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Skriven 2006-11-05 21:51:16 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> I suspect he has a few other words to describe them. (G)
->  RH> ->
->  RH> Any of them polite?
-> 
-> Knowing him, probably the majority are useable in a family echo.
-> 
I wasn't sure.  A friend who's been a church pastor for 30+ years was
raised on a dairy farm.  He may not use the colorful language taught to him
by helpful farmhands, but he does know the vocabulary.  

->  RH> That happened today. I found more, if of a somewhat more modern
->  RH> vintage. There was one last week that both she and my mother would
->  RH> cheerfully have grabbed - a landscape enameled onto sterling.  I
have
->  RH> no idea how old it is or where it came from.
-> 
-> Interesting sounding.  My tastes run to gold since it goes best with my
-> coloring.  I have a few silver pieces tho.

My taste runs to antique or vintage - mid-60s or earlier.  Materials
irrelevant.  I love 50s copper stuff, 60s sterling, art deco pot metal
anything, reverse carved lucite.....:-)   
 
-> RH> I should have gotten mine already too, but my niece exposed me to
->  RH> pinkeye (gee, thanks Caralyn!) and I didn't want to make the trip
for
->  RH> nothing.
-> 
-> That's the risk you take having your niece so close by. (G)  Just make
-> sure you and she both get the shot ASAP.
-> 
Working on it.  I'll call tomorrow and see when to show up and read a
book.(G) 

->  RH> The key part is "charged".  Those things are notorious for being
dead.
-> 
-> I used 3 today; one each at the commissary, Lowes and Home Depot.  The
-> commissary one was the best running; it could turn on a nickel and had a
-> huge basket. The others were kludgy but the one at Lowes had a horn and
-> back up beeper.

I need a backing beeper!
 
->  RH> I never had a real rag doll.  I do still have my old teddy,
although
->  RH> she's a bit balder than she was originally.
-> 
-> One of my sisters had Ann, the other had Andy but I didn't have either.
-> My younger brother also appropriated my Smokey Bear at an early age &
-> wore him out.

I had a sock monkey and, I think, a store-bought Raggedy Ann.  They've been
gone so long I'd forgotten about them.
 
->  RH> They used to teach basic sewing to recruits.  I guess they don't do
->  RH> that any more?
-> 
-> Not that I know of; neither Steve (who had basic in 83) nor Deborah
-> (basic in 02) mentioned it.

Hmph - one more way our military is failing its recruits.  Of course, when
they taught sewing they were still getting draftees who hadn't learned to
read....
 
-> ->  RH> One of my favorite skirts is made from sample patches of drapery
-> ->  RH> fabric. Someone was tossing the book of nice perfect squares of
all
-> 
-> -> Sounds like something I would do--or make a quilt top from them.
-> 
->  RH> It was a thought, but the fabric wanted to be a skirt.
-> 
-> And it was pre aged for you--nice; you could sew it up sooner. (G)

Or at least pre-cut!  The pieces were almost square when I cut them out of
the book.  
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