Text 18489, 164 rader
Skriven 2014-10-25 22:15:20 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Kommentar till text 18387 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Hi Ruth,
>> straight, and so thick.. meanwhile my hair is so much thinner than
>> hers, I have to watch the timing for such products carefully.
> But, better hair than no hair, especially in colder climates. (G)
haha.. very true... :)
>> > Deborah actually looked somewhat like Shirley Temple for a while.
>> (G)
>> Aw that's must have been so cute :) I bet you have some neat pictures
>> :)
> We did, and they're floating around somewhere, along with a zillion
> others. One nice thing about digital pictures is that we don't have so
> many more to put into photo albums--eventually.
Yes.. same here. Speaking of old pictures, this week we found some of my oldest
grandson who was then a maybe 5 or so (he's in college now) and he was playing
with Toby who was just a little pup.. that was neat finding them.
>> up my dad used to get so upset with him because my brother refused to
>> use that "greasy kid's hair stuff" on his blond curly hair. And of
>> course all 4 of my sisters and I looked at his hair and said, "how did
>> this happen??" Lol
> Go figure, the guy got the hair girls would kill for. I'd agree with
> your brother and leave out the "greasy kid stuff" if I had hair like
> that.
Yes, no kidding. My mom always said the same thing. I guess my dad, being of
the generation that essentially "trained" their hair with hair stuff (or
thought they did), thought my brother should be able to CONTROL those curls
with that stuff. I always wondered if those guys were just combing their hair
following the natural whatever of their hair.. I mean, I could never _make_ my
hair do something it didn't want to do (G).
>>> I've never seen one :) Interesting that they exist :)
>> > Yes, and to have a good number of them in one area is surprising.
>> It would seem so. I saw some of them on google, they look incredible!
> I've not seen any; Steve just happened to be in the right place at the
> right time. Handy to have a camera on the phone too. When we were in
> Savannah, we saw a mom raccoon with triplets cross the road ahead of us,
> thought we should have had a camera. Then we remembered we'd just gotten
> new phones--with cameras. Too late tho.
Ah yes, same here kind of. One year we saw the smallest bear cub cross the
highway, but by the time we remembered the phone had a camera, it was gone,
down the embankment... I guess we'll never make on-the-scene reporters (g).
>> >And, I hope the school board
>> > had the sense to build more snow days into the calendar for this
>> school > year.
>> I guess that didn't happen last year? That's sad. Maybe budget
>> constraints?
> I'm not sure what all was involved but the kids had to make up school on
> Saturdays and go about a week longer into summer break than originally
> scheduled. We've a good mix of traditional calendar and year round
> schools in Wake County, with a county wide school board, so it's quite
> an involved structure to it, glad we don't have kids in the system tho.
Yeah.. I guess that is one way to make up for unexpected weather. I'm not
sure, but I think in NY the powers-that-be prepare for the worst snow-wise..
Though if they had to take time, when I was in High School, they'd cut it off
of spring vacation. Here in Ithaca they never seem to close down the schools.
Roads can be pretty messy so there are times that Ron and I are surprised
grade-school/high school are open as well as places like Cornell U and the
community college here. Then again in the city of Ithaca, they have this
MONSTER scraper that litterally could peel pavement (but it doesn't Lol).
After a snow storm, you'd never know it given the looks of the streets in other
words.
>> Yes, it is so nice having an abundance of fresh herbs. If I have them,
>> I use them. I checked today and at least I did freeze a bunch of
>> baggies of Italian and Greek oregano, lots of parsley, basil and
>> thyme. Not quite the same as out of the garden fresh but better than
>> dry. I really liked the Greek oregano.. it has a hint of lemon that
>> is incredible. I used it in some chicken dishes, that were great.
> Sounds good; I think this was the Italian oregano but I'll look up Greek
> oregano and maybe plant some of that too.
It is a very flavorful herb - I think you'll like it. I cleaned out all of my
earthboxes already thinking ok, tomatoes are more than done.. cucumber/pepper
plants are dead, summer squash, potatoes might as well be dead for all the
growth. But I left the oreganos (both kinds), parsley and thyme. I looked at
them today and there is still new growth.. neat... :)
>We've got spearmint all over
> the place, as well as ornamental strawberries, but I'm not planning to
> move any of them.
We had those ornamental strawberries in Louisville all over our yard. It's the
first time I'd seen them. Of course it was also the first time I'd ever seen
real-live mistletoe in a tree as welll :) :) Really, if it existed in NY, I
could have missed it but I don't think it was there. I found out we had
mistletoe in our pine trees in Louisville when some guys showed up in our back
yard with rifles to shoot it down. I had to call our pups in because I was
afraid for them (two goofy black labs, about only a year old). The fellows got
their mistletoe.. and the dogs were fine in the end <grin>
>> Yes, all that as well (grin) When Nancy was talking about the "boxes
>> under the window" I believe that was an overflow of books that we
>> didn't want to put in the basement but weren't ready yet to unpack.
>> Who knows.. we had so much room in Windsor and so much less space here
>> in Ithaca (grin).
> We just took a load of books over to the Sharing Shop last night. A mix
> of cook books, theology books and some sewing/quilting books that will
> hopefully find new homes quickly.
That kind of thing would be a mammoth undertaking here, if you know what I mean
(think you do (grin)). I do have a number of re-upholstring furniture books I
would like to donate somewhere it would be useful. I could, but don't really
care to sell them. I'd rather someone got them that could make use of them to
bring new life to an old piece of furniture someone thought was a goner :)
:) Just to save a couple bux.. (g).
For me it was easy to re-upholster furniture if you take the
chair/couch/whatever apart and number the fabric parts in the order you remove
them. Well depending on the kind of chair, it can be complicated since you have
to figure out which stich or whatever was done "last" and go backwards from
there.... the easiest recover I ever did was a couch :) That was the first one
I did. Good place to start because it worked well.
>> > But, we will be able to move a lot of
>> > things "as is" and put them in their new location right away.
>> That's always nice. Before this move, that's always the way it was
>> for us. Moving to a smaller place is a little insane sometimes I've
>> learned :)
> This will be a bit bigger for us. Our move from GA was a major come down
> in space from aboout 2000 sf with a useable attic & garage to about 1000
> sf without the attic and garage. The new place has an attic, no garage,
> and is about 1250 sf.
We had a carriage house in Windsor and a "real garage" here in Ithaca... but
both houses still have one of those sheds you can buy at your local hardware
place (we have Lowes). They're handy ..,
>> The only hard thing is getting that room which is a dining room to be
>> "the sewing room" when I'm working on it.. You know, have to move
>> this to put that there, etc. etc. etc.. argh... it is what it is. At
>> least I have the room.
> I understand; I did that for many years. After Rachel got married I
> converted her bedroom into a sewing room. I've already claimed the
> larger of the 2 extra bedrooms for a sewing studio.
Fantastic :) I just have to have Ron get rid of some stuff in there I think...
Take care,
Janis
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