Subj : Chicken Salad
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 11:23:40

Hi Dave,


 DD> Rather like moving in to a new home. It takes a while to get
 DD> everything situated the way you want it.

 DS> Tell me about it.  We have been in our retirement apartment for just
 DS> over three years.  There are still things that we believe shipped to
 DS> here, but we still have not found them.  Other things seem to float
 DS> from one place to another, which also means that they are hard to find
 DS> when needed.

 DD> Best way to finds things that have "gone walkabout" is to buy a new
 DD> one. than the lost piece will appear, as if by magic. And nearly every
 DD> time it works.

That's part of what I call "the law of 'go figure'". Invariably when you
need something you can't find it so you replace it only to find what you
were looking for after you've done the job. At least with the camper we
now have doubles of some things so if I can't find it in the house
kitchen, I can go out to the camper and usually find what I need.

 DD> I have habitua; places where I set things that I use a lot. if I
 leave DD> that thing in a different spot it can cause anxiety. I've
 finally got DD> my room-mate trained to put my things back where he

I try to keep things in logical spots but somebody else seems to have a
different logic to himself as to where some things should go.  When we
were in HI, some friends helped me unpack the kitchen after I broke my
elbow just after moving in to post housing. Later on, I went thru,
organising the shelves and making lists of what was in each cabinet, top
or bottom shelf. Taped those lists to the inside cabinet door--a big
help in finding things over the next 5 years or so. Did it again in
Savannah but haven't in either place in WF.

 found them. Now, DD> if I could just cure this pack-rat tendencies.
 Bv)=

I hear you there. I make flannel baby quilts so a friend who is moving
texted me yesterday offering some as she cleans out her stash. I texted
back "yes" so will have to find room to stow it.

 DD> I know you don't use a cell phone much (or didn't). I'm not as bad as
 DD> a teenager but the cell phone is part of my essential equipment. If it
 DD> gets misplaced, or falls out of its pocket in my trousers I sometimes
 DD> have to resort to calling it from my land-line phone and listen for
 DD> thw ring tone.  Bv)=

I hear that! We've had nothing but cell phones since we came back from
HI in fall of 2006. Every so often one of us will misplace our phone and
the other person will have to call it. Doesn't happen a lot but it's
handy to have the other phone. I don't think we've had a "misplacement"
while one or the other of us has been out of the house tho.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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