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Old 08-31-2007, 08:55 PM   #1
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What do you do to keep in touch with old fashioned ways?
What do you do that could be done an easier way that you prefer doing the old fashioned way?
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Old 08-31-2007, 09:33 PM   #2
 
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I must admit whne I was you I loved to camp and hike- I loved to chop logs for the fire- a real outdoorsguy -but now my idea of roughing it is not being able to find the remote!
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Brother? You were me?
You are so funny though! The remote!!!!!!!
Hey, you just redid a whole house!!!
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I have a bread machine, but I enjoy making bread by hand.
When I go camping, I have a gas stove but always cook over a fire.
I have a rototiller but enjoy digging the garden by hand with a shovel (I'm just perverse).
I have a car but enjoy walking everywhere.
I have a boat but enjoy swimming
I have a computer but sometimes I just enjoy writing out ideas in longhand.
I have shoes but enjoy walking barefoot
I have a swimsuit (but I choose to claim the fifth amendment)
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Don, good for you! I like that in a person, not looking for the easiest way all the time!
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Yes we remodeled our whole house - will most of it anyway- I have to accumulate funds to continue- it was rugged but it is kind of nice now that we can look at the fruit of our labours! One thing I did learn from it- I now know why contractors charge so much money!LOL!
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Yes, think of the money you spent and quadrupel that!
We work in our house just bits and pieces at a time~
You will have to post some pics you know!
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I love to cook from scratch, but that's no news! I also would love to remodel an old home like an English cottage or small Victorian maybe! Not myself, though! I would definitely hire someone! I like to iron Ken's shirts and clothes myself, rather than take them to the cleaners. My mother thought me the "proper" way to iron and it stuck. I just love the way a buttoned down shirt looks after I finished ironing it. It's funny, but because I lived in Romania I am sort of a generation behind compared to people my age who lived here all their lives. We had outhouses, raised chickens and killed, plucked and cook them ourselves, had the type of irons that you set on the burner to heat and had to cook food from scratch all the time because there was no "preprepared" anything!

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Laura, that is so interesting though! I'd love that kind of life!
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I haven't unpacked enough stuff to find my camera- LOL!
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