Re: [lace-chat] Lives of the cat (was: seven)
I have a vague recollection that 9 is the right number, but I don't remember any particular saying associated with it. Weronika On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:15:03PM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: > On Jun 3, 2004, at 19:58, Weronika Patena wrote: > > >I think it's nine in Poland... > > I've been trying to remember anything on the subject, and can't; > neither seven nor nine seems to ring any bells (Weronika, what's the > Polish phrase you remember?). All I can remember is that a cat "always > falls on 4 legs" (zawsze spada na cztery nogi), ie lands safely. In > extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :-)) Male intuition
MAN'S INTUITION A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected: a litre of semi-skimmed milk, a carton of eggs, a litre of orange juice, a head of iceberg lettuce, a jar of coffee, and a package of bacon. As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated, "You must be single." The woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she was indeed single. She looked at her six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status. Curiosity getting the better of her, she said "Well, you know what, you're absolutely correct. But how on earth did you know that?" The drunk replied, "Cause you're ugly." Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. _ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thanks
Dear Secret Pal in New Zealand, Your parcel arrived a few minutes ago and earlier than I expected it is the 4th today - what a lovely surprise. The bobbins will get spangled and in work on my pillow straight away and also the cover cloth. It is such a lovely print on the cloth and I will think of you when I see it. Look forward to make up the hardanger kit. Thank you very much for everything you sent / Sonja Sonja Sillay in sunny Bristol UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] taxes in Australia
>Helene said: My biggest gripe since we've started a 10% goods and services tax, is that > for some things, they cahrge you a governement tax, *then" they charge you > 10% on top of that, so you pay tax on the tax!! I'm not against paying > taxes, but I think that really stinks! It is depressing to think that our tax free day is 9 months into the tax year. For instance Helene, since we moved back from our disaster year down the coast, we have to sell the 5 acres we bought to build on. As we didn't build, it is an investment property, therefore, when we sell, we pay 50% capital gains tax on the so called profit, 2.5% stamp duty on the total sale price, and the purchaser pays stamp duty on both the purchase and any mortgage, plus 10% gst on any building. Not a bad turnover of income for our government. Lynn Scott, Wollongong To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Flies and mosquitos
Tamara wrote: > You kept a "packa" (mmm... the dictionary translation > is wrong; but it's one of those flexible squares on a > stick?) handy A flyswat? That's what we call ours. But trying to swat a gnat (or maybe it's a mozzie?) on the ceiling above our bed, while DH hides under the bedclothes, is hardly ever successful except for the entertainment value. BFN, Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Goldwork Spider
The latest issue (June/July) of Workbox has a magnificent design by Shelley Cox, for a silk embroidery and goldwork spider and web. It's so beautiful that it's definitely on my to-do list. Try to get a copy. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Flies and mosquitos
"Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mosquitoes. In Poland, they were plentiful, but only outdoors; they >almost never came into the house. Here, it's the same; they happily >congregate over patches of standing water (lotsa happiness there, the >past few weeks ), especially in the shade. Wa! So are you telling me in the South, even the mosquitoes are polite? ! I am so envious! A vampire insect that waits on the threshold -- it boggles the imagination (at least, to someone who grew up with the impolite Michigan species). I just did a Google search, and apparently one of our Michigan mosquito species is even called the "northern house mosquito", Culex pipiens. They like shade: houses count as "shady". If we have even a small hole in a window screen, say the size of a dime (about 1cm), they will funnel inside like the pointy end of a tornado. Not only are they whiny and annoying, now they also carry West Nile virus. Historically mosquitoes were malaria carriers here. Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote "Democracy in America" in the 1830's, went hunting up near Saginaw, and found the mosquitoes so fierce he couldnt even pause to write in his notebook. Some summers when they are bad, I can't even pick black raspberries with long sleeves, jeans, AND mosquito repellant on -- they buzz all around you until they drive you flat NUTS. This page http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=25 describes Michigan in the early 1800's as "uninhabitable" due to the hordes of mosquitoes. The page has some other interesting quotes: "In 1859, the new Michigan Agricultural College in East Lansing came to a standstill because all 100 students, and all but one of the faculty members, contracted malaria." and "Tocqueville later wrote that he had "never experienced a torment" like mosquitoes, which were "the scourge of the American solitudes." " Wow, someone who has experienced a Michigan mosquito cloud, writing with the grammar of the 1830's. They are a scourge, all right. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re:flies and mosquitos
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:44:13 -0400 From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [lace-chat] Re: Flies and mosquitos On Jun 3, 2004, at 23:25, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: > Fly screens are a necessity here in Oz. Flies are everywhere, all year > round, Also in Oz we have what is known as 'The Great Australian Wave'. Often during the summer the news/tv reporters can be seen waving their arms around furiously whilst reporting the news! It is either that or we sit at home and watch the flies crawl all over their faces. You really know it is summer here when you see everyone doing the same thing in the street. Janette in downtown Wanniassa, Canberra waiting for the temperature to reach -6 tonight! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Flies and mosquitos
When we lived in New Orleans, the last thing we did before going to bed was kill the mosquitoes. We each took a fly swatter and went from room to room killing them. They sat on the ceilings and tops of the walls waiting for us to go to bed so they could attack. Anne >-- Original Message -- >From: "Margery Allcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Flies and mosquitos >Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:47:30 +0100 >Reply-To: "Margery Allcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Tamara wrote: > >> You kept a "packa" (mmm... the dictionary translation >> is wrong; but it's one of those flexible squares on a >> stick?) handy > > >A flyswat? That's what we call ours. But trying to swat a gnat (or maybe >it's a mozzie?) on the ceiling above our bed, while DH hides under the >bedclothes, is hardly ever successful except for the entertainment value. > > >BFN, >Margery. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK > > >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: >unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: Flies and mosquitos
How many have tried keeping basil plants around to keep out the flies? It really does work, I noticed the effect when I had a pot of basil (the herb) in my kitchen window. Then later read it in a gardening news column. That reminds me I need to go to the garden store and get a pot for this year, well maybe several pots as we have a new covered patio to use this summer. Are there any other plants that have this effect? Lorri Graham, WA USA in the foothills of MT. Rainier To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Re: [lace-chat] The culture shock
Dear Friends, > Everybody gets confused over whether 12:00 is ante meridian or post > meridian. Not here - we were simply taught to write 12 Noon or 12 Midnight, as it is neither A.M. nor P.M. David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] mosquitoes
Ah, now if you want to see mosquitoes, you have to go to Northern Canada :) There's many tales of how inattentive runway crews have attempted to refuel a mosquito before they realise it's not an aircraft :) DH and I once made a three week canoe trip in DH's stomping grounds of northern Manitoba..it just happened to be a time when they had the worst outbreak of mosquitoes in 17 yrs. The first day we made 25 miles. We just had to keep paddling to avoid the mozzies. We had three portages the first day that were over a mile long, they were pretty exciting, we couldn't move fast enough. Then there were the blackfly. Oh, and it was also a record year for leeches..I thought they were eels until DH informed me otherwise :( Sharon.. on sunny Vancouver Island To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] windows
Tamara wrote: > >Don't know what's wrong with *yours*, but... To me, windows ought to > >have two -- large and unbroken (to allow for maximum light and for a > >"dead air" cushion, both in summer and in winter) -- glass panes. And > >they should open *out*, on hinges, like doors (so-called "casement" > >windows). Or, if you go for a more modern version, on a swivel, which > >allows you to open the top in, and the bottom out, and vice-versa. We have just replaced our old sash windows that had storms in with new casement windows. Large ones with no lites (wooden bars dividing them up). They open outwards sideways and the screens can be put in during the summer on the inside. What a pleasure after years of cleaning windows with two sets of 4 sides in each frame! I always managed to break my nails and bash my knuckles taking the storm windows out and putting the screens in. These new windows will never need painting, just a gentle wipe down, and they lock in 3 places instead of the old 1 place so I feel they are even more secure. Problem was the new windows made the cedar siding look shabby so next Monday I have to be up before 7:00 am as the painters are finally coming. I was not familiar with storm windows until we bought this house 10 years ago. I was busy painting before we moved in and opened the windows up, as I still couldn't feel a breeze I investigated further and found that there was another set of windows about 3" further out in the frame. They were wonderful for insulation but such a pain to clean. When we got a quote for replacing them the guy showed me how to pull out the sash windows to get at the storms easier. Another problem of not having grown up in the country. What a dope I felt, now no reason to get new ones but I failed to mention it to my hubby until the order for the new ones was placed. :-) Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: windows
On Jun 4, 2004, at 17:32, Janice Blair wrote: We have just replaced our old sash windows that had storms in with new casement windows. Large ones with no lites (wooden bars dividing them up). They open outwards [...] Yeah, and how are you gonna wash 'em? Do your Spiderwoman act? When we enclosed out side porch some 15 yrs ago (and turned it into a music room), Severn, wanting to please, OK-ed casement windows. American style. They're operated by a crank, and they open outwards. They're also single-pane (cold in winter, hot in summer) but, naturally, the only storm windows available were sash ones, so we don't have any, and the room is a freezer in winter and a frying pan in summer. It's true that, with casement windows opening inwards, you either can't keep anything in front of them, or else have to move everything every time (which is where the idea of "lufcik" - a small part of the window opening, independently, at the top - comes in). But, for washing... You do both sides of the pane at once - Lazy Lizzie's paradise The older windows had two separate frames, each holding one pane; in effect, two separate windows. The newer ones hold two panes and come apart (so you can wash only the outsides, or both outsides and insides). In either case, you have, in addition to the two layers of glass, a layer of air in between. *Without* the hassle of the storm windows (which are twice the pain of the ordinary sash ones), as is the case in US. Which hassle is so great - glass up, screen down, screen up, glass down, aaargh - that I don't even bother to use them; wichever way they're set, thus they stay (in any case, you can only open half of the window at once) And this is the country which has invented the "dumb Polack" term? Bt... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Flies and mosquitos
On Jun 4, 2004, at 9:41, Lynn Carpenter wrote: Wa! So are you telling me in the South, even the mosquitoes are polite? ! I don't think our mosquitoes read Miss Manners :) But they just don't seem to find as much "interesting stuff" inside as they do outside. Perhaps it's because I smoke? Or because - as my friends in Poland used to claim - I'm so bitchy, my blood's to bitter to suck? In any case, if we do get a mosquito inside, it's usually something we've transported in ourselves. But there isn't a whole lot of stagnant (or even moving) water around here, which might also account for there being fewer mosquitos all around. --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Flies and mosquitos
"Lorri Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How many have tried keeping basil plants around to keep out the flies? >It really does work, I noticed the effect when I had a pot of basil (the >herb) in my kitchen window. Then later read it in a gardening news column. It must depend on the fly species. Last year in my garden we had some kind of fly that liked to rest, sit, perch, whatever you call it, on the plants. They came by the tens at a time, and I do remember them sitting on the basil, as well the tomatoes, the four o'clocks, and whatever else was growing out there. >Are there any other plants that have this effect? The old-fashioned scented-leaved geraniums are supposed to be insect repellents. But they are worth growing just for the leaf scent, if you can find them. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Insects meet their fate
On Jun 4, 2004, at 8:47, Margery Allcock wrote: Tamara wrote: You kept a "packa" (mmm... the dictionary translation is wrong; but it's one of those flexible squares on a stick?) handy A flyswat? That's what we call ours. They're called flyswatters here; thanks Pam! And thanks Margery; if Pam hadn't written with the term I know, I'd have been able to reconstruct it from the "flyswat"... Out of curiosity... When I see a fly or a bee/wasp/yellow jacket/hornet in the house, I reach for the fly swatter. When I see a mosquito, I wait for it to "come into my parlour" (ie alight somewhere on me) and then slap it flat. When I see a "flour moth", I chase all over the kitchen after it, trying to smash it between my clapping hands. Most unsatisfactory method, but one which seems instinctive... Do other people do it the same way? --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. 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: Insects meet their fate
I heard that if you hold your breath when a mozzie lands on you it can't fly away and then it is really easy to swat it. Apparently something to do with your pores closing when you breathe in. I thought it was a myth but I tried it and it works. Cheers, Yvonne. Tamara wrote: > >> Out of curiosity... When I see a fly or a bee/wasp/yellow jacket/hornet in the house, I reach for the fly swatter. When I see a mosquito, I wait for it to "come into my parlour" (ie alight somewhere on me) and then slap it flat. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Lives of the cat
On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:56, W & N Lafferty wrote: All I can remember is that a cat "always falls on 4 legs", ie lands safely. In extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down. So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back, and drop the cat from a height, then both the cat's feet and the buttered side of the bread will want to land first and hey presto, perpetual motion! I think I'll spend the rest of the evening meditating... Are you a genius? Am I a nut, because I find the idea most amusing? Flip, flop, flip, flop... How big would the bread piece need to be to balance the cat and keep the flip-flopping going? Would it be a matter of weight, or of surface? And, how soon after being dropped (from what height?) would the flip-flop "click in"? Weronika, perhaps some of your buddies at CalTech might want to do an in-depth study of the physics (and the metaphysics) of the problem. Especially those in search of a "meaty" subject for a thesis... I'm also forwarding this message to all the sci people I know; this is beyond *my* two brain cells, but... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. 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: Lives of the cat
Tamara, Don't forget that Noelene is down here south of the Equator ... and we know strange things happen here, like the bathwater going down the plug hole in the opposite direction.So, whilst you're meditating, consider whether the same would apply to the flip, flop of the cat/buttered breadwould the cat/bread sandwich in the northern hemisphere go flop, flip instead of the other way round, and would it have any effect on perpetual motion or not!!? (Extremely big grin!!) Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:56, W & N Lafferty wrote: > > So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back, > and drop the cat from a height, then both the cat's feet and the > buttered side of the bread will want to land first and hey presto, > perpetual motion! I think I'll spend the rest of the evening meditating... Are you a genius? Am I a nut, because I find the idea most amusing? Flip, flop, flip, flop... How big would the bread piece need to be to balance the cat and keep the flip-flopping going? Would it be a matter of weight, or of surface? And, how soon after being dropped (from what height?) would the flip-flop "click in"? Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com 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: This is for Real - humour
> Weronika, the problem of "getting lost" in conversation doesn't only occur when moving to a country with a different language! I'm sure it doesn't. I'm fine with most of the language, it's just the culture that confuses me. Especially when people my age start talking about music and movies and such... Weronika Weronika, The culture confuses ME, and I was born and raised here by very non-international parents! Except for The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, "Master and Commander" (because we liked the books) and "Minority Report", I don't think we've seen any movies in the last five years. As for modern music well, I know more medieval pieces by heart than pop songs! The number of references in meetings at work that sail right over my head, to my all-too-obvious complete non-comprehension is probably legendary by now! -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] insects meet their fate
dear Tamara When I see a "flour moth", I chase all over the kitchen after it, trying to smash it between my clapping hands. Most unsatisfactory method, but one which seems instinctive... Do other people do it the same way? no, with the flour moths I use a butterfly net or fishing net (they come in different sizes ) and they both work well I used to do the other thing like you said but since then my granddaughter taught me how to catch them and then step on them in the net works a charm yours in lace Dearl Christiansburg, Virginia, USA My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cablenet-va.com/~dearlk/ http://photos.yahoo.com/ladearl To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Witches
Malvary, I can also claim a weird family history - one of my ancestors was reputedly a witch. The UK arachnes may have heard about the Pendle witches in Lancashire; my ancestor was Alice Nutter who met an untimely end. I've read various versions - hanged in Lancaster, burnt at the stake but Dad insists that the true version is that she was about to be burned but had a heart attack and died before the fire was lit, but they burnt the body anyway. Dad quelled my fear of the dark when I was little by telling me that because we were decended from witches we were protected in the dark and nothing could harm us, and this 'belief' has also been passed on to my children and grandchildren. Joan from Yorkshire (but born and still roots in Lancashire) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :-)) Interesting exercise
Take it slow, and take it from the top. You will find this very funny as well as interesting. Scroll down, real slow and give it your full attention, otherwise it wil not work. Think of a letter between A and W. . . . Repeat it out loud as you scroll down. . . Keep going . . Don't stop . . . . . . Think of an animal that begins with that letter. . . . . Repeat it out loud as you scroll down. . . . . . Think of either a man's/woman's name that begins with the last letter in the animals name . . . . Almost there . . . Now count out the letters in that name on the fingers of the hand you are not using to scroll down. . . . . Take the hand you counted with and hold it out in front of you at face level . . Look at your palm very closely and notice the lines in your hand . . Do the lines take the form of the first letter in the persons name? Take your time. . . . . . . . . . . . . Of course not... Now smack yourself in the head, get a life, and quit playing stupid e-mail games! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. . . . . To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
