah well
 SH> sometimes life doesn't go the way we want.

Some people do live life the way they thought they would as they were
growing up. I think that's a rather small percentage tho; there's
usually something that will change their life in previously unforseen
ways. One of the big events that changed our direction was when Steve
enlisted in the Army. We lived in a lot of new/different places and as
part of that, ate a lot of different foods we never knew existed or had
maybe just read about. We'd never thought about living in AZ but about a
year after we moved there, one of Steve's computer friends introduced
him to Fido...............and here I am.

I'd not heard of an Ocracoke fig cake the first time we lived in NC but
some time after we moved back to the state, the Raleigh paper had an
article about it. At the time it was just an interesting read but when
we bought this house and Steve planted a fig tree, I needed something to
do with all the figs we got last year. I remembered the article, went on
a recipies site and found a recipe. It's now part of my cooking
"heritage".







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Catch you later,
Ruth
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