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11078. PelleNilsson - 8/20/2004 5:55:07 AM Sukey!! Dear me. In retrospect I realize I should have recognized your style, but I hadn't expected to see you here. You are very welcome, indeed. 11079. The Summer Woman - 8/20/2004 6:12:05 AM Thank you, Pelle - and I confess I had to google the date on the Napolean one.
I hope that my style is not so "fixed". 11080. judithathome - 8/20/2004 6:28:14 AM Just got back from the gift shop/tearoom and was that ever a bust. The owner had the place packed with stuff, no place for anyone to rent space, and her things were so expensive, it was just a joke. She had much of the same sorts of things I have but they were outrageously priced and very mis-labelled...one spur was allegedly an infantry spur from the "early 1900s" and it was so obviously a copy from Mexico. Not good.
If you aren't positive of the provenance, be careful how you tag it. People who know will think you're an idiot. And you will be. 11081. SnowOwl - 8/20/2004 6:42:38 AM That's a bit of a bummer, Judith. The place sounded as though it had great possibilities.
We've often talked about selling our place and getting something smaller but if we did I'd have to be ruthless in getting rid of a lot of stuff I've acquired over the years, and since most of it has particular memories tied up with it, I'd find it very difficult to let any of it go. 11082. judithathome - 8/20/2004 6:49:42 AM Some days, I feel like I could let it all go and never miss it, just start all over again. I try to imagine what it would be like if a fire destroyed everything and we had to move and begin again.
It doesn't upset me as much as I once thought it would. Of course, that's thinking about it...I'm sure I'd be devastated if it really ever happened. 11083. anomie - 8/20/2004 7:53:28 AM Sorry about about your business prospect, Judith. But, you get to keep the stuff longer now.
I think you would have loved the "car boot" sales in the UK. Stuff is "old" there at about 150 years. Ha! 11084. anomie - 8/20/2004 7:55:34 AM Marshame,
It's funny you checked in. Jen mentioned you recently and I was going to look up her email (the brat... one) to ask after you. Haven't seen you here in ages. How's things? 11085. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 8:16:25 AM Marsha Marsha Marsha!
(Sorry. Someone had to do it.)
Great to see you here!
But take it from an Arky--if Res entered the Electric Cowboy sporting that 'do he'd be laughed out the door by every mullet-cut Toby Keith fan in the place.
Sukey,
So great to have you in the Mote! I really enjoy your posts in RI. 11086. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 8:17:40 AM Judith,
Sorry about the place. Sounds like it would have been nice, had it been what it should have. 11087. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 8:21:47 AM MsNo,
I think black widow bites and poison ivy just make you wish you were dead. Neither Bob nor I are allergic to poison ivy (I guess there should be something growing here I don't react to), but I know some people who've had it really bad. I don't know anyone who's been bitten by a black widow, but a NatGeo special I saw on them once scared the crap out of me. I know several who've been bitten by brown recluses with reactions from moderate to severe, but all the ones I know had major scars from the hole the bite rotted into them. 11088. judithathome - 8/20/2004 8:47:06 AM Great slide show in Escapes: Anomie's Travels! 11089. anomie - 8/20/2004 8:48:18 AM About the vermin. Give me anything but the furry kind. I don't know why, but mice and rats creep me out - even in movies.
My cousin just moved to Maine and found a bat snoozing in her house, and then another. But, bats I could be okay with. 11090. anomie - 8/20/2004 8:49:15 AM Oh Judith. I should hire you. Just need to figure out what we should sell. Ha! 11091. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 8:52:26 AM Mose just called and she's on her way home for the weekend. She reminded me of another Southern hazard just now in telling what happened to a friend's boyfriend--snapping turtles.
The friend and her boyfriend were together and saw a turtle, and the b/f had the bright idea to feed it some grass. He had to get a tetanus shot. He was going to shoot it, but Mose's g/f talked him out of it.
Just another day in the boonies. 11092. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 8:54:28 AM I used to think mice were cute until I moved out here. I just despise them, but Mose was always afraid of them. When we'd tuck her in when she was little, she'd say "Do you think a mouse will come?" all casual-like, as though she were just wondering. 11093. judithathome - 8/20/2004 8:58:37 AM Arky, that is so funny about the turtle...I'm sure Bob will relish hearing about it! ;-) 11094. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 9:09:36 AM If it was Mose's b/f, I'm sure he would. I don't think he has much of an opinion about her friend's b/f. ;-)
BTW, I'm very afraid of bats. A man from this area got bitten by one and didn't go to the doctor and he died of rabies. They swoop right by you out here, and I can't stand it. 11095. arkymalarky - 8/20/2004 9:13:06 AM Judith saved me from a red wasp when she was here. I'm very afraid of them too. I'm watching one right now and waiting for Bob to come in and kill it. So if I run shrieking away from the computer, don't mind me. ;-) 11096. neato - 8/20/2004 9:21:26 AM Arky, you dice with death daily, I reckon.
A weta is the creature I hated most when I lived in NZ. Up to 4 inches long, and the heaviest insect in the world. One of these landed on my pillow when I was asleep a few years ago
 11097. anomie - 8/20/2004 9:24:02 AM And Arky...I do know what you mean about the kids, I think.
In my case, I don't mind the work that has to be done so much as the high ranking egos that need reassuring. I'll even admit that reassurance is a necessary evil, but I'm tired of it. I should have moved up or out.
...two years...
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