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15065. Magoseph - 5/22/2005 4:35:08 PM I am sure they were very happy to see you, Arky. I always found myself much invigorated after attending a graduation. 15066. thoughtful - 5/22/2005 4:48:47 PM etiquette question for you all...how/when/for what purpose does one use 'charger' plates?
I've been in places where they use the charger to collect the 'mess' from consuming snacks before the meal and then take them away and bring the entree.
But how does one use them at home? Are they just decorative under dinner plates if serving 'family style'? Or do you leave them as a 'placemat' of sorts and then place the dinner plate on top if serving food like in a restaurant?
I've always been intrigued by them, but never known quite what to do with them, so I've never acquired any. 15067. Magoseph - 5/22/2005 5:13:04 PM I always thought that the charger plates were to protect the table wood finish and the table linens from hot dinner plates and bowls. I’d say that they’re not intended to be removed along with the plates and the bowls, but no arbiter of elegance am I, thoughtful. 15068. PelleNilsson - 5/22/2005 5:26:19 PM Here they are used as in restaurants, preferably with a small linen napkin on top to reduce clatter. To use them to collect sraps strikes me as quite odd. 15069. thoughtful - 5/22/2005 7:33:19 PM hmmmm. then the practical side of me says it's just another dish to wash. 15070. judithathome - 5/22/2005 7:53:35 PM That's what I've always thought. I've been to dinners where the table is set with these lovely chargers and all the china laid out just so and before the meal, they remove the chargers and the dinner plate and take them into the kitchen and then come back and put your filled plate down and the chargers are never seen again.
Frankly, I find them pretentious. They look nice but are uselss, really. 15071. thoughtful - 5/22/2005 8:38:48 PM OK, I'll save my money then. No chargers.
I was talking to hubby about friends of ours who seem to be on the same path as us only about 10 years behind (we are older than they are).
They have yet to be through a situation like we have been, many times now, of cleaning out an elderly person's space as they're heading into much smaller quarters. You quickly realize that all those 'gotta haves' of yesteryear are nothing more than today's junk that you can't even give away. While we still have a basement full of stuff from my mother's, my MIL's and hubby's old maid aunt's place, we trashed tons of stuff. After awhile, by its very existence, the stuff becomes burdensome. I've acquired more stuff than I'll ever need. Less is truly more. Acquire with selection, not collection. 15072. arkymalarky - 5/22/2005 8:46:07 PM My parents' place is going to be an absolute nightmare. We grew up in a two bedroom, one bath house, and they now have a five bedroom, three bath house which is filled to busting, and a huge yard filled with all kinds of (very lovely) yard stuff. They buy anything that catches their fancy.
Ours might be a nightmare to Mose one day, but mostly because of what I've gotten from my parents and grandparents. Hardly anything we see in our house we bought for ourselves, which has been great because we hardly spent anything furnishing our own place, but it could easily get out of hand.
Dad says whenever the stock market drops he reads Thoreau. I think he ought to try that tactic every spring, right before spring cleaning. 15073. iiibbb - 5/23/2005 1:09:37 AM Any kids in your life?
This thing is a hoot. Don't pay more than $15. 15074. jayackroyd - 5/23/2005 2:31:04 AM A cartoon for cat people
 15075. iiibbb - 5/23/2005 3:10:02 AM Ever give a cat a ping pong ball.
If you could harness the energy of a cat and a ping-pong ball in a bathtub... you'd be rich. 15076. arkymalarky - 5/23/2005 1:52:15 PM I would assume you mean an empty bathtub. If you could get a cat into a full one with a pin-pong ball, you'd be doubly rich.
I read a good tip about bathing a cat (maybe in here--don't recall): lean an old window screen at one end of the tub and set the cat on it. He'll grip the screen while you bathe him. Supposedly. I've never tried it. 15077. Macnas - 5/23/2005 1:55:25 PM Why, would you want to wash a cat at all for in the first place?
They spend 80% of the time cleaning themselves. 15078. arkymalarky - 5/23/2005 1:59:44 PM All the time I had cats (before I realized after moving here that I'd become allergic) I never bathed one that I recall. 15079. arkymalarky - 5/23/2005 2:03:02 PM I think we have a dog name: Doby. It has local relevance. Bob came very close to getting strangled over all this, I must say.
Now that it's buggy summer (and it will be VERY buggy this year, I'm afraid), I was thinking about how Diva would get all excited when we got the fly swatter or bug spray, because she loved to eat flies and wasps, especially horse flies. She'd eat about any kind of bug. She was the best little dog we ever had.
I'm picking the puppy up tomorrow. I'm still very sad about Diva, but I think I'm ready to get this new little pal, and Mojo definitely is. 15080. Macnas - 5/23/2005 2:17:10 PM Arky girl, it'll be great.
You'll keep Diva in your heart, for sure, the way you do with all good friends.
But Doby will be a different dog, and there is nothing wrong with having fun all over again. 15081. iiibbb - 5/23/2005 2:30:22 PM Diva must have been a smart dog to be posting in here all the time. 15082. arkymalarky - 5/23/2005 3:57:03 PM 3i3b,
I don't know if you ever saw the cartoon where the guy finds a singing frog and whenever he tries to make a mint off of it by showing it, it won't perform for the public. Diva was like that about posting. We could never catch her in the act.
15083. arkymalarky - 5/23/2005 3:59:18 PM Mac, you're very right,and I'm glad I picked a puppy that wasn't ready and got time to adjust to the idea. In our small circle of old friends there are a handful of dogs in our little Hall of Fame, and Diva's definitely one. 15084. Macnas - 5/23/2005 4:00:57 PM I remember that 'toon.
He used to sing "hello my baby".
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