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http://otnow.com/otbb/ ______________________________________________________________________ I just found this draft on my computer answering questions posed by Jody which I had not finished. Since the list will be down soon I'm sending it for what it's worth. For the record I'm finding the bulletin board easier to use than the list. I have set it as my home page, set for automatic login. When I go on the net it comes up and I click on any new messages since last visit. It's great except that a lot of you are not there. Hope to see you soon. www.otnow.com/otbb Here goes Jody. Maybe the OccSci list (sorry Occupational Science) will be interested in this if there are lots of responses. 1) We live in a farming market town in Southern Alberta, Canada. The town has doubled in size in the fourteen years we have lived here. It is now considered close to Calgary but for most of its hundred year history was 'the biggest place around': market, education, business and medical centre for the grain farms and beef ranches. We still have heavy farm equipment dealers, auto dealers with a heavy emphasis on pickup trucks, saddlers and all kinds of farm equipment and supplies. In addition there are all the services, accountants, lawyers, medical etc. for a population about four times the size of the town, now about 10,000. Because of our location within an hour of Calgary we are considered rural, here. I grew up in a very similar town in Ontario with no big city close by and that was definitely considered urban so take your pick. 2) We are two semi-retired adults with no children at home. 3) None 4) None 5) I buy most of the basics. Very occasionally we grocery shop together. My husband has always cooked and often buys the special things he intends to cook, especially meat (from the butcher not the supermarket). When he does basic shopping he tends not to read labels or pay attention to price differences so he's much faster than I am. 6) I generally put the food away although my husband will if I am not around. 7) We both prepare food, my husband from choice over the years and me from necessity for family meals. We both enjoy having guests in the house and work well as a team for company dinners. I remember a time when guests were obviously astounded that I could cook alone as my husband arrived home after they had arrived. Now it is more a shared responsibility as I frequently work on days when he is home. 8) Whoever didn't cook cleans up or we do it together. 9) We are both competent. 10) There is time now. 11) Shortcuts/ energy conservation - Planned leftovers, cooking for several meals at once, leaving things we use daily out on the counter, setting the table from the dishwasher when unloading, using a trolley, organising the kitchen by function (tea, cups etc. near the kettle), a moveable chopping block counter with knives etc. in the drawer and breakfast cereals and crackers below plus kitchen stools for both of us. (This means we can move ourselves out of the way for prep chores but move the whole thing close to either the sink or the stove.) Unlike most North American families we have never eaten in the kitchen so setting the table is usually the first thing we do 12) Joan Riches 1109 4th St SE High River, AB T1V 1J2 403 652 7928 FAX 403 652 7970 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================
