Hey Harry

Harry, Besides the rocks and glass, what do you do? Beading, macrame, knitting, etc. I haven't made it to the post office yet. Am going on Saturday. But I want to send some other stuff to you and don't have an idea of what to send. lol

By the way, I checked my Mom's liquor cabinet and she has some that I told her to hurry up and drink so I can have the bottles. LOL I also have my friends saving "pretty" bottles. The way my circle collects things I'm hoping to send a few different boxes in the future.

Hugs

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Debbie B
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< All very good questions and ideas. Right now I fixated on tumbling Paua, rocks and glass. I used to crochet many years ago, ( can hear the laughter), when my mother was teaching me, but gave it up, because where I was color blind I couldn't keep track of my stitch. I want to get into stain glass also, but that may be down the road a bit, as I want to create a lamp shade from Paua shell where it is so thin and has tiny pourous holes in it and it's beautiful to see with a light behind them. Have to let people see this one:
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That link also has Paua Shell curtains... don't pass out when you see theprices. lol I almost did. My main interest that win out over anything is anything native to an area that Idon't have access to. I also want to get into casting and so much more... I hope I live longenough to do everything I always wanted to. lol Harry My Ebay Auctions are at
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Harry

Thank you. Gives me ideas......lol

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Debbie B

< LOL... you are very welcome. If you live in an area where there is sand.. and sent a small bottle full I would be happy. lol I am very very easy to please.

Harry My Ebay Auctions are at

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Harry

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:42:42 -0500, Harry wrote (in message ):

Just boring old sand? Really? I live less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, and can send you some Boston harbor sand, if you want it.

BTW, the coolest sand I ever saw was on Maui. It was crunched up lava and totally black. Didn't feel much like any sand I've ever seen, but it sure looked awesome.

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V

Kathy, you've been on the road to Hana?

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MargieK

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:03:56 -0500, MargieK wrote (in message ):

Sure have. DH and I went to Hawaii for our honeymoon, for three whole weeks. (One week in Waikiki, one week in Kawaii and the last week in Maui) We took our rental cars all over the place, including Hana. It was incredibly cool. At the beginning of the road, there was a little convenience store that rented a cassette tape and a couple of books and maps for the day. As you drove up the road, "Craig," the narrator would tell you what you were seeing. At some points, "Craig" would tell you to pull over and go 200 feet into the jungle for a surprise. We did, and discovered waterfalls and swimming holes that were totally deserted, except for us. We could hear all the tourist vans buzz right by and laugh, because we felt like we had the island to ourselves.

The night before the trip, we went to a supermarket and bought a styrofoam cooler and filled it with all kinds of good stuff. That way, when "Craig" told us that there was a deserted area that would be good for a picnic, we were all set. We also got roll up grass mats and towels, so we could so swimming whenever we wanted to. (Or skinnydipping or even more - after all, it was our honeymoon!) Hana was one of the highest points on a very lovely honeymoon.

I recently got an email from someone who told me that the convenience store is still renting "Craig's Tour," although now it's on CD. DH and I would love to do that again, and had strongly considered going for our fifteenth wedding anniversary. Sadly, I was recovering from heart surgery at the time. We're now looking at going for our twentieth anniversary - and we might do it a year or two early, if my health permits such a trip, we're outta here, and will call it an anniversary trip come early.

We really, really loved Hawaii. The only thing that bugged me was the phenominal number of drug dealers accosting us, trying to get us to buy weed. We were very young, and must have looked like target customers. The dealers couldn't have been more wrong. We've never done any kinds of drugs, and very rarely drink. (True confession: At the commercial luau we attended, drinks were "free." I get drunk smelling mouthwash, so I thought I'd abstain. The hosts at the table insisted I drink "Blue Hawaii's" which tasted quite good and didn't seem to give me a buzz. What the hosts didn't mention was that the Blue Hawaiis had enough color to cause Blue Poo for the next several days. Startling to say the least. I am quite sure that the resort used blue food color in pineapple juice for these drinks, instead of the more traditional blue Curacao.)

My relatives and friends still talk about my honeymoon, but for a different reason. Since I knew I had at least nine hours in an airplane, and lots of wedding thank you notes staring me in the face, I combined the two chores. When we landed in Waikiki, I found a mailbox at the airport and dropped all the completed thank you notes in the mail. Then I could relax, knowing that I didn't have a big old overwhelming project waiting for me. We still have relatives tell us of their shock when they got a thank you note postmarked from Honolulu!

What a great trip. If we are blessed enough to go again, I am bringing twice the money, half the clothes and will spend every moment on the beach. I'll eat the Japanese noodles from the ubiquitous noodle carts and chow on as many local fruits as I can, and will stay far, far away from the Dole Pineapple Factory Tour. Normally, I love factory tours, but this one is disgusting. It's about 120 degrees inside the plant, and the smell of hot syrupy pineapple is overwhelming. Gross.

I was proud that I refused to buy anything at Hilo Hattie's gift emporium - overpriced, screamingly loudly colored clothes that would get me beaten if I walked the streets of Boston wearing the most conservative of them. It might look great in Waikiki, but a day glo floral sarong isn't exactly coture here in conservative New England. Bob bought the dullest Hawaiian shirt we could find there, a grey, turquoise and white palm pattern. It hung in the closet for many moons, until DD wore it to a "tropical luau" at school. We got her a few lei at the party store, and she wore a grass skirt over her sym shorts, and made the perfect New England Hula Girl.

Kathy N-V

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Kathy N-V

Oz has some of the nicest beach sand around! Not sure of the details but, IIRC, yellow beach sand was imported to Hawiwi(sp, where is my brain?) from Aussie beach dunes.

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melinda

What a marvelous touring tool!!

Tina

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Christina Peterson

< Sand is cool... what makes it special is if it's sand that I most likely wouldn't have walked on our saw. I have only seen black sand on TV and in pictures. People that live where they see it everyday think of it as just the same old sand. Where I have never seen it, I would be very happy to have some. I am sure if you live that close to the Atlantic you could find many items that I would jump for joy to get. I remember when I was young, ( I have a lot of these memories), we use to go to Long Island to the lighthouse on Montauk Point and I was in heaven. There was so much to see and do, but my parents who were born and raised in the general area were like.. big deal.. been there done that. I remember the first time I saw a REAL LIVE horseshoe crab! I was totally freaked out! I didn't know the things could move. Scared the bee-gee-bees out of me at the time, but it was awesome. Hmmm... maybe you need to take a NEW look at exactly what's around you and see what you can find and explore? :) Little things make me happy and some little things make me very happy. All most people have to do is look down and see what their feet just stepped on or over. The world is an amazing place and there are so many treasures that people just take for granted that are right there... just under your feet. Did you know that gold and diamonds can be found anywhere? Yes... even on that same old boring beach. :) I have rambled enough. lol

Harry

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Harry

< Is there any possible chance of me getting some of that sand? I do hope it's not an equivilent to our yellow snow though! LOL I am just kidding and I would love to get sand... Am I wierd? No... I love new and simple things. :) Ask yourself this... what's the odds of a man in Ohio going to an Aussie beach and walking on the best sand? Let me rephrase that... A poor Ohio man. lol Black sand, yellow sand, white sand, gray sand, green sand, and kind of sand that is somewhere I most likely won't be. :) BTW the green sand would most likely be from and area where lighting struck the ground... or where they tested the nukes in the desert and turned the sand to glass. I would really love to have some of that glass. They say it is very pretty. Now imagine... A man in Ohio tumbling that glass? :))

Harry My Ebay Auctions are at

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Harry

Hey, I could send you some Wales sand! Seriously, if you want just send your address!

Charlie.

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Charlie

It's black in Sorrento in Italy too, because of the volcanic activity.

Charlie.

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Charlie

That would be awesome! I would love to get some sand from there and maybe even some small, (pebbles), rocks? :) I will get my address to you right now.

Harry My Ebay Auctions are at

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Harry

Give me ideas, too.

Harry - your package arrived Wednesday, but I waited until my work deadline had passed and opening the package was the treat I used to reward myself for finishing my work. Lovely shells and glass. Look for a package from me in next week.

Thanks again for the trade...!

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

My hubby worked there for four summers.... He still doesn't like pineapple. He was one of those who "unjammed" the cases of cans on the conveyer belt-- frequently boxes would get smashed, and cans would burst, spraying him with juice; everybody on the bus KNEW where he worked (as if it wasn't about the only "summer job" available to high schoolers at the time...).

look great in Waikiki, but a day glo floral sarong isn't exactly coture here in conservative New England.

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Kaytee

< You are very welcome and I do thank you. I was sitting here last night going through some of my files and saw your address and was wondering if I sent you any. lol I tell you what... I wish I had the young mind I keep getting those memories from! I will be on the lookout for your package... just in case I forget, maybe you could remind me later. lol Just kidding.

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Harry

Your story brought back so many memories of my honeymoon trip spent in Maui. At the time we could only afford one week. Everyday we went to the beach and dh did body surfing and used his boogey board a lot while I watched from the beach.

We did the road to Hana the same way we do road trips here, no guides or books! We probably missed quite a bit but then again we may have seen a few things that aren't recommended. I mean really, where else can one find a bird sitting on a horse's rump? Everywhere you say? Well that just proves it, no matter where you go, there you are.

Someday we will be back there. Like you, we will bring more money, skip the laua or attend a different one and definitely go for more than a week. Need to visit the other islands for sure. I just hope that dh's godmother and her husband are still alive when we make it back so we can stay with them or borrow their home again while they're stateside.

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MargieK

pretty. Now

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melinda

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