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Skriven 2009-09-11 23:04:42 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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->  RH> Sounds good to me; I spent four years of college with a blue
pinkie!
-> 
-> I didn't, but the only language I took in college was German.
-> 
I took German and French.  

-> -> He went into a quilt shop with me today but worked on his computer
-> while -> I piced up some goodies.  No jelly rolls or layer cakes (for
-> the -> uninformed--a jelly roll is a number of strips (25 or so) of
-> fabric 2 -> 1/2" wide by 44/45" long; a layer cake is  a stack of
-> fabrics (again, -> maybe 25) cut into 10" squares.  Odd names but food
-> related. (G)
-> 
-> -> RH> Knowing quilters, I'm not surprised.  I've heard  the terms but
-> 
-> Figured some of the non quilters here would have a chuckle or two out of
-> them.  Honey buns are cut the same as jelly rolls but only 1 1/2" wide.
-> 
I'm not sure what I'd do with a 1 1/2 inch strip, but knowing me I'd find
something.
 
-> RH> bought the products.  I'll bet Steve spent the time in chairs
-> RH> somewhere, working away.
-> 
-> He did.  Started out in a basic chair at a table but after a while
-> switched to a comfy chair up front.  If I'd not stopped when I did, he
-> might have fallen asleep.

Hmm, maybe you shouldn't have stopped.  People who fall asleep in the
middle of the day generally need it.  
 
-> bet he did a little fabric picking too.  Retired engineering professor
-> RH> geek type.
-> 
-> Steve sometimes puts in a suggestion or two about my choices but usually
-> leaves it up to me. I'm a lot more color discriminatory than he is.  I

That's true of a lot of men. My dad acted like he was color blind when it
came to clothes and fabric.  It wasn't that he couldn't tell the
difference; he just didn't care that much.  

-> got some batiks this time, thinking about doing some sunset/sunrise
-> quilts.  I do my own cutting, much as it hurts me, as my mats have
-> grooves worn in them from my left handed cutter.  If he were to cut
-> (right handed), it would mess up my set up.
-> 
Sounds like you need a new set just for him.  I use a right-handed cutter,
but then I use rightie scissors too.  It's weird, but I've never used a
scissor left-handed and would have to teach myself how.

->  RH> We don't have any of those, and only a few Super Wal-Marts in the
->  RH> state. None near me, not that I'd go in anyway.  Too big, and too
->  RH> Wal-Mart.
-> 
-> But nice to have when you want to go to just one store.

That part is true, but if it's a Wal-mart it's probably worth going to more
than one.  A lot of what they sell is such junk that even if they treated
their employees better I still wouldn't buy it.
 
->  RH> That's what happened, but not here.  Connecticut towns often have
->  RH> ordinances in place that prevent the building of big stores like
that.
-> 
-> None of the states I've lived in have had such rules.  I can see CT
-> doing it tho. (G)

It's a bitty state, and each town makes its own rules.  Mine has ordinances
that ban anything the size of a regular Wal-mart, never mind the Super
ones.  I do wish we had a Target though or something similar.
 
-> Left overs usually are.  Tonight was split shift eating again (me eat
-> before my class, Steve eat after his but before taking me), the Thursday
-> night norm for this semester.  Had left over cole slaw, chicken sausage
-> an mixed grains/herbs dish, then popcorn and a square of TJ's chocolate
-> after class.

I'm not sure of the popcorn part. :-)  
 
->  RH> But anticipation can be half the fun.
-> 
-> I' not doing much long term anticipation now, have to deal with the
-> short term busy-ness which can get quite so at times.
-> 
There is that.  
 
-> ->  RH> Baking is great - you get to eat the mistakes.
-> -> Usually, unless they're hockey pucks.
->  RH> Then the squirrels and birds get rid of the evidence.
-> 
-> You would hope so anyway.

If they don't, there's always the compost pile. They disposed of a pumpkin
tofu cheesecake, so critters will eat darned near anything.
 
-> -> Catskills also supply most of their water.
-> 
->  RH> One of the towns some of my family lived in at one point is now
under
->  RH> a New York City reservoir.
-> 
-> A lot of them are in the area where I grew up.  Saw recently that NYS
-> DOT has put up signs marking the town sites along the Pepactin Reservoir
-> roads.  Nice touch.
-> 
It just underlines how many there were.
 
-> ->  RH> fabric.  I swear it just hitchhikes to my house and invades!
-> -> And sits there daring you to do something with it.
->  RH> Then when I do, even more clamors for attention.  Then another
piece
->  RH> chimes in that I'd forgotten I even had, and well you get the idea.
-> 
-> I know, all too well.
-> 
And then it brings along its buddies, the Ribbon Sisters.
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