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Skriven 2008-06-14 18:22:16 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 8900 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> Kinda/sorta. I've enjoyed sewing for years. I started out mostly
 RH> garment sewing but with an occaisional quilt. In HI I did more quilts
 RH> (baby quilts for special needs/hospitalised babies) than clothes; here
 RH> it's a fairly even mix.  Right now I'm doing a pink nursery set for the

 NB> I've done sewing in the past, too...  Learned how in high school...
 NB> Made a lot of my own clothes, and a few for my son when he was little.
 NB> I kinda enjoyed it, but not like some of my sisters, who still sew all
 NB> sorts of things, including clothes of all sorts, linens, even dolls.

I only had sewing in junior high home ec--8th grade. My mom got some
fabric from the only store in town that sold it--the fabric would fray
if you looked at it cross eyed. I didn't finish my project and almost
flunked home ec because of it. Now I sew most any and every thing.


 NB> Other interests took over for me...

I keep coming back to needle, thread and fabric.

 NB> stinks.  At  NB>> least we had some breeze yesterday and a bit of
 NB> breeze today... that  NB>> helps some... :)  Now, if we were further
 NB> south, like in MD or VA, I'd  NB>> expect this sort of weather this
 NB> early... ;)

 RH> No, actually it should be about 10 degrees (more or less) cooler than
 RH> it is now for this time of the year.  July and August are the hottest
 RH> and humidist in the south east.

 NB> Ok, I'll admit, I was* exaggerating a little...  'Twould have been
 NB> more accurate to say that further south this would be LESS out of
 NB> normal than for us...  :)  Not only is high nineties (and 100+ even)
 NB> unseasonable
 NB> for us in early June, it is still not common for July or August,
 NB> either... ;)  It's upstate NY, remember... ;)  I know, the whole
 NB> eastern seaboard plus has been sweltering, earlier than normal...  and
 NB> we'll
 NB> probably be cooler than normal when it should be hot... not that I'd
 NB> mind that* all that much.  (G)

It's moderated a bit here but expecting major thunderstorms tomorrow and
Monday. To top it off, a power pole went down on one of the islands near
Savannah--woodpeckers ate away at it, causing it to fall and  knocking
out power. One ice cream place had just finished making 50 gallons of
ice cream--they lost it all before the power came back on. I think
they're looking for a generator now.

 RH> I'm glad we have central air
 RH> conditioning; it makes the inside bearable.  The car we have is only
 RH> the 2nd one we've ever had with AC; looking back, I sometimes wonder

 NB> We haven't got AC for the house.  An attic fan and fans for the
 NB> upstairs bedrooms is all.  We hope for cool nights so that we can open
 NB> the
 NB> windows and let the cooler air in, and use fans to help exhaust the
 NB> hot air... generally it works, except when things don't cool down at

That's what my parents have--and yes, I can remember some of those
really humid nights that don't cool down.


 NB> night... which was happening there for a while...  Thankfully, that
 NB> heat wave broke, we got things cooled down again, and even though it
 NB> was back in the nineties today the house isn't too bad yet.  The cars
 NB> have AC
 NB> though.   :)

It's almost a standard now.


 NB>  RH>> ... Myth #1: The computer only does what you tell it to do.
 NB> Actually that is a truth... but the myth is that you told it to do
 NB> what you WANTED it to do... (G)

 RH> My favorite line ever since Steve got the Commodor 64 is "the computer
 RH> is only as smart or as dumb as the one using it". (G)

 NB> As in, GIGO...  :)   The computer, besides, is awfully literal in its
 NB> interpretations of what you say... (G)

Very true, it has no brain of its own, despite what some peole think.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly@earthlink.net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... You learn something useless every day.

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