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11333. anomie - 9/11/2004 3:32:58 AM Someone's posting ugly bug pictures here again... 11334. anomie - 9/11/2004 3:35:08 AM Judith,
I bet you were great in the sixties. Did you have flower patches on your bell-bottom jeans?
How's the leg pain? 11335. judithathome - 9/11/2004 4:47:53 AM Anomie, in the early 60s I was a very young (19) suburbanite housewife and I tended to believe everything my husband told me. I was a late bloomer...and later on, I did have flower patches on my bell bottoms. However, during the height of the protests against the war, I was dressed in linen skirts and twin sets...yes, even at home!
My ex-husband was furious when I wore my hair long and wore hip huggers and sandals and went to rock concerts and cheered when Nixon abdicated. He hated it when I didn't listen to him on who to vote for...and that is partly the reason he is my ex. 11336. anomie - 9/11/2004 5:15:25 AM Judith,
The early sixties were pretty tame, so you probably came along in sequence. I was a little too young to be an Abbie Hoffman, but old enough to be drafted in 1970. Thus, my decision to join the more comfortable of the services - the Air Force. It suits me better now as a civilian, however. 11337. judithathome - 9/11/2004 6:24:08 AM I have spent part of the day dusting my seashell collection. That sounds like a breeze, but I took all the shells out of the bookcase where they are displayed and cleaned it and the table in front where the collection of really large ones sits, with plants and a bamboo bird cage.
I have a lot of shells. It went pretty quickly, though. The real pains to dust are the corals...I have quite a few large pieces of very delicate coral of different types. However, nothing is as dangerous as the dried and puffed up blow fish. His little "quills" are like razor blades! 11338. anomie - 9/11/2004 6:43:20 AM Collecting seashells by the seashore...
I collect nothing, BUT...I bought a Caithness paperweight as a gift years ago and couldn't give it away. So I bought another...and then I started browsing and buying and keeping up with the new designs. I'd get special calls from the shop..."The Monet editions are here...".
Processed sand. I'm a sucker for glass.
So now, I'm getting rid of them slowly but surely as gifts. I will keep a few I can't part with, like the very first one.
I'm afraid I'll start buying glass in mass when I get settled. My house will look like a Vanician pimp's crib. Ha! 11339. anomie - 9/11/2004 7:02:22 AM And perhaps a Venetian's too. 11340. judithathome - 9/11/2004 7:10:36 AM I bought a great bronze paper weight at a flea market in Metz, France. It's a ruffled rose set on a marble base. From 1907. It's realy beautiful. It sits on the lone shelf of a table that holds this huge antique dictionary that is in a book rest and open to various pages...I flip a new page over occasionally.
My house is like a museum...full of oddities and things we've picked up over the years. Well, we paid for them, too. 11341. judithathome - 9/11/2004 7:25:44 AM Just checked the net for your paperweights...they are gorgeous! 11342. anomie - 9/11/2004 7:46:15 AM Judith! Don't get me started. But I will tell you about a couple. I have a few limited editions, but my favorites are two called Rythem and Blues - a clear glass with blue notes distributed in the globe, very abstract. Perfect gift for a musician or music lover.
But the killer is a piece called "Romance". From the side, it looks like a glob of red above blue, but from above, the red takes the shape of a heart. It's a gasp-inducer. I bought about six of these. I think I have one left.
Not many people realize that all the decoration inside is also made of glass. 11344. SnowOwl - 9/11/2004 8:25:51 AM Ah, a fellow paperweight collector.
I've have quite a few Caithness pieces. I think I acquired my first when my husband couldn't think of anything else to get me one birthday, and once he'd bought one he went on buying them for a while. They're beautiful, but at present they're not really well displayed since they reside in a cabinet.
We're redecorating at the moment and I'm having some glass shelves put into a couple of non-opening windows, so I can display my paperweights and some other glass pieces in a place where the light will shine through them. 11345. anomie - 9/11/2004 8:27:54 AM Aside from the one on my desk, mine are boxed up waiting movement to Las Vegas in 2006. Ha! 11346. prolph - 9/11/2004 11:58:42 AM Oh dear, I must lurk more carefully. I apologize to
wabbit for fissing about a pemding trip when her sister is facing evacuation.
Thanks JAH, there may well be things to see by February; the storm appears to be moving west which is good unless one lives in Tampa 11348. angel-five - 9/11/2004 12:22:51 PM The woman my father is now long-distance-dating (an old classmate of his) has had two hurricanes pass just about right over her house in the last month. I think he's worried that my mother is pissed off.
My mother, on the contrary, expressed the direct wish that my Dad have someone else in his life once she had passed away (pretty much because she felt that he needed the guidance and loving). She was, indeed, astonishingly frank about that. And my dad knows that. But he's pretty intent on Ivan all the same. 11349. wabbit - 9/11/2004 12:33:05 PM No worries, prolph, I empathize completely, as does my sister and anyone who lives/works in the Keys. The late summer tourists are staying away in droves, and the ones who have arrived are being sent home.
We're hoping Ivan will stay well west, but even so there is the storm surge to worry about, and they're saying it may be 10 feet. If that happens, it may be a few days before residents are allowed back. I'll keep you posted with whatever info I have. For now my sister, her family and pets are safely ensconced at a friend's house near Miami. 11350. prolph - 9/12/2004 7:16:29 AM Thanks Wabbit, now I'm worried about animals. Wherre to the pine deer the chickens and the polydactal cats go to survive?
summer bugs. Patsy 11351. wabbit - 9/12/2004 8:18:44 AM I'm sure someone rounds up as many of the cats as possible and gets them somewhere safe, but the chickens and deer are on their own. I suppose the deer can go to the highest ground available on Big Pine or No Name, but I know part of the reason they are endangered is due to hurricanes.
Things are looking pretty good for the Keys right now. Ivan should be far enough west of the Dry Tortugas that the effect might be similar to what they got during Charley, which wasn't bad. The evacuation order hasn't been lifted, but word is that some folks are going home. If Ivan's path stays as the Weather channel is predicting, my sister might head home tomorrow or Tuesday.
Your holiday is looking good! 11352. msgreer - 9/12/2004 9:54:08 PM Does anyone have wonkers email? 11353. wabbit - 9/12/2004 10:16:41 PM I'm sure I have it, msgreer, do you want me to ask him to write you? 11354. msgreer - 9/12/2004 10:20:23 PM that would be great wabbit. wonkers can reach me at nurseisin@yahoo.com..thanks.
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