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EMoon
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Although we had no ringers to keep happy (the church had no bells) we did get married in a church and it started and finished on time. Because, among other things, military people were involved. Five of us, including me. In four different branches, which meant no one was going to let the others make jokes, and only the groom got to wear his uniform. No false nails, no hair lacquering, no troweling on of makeup (OK, lipstick.)
Knitting today was limited due to the memorial service and reception--on our place--for a friend who committed suicide a few weeks ago. Hosting a big (or even small) group turns on my southern-girlhood-conditioning for hospitality, which means that in two days preceding I had baked 8 dozen chocolate chip cookies, 5 dozen brownies, and purchased (or had purchased by spouse) enough food for more than the expected number of people, since the expected number was "I don't know but at least a dozen or so and probably more than twenty." But don't worry, I was told, some of them will bring something. Nobody could tell me who was bringing what, or how much what they would bring. Therefore I worried. What if "a dozen or so" morphed into 50?
Also it was hot. Also the room in which I set up does greenhousing very well. I was over there at 7 am, redirecting AC from the main house into the back room. It was cool when guests arrived, but when they crowded in after the ceremonies to eat and talk...and kept leaving the outside door ajar...it warmed up fast. Richard thought my purchase of six sacks of crushed ice from the corner store way too much, on the grounds that we often didn't use up a whole sack of ice at Thanksgiving. I pointed out that Thanksgiving rarely approached 100F in the shade when people would be standing out in a hot meadow for the ceremony part. We used 5 1/2 sacks of ice...4 for the cooler with sodas in it, almost 1 to keep the various dips for chips and vegetables cold and also keep the vegetables cold, and almost 1 to keep ice in the punch and in the iced tea. I kept the meats, cheese, potato salad, and mayonnaise in the fridge until people were at the door coming from the ceremonies.
Although I never got a complete head count, it was somewhere over thirty. No one went hungry unless they chose to. People did bring things, from salads to barbecue to desserts, so we had lots of leftovers. Several people brought dozens of cookies. I sent dozens of cookies home with people at the end. ("Here--you like coconut macaroons, don't you? How about some oatmeal cookies?")
When it was over, we collected the things that needed to be packaged for storage, then came home and went THUD. I thought about lying in bed knitting for awhile, but no...definitely sleep, right then. Managed a row when I woke up but that was it. Maybe tomorrow.
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| Re: arrrgh plus photos [message #50551 is a reply to message #50547 ] |
Sun, 01 July 2012 00:42 |
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equus_peduus
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The most pleasing, if not very wild, was a donkey, but he would stay in the middle of the field, invisible to his ears in tall June grasses.
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My favourite patient as a veterinary student was a Mammoth jack. He was tall enough to put his enormous head over the half door of his hospital stall, and his ears were absolutely uh, mammoth and so fun to play with. He also had a great personality... and possibly the best bit was his name: Donkey Doodle Dandy. I will, however, never forget the first time we tried to weigh him on the horse scale... it took an hour, lots of treats and cajoling, five people, and ultimately a broom to get him on it. Of course, once he'd been on it once, all the subsequent weighings were a piece of cake.
I also remember a mother-daughter pair of smallish donkeys (not sure what breed) who were hospitalized together when one of them had colic requiring surgery. They had never been separated in their lives, so the other of the pair was allowed to stay in the stall along with. It was so funny to walk down the aisle of the intensive care unit and see two pairs of donkey ears sticking up over the stall door...
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| Re: arrrgh plus photos [message #50561 is a reply to message #50560 ] |
Sun, 01 July 2012 17:49 |
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 LadyGrace
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 01 July 2012 17:25 |
| LadyGrace wrote on Sun, 01 July 2012 13:56 |
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Okay, generally speaking you don’t get married often enough to learn how long getting into a wedding dress and having your hair redone and your make-up trowelled on and your fake nails reglued and your hem where you’ve trodden on the train stapled back up and so on takes
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Still, the point is you're only gonna do this once, so you better get it right... and isn't it generally accepted knowledge that all of the above takes FOREVER?
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It's acceptable if it seems like forever to the bride. When you've given up the majority of your Saturday afternoon for someone you don't know, paid more in petrol to be there than the payment received and then have to wait forever it is waaaaayyyy less acceptable. 
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Exactly. What I mean is, the bride should have KNOWN it would take forever, and gotten up at whatever ridiculously early hour of the morning was necessary to spend forever getting ready, and gotten to her wedding on time.
-Grace Makley
www.gracemakley.com
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| Re: arrrgh plus photos [message #50562 is a reply to message #50561 ] |
Sun, 01 July 2012 21:22 |
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| LadyGrace wrote on Sun, 01 July 2012 17:49 |
| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 01 July 2012 17:25 |
| LadyGrace wrote on Sun, 01 July 2012 13:56 |
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Okay, generally speaking you don’t get married often enough to learn how long getting into a wedding dress and having your hair redone and your make-up trowelled on and your fake nails reglued and your hem where you’ve trodden on the train stapled back up and so on takes
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Still, the point is you're only gonna do this once, so you better get it right... and isn't it generally accepted knowledge that all of the above takes FOREVER?
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It's acceptable if it seems like forever to the bride. When you've given up the majority of your Saturday afternoon for someone you don't know, paid more in petrol to be there than the payment received and then have to wait forever it is waaaaayyyy less acceptable.
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Exactly. What I mean is, the bride should have KNOWN it would take forever, and gotten up at whatever ridiculously early hour of the morning was necessary to spend forever getting ready, and gotten to her wedding on time.
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Ahhh! Yes!
Sorry, I misunderstood. 
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: arrrgh plus photos [message #50621 is a reply to message #50547 ] |
Fri, 06 July 2012 05:34 |
Mockorange
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When one of my best friends from college got married she was making her own wedding dress, which took longer than expected, so we all sat up the night before helping to finsih the dress. We were still stitching silk roses on the next morning, up to an hour before the wedding was due to start, but we still GOT TO THE CHURCH ON TIME!
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