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THE GREETINGS AND IDLE CHAT THREAD 2018
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Apr 20, 2018 01:39PM
For about 3 days, apparently it'll rain on Sunday... but today has been lovely lol
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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Surely shortly after? If someone used one on me I'd surely catawaller!"Actually before at the sight of it, during as it strikes you and after as the real pain starts. Cat-o-nine tail is one of the nastier English navel inventions. Along with keel hauling.
Groovy wrote: "Ah, the cat-o-ninetails. I remember it well. But for someone to use it on me, they'd have to catch me first.Emma, I hear you about the sunshine. That explains why I've come out of my winter depre..."
Groovy on board ship you had no where to run or hide well not for long anyway.
mrbooks and Ori, I'm going to have to step away for a while to deal with a stressful matter. Family ordeals can zap all of your energy as you can probably attest to. You got to love 'em, right? I hope that when I return, the two of you will still be lighting up this thread with your wit and wisdom.I thought you should know so you wouldn't think I was being rude by not responding to your messages. It won't be for long. So, take care and see you soon.
And mrbooks, I hope your operation goes well.
Thanks honey. We'll be here. I will be.
Thanks groovy take care of what needs taking care of we will still be here. I hang my head, I forgot to tell you I was going to be away for a week. "Shame has reddened his face" Hope all goes well for you groovy.
Hello, friends. Had to deal with a lot, but still breathing. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Looks like mrbooks and the Mrs. had a lot of fun:)
Breathing is good, Groovy!! Good to have you back! Take a few deep cleansing breaths, grab a cuppa something and wade in! We missed you.
You're making me laugh:) Can't go too long without connecting with you guys!!!!
Careful where you wade in it gets a bit deep we don't want you in over your head now do we, LOL. Yes we had a fantastic time I am trying to win big on the lottery so I can move there and not have to work for a living.
Stay out of the rain, mrbooks. Because you're more likely to get struck by lightning. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news:)But you CAN wait until you retire and live there on your pension!
You are right LOL I am more likely to get struck by lightning. Live there on my pension really I would have to be making 5k a month to do that. In 5 days and 4 nights I spent just shy 1000 dollars. or 800 Euro.
I just finished readingArsenic for Tea. One of the schoolgirls says that kelptomania is "a sickness only rich people get; they steal things, but they can't help it."Yeah--because when poor people steal things, they get arrested. It is assumed that poverty makes you able to "help" stealing things if you'd just go out and get a job!
Hmmm I'm not so sure your student quite understands. Kleptomania is an excuse people use when they get caught and they will get caught. The rich have lawyers that help them get away with it the poor don't and get charged with theft.
Y'all know this already. But, I'm a tennis buff. The French Open is on this Sunday, and guess what? I'm excited. **and that's the news for today**:)Oh, and the Space Station glides by tonight. That's another one of my hobbies to watch.
So you're gonna leave us for Tennis, eh?Okay for you.
How long does this pat-ball competition go on? A week?
'pat-ball competition' lol, I'm calling it that from now on!
Oh no Ori it goes on at least two weeks, depending on weather. I have seen Wimbledon go three weeks because of rain. But don't get down on her, she wants to watch all those sweaty men run back a forth in there tight shorts. Enjoy your tennis Groovy (or pat-ball) my friend and we will be here when they let you down. I prefer to watch my grass grow but my wife loves tennis (pat-ball) so yes I have to put up with it.
Okay, ha-ha, everyone. Pat-ball--really? You guys should take your act on tour:)And good for your wife, mrbooks. Tell her I hope she enjoys every minute of it--All two weeks!!!!!
Seriously, I'll try and pop in for a minute:) I don't totally ignore my friends...
Just want to mention, I saw the International Space Station go by last night.
How high were you Groovy? or was it because you were on cloud 9.
A little of both:) (okay, I want to make it clear that I only get high off of life, man. And every time I see the space station go by, I'm on cloud 9--capice?
Yes boss that's what I mean you are high on life Of course you could have been in the Rockies which would have mead you not only High on life and on cloud 9 but also physically high in the sky. Denver the Mile high city, been there and it is a dump LOL.
I gotta share this one!!I saw a beautiful "crumb quilt" of flowers appliquéd to a black background and fell in love with it. Went through unbelievable stuff to get the plain black cotton--one of my students from almost the next province, had to get it for me in her hometown!
Another student who's an engineer (age 21) says I will have more than enough fabric, we sat and did calculations one day. (I have been known to count on my fingers, forget fractions and long division! LOL) You should have heard the conversation. I chuckle every time I remember the look on his face.
When I showed him the Youtube video of the quilt I want to make
he sat there for a moment, thinking hard. Then he said, "Why not just sew two lengths of the fabric together along the selvedge? Then you'd have plenty!" I said no, you make the squares and then sew them together on point. Which is why calculations--will I have enough fabric for side triangles to fill in the gaps?
More thinking on his part. I could almost hear the gears.
"So...what you're going to do...you're going to take this big piece of fabric, and cut it into smaller pieces."
"Yes, that's right. About 30 cm (12-inch) squares."
"And then...you're going to sew them all together again, into one big piece."
"That's right."
Total astonishment. "WHY??"
It's a hobby.
I suppose it makes about as much sense as spending huge money to restore a vintage sports car so it will work like new, but that you will never drive around because you plowed so much money into it.
It's a hobby.
He said, "Yeah but that (restoring a car) is different!"
It sure is--it's a lot more expensive, for one thing.
I love folks.
Oh, the conversations you have, Ori:)I'm off to THE FRENCH OPEN--YES!!!!--(can you tell I'm excited?)
Don't forget the toast, can't have a French open with out French toast.
Sittin' there with her lunch: sandwiches on French bread with French mustard, and French vanilla icecream!
Don't be so hard on me, Ori:) And that menu sounds scrumcious!!What's a French pimm???
I'm dumb. I just realised that what America calls the French Open, continental Europe calls the Roland-Garros tournament!
Not sure, but tennis always makes me think of Pimms somehow and I jumped on the 'French' bandwagon lol. And Ori, you quilt as much as you darn well please (just saw the post higher up!) People don't understand my jewellery making either, "why spend all that money on stock if you're not going to sell stuff at the end?" I just like making little gifts and things that sparkle :)
Let the church say a-men!! ;) A lot of my quilts are gifts too, with this small apartment where would I put them all!I am a bit sad today. I have two friends, mum and daughter (who just had her first baby yesterday). They both claim to be great readers, and mum in particular spends crazy money (seriously crazy) on books. Sadly I have realised that they don't know that buying books is not reading them. They are the type of person who belongs to one of those book of the month clubs that force you to buy three books a month or whatever, in hardback, and they put them there and pick them up now and then and page through them, or read a couple of chapters, but they are "too busy to read much."
No dear. A true bookworm makes time to read. They are sooo shocked because I don't know all the current TV tropes and catchphrases. That's because I'd much rather read than stare at the fodder Spanish TV puts out.
They're not readers, they're aspirationists. They only buy hardbacks, preferably of what they consider fashionable authors. Talk to them about a book and they'll say, "Oh I have that. " Have you read it? "No, not yet...but..."
I lent a couple of dearly-loved books to the daughter, thinking she would read them. She lent me one, which I read inside a week and returned to her. I did get my books back, but it took months. When I asked her what she thought of them, she said, "Oh, that book should be savoured slowly." For both of them. Which, being interpreted, is that she read a few pages and lost interest.
Sigh.
Hear, hear. I love to crochet. I mostly crochet baby blankets, and they're given away as gifts. I plan to try and sell them online when I can get the time, but for now, making them is fine with me.I understand trying to get into a book and losing interest. I don't understand the constant buying of books and losing interest. Maybe they should think about another hobby.
Speaking of books. I just realized something about myself. I love writing about suspense and romance. But my favorite books to read are children's books. Dr. Seuss is my most favorite author. I've read his books a gazillion times; "Goodnight Moon"--love it! I've never read a children's book I didn't like. I plan to get a whole lot and just read them when I get the time.
I have no favorite suspense authors (except for me:). I'd rather wait until they make the book into a movie. I used to have favorite Harlequin/Silhouette ones, but they're all retired.
I've read a couple of children's books I didn't like but they were written in the last 10 years or so, when cartoons suddenly became jokes for adults and sarcasm replaced humour.
Groovy wrote: "Don't be so hard on me, Ori:) And that menu sounds scrumcious!!What's a French pimm???"
As far as I know there is no such thing as French Pimms. Pimms is really good it contains one part Pimms no 1, three parts fizzy lemonade, cucumber mint strawberry and orange slices. It is a typical English drink often associated with Groovy's other favorite tennis match Wimbledon.
Groovy wrote: "Hear, hear. I love to crochet. I mostly crochet baby blankets, and they're given away as gifts. I plan to try and sell them online when I can get the time, but for now, making them is fine with me...."Hey you can't leave me out of this hobby thing, I like making candles when I get the chance which is never :( Every time I start there is something that needs fixing or building or taking down. It never seems to interfere with her knitting though. I have to give up most of my library for her sewing room... Steam coming from my ears.
The two who are buying the books and not reading, easy they are wanna bees The are trying to impress people with all the books they have but don't have a clue on how to read them. I mean see how many books I have I am well read. If you read the title of a book does it mean you can claim the book as read LOL.
Dr. Seusse very good books my favorite was Green Eggs and Ham.
mrbooks, I'm going to send your wife the first part of your email. What's her email address:) Remember this, if she's happy, you're happy--right? BTW, when you get the chance, are your candles scented?I cannot pick one favorite Dr. Seuss book. They're all my favorites.
Mr Books - can you hide the knitting needles? Or slowly start winding the wool into the candles so you get more and more sneaky space... One day we should have some kind of forum craft fair/online shop type thing and everyone uploads their stuff and we can all buy it lol. I want to say I've got an Ori-quilt original :P
I love collecting children's books that I remember from when I was young, mainly in the hope I stumble across a particular one that I either read once or possibly dreamt up. I've come to the conclusion that it was a dream, but if I write it down there's the scary possibility of plagiarism!
My favourite memory of a small kid's book is Happy Birthday to You!. Don't worry, Ginny--these days with someone trying to get royalties everytime the song is sung, they'd probably accuse Seuss of plagiarism for the title!
I just came across mrbooks recipe for a fruity Wimbledon pimm drink. It looks delicious! But I don't think they sell one parts pimm of anything here in the US...I still don't know what a pimm is. Is it some kind of liquor? Yes, I'm going to nag you until you tell me:) Now, I got to get back to tennis...
Yes, Pimm's is a liqueur, used as a mixer for fruit cups (ie punch type drinks). I see online it's 25% alcohol. Apparently it has a gin base. I've never tried it myself.
Groovy wrote: "I just came across mrbooks recipe for a fruity Wimbledon pimm drink. It looks delicious! But I don't think they sell one parts pimm of anything here in the US...I still don't know what a pimm is...."
Pimms is a Gin based liqueur it is gin mixed with fizzy lemonade. You might be able to order it online, these days you can get just about anything on line.
I was wondering where everybody went. Thanks for that, mrbooks, but I don't like the taste of hard liquor. The farthest I can go is beer.The smell of hard liquor also brings back childhood memories of being surrounded by family members constantly drowning their sorrows and pains in it. Sometimes it was all you could smell on certain days.
Funny enough you don't smell the hard Liquor. I'm like you a beer person. I was away the weekend and have hit a brick wall just recently as far as reading goes.
What do I smell then? And I hope you knocked down that wall and got your reading mojo back.
I'm trying the wall is resisting the bulldozer I'm using.
DH and I have been discovering Korean TV thanks to KBS putting English subs to most of their programmes. We watched the very short second season of "Queen of Mystery" and enjoyed it mightily--divorced hausfrau turns police officer, with overtones of Monk's ability to pick up on vibes and details. Now we're into "Sunny Again Tomorrow" which is almost-not-quite a soap opera, but very, very funny. We keep waiting to see if the other will blink first--in the sense that it's 130 episodes, and we're up to episode 16 or something. As long as it keeps being amusing we'll keep watching. They made even the good old "lost daughter with amnesia" thread hysterically funny--though whether that's intentional or we just see it that way, I'm not sure. I am beginning to hear some Korean, which is good.
My daughter is heavy into the Korean culture, particular the boy bands, of course. She watches a lot of Korean drama, so I'm sure she's knows about these shows. It's one of the ways she's learning to speak the language.Speaking of discovering shows, we have what I call, 'backwater channels' that just fill TV air space. A lot of their stuff is crap, but every once in awhile, something interesting shows up. There's this OLD PBS-like series called The Indian Doctor that I have to see every Saturday. I hope to goodness I get to see it to the end before they throw the channel into hibernation as they sometimes do.
On the other hand, I'm still waiting for the second season of The Walking Dead to arrive:)
I thought they are on season 8 of the walking dead, aren't they?
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