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Post by sailor on May 24, 2010 19:45:49 GMT -5
Well, I finally finished all the cushions this weekend. Now to do the frame where needed. It really is going to be nice, plus there is enough fabric remaining to recover the valances. I love the image! Mike
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Post by gailkate on May 24, 2010 20:11:46 GMT -5
I've been wondeering where you were, Mike - everything ok?
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Post by sailor on May 24, 2010 20:47:45 GMT -5
I've been wondeering where you were, Mike - everything ok? Hi GK, Been busy at work, other than that all is well. I didn't mean to stay away so long, it just sort of happened. All the best, Mike
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Post by BoatBabe on May 25, 2010 8:46:43 GMT -5
Hey, Mikey! Good to see you. Got any projects brewing? I'll bet you'd make some Killer Wine.
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Post by BoatBabe on May 27, 2010 20:42:32 GMT -5
Well, here is what is done. I just vacuumed it before taking the picture, and I am surprised that there is such a nap fore and aft. It catches the light differently in photos that you don't see in Real Life. Still need to cover the frames below the cushions, anchor the cushions, do the end pieces and upper piece (shelf.) But it is So Great to have this much done. We are cruising for the holiday weekend: Wagon Wheel at Long Branch. I don't think Dahhlink is going to be walking much from boat-to-boat. We shall see, won't we? I'll try some vacation photos. Attachments:
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Post by gailkate on May 27, 2010 23:13:17 GMT -5
There will be no need for walking, because everyone else will want to visit and sit on your gorgeous new cushions. Dahhlink can just preside in state, letting others serve him. He'll have to exercise control over the libations, though, or he'll be hobbling to the head more than he'd like.
Pictures, by all means.
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Post by doctork on May 28, 2010 1:01:17 GMT -5
That has turned out beautifully Boat Babe!
Y'all all have a wonderful cruise weekend and just make sure Dahlink follows doctor's orders about not overdoing it. What, he says he didn't get any doctor's orders? Consider it done:
Dahlink, please take it easy this weekend. Signed, DocK
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Post by jspnrvr on May 28, 2010 6:05:45 GMT -5
Gail and doc have the right idea; don't just do something, sit there! Let Dahlink hold court; set him next to the adult beverage supply. Back and forth to the head is plenty enough hobbling around. You don't want to complicate the situtaion.
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Post by booklady on May 30, 2010 20:43:25 GMT -5
BB, you are amazing with that sewing machine and upholstering the watchmacallit....sofa, settee, sitterdowner. I have to make someone a baby quilt soon. Not too hard, just a bunch of straight lines. My real project is fighting with the front "lawn." The grass/crabgrass is a fiend. I'm thinking of replacing little sections of it with some kind of groundcover. gk sent me a catalog link the other day that I think might work real well: S'posed to be real hardy.
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Post by booklady on May 30, 2010 20:44:43 GMT -5
How do we make the pictures smaller? ?? ??
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Post by jspnrvr on May 30, 2010 21:10:12 GMT -5
Looks like a fun place to mess with, booky. I can see wanting ground cover on your front, something low lying and low maintenance. Either you're mowing sideways or doing your whole front yard with the weedeater.
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Post by booklady on May 30, 2010 21:42:01 GMT -5
I do most of it with the weedeater. I can do a bit of the top with my mower. I use a battery-powered Black and Decker weedeater. It takes 8 to 9 hours to charge one of the batteries and about 15 minutes to discharge it. Especially if the grass is wet. I have three batteries that I try to keep as charged up as possible. The gas-powered weedeaters seem (by my observations of others) to give a much closer cut than my B&D (and thus, it seems like it would need to be done less often), but I am afraid to deal with gasoline so I muddle on. I'm hoping that with experience I'll get better at it. Lots of people in Vicksburg with steeper and larger hills than mine attach their power mowers to ropes and lower them down the hill and then pull them back up again! I didn't believe it until I actually saw it being done.
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Post by booklady on May 30, 2010 21:43:46 GMT -5
Given that BB lives in such a nice, tidy boat, I think she ought to share her clutter-prevention secrets. Also her shopping-jones cures.
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Post by brutus on May 30, 2010 22:26:56 GMT -5
I do most of it with the weedeater. I can do a bit of the top with my mower. I use a battery-powered Black and Decker weedeater. It takes 8 to 9 hours to charge one of the batteries and about 15 minutes to discharge it. Especially if the grass is wet. I have three batteries that I try to keep as charged up as possible. The gas-powered weedeaters seem (by my observations of others) to give a much closer cut than my B&D (and thus, it seems like it would need to be done less often), but I am afraid to deal with gasoline so I muddle on. I'm hoping that with experience I'll get better at it. Lots of people in Vicksburg with steeper and larger hills than mine attach their power mowers to ropes and lower them down the hill and then pull them back up again! I didn't believe it until I actually saw it being done. It's really simple, Bookie! Get you a cheap measuring cup from a dollar store, and a gallon gas container. A bottle of 2-cycle oil, (available at any Walmart, K-Mart, WhateverMart) and hike thee to a gas station. Put a quart of gas in the container. Measure out 4 oz of the oil and pour it in to the container. Put the cap on and swish it around for a few seconds. Recommence putting gasoline into the container until you have reached the one gallon point. Wah-Lah! You're ready to weed eat! ~B~
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Post by gailkate on May 30, 2010 23:16:27 GMT -5
Um, we had a sloped lawn like that. We mowed it sideways, not top to bottom. You walk kind of funny for awhile after you're done. Another method which comes recommended by a really large number of satisfied homeowners is HIRING A KID. I know you're a strong independent woman, BL, but think of how you'd be contributing to the recovering economy and the boon this job would be to a deserving adolescent. Said adolescent would patronize the fast food joints and movie theaters, possibly buy school clothes, download music, buy term papers on the Internet.... The ripple effect of your good deed might be incalculable. I think the groundcover is lovely.
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Post by BoatBabe on May 31, 2010 8:15:04 GMT -5
WoW, Booky! See, your project looks pretty daunting to me. Folks around here take out the grass and stack big stones up that front edge. Then they plant things like lobelia, hens & chicks and alyssum in the crevices. Viola! No mowing the slope. They either leave the grass on the flat top, or use those paver stones to make a patio area. Gk's teenaged mower plan is probably less expensive and painful in the beginning. (Once you take those big pictures, you have to resize them in photobucket or some other sizing program. If you check your digital camera, there is somewhere that you can set it to take smaller pictures from the get-go. My camera will keep that lower setting. Every time Dahhlink turns his camera off, it automatically resets itself to the default setting, which is Bigger Than God, so he must remember to turn down the size every time he turns it on.)
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Post by BoatBabe on May 31, 2010 8:22:04 GMT -5
Given that BB lives in such a nice, tidy boat, I think she ought to share her clutter-prevention secrets. Also her shopping-jones cures. HA! If you could see it now! We've just been lazing around all weekend, and boy, does the detritus collect. My continual job is cleaning off surfaces and putting everything back in its place. On the other hand, I did not inherit the Shopping Genes. I have to make a list, make a plan and Force myself to go to a store, even for necessities. Usually, I just add the items to Dahhlink's list, and he goes. ;D
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Post by doctork on May 31, 2010 11:08:55 GMT -5
Given that BB lives in such a nice, tidy boat, I think she ought to share her clutter-prevention secrets. Also her shopping-jones cures. HA! If you could see it now! We've just been lazing around all weekend, and boy, does the detritus collect. My continual job is cleaning off surfaces and putting everything back in its place. On the other hand, I did not inherit the Shopping Genes. I have to make a list, make a plan and Force myself to go to a store, even for necessities. Usually, I just add the items to Dahhlink's list, and he goes. ;D I think we are twin daughters of different mothers! I Do Not Like To Shop. Howard loves to shop for entertainment purposes though, so it is risky to add anything to his list as he will usually buy three times as much, and quite possibly the wrong item as well. Spencer is very reliable - give him the list and he will carefully inspect the alternatives and choose the most cost-effective, Without Fail. He has the second Costco membership card, not Howard, for the safety of the bank account. Unfortunately, he is in Spain for his semester abroad, and even when he is in the US, he is in Las Vegas or Bellingham, not North Carolina. The repetitive clutter-removal: I am sure that I put away the butter and the cutting board at least 150 times a day. How is it possible that DH needs to butter or chop 150 times per day? Other clutter removal tips: 1) Live alone - then any clutter is your own fault and you are free to remedy 2) Move away from the PNW where any failure to recycle is prima facie evidence of serious character deficiency. Then just toss any items that are not of immediate use.
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Post by booklady on May 31, 2010 11:40:45 GMT -5
Brutus, I am askeered of gasoline! Not gonna use it. Well, I do manage to put it into my car and drive away, but I don't want to deal with it otherwise. But thanks, hon. Doc, what's the PNW? Oh. I think I just figured it out: Pacific Northwest? Must be. Yep, in Mississippi everything gets thrown away. When I first moved here and asked where to recycle the newspaper, I was met with blank looks. Now I am saving them to put under some bark mulch so weeds and grass won't grow through. The clutter around here is definitely mine and I do struggle against it and usually lose. My project du jour is painting an old cabinet I use in the bathroom which I picked up at a yard sale for $5 about a year and a half ago.
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Post by gailkate on May 31, 2010 23:46:19 GMT -5
Coincidental column today on overspending/accumulating:
Buy what you need; want what you have.
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Post by booklady on Jun 1, 2010 6:37:32 GMT -5
That is a good motto, gk. I think I need to go out and buy needlepoint fabric and embroidery floss and make a sampler I am going to scrawl it with magic marker on a piece of scratch paper and stick it with a magnet I've already got (and want) on my fridge.
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Post by booklady on Jun 1, 2010 18:09:25 GMT -5
It's really simple, Bookie! Get you a cheap measuring cup from a dollar store, and a gallon gas container. A bottle of 2-cycle oil, (available at any Walmart, K-Mart, WhateverMart) and hike thee to a gas station. Put a quart of gas in the container. Measure out 4 oz of the oil and pour it in to the container. Put the cap on and swish it around for a few seconds. Recommence putting gasoline into the container until you have reached the one gallon point. Wah-Lah! You're ready to weed eat! ~B~ Dear Brutus, I have been thinking about this post of yours and just want to thank you again for it. It really is very helpful to know exactly how one goes about the process of fueling the gas and oil models. No one has ever given me any kind of explanation or instruction and it's very helpful to have this information. Who knows? I may end up with one of these kinds of weed whackers. Thanks again, ~B~.
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Post by brutus on Jun 1, 2010 20:45:59 GMT -5
It's really simple, Bookie! Get you a cheap measuring cup from a dollar store, and a gallon gas container. A bottle of 2-cycle oil, (available at any Walmart, K-Mart, WhateverMart) and hike thee to a gas station. Put a quart of gas in the container. Measure out 4 oz of the oil and pour it in to the container. Put the cap on and swish it around for a few seconds. Recommence putting gasoline into the container until you have reached the one gallon point. Wah-Lah! You're ready to weed eat! ~B~ Dear Brutus, I have been thinking about this post of yours and just want to thank you again for it. It really is very helpful to know exactly how one goes about the process of fueling the gas and oil models. No one has ever given me any kind of explanation or instruction and it's very helpful to have this information. Who knows? I may end up with one of these kinds of weed whackers. Thanks again, ~B~. You're most welcome. Now, we're in to a quirky problem. I gave you the mixture for 32:1 gasoline/oil mix. Whatever weed whacker you buy may call for a different mix. Might be 40:1, 50:1, whatever. Break it down to oz/gal oil/gasoline mix for the duration of the warranty, since any evidence of a wrong mixture will void your warranty should you have problems. After the warrenty expires, usually 1 yr, the 4oz/1gal. of gasoline mix is quite sufficient. Sorry if I made it more confusing. Just basic math involved. Good luck! ~B~
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Post by booklady on Jun 1, 2010 21:03:11 GMT -5
I will remember....or, more likely, if I buy a gas thingie, I'll come back and check your directions. gk's second idea is a good one, too. ;D
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 3, 2010 8:40:13 GMT -5
I will remember....or, more likely, if I buy a gas thingie, I'll come back and check your directions. gk's second idea is a good one, too. ;D The Hire Teenagers idea? In my book that is the only plausible one. ;D
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Post by booklady on Jun 7, 2010 6:47:02 GMT -5
gk, I'm wondering if you ordered from Bluestone Perennials.
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Post by gailkate on Jun 7, 2010 9:30:40 GMT -5
OMG, did I ever order from Blusestone. The big sale made me reckless, and I ordered 33 plants. That's on top of 10 or 12 I'd ordered earlier, from them and from Gurney's. We're trying to redo a lot of things that are too much work for my aging joints. Jerry claims to be similarly afflicted, but I tell him turning 60 is a mere nothing. Why, my goodness, I could turn cartwheels when I was 60....
We'll see how the Bluestone plants do. They came packed with a whole lot of styrofoam peanuts all tangled up in the leaves - a mess to tease apart without breakage. That's the trouble with mail-order plants - the selection is wonderful, but no company seems to have mastered shipping. They all try, but nothing seems to work really dependably.
But the sun is shining and I'm rarin' to go - yesterday's planting got rained out.
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 12, 2010 15:18:55 GMT -5
Alrighty then. I'm posting Dahhlink's freestanding elliptical handrail on this thread, because I can't post it in The Question of the Day section. This is actually 4 scanned old film pictures. All mahogany. When you click on it, you will have to scroll back & forth to see it. Attachments:
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 12, 2010 15:21:14 GMT -5
Hmmm . . . that's interesting. You can't click on it and make it bigger.
;D
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 12, 2010 16:00:50 GMT -5
Alrighty then. Let's try this. I'm on Dahhlink's computer where he scanned the original, instead of posting his email picture to me. Attachments:
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