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[Loopy]

I'm happy I was able to help someone.  

Ipswich1940 told me to check Pinterest out for instructions. There's plenty of them. 

 

[CHecker]

12 hours ago, kejedo said:

   Don't even get me started on tatting. 

Tatting? You do tatting?? I NEED to learn this! And tapestry, I need to do tapestry. I want to make all the covers for my dining room chairs.  And a stretcher frame with a tapestry pattern in the center for window coverings instead of any blind or curtain.

Oh not to mention quilting. I really need to learn to quilt. I have some specific simple patterns in my head, just can't get them out in fabric. Oh sorry, got carried away.

[Old]

My Mother was of the notion that even boys need to appreciate typical household skills. She taught my sister and I how to darn socks, knit, crochet, and do tatting. My aptitude for those four skills is the same as my aptitude for typing.  

[Loopy]

48 minutes ago, Old said:

My Mother was of the notion that even boys need to appreciate typical household skills. She taught my sister and I how to darn socks, knit, crochet, and do tatting. My aptitude for those four skills is the same as my aptitude for typing.  

You must do those four skills just fine, cause there's nothing wrong with your typing. 

[pnutts]

47 minutes ago, Old said:

darn socks, knit, crochet, and do tatting.

Those darn socks have me all knit up in knots and crotchety. I'm gonna tattle.

[kejedo]

Good for your Mom, Brother Jerry, for teaching you a variety of skills.  I think you should be the one to teach our JWtalk tatting class.

 

My boys all know how to sew, clean house, iron, fold laundry, perform janitorial services, work in restaurants,  install water heaters, do home construction, sanding, floor waxing, house painting, gardening, etc.... My middle son was the youngest maintenance man in his school system (18 years of age, HS graduate) and has worked in grounds-keeping/ horticulture, and home repair. My oldest son runs his own construction company-   (no professional training, except some courses in architecture, after already in the field.) My youngest son is a computer phenom (he didn't learn that from us,) but he did drive a jalopy for years with an indoor-outdoor rug aboard for on-the-road car repairs and welded his own parts when they no longer existed.

 

Many famous men are knitters. History makes the conjecture that men probably developed the  skill/art. 

 

Sometimes, my middle son resented that he had to do his own laundry since third grade. I don't know how he feels about it these days.  Every year, same son, signed up for floristry on alternative learning day and made me a beautiful  corsage/ arrangement.

 

If I dig up (HaHa) some of their gardening  or craft pix, I'll try to post them.

 

We will not be bored in the New System. So many exciting things to explore.  

 

Keep those pix coming for those like myself that are somewhat digitally challenged.   

 

 

1 hour ago, Old said:

My Mother was of the notion that even boys need to appreciate typical household skills. She taught my sister and I how to darn socks, knit, crochet, and do tatting. My aptitude for those four skills is the same as my aptitude for typing.  

Fixing socks was when saying 'darn' was a good thing. Did you use the light bulb technique?

 

[Old]

1 hour ago, Loopy said:

You must do those four skills just fine, cause there's nothing wrong with your typing. 

You don't know how long it took.  At one time  I could type, though not very well, maybe 25  to 30 words a minute, enough to fill out daily reports. That was good as my handwriting had become worse than a doctor's. I learned to print box letters fairly fast. Can't do that anymore, can't take notes. To many temors. Five years ago I  sat thru elders school for five days without being able to take a single note. I elected not to attend this year, to tired and too embarrassed.

2 hours ago, Old said:

My Mother was of the notion that even boys need to appreciate typical household skills. She taught my sister and I how to darn socks, knit, crochet, and do tatting. My aptitude for those four skills is the same as my aptitude for typing.  

Pauline said "Fixing socks was when saying 'darn' was a good thing. Did you use the light bulb technique? "

We had a couple of darning eggs at home. When I was a pioneer I used a light bulb.

I had totally forgotten that. 

Not many here would know what a darning egg is. 

[dove]

33 minutes ago, Old said:

 

Not many here would know what a darning egg is. 

 owned a few but also used the light bulb method 

[kejedo]

sock  it to me

[kejedo]

When you're in a hurry and whip the lamp shade off and try to quickly fix a  worn out sock heel with the light still on, and burn your fingers- then  have to give up on the socks and change into a long skirt and notice a big wrinkle in the front, and take a book and put it  under the wrinkle and iron the skirt while you are wearing it.  Like you wouldn't do it.  Even my sons know the book trick, but use a smaller book for wrinkled trouser legs.  As long as it's not theocratic literature.  

[Gi-Gi]

Going to see my lil Georgia peach  in 2 weeks!

[Qapla]

This is where I was working yesterday

 

I almost waited too long to take the pics - the sun was starting to go down when I finally did take them.

 

 

This is the house that is being built - they just poured that driveway .... they were pouring it when we got there to work (poor scheduling)

 

Edited May 16, 2017 by Qapla

[pnutts]

34 minutes ago, Qapla said:

they were pouring it when we got there to work (poor scheduling)

...and they would be a little upset if you made a mark on new driveway. back a ways I posted a couple of pictures - one a truck driving on freshly poured concrete highway , getting stuck then driver making a mess walking away. 2nd was a cop car driving into wet cement on a section of road work while chasing someone who had the sense not to.

[Loopy]

[Omoyeme]

Actually, the reaction of the cat is funnier!

[garryspicer]

[dove]

Lion and Lamb

 

Soon to be reality..

[Old]

5 hours ago, Dove said:

Lion and Lamb

 

Soon to be reality..

Why are you staring at my dinner? Have you never seen  a Lamb Chop?

[Sheep]

5 hours ago, Dove said:

Lion and Lamb

 

Soon to be reality..

Again! It happened again! I recognize the little guy in front from somewhere. 

 

I know the guy in back though. He works for MGM.

[garryspicer]

[rocket]

56 minutes ago, garryspicer said:

 

Looks like my microwave Popcorn.  

[ChrisC]

An anonymous wife of mine (she's not watching) once heated a baby's bottle in the microwave and got distracted. It blew the door off the microwave and scattered eggs up the wall from the basket on top.

 

[kejedo]

Ha-Ha. Good one,  Brother Chris!  Reminds me of when my sons were babes. I had 3  in less than 4 years and was a milk bank mommy (sent out mother's milk to sick babies.) I was also teaching  a few classes. And exhausted. I would get home at night, nurse a baby, make a take out for a 'meals-on-wheels' baby, and put my equipment in to boil and sterilize.  Was so exhausted, I decided to go upstairs and sit on my bed for a few minutes while doing the boil-em-up.  Fell asleep for a blink, and feed-baby-feed became burn-baby-burn.

 

That Kaneson milk pump melted down to a house filling plume of black swelling, air consuming smoke. HUsb woke up (was just resting my eyes) and said take the babies outside.   He found the source of the  all consuming air vacuuming  culprit and put the flame out.

 

Could have been the end of my merry nursemaid contribution, BUT, dear Husb  was  bread delivery for the hosp, where I had delivered  3-in-a-row  baby  boys (also made quilts and  hand crocheted baby sets for the maternity ward,) and the nurses sent me home some Brand-Spanking- new milk pumps.  Pronto!  -within hours of my "equipment-meltdown."  No pix to post.  Sorry, not sorry. 

[timpin]

TMI !   ...   waaay TMI !!!

 

...   sometimes we just don't need to know.

[pnutts]

10 hours ago, ChrisTheConfused said:

microwave and scattered eggs up

Eggs work Very Well in a nuker. Fresh or hard boiled, it don't matter.