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Skriven 2006-11-08 22:28:18 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> Knowing him, probably the majority are useable in a family echo.
-> 
->  RH> I wasn't sure.  A friend who's been a church pastor for 30+ years
was
->  RH> raised on a dairy farm.  He may not use the colorful language
taught
->  RH> to him by helpful farmhands, but he does know the vocabulary.
-> 
-> So how do you know that he knows it?
-> 
Stories told in sermon illustrations. (G)  

->  RH> My taste runs to antique or vintage - mid-60s or earlier. 
Materials
->  RH> irrelevant.  I love 50s copper stuff, 60s sterling, art deco pot
metal
->  RH> anything, reverse carved lucite.....:-)
-> 
-> I've got to see the piece to know if I like it or not.  Some stuff can
-> be pure ugly but have a great write up & vice versa.
-> 
Yep.  I've seen some pretty plastic and some really butt-ugly gold.  OTOH,
the gold you can at least melt down and recast!
 
-> -> That's the risk you take having your niece so close by. (G)  Just
make
-> -> sure you and she both get the shot ASAP.
-> 
->  RH> Working on it.  I'll call tomorrow and see when to show up and read
a
->  RH> book.(G)
-> 
-> And???????????????

And I got the shot.  No book reading though; I worked on sewing the binding
on that wall hanging I started at the beginning of this year.  About two
months ago I figured it was high time I finished it off.  I spent tonight
restringing one necklace and creating a second one though. 

-> -> huge basket. The others were kludgy but the one at Lowes had a horn
and
-> -> back up beeper.
-> 
->  RH> I need a backing beeper!
-> 
-> I'm not that bad. (G)

It depends.  When my pressure nerves go wonky, like tonight, things can get
a little strange.
 
-> One thing we got at the commissary when we were still in guest housing
-> was a pack of microwave in the bag broccoli (3 smaller bags inside a
-> larger one) and "California blend" veggies (baby carrots, broccoli &
-> cauliflower.  The cooking inside a bag feature was convenient in a place
-> with limited cooking ability but the results were less than stellar.

My mother likes that Birdseye nuke in bag stuff.  I think it's OK, with
reservations.

-> tough--small pieces of mostly stem and very few florets--hard to pierce
-> with a fork.  The carrots and cauliflower weren't much better.  As for
-> serving size, they said that the bag of California blend was supposed to
-> serve 4.  It gave 2 nice adult sized servings, maybe 3 child size.  The
-> little bags of broccoli were supposed to serve 3 but barely gave 2
-> adults a serving each. All in all, a good idea in theory but the
-> execution thereof is considerably lacking.
-> 
That sounds like those boil in bag veggies.  They can be nuked in bag too. 
The really annoying ones are the Birdseye veggies in a black nukable
plastic bowl.  You're supposed to peel back the lid, but it doesn't peel. 
It might be worth putting up with the lid of the veggies and sauce were any
good.  THey aren't.
 
-> These were all store bought.  Years ago, I did a sock monkey for the
-> girls but they gave it away years later.  For Christmas several years
-> ago, I did 2 monkeys each, dressing 2 in boys outfits & 2 in girls for
-> Rachel and Deborah.  These are more cherished but Rachel's cat ate the
-> straw hat on the girl monkey (out of jealousy?).

My sister's cat Dot likes giftwrap ribbon and string.  She'll eat it if she
can.  Indoor cats eat weird stuff.
 
->  RH> Hmph - one more way our military is failing its recruits.  Of
course,
->  RH> when they taught sewing they were still getting draftees who hadn't
->  RH> learned to read....
-> 
-> 
-> Same situation now with some of the volunteers since the public schools
-> seem to be lacking in teaching some of the basic skills.  But too, the
-> military has a larger percentage of its forces with post secondary
-> degrees than the general public.
-> 
I'd heard that.  When they had a draft they got guys who grew up on farms
in the deep South who left school in the third grade....  My Dad got
drafted with some guys who were sharecropper's kids; they thought getting
up at 5AM was normal, but shoes were a novelty.
 
-> -> And it was pre aged for you--nice; you could sew it up sooner. (G)
-> 
->  RH> Or at least pre-cut!  The pieces were almost square when I cut them
->  RH> out of the book.
-> 
-> Well, if you wanted it a bit more fitted, then you wouldn't have needed
-> to even square some of them up-make it taper a bit to the waist.

It ended up elastic - no tapering needed.
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