Re: [lace-chat] garlic festival

2003-07-05 Thread Andrea Sommers
The other garlic festival is in Gilroy, California. Andrea Sommers Where it is 115 at my house today. - Original Message - From: "alice howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:21 PM Subject: [lace-chat] garlic festival > Hi everyone, > > DH j

[lace-chat] garlic festival

2003-07-05 Thread alice howell
Hi everyone, DH just told me that the garlic festival near me is the Elephant Garlic Festival. Elephant garlic is supposed to be milder in flavor than regular garlic. It's certainly larger. It's Aug 15-17 in North Plains, Oregon -- DH had to look it up on the web. Alice in Oregon -Lace e

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Re: [lace-chat] good news if it's true?

2003-07-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
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[lace-chat] festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Dearl Kniskern
dear spiders our festival is held in september and is called the wilderness trail festival for those who don't live in this area the wilderness trail was the first trail traveled by men like davy crockett and goes from richmond virginia on through the cumberland gap in western virginia to tenness

[lace-chat] good news if it's true?

2003-07-05 Thread
Toni wrote about "Microbe gobbles toxic plastic waste". On first glance this does look good, but it reminds me of a sci-fi story about a microbe that eats all plastic. Chaos theory suggests that this new microbe could evolve to do just that, nature finds a way (eerie music) >VBG

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2003-07-05 Thread Deborah Metters
Hi Alice > A little way from here, one town has a Garlic > Festival. They make all kinds > of things with garlic, including garlic ice cream. > No, I didn't eat any! Garlic ice-cream is surprisingly nice. Or at least it is when you've been to a bar that puts garlic in *everything* - I can highl

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2003-07-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
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Re: [lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Katrina Worley
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:53 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 16:08 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote: What other interesting and quirky festivals are there out there? Haven't *seen* it; left the area before it started... But, when I visited a lacemaking friend (and an ex-Arac

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Re: [lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Redmond, Washington...The small town where I grew up (now the larger town where Microsoft has its headquarters) has a Bike Derby Festival. The town is located near a lake and the roads surrounding the lake make a 26 mile circuit which is used for an international bike race. The Queen Candidate

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2003-07-05 Thread dominique
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[lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread Jean Nathan
The Isle of Wight ( the island just off the south coast of mainland England) has a garlic festival in August, where they present garlic in guises you never thought possible. Somerset holds a series of evening carnivals during October/November each year. Carnial clubs are set up throughout the coun

[lace-chat] Festivals

2003-07-05 Thread alice howell
At 01:08 PM 7/4/2003 -0700, you wrote: >What other interesting and quirky festivals are there out there? > Next week is our local annual celebration -- Turkey Rama. It started as the Pacific Coast Turkey Exhibition at a time when turkeys were one of the largest crops in the county. Now, I don't