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THE GREETINGS AND IDLE CHAT THREAD 2018
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Aug 24, 2018 12:02PM
AHHHH, Monday is the start of---you guessed it---the US Open. **jumping with excitement**. Don't say it, Ori. I hope you and mrbooks have a safe, fun weekend!
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Don't say what? That I think you're being unfaithful to us, wit yer obsession for the pat-ball? ;P
What Tennis again how many times can you sit there and watch the same people bat a ball back and forth...Me I am learning all about my new used car.
mrbooks wrote: "What Tennis again how many times can you sit there and watch the same people bat a ball back and forth...Me I am learning all about my new used car."
MrB, I think it must be hypnotic, the repetition of the sound. Let the record show, I like the sound of ball hitting racket, but not enough to stare at it on TV. My mother's veggie garden abutted a park where there was a cement court of sorts, and in the summer with the windows open at night we could hear people playing under the lights. That, and the sound of the local speedway like hornets in the distance, were the soundtrack to our summer nights.
What lovely sounds to fall asleep to the drone of distant motors and the constant steady thwack of a ball on the tennis racket to accompany the slow sleepy buzzing of fire flies.
That buzzing isn't fireflies but my dad snoring in the next room!
LOL! Okay, you guys. Real funny:) It's the magic of the game. Yes, I'm obsessed. There is no rehab for it, either. I always come back, don't I?And mrbooks, like most men, I'm sure you look at football or basketball. Isn't that the same people doing the same thing, too? Hmmmm….
Actually no I don't I will follow the team but I can't be bothered to actually sit and watch a game I would rather spend the time reading a good book, even a bad book for that matter, LOL. Even watching paint dry can be more appealing. Nope not your typical man not into sports at all. My wife is happy not to have it droning in her ears all the time, and doesn't mind the amount of time and money I spend on reading as she likes her reading as well and knitting and other crafts.
That makes you a rare one. And your wife knits, I crochet:)I'm enjoying tennis a lot. Hope the two of you are doing well.
Hand quilter here! I used to knit but had to give it up due to repetitive motion stress. Broke my heart just about, but I gave my huge collection of stuff to a friend who knits and is too large to buy decent sweaters and stuff here.
My wife knits and crochets, better at knitting but she likes both. We are well only 6 more years then we are going to stop working, Forever. We can't wait we plan on doing some traveling and site seeing. It will be nice to get up in the morning and decide we want to go some where and just get in the car and go without having to worry about anything.
Hear, hear!! Start the countdown:)
Oh trust me we have been counting for a while already if we sell our house we will enact the plan all the sooner.
Where are y'all? Hope you're doing okay. I haven't heard from you since August:)
That's all right. As long as you're okay:) Tennis is still playing. Take care and maybe talk to you later--Bye!
Finally starting to cool off a bit. There's a debate going on as to whether Europe will continue to practice DST or not, and if not, which time zone we will be living in. Pick a time, and stick with it, people. I'd rather go back to solar time, which the planet is meant to run on, but I bet that won't happen. Europe is always 1 hr ahead of solar time, and 2 hrs in the summer.Stop the madness!
What Ori you want to stick to one time and not change your clocks at least twice a year. Never to really know what time zone you might be in at any one time. You say stop the madness, I say let it continue hell it give me an excuse to be late at least twice a year LOL.
I am pleased as Punch today. First, I don't have any more classes until Monday (early, but you can't have it all). Second, my teenage student whom I dearly love has returned. Third, we are going out to lunch today for Korean barbecue. And finally: I am in the process of making a crazy quilt with manger-scene motifs as the central theme. They are sort of sepia toned. I don't want to use sashing strips to frame the blocks (sashing and I never get along), so it needs borders. I remembered seeing a piece of dark brown fabric with fine stripes of other colours in my stash that someone gave me years and years ago because they disliked it. Pulled it out expecting to discover it was a fat quarter or had been cut into or something. Looks like it's a perfect piece, about 5 yards. Plenty for borders! And it cost me nothing. The whole quilt is a freebie in that sense; the foundation fabric was old sheets, the Christmas motif was a yard or so someone gave me twenty years ago, the rest were scraps and bits. All I will have to buy is the lining. I won't put batting in this quilt, just stitch it to the lining to give it "the look" and hold it together. Now that I have a bias tape maker, I probably will make the binding on it as well. Groovy, you're probably the only person who understands how happy this made me, being a crafter yourself.
Indeed I do, Ori. I felt the excitement as I was reading this. I'm in the middle of crocheting my baby blankets. I'm going to attempt to sell them online. And like you, I look so forward to working on them at the end of the day. People don't realize how true it is that quilting, crocheting, and knitting really helps with the stress. And I love doing it:)Are you going to send me a picture when you're finished? Oh, Korean barbecue, OMG. Wish I was coming, too!
And mrbooks, you know you don't need DST as an excuse to be late for work:) And only twice a year? Come on!!
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "I am pleased as Punch today. First, I don't have any more classes until Monday (early, but you can't have it all). Second, my teenage student whom I dearly love has returned. Third, we are going ou..."Nope not quite Ori I understand completely not only what you are saying but how it makes you feel. My mother made many many quilts and my daughter was into quilting. But remember although the material may be free it is not a cheap quilt. They are always expensive as they take up your valuable time and puts all your skills to work. Although it may be a labor of love, it is not a free be.
DST is my excuse the wife won't let me get away with more then that. LOL. To be honest I have been late only 4 times in 40 years. I know I am failing in my proper responsibility as an employee. Hangs head in shame.
I wholeheartedly agree. On the other hand, I bought a sack full of yarn today, so I hope I get my money back in sales--LOL!Have a safe weekend, everyone!
I sure hope you do, Groovy! Wishing you the best!Thursday we went out for lunch for Korean barbecue; we ended up getting a cab to the restaurant, and an African guy was trying to sell those minipacks of Kleenex, at the stop light. He leaned in the driver's window and said, "Hello granddad, hello grandma". I could feel myself "bridle" (now I know what that means in books!), I gave him "that look" and said, "I am no one's grandma, thank you!"
Then I thought about it. I'm certainly old enough...and the grey hair and wrinkled neck and bingo wings probably decieved him! LOL
Bridling, I know now, is when you draw back a bit, lift your chin, and give someone a dirty look. Like a horse that has been pulled up short. Yup. That's the one! LOL
I appreciate that, Ori. Thanks!LOL! Good one. No matter where I am, I always think I'm looking like my much, much younger inner self--until I pass a mirror:)
My daughter just turned 30 this year and she thinks she's old. My reply is I'd love to change places with you, but keep my wise, old mind, though.
Yes, I remember on a forum that no longer exists, how a woman about 32 moaned about being "an older woman" as if she were senescent or something...I replied, "I'm 50...if you're "old", what does that make me?"
Groovy wrote: "I appreciate that, Ori. Thanks!LOL! Good one. No matter where I am, I always think I'm looking like my much, much younger inner self--until I pass a mirror:)
My daughter just turned 30 this year..."
That just kills me when a youngster says they are getting old. I had a 19 year old girl at work tell me she was getting old. I told her I've been working here longer then she has been around and this is my second career. I mean 19 really I am 3 times your age plus 2 so tell me your old again I dare you. She promptly said well I have never been this old before...
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Yes, I remember on a forum that no longer exists, how a woman about 32 moaned about being "an older woman" as if she were senescent or something...I replied, "I'm 50...if you're "old", what does th..."Don't ask you are liable to get an answer. I told a guy I know that yes I am old but your older then the dinosaurs you helped Noah build the Ark, transcribed the 10 commandments for Moses, and set Rome ablaze while Nero played.
Not sure why he told me to F off...
Finally got to the new Asian supermarket that opened last May. The online maps of the city were wrong, thanks town hall for nothing! but we found it. Man that place is amazing. They have their own butcher and fishmonger, as well as a whole aisle of noodles of different kinds, another of teas and herbal medicines, another of dried stuff in bulk--even monkfruit! I found my favourite brand of soy sauce (Hai Oh), which the downtown Asian store told me was "no longer available." I had promised myself not to given in to temptation, so I only bought store cupboard essentials like kelp and noodles and soysauce, but still when I went to the till and he said 12 Euros I was like--he undercharged me for sure! No, he didn't. It's still in the 80s Farenheit but when it's cooler I will take my shopping trolley and do some proper spending! LOL I think they don't close over the lunch hour. I wish they had been open last year when I bought my rice cooker! They have the "fuzzy logic" ones you can set and it will make porridge or rice for when you want it.
Hai Oh , isn't that what the dwarves sang in sleeping beauty? and off to work I go...
My daughter would practically live there. That would be heaven for her. Here in the South, the only place you'd find anything Asian is in an aisle of the grocery store.Because of the death of Burt Reynolds, I thought I'd share a story about him with y'all. When my sister and I were very small, we went to the Smoky Mountains. They had a Western town there with cowboys and shoot-outs. We walked around and was taking pictures when we saw a cowboy walking our way. My sister ran up to him and asked if we could take a picture with him. He was so nice and said, "Sure." He bent down to her short level, put his arms around her and gave the biggest, friendliest smile. It was Burt Reynolds before he was famous. We couldn't believe it when we saw him on Gunsmoke some months later. He was a very nice person.
So your sister met the bandit before he drove a Camero.
Actually, I saw him first, it was my idea:) Just my luck, I was the one holding the camera:)
That's a real bummer, you should have given the Camera to your sister.
LOL! I knew you were going to say that. I was 8 or so, and not very smart:)Have a safe weekend, you two!!!
Hay sorry just following logical thought, but I can forgive you. Being 8 you don't always think on the side of self interest. At that age you are sill libel to give into your concern for others and think of them instead of yourself. Good on you Groovy. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I also hope you don't get flooded out watch out for the heavy rains headed your way.
We had a thunderstorm last night, don't know how much rain we actually got as it only rained for about 20 min but it made a lot of to-do about it. The air smells clean and fresh--first rain since about April.
I wish. All we're getting out of hurricane Florence are clouds, not a drop of rain. And we really need it with these 90 degree days.Ori, what part of the earth do you live where the air smells fresh and clean after a good rain? Not here!!! Musky and humid...
In a place with no grass, where trees grow in little squares in the pavement. Slaked concrete.
Spain LOL, southern Spain is kind of like that isn't it. In England it is always raining, well except for this year LOL.
For the past 18 yrs I have emailed on and off with an elderly Jewish lady in NJ. She held my hand while I screamed sometimes, talked me through quilting dilemmas, shared stories. I held her hand when her husband and then her son died too young from obesity, smoking and related issues. We cried together when her housemate committed suicide on a stormy night, when she thought the shotgun blast was really close thunder. I sent her a Rosh Hashanah ecard which was not picked up, so I emailed her to see if she was fine. (Last time that happened she was dealing with a bout of shingles "right there!" as she put it, and more annoyed that it kept her home than anything else.) She passed on Rosh Hashanah.
I will miss her. So will the quilting guild she made donor quilts for, the baby hospital the quilts went to, the preemies in that hospital that she regularly held and rocked and sang to, the blood bank where she helped squeamish donors...and so many other people who depended on Silvia's spark more than they knew.
She was 87, or 88 "depending on who you believe, the government or my mother." And still going strong until that night when she went to bed and didn't wake up again.
I am sad, but also smiling. Of Course Silvia died on Rosh Hashanah! She wanted to start the New Year in Abraham's bosom!
Heaven will never be the same, now she's there stirring up the angels.
Another star is lost, one good thing to look at she went in her sleep and we can hope she didn't feel a thing. She has started a heavenly quilting bee and as the best material to work with.So sorry for your loss Ori.
Thanks, Mr B. I am becoming aware how much I counted on hearing from her. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I'm so sorry you lost your good friend, Ori.
Ori, her voice is not lost. Just close your eyes and think about how and what she would say then let your fingers do the rest. If you are like me, I would open your eyes when you write or type though.
Thanks, guys. Y'all are so sweet.
At last I have learned how to make good tempura! Apparently it's all about the contrast in temperatures. Use icy-cold water (sparkling water is best) and mix with the flour to make a thin batter, the consistency of light cream. You can even chill your flour if you remember in time.Fry the battered food in very hot oil. Drain on a rack above paper towels so that it's not in contact with the oil at all. Otherwise it will lose its crispiness in a heartbeat.
Hey, Groovy....do older women still call people by going, "Yoo hoo"? They did when I was a kid, but...that's a long time ago.
I'm sure they do it is a age thing a right of passage also it is because they forget the names and yoo hoo is ease to remember. Yoo hoo or who are you in reverse.
Not in my part of town. In Nashville, it's "Excuse me!!" or "Hey!" When I was younger it was, "Hello there! Excuse me!!" Only in school did I hear, "Yo!"
Wow you are younger then my Yo didn't come in until well after I left school.
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