"FERRANTE" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:44:29 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:
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>>FERRANTE > wrote in
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>>> Sadly, I always thought my mom would be around to make the dishes she
>>> knew I loved. I never thought to ask her for the recipes, but I was a
>>> young adult, and still am. Maybe you can help me?
>>
>>
>>Mark,
>>
>>My only idea is call all your relatives and ask if they might have your
>>Mom's recipe. What are family for?
>>
>>Andy
>
> I will try, but I doubt I will get anywhere. When I was sick and
> called and asked my sister, several years ago, to go and get me a
> hamburger as I was to sick to cook, she said she couldn't because she
> was watching All My Children. The she asked for $5 in gas, even though
> her husband was making about $60,000 a year and she worked. I said
> forget it, I'll find something to eat and I have NEVER asked her for
> anything since. We talk, seldom, and that is the way I like it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Mark! You must be one of my long-lost cousins! My brother told me one time
to never call him (or our father) when there was a sporting event on TV as I
was interrupting them. "Uh...Pete...you have cable. There's *always* a
sporting event on." His silence was my answer.

I did manage to terrorise one of his kids 4th of July weekend. I've had
severe jaundice for about a month now (I'm a lovely shade of yellow), and
one of the side effects or symptoms of jaundice is itching. All over. No
respite. So I'm sitting in the shade trying to be as inconspicuous as
possible as I scratch, when G2 came up to me, demanding "Aunt Lisa, do you
have cooties?" "No, G2, I don't have cooties." "Then why are you
scratching like that?" I lowered my glasses so he could see my eyes, leaned
in close to him and said "Because I'm *molting*." He ran off screaming. A
few minutes later, my brother came storming up to me demanding to know why
G2 was now calling me "Aunt Lisa the snake-lady."

Lisa Ann