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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. 11355. wabbit - 9/12/2004 10:24:30 PM Done! 11356. msgreer - 9/12/2004 10:26:37 PM thanks wabbit. 11357. Magoseph - 9/12/2004 11:19:45 PM Hello, everyone! Another gorgeous day and I'm doing what I did yesterday--work outside, jog, soak up some sun, and inhale the tree scents—they are so strong now that when I come inside my hair and clothes permeate the house with them. 11358. msgreer - 9/12/2004 11:25:26 PM wonkers You have email! 11359. Ms. No - 9/13/2004 2:45:37 AM just posted this in Technical Issues but thought I'd better put it here as well just in case:
Anybody know anything about a virus/worm/mailbot something that's sending out invitations to folks to join Yahoo Messenger?
I just got an email from a vendor with whom I don't personally work asking me who I was and why I'd sent him a request to add him to my yahoo messenger list.
I never sent such a thing. I wouldn't. I don't see how it could even have happened by accident. The only thing I can imagine is that I've got some bad beastie in my PC running around issuing invitations to anyone who's email address appears in the system
So, if you've heard anything about this please let me know------or if you get an unexpected yahoo messenger invitation from me. 11360. arkymalarky - 9/13/2004 9:02:08 AM I just started using Yahoo Messenger talking with Mose because I refuse to use AOL or MSN Messenger, but I haven't seen anything funny wrt any of my Yahoo email accounts.
You all will not belive this--well, maybe you will, but I don't.
My dad's 73. He went to a liquor store in Hot Springs the other day and they were having a drawing for a super nice Harley. On a whim he put his name in and he WON it. They called him today. Bob went in the same liquor store a couple of weeks ago and saw the cycle. He said the chrome was so shiny he had to touch it. He was very impressed that Dad had won it. I haven't seen it.
Dad says he's selling it. I told him he ought to at least keep it a few days (or weeks?) and try it out.
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