Re: [lace-chat] domain name change
I just now discovered that I never changed Lace Chat from my g-mail address to my real address. That strongly suggests that it's been *years* since there was any traffic on this list. It's pretty much unanimous that we don't need Chat any more, so it doesn't matter that I've forgotten how to change my address. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the temperature is well above freezing. On 12/5/2022 8:48 AM, Elizabeth Reynolds wrote: Greetings to all of you! I’m dropping by to let you know that I’ve accepted an offer for the arachne.com domain. Although I’ve been inactive myself for quite a few years now, I’m still happy and honored to host the lace list, so I have obtained a new domain for it - arachnelace.com <http://arachnelace.com/> I’ll be setting up the list software and copying over all the settings so nothing should change for you except the domain name. If you are whitelisting lace mail you’ll want to update your filter. I see that the lace-chat list is fairly inactive, shall I just remove it now or would you still like to have the option? I will send this same message to lace-chat so nobody misses it, and keep an eye out for responses. Thank you all for being a part of lacemaking and making lovely things. -Liz To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] domain name change
I just now discovered that I never changed Lace Chat from my g-mail address to my real address. That strongly suggests that it's been *years* since there was any traffic on this list. It's pretty much unanimous that we don't need Chat any more, so it doesn't matter that I've forgotten how to change my address. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the temperature is well above freezing. On 12/5/2022 8:48 AM, Elizabeth Reynolds wrote: Greetings to all of you! I’m dropping by to let you know that I’ve accepted an offer for the arachne.com domain. Although I’ve been inactive myself for quite a few years now, I’m still happy and honored to host the lace list, so I have obtained a new domain for it - arachnelace.com <http://arachnelace.com/> I’ll be setting up the list software and copying over all the settings so nothing should change for you except the domain name. If you are whitelisting lace mail you’ll want to update your filter. I see that the lace-chat list is fairly inactive, shall I just remove it now or would you still like to have the option? I will send this same message to lace-chat so nobody misses it, and keep an eye out for responses. Thank you all for being a part of lacemaking and making lovely things. -Liz To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Change of Address
This is actually a test message -- since there is zero traffic on this list, there is no use waiting for a natural message to show that I've subscribed. We've been unhappy with Comcast for some years; the final straw was a new "security" "upgrade" that locked us out of our own website and couldn't be turned off, disabled, or uninstalled. After many hours on the phone, Comcast did defang the trojan, but by then we had an appointment with Century Link for next Monday. We are upgrading to dial-up! We plan to get e-mail from Proton; in the meanwhile, I'm using my emergency back-up address, joyalbee...@gmail.com. (joybeeson was taken, so I stuck "al" in.) -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Plait and braid: was: [lace] Re: question
Moved to chat because my reply is off-topic and out of date: On 6/21/17 7:39 AM, AGlez wrote: I also ask myself the same question. Can somebody confirm if "plait" is more often used in the UK, and "braid" is more used in the States? At least this is what I always thought... In Hoosier dialect, it's a matter of time. The old folks said "plat" (and never wrote it down because it was backwoodsy and oldtimey, so I was full grown before I learned that it's spelled "plait"). Educated people said "braid". As far as a little girl knew, the only thing ever braided/plaited was my hair and Jenny Von's. Nowadays it's the other way around: "braid" is everyday and "plait" is high toned. But I don't know how "plait" is pronounced. When I see "plait", my mind's ear says "plate". I think that in at least one time and place, it was "pleet". Joy Beeson in northern Indiana where we're getting spring thunderstorms. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] OT: moved to chat: was: Arachne Convention Get Together
On 6/11/17 10:01 PM, Janice Blair wrote: Being a typist in my past, I automatically enter two spaces at the end of each sentence. Find it hard to break that habit. Don't try to break the habit. Clear divisions between sentences are more important now that you have no clue as to how your message will be displayed. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] News reports
Over on Lace, there was shock and glee over a newspaper story about lace getting it right. My very first experience of reading a report about an event I had witnessed cured me of taking news stories seriously even though all the paper did was to caption an obviously-posed portrait as if the three of us had just happened to meet on purely-decorative steps, and the photographer had just happened to be there. The most irritating story I remember was about a group ride sponsored by my bicycle club. An astounding number of people can't distinguish a group ride from a race, so the publicity chairman gave the reporter a long song-and-dance about the distinction. The reporter began his story by repeating the "this in not a race" explanation verbatim. And the very next line after that paragraph began "The race begins at . . ." -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Switchel: was: Weather: was: help
On 8/4/16 11:34 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: Switchel is an eighteenth-century hayhand's drink consisting of ginger, molasses, vinegar, and optional oatmeal. I substitute honey and freshly-squeezed lemon juice for the molasses and vinegar. I looked up "switchel" in the O.E.D. (I once forgot the name of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the librarian directed me straight to it when I held my hands as far apart as I could. My copy is a single huge volume, but I need three magnifiers to read it.) It appears that molasses is the defining ingredient: O.E. D. says it's water with molasses in it, and sometimes ginger or vinegar. But I think I'm justified in continuing to use the word for my molasses-free version. In the first place, it also said that switchel was weak tea served to sailors between meals. One of the quotes called it "wretched" and says that the same leaves were boiled over and over, with a little fresh tea added on rare occasions. I deduce (from almost no evidence) that the sailors were being served boiled water with just enough tea to color it so that you wouldn't drink unboiled water by mistake. After reading that, I think the defining characteristic is that switchel is a beverage served to people who sweat a lot. In the second place, that entry is a couple of centuries out of date, and doesn't include any American usage. In some American dialects, "switchel" contains oatmeal, and in some it doesn't. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Switchel
On 8/5/16 5:38 PM, Liz Roberts wrote: I think I will mix and match your "recipe" with some of my own ideas and see what I can come up with. Thanks! If all you want is to cover up the taste of the water, anything goes. (Well, lead acetate is a bad idea even though I'm told that it tastes good.) I haven't tried lemon balm, but mint makes better tea if you dry it first. On the other hand, the boiled-leaf flavor of fresh mint has its own charms. One thing I like to do is to put basil prunings into the pitcher of water I keep in the fridge. One year I acquired a "cinnamon basil" plant, and that was particularly good. With the extreme heat forcing me to spend a lot of attention on switchel, I'm way behind on pruning the basil and it's gone to seed. On the other hand, the flowering heads are good in ice water. I've also put it in bottles taken to long events; after re-filling the bottle, I give it a vigorous shake to bruise the basil and release more flavor. Basil flowers in a clear bottle sometimes attract admiring comment. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Quote Source
On 8/5/16 3:42 PM, Adele Shaak wrote: "I'm sorry this letter is so long; I didn't have time to make it short." (Now I'll spend the rest of the day wondering who I'm quoting.) — The Internet tells me the source was a letter by Blaise Pascal in 1657. Huh. I could have sworn it was Churchill. I'm sure Churchill said it too. I didn't think it went back that far. But the farther back you go, the more sense it makes: writing materials are more expensive, and re-writing takes more work. David Friedman often says that even though he had more than one book in print at the time, his first experience of writing with a word processor convinced him that it was impossible to write a book without one. (I also took to word processing as a duck takes to water.) When I was reading "The Wealth of Nations", I heartily wished several times that Smith had had a typewriter; I hadn't heard of word processors at the time. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Switchel
On 8/4/16 4:31 PM, Liz Roberts wrote: What is your recipe? It's ad hoc. The first batch, I used water in which I'd boiled "a field blend of black and mahogany" rice to make an orzo salad. (I thought rice would be better than orzo.) This was dark enough to make you think I'd put in a *lot* of molasses. I used three tablespoons of dried ginger to a quart, and put the juice of two lemons into a twenty-ounce bottle. (I've no idea why the American bicycle bottle standardized on a British pint.) That was way too much, and the juice of half a lemon was too little, so I use one lemon per bottle now. These are small lemons; I cut off and threw away the label when opening the bag last July, so I don't know what variety. (I needed one lemon for the fireworks party, and had to buy a whole bag to get it -- which I didn't mind because I made some wonderful lemon marmalade last year, but it turns out that these lemons -- all but one -- keep forever.) Then I scored a piece of fresh ginger root at Marsh, and figured I'd make candied ginger and use the boiling-out-the-bite water for switchel. I sliced up the ginger for candied ginger and poured honey over it in the hope that that would preserve it until I got around to using it. So far that's worked quite well; I take honey off the ginger to sweeten the switchel (and my breakfast cereal) and pour more honey in. I boiled one of the slices with my oatmeal one morning, and changed my mind about candying it: boiled ginger has a delightful tender, crisp texture for eating straight -- but it needs to have more of the bite boiled out. Then I ground up the trimmings and peels in a pint of water with a stick blender. Nicely zingy, and I seasoned the switchel with that until it was gone, then I added a heaping tablespoon of oatmeal and boiled the ground ginger peels. This was nearly as zingy as the raw extract, so I strained it into a quart jar and boiled a second quart of water. This wasn't quite strong enough, so I booped it up with first-boiling water: I poured an undetermined amount of first-boiling into a bottle, added enough second-boiling to make the bottle about a quarter full, squeezed a lemon into it and dropped the peel into my bottle of ice water (the most flavor seems to stay in the pulp), added a teaspoon or two of ginger honey (which is thin enough to dissolve in a beverage) and froze it overnight. Just before leaving, I'd fill the bottle with second-boiling water. When the second-boiling water was gone, I boiled my breakfast oatmeal with an extra quart of water, and continued much the same drill with more first-boiling water, except that last time I put the spent peel into the oatmeal water. And when the first boiling is finally gone, I'll try the original plan. Since the idea is to get lots of it inside, judge your quantities by what tastes good. But go easy on the sweet; when you are hot and dry, sweet drinks are disgusting; put in just enough to make it not sour. When my route allows, I'll fill up the bottle with water-cooler water when it's about half gone. Well, that's partly because a basic rule of survival on a bike is "never carry an empty bottle away from a source of drinking water". -- Hey! There's my next Aunt Granny column! Short and to the point. (So I hared off to write it. Needs a decent subject line, but it will probably hang around in the buffer for weeks.) I also carry switchel concentrate in my insulated pannier: a four-ounce container in which I have frozen ginger water, the juice of one lemon, and a couple of teaspoons of ginger honey. I was concerned at first because the containers are bigger around than the necks of my bottles, but by the time I've drunk up the first bottle and the bottle of tea, the ice is soft and easy to break up with my pocket knife. On yesterday's trip to Mentone, I saved the concentrate for the trip back, and it had melted entirely. (I should have carried *two* zipper sandwich bags of ice cubes. (Small plastic bags pack more efficiently, and the melted ice is easy to pour out of the corner of the bag into a bottle.)) This is somewhat incoherent, but it's time to weed the garden. "I'm sorry this letter is so long; I didn't have time to make it short." (Now I'll spend the rest of the day wondering who I'm quoting.) -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we *might* get a little rain this afternoon. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Weather: was: help
On 8/3/16 12:53 PM, Malvary Cole wrote: Malvary in Ottawa where it is very hot again today (very hot being relative - others probably have it much hotter) and I'm dripping perspiration having just got home from playing a 12-end lawn bowls game. I'm just now drying out from having been outside long enough to carry a plate of garbage to the compost heap. Harrumph! The weather station says it's only 78.4 F out there. But *its* thermometer is in the shade. Shade temperatures were in the nineties a week or two back, which is unusual for northern Indiana. Whenever I checked the weather, I got a "dangerously hot" warning and had to page down for the details. My brother-in-law told me that he'd stopped playing tennis, but I kept on cycling. However hot it is, it's not too bad with a ten-mile-an-hour wind. (But when I stop, sproing!) When you ride a bike, the universal farewell from strangers is "be careful!"; that week it changed to "drink water!". I was mostly drinking tea and switchel; I have discovered that I can freeze switchel concentrate in half-cup containers and boop up water I've picked up along the way. Switchel is an eighteenth-century hayhand's drink consisting of ginger, molasses, vinegar, and optional oatmeal. I substitute honey and freshly-squeezed lemon juice for the molasses and vinegar. A little starch in a drink helps it get from the bowels into the blood stream, and ginger keeps the cold water from upsetting the stomach. I think the sweet and the sour are just to make it taste better, but I *have* found that lemon water -- after squeezing a lemon, I put the spent peel into ice water -- goes down faster than plain water. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and clear, the corn is stressed, and the beans are starting to feel it. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] email problems.
On 3/15/16 9:39 PM, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: . . . . I am one of the strange people Not on Facebook, so I am glad of Arachne to keep me in touch with everyone. I am on Facebook, and find it useless for keeping in touch even though several people I know refuse to communicate in any other way. Crossposted to Chat because this post is off-topic for Lace. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Lacemakers and Tatters in Severe Weather Areas
On 12/30/15 6:51 AM, Sue Duckles wrote: I hope that all our lacy friends in the severe weather areas both in the UK and worldwide are not badly affected by the floods, tornadoes, winds etc. The Nipsco power-outage map of Northern Indiana had measles Monday, but all we had here was flickering and nasty driving. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's gloomy but dry and I'm going for a long walk. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] maths question from a non mathematician
I missed the original post: Subject: [lace-chat] maths question from a non mathematician This has nothing to do with lace but I've seen this question answered before - when I didn't need the info. I have a magazine with patterns printed at 50% and 75% of full size. What size do I need to set a photocopier to get 100% of pattern size? It's ninth-grade algebra: (If the word "algebra" gives you brain-freeze, just read the part between dashed lines.) Let P be the percent by which the pattern in the publication has been enlarged or reduced. Let C be the percent at which you need to set your copier. Then P times C equals 100%: PC = 1 Divide both sides of the equation by P: C = 1/P - That is, you need to set the copier for the inverse of the change that you want to undo. - You can punch "1 divide P equals" on your calculator, but if the percentage happens to be a common fraction, you can just turn it upside down. 50% is 1/2, so to undo it, you use 2, which is 200%. (Remember that "per cent" means "divide by one hundred".) 75% is 3/4, so you would use 4/3, which is one and a third: 133.33% -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Trimming
The rule for trimming messages is the same everywhere: If you don't need it, don't quote it. Some contexts need more quoting than others. For example, business letters quote *everything*, because some of them are legal documents. (In the paper days, each business letter contained an identifier that would allow the reader to find his carbon copy of the letter that was being answered.) In social media, read the message you are about to send and ask yourself whether it would make sense to someone who hasn't just read the message you are answering. If it makes sense, send it. If it says me too!, rewrite it. If you can't tell which part of the quote your comment is responding to, trim the parts that you are not responding to. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and warm and the rain that was supposed to spoil the festival didn't show. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Challis! was Re: [lace] Wool for a bolster pillow?
On 5/20/15 2:52 PM, Susan wrote: . . . While wandering about the internet today, I found wool flannel wool challis. Where? For several years, I've been wanting to make five matching scarves as Christmas gifts, but searches for challis turn up nothing but rayon. Cross-posted to Chat, since this is very off-topic. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Cycling: was: Re: [lace] Learning Bobbin Lace
Cleaning the out box: Hoo, boy, is *this* an old one! On 10/21/13 12:45 PM, Lyn Bailey wrote: There are two skills I have which I couldn't learn on my own from a book. Riding a bicycle and hand spinning on a spinning wheel. I did learn bicycling from a book -- _Effective Cycling_ by John Forester. Though he's the son of C.S. Forester, John Forester is not a good writer, and most people offer later works to beginners. (If you want to advance, you do need to plow through the compendium.) _Street Smarts_ is a condensed booklet that's very good for an introduction, and _Cyclecraft_ is the British equivalent of _Effective Cycling_. There is a _Cyclecraft North American Edition_, but I've yet to get my hands on a copy. (And, alas, it's still true that I haven't seen the North American edition.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] weather
Moved from Lace On 1/8/15 3:49 PM, Lorelei Halley wrote: Just for fun -- it is 6 degrees F or -14 centigrade here in Chicago today. It is also snowing. Usually, around here, it only snows when the temperature is above 20 F. Tomorrow it will be only 2 F. I don't mind temps above 20F, but this kind of cold is scary. Minneapolis is much worse. Lorelei I hates to hear folks in Chicago say things like that, because weather comes right down US 30 to Warsaw. Current conditions Temp 9.0 F, Hum 88%, Baro: 30.02 in. Falling, Wind WSW 11 mph, Rain 0.00 in Peak Gust 14 mph at 1:50 am, SR 8:07 am , SS 5:30 pm, inside temperature 77.5 F, H 30%. And everything but the time at the bottom stayed the same while I typed all that. So I see that things aren't much worse in Chicago. I haven't set foot outside all day, not even to balance myself while I emptied the cat's dry-food bowl onto the patio. (I dump the cat-food crumbs in front of a low window so the cat can watch critters come to eat them.) On reading the fine print, I see that our low today was -8.1F. Wind is now SE 3 mph. When I could last see out, snow was coming down, so I can't see why rain registers zero. Just asked DH -- he said snow can't get into the rain gauge. We used to have an official rain gauge that you took the funnel out of, then brought in, thawed, and poured into a graduated cylinder. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Old Testament computing
On 8/15/14 9:57 PM, Martha Krieg wrote: Just last Friday, returned from 10 days in the Middle Ages at the Pennsic Wars with my daughter and her family and about 10,350 other people... Oh, that sounds like fun. Did Cariadoc conduct a bardic circle? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Long Live Lace!
On 1/24/14 7:16 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: Sorry about the line spacing on my poem, I typed it in in text mode and it looked OK my end, but the internet machinery has got rid of some but not all line breaks. If anyone wants a properly spaced out version, please email me direct. It appeared properly spaced on Thunderbird 1.5.0.14, which is running on Windows 98. Cross-posted to Chat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I'm icy-streeted in. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Test response to Re: Long Live Lace!
This is the second time I've cross-posted to Lace and Chat and the post appeared in only one group. If my theory as to why the post below my sig appeared only in Chat is correct, this one will return to me and not appear on either group On 1/25/14 9:57 AM, Joy Beeson wrote: On 1/24/14 7:16 PM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: Sorry about the line spacing on my poem, I typed it in in text mode and it looked OK my end, but the internet machinery has got rid of some but not all line breaks. If anyone wants a properly spaced out version, please email me direct. It appeared properly spaced on Thunderbird 1.5.0.14, which is running on Windows 98. Cross-posted to Chat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Needlelace Designs Techniques - PRINT ON DEMAND!
Cross-posted to Chat, where replies should be sent. On 10/16/13 7:38 AM, Catherine Barley wrote: However, I have no wish to be left with a pile of books in my dining room that are surplus to requirements, What print on demand means is that they print, bind, and ship one copy of the book each time someone orders one. This makes the book more expensive than books printed in large numbers, but not as expensive as a book would have to be to cover the risk of being stuck with a thousand copies. If all goes well, once the final proof has been approved, you need do nothing other than let people know where the book can be purchased, and maybe deposit the occasional small check. But there are a lot of incompetents and scammers in the field, and even the competent can be very difficult to deal with: for example, the PDF has to be prepared with exactly the correct PDF-making program, and which program that is constantly changes. There are people who make a career of learning the ins and outs of dealing with POD printers so that they can help people who want to publish only one book, but scammers and incompetents are even more prevalent in this field. I used to belong to a Yahoo mailing list for self-publishers and small-press publishers who would guide each other through the tangles, but the traffic was so high that I was obliged to drop out. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Prawn Puzzle
On 8/8/13 3:56 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: Well Joy's message came through complete so I don't know why none of the three I sent included the punch line. Very strange. I had to edit out a lot of stray paragraph breaks. Perhaps there was also a comment code in the original file? It can't have been a nanny-bot; they are so simple-minded that Yahoo keeps marking How to Design Your Own Sewing Patterns as porn. (Oddly, the bra-design Yahoo list hasn't had any problems.) Another joke: one day I was ego-scanning with DuckDuckGo and found _Rough Sewing_'s file on women's underwear listed in an index to porn sites. The folks who use the index must be terribly disappointed that it's a text file. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where good ash firewood is a drug on the market. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Testing:
TWO PRAWNS Far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean , two prawns were swimming around in the sea, one called Justin and the other called Christian. The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that inhabited the area. One day Justin said to Christian, 'I'm fed up with being a prawn; I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn't have any worries about being eaten.' A large mysterious cod appeared and said, 'Your wish is granted' Lo and behold, Justin turned into a shark. Horrified, Christian immediately swam away, afraid of being eaten by his old mate. Time passed (as it does) and Justin found life as a shark boring and lonely. All his old mates swam away whenever he came close to them. Justin didn't realize that his new menacing appearance was the cause of his sad plight. While swimming alone one day he saw the mysterious cod again. He approached the cod and begged to be changed back, and, lo and behold, He found himself turned back into a prawn. With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes Justin swam back to his friends and bought them all a cocktail. (The punch line does not involve a prawn cocktail - it's much worse). Looking around the gathering at the reef he realized that he couldn't see his old pal. 'Where's Christian?' he asked. 'He's at home, still distraught that his best friend changed sides to the enemy became a shark', came the reply. Eager to put things right again and end the mutual pain and torture, he set off to Christian's abode. As he opened the coral gate, memories came flooding back. He banged on the door and shouted, 'It's me, Justin, your old friend, come out and see me again.' Christian replied, 'No way man, you'll eat me. You're now a shark, the enemy, and I'll not be tricked into being your dinner.' Justin cried back 'No, I'm not. That was the old me. I've changed.'. (You're going to love this . or not) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I've found Cod and I'm a prawn again, Christian...!!! -- Joy Beeson To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: Caring for needles
On 7/21/13 1:48 PM, Sue wrote: . . . they look rusty at the point where they stick through the cloth so not something I would use to sew with, particularly not lace. I used to have some steel fur -- a very fine steel wool used for smoothing between coats of varnish on fine fishing rods. This did a good job of cleaning needles: just pinch a bit of it and push the needle back and forth through it. (It was inadvertently thrown out during a move.) . . . . But of course I want to keep them in good condition so I can use them when I want to and wonder how best to do that. Any advice would be welcome. My mother was sewing in the kitchen one day and stuck a needle into a linen curtain. When she remembered it, it had rusted so badly that she couldn't get it out of the curtain. The needles in my grandmother's housewife http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/~roughsewing/HOUSEWF.HTM are also so rusty that I've never made any attempt to remove them, but those may have had a century to rust in place. Cotton and linen are very good at pulling moisture out of the air. This makes them cool to wear in the summer, but an absolute menace to needles. Linen is particularly good/bad. Back when craft felt was made of real wool, I made a needlebook in the shape of a book, which I thought frightfully clever. The largest needles are slipped under rows of mending-wool embroidery arranged to look like writing. Some needles have been stuck in the book ever since; the book didn't turn out to be as useful as I thought it would be, and whenever I want a needle I go to the curtain in the sewing room. No needle has rusted in the all-wool book. I made my pincushion of wool stuffed with my own hair, and make it a habit, when I want to store a single needle, to stick it into a snippet of red wool flannel. (Red so I can find it -- and because that's what I've got otherwise- useless snippets of.) I've also stuck needles in snippets of silk, and haven't yet gotten into trouble that way, but have less experience to go on. I wanted to keep a large needle with a spool of coarse thread, and stuffed a scrap of wool flannel into the hole, somehow creating a neat little dome to stick the needle into. For an emergency kit, a tiny glass test-tube with an air-tight cork might be a good idea if you can find one. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Lace and vision
One of my eyes was blind entirely after a flaw in my retina filled it up with blood. I had emergency appointments with three different doctors(come prepared to go on); the third welded it, and now I don't even have to have it inspected twice a year; my current ophthalmologist regards it as an old scar of not much interest. It took a long time for the floaters to go away, but they went. It was interesting because I'd been *very* right-eyed and couldn't break the habit of putting telescopes and magnifying glasses to the blind eye! Experiment with different kinds of light; some find that bright light that constricts the pupils helps, some find that dim light to open up the pupils helps you see around the floaters. Different temperatures of light matter. (Sometimes light is measured by the temperature of the black body that would emit light of that color.) I see best in natural light, but bright incandescent will do. I find CFL light impossible; for some reason, no matter how bright it is, it just won't focus and I can't even read a newspaper that I can read easily in the dim light of sunset. I once heard of someone who can see sharply only in monochromic green light. I presume that his eyes have chromatic aberration, and green is the color to which human eyes are most sensitive. Sometimes I prefer red light, but filtered incandescent will do -- lucky, because LEDs in colors other than blue-white and mock-white are impossible to find. I get a lot of use out of plain old dollar-store reading glasses, strength 3.5, which I wear over my prescription glasses -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the lake is almost down to normal, but the asparagus bed is still soggy. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] E-books
E-books sound like a great idea, and I wish they had been available when my mother's sight was fading, but if a reader can't read a plain-ASCII file with no fuss or feathers or conversion or special app, I consider it Still Not Available. -- Joy Beeson http://www.debeeson.net/joy http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and cool. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Re-assurance Please .....
Gratuitous advice: when you get out of rehab and the prescribed exercises have gotten too easy, sign up at a weight-lifting place. Pick one where athletes work out -- the staff will be accustomed to helping people who are working at the edge of their ability, and will know how to work out without getting hurt. Avoid like the plague any studio with decorative mirror tile instead of plain full-length mirrors for checking your form. (Good form is *very* important.) Also avoid any place where the guy who shows you around gets confused and has to start over if you interrupt his spiel. Nautilus was best when I did it twenty or thirty years ago: the machines are designed so that you can push right to the edge without going over. Of course, you can hurt yourself if you don't engage brain -- when the coach tells you to do only one repeat with an absurdly-low weight the first time you use the calf machine, believe him! -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
On 5/1/13 9:10 AM, Sue Duckles wrote: Ok I give in what are S'mores??? A rather silly thing to do with a toasted marshmallow. When I go to that much trouble, I want to eat the marshmallow *plain*. (Not that I've toasted a marshmallow since before s'mores changed from cutesy to de rigueur. Sugar is bad for me when I'm not in the middle of a fifty-mile bike ride, and I consider twenty-five a major accomplishment these days.) Nowadays they actually eat the things inside the house! Made in a microwave yet. (Note: I did not write this until after seeing a serious answer posted.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Peeps
On 5/1/13 11:18 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: and again . graham crackers? A graham cracker is a cookie passing itself off as health food. Dr. Graham promoted the idea of faking whole-grain flour by adding wheat germ and wheat bran to unbleached flour, and invented a cracker that became very popular after sugar was added to the recipe and the bran and wheat germ were reduced or eliminated. I have heard that digestive biscuits are somewhat similar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where wild violets are in bloom. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace-chat] Twinkees
On 5/1/13 2:19 PM, Jean Nathan wrote: Now you can laugh at us. I wouldn't dare -- you might dig up one of *our* bomb-shelter designs. I don't recall any details, but I do recall my parents' derision -- fall-out shelter designs claimed to be good for two weeks of nuclear war, but none were any use for five minutes of tornado. Dad did suggest that a shelter that doubled as a root cellar would be a good idea, but I never heard of anybody building any shelter at all. For tornadoes, we went into the basement. On Palm Sunday (Wikipedia says it was 1965), one of my cousins was hit, and the family probably would have been killed if the storm hadn't dropped an old boxcar they had been using for storage into the cellar first, and that caught the other debris. Sometimes it bothers me that we can't have cellars in this neighborhood. (The water table is close to the surface. Last week swaths of my lawn were lower than the water table.) The daughter of a building contractor lives down the street in a house built by her father; it used a new-fangled construction method in which forms made of insulation are filled with re-inforced concrete, and he said it was tornado shelter all over. A summer cottage owned by my brother-in-law has a concrete storage shed built into the side of a hill, which he presumes was built as a storm cellar. -- Joy Beeson west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Re: corned beef
On 4/29/13 3:56 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: If you try to make corned beef hash with our corned beef, you end up with a mush. I tried it before we realised that US corned beef isn't the stuff that comes in tins here, but is totally different. When using an American recipe we have to look up the internet to see what some of the ingredients are known to us as. I've never seen corned-beef hash that didn't come in tins. Canned corned-beef hash consists mostly of little half-centimeter cubes of potato stuck together with a puree of meat and tallow. Lately we've been buying reduced fat corned-beef hash, which is better. It's nicest if one cuts a slice and fries it crisp on both sides, but it's almost impossible to turn the slice without breaking it into crumbles. DH fries it to crunchy crumbles, scrapes them together into a flat pile a little bigger than a fried egg, breaks an egg on top, adds a teaspoon of water, and quickly covers it with the domed lid of one of my saucepans and steams it to the consistency of a poached egg. I generally fry it in crumbles until crisp, add chopped onion, and stir until translucent. Last time I didn't have the skillet hot enough to brown it, so I put in minced celery, steamed it until the celery was soft (the celery made its own steam), then stirred in onion and a couple of the little sweet peppers that have recently appeared in all the groceries. It's the first time I've been able to buy peppers that tasted like old-time pimentos in a supermarket; even the farmer's market has begun to sell the huge flavorless peppers we used to call mangos. I sure hope sweet mini peppers don't go away as mysteriously as they appeared. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's August out there! (When I said that to the clerk at the bread outlet, she said Last week it was December Then we both said that's Indiana!) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] De not lurking
Cross-posted to Chat: pick one or the other if you reply. --- I have just rejoined after finally noticing that there hadn't been any traffic for a long time --and eventually getting around to looking into it-- so I'm probably a little off the wall. --- The first few messages that arrived appeared to be castigating lurkers for lurking -- I've always thought lurking a virtue (and find it a virtue that is very difficult to cultivate). Imagine a list where all thousand of us said Me too to every post! Every performance needs an audience; it's a pity there is no on-line way to sit quiet and look attentive. The situation was clarified when I read more messages, but I still want to say that Arachne should be a place where those who have something to say feel free to say it, and those who have nothing to say feel free to say *that*. We are all of us one or the other at times. --- Nearly everybody has a use for a square of lint-free cotton cloth. Big R and other box stores sell a large assortment of them, and I've made a lot of furoshikis -- 22 square if I make them from 45 fabric, but 24 square when that can be cut economically. Burrito-wrapping a sock-in-progress with its yarn and needles keeps things from getting dirty and tangled in my bag, and keeping a furoshiki or bandanna on my lap while waiting for something makes putting the work away when called a quick grab-and-stuff. I intend to iron one of the plain black furoshikis today. The dress I want to wear on Palm Sunday is very low in the neck -- not only is this neckline drafty, it looks ridiculous. A black neck scarf takes care of both problems. In a pinch, a 24 bandanna can be tied over my ears to keep them warm. (My head scarves are at least a yard square.) (Both bandanna sizes can be thought of as about a third of a meter, and a yard is almost a meter.) --- Long before 9/11, I ran a round robin (a letter forwarded from one reader to the next, with each recipient removing his old contribution and adding a new one: it was how we managed before e-mail made mailing lists possible.) The package nearly always failed to return if sent across a national border. --- I looked up piccalille and peccadillo in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. All quotes spelling possibly inaccurate -- I needed both my sewing glasses and the magnifier that came with the O.E.D. to read the entry, so I'm not checking anything. Piccalille started out meaning a cutwork edging, then transferred to the collars and ruffs so edged, and ended up as a stiff support for a ruff! Peccadillo is a diminutive of the latin word for sin, and completely unrelated to piccalille. Me speculating: it seems obvious that pick and pike and piccador share an ancestor, since a piccador is one who pokes with a pike. --- On 3/20/13 1:04 PM, Bev Walker wrote: Just a thought about the fast pace of technology these days - it is possible that flash drives will be replaced by something else within two years? I just took a look at my Drive E, and there is a nice flat spot on the back where one could put a decal. And (as was later pointed out) decals can be put on anything with a patch of smooth surface. --- I will be left out of anything that requires Pay Pal. --- I scanned my Arachne pin and posted the file at http://www.joy.debeeson.net/HAT.JPG It isn't very clear, but I don't think my scanner can do much better. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace-chat] Weird Characters: was: Fw: Handkerchief fabric (moved from Lace)
On 4/19/12 6:39 PM, Lyn Bailey wrote: Sorry, all, evidently the filters take all apostrophes and quotation marks and do weird things to them. Here it is without such marks. Please let me know if there is also a problem with question marks. I will try to do better. Weird characters are usually the result of reading text written with one standard with a reader set for a different standard. (Happens most often when something is pasted into a document that tells readers it's a different standard from the pasted-in stuff, but lots of writing programs default to a standard that very few reading programs can handle. Some use a proprietary standard that only that particular program can read.) Most standards in current use include plain old seven-bit ASCII -- which doesn't even have all the characters you need to write the American English it was created for, but there are work-arounds: ue for u-umlaut, co-operate for cooperate, and so forth. (The latter work-around took over when nineteenth-century typists got tired of hand-drawing the two little dots, and is now standard even in media where the old spelling would be easier.) But it can be hard to persuade a reads mail, reads news, browses, and cleans the kitchen sink program to write in ASCII, and even plain text is apt to be written in some private code. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Re: Book Raffle -- Rosemary
Cool! After discovering that my filters had mis-filed some of the entries and moving the misplaced entries to the proper folder, I find that exactly fifty-two people want the book. Now where is that deck of cards? I'd have never found it if DH, who is a couple of inches taller hadn't spotted it on the top shelf of the hall closet. So I shuffled, asked him to pick one, he took the four of spades, which means the fourth entry that I received, and that is: Rosemary Darrah. Send me your address. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the redbud trees are still in blossom. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Forty Entries in Book Raffle
And one of the things that *didn't* turn up in the parlor cleaning is the set of polyhedral dice I bought at Shipshewana about ten years ago. (I last saw them on the piano.) I thought it a mistake to choose Friday the Thirteenth for the drawing instead of Good Friday, but I got another entry yesterday and two today. And I've been exactly as busy this weekend as I thought I'd be! I baked rye bread yesterday, and today when I got back from beating fourteen dozen eggs for tomorrow's breakfast service, I baked a loaf of buckwheat bread. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's tulip season. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Book Raffle
We're getting a new carpet in the parlor, which has meant considerable upheaval among the books stored there. One of the things that turned up was a thin, library-bound copy of Old World Lace or A Guide for the Lace Lover by Clara M. Blum E.P. Dutton Co., New York Copyright 1920 Contents Introduction Laces of Italy Laces of Flanders Laces of France Laces of Spain Laces of England Laces of Ireland Glossary Grounds Index They tore out the card pocket before stamping discard, then wrote a price on the corner of the page; otherwise in excellent condition for an ex-library book, and only a little yellow. Send entries to joybeeson at comcast.net with the word raffle in the subject line. I'll draw names on Friday the thirteenth; there's a library book sale that day, so that cuts down on the dates I have to remember. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where crocus are gone, daffodils have faded, hyacinths are fading, and redbuds and violets are at peak. (And we have a *lot* of redbuds in this end of town!) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Re: tomatoes
I learned that it's quite a process, you have to ferment the seeds! It's only after the seeds are nice and mouldy that you rinse them off and then put them in your fridge (not the freezer). Mom spread tomato seeds on a piece of paper towel; when the gel on a seed dried up, it firmly glued the seed to the towel. Then she stored the towel in a cool dry place until time to plant. If some towel stuck to the seed when you peeled it off, no sweat -- it won't hurt anything. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where crocus are gone, daffodils are fading, and redbuds and violets are at peak. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] A bird of a different feather!
On 3/24/12 10:42 PM, Vicki Bradford wrote: It was believed that if a bird made a nest using your hair, you would have headaches...! ((-: I have twice found nests made of my hair, and no headaches! Considerable chagrin that the white hairs in the second nest made it look dirty. The all-brown one was beautiful. I wish I had preserved it. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the daffodils are starting to fade. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] I won!
I fell for one of these things once. Shortly after we moved from Kula to Indianapolis, I got a letter from a firm on Oahu offering a free trip to Maui. After snickering that they had sent an offer of a trip to Maui to Maui -- perhaps they didn't realize where the Kula was? -- I sent an enthusiastic letter saying they could send the airline tickets to my Indianapolis address, and I'd be delighted to buy their sewing machine or whatever it was. I never heard from them again. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the snow has all melted again. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Shopping: was; Green thing
Message found forgotten in drafts folder; yesterday was a week ago. On 2/1/12 2:33 AM, scotl...@aol.com wrote: I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her list of non chore shopping/browsing. If you want something specific -- say lace-up shoes -- shopping is acutely painful and usually futile. Which is why I have only one pair of shoes, and I'm still dancing around about having found them -- in a shoe-discount store already, and it was the first pair of black oxfords I saw! I'm old enough to remember when you sat down, told the shoe-store clerk what you wanted, he measured your feet, went into the back of the store, and came out with three pairs, at least one of which fit perfectly.) (I got my previous pair from a store which did have a fitter, but they give me corns and have a lot of empty space at the toe.) I had a lovely day shopping for nothing yesterday. I rode my bike to the library to return a book, but as I was approaching the railroad that runs past the library I realized that I'd forgotten to bring the book, so I doubled back to a place where I could cross the other railroad and bought a spool of thread, inspecting lots of fabrics and notions first. One of these years I'm going to buy a growth set of those flexible plastic thimbles. Then I realized that I was crossing the street where the used-book store is, but before I'd gotten warmed up -- their entire basement is full of books -- I felt an urgent need to continue to a place with public facilities. Next stop was the Mexican supermarket, where I bought a bag of kitchen-style tortilla chips and three bags of tiny roasted-in-the-shell peanuts, and learned that they shelve lemon and lime juice with the sodas. Through the new roundabout to chili cheese fries, a tour of the gun shop (the teeny derringer takes 22 long-rifle ammunition; the little white dog that's afraid of bike helmets wasn't there), a rather boring lap around a dollar store I probably visit more often than those that are closer because I rarely go out that way, so I don't skip it. A long loop to a discount grocery that has oddball stuff I never see again, a lap through the pawn/musical-instrument shop, and home. The pearl-handled pistol is cute and surprisingly inexpensive, but if I had a gun in the house I'd need to take a firearms-safety course, and if I ever fired it, it would probably wreck my arthritic old hand. (22 ammunition doesn't have much kick, but that little thing has no mass to speak of, and a tiny little handle.) And I don't have a license to carry, so bringing it home on a bike would be a problem. Not to mention that I hear surprisingly well for my age, and I would like to keep it that way. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] Green thing
The packers at our supermarkets have been told that meat goes into a separate bag, but they haven't been told why, it's a rule to be blindly followed, like walking into the teeth of the traffic even when you have no chance at all of getting out of the way when you see a car coming -- so the lunch meat and the pork chops go into the same bag. Fortunately, all of them package everything in sealed containers -- not just shrink wrapped, but heat-sealed bags -- so it doesn't really matter. Still, I prefer Aldi, where I can pack my own bags, sorting into garage and kitchen as I do so. Or pack my trunk, as I did once when I forgot to take my bags. I'm not at all sure how that happened, since I store my bags in the trunk. DH was with me, which may have had something to do with it. Many is the time when I parked my cart outside the restroom (so it wouldn't be unpacked and put away) and ran back out to the car for my bags. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Re: Green thing
Counting Walmart, there are five supermarkets in town, but only three that I can get to without making a big hairy deal out of it. Aldi expects you to bring your own bags (bags, including insulated bags, available at reasonable cost) *and* expects you to do your own packing. I like their system best, partly because I have to rush-rush to put my stuff on the conveyor as fast as the clerk takes it off, and partly because I never find the canned goods in the same bag with the bagged salad. And when I go by bike, I don't have to take the stuff out of bags before I pack it into the panniers. Marsh and Kroger will throw stuff into the cart loose if you insist on it in just the right way. I think the baggers at Kroger are paid by the bag; they stop just short of putting empty bags into my bags. Marsh gives a five-cent credit for each bag brought and used, and fewer of the baggers are snowed by canvas bags. I bought the canvas bags from SuperValu (now Nichol's Market) in another state and another century. They are still going strong -- small holes in some, but I'm still not looking to see which bags the canned goods go into. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's a lovely warm day -- in January? To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
[lace-chat] Re: Soup Stew enhancer
On 1/23/12 11:16 AM, David C COLLYER wrote: I'm not sure how many realize that whatever you put under oil cannot go off. When I lived in New York, decent colby wasn't to be had for love or money, not even in the specialty cheese shop. Here almost any colby is edible, but honestly-sharp cheddar for seasoning can be found only rarely. So when we came out for a visit once a year, I would take home a whole horn of County Line. (This was before Beatrice bought out County line and cheapened the product.) Now and again I would use a piece of dental floss and two pencils to cut a wheel off the horn (Score a line around the cheese with a paring knife, put the floss in the score, pull on the ends.) Then I would butter the newly-cut surface to keep the horn from spoiling. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the lake is half thawed from the rain. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] EU bureaucracy
On 8/26/11 7:44 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: Whilst not wishing to rain on anyone's parade, I'm afraid I have to show you this link http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp Which makes me want to count the words in each of the named documents, then find a federal order that contains *more* words than were attributed to the cabbage regulation. But I doubt that the desired regulation is available in downloadable format, and my mailbox is only 11 by 13 by 23(about a third of a meter high and wide by half a meter deep), so I couldn't order the print version. Not to mention that they'd probably charge at least ten cents a page to print it out. Once one gets one's hands on it, paper isn't a problem. One can get a pretty good estimate of the number of words in a document by counting the words in a typical line and multiplying by the number of lines on a typical page and the number of pages -- usually a better estimate than the precise but inaccurate count of a word processor. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the weather has been pleasant for *days* -- what's up? To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] Christmas stores opening
What annoys me about dragging the seasons forward is that when I actually need stuff, it's all been remaindered. I did score a pair of sandals a few days ago, though. At a store that sells remainders. Since I make the rest of my clothing, the main problem is that I'm working on stuff for the year before last! (Note to self: finish the three curry bras today. I's too hot to get through the week on six, two of which can't be worn under light-colored clothing.) (Helps to get caught in a thunderstorm and do the wash half a week early.) As for Christmas gifts: everybody gets fruitcake. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] curry bras????
On 7/26/11 10:41 AM, Sue Babbs wrote: OK - I'll admit it. You have me baffled! What are curry bras??? Oops. I bought two pieces of linen a long time ago -- one curry, one lipstick. I refer to the bra I made from the lipstick linen as my scarlet bra; the three I'm making from the scraps of the jersey I made from the curry linen are my curry bras. It's a light yellow-brown. I bought that linen a *long* time ago -- I wore out and replaced the curry jersey. The current jersey is a color called taxicab, a tad yellower than International Orange. And rather sheer for my tastes, but I'd been hunting for yellow linen a long time when I found it. (I should check whether there's enough scrap from it to make a taxicab bra, and *really* snow innocent bystanders!) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ
On 5/11/11 3:17 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: What's Tang? Not a name that I've ever seen on sale. I assume it's some sort of orange juice. It's an orange-flavored drink powder like pre-sweetened Kool-Aid, but with one or more nutrients added. Way back when, Tang scored an advertising triumph when some of the powder was taken on a space voyage. The ads never mentioned that on early flights the astronauts followed a food-free diet on account of there being no facilities in space suits. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we went from cold and wet to 80F overnight. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ
On 5/11/11 10:36 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: It has always been my impression that sugar is sugar, whether it be added (sucrose) or whether it be contained within a fruit (fructose). Once upon a time, I handed out cookies at a Century ride. My grapes had just ripened, so I brought along a few bunches of those too. One of the riders was thrilled to see the grapes -- they would bring her blood sugar up faster than the cookies would. *Some* diabetics get a bye on fruit because the sugar is diluted with fiber and stuff. This doesn't apply to juice that has had the fiber and stuff filtered out. I have heard that orange juice is the best treatment for insulin shock in a person who can still swallow a liquid. Tangent: a long time ago, a paramedic who was teaching a first-aid course told us that the very expensive glucose paste for reviving diabetics in insulin shock came only in huge packages, so that you had to spoil a whole pound every time you gave a patient a teaspoonful. So he went to McDonald's and asked for a handful of their honey packets. Just the right size, no waste, works exactly the same, tastes better, and McDonald is happy to help out at no charge. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we went directly from furnace to air conditioner. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] Re: Concentrated orange juice
On 5/8/11 4:56 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: Any suggestions? Use fresh orange juice and boop it up with orange extract and a little honey. Replace any water called for with orange juice. One trick I use when baking for diabetics is to put in as much chopped nuts as the batter will stick together. Nuts dilute the sugar and make small servings more satisfying. The rec.food.cooking FAQ, which is posted on the Web at http://vsack.homepage.t-online.de/rfc_faq.html contains much useful information for people using foreign cookbooks. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's stopped raining for a while. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] Valentine customs
On 2/1/11 9:31 AM, Jean Eke wrote: Do any of you know if this custom survived anywhere else? Often customs like this were taken to America and survived longer there. It might have been an influence on our Halloween customs. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the Big Blizzard is finally getting here, maybe. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Dried fruit, was Fabric widths
The bag of figs I moved into the cupboard yesterday evening is nearly empty this morning. That reminds me of another reason to keep sweets in the freezer. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's overcast but not snowing, the breeze is light, the temperature is up to 20F, and I can see pavement on Boy's City Drive. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Cactus recipes
On 1/23/11 2:29 AM, jeanette wrote: So people who like the fruit fight the cochineal and farmers who do not like the cacti fight the plants!!! Anybody harvesting the cochineal? When I was in Hawaii in the sixties, I was told that some hot-shot in the agriculture department noticed that all the pastures were infested with panini -- the local variety of prickly pear -- and without consulting any locals imported a noxious pest to clean up the pastures. Only to discover that the prickly pear *was* the pasture; the farmers had been burning off the spines so the cows could eat them. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's winter. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Dried fruit, was Fabric widths
On 1/22/11 5:23 PM, Janice Blair wrote: I have never thought of keeping my dried fruit in the freezer as they seem to keep okay in the cupboard. Is there a reason why you do that? I went a little hog-wild buying fruit for the Christmas cakes this year. There's a canvas grocery bag clear full left over. I'm planning to make a batch of fruitcake to take to my weekly committee meeting Real Soon Now. (I have a family-size freezer, and buy all my flour at a restored water-wheel mill during tourist season, buy bread at Aunt Millie's about once a month, buy frozen poultry at Maple Leaf Farms two or three times a year, etc.) -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where Saturday was a good day to stay home and sew. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] old measures
The rubber bible failed me. Gills and firkins and whatnot, but no wineglassfuls. Wilkipedia, much to my surprise, didn't have a list of volume measures. After slapping Google around to stop it helpfully splitting wineglass into wine glass, I found a site that said four tablespoons and a site that said three or four; since they essentially agreed, I quit. Four _tablespoons_ -- I was sure it was four _ounces_. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Old Poem
I belonged to a poet's club, way back when. Rhyming and scanning were forbidden. I went along with the silly fashion most of the time -- breaking prose up into dramatic chunks is *much* easier than writing real verse. 2 April 1995 Creating an All-Human World Mother once warned me That it is cruel To allow a baby animal To fall into the hands of a small child For when children love something They love it to death The league of animal lovers Has fallen into the hands of adults Who are still the children My mother meant -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it isn't all that cold, considering our furnace has been being replaced for three days. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Dentistry and Malls: was: Cell phones: was: Re: Truths for mature adults
On 10/21/10 12:43 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote: DH would rather have a root canal than go to the mall, and I avoid it if at all possible! My dentist told me that I enjoyed my root canal very much -- and added that if he'd known how I would react to the gas, he would have made a video to show to other patients who were considering the procedure. I consider going to a mall a social event -- it's been years since I found anything I wanted to buy in one. Malls seem to consist entirely of clothing shops; for about twenty years I've been looking around at all the thriving clothing stores and saying doesn't anybody know about washing machines? It doesn't help that ten years ago I moved to a town that doesn't have malls. We do have shopping centers; the one strung out along the east road has been looking sick ever since Wal*Mart moved onto the north road, and all the new shops are going up in Wal*Mart's neighborhood. This change was rather annoying; I can easily get to the eastern sprawlmart on my bike, but have to go through the entire town (or around robinhood's barn) to get to the northern sprawlmart, and the northern road has no possible alternatives, so it's crowded. Not a lot in the way of intersections, though. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we've had our first frost, but it seems to have missed the peppers. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Cell phones
On 10/22/10 3:21 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: The how do they get an internet connection for their computer at home? We used to get our Internet service through our phone line, but nowadays we get our phone service through our Internet line. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we had our first frost last night To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
Re: [lace-chat] American meat: was: Lamb recipe
How could I forget duck? I think ducklings are fairly common in the whole-frozen-bird bins. I've only bought one of those twice in the last thirty years, as a turkey for two meal. But a few times a year I drive to Maple Leaf Farms to stock up on irregular frozen poultry. This year it was three boxes of stuffed chicken breasts: kiev, cordon blue, and pepperoni pizza. (Yes, pizza sauce does make an edible chicken-instead-of-flour-tortilla burrito.) And one box that was listed on the chalkboard as duck fritters and labeled on the box as duck tenderloins. Since ducks don't have tenderloins, one knows that they mean duck breast prepared after the manner of breaded pork tenderloin. But upon opening the box, I found strips of breaded duck meat. I think it is the bits that sometimes fall off when you pound meat flat. I tossed some vegetables in olive oil, spread them out on my toaster-oven size jelly-roll pan, covered the vegetables with duck strips, and baked one hour at 300F. Yum! There wasn't a crumb left. I also marinated duck breasts left from my previous trip. These are so strong in flavor that one breast is ample for two people, and you have to thaw them in sets of four, so I don't know when I'll get around to cooking the last two packages. (I like the left-overs sliced thin for lunch, but DH doesn't.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's a beautiful fall day outside, so what am I doing in here at the computer? To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Cell phones: was: Re: Truths for mature adults
On 10/19/10 2:55 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: Then your husband won't be able to locate you when you get separated in the mall, one of the most important advantages of cell phone use. Mall? Me and him? Together, on the same day? Groups just naturally swap phone numbers and turn their phones on if they get separated, but I'd hardly buy a cell phone for an annual event -- particularly since it's easy to split the Black Friday party into groups each of which includes somebody with a cell phone. Or just do as we've always done, and go to the car when we're finished. What I want a cell phone for is as a substitute for the dime I used to carry: stash it, turned off, until I need to call a tow truck, taxicab, or ambulance. I never get incoming calls on my landline; cain't see anybody needing to call me on a cell phone. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it is a lovely day for cycling, but all I did was ride to the blood lab and back. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Truths for mature adults
I saw this somewhere on Usenet not too long ago. On 10/18/10 3:48 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: 1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. Everything on my computer will disappear when the next user reformats it -- and everything I've published on the Web will disappear when I don't make the next rent payment. I've really got to get some of this stuff into hardcopy. 4. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? Fold in half crosswise. Turn each corner on one end inside out and tuck it into the corresponding corner on the other end. Pat flat and fold. But I just use flat sheets for both top and bottom -- it makes *everything* much easier. I wash half as many sheets, for example, because the top sheet is nearly always clean enough to serve another week as a bottom sheet. So my sheets are not only easier to fold, I fold half as many. 5. Was learning cursive really necessary? Italic would have been much better, even though it requires a special pen. The printing style invented by brass pounders should be a part of every elementary curriculum: it's quick, easy, and very readable. I'm not sure it does mixed case, but I rarely bother with capitals when writing fast. 11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again. I also ignored what came before Blue Ray. 12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to. I've stopped having flashbacks whenever anyone mentions Word, but I still won't touch it with a ten-foot pole. 13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call. Since pay phones are extinct, it's time I quit waiting for cell phones to be invented -- i.e., for one as convenient and reliable as the dime I used to carry -- and bought one anyway. But I keep putting off selecting the least horrible of those available. DH wants a picturephone; perhaps I should just wait until he gets one and take his old one. I won't worry about phone spam, because I won't turn receive calls on. 14. I wish Google Maps had an Avoid Ghetto routing option. When riding our bikes through Detroit, we stopped at a gas station and the passers-by were so friendly that we worried that they'd feel hurt when we left. An hour or two later we stopped again, and someone asked where we'd come from; when told, he said Oh, that's a tough neighborhood, you must have been scared. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there are fallen leaves all over everything. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Term Craft -- moved from Lace
Thanks to my school experiences, I have the same reaction to project that many of us have to craft -- I'm not doing a project, I'm making a duffel bag! Half a century later, some of that is wearing off. On 9/28/10 12:02 PM, bev walker wrote: Also known as needlecraft? Craft retains some of its proper meaning: needlecraft, the craft of writing, a well-crafted story -- but crafty has slithered to meaning inclined to play with glue and doing crafts is a new phrase meaning to occupy children with a dead-end activity. (And the kids know the difference, my they *do* know the difference when I get the rare opportunity to sneak in embroidery lessons.) (Sigh. For the last few years, every opportunity to care for children has co-incided with a prior commitment.) This has been going on for a long time. Back in the early sixties, when Mom was an R.N. at a mental hospital, she was assigned to occupational therapy. This did not mean stuff like a therapy center I once drove past where people who had been sick or injured could rebuild their endurance at operating heavy machinery before going back to work; it meant occupying the patients with busywork. The original theory appears to have been that making something will make the patients feel better, but in practice it was Buy absurdly-expensive kit. Assemble the pieces. Throw out the resulting trash. (Hard to tell this Occupational Therapy from another therapy called Monotonous Unrewarding Labor!) Being a thirties-era farmwife, she taught them *real* crafts, and, for a change, occupational therapy really did make them feel better. This did not last long; the hospital was told it had to hire a Licensed Therapist, and the training for the license didn't include learning anything to teach the patients. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Eavesdropping, was: just think abut this
Radio communications at the county jail show up on our scanners, and many is the night I've said Are they running a jail or a hospital?, but after a while, I realized that radio communication, particularly at night, is for dealing with breaks in the routine. In a well-run jail, medical emergencies are the only emergencies you are going to have. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the first day of fall is predicted to be *hot*. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Good day lasses and lads
On 9/20/10 6:44 AM, Gareth Peach wrote: Good Day, lasses and lads; anyone left that remembers me? Gary Peach One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. It's a gray, powdery substance. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
[lace-chat] Golden Rule
I wrote this in response to a post on Lace, decided not to send it until I'd caught up on my reading in case somebody else said it better, then when I did catch up, I had completely forgotten the thread. - Those who say that the Golden Rule states that you ought to give your favorite treat to someone who is allergic to it haven't thought it through. What you would *like* is for someone who plans to bake a cake for you to first find out what you like, and what makes your windpipe swell shut. When in doubt, *ask*. I would love for passing strangers to weed and dead-head my lilies, but I never touch anyone else's plants without asking whether he minds -- I wouldn't want passing strangers to pull up weedy-looking plants I've been nursing along, or to snip off faded blooms when I planned to save the seeds. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where summer has settled in. (but I'm not sure which summer!) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Information Highway: moved from: [lace] Re: Strange Magazine
Moved here from Lace On 7/2/10 5:36 PM, Susan Reishus wrote: They can even access your computer from across the world and make it do things. Which is why I unplug the data cable whenever I'm not using it. I wish I could get a typing chair that works like those tractor seats that turn off the mower when you get off. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's sunny and less hot. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: Mini-Raffle: worn handkerchief
And the winner is: Ilske Thomsen. I took the handkerchief to the post office this morning, and a truck will take it to South Bend tomorrow. From there, no-one knows. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the crocus are in bloom. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Spam advice again
On 3/17/10 2:07 AM, scotl...@aol.com wrote: So now I can wuold whover sent a couple of addresses for such things please send them again. Every service provider has its own address for reporting spam -- Comcast uses missed-s...@comcast.net, for example -- but abuse@ is common enough that yours probably has an auto-responder set up to send you the correct address if that isn't the address they use. Some want the message simply forwarded -- no cover letter is needed since you wouldn't write to that address for any other reason -- some want the spam forwarded as an attachment. If you send it the wrong way, you should get a message from the robot that handles spam. I suspect that those who ask for an attachment do so because some mailers give you the option of forwarding without headers, and it's the headers they need. Easier to say attach it than don't mess with it, particularly since you may not even know your mailer is leaving irrelevant bits out. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's bright and sunny again. (But going for a long walk in short sleeves yesterday was rushing the season.) To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Mini-Raffle: worn handkerchief
I carried a man's linen handkerchief in my back pocket until it wore through at the folds. Though it's of no further use for cleaning glasses, I hated to throw it out -- nobody pulls flax up by the roots these days, and if any of the machines that can spin line flax are still around, they are in museums. Then I remembered that I know a few people who can put small bits of fine linen to good use. If you want it, send your snail address to joybee...@comcast.net. If I get more than one request, I'll draw a name out of a hat. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the snow is gone, the ice is going, and daffodils are ankle high. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Spam?
On 3/7/10 9:40 AM, scotl...@aol.com wrote: Advice is needed - or confirmation. I have received a message from aol which I think is spam. I have been told that my aol account needs to be updated if I want to continue with my aol account. The details requested - full name and address, date of birth, mother's maiden name, card number, bank details, pin number - suggest strongly to me that this is a con. There is no way I would ever give out my pin number, not to mention my banking details. As I write this I become more and more convinced this is the type of message I have constantly heard warnings about but I would like this feeling to be confirmed by someone with more savvy than I am.. Thank you. I recently forwarded several such messages to missed-s...@comcast.net. If you forward it, together with all headers, to ab...@yourprovider, that will either take care of it or get you an e-mail telling you where to send it, and whether to forward it or attach it to a new message. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Re: :) Fwd: Tech-challenged seniors
On 2/25/10 10:49 PM, Tamara P Duvall quoted: I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but . . . Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, Re-cal-cu-lating. DH and I enjoy teasing Mia; it breaks up the monotony of a long drive. But now that we know exactly how long each fork confuses her, the novelty is off and sometimes we turn her off. There's one corner where she has to start a new calculation before she finishes the previous calculation several times. When she settles down, she admits that we are going the best way. We also enjoy trying to figure out what algorithm she's using to pronounce words. It's easy to see why she reads co[unty] as koh, though I'd never have figured out what she meant without the label on the map. It's less easy to see why Pierceton comes out as peer-settin -- does she see me a-settin' on my pier? And where on Earth does she find the subtle yuh in Indianapyulus? Perhaps an OCR error changed Indianapolis into Indianapulis. end (just in case the Major read this far) - I'm back, by the way. And this fits the theme of tech-challenged seniors. Something called my attention to the Lace mailbox several weeks back, and I thought it odd that the last time I didn't delete a message right after reading it was last May. Took a few weeks to verify that I wasn't getting any mail, a while longer to suspect that I'd been unsubscribed somehow, and quite a while after that to remember that I can ask Majordomo about it. So I sent a subscribe message and got a welcome new member message. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the sky is bright and it has stopped snowing. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] sky blue pink
When there was nothing but bread to eat, we could make jam sandwiches -- tear a slice of bread in half and jam the two pieces together. When I was about fifty, I learned that Mom thought she was fooling us! I also learned that when I thought she was saying Since there is nothing else to eat at the annual oyster supper, dip the broth off the oyster soup -- it doesn't taste *quite* as bad as the oysters themselves -- and try to pretend that you are eating potato soup., she thought she was fooling me into thinking that she was giving me potato soup! I suppose that since oysters were a rare and delectable treat, she couldn't comprehend how *vile* they taste. Every ten or twenty years I bite into an oyster because I can't believe that anything non-toxic can taste as bad as I remember them. I'm about due. Must be a recessive gene -- everyone else in the family adored oysters. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's to be sunny all week! To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On 3/1/09 4:12 PM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: I would think it would be hard enough to kill a deer with a bow at all, let alone to kill them in any particular order. They don't shoot at deer with antlers until after bagging a doe. The Web site I read did say that you would get a pass if you killed a buck with small antlers that are hard to see. This is no different from killing only deer with antlers in areas where DNR is trying to build up the population. It's as easy to kill a deer with a razor-winged hunting arrow as to kill one with a shotgun slug. What makes bow hunting a more-challenging sport is that you have to sneak up very close to get an accurate shot. This sneaking up close is the reason that bow hunters are allowed in places where shotgun hunters are not. How do they keep from impaling children and old people in an urban hunting zone? Same way they keep from shooting people, farm animals, and pets when they hunt in rural hunting zones: don't pull the trigger/release the arrow until you are SURE you know what's behind what you are shooting at. Hunters recruited for Warsaw's deer reduction hunt, in which a token number of deer are taken, undergo quite a lot of extra training, and hunt under extra rules. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's freezing but springlike. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On 2/27/09 8:19 AM, Clay Blackwell wrote: . . . and the deer seem to be smart enough to know that they're free to wander about un-molested in the city. The City of Warsaw organizes a herd-reduction every year, using volunteer bow hunters. (I don't know why they volunteer when it means jumping through a lot of extra hoops.) But Warsaw insists on conducting the hunt under rules intended to insure plenty of deer for next year! On the other hand, when I googled hunting regulations to gather material for a scathing letter to the editor, I found a note that DNR intends to declare Warsaw an urban hunting zone, where hunters are allowed an extra deer each, and have to shoot a deer without antlers before they are allowed to shoot at one with a good rack. (I got the impression that it's an official rule that an urban-zone hunter who takes a deer with small antlers is presumed to have mistaken it for a doe.) I hope (but don't believe) that the urban zone will include the Old Boy's Club. That's where the deer who forbid me to grow tomatoes and peppers come from. I never even considered planting corn. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where a few deluded spring bulbs are sending up shoots. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor
On 2/26/09 1:47 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote: Well, I'm in Virginia, . . . . Last year, she was hit no fewer than three times!!! Does Virginia allow the driver to keep the venison? I have been told that Indiana keeps a list of hard-up people who know how to dress a deer, and gives one of them the deer when the driver doesn't want it. By good fortune, I've never checked this out. We did hit a deer once, in New York State, but all we found was a sitzmark next to a chain-link fence. We figured that a deer who got out of there without leaving tracks on this side of the fence couldn't have been injured too badly -- we were going slow when it jumped into us, because Dave had started braking when he saw the first deer cross the road. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I'm wondering whether Thunderbird will delete all my paragraph breaks again. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Key Caps: was: Re: New baby
On 1/19/09 8:57 AM, Clay Blackwell wrote: ... the D key doesn't work most of the time, and I've developed a habit of hitting it harder than other keys... so that when it *does* work (as it is doing this morning...) I sometimes get a string of Ds instead of just one... Try prying off the key cap and picking the cat fur out. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it isn't snowing. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Is it Spam?
In e-mail, spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail. Lace and Lace-Chat are bulk e-mail, but they are solicited, and therefore are not spam. (Messages from people who cracked our mailing list, and messages from people who joined under false pretenses, are not solicited and are spam.) The letter from your long-lost cousin or a person responding to something you said on the Web is unsolicited, but it's not bulk e-mail, so it is not spam. The bombardment of e-mails from an acquaintance who just *has* to forward every anecdote, lame joke, urban legend, and fake warning he can dig up to everybody in his address book is as annoying as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you *did* give him your e-address. It isn't spam until he starts harvesting addresses from people he doesn't know. (But Stop spamming me! is a reasonable figure of speech. (Leastways it's more reasonable than taking a bolt cutter to his data cable.)) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: No Knead Bread Recipe
On 11/10/08 10:12 AM, Janice Blair wrote: When I tried to get the vitamin C, I found our local Boots the Chemist sold tablets and powder. I did not know how I would measure out the powder in such a small quantity, so I bought 200mg tablets and a pill cutter/splitter, and cut each into 8. They did not dissolve as I hoped they would, so I crushed them between two spoons and although they seemed to stay in bits in the water, they did the job, anyway. I would imagine the powder would be easier if you could find a way to weigh it out. According to Encyclopizza, putting ascorbic acid into your dough is an alternative to using bromated flour, and bromating flour is an alternative to storing it for several weeks, shoveling it around so that air gets to every speck. This oxidizes the gluten, and makes the dough tough. The objection to aging the flour is that it's expensive, and you might get bugs and dirt in the flour. Bromating flour sounds rather nasty to me -- my only personal experience with bromine is being fielded by a fireman when I was racing headlong to a class I was almost late for -- somebody was bromiding some goop, the hose on the bromine tank broke, and instead of shutting off the valve, he panicked and ran, and there were no classes being held in that building that day. Encyclopizza says that the objection to bromating is that if you overdo it, the flour gets *too* tough. But if you put in too much ascorbic acid, Encyclopizza says, nothing at all happens -- though I suppose that if you put in *enough*, the dough would taste sour. And ascorbic acid is expensive, so you don't want to shovel it around *too* freely. So I just grab a teaspoon and put in as much as the bottle says to take for a single dose, even though my flour is probably pretty well aged, since I keep it in small containers, and seldom get to Bonneyville Mills more than once in a year. I mix my ascorbic-acid powder with the flour -- but then I use granulated yeast, and mix that with the flour too. Egad. I forgot to put lecithin in the batch of bread I'm baking today. Ah, well, it's destined to be flat, hard rolls and pizza, so tender crumb doesn't matter. (The crumb came out all right, and the buns are nice and crusty, but I think I let it rise too long; it tastes sour. Went just fine with potted meat, mayo, and a dill pickle, though.) (The dough destined to be pizza is aging in the fridge.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where a few of the trees still have colored leaves. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn
If you eat *lots* of popcorn, you need a dedicated corn popper. Traditional poppers are sheet-metal pans with a crank sticking out of the lid, and holes in the lid -- given a choice, look for holes that are blisters that are open on one side, as if pushed up from below; the simple stamped holes let escaping steam flow straight up, the blisters divert it to the side. My DH, who eats popcorn at eight o'clock every night, invested in a popper with an electric motor to turn the stirrer, and a dome lid that doubles as a serving bowl (The popper itself is an almost-flat plate.) But shaking a saucepan works just fine, except for wearing the anodized finish off the bottom of the pan. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] More tips for arthritic hands?
On 10/1/08 1:00 PM, Dora Smith wrote: I have an arthritic hand. Not I'm going to treat it with rusty pewter; but has anyone got any more strategies? Don't use the mouse. Wear all-wool fingerless gloves when typing. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Knitting Yarns
On 9/14/08 9:23 AM, Dee Palin wrote: . . . could anyone please tell me what Worsted Weight yarns are? Yarns about the thickness of 4/8 worsted yarn. 4/8 worsted was so common in the first half of the twentieth century that knitting worsted was the only label needed. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we needed a LITTLE rain and are getting a LOT. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] What is Fried Mush? [formerly What are grits?]
On 8/14/08 10:00 PM, Pam and David Dotson wrote: Every time I try to fry it, it sticks to the pan and dissolves. What am I doing wrong? Been a while since I was thin enough to fry mush, but fried mush is a very greasy dish -- you might be stinting on the oil. Also, get the oil hot before you put the mush in, and wait until the slice is brown around the edges before trying to turn it -- the inside will be quite soft, but the fried-crisp layer holds it together. It's also possible that the mush has too much water in it; it should be necessary to pack the warm mush into the mold, rather than pouring it in. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where summer is winding down and the garden is full of weeds. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: blogs versus websites
On 8/9/08 6:11 AM, micki wrote: I am having an interesting chat with my web-technie friends at the moment: which is better - a blog or a website? A blog is for what I am doing posts, where the most-recent entry is all most readers are interested in. For example, Shoulder-Bag Diary in http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/RUFFTEXT/ROUGH023.TXT would have made a good blog, but it's an execrable component of a web site. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until I was well into writing it -- and I don't have a needlework blog anyway. (I have a fandom blog at http://laetitia-apis.livejournal.com/, and a political blog at http://joybeeson.livejournal.com/. I haven't posted to either in ages. The fandom blog serves mostly to give me access to friend-locked entries in other Live Journal blogs. The political blog was created as a place to post an un-edited copy of a letter to the local paper, and I have felt the urge to post a rant to it once or twice.) A couple of blogs I follow: What is LKY doing? http://www.livejournal.com/users/lky/ -- LKY has a small circle of friends who care that she has gone on vacation and want to see photographs of her standing in front of landmarks. Comments are few and tend to Yay! and Have fun! More Words, Deeper Hole http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll/ -- James has a way of writing that makes the most trivial events fascinating, and he tends to have experiences that are interesting in themselves. His six cats also have unusual experiences. He is also a professional book reviewer, and attracts readers who share his literary tastes. There are often long and readable conversations in the comments. -- A web site is for material that people will read by topic, rather than by date. Keeping it fresh isn't as important as with a blog, because people will come back to read different parts of it. A commercial website needs a shopping cart, arm-waving ads, and the like, and if your format *is* your content, you need a bastard Graphics/HTML page-writing system, but for everyone else, I STRONGLY recommend plain old hypertext for your web pages. Let the reader choose font, text size, line width, and everything else that depends more on his monitor and the state of his eyes than on what you are trying to say. Real hypertext is just plain text with links. The easiest way to write it is by hand. All you desperately need to know is that [p] marks a paragraph break (this is confusingly similar to a [p][/p] code used in the latest HypergraphicsignoretheText Markup Languages) and that there are six levels of headers. You put [h1] before the most important header and [/h1] after it, and so forth through headers [h2] through [h6]. (Please see angle brackets everywhere I used square brackets: HTML codes in a plain-text document make some mail reading programs go bananas.) If it's going to be *hyper*text, you also need to put in links, but it's easy to copy a link that works and edit it to point where you want it to point. There's a fine point to making a link that displays a graphics file in among your text: you should specify the height and width of the picture, so that a browser doesn't have to wait until the entire picture is downloaded before it can display the text that comes after it. It is extremely offensive to use the height/width attributes to make a picture smaller, because you force the reader to download a whole bunch of resolution, and then don't let him look at it. There are enough Web designers who are ignorant of this point that it's always worth your while to right-click on a picture that doesn't show as much detail as you would like, and choose view image from the menu. Another point worth remembering: HTML readers display carriage returns as spaces, and ignore all surplus spaces. This is to make it easy to arrange the source code in a readable manner. Making the source code plain and readable not only makes it much easier to edit, it serves as a back-up mode when a browser fails to display properly. I like to arrange my source code in two columns, with the text in the right column and the tags confined to the left column as much as possible. This makes it easy to read the text straight down, ignoring the mark-up codes. Hanging indentation makes this format almost automatic. Ah, yes, one more thing you have to learn: how to FTP your files to the server. I got a techie friend to select a suitable program (WS-FTP, in my case), so all I have to do is to open the program, select the remote server from a drop-down list, select the file or files that I want to copy, and click an arrow that points at the directory where I want the copy to appear. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. Where I actually needed a shawl to sit outside at sunset! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL
Re: [lace-chat] blogs versus websites
On 8/9/08 6:11 AM, micki wrote: I am having an interesting chat with my web-technie friends at the moment: which is better - a blog or a website? I know you can link a website to a blog but would like to leave that out of my question. Could you also give an explanation for your preference? Um, er, uh . . . I use my blogs for blogging and my websites for websiting. What are you planning to do? -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.livejournal.com/ http://laetitia-apis.livejournal.com/ http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. Where, today, the Lincoln Highway passes through. (And we had lovely weather for the party.) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: What are Grits?
On 7/31/08 7:59 AM, Sue Duckles wrote: On films you see people eating grits for breakfast. what on earth are they? It took me long enough to figure out what hershey bars were!! Corn middlings. (Cream of Wheat is wheat middlings, as is semolina.) (Well, semolina is closer to meal than grits are.) Hominy grits are hominy ground to the same coarseness: finer than groats, coarser than meal, with all the fine stuff sifted out. Hominy grits are about the only kind you can find in grocery stores, but I can get yellow-corn grits at Bonneyville Mill. Yellow-corn grits are better than corn meal for making the crust of a tamale pie, but Spring Creek sells a pilaf that's a bit coarser than the sort of meal you'd use for making cornbread, and that is good too. Unfortunately, I'm too fat to eat tamale pie. (Not to mention that right now it's too hot to turn on my un-insulated oven.) Tamale pie is seasoned ground beef baked in a wrapper of mush, like a huge tamale. Bears a family resemblance to the hominy-and-cheese dish mentioned later in the thread, but Mom taught me to drain the chili and put the broth into the mush. Gives it a good flavor and striking color. But now that paste tomatoes are the only kind that are canned, there isn't any broth, so I put a boullion cube and some tomato sauce into the mush. I may throw in herbs that are different from the herbs in the filling. Mom encased the filling in mush entirely, but I couldn't make mush stick to the sides of the baking dish, so I just spread about half on the bottom of the dish, put in the filling, then cover it with the rest of the mush. Just as good -- except that as a child, my favorite part was the all-mush corners. Mom topped one end with cheese because Dad didn't like cheese in meat dishes; I either cover the entire dish or leave it off. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] pleated gathering?
On 6/29/08 5:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figure someone out there probably knows what I'm trying ask. I don't know the right word for it. Does anyone know what the name is for the sewing machine foot that sort of makes a row of little tiny pleats for gathering? Does anyone have one? Do you like how it works? I have a Bernina, and I don't think my attachment box has one of those, and maybe it would be worth buying one, so I'm wondering if anyone out here has any knowledge or experience to guide me in making a decision? The one that came with my White Family Rotary, a treadle machine someone traded in on a Touch and Swear while I was working at the Singer Store -- I ransomed it from the landfill for ten dollars -- is called a ruffler. I remember it working quite well when I was playing with my new toy, but I never wear ruffles, so I've never used it for real. I think that someone who knows how to use a ruffling machine can adjust it to pleat an exact ratio. I didn't think they made rufflers to fit modern machines, but a quick Google turned up lots of hits. The first hit after I added Bernina to the search field said that Bernina's ruffler is Foot #86. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's raining again. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] pleated gathering?
On 6/29/08 7:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . I am really interested in trying to learn how to make those teeny tiny pleats for gathering that you see in some antique clothing, Some old books I read waxed quite contemptuous of women so lazy that they didn't stroke their gathers; I gather that this was done by putting the eye-end of the needle into each individual pleat and stroking downward to settle it. Since it helps with machine gathering so much, I suspect that it would help to make *two* rows of your hand gathering stitches. Two points determine a line, so securing the crease at two points would make it more likely to run in the wanted direction. The stitches must, of course, be exactly the same in both rows. It would probably help to mark the fabric first, or practice on gingham or some other fabric with woven-in guide marks. Or, if you can see the weave, go under two threads and over six, or however many will make the pleats of the desired width. (A stitch must always take up at least two threads of the fabric, as a single thread is likely to break.) http://vintagesewing.info/index.html probably has a book that explains how stroked gathers are made. It do! http://vintagesewing.info/19th/1892-sn/sn-02.html#gather Note that it says to use the point of the needle to stroke the gathers; other books criticize this practice on the grounds that the sharp point weakens the fabric. (Oops: the material list specifies a *blunt* needle.) If your fingers cramp, the needle can be mounted in a pin vise. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's raining again. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Unfortunate websites
On a hunch, I typed powergen_italia into my URL field, and learned that while Power-Gen is a real company, they don't have an Italian subsidiary. The site is, as someone suspected, a hoax. (I delete messages right after reading them, so I can't look back to see who.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Pond-ering Traffic Patterns
When I took a bike tour in southern England back in the 1980s, I had a terrible time navigating until I realized that Americans navigate by lines, the English by points. In the US, when you want to locate yourself at a point on the map, you go to an intersection, read the signs, and look for the place on the map where those two roads intersect. In England, when you want to find a road on the map, you find a signpost pointing to two places, and look for the road that connects those two places. I wanted to say that the American and British systems are geometric duals, until I remembered that dual solids swap corners and faces, but keep the same number of edges. On the other hand, maps are planar, and the sides -- lines -- in polygons correspond to faces in solids. (But since every regular polygon is its own dual, as I've just defined it, the concept is rather meaningless.) No doubt the Motorways have changed all that by now. It was probably already changing when I was there -- I know the system was underway, because I vividly remember blundering onto an M road by mistake. (*very* narrow shoulder, lethal warning bumps between me and whizzing motorcar traffic, sheer drop to the Dover river: I didn't care *where* that side road went!) I suspect that Americans used the British system at first because a *lot* of old roads are named after where they go: Lafayette Road, Thorntown Gravel (which was paved before I was born), SR 29 used to be the Michigan Road, back when it went between The Sycamores instead of around them. The Sycamores are an avenue of sycamore trees reputed to have originated when green logs used to build a corduroy road through a swampy approach to crossing Deer Creek sprouted at both ends. If so, the present trees can't possibly be the originals. I was startled twice by the bypass. The first time I went by there after the new bridge was built, we pulled off in the old road, I got out, and looked down to see that I was standing right on the yellow line. That doesn't sound very startling to a Brit, but on this side of the pond, a yellow line doesn't mean no parking -- a yellow curb used to, but I haven't seen that lately. We use a yellow line to separate traffic going thisaway from traffic going thataway, and we don't bother to paint them unless traffic is heavy enough to make standing in the middle of the road uncomfortable at best. The next time, and all subsequent times, I look at the old road and say We used to have *two way traffic* on THAT!? No wonder the trees are all banged up. Pity roadside parks have gone out of style. A stub of road leading to a bridge that is no longer there would be a perfect spot for one. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where cottonwoods are cottoning. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Motorways
On 6/3/08 1:37 PM, Jean Nathan wrote: I hope you didn't blunder on to an M road on a pedal cycle - they're no allowed on motorways. Neither are learner drivers and pedestrians. That was abundantly clear -- that M road was actively hostile to bikes, and, as I said, when I found a chance to get off, I didn't care where the exit would take me as long as it was off the Motorway. US equivalents would be downright friendly in comparison, were it not forbidden to go anywhere near them. There is a whole extra lane for getting disabled vehicles out of traffic on most Interstates, so until you come to an exit, riding beside an Interstate would be just like riding along a deserted road, except for the noise. The exits are considered an insuperable barrier to allowing bikes on Interstates, but they aren't any harder to cross than any other road -- and you need only one hole in the traffic, since the exits are one-way. (I don't attempt to cross the main street of this very small town except on streets that have traffic lights. You could wait *hours* for overlapping holes.) Not to mention that the exits are miles apart, and therefore much easier to deal with than the frequent intersections on alternate routes. But what we *are* hostile to is any hint of allowing bike riders to learn the rules of the road, and random behavior is, of course, riskier when there are more vehicles to blunder into. (It's elitist to ask that people find out which side of the road Americans drive on before venturing out onto American roads. Especially if you're standing right there prepared to tell them.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's raining on piles of cottonwood fluff. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Fwd: plastics numbers
On 4/13/08 3:53 PM, Janice Blair wrote: www.IATP.org The name Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy bears an unsettling resemblance to the name Center for Science in the Public Interest. She also just sent me the following websites which give more information http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/12/24/polycarbonate.worries.ap/ CNN has a better reputation than other news media, but no news medium can avoid being biased in favor of a good story; best viewed as a source of leads to follow up. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/BUSINESS/804110360 A newspaper story; same lack of reason for unquestioning belief as above. (Can you tell that when I was very young, I took part in an event that was written up in the local paper? Left me cynical, it did.) http://www.stats.org/stories/2008/should_baby_bottles_feb9_08.html It has a plausible name; nothing in a quick scan to alarm me; if there are signs of axe-grinding or quackpottery, they aren't up on top. But I don't *know* these people. And here's the Platypus site: http://www.platypushydration.com/product_detail.aspx?ProdID=36 Platypus bottles are made of polypropylene (plastic #5), and they don't make your water taste weird. Sales page. Sounds like a good product, the personal testimony from a friend of a friend works in their favor. But at $7-$10/bottle, I don't think I'd throw them away at the first sign of dirt or wear as I presently do with my 24/$2.99 bottles. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's snowing on the daffodils To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :) For all cat lovers
We've never had a cat who woke us up -- on purpose, that is. There was a cat fight through a plate-glass window one night. (Other nights, too, but now that we know what the pawing noise is, it doesn't wake us.) We fed our second cat in the mornings in the hope of teaching him to help us wake up. Instead, when it was almost time to get up, he'd bridge himself between us to be sure he noticed when we moved, then just lie there all limp and warm and relaxed. This didn't exactly make us get up sooner. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where frost and sun alternate. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....
On 3/8/08 12:56 PM, Sue Duckles wrote: . . . last week I 'volunteered' to take over the production and editing of our quarterly magazine!! Shades of 'I can do that'!! I was hoping that someone else would volunteer too but, as usual in these situations, everyone else took a step backwards!! I edited a monthly for twelve years. In 1989, I wrote a book about it -- a partly-revised version is posted at http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/NONFIC/EDIT.HTM -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we think maybe this thaw will stick. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....
On 3/18/08 12:55 PM, Brenda Paternoster wrote: These are Unix Manual files - with the extension .MAN They opened for me in Text Edit and in Word, but both versions show bits of odd formatting code. I'm sure glad you answered before I did -- I'd forgotten that the extensions were MAN. These are plain-text files; I created them with a word processor that will accept any three-letter extension, and allows different defaults for different extensions -- MAN stands for manuscript format. (Letters had the year they were written as an extension, verse was POT, etc. I miss being able to *use* my extensions! I use PC-Write only for composing HTML these days, since current printers don't have internal fonts.) So if you can download the files and change the extensions to txt, they should work. Since they are dead files, as explained in the HTML index, I went into Z-tree, renamed the files (which for some reason changed them from yellow to white), and re-uploaded them. Then I remembered that the HTML index has to be changed to point to the new files, so I didn't delete the old ones. I'll post when I get around to editing EDIT.HTM. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where heaviest rain is south of us. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] English idioms: was: Dorothee is fine
On 3/2/08 9:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The tumor was one good natured (benigh) (I have looked up the words and I am not sure which is correct.) Benign is the word we use to say a tumor isn't cancer. It doesn't fit very well -- benign tumors don't do you a bit of good -- but I suppose the doctors wanted something to counteract the sheer panic the word tumor tends to cause. Or perhaps it was just a natural reaction to using malignant to say that a tumor *is* cancer. That does fit well, because cancer behaves as though it were out to get you. Or, perhaps, both terms were a translations of German words that fit better. (cheating and looking it up in Merriam-Webster, second edition: malignant originally meant tending to cause death, hence a malignant tumor was one that tended to spread or to come back after extirpation; benign tumor was defined as innocent tumor, which in turn was defined as one which did not in itself threaten death and which did not tend to spread or to grow back after extirpation.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there are puddles on the lake. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Grump
The last message I wrote for Chat disappeared when I was half-way through editing it. I hope it didn't end up on the list. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there's snow on the ground. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: :) Fwd: high school writers
On 2/29/08 12:36 AM, Tamara P Duvall wrote: My source liked #9 the best #9 is a clear reference to a famous SF story, probably by Douglas Adams. (I don't remember the source of the ship hovered over the city exactly the way a brick doesn't, but it sounds like Douglas Adams.) I may steal #6! Who says there are no more great writers in the US ? Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners: More like last century's! If it's really an annual event, I'm surprised that there isn't another list in circulation. 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E.Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie,surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are known to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for awhile. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with powertools. 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's snowing -- and the previous fall hasn't melted! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Green Tip
On 2/15/08 11:20 PM, Bev Walker wrote: I remember the movement to recycle 'good-one-side' paper - all that did was cause confusion, because the 'old-side' was confused with the new side. Heh. I remember when we used both sides of paper as a matter of course -- we didn't call it recycling then, we called it not being extravagant and wasteful. And I still save discarded sheets that are printed on only one side -- I use them to catch excess glue, print proofs, jot notes, etc. I ran through them pretty fast when I was trying to learn Radio Code; they tend to pile up now. Did use a few sheets at Valentine Date night -- uh, yesterday now; my clock says it's after midnight. I did craft for three of the children the church was babysitting: they embroider little squares of fabric and run a thread around the design, then I stretch them over cardboard circles and they paste paper on the back. Two sheets of waste paper for each of the two completed medallions: one to catch glue, and one to protect the medallion while the glue is rubbed down. One of the children wandered off before completing his design. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the snow is staying frozen this time. So far. (The potholes are downright dangerous.) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Question - London Marriages
On 1/19/08 7:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . , there are a significant numbers (over 30) of marriages in London and I am wondering why this would have been? Your description reminded me of the Senior Trip -- in the early twentieth century, children in central Indiana would spend a year organizing paper drives and the like to raise enough money to take a tour of Chicago just before graduating from high school. My totally uninformed guess is that these couples went to London to be married because it was the only chance they would ever have to see the big city. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's so cold and windy the Canada geese spent the whole day huddled in the creek. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Surgery - Dorothee
On 12/30/07 6:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She is supposed to start eating again but doesn't want to... Reminds me of my last stay in a hospital. After I checked in, they brought me the default white-on-white meal, then brought me a menu to select food for tomorrow. I just naturally picked the spiciest options. Then they brought me *that* tray just as I was coming out of the anesthetic. After I waved it away, I realized that there was a glass of juice on the tray and grabbed it; the orderly gave me the dish of jello too, and I did eat it. So the next day, when I hadn't eaten in days, they brought what I'd chosen the day before: one banana. Of late I've been making desserts with plain gelatin and fruit-juice concentrate: pour a can of frozen fruit juice into a pan, sprinkle with gelatin, wait ten minutes, heat until the gelatin dissolves. Seems to me that by using reconstituted fruit juice, and floating soft fruit such as pears canned in pear juice in it, you could make inoffensive snacks. Double up on the gelatin, and it can sit around at room temperature until she feels like taking a bite. But with any luck, it's much too late for this recipe. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there's another fresh layer of snow on the ground. I wonder whether this one will stick around for a while. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
