Proposal and request for seconds

Sharon! What have I told you about disrespecting your elders. Harrumph.

Yeah, well this experience will make me more careful as I'm serging in the future, so that's a Good Thing.

Good, what are you now, 59?

Beverly

We're holding firm here. Usually DD only wears shorts about 1" or so above her knee. And prefers capris. "Seen too many folks with TOO MUCH fallin' out their shorts, Mom." LOL And DS wears shorts that are knee length. Sometimes, DD calls his shorts capri pants. Yeah that gets him going.

I could loan you mine, like library books, for a couple weeks. That way you would know if you could stand it or not.

Sharon

Do it as often as possible??? lol

Yeah, you better RLH. Now who's evil??? Don't you have some unmatched fabric that needs dealt with??? LOL

Off to make pizza dough....or at least stuff the ingredients in the bread machine. ;)

Sharon

Je suis une ange.

Love bread machines. Love, love, love. Have two at present, have worn out five or six before. Even have a recipe in a bread machine cookbook! LOL!

Splorf!

En français, c'est !!!

Beverly

I should have added "don't have teenagers FULL TIME any more". I love and adore my two DGC, and they are perfect children. ;-)

Thanks ever so much! Actually, I have ready access to a pair of teens, and I'm able to return them if/when I am through with them. (Aaak, writing that, I realized my DGS will be no-longer-a-teenager next June. My how time flies when you're having fun!)

Beverly

Now, see here, Missy, don't you be gettin' sassy with your betters.!

Today was a non-sewing day, I'm having the family here on the 4th, and I needed to do a whole bunch of outdoor preparation. Mowed the lawns, pruned some shrubs, washed down the deck and all the outdoor furniture.... whew!

I'm hoping to get back to the sewing room tomorrow, the silk jacket is about 2/3 done, I need to take fabric in to have covered buttons made (they'll match the CF of course).

FUN! My older DD makes scratch pizza every weekend and her family has a home-movie night (alternating choice on what movie to watch or rent) and pizza. I think it's a lovely tradition, bet her kids remember those special evenings always.

Beverly

"Pogonip" wrote

I used to love making bread, but I thought at least half the enjoyment was the kneading, punching, rolling, shaping, etc. Of course, I didn't make it three times a week....

Congratulations. Self published?

Beverly

$109.85 for a bread cookbook!!!??? Wow, what's it bound with gold leaf?

I have James Beard's "Beard on Bread", hardbound, I'm pretty sure it cost nowhere near that amount.

Oops, I'm wrong, one seller has it listed for $249.95.

Beverly

I've got most of her bread cookbooks and a few other Nitty Grittys. She used to have a newsletter that was good. But that's going back 15 years or so now. I was tickled to see one of the reviews referred to "my" recipe specifically. That was my "year of publication." I had a machine knitting pattern published in the U.S. machine knitting magazine that year, too.

Author! Author! May I have your autograph, Ma'am? ;->

Beverly

Yes, of course, though I am the minor author in the house, you understand.

I am now on my 3rd one bread machine, this time an Oster, and I loved all of them. I've always baked all my bread, pastries, etc; then one day, my DB introduced me to a bread machine and I was smitten.

Nothing better to to serve than hot, home-baked bread to family & friends; or to give a neighbor or someone ill a loaf. Emily

Yes, I know, I still have three of your DH's books on my nightstand. They seem sooooo dark, I haven't been able to make myself read them.

Beverly

Yeahbut, don't you kind of miss the whole process?

Beverly

I didn't get one for Mother's Day as requested, so I will buy my own this weekend. Then I'll read all next week while DS is out of town, after I finish the stuffed dolls I am making for the baby DGD. Now that she is almost 7-months old, she "needs" some dolls. Emily

Yes, I use to feel nostalgic ever so often; then I'd make a loaf of plain wheat for us; but over time, I don't feel that way very often.

Emily