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#36372 - 10/18/03 02:25 AM
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Registered: 10/15/03
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Loc: California
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Boy, next to you guys, I feel like a slug.
I work full time, for a newspaper, come home, crack the whip on the homework, sometimes I need to clean the kitchen, sometimes not; have four kids between 22-10, one daughter, the oldest, and three sons.
When everyone is home at the same time it's like a Marx Brothers movie, and then if they let the new puppy in and she starts to chase the cats....well that's really a blast. (NOT)
I draw/paint/doodle and right now my canvas is gourds but it's different all the time.
I have a passion for trees although I'm getting ready to cut the huge fruitless mulberry tree that's in our front yard down because I think it has a love affair going on with our sewer pipes.
My kids cringe every time we drive (or I spot) a pile of junk on the street because I could actually whip a U-ie and drag some of it home.
I'm on a self-imposed moratorium against Christmas trees, not because I don't like them, but because I love them but want no party to cutting them down.... so I drag limbs home, birch limbs mostly, and decorate them.
I read, used to write poetry and am trying to embark on a free lance bit....to tell "my story" of how you make a peaceful life even while living with an addictive spouse, because there is a way.
I think that's probably it. I have found in the last couple of days that I'm hogging 'post' space and don't want to be piggish.
DreamrKate
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#36373 - 10/20/03 01:38 AM
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Registered: 03/18/03
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Loc: Australia
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I thought I was the only weird person who finds it hard to resist the piles of junk waiting to be collected on the street! There is a rubbish collection happening in our neighbourhood at the moment and it's very hard to drive past without wondering what finds there might be lurking amongst the junk... I just love old stuff! Antique shops, jumble sales, books, old china, wooden boxes, the old things stored in my parent's garage...when I pull out something everyone says "What do you want that old thing for??" But after I get it home and do something with it - even just putting it in a collection of other bits - everyone else wants it.
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#36375 - 10/20/03 04:52 PM
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Registered: 02/19/03
Posts: 765
Loc: Oregon
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I am so excited reading your posts today. I too love junk piles especially old wood. You can make so many things out of it. picket fences, birdhouses and etc. The antiques are really lovely we too have a dresser that came over on a wagon train. The mirror is gone off the back but it holds my grandmothers quilts when I am not using them. At Christmas and other Holidays I like to take an old crocheted bedspread(its an ecru color) and put it on top of a red tablecloth and that decorates the kitchen. A friend and I love to go to the garage sales and thrift shops for our craft finds. Maggie
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#36376 - 10/20/03 05:52 PM
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Registered: 08/27/03
Posts: 791
Loc: Nipigon, Ontario Canada
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OK - show of hands, who likes to watch "Antiques Roadshow???" jawjaw - can I come live at your house?, it sounds wonderful I love old treasures, I don't have too many finds though. When we bought our house about sixteen years ago, we found in the garage, lying in the middle of a pile of garbage left behind, on old wooden radio cabinet - completely gutted on the indside. It sits on top of my entertainment unit and I have one of the speakers from our surround sound tucked inside it, so it sounds like the sound is coming from the old radio.
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#36378 - 10/20/03 06:49 PM
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Registered: 08/27/03
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Loc: Nipigon, Ontario Canada
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sounds fab! - sweet tea? is that hot or cold? anyway sounds good. Can you see us - wrapped in quilts, sipping tea, munching cornbread, watching Dotsie roll out pie crusts to make empanadas (did I spell that right?), paper spread out before us so we can jot stuff down, everyone talking at once.............sounds like a lot of fun....
and do send me some pics.......I'll send you one of "la salon rouge" - turned out not too bad, now that all the paintings done.
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#36380 - 10/21/03 11:16 PM
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Registered: 03/18/03
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Loc: Australia
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I love the sound of all these old quilts - something we don't really have in our country. I have some of my grandmother's oak bedroom furniture - now in my daughter's room which I think Grandma would be pleased about if she knew - but it is only turn of the century, not as old as Queen Bee's.I also have my great granfather's black evening coat (tails)hanging on my wall. He wore it to my grandmother's wedding but I think it is older than that - may have come from Germany with him when he emigrated. He was only a little man - the coat fitted me when I was a petite teenager, not now. But he was by all accounts very strict and would not allow my acaemically gifted great aunt to study after leaving school, despite the pleadings of her teacher.That auntie never married, spent her life helping look after her many sisters' many children, doing church work...and writing.
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