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This was mass mailed from Garden Gal from ez board Through the Garden Gate.. it was too pretty not to share with you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

http://www.egreetings.com/view.pd?i=125051134&m=6173&source=eg999

-- Anonymous, November 25, 2002

Answers

very nice. thanks

same back at ya.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002


Well, I'm bummed about Thanksgiving. I checked the three major music stores in the area and none of them have the Berryman CD featuring "Why Am I Painting My Livingroom". I had envisioned putting it on endless loop until I was through. Couldn't even find any Berryman CDs, just the lyrics. Maybe the cats will caterwaul in harmony for me (or not). They don't know yet that they will be spending a good part of the weekend in the cellar.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002

is there a band called "Cats in the Cellar?" ha ha

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002

We've been ignoring Tgiving for years. We're having Greek style spinach pie this year, courtesy of Costco. Sweetie will come home sometime on THursday, preferring not to drive Wednesday night, and very sensible too. We shall have a bit of a busy time, running errands.

I've been attacking the living room and you can actually see most of the floor in there now.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002


is there a band called "Cats in the Cellar?"

Yes, of course, but those lyrics aren't suitable for a family forum...

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002



I see no point in being able to see the floor. just means you have to clean it, ya know.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002

No, it means Esther has to vacuum it, lol!

Brooks, this is a family forum? Is that something else I forgot?

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002


Git, only for the period of Carl's furlough.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002

Dammit, Brooks, I do my best, I just don't have Carl's sources.

I've dropped him a line twice and he hasn't replied.

Which reminds me, we haven't heard from David lately and I'm a bit worried.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002


Folks turn up around holidays.

Brooks, Jeff Foxworthy tapes are good to paint by. I borrow them for free from the library.

I have a scaled back T-Day. At this point, I don't think that I'll be having company, but I'm still fixing a turkey breast and a pot of mashed potatoes (made with chicken broth instead of milk). I like having a turkey around to nibble on.

I had to run some errands and made the mistake of taking the freeway. OUCH! Tons and Tons of police officers out there, even with the snow starting -- they're running the Click It or Ticket stuff here, now, and there will be various "safety checkpoints" all around the area, starting tomorrow. If I were heading out, I'd take a back road out of town.

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002



I like having a turkey around to nibble on.

Meems, you make it so easy for me--I used to as well but I eventually divorced him.

Badabing!

-- Anonymous, November 26, 2002


Couldn't find a personal chicken (cornish game hen), so went for the smallest roaster I could find. Ginger and Angel will enjoy helping me with that. Bandit the Blimp has no clue that people food might be yummy cat food as well.

No company this year, but this is the meal where I like to gloat over some of my veggies. Potatoes, onions, winter squash, beets.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


If you feel like it, save the trimmings and carcasse and stew for a while with just enough water to cover. Strain off the liquid and, when it cools a bit, freeze it in ice cube trays. Very useful for adding to catfood--the chicken fat is particularly good. If you realyl feel adeventurous, sort out the bits of meat and freeze in a baggie. You can break off a few chunks every now and then to tempt anyone who's off his food or just as a treat.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

Good grief! Thanksgiving hasn't even started yet and yer already talking about leftovers?

LOL

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


Consider yourself groaned at for the comment about divorcing the turkey, OG.

Barefoot, leftovers are an important consideration when one doesn't have a lot of freezer space -- this is why I bought a turkey breast instead of a whole turkey (and the remains would get made into soup).

Brooks -- take a picture of your table! It'll remind you why you weed the garden in July. (:

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002



Meemur, the "table" is temporarily in the guest bedroom for the week, squeezed in between all the other livingroom and diningroom furniture. This evening the two livingroom easy chairs (which won't fit through the bedroom doors) will be tossed in the garage for the duration. That leaves me with one humongous rug and the grand piano. The rug is scheduled for cleaning, so maybe that is where the kitties and I should have our party.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

Oh, and no summer weeds in the vegetable garden - I keep it well mulched. ;^)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

You have an answer for everything today, Brooks! (grin)

Good luck with the painting, with or without your loop tape. I think I might end up working on boxes -- I can't get to all the parts of my ceiling for prep until I move them, so I might as well reduce their number.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


What!! I was supposed to prep my ceiling!!! Well, dang, there goes the weekend! (I did vacuum up any spiders I could see, figured I'd paint over the ones who were too lazy to move out of the way...)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

texture is everything.

LOL

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


I'm building a platform bed. Decided back ache was due to bed, no matter how "orthopedic" and expensive it was. Got an air bed. I did fine on the one we had as a temporary fill-in between the water bed and the conventional bed. Maybe I'll get another waterbed one of these days. One of those expensive ones, with the sausages instead of one big plastic bag. I'm already sleeping on the air bed (Costco, $130) but it's on the floor and so am I. It's a bit difficult to get up to standing mode. The cats are freaked out. Zucco keeps running in here and leaping on a bed that isn't there, lol!

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

That sounds like a cool project. When I was in college, I build a 7' loft and put my desk and bookshelves underneath -- like a bunk bed, only for adults.

One of the engineers figured out that with the 4 x 4 fence supports and the 1" plywood (and 1 1/2" stock bolts) that I had a working weigh of over 1000 pounds! (:

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


Yes, I'd love to do a loft bed thing--had a friend who lived in an apartment cut from an old Victorian house; her ceilings were enough to allow a closet underneath with a 7' ceiling. Her bed still allowed for about 7' of head space.

I've built several of these over the years, varying in design frm very simple waterbed box to storage bed w/bookshelf headboard. What I will have is a combination of an old waterbed headboard and a platform with storage under it. Eventualy, I'll buy some more planking and do another headboard--the new stuff will be honey oak, the waterbed stuff is an Early American thing in very dark pine with an etched mirror--not my style but it was free.

I need to scour woodworing catalogues and find a swivel thingie that will hold a computer monitor, possibly more computer gear.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


Best Buy has swivel thingies.

Good luck on your project! I'm logging out and going to bed! That's my pre-holiday treat.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002


I'm looking for something on a pole that swivels, fits into two round thingies bolted to the side of the bed., I guess it's a swingie thingie. Have to look, see what's available, see if there's something better I can use. You'd be amazed what handy little thingies they've got in those woodworking catalogues.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

hospital supply places, new or used, may have something you can use.

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2002

Yep, Duke Hospital/University has a used place but their prices are a bit high. It can wait a bit but eventually, would like to add that in to the mix.

-- Anonymous, November 28, 2002

Sorry I didn't reply to your e-mails Git, lately when I get a chance to get on-line, I'm pretty rushed. Social Security awarded my permanent disabilty a couple of weeks ago, just waiting for my son's benefits ro come through, then I'll be getting a place and be back with a vengence :)

Will explain more then. For now, Happy Turkey Day all!!!!



-- Anonymous, November 30, 2002


CARL!!!

Great to see you!

Sounds as if you've had a difficult time of it. I know how hard and stressful it is to get SS disability--I tried but they turned me down flat, even though I could no longer work. And I didn't have the strength to fight it! Catch-22. Glad you did.

We've misssed you. Someone has been posting Carl-type stuff and using my name on it and everyone thought it was you. ;-)

How's The Kid? Let us know when you can.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2002


hey Dude! Glad to see ya! Sure hope you're turkey day was pleasant.

Welcome back!

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2002


Only Carl could have posted that one...

I'm pleased to report that, five gallons of paint later, the cats are still the same color that they were on Wednesday before I opened the first can.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002


Well, that's no fun! Um, what about your hair color? I got Sweetie to save me the hotel shower caps and they do a good job of keeping the paint out of my hair. But not off my face or arms and hands, lol!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

Try painting the way Mr. Bean does. LOL

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

I always use a shower cap. This time I also used protective goggles because I knew there would be splatter in my face from doing the textured ceiling. I had to stop about every half hour or so and rub the speckles off my cheeks and the goggles.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

...And the cats looked mighty cute in their shower caps as well.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

I made myself a snowball,
as perfect as can be.

I thought i'd keep it as a pet,
and let it sleep with me.

I made it some pajamas,
and a pillow for its head.

Then last night it ran away,
but first -- it wet the bed.


-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002


(((Carl!!)))) I missed you too, please don;t be a stranger here or IC!!

Git, we had the water bed for yrs. then got orthopedic that sucked!

so I got a cheap air mattress lated me 8 months, and slept like a baby, I hve 2 spares at all time.....I thought about the big name air bed, but seeing how sir matresses can leak, I think I;ll stick with the cheap brands....air is air, and I also "made" 9really I modified the Waterbed fram, cut it from king size to queen and have 12 drawers under it. and foarm and the air matress on it. my Fibro seems to not come as ofter with sleeping sound on the air bed!

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002


Same story, SAR. Only problem is the less expensive air beds only go up to queen size. After we move (whenever that is), I'll get two twins to make us king size agaon. Some of the cats are sleeping in the trench created by the gap since I made the bed king size. It's not finished yet because I worked at Grannie's but it's finished enough to sleep on and I'm using the bookcase headboard from the old bed.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2002

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