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http://otnow.com/otbb/ ______________________________________________________________________ Hello Joan: Thanks for the Bulletin Board plug!!! :-) Like you, I am also finding the board easier to use although I was less than enthusiastic when it first started. There are currently only 35 registered users of the board. While this is a good start, it certainly doesn't represent much of a discussion 'community'. I wonder why so few people have migrated to the bulletin board? Ron ================================================================= On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JR> _____________________________________________________________________ JR> Visit the OTnow Bulletin Board at: JR> http://otnow.com/otbb/ JR> ______________________________________________________________________ JR> I just found this draft on my computer answering questions posed by Jody JR> which I had not finished. Since the list will be down soon I'm sending JR> it for what it's worth. For the record I'm finding the bulletin board JR> easier to use than the list. I have set it as my home page, set for JR> automatic login. When I go on the net it comes up and I click on any new JR> messages since last visit. It's great except that a lot of you are not JR> there. Hope to see you soon. www.otnow.com/otbb JR> Here goes Jody. Maybe the OccSci list (sorry Occupational Science) will JR> be interested in this if there are lots of responses. JR> 1) We live in a farming market town in Southern Alberta, Canada. JR> The town has doubled in size in the fourteen years we have lived here. JR> It is now considered close to Calgary but for most of its hundred year JR> history was 'the biggest place around': market, education, business and JR> medical centre for the grain farms and beef ranches. We still have heavy JR> farm equipment dealers, auto dealers with a heavy emphasis on pickup JR> trucks, saddlers and all kinds of farm equipment and supplies. In JR> addition there are all the services, accountants, lawyers, medical etc. JR> for a population about four times the size of the town, now about JR> 10,000. Because of our location within an hour of Calgary we are JR> considered rural, here. I grew up in a very similar town in Ontario with JR> no big city close by and that was definitely considered urban so take JR> your pick. JR> 2) We are two semi-retired adults with no children at home. JR> 3) None JR> 4) None JR> 5) I buy most of the basics. Very occasionally we grocery shop JR> together. My husband has always cooked and often buys the special things JR> he intends to cook, especially meat (from the butcher not the JR> supermarket). When he does basic shopping he tends not to read labels or JR> pay attention to price differences so he's much faster than I am. JR> 6) I generally put the food away although my husband will if I am JR> not around. JR> 7) We both prepare food, my husband from choice over the years and JR> me from necessity for family meals. We both enjoy having guests in the JR> house and work well as a team for company dinners. I remember a time JR> when guests were obviously astounded that I could cook alone as my JR> husband arrived home after they had arrived. Now it is more a shared JR> responsibility as I frequently work on days when he is home. JR> 8) Whoever didn't cook cleans up or we do it together. JR> 9) We are both competent. JR> 10) There is time now. JR> 11) Shortcuts/ energy conservation - Planned leftovers, cooking for JR> several meals at once, leaving things we use daily out on the counter, JR> setting the table from the dishwasher when unloading, using a trolley, JR> organising the kitchen by function (tea, cups etc. near the kettle), a JR> moveable chopping block counter with knives etc. in the drawer and JR> breakfast cereals and crackers below plus kitchen stools for both of us. JR> (This means we can move ourselves out of the way for prep chores but JR> move the whole thing close to either the sink or the stove.) Unlike most JR> North American families we have never eaten in the kitchen so setting JR> the table is usually the first thing we do JR> 12) JR> Joan Riches JR> 1109 4th St SE JR> High River, AB T1V 1J2 JR> 403 652 7928 JR> FAX 403 652 7970 JR> _______________________________________________ JR> To unsubscribe, visit: JR> http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com JR> The OTnow Mail Archive: JR> www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] JR> =============================================== _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================
