[lace-chat] Anatomy Comparisons
DH forwarded this one onto me. Hope no one will be offended. Pene Subject: Comparisons A family is sitting around the supper table. The son asks his father, "Dad, how many kinds of breasts are there?" The father, surprised, answers, "Well, son, there are three kinds of breasts. In her twenties, a woman's breasts are like melons, round and firm. In her thirties to forties, they are like pears, still nice but hanging a bit. After fifty, they are like onions." "Onions?" "Yes, see them and they make you cry." This infuriated the wife and daughter. So the daughter said, "Mum, how many kind of penises are there?" The mother, surprised, smiles, and looks at her husband and answers, "Well, dear, a man goes through three phases. In a man's twenties, his penis is like an oak, mighty and hard. In his thirties and forties, it is like a birch, flexible but reliable. After fifty, it is like a Christmas tree." "A Christmas tree?" "Yes, dead from the root up & the balls are there for decoration only." To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] OT music and universities
My DD1 has the opportunity to study overseas next year. I know there are a few musos on lace chat and I was wondering if they could give me some advice about university music programs in the US or Canada that I could pass along to her. Does any one know if her fiance would be able to accompany her and work while she is studying? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give. Cheers, Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
"The *cat* loves them. Every now and then I catch him in the window watching squirrelevision. " We have red and grey squirrels here in Scotland - the red becoming increasingly rare alas, in part due to one of my cats. He loved them but did not confine his activities to watching them - didn't know they were a protected species! jenny barron NE Scotland, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Darwin Awards
>Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]: >An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former >girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun >discharged, blowing a hole in his gut. Well, she was quite right to ditch him, wasn't she? I hope she wasn't pregnant..:-) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne 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] secret pal thanks
--- Brenda Paternoster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5 bobbins; um > use three of them to make a hair type braid and pass the other pair in > and out of that and make some picots on either side. Something for > tamara to think about! > > Brenda Mmmm, it doesn't sound much like Idrija lace...I'll keep it in mind, but the bobbins are all of half a centimetre long, so I don't think I'd be using them much anyway! :-) 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]
[lace-chat] RE: lace-chat-digest V2004 #184 Black Squirrels
In Letchworth Garden City (the World's First garden City!) we have black squirrels. At the TIC where I work we sell lots of postcards that get sent off to doubters as evidence they exist. We have leaflets on them and a nice little side line in souvenirs portraying one. Sometimes people come just to see them and then we are exoected to be able to produce live ones for viewing! I live a few miles away and have seen them here too - I followed one down the path last week. Folk in Letchworth either love 'em or hate 'em depanding on the size of their gardens and the damage done. Personally I like them - they are slightly smaller than the greys and very definitely black. Lynne. Lynne Cumming Baldock, North Herts, UK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
Dear Susan, Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive out the other squirrels? No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? David in Ballarat :_ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
Here in the Boston area we have red, grey, and quite a few black squirrels. The black ones are new in the last ten years or so. I've heard that they are a mutation of the grey squirrels, other than color, no difference. The red squirells were also "new" in the sense that they grey squirrels had driven them out years ago, or so I was told, but have somehow made a come back. I had been told that the grey squirrels are much more aggressive than the red ones, but people who have red squirrels in abundance say the opposite. The red squirrels are definitely smaller than the grey squirrels, at least around here. They seem to go a little "crazy" in the fall, and so do the chipmunks -- always dashing from nowhere in front of cars, or stopping for a bite to eat in the middle of the road and not moving for *anything* -- it's a wonder any of these species survive! Regards, Carolyn PS so much of what I wrote above is "I've been told ..." so I did a little looking it up -- apparently the "Black squirrels are a variety of the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis And one town, Council Bluffs, IA claims to have had black squirrels since the 1840's (so much for appearing in the last ten years ...). For those of you who are interested, there are also White Squirrels -- the photo of the little rodent is very cute -- but I haven't time to get into that! Carolyn Hastings Stow, MA USA > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Webwalker > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels > > > I live in NE Ohio -- about 60 miles in from both the N and E borders. > About 20 years ago, a community of black squirrels were living about > 20 miles north of here--and were prevalent. No one I knew had ever > seen black squirrels before. Now there are black squirrels where I > live--both black and brown. > > Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they > drive out the other squirrels? > > Susan Webster > Canton, Ohio > > 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: Black Squirrels
Hi everyone, and Sue who asked - In my neck of the woods (western Vancouver Island) we have the native red squirrels scampering about - only this year have any of the large greys made an appearance, but I knew they were working their way westward - noticeable by the incidents of road kill we would see on our way to 'town' (= city of Victoria, some 30 miles easterly). I have only seen black squirrels in the area of Beacon Hill Park, a garry oak environment in Victoria. If you have seen 'Ice Age' there is a squirrel character that shoves an acorn into places - I watched a black 'in action' at the park one day - creepy how their little paws and 'arms' can work an acorn into the ground...so the animation in 'Ice Age' was right on. I haven't seen grey squirrels with acorns though - most always I see them running along a wire or tree trunk. They are invasive and I don't know that they bother with the reds directly, but I know they compete agressively for the food - however, in a turnabout, the grey that came to live in my yard was soon dispensed with by the cat...the grey was after the cat food, a delectable that is not at all to the taste of the red squirrels, and the cat simply waited for its chance to nab (watching 'squirrelvision' - perfect!). Haven't seen a grey squirrel in the neighbourhood since, but the reds are still resident, in the coniferous forest - no acorns, so probably no black squirrels either? -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Squirrels
Not aware of black squirrels in the UK, but they could be in places other than the south where I live. The only squirrels in parks, gardens and woodlands are grey ones. We do have red squirrels, but they're on an island in Poole Bay, and grey squirrels won't get there to wipe them out unless they can swim well. Think there might be a few pockets of red squirrels elsewhere. Red squirrels are protected, but I understand that the grey ones are regarded as vermin, and if you catch one you can't release it again. You either have to kill it yourself or get someone in to do it. We feed the birds (I mean we buy bird seed by the sackful), so get squirrels as well. We like seeing them in the garden, so we wouldn't even try to catch one. As a result of bird seed not all getting eaten, we had a cannabis plant grow under one of the seed feeders this summer. That's only the third one in 12 years. The first two grew side-by-side under a seed feeder when we lived in Somerset. I had no idea what they were, put them in flower pots and took them into the school I taught at to see if anyone knew. Several did. We considered growing them on, drying the leaves and baking a cake to share round the staffroom to liven up some of the staid teachers. Could have been quite amusing. But as just having the plants in school was a dismissable offence, we destroyed them. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Lace Problem
Hi, I am new to chatting so forgive me if I am not doing it right. I am a self-taught lacemaker. I have been making lace (off and on) for about 10 years. I am trying to make a piece of lace from 100 Traditional BOBBIN LACE PATTERNS BY Geraldine Stott and Bridget Cook. I tried to order the correct threads (DMC Retors d'Alsace No. 60 and Coats cotton a broder, No. 18) from the Lacemaker in Ohio. I was told they are not available and that Egyptian Cotton 60/2 and Pearl cotton 8 would work. I ordered them and began working the Bride on page 37.I am disappointed that cotton is not as crisp as linen even though I expected it. The obvious solution would be to use linen thread, but I want bright white for a bridal handkerchief. I am more concerned that the lace doesn't look like it would hold together well. Have any of you made lace using the patterns in this book? What thread did you use? Does anyone know of a source for Retors d'Alsace? Thank you so much for your help. Evelynn To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Cats and more Cats
Hello all, Here's a site my son passed on to me. It's definitely for cat lovers. www.infinitecat.com Watch for our cats coming soon! Heather Abbotsford, BC - overcast and cool To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Black squirrels
We have had black squirrels on the southern part of our street for a number of years. Recently I noticed that they have made it up to our end of the street, probably 1/2 mile as I see them running around our back yard. I have not started feeding the birds yet and the only squirrels that have come up on the deck so far are the greyish ones. Did see a red fox at the southern end of the street the other day. When I came to the states 22 years ago I was told there were no foxes. That was in Pennsylvania. I have seen quite a number in this area of Illinois, must be why the local river is the Fox River. :-) 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] Black squirrels
Chat about squirrels scambering about, and David's reference to grey Koalas (which are few and far between) brought to mind the grey mice plagues that infest our wheat growing areas in Australia some years. Makes me shudder to think of them. And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the enormous iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush again. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
David said. > > No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? > I thought more of possums than koalas. We do have small grey kangaroos over in the bush(forest) behind our house. Even though I have seen a dead koala on the road I haven't managed to spot a live one in the trees. I haven't heard one either, they make a scarey sound. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
Noelene, during one of those mice plagues, we stayed in a motel in Bathurst (for the non- Australians, Bathurst is a quite large city a couple of hours drive west of Sydney). All evening our eldest son, then aged about 15, kept driving us mad by saying "there's a mouse.there's a mouse". I put it down to his trying to scare his younger siblings.However, after we put them to bed in the other room, we settled down with a quiet cuppa - and lo and behold, there *was* a mouse! So this picture of righteous indignation, complete with *beautiful* English accent, marched down to the owner of the motel to complain. He provided me with a mouse-trap and cheese, which didn't really placate meI was horrified to find a mouse in a top-class motel. I'll cut the long story short - suffice to say I didn't sleep at all during the night - we caught three mice, and heard many others scratching around inside the wall cavities in both our rooms, and I've absolutely refused to stay in that motel ever since! Needless to say, the manager blamed it all on the mouse plague, but our friends who live in Bathurst (and who live on a 5 acre block on the outskirts of town,) were adamant that *they* hadn't had trouble with mice coming in from the fields, so didn't understand why the motel in the centre of town should claim to do so!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) W & N Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Chat about squirrels scambering about, and David's reference to grey Koalas (which are few and far between) brought to mind the grey mice plagues that infest our wheat growing areas in Australia some years. Makes me shudder to think of them. And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the enormous iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush again. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]
[lace-chat] Re: black squirrels
In Michigan, we have three common species of squirrel: The Eastern fox squirrel, Sciurus niger, a small red squirrel. The red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus And the Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sciurus_caro linensis.html (Sorry, the link above will probably break, but it's a good one.) Black squirrels (well, at least in Michigan, I'm not going to vouch for anywhere else!) are a melanistic form of the gray squirrel. Here on the Lake Michigan coast they are pretty common. It is kind of strange to see them running on the grass out of the corner of your eye -- like seeing a cat that turns out to be a squirrel. I could go on about ground squirrels and flying squirrels, but I can't type that word any more. It's starting to look too weird. If I type it again, I won't be able to spell it at all any more! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com The heart of bushy-tailed rodent country! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: black squirrels
On Oct 25, 2004, at 20:13, Lynn Carpenter wrote: I could go on about ground squirrels and flying squirrels, but I can't type that word any more. It's starting to look too weird. A bit "squirrelly"? Sorry, irresistible... :) --- 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] Comcast problems
My latest subterrenean mailing (of a joke not suitable for chat, titled "not real food") has been refused by 3 comcast addresses. *One* of the possible reasons offered by the machine (I couldn't understand the other two ) was that it might have been a transient problem, and that I might want to resend. Well, I don't :) Sue, Carolyn and Cherry... You wanna see it, ask :) --- 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: Black Squirrels
At 08:28 AM 10/25/04 +0100, Jenny Barron wrote: > He loved them but did not confine his activities to watching them > - didn't know they were a protected species! I don't know what sort of hunter Al would make. Having paid a young fortune to rid him of parasites, we don't let him out. He doesn't accept that situation. I was carrying in the first load of groceries today, Al has long since figured out that humans with hands full can't grab cats, he darted out, went to ground under the car before I could disencumber myself -- we very nearly didn't get the meat in the fridge because it wasn't with the other stuff -- and while I was trying to figure out how to look under the car without getting my good pants dirty, he sneaked out and around the corner; by the time I established that he wasn't under the car, I had no idea which way he'd gone. Unfortunately for the prison break, there was another human wandering around. DH ratted on him, I picked him up & locked him in the bedroom until we got the rest of the stuff inside. On the other hand, today DH installed three carpeted shelves in the living room & Al figured out what they were for right off the bat. Later in the afternoon, he took a nap on the top shelf. Then scared us by chasing his tail. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where another warm, dry day is predicted. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
W & N Lafferty a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace-chat] Black squirrelsÓ. [2004/10/25 23:23] > > And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the > enormous > iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for > something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush > again. > wow.. I'd love to have kangaroos around though not grazing on my plants . maybe i should go looking for wallabies in fontainebleau forest ... i've always loved kangaroos . one of my aunts remember taking me to the zoo when i was about 7 and having to go the kangaroos first ...VBG.. i was wondering about all those squirrels everybody's writing about . are they all tree squirrels ? dominique from paris , france that was really warm yesterday and is real cold today... weather!! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] opened parcels and mail in general
I too had a parcel sent from Martha Pullen's Sew Beautiful magazine opened with a customs brochure put in to "assure" me that it was a legal search. The package contained a soft cover book and some ribbon, I wonder just what the customs beagle was smelling that require such inspection. Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
