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Skriven 2010-10-23 17:59:24 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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->  RH> We didn't get frost last night, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
-> 
-> Good chance we'll get it tonight. Then it'll get up to close to 80 by
-> the end of next week.

I don't think we got any last night either. Oh well.  It was dry enough
that we didn't get many mosquitos this year.
 
-> -> Don't want to repaint since we'd have to repaint back to the original
-> -> before we move out.  Walls are a creamy, just off white--not the pure
-> -> white we had all the time in military housing.
-> 
->  RH> I suppose it's an improvement.
-> 
-> A bit; it still shows a lot of stuff darker walls wouldn't.  I dropped a
-> glass jar on the kitchen (linoleum) floor this afternoon; it shattered.
-> Quite a bit to clean up but we think we got it all, by various methods.
-> 
Fingers (not recommended), broom, sticky tape?
 
->  RH> My dad outgrew trains when they nailed his coffin shut.  He liked
->  RH> Thomas just fine.  Now my niece likes toy trains; it has to be
->  RH> genetic, since she was born a few months after Dad died.
-> 
-> Robert likes trains but Rachel said he's not quite as fascinated about
-> them as he was a few months ago.  Could be that school is taking up a
-> lot of his time; it is for his grandparents. (G)

Figures.  But then he doesn't have a genetic predisposition to like stuff
on wheels that runs on coal.
 
-> -> The weight of the yo-yos is pulling it apart so I'll sew it onto a
sheet
-> -> some day when I've no other projects to do.  The class (actually, 2
mini
-> 
->  RH> That's what happens to all of them eventually.
-> 
-> This one began to show stress pull aparts after only a few months. I
-> don't think my mom sewed it as securely as it should have been for the
-> weight of it.

That would be Not Good.  It sounds like she used a single thread instead of
double.  Anything like that I generally go double thread.  
 
-> -> needle, let alone sew a basic running stitch.
-> 
->  RH> Ack.  My grandmother had me threading hers when I was five, and
using
->  RH> a sewing machine by the time I was 10.
-> 
-> I learned hand sewing when I was about 7, machine in junior high.  Mom
-> didn't really teach me either but I do remember a stamped cross stitch
-> kit as a Christmas present one year.  I wasn't thrilled with "tracing"
-> Xs so never finished it.

I've done it, but it's not my thing either.  Crewel work and creating my
own embroidery patterns was more fun.  
 
-> They probably do that much in business some week ends but don't want to
-> give it all away in legal fees.  Last time we were there, I bought some
-> Robusto cheese--an aged one, pretty good eaten as a snacking cheese.  I
-> may try some grated in some mac & cheese or cheese sauce too.  Steve
-> said he wouldn't mind my getting more of it.

I ended up with some stilton and a thing called Beemster at a supermarket
that's being taken over by another chain.  Both are absolutely EVIL. 
 
-> ->  RH> Fat chance of that these days.
-> 
-> -> That's the breaks in a self employment situation.
-> 
->  RH> It beats a 9-5 that I probably couldn't handle any more.
-> 
-> You're working--that's more than a lot of people can say.

It's just a good thing I'm not paying a mortgage.  
 
-> -> Can't help you on that part; I'm fading fast at this hour.  Too late
to
-> -> make cookie tonight anyway.
-> 
->  RH> These days I fade out at about 10AM....(grouse)
-> 
-> And the day starts at what time?

08:30. (sour face)  I didn't take a muscle relaxant last night, so I was
actually better off this morning than I have been in a while.  
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