Re: [lace-chat] The story?

2003-07-18 Thread Ruth Budge
Dear Tamara, You'll probably get so many double-postings that you'll wish you never asked!! You seem to be arriving on my computer quite OK! Regards, Ruth "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:So... Are we all quiet enjoying our weekends outdoors, or is my puter/ISP (FBI, CIA, NSA, any a

[lace-chat] Fw: a good cry

2003-07-18 Thread Lorri Ferguson
>Here's one for your lace chat. > Joyce Joyce is my sister, who sent the other two. She has been enjoying the ones I get from lace chat and send on to her. Hope you like this one too. Have a great week-end and I wish you enough. Lorri F I WISH YOU ENOUGH At an airport I overheard a father

Re: [lace-chat] Aaargh......

2003-07-18 Thread Ruth Budge
Aaahh!! That "you must shut down properly, you naughty girl" message is very well-known to me!!! My laptop has a green light at the front which is supposed to come on when the computer does, and go off when its switched off. I say "supposed" because for months, when I shut down the computer, the

[lace-chat] Fw: Joke of the Day

2003-07-18 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Here's another one from my sister. Lorri Subject: FW: Joke of the Day 21 Things We Should All Know... 1. If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out. 2. It isn't the jeans that make your butt look fat. 3. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. 4. It is easier

[lace-chat] Life in Black and White

2003-07-18 Thread Lorri Ferguson
Just got this one from my sis, I liked it hope you do too. Lorri Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) You could hardly see for all the snow, Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. Pull a chair up to the TV set, "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet." Depending on the c

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: English is hard to learn

2003-07-18 Thread Katrina Worley
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 06:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No.8 "When shot, the dove dove into the bushes" doesn't apply in British English. For us it is "When shot, the dove dived into the bushes" My knowledge of the history of language is very slim and so I don't know if "dove" as pa

re: [lace-chat] Aaargh......

2003-07-18 Thread Bev Walker
Hi all and Tamara Just so you know, a few others indicated to me that they wrote messages to arachne but 'they didn't show up' - I get the digest, and all the messages in question could be seen by me, including the ones I sent - perhaps it's a glitch with the reflected version. Jean's and DH's ha

[lace-chat] Re: Happy Day!!!

2003-07-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 23:35 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JoAnne) wrote: Today is a happy day! We bought my husband home from the hospitial! And how much did you have to pay for him? After 8 weeks, probably both you and your DH will be in pawn to the hospital for the rest of your lives

[lace-chat] Happy Day!!!

2003-07-18 Thread PhaserBait
Hi all! Today is a happy day! We bought my husband home from the hospitial! He had a stroke on May 17th, and has spent 8 weeks down at St. Lukes. That was a long stay for a stroke, but he also developed pnemonia, sleep deprevation, and a virus that was resistant to regular antibiotics. The

[lace-chat] Re: Summer reading

2003-07-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 09:10 US/Eastern, BARRON (Jenny) wrote: morning). Part of the fun is spotting places I know in Edinburgh. My DH loves the Ian Rankin books as he knows a lot of the pubs mentioned! I love Rankin mysteries too, and I don't know Edinburgh at all ("raided" some shops 15

[lace-chat] Re: The story? here's the chat -

2003-07-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 22:57 US/Eastern, Toni Hawryluk wrote: Don't expect to see this message on the chat but, if one of you felt moved to respond and send the response to both -- me personally *and* chat, I might be a bit reassured if it were to show twice (funny how I used to hate gettin

Re: [lace-chat] The story? here's the chat -

2003-07-18 Thread Toni Hawryluk
> So... Are we all quiet enjoying our weekends outdoors, or is my puter/ISP (FBI, CIA, NSA, any and all aphabet soups) now denying me access not only to my own postings, but everyone else's as well? No - just no activity unless . . . ? but there's been nothing [lace] since this afternoon. I sign o

[lace-chat] The story?

2003-07-18 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
So... Are we all quiet enjoying our weekends outdoors, or is my puter/ISP (FBI, CIA, NSA, any and all aphabet soups) now denying me access not only to my own postings, but everyone else's as well? Got a few messages from each of the two lists when I first logged-on, but it's been all spam in th

[lace-chat] Angela's Amazing Mountain Adventure 9

2003-07-18 Thread A Thompson
It was strange to be back in the modern Hotel in Chitral, still the only tourists. We sat out on the lawn and drank tea, very civilised. We planned to go north over the Shandur Pass to Gilgit. There was just one little problem, the Shandur Pass, about 12,000 feet (4,000 metres) was covered with

Re: [lace-chat] Aaargh...twice. . .

2003-07-18 Thread Clive and Betty Ann Rice
Guess what I did. Being roadkill on the information Superhighway, I figured I couldn't print it. So.. I prepared my SSAE, addressed and stamped another to Everything Quilts, and mailed it. Then would you believe I printed the whole thing on two sheets perfectly...What did I do right? Haven't a c

[lace-chat] Aaargh......

2003-07-18 Thread Jean Nathan
It's all Tamara's fault, of course. She started it. This morning my computer wouldn't shut down. Asked if I wanted to 'End task' - yes. Still didn't shut down. Asked again - yes. Still didn't shut down. By this time the bits that would shut the computer down had been ended with 'End task'. So I di

Re: [lace-chat] Aaargh...twice. . .

2003-07-18 Thread Toni Hawryluk
> First, my printer got terminally hung up on the instructions for the > Folded Star Ornament (on the Everything Quilts, Inc website); > Tamara Not the printer's fault. I ran into the same problem. Some of the 'text' on that site is not in *text mode* - to a *printer*. It looks like a graphic.

[lace-chat] Thank you to all

2003-07-18 Thread barbara pierpont
Good Morning/Evening (depending on where you are in the world) Thank you to everyone who answered my first posting to the arachne sites. You have helped me alot! Special thanks to Tamara, Jeri, and Diana. I was working on what I think to be torchon lace and putting my pins in after CTCT. When I w

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: English is hard to learn

2003-07-18 Thread Scotlace
No.8 "When shot, the dove dove into the bushes" doesn't apply in British English. For us it is "When shot, the dove dived into the bushes" My knowledge of the history of language is very slim and so I don't know if "dove" as past term is the archaic form as "fall" is the archaic form of "autu

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: English is hard to learn

2003-07-18 Thread Scotlace
No.8 "When shot, the dove dove into the bushes" doesn't apply in British English. For us it is "When shot, the dove dived into the bushes" My knowledge of the history of language is very slim and so I don't know if "dove" as past term is the archaic form as "fall" is the archaic form of "autu

RE: [lace-chat] Summer reading

2003-07-18 Thread BARRON
> I belong to a drunken book club (we're a drinking group with a reading problem). I've just discovered the books written by Quintin Jardine set in Edinburgh - present day police murder mystery. I couldn't put the first one (Skinner's Rules) down till I finished it about 2am on Tuesday. Finished

Re: [lace-chat] Aaargh...

2003-07-18 Thread Ruth Budge
Dear Tamara, What on earth can we say? Except "our sympathy" in your time of troubleand hope you recover from all the trauma soon!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Gentle Spiders, I've had my Mac for just over a year, and have loved with with o