Text 34505, 120 rader
Skriven 2010-02-07 12:34:42 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: around the house
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Hiya Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> Our house is small enough as well, we're
-> ->  hn> seldom out of range (grin).
-> 
-> -> It seems, tho, that there are sound catchers built into almost every
-> -> home.  I can be in one room and Steve in another, one of us will say
-> -> something and the other, not quite catch it.  When we had 2 levels (HI 
&
-> -> GA), I used to kid about a black hole that caught sound on the
-> -> staircase.
-> 
->  hn> If Anne is near the furnace when it kicks on
->  hn> it can make hearing things from the rest
->  hn> of the house difficult, otherwise it's not
->  hn> too bad.
-> 
-> If I'm in the kitchen with the fan on the range hood going, I can't hear
-> Steve in another room.  The fan doesn't do a lot of good, vents the air
-> from the stove into the room but it does stir up the air a bit so
-> hopefully the smoke detector won't go off. (G)

fans can do that (grin)
-> 
-> -> Otherwise you would have a hard time washing out your brushes before
->  hn> you
-> -> went home.  Other people would have problems getting water for the
-> -> coffee pot or disposing of left over coffee. (G)
-> 
->  hn> Today we also have wi fi...it's iffy most
->  hn> of the time as the signal is two floors
->  hn> away but today it's  working fine. I'm
-> 
-> Moving up in the world.
->
well the wifi is always there, but it's
totally "iffy" whether the signal is
going to be strong enough to use.
somedays yes....somedays not..so
it's a debate whether to lug the
laptop up the stairs or not to bring
it at all. 
 
->  hn> at the studio painting (well right now
->  hn> I have about a dozen bookmarks drying).
-> 
-> I'm at home, hoping my cough doesn't mean bronchitis is setting in.
-> Steve is up at the seminary.
->
I've been on a bookmark painting
jag for the past couple of weeks.
I've just been giving them away to
friends and such. Gave one to 
a local shop that sells things 
made by local artisans and she
asked me if I'd be interested in
marketing them in her shop! At 
this point I don't even know 
what my investment in them is.
I know it cost me $10 to get 
20 of them laminated at Kinko's
but that's about all the price point
knowledge I have at this point. 
Still it was a flattering offer!
 
-> -> Ours does too but right now we see the former tenant's usage.  We just
-> -> got the January bill.  We spent more than they did but it was a much
-> -> colder January this year.  The bill we will get in June will be the
-> -> first one to reflect our usage from the previous year.
-> 
->  hn> Then you'll be looking at those bills
->  hn> that reflect your usuage.
-> 
-> Yes, we will then.  I think I've been using the oven a lot more,
-> especially the past few weeks, but it's been nice to have some home made
-> biscuits or muffins from time to time.
-> 
And the added heat to the house doesn't hurt in 
winter either!

-> ->  hn> But we DID get to listen to a lot of the
-> ->  hn> old radio shows from years ago...and
-> ->  hn> they were FUN!!
-> 
-> -> The PBS radio near us in Fort Hood carried them too.  Our girls enjoyed
-> -> them as much as we did.  That's where they first started 
appreciating "A
-> -> Prairie Home Companion", with its ads for Powdermilk Biscuits and
-> -> Be-Bop-A-Re-Bop Rhubarb Pie.
-> 
->  hn> We listened to the Jack Benny show, The
->  hn> shadow, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The thin
->  hn> man, Boston Blackie, and others of the 30's
->  hn> 40's and even up into the 60's. We also
-> 
-> Fibber McGee & Molly, Henry Aldrich..............
->
Yep those and many more!
 
->  hn> listened to Kasey Kason's (sp??) top 40
->  hn> each week. and friends and I would sit
->  hn> around the radio and "chart" the top 40
->  hn> each week.
-> 
-> Would that be the era of The Beach Boys, Beatles, early Who, etc?
-> 
it was the early 60's so we had lots of
Paul Anka, The Dave Clark 5, early 
beatles, Leslie Gore, the Dixiecups, 
Bobby Rydell, the tokens, Del Shannon,
the shirelles, the supemes, ray charles
Frankie Valli, and such. The beatles
came in around the mid 60's or so.
We got them before the USA got
them.
chat with you soon!
hap
 
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