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Zayre's! I'd forgotten them! We had them in the midwest too. And Kresge's.

Ys, I blame my mother for my coffee habit; she was always leaving half-full cups of cold coffee around the house that we'd sneak sips of and it was lovely, as she loaded hers w/cream and sugar back then. So of course I loved coffee ice cream. Imagine my shock the first time I tasted black coffee!

UM -- I don't *think* I'm using Mozilla. I'm using whatever it is that folks here recommended. The postings come through some European company (in Holland, I think). Then I downloaded stuff from Netscape

-- The Karen helped me with that part -- so that I could read the postings that come from the other company. I absolutely WILL NOT change -- nope, no way, no how! When it comes to all of that sort of 'puter drek, I am at a distinct disadvantage so I stick with what I know and am comfortable with. I tried some other free newsgroup providers and could not get them to work at all. I opted for the stuff I have because it's relatively inexpensive and I had help understanding what I was supposed to do to get stuff to work. Hells Bells, I think I am still using AOL 7.0 for cryin' out loud -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

And what are you sewing now ??? Ellice ???? mirjam with a measure tape on my neck,,,,

Netscape is a 'Mozilla' based program (like SeaMonkey and number of others).

I understand your reluctance to change - I only went to SeaMonkey when Netscape refused to work anymore (for some weird reason). All my settings, filters, saved messages, bookmarks and addresses came straight across with no problems. When you post in Netscape or SeaMonkey, you should see a list of newsgroups at the top (where the address goes when you send e-mail). Just delete the ones you don't want to send to.

MargW

Thanks Marg! I hadn't really noticed that stuff before :-). Now I can pay a bit more attention and make sure I don't cross post!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

Yup - it was a big deal going to J-M in downtown. My favorite dress in 6th grade came from them - and then I broke my arm the first time I wore it, and the nurse had me dress back in my school clothes (instead of my basketball uni) when mom came to get me, and well, by the time hours later I was in the hospital getting ready for surgery - they had to cut the dress off my arm.

My dad's company made the private label pharmaceuticals (soap, shampoo, conditioner, peroxide, etc) for Zayre's, and I think it must've been close to when they were going out of business because I remember the problems with them not paying huge bills. But, that was a great discount store - and I will confess, my mom and her friends found it really good for some of the women's stuff - if you looked. And really inexpensive. It was near the library that my friends and I went to after junior high, so we'd go to the library, and en-route, stop at the Zayres - there was a luncheonette - get cheap fries and a soda.....

J-M went out years back. I didn't realize Burdine's did - but I tend to think they must've just label changed as they were part of Federated, which is Macy's and IIRC they just name merged and finally became Macy's. Probably losing a bit of Florida flavor. That was my favorite dept store growing up. Big thing when DM took me to Burdine's to get some school shopping done - the one near us had an interesting dept "arcade" on a bridge between the original building and an extension. Oh, well - life and stores continue to evolve.

So, where did you live in FLA? The oddest thing here in VA, someone that I met via synagogue- her kids went to the same elementary school as me. I'm older than her kids by more than 10 years, but similarly younger than her. Weird.

ellice

Ellice

I am working on an art garment jacket done with the Laurel Birch mythical horses, and some sheers interspersed (for me). The base is a lovely hand-dyed purple cotton, and it's lined as a surprise in an oriental pattern. But the esterior is coming along - I got stalled for a while working the artsy design layout - but ended up with a layering thing. Also, just started a Salwar-Kamiz - (tunic and Indian pants) for a friend) with beaded trim on the tunic. And about to start a set of curtains that I'm doing with a strip pieced tieback set, and an inset thin border, with a wider outer border (3 fabrics).

And I don't want to talk about the yardage of gorgeous linen that I got during the G-street sale, and some lovely black & white cotton-poplin for a summer dress. The linen is going to be some pants/top sets (open jacket, and the other a vest). Had to buy a bunch of Vogue patterns during the going out of business sale at Hancocks.

In the queue - some light summer dresses - which are quick and I think I will get a couple done next week. 2 are for "clients", along with the Salwar-Kamiz. And one has to come for a fitting - I don't want to go further until I've adjusted her muslin.

Hope to have answered the question. And I'll try to manage the cross-posting. But, since Mirjam asked about sewing, I'm answering on the sweing groups!

ellice

The last few years before I left Miami, I lived in Coconut Grove. Over the years, I lived in a number of areas, even went to Edison Jr. Hi for a year, before being hauled back to Pittsburgh by my family. As soon as I finished high school and a year of business school, I lit out for Miami and never looked back. LOL!

It's so sad to see Miami on TV these days. It isn't the same place at all, and I don't think that it is necessarily better. Most of my family moved from Miami to the Orlando area over 20 years ago. My mother no sooner moved than was diagnosed with her terminal cancer, so she didn't get to enjoy it much. She and her sister bought new houses side by side. Her sister remained there for a long time, and now my cousin owns the house, and her daughter bought my step-father's house next door from the estate. My cousin lives in Fern Park - well, actually, they're all cousins - cousin, daughter of cousin is cousin, son of daughter of cousin is cousin -- families are confusing.

Pogonip wrote: Snip

"Cousins" covers a lot of ground. Pretty much the only time you need more specificity than that is in deciding whether or not to procreate with a "cousin", or if somebody needs a kidney.

spampot spun a FINE 'yarn':

My dog, Jasmine, also loves fruit. Well, that and any other thing she can get in her mouth! LOL! She jumps up and picks plums off our tree. A couple years ago I heard her barking in the back yard. She was sitting under our plum tree barking because she could see a plum

One word of caution, though. Grapes and raisins (and just a few!) can be toxic to dogs! I just found out about this recently. Here's a link to Snopes about it:

A dog with good taste. I don't like rhubarb either.

Lucille

Good thing, because the leaves are poisonous.

You can send your rhubarb to me. Wonder if any of the local farmers markets still have some? C

Rhubarb grows like a weed on Orkney, it's almost impossible to get rid of it once it starts growing in your garden. Unfortunately, although I like rhubarb this stuff is VERY bitter and needs pounds of sugar to make it palatable

I hear from my neighbor that the rhubarb is not doing at all well this year. It's been too dry.

Sue

I don't see it as much these days, love the stuff, the only one that eats it. C