Re: [lace-chat] domain name change

2022-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] domain name change

2022-12-06 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Change of Address

2020-07-12 Thread Joy Beeson
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...

[lace-chat] Plait and braid: was: [lace] Re: question

2017-07-10 Thread Joy Beeson
w, 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 thin

[lace-chat] OT: moved to chat: was: Arachne Convention Get Together

2017-06-14 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] News reports

2017-03-31 Thread Joy Beeson
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/P

[lace-chat] Switchel: was: Weather: was: help

2016-08-11 Thread Joy Beeson
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 o

[lace-chat] Re: Switchel

2016-08-09 Thread Joy Beeson
ts; 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...@ar

[lace-chat] Re: Quote Source

2016-08-05 Thread Joy Beeson
ypewriter; 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.c

Re: [lace-chat] Switchel

2016-08-05 Thread Joy Beeson
he 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, Indian

[lace-chat] Re: Weather: was: help

2016-08-04 Thread Joy Beeson
er 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 Way

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] email problems.

2016-03-19 Thread Joy Beeson
. 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

Re: [lace-chat] Lacemakers and Tatters in Severe Weather Areas

2015-12-30 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] maths question from a non mathematician

2015-10-01 Thread Joy Beeson
uot;.) 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 arach

[lace-chat] Trimming

2015-06-05 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Challis! was Re: [lace] Wool for a bolster pillow?

2015-05-21 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

[lace-chat] Cycling: was: Re: [lace] Learning Bobbin Lace

2015-04-06 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] weather

2015-01-08 Thread Joy Beeson
. 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

[lace-chat] Re: Old Testament computing

2014-08-18 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Test response to Re: Long Live Lace!

2014-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Needlelace Designs Techniques - PRINT ON DEMAND!

2013-10-16 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Prawn Puzzle

2013-08-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Testing:

2013-08-07 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

2013-07-23 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Lace and vision

2013-06-06 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] E-books

2013-05-24 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Re-assurance Please .....

2013-05-10 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Twinkees

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: corned beef

2013-04-30 Thread Joy Beeson
-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

[lace-chat] De not lurking

2013-03-21 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Weird Characters: was: Fw: Handkerchief fabric (moved from Lace)

2012-05-08 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

[lace-chat] Re: Book Raffle -- Rosemary

2012-04-13 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Forty Entries in Book Raffle

2012-04-07 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Book Raffle

2012-03-30 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

[lace-chat] Re: tomatoes

2012-03-28 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] A bird of a different feather!

2012-03-25 Thread Joy Beeson
-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

Re: [lace-chat] I won!

2012-02-07 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Shopping: was; Green thing

2012-02-06 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Green thing

2012-02-02 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Green thing

2012-01-31 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Soup Stew enhancer

2012-01-23 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] EU bureaucracy

2011-08-26 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Christmas stores opening

2011-07-26 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] curry bras????

2011-07-26 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ

2011-05-11 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] concentrated OJ

2011-05-11 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Concentrated orange juice

2011-05-08 Thread Joy Beeson
. 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

Re: [lace-chat] Valentine customs

2011-02-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Dried fruit, was Fabric widths

2011-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Cactus recipes

2011-01-25 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- 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

[lace-chat] Re: Dried fruit, was Fabric widths

2011-01-23 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] old measures

2010-12-20 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Old Poem

2010-11-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Dentistry and Malls: was: Cell phones: was: Re: Truths for mature adults

2010-10-23 Thread Joy Beeson
. 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

[lace-chat] Re: Cell phones

2010-10-22 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] American meat: was: Lamb recipe

2010-10-22 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Cell phones: was: Re: Truths for mature adults

2010-10-21 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Truths for mature adults

2010-10-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Term Craft -- moved from Lace

2010-10-03 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Eavesdropping, was: just think abut this

2010-09-23 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Good day lasses and lads

2010-09-23 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Golden Rule

2010-08-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Information Highway: moved from: [lace] Re: Strange Magazine

2010-07-16 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Mini-Raffle: worn handkerchief

2010-03-22 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Spam advice again

2010-03-17 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Mini-Raffle: worn handkerchief

2010-03-11 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

Re: [lace-chat] Spam?

2010-03-07 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: :) Fwd: Tech-challenged seniors

2010-02-27 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] sky blue pink

2009-05-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor

2009-03-02 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

Re: [lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor

2009-03-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Deer: was: A Little Canadian Humor

2009-02-26 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Key Caps: was: Re: New baby

2009-01-19 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Is it Spam?

2008-12-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: No Knead Bread Recipe

2008-11-12 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] microwave popcorn

2008-10-03 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] More tips for arthritic hands?

2008-10-03 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Knitting Yarns

2008-09-14 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] What is Fried Mush? [formerly What are grits?]

2008-08-15 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

[lace-chat] Re: blogs versus websites

2008-08-10 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

Re: [lace-chat] blogs versus websites

2008-08-09 Thread Joy Beeson
? 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

[lace-chat] Re: What are Grits?

2008-08-01 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] pleated gathering?

2008-06-29 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- 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

Re: [lace-chat] pleated gathering?

2008-06-29 Thread Joy Beeson
.) 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

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Unfortunate websites

2008-06-04 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Pond-ering Traffic Patterns

2008-06-03 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- 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

Re: [lace-chat] Motorways

2008-06-03 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: [lace] Fwd: plastics numbers

2008-04-13 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] :) For all cat lovers

2008-03-29 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Joy Beeson
!! 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

Re: [lace-chat] Why do I?.....

2008-03-18 Thread Joy Beeson
, 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

[lace-chat] English idioms: was: Dorothee is fine

2008-03-02 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Grump

2008-02-29 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: :) Fwd: high school writers

2008-02-29 Thread Joy Beeson
. 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

Re: [lace-chat] Green Tip

2008-02-15 Thread Joy Beeson
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

[lace-chat] Re: Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Joy Beeson
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

Re: [lace-chat] Surgery - Dorothee

2007-12-31 Thread Joy Beeson
. -- 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

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