Subj : BBSes was: Gravy was: Cra
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri May 19 2023 10:11:20

Hi Dave,


 DD> That was, most probably, Single Ruth. Married Ruth and her ol' man,
 DD> Steve point off of a BBS somewhere. Their cut line says "Sew! that's
 DD> my point." The address is  FIDO 1:396/45.28

 RH> That's mine, Steve has a different point number and cut line. We've
 RH> been pointing off of Marc Lewis for probably close to 20 years now.
 RH> Started with Fido when we were in AZ in 1994, pointed locally and
 RH> stayed with an AZ point until he shut down while we were in HI, about
 RH> 10 years later. Switched to Marc, kept him thru the rest of our stay in
 RH> HI, 2.5 years in GA and now 14 in NC.

 DD> Steve posts in here so seldom I had not noticed.

Ham radio takes up most of his time now, but not neccessarily time "on
the air". Tinkering with equipment in one form or another is a big part
of it. Plus, he also (just) built a "mezzinine" (shelving so he has a
second layer of storage) for the back of the truck. A fellow ham has one
of them, gave Steve the idea and name.

 DD>       Title: Ruthie's Frozen Fruit Smoothie DD>  Categories: Live!,
 Beverages, Desserts DD>       Yield: 1 Servings

 RH> Got to be a different Ruthie; anybody that tries to call me that gets
 RH> swiftly and firmly corrected.

 DD> Sorta like my youngest sibling. One of my grandmother's church ladies
 DD> addressed him as "Bobby" one time and he puffed up and told her in on
 DD> uncertain terms "My name is Robert!" Friends and family could call him
 DD> "Rob" not absolutely no Bob or Bobby.

My parents didn't use it with my brothers William (he did get called
Bill) or Donald--got shortened to Don--but no i,e, or y with any of us.
We used the full Deborah with our younger daughter. When she was 4, we
were part of a mother's co-operative pre school. The first day of
school, one of the other mothers had a name tag for her--Debra. She
(daughter) informed her that "my name is spelled D-E-B-O-R-A-H!!".
Seventeen years later she corrected one of her drill instructors when he
counted a cadence wrong; she'd been on the JROTC drill team for a couple
of years so knew the correct count. (G)

 DD> I asked him how he got along in the Navy ... he said most Chiefs
 and DD> Officers called him "Drum" which was also acceptable.

That's standard military. We've a family in our church with the last
name of Ragsdale. He served time in the Navy (subs), said that a lot of
his fellow sailors called him "Rags", which he goes by, to this day,
even by his wife. Some of the officers tried to get them to correct it
but he said that it never stuck. Logical, with a name like that--and it
fits his personality.


 RH> Looks like this could be made with almost any fruit; I'd probably not
 RH> use durian, however. (G)

 DD> Lack of supply?

As good a reason as any. We've seen it in some of the Asian stores
around here but not yet picked one up.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


.... Some are so educated they can bore you on almost any subject

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