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| Hat weather [message #7346] |
Mon, 08 December 2008 19:45  |
 b_twin_1
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Is today Hat Weather ? 
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: Hat weather [message #7351 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Mon, 08 December 2008 19:54  |
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*snerk*
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7368 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 00:55 |
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Oh, this is one of the reasons I love hat weather! You can't go anywhere without seeing a stray mitten, toque, or scarf hanging off a fence or a shrub. And they always look so valiant, too, swinging gaily and lonesomely in the breeze. I always wish I had my camera on me. Even though some are still there by spring, all bedraggled and salt-stained, there are the odd ones that are reclaimed (I've gone an hour out of my way to recover a lost toque), so people shouldn't feel like it's a complete waste.
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7372 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 01:27 |
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Diane in MN
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I know it’s instinctive behaviour. So is eating long-dead unidentifiable ex-creatures. I discourage both.
There is a certain price that dogs have to pay for being housed, fed, kept warm, played with, etc. etc., and giving up some of the more repellent instinctive behaviors is part of the price. Civilization requires a few sacrifices . . .
It's less than two weeks to the solstice, a happy thought. It's dark here at 4:30 p.m., and today even earlier than that because we've been getting snow. Won't it be nice to get longer afternoons!
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7382 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 06:53 |
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I was thinking if she really wanted the hellhounds to have their...hat...back, she should have brought it to you. Turning around to tell you, and then turning around again seems odd. I mean, I guess you were already outside and everything, and she was in her nice warm car, but she got OUT of the car to talk to you!
*boggle*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7383 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 06:58 |
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*snerk* i must have been tired when i read the blog because i completely missed that. i needed a good laugh this morning, thanks.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7384 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 07:26 |
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AJLR
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Robin wrote: | Quote: |
So I began to dream of a detachable music stand . . . and Peter, The Man** and I came up with one. It works a treat, and when you take it off the piano it collapses into a long pointy something that looks like an umbrella that has had a terrible accident.
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Hmm, it sounds really very useful...but perhaps keep an eye out in case all those muddy footprints you mentioned a couple of posts ago, as being over and above those created by hellhounds, aren't coming from this newly-sentient music stand? With all those functions it must surely be developing some sort of self-awareness? The old one, attached to the piano, certainly sounds as if it woke up grumpy all those years ago. 
I have a small, brass, folding book stand, used with recipe books to keep the right page(s) open. It lives quite happily in one of the kitchen drawers and braces all four little feet against the drawer corners when I try and drag it out for use. I usually win.
Robin wrote: | Quote: |
It was a hat. In fact it is a hat. It is presently lying on the top shelf of the boots-and-bits shelves just inside the front door of the mews, because I haven’t the faintest idea what to do with the thing.‡‡ It’s a nice hat, of deep purple Harris tweed with a white satin lining.
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How about giving it to one of the local charity shops, if it's that nice? OK, it needs a wash-and-brush-up, but it could still go on to keep a non-hellhound head warm, much needed this weather.
Take care of yourselves amid the winter gloom and I hope your shoulder feels better today.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7391 is a reply to message #7384 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 12:27 |
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shalea
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I finally learned (three hats later) that with Gryphon in residence I must actually PUT AWAY my hats. Yes, I'm slow learner sometimes.
| AJLR wrote on Tue, 09 December 2008 07:26 |
Robin wrote: | Quote: |
So I began to dream of a detachable music stand . . . and Peter, The Man** and I came up with one. It works a treat, and when you take it off the piano it collapses into a long pointy something that looks like an umbrella that has had a terrible accident.
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Hmm, it sounds really very useful...but perhaps keep an eye out in case all those muddy footprints you mentioned a couple of posts ago, as being over and above those created by hellhounds, aren't coming from this newly-sentient music stand? With all those functions it must surely be developing some sort of self-awareness? The old one, attached to the piano, certainly sounds as if it woke up grumpy all those years ago. ...
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Snork!
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7400 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 15:36 |
skating librarian
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Poor kitty ... did it have a death wish? was it trying to keep warm? was it just very dumb? did it suspect that the hellhounds are grey foxes (who can climb trees)? Has it watched too many cartoons featuring smart cats and slow on the uptake dogs?
Poor you, bruised and battered, trying to keep those charming brutes under control while rescuing moggies and hats.
Do keep warm (the wind chill was zero here last night, or minus 18 celsius)!
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7411 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 17:42 |
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Black Bear, you're right. Robin's been tantalising us with that one for nigh on a year now. And keeps slipping references to the beauty of her piano here and there with no pictures. There you go: easy future post - piano photos and photos of music stand. Photos of table fixed. One story of piano in multiple parts (make sure cliff hangers are involved - because we wouldn't show up for parts II, III, IV and V - not us).
[Updated on: Tue, 09 December 2008 17:43]
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7468 is a reply to message #7425 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 01:56 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 09 December 2008 17:33 |
Oops. Back on the list, with Voice, cont, How I Got My Rings (illustrated), When Chaos Put His Head Through the Barbed Wire Fence, and . . .
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Oh Chaos! Never a dull moment with that boy, is there?
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7486 is a reply to message #7464 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 12:40 |
judith
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| Black Bear wrote on Wed, 10 December 2008 00:22 |
| judith wrote on Tue, 09 December 2008 21:49 |
someone to do all those little odd jobs that women don't like to do, like fixing the toilet, raking the leaves, etc.
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Ah now--some of us ladies would far rather fix the toilet than, say, run a load of laundry. This may well be why my toilet works great but I never seem to have clean socks...
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I generally hate all things domestic. But having moved into my new house, I've discovered a new love for doing laundry, of all things. The new house is a ranch, so everything is all on one floor. In the old house, all the clothes were on the second floor, and the washer and dryer were in the cellar, so doing laundry was a major pain. With all my old injuries, I pretty much had to beg my husband to do it, and he hated doing it and was extremely grumpy about it. Or, I had to have the cleaning person do it, and she did a really bad job of it (as I'm now coming to realize, now that I do it myself and it comes out so much better!). Here, I carry it a few feet, put it in the nifty new washer, work on the computer, transfer it to the nifty new dryer, work more on the computer, and voila! it's done, and done well! I can do several loads in an evening should the need arise, as it does when one discovers not-so-well-washed clothes in the course of unpacking stuff. And my clothes get washed much more often than they did when Grumpy Husband had to do the job.
And I have to admit -- I haven't a clue how to fix a toilet or other plumbing fixtures....
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7558 is a reply to message #7544 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 18:51 |
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This handyman sounds like my father, who has a problem shopping because his first reaction to everything is: "I could make that. I can make it better, too." It helps that he is a metal fabricator who can also do electrical, plumbing, drywall, rough and finished carpentry. Perhaps another reason for my confirmed spinsterhood/still living at home (other than the perpetual poor studenthood) - I like doing everything for myself, and if I can't, I have a handyman already in the family.
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7560 is a reply to message #7346 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 19:39 |
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my husband is the handyman and he has me doing everything with him because he says if anything happens to him then i will know how to do it.and what he doesn't know one of his 5 brothers will.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Hat weather [message #7576 is a reply to message #7560 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 21:46 |
katinseattle
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| holmes44 wrote on Wed, 10 December 2008 16:39 |
my husband is the handyman and he has me doing everything with him because he says if anything happens to him then i will know how to do it
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What an excellent man. I wish I'd learned handyman kind of things, but when I was growing up, everyone told me, "Girls don't do that." I wanted to join 4-H and learn about electricity. I was told I had to take two years of sewing first. I'd already taken years of Home Ec; I refused to take more. When I bought my house* I found myself at a great disadvantage. One of the things I've learned since then is how handy a slip wrench is. I used it just today to loosen the nozzle on my hose,** which I needed to drain. It's supposed to freeze*** later this week. And, oh heavens, maybe snow.
It snows maybe twice a year in Seattle, and seldom lasts long. The streets are highly dangerous during that time. Seattle is mostly up and down. Because it snows so seldom, there's no use investing heavily in snowplows, and people who live here never learn to drive on slippery hills. Unless they've moved here from the Midwest, in which case they sneer at everybody else.
*Single women didn't buy their own houses back then, either,but I did. Thank heavens.
**I don't think this is what it was meant for.
***What I call my porch plants^ will have to be lugged inside.
^Although not all of them have made it up to the porch yet.
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