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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 17 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the pictures and information Jam Lady. I didn't actually know what schlepping was either, but more or less worked it out as I have seen it used in American English now and again. The cherry recipes sound lovely. That basket looks useful. I think it came from first nations traditions didn't it?
In the UK we have rather lost our wood traditions as we went through the industrial revolution before anyone else, and so metal and china were rather more easily available to ordinary people. We also don't have as much woodland, being a small, rather heavily populated island than most of Europe and of course other continents.
Cassandra has been posting on Facebook Gregotyn, and seems all right. She tends to do that on her phone I think, and this on her computer, so she may have line problems again.
Will an inch be enough to take your floor above the high level water table Gregotyn? An alternative might be to put in a suspended floor on brick posts so the water goes underneath it. Make sure it has plenty of ways to get out so it doesn't just sit there.
Fired the kiln again yesterday as we have over 40 bags of charcoal still on order, although 22 are new order. Seemed to go all right. In addition, our volunteer group cleared the public footpath down the lane which was getting a bit overgrown, and we finally identified the plant that has been eluding us for months; wall lettuce. Later on I made another spoon out of field maple. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 17 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Mmmmm cherries - as MR says, I do FB on the phone and computer at home and at present with most of the kitchen in the loungeroom, getting the cord to stretch to the sofa is a challenge. On the up side, the sofa is right in front of the fire which is a good thing as we have had a series of subzero nights of late.
Cooking is a real challenge as the cutlery is in the lounge the spices in the shed, the pots in the gardening shed and I still don't have vinyl. We had a forecast of snow to 300metres so they cancelled. So did the weather gods, but it was definitely icy - lots of bad accidents on black ice. Minus degrees last night, and again tonight. Oh, and I ran out of gas so don't have a cooktop at present, bangers and mash tonight reheated in the microwave.
I have created all three steeks in the vest now, and I have to say that between reducing either side every second round, working out where I am up to in the fair isle when I resume the other side of the steek and generally mucking around, I think I will in future just create the opening and resort to flat knitting. Or maybe I will get better as I go along. We will see.
I have also been disrupted by a bit of a political crisis in my Party of choice. Essentially one of the State groups operates on a different system to the rest of us and since they have the money use their position to bully the rest of the States into submission. They are great on extreme left wing theory and consider themselves master strategists, but they instructed their senator to vote against a piece of legislation that the rest of the states had negotiated to an acceptable position. And it was a major embarrassment. The Party leader has excluded this Senator from future decisions until the situation is remedied and the State in question is crying foul, and it turns out the Senator in question is in early Alzheimers. So it's a bit of a mess really. Since I am currently non-financial I think I will stay out of it till the dust settles, but if it settles in favour of the communist element I will not be renewing - there are limits and that one is a bit too far beyond the limit.
So sorry for my prolonged absences, and it's good to hear all is going well for you. Dpack I will implement your suggestion. And Gregotyn, I love your strategy for avoiding washing. If I had any past-use by pants I would employ it myself! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 17 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Glad you managed to find all the bits in the same place to post Cassandra. I didn't realise all the ramifications of the split from the FB posts.
I was going to add a couple more points to my post. Jam Lady, your political system seems rather odd to me, although I am sure ours does to you, but they seem to keep getting crises like that, which is rather disconcerting for everyone concerned.
We had a problem in the woods yesterday. Husband went up early, about 7am to light the kiln and found someone had cut through the chain which holds a locking post into the ground on the track into the woods. He found the post in the bushes up the track. Doing some tracking later, and speaking to someone who lives down the lane, it was a Jiminy or similar small 4 wheel drive used and it happened some time between 10pm the previous night and well before 7 am that morning as husband didn't hear the vehicle. Police have been informed, but no other damage, and the vehicle may have dents in it where it hit some fallen branches. |
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Rowanlady
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: NE Hampshire
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 17 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Rowanlady, welcome to the discussion. My basket is commercially made, acquired when I worked at a feed and grain store in Connecticut a long tome ago. I also have a bushel basket made in the same style.
I've take a few basketry classes, mostly working with a blend of commercial and foraged material to make small baskets. Gathered material includes grape vines, wisteria, kudzu, Virginia creeper vines and roots, and long needled pine needles for a coiled basket.
Defrosted the big freezer in the basement yesterday, discovering that A) I have more venison than I remembered and B) ditto for sour cherries and double ditto for blueberries, plus some cranberries. When I first had a freezer I kept a notebook with columns for in / out / use by information to help me keep track of things. Would start again but I was so intent on getting things back in that it couldn't happen. Shall make a more concerted effort to use things up.
To begin with I will make: blueberry sour cherry jam, sour cherry cranberry jam, blueberry cranberry jam. Understand they might segue into a conserve (adding finely cut lemon and / or orange). Perhaps I shall even look at the book I wrote on preserving to see what I suggested to readers (grin.) |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 17 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Happy Thanksgiving Jam lady.
I don't know what has happened but I have been talking to you all, took a moment to look at back packs and I seem to have lost an hour's posting! I will go back to that Rowanlady when I have posted and nothing to lose!
Glad all is well with you Cassandra, just the weather to change and you will be ok I guess. I think if your Party are going communist then best retreat; there all are equal but I have observed a few are more equal than others!
I ranted on about 2 holidays in Scotland, Skebost Hotel on Skye was very good indeed, and a pub B+B in Pennan a small fishing village North of Aberdeen, so peaceful there. The landlord, ex Black Watch officer, poured the drinks at the pub at night and my other half's dubonnet and lemonade got a larger % of dubonnet in the glass, as the land lord drank a few himself!
I have Scottish blood in me from somewhere or other so the family told me.
Jam Lady, the ash carrier is really good. I suspect it is made from green wood and kept moist for a while to get the bends needed for the shape.
I expect the floor of my shed will get raised at some stage when I have moved, MR. an inch would do the job. No time now as I am going asap. I hope there was no more damage in the woods other than the lock/chain. A shame you can't coat that with some invisible paint which shows up and doesn't wash off for a few weeks! |
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Rowanlady
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: NE Hampshire
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Rowanlady
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: NE Hampshire
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Rowanlady
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 195 Location: NE Hampshire
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15542
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 17 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi Rowanlady - welcome to the fold! I love those creels they used to use, but imagine it was rather harder work than I am up for these days. And the knitting on the run - they used those perforated belt pouches to hold the left needle steady as they worked with the right needle - Not sure it is quite my style!!
The cold weather passed and is now returned. Minus 3 for tonight. Still it was a nice sunny day so waiting for the vinyl installers was not as horrid as it might have been. They were due at 9:30 and finally arrived at 12. So in the interim I headed into Oatlands and stuck a note on the window of the History Room to say it was closed for the day. Very annoying. The person who might have been able to rush in and fill the gap is presently in Far North Queensland (lucky beast) so since we are both backup for the person whose actual day it is and who remains ill, there was no-one to call upon.
Home once more I sat and paced and phoned at regular intervals so was feeling a bit snarly when they finally got there half an hour after they had informed me they were five minutes away.
But they were hard workers and did a good job. Which was a relief, since the vinyl they installed was not the vinyl I had ordered all those months ago. You might recall I described it as a beige taupe in the form of crazy paving made from well worn stone. Well, no.
Actually I like it a lot better. The other was just a cheap offcut, albeit good quality. This is good quality also, and I have always been fond of diagonal tiling. It has all the virtues of the other in terms of hiding dust, and being neutral so I am happy. Finally.
Since I am in the History Room on Friday and Sunday I will have to fit architraves, trim doors to go back on and so forth in between that sort of thing, but it while it will be fiddly work, I will be able to motor along as there is nothing in there bar the fridge stove and freezer at present. Food preparation might be a challenge, but I expect I will manage.
And yes, Happy Independence Day Jam Lady (I was a bit disconcerted about the earlier reference to Thanksgiving though - surely that is not till November?
Gregotyn, the extreme left element of the party are a bunch of armchair political theorists and wannabe revolutionaries. I suspect most still live with Mummy and Daddy and bolster their self-esteem by pretending to be rebels. They are, however, very vocal and their Senator is, as previously mentioned, a bit off in lalaland, letting her ego get the better of her loyalty to the Party. I expect they will sort themselves out once National Council has had a chance to bash out the latest issues. They are the trouble-makers though, so we will see. It is the problem of a Party that wanders from Centre Left (which is roughly where I am) and extreme and that also attracts a lot of people for whom protesting is a lifestyle. I often wonder what they will do with themselves if we ever get done the things they want done now. Probably find something else to moan about. |
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