Subj : food and family  was:
To   : Dale Barnes
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Dec 11 2019 18:32:04

Hi Dale,

>>>> that proficient... :)  I did help make my wedding dress (quite a
>> simple>> one), but one of those two did most of it.... :)
>>
>>>> Still, that's cool that you were able to help with it :)
>>
>>> I'd learned some basic sewing in school, just never really
>> developed> into a seamstress... ;)
>>
>> We also did sewing in middle school (6th-7th grade I
>> think)...I remember the kind of thing we were assigned ..
>> some simplistic waist only apron (no-fail type <grin>).  I
>> personally couldn't wait to dump that class and switch to

> School is not the same as it was before.  We had Home Economics (teaching
> cooking, balancing checkbook, sewing along with other items), we also had
> drivers ed (no cost to us) and so many others.

Same here... it's sad if it's true they don't teach any of those classes 
anymore... I'll have to ask my grandboys <g> if they had those classes. Somehow 
I expect they don't.

>My wife busted up laughing one day as her work pants hem came apart and she
>was not happy to have to go to the store and purchase another only to
>learn I went and got thread, sewed them right up. :)  First time she learned
>in the years w had been together that I had a secret skill. :)  She did
>learn early that I > could not cook.

Early on I discovered that cooking and Ron did not mix, though much much later 
he actually conquered the Instant Pot, and can make a mean corned beef in it :)
:)

Take care,
Janis

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