Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Well, the year has started to turn, Groovy. We had some lovely cool weather and yesterday it warmed up to 33 again. We need rain! The rest of the country has had floods and here it comes in an eyedropper. Half an hour does not constitute "rain."

Oh but we always have the choice of how we will react! Even if we have no choice about the actions or the situation. It does take practice, however.

My dear child, "chopped liver" is also known as "paté de fois gras." And it's delicious, and pricey, and not easy to make.
YOU, my friend, are the best paté de fois gras, with white truffles from Italy.

I hear you MrB. We desperately need new kitchen cupboards (as in, the drawer fronts are falling off), DH wants to get a new fridge before our 13 yr old one croaks, and I have no work and not a nibble for the new term. Which leaves us DH's 700E a month for everything: food, utilities, any extra expenses. Which is not much.
Sorry, *rant off*.

I hear you, fellow quilter! I'm totally self-taught, with little space and few tools, but we keep going don't we? I made a crazy quilt which is what I'm trying to finish. Now I know why they call em crazy. I thought with no batting it would be easier, but I was wrong. Should have gone with the original and tied it but I don't like tied quilts.

Groovy wrote: "And when I was coming up, it was just a word, because no one in my high-school thought of using them!"

Nor in mine, but those were the days when YA fiction for highschool girls were full of the dangers of unwed pregnancy. In 73, some girls "went to visit relatives" for awhile (when they started to show). By 79, pregnant girls were staying in school locally till the baby was born. One even had her water break in accounting class.

Ah yes, those BCs...when I was coming up, that stood for Birth Control pills! LOL

Well, I've had two bad nights in a row after blessed months of good sleep, and I can't figure out what I dood wrong. Guess I'll have to go buy some kiwifruit. They don't make you "sleepy" but if you eat one or two at night, you rest better.

And it turns out the clamps I bought are NOT 2" wide. Hardly an inch. But it's not worth the hassle of trying to return them to the US. I'm sure they know this.

DH found a quilting shop on G. Maps, which if it is still there, might have the small frame the new clamps are actually for.

Oh MrB, how we have missed you! I've been in here all on my lonely. Miss Groovy has been worshipping at the Tennis Shrine lately, but I hope she'll come back now you're here.

I hope to do that. Won't have much work in September but I have big plans to do some heavy cleaning and decluttering. I realised, I've never had a paid vacation...just periods of unemployment.

Hi precious! Enjoying the tennis?

That's true. As long as you come back soon! And see if you can find Mr Books. It gets lonesome in here.

That's true. They've either been bought out by someone less scrupulous (I'm looking at YOU, Yarn Tree) or went bust because they tried to honour a guarantee for a shoddy product.

So basically you're gonna cheat on us with tennis again next week eh? LOL I don't know how long the Open lasts...watching sports wears me out as bad as doing them. In my head I run every meter, swim every length, jump every obstacle...and I am so aware of the clock in the corner of the screen ticking away the tenths-of-seconds I end up exhausted!

"Lifetime guarantee." Second biggest lie in the world, after "Easy Open."
Apparently "lifetime guarantee" actually means "guaranteed for as long as we feel like honouring it" which is usually about a year, max.

I have a Q Snap floor-standing quilting frame. The clamps supposedly had a "lifetime guarantee", so when one cracked a year or two after I got it I contacted the company by your actual paper letter. They sent me a new clamp, but charged me 10 dollars "for postage and handling."

Fast forward a decade. The clamps are again cracking, so I go online. Got four new clamps for 12 bucks, and that includes "postage and handling." But I had to get them from Zon, because the company no longer deals with individuals. Their website only tells you where to buy stuff (at Yarn Tree--in the US of course).

I bet I know why.

Oh how I have missed you Miss Patricia!
I had a friend who often spoke of people "poncing about." At first I thought he was saying Pouncing--so not!

LOL!!

It's kind of like those people who worry more about "plating" and presentation (spare me those slabs of wood or slate) instead of the quality of the food. It's all provender, put it down where the goats can get to it!

Hello?
Anybody here?

I just heard another one. You're explaining something you've done or are doing, that is entirely up to you, and the other person says, "No, that's not good enough."

For example, a woman I know in her 50s adopted a rescued parrot. Someone else asked her if she realised the parrot would outlive her as it was only about 3 years old. Yes, she replied, and she had made arrangements for its care if anything happens to her.

"No, that's not good enough. You have to put the instructions in your will because then it'll be legally binding, blahblahblah..."

Like no one ever ignored inconvenient will instructions? Of course they do. They may not say it out loud but it happens all the time, with stuff like who's supposed to look after Fido or Fluffy. The arrangements my friend was referencing were with the rescue group she got the bird from.

Anybody know where Groovy got to?