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4/1/2004 4:25:36 AM
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WOW!!!
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Pat
Ah ha! The pre-menopausal stash!! Great idea - and how`s a DH going to object to that one! ;-} Thanks! Ladies, don`t you think this puts PatW up there in the enabler category?
Pat, you had asked me some questions in an earlier posting......
WE have a small wine liquor and beer area in our small general store. We have room for about 14 whites and 14 reds. In Alberta, the govt. had control of liquor sales for many years. About 10 years ago they started to privatize the sale of liquor, but still maintained administrative control. We buy our liquor from them. Previously, all sales were in govt. liquor stores. We managed to get into a pilot project for areas whech were a certain distance from another liquor store. So, to sell liquor in a grocery store was an oddity. It has worked well for us. Presently, and only just recently, there are some of the larger grocery stores in the city which have liquor, but it has to be in basically a "stand alone" building or attached but can be closed off. We cannot sell before 10 am or before a certain time on election days! Oh, how the govt. protects us from ourselves!!
I too like most wines but prefer reds usually. Ones that suck your mouth dry !! How does your DH politely describe that? I guess I like chilled white wines more in the summer. We keep our stock varied with some standbys. Some US, some canadian, Australian, French, S. African, Chilean, Portuguese, Italian. Because our space is limited, we will buy on the advice of our "good" customers, if they`ve fallen in love with something. This winter the "vin du jour" was a french Chardonnay called "Fat Bastard" and a S. African called "Goats du Roam" which the french objected to as it is a play on words with Cotes du Rhone.
The Canadian wine industry has developed well over the years. There are 2 main regions - One in Ontario in the Niagara area and another in British Columbia in the Okanagan region. Compared to US prices, ours are generally higher as the govt. taxes it so heavily. there is no price advantage to domestic wines either.
Cooking: I love to, when in the mood!! I have quite the cookbook collection. Until last fall we were charter members of a book club. It was couples only and we had a potluck dinner along with it. For a while we had a member who was a chef. That raised the bar nicely!! I remember years ago, my friend phoned me the day after a bookclub and said "allright, who brought the lime jellied salad with the peas in it? Gag!!" Her husband was a chef too, but they moved not long after we started the club.
Books: I alternate with good literature (lots of Canadian authors) and a fix of mystery/crime fiction. Right now I`m reading Mystic River. Started it before I saw the movie, so now the ending is ruined!
BTW - you haven`t submitted your pic and bio yet have you? Ahem!!
Les
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4/1/2004 4:55:56 AM
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Anyone need a laugh today?
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I have a bit of a checkered past too. there are 3 girls in our family and I am the youngest. My sisters babysat me one night and had me bite the defenbachia plant a.k.a. "dumbcane" as it swells the throat and you can`t speak. Dad had told us this fact. So, rather freaked out, they phoned the next door neighbor ...."Um, this is, um, Kathryn calling.....um, do you um, know what to do if, um, someone, um bites a defenbachia plant?"
Mom and dad used to go out for a walk at night and that was my signal to get something going.... Often, it ws just making a batch of fudge to satisfy my sweet tooth but once it was making candles out of moms canning parafin. Got a beautiful blue colour going with a crayola added for colour. put some oven mitts on to carry the pyrex cup FULL of molten wax and the cup slipped out of my hands and dropped to the floor, geysering all over, including the white cupboard doors, metal tubular legs of the table and chairs, textured vinyl seats of the chairs etc. Couldn`t get that beautiful blue off the white paint so a reno was in order.
Then there was the time I burned the candles I made, in my room, with a friend. I had used little pill bottles as moulds. They were great. Liz and I got bored and decided to go to her house and left the cute little candles burning.....well, you know what happened next.....luckily mom was home, her sense of smell was keen and the fire dept not too busy.
Then there was the day when I was 17 and I borrowed the car to go to work. I hopped out of the car to shut the garage door and the car wasn`t quite in park........there went the back end of the garage!!
Les
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4/1/2004 4:57:22 AM
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Reply to: Ann, Les, Benne, Marion, MacChick, and Sandra D
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Oh, what a temptation........and I can`t wait to see your pictures. You are an artist too?
Les
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4/1/2004 6:07:33 AM
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isn`t this great?
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2356599416&category=3105
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4/1/2004 7:41:54 AM
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April`s offerings
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Oh, my!
Rec`d samples today via DH the postmaster! His comment was "you got 2 parcels today (Araucania came today as well). have you looked at last months. mastercard bill? AND even after I knit him some slippers!!
Les
Gotta get my butt in gear to prepay elann - haven`t done that yet - but it still doesn`t solve problem of the arrivals!!
Lesley
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4/1/2004 8:39:11 AM
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Shui Kuen paintings
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Just looked at your paintings and with the poetry, I am all choked up!! Do I say "Thanks" or "Thanks Alot" (sarcastically)
;-}
You have amazing talents!
Lesley
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4/1/2004 1:43:41 PM
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isn`t this great?
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So glad you appeared!!! Welcome, come on in, can I get you anything?
Lesley
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4/2/2004 5:29:52 AM
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Jeanflores, Oh, Your sweater!!!
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Love your Casual cables and bag. The sweater looks so much nicer on you than on the one dimensional "shadow" in the pattern picture. makes me want to get making one!!
How are those lopi sweaters coming? I have just about used up my stash of the yarn and wish I`d bought more. They have gone into many slippers- some of which I`ve felted. Will post pics soon - my niece is coming over with her digital camera today. Also will post a similar but different! purse which I felted. It is from the on-line pattern I think you mentioned in one of your posts.
Les
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4/2/2004 5:37:57 AM
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Sonata cotton
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Patw
Looked at your website - gorgeous knitting you do!! That`s a neat story about the 102yo lady. Whenever I see craft tables of knitting, sewing etc done so beautifully by some oldster at the "home", I just want to find the rec. therapist and shake her/him into encouraging the women into using quality stuff.
Now, don`t you think a toilet-paper-roll-cover doll would look better in a lovely pastel pure egyptian cotton!!LOL!
Lesley
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4/2/2004 8:38:30 PM
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Purse and basket of slippers
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Have sent pics of: my dream- a basket of slippers and a felted purse I plan to line and put a zipper across the top (set down into the purse by an inch or so). The handle of the purse was not an I-cord but just stocking stitch which curls around when felted. I sewed it on before felting. http://knitting.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.jenanne.com/PATTERNfeltedbag.htm
I absolutely love the way the bag turned out. it is incredibly soft in that yarn but quite thickly felted. It has lots of body! The colours are Onyx, Deep Charcoal and I`m not sure of the caramel colour, - maybe it`s Bronze Patina. I didn`t measure how tall the purse was before felting - but I think it was about 20". I knit it one weekend - but I did nothing else as I was so excited to try this - made the kids cook. "oh,oh, mom`s felting again"!!
Les
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4/2/2004 9:13:37 PM
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April`s offerings
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Sandra
Yes, I have a "slight" problem with DH being the postmaster!!
Had a luncheon here today with my sister, niece, the two babies (Abby 14mo and Emma almost 3yo) and my cousin. Had to clean up yesterday and dang I wish i could find my subscription samples and newsletter! Where would I have put them? Don`t you hate that?
Les
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4/2/2004 9:23:24 PM
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Happy 12th Birthday Timmy McCalister-you are a cool guy!
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Wow, 12 years old! A milestone is coming up next year - or at least 13 has some sort of cachet doesn`t it! Tell him that Baby Abby is getting some new teeth and while sucking on her big sisters face(!) she took a chomp- and then grinned! Hope there was lots of chocolate cake!
Lesley
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4/3/2004 6:02:53 AM
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Purse and basket of slippers
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Benne: I sent the 2 pics to Elann last night- that`s where they are - maybe they will be up today. I`m just going to go and look at the Uros and the Lambs pride and compare - You`re right, the Lambs pride is thicker and 2 strands of Uros would be perfect. BTW-I just looked at the leftover skein and the caramel colour I used in my purse is called Wild Oak not the Bronze Patina!
Actually, re; cooking, I`m quite lucky. The kids often do cook on the wkds. but not because their dad has led by example - he quit after he snagged me!! DD and DS the 2 that are still at home quite enjoy messing around in the kitchen!! One specializes in breakfast and the other supper. DD Lauren, who lives on her own going to school and needs to cook, does good eggs and Ichiban noodles but not much else!! LOL
We are going to friends for supper tonight and she has been playing around with needle felting and has produced a pair of breast protectors as her show piece. I want her to show me how to do the felting.
Les
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4/3/2004 6:51:39 AM
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Purse and basket of slippers
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I like how your`re thinking!!!!! Okay, the Mounties and I are getting to be good friends with me having to report my van damages to them - and If I explain the prevention of a domestic dispute idea to them (Lord knows they don`t want to have to rush to one of those)......or how about the autobody guy who must absolutely love me because I have given him between 10 and 11 thousand dollars worth of work in the past 2 months!! He is only 7 miles away. Don`t want to talk to the mail trucker - they drop off at 4:30am and some of those guys are kinda scarey!! I`ve seen them! They sometimes miss the mark and back up and hit our evestrough! Don`t like `em!!
Getting off topic and onto knitting ;-}, The Araucania does rip back well, doesn`t it. I started to knit a sweater for my great niece last night as her b-day is in April and I cast on the sts and it looked pretty darned wide for a 3 yo, but I persisted. finally figured out that the page in the book had flipped and I was starting the small womans sweater!!!!!! Rippppp... I don`t want a ribbed hem so did a garter stitch one. I decided that it was going to turn out to be wider than the stockinette part so ripped out again. Finally, I started with 3 sts less for the garter sts part and inc. the three for the stockinette sts! Do you know of a rule of thumb for something like this? I had the same prob with Baby Abby`s pink and blue sweater that I posted but didn`t worry about fixing it.
Les - whose dinner host tonight has been seen wearing a t-shirt that says "I choked Linda Lovelace"!! He saved it from years gone by. ;-}
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4/3/2004 10:34:41 AM
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Quote of the day!!
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Quote of the Day"
"A little lemon and seltzer will remove
those pesky ink stains after you`ve been
fingerprinted."
-Martha Stewart
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4/5/2004 4:25:27 AM
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trading?
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Point Mousse - Where is Africa will you be heading? What will your focus re: Aids be?
Lesley
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4/5/2004 4:44:28 AM
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Heather, your beanie is very cute
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Beautiful job on the beanie. I love the little top knot and have made this hat in several sizes with leftover wool in the past. They`re fun aren`t they!
Okay, I`m a little dense!! What do you mean, in your instructions re: "I used used delphinium dipped in popsicle about 1", sky blue dipped popsicle in about 1". I don`t understand the "dipped in about 1" " part.
This dying process sounds just like what I would have done when I lived at home as a kid and my parents went out for a walk.............. if only I`d known how then!! (see postings 3/31/04 need a laugh today)
And please do get your bio up!!
Lesley
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4/5/2004 5:15:53 AM
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snoop around magknits.com
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snoop around the website Point Mousse mentioned and find out how to use your kitchen mixmaster to wind skeins of yarn into balls!! Wow!
Lesley
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4/5/2004 5:30:09 AM
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has anyone tried Soy -Silk?
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Saw some soy-silk knit into a baby blanket at Shuttleworks (they have a web site) which is a weaving spinning knitting place. Didn`t have time to quiz the owner but I saw it in roving and then this delicious little baby blanket. It is naturally (I think)a creamy yellow just like the background of this page. Soy -silk is a byproduct of the tofu industry.
Les
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4/5/2004 5:43:41 AM
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Bets did you see Pat W`s knitting?
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PatW
Please put your bio up when you get a chance.
This is funny: I`m up before the rest of of family (oops, I hear Percy the my 25 yo cockatiel chirping, had better turn out the kitchen lights) and one of my daughters called down from her bedroom on the second floor to see if I would heat up the magic bag as I guess she has cramps. So I did. Took it up to her but it was the wrong DD. I woke up the younger of the two! Sigh!
Re: the cruise, do you think you could knit while attending a boxercise class on-board?
Les
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