Cop Car's Beat

Progress!

Two pieces of fancy work are in the laundry room, awaiting their turn in the washing machine and dryer.  My block for Cowtown Pattie's blogger friends quilt is complete.  Obviously, embroidered work gets handled so much that it needs to be washed prior to incorporation into a quilt top (the fabric had already been pre-washed!)  Yesterday, I completed the hand-sewing on the binding of the Beginning Project that I made in Beginning Quilting class.  It feels good to get those two projects off of my plate, and I think that they both look pretty good--for a beginner!!  Hunky Husband has agreed to take photos of the two pieces--after they are washed and ironed--and when he has time (this is his last day volunteering at the Wichita Open Golf Tournament.)  Now, I have six knit tops draped over the bannister, to be taken to the sewing room in the basement for shortening.  I don't know why they think that women's tops need to be so danged long.  (Don't tell me that, at 5' 5", I'm short.  That's a cardinal sin--lol!)  Then, I need to make my aunt an apron.  Then, I get to start on a lap quilt for Pop S--which I want to complete by the time we go see him in a few weeks.

July 31, 2005 at 10:10 AM

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I can't wait! This weekend Kman and I went to Santa Anna to pick up some furniture from his late uncle's house, and one thing big on my wishlist was the late aunt's Singer Slant-O-Matic sewing machine. I know it is old but it does amazing stuff, or it will when I figure out all the gizmos on it. Just the ticket for my quilt!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 31, 2005 at 09:01 PM

It's great that you're getting a machine that pleases you, Pattie, but I don't know what a Slant-O-Matic is. Would you care to educate me a bit, please? (The block is packaged and ready for mailing. I'll run it to the P.O. in the morning.)

Posted by: Cop Car | August 01, 2005 at 10:54 PM

Cop Car, I don't think that 5 ft 5" is short at all. I'm 5 ft 4 an average height for women. However it is odd how many shops seem to cater for tall men not average height women. Supermarkets, bookshops... don't get me on the subject.

Posted by: Adele | August 02, 2005 at 03:59 AM

I suspect that most store merchandise displays are designed by men--who do it for men (or, at least, from their own perspectives). For my generation of American women, my height is exactly average--as was my mother's height of 5' 2" for her generation. Dudette and Bogie are about average for their generation (I believe that they are about 5' 7.5" and 5' 6.5"). I think that Wonderful Granddaughter is a bit above average height for her generation (think she is 5' 9" or 5' 10".)

Hunky Husband loves to tease me about being short, but I towered over the women in his family. His mother and one sister were under 5' tall and the other sister was only 5' 2" (she told everyone that she was 5' 3", because that was the minimum height for an airline stewardess of the day and that was what she became--flying on flights between the USA and Europe.)

Posted by: Cop Car | August 02, 2005 at 08:57 AM

Cop Car, At 5 ft 3 ins I tower over virtually every member of my parent's generation I can't remember how tall my father was but he couldn't have been much taller than 5 ft 7 ins. I was certainly taller than all my (now deceased) aunt and uncles. I have no birth offspring to compare heights with now, though.

Posted by: Adele | August 03, 2005 at 01:05 PM

Err - I'm between 5 st 4 3 ins and 5 ft 4 - if you wondered what the discrepancy was.

Posted by: Adele | August 03, 2005 at 01:06 PM

Adele--I'm assuming that, without typo, you are between 5' 3" and 5' 4" tall. As to the men, Hunky Husband, at 5' 11.5" tall is shorter than any of the men in my family--except for an uncle who had been affected by the measles that my grandmother had while pregnant with him. (I think that he was 5' 2" tall--but his height was the least of his problems!) While I towered over HH's sisters, my brothers tower over HH--by all of 2 or 3 inches!

All of the women in our family were taller than my mother--and her sisters were taller than I am (about the same as Bogie and Dudette). Mom's and Dad's siblings were also thin (Mom's surviving sister weighs about 100-110#, when she's well.)

Posted by: Cop Car | August 03, 2005 at 11:16 PM

Two pieces of fancy work are in the laundry room, awaiting their turn in the washing machine and dryer.  My block for Cowtown Pattie's blogger friends quilt is complete.  Obviously, embroidered work gets handled so much that it needs to be washed prior to incorporation into a quilt top (the fabric had already been pre-washed!)  Yesterday, I completed the hand-sewing on the binding of the Beginning Project that I made in Beginning Quilting class.  It feels good to get those two projects off of my plate, and I think that they both look pretty good--for a beginner!!  Hunky Husband has agreed to take photos of the two pieces--after they are washed and ironed--and when he has time (this is his last day volunteering at the Wichita Open Golf Tournament.)  Now, I have six knit tops draped over the bannister, to be taken to the sewing room in the basement for shortening.  I don't know why they think that women's tops need to be so danged long.  (Don't tell me that, at 5' 5", I'm short.  That's a cardinal sin--lol!)  Then, I need to make my aunt an apron.  Then, I get to start on a lap quilt for Pop S--which I want to complete by the time we go see him in a few weeks.

(It's a Matter of) Perspective

The other day, it occurred to me that I had not yet heard from the insurance company to whom I had eight weeks previously submitted a claim for reimbursement of prescription medication expenses.  The claim covered the last six months of 2004, and I had expected to be reimbursed for one-half of my expenses.  The first thing that I did was to dig out the photocopy of the form that I had sent in.  On the form is an 800 telephone number, which I called.  I got an automatic response menu.  Amazingly enough (and I'm not sure that Hunky Husband believed my story), the menu was short, concise, and understandable.  In under two minutes, I was off of the telephone knowing that I would not be receiving a refund--the amount that I had expected them to pay me (and the automated voice gave the amount) had been applied to my deductible for 2004. 

My prescription insurance coverage is part of the Medigap insurance that I took out when I retired--through Hunky Husband's former employer (I think that we pay $200/month for MediGap insurance for the two of us--and it includes prescription medication.) When I asked to see the information on his policy, Hunky Husband didn't know where it was; thus, I hadn't been able to learn just what coverage I have. I guess I'll just have to assume that the insurance company knows the amount of deductible that I am required to pay.  I was a bit downcast at not getting the reimbursement--it's always nice to think that I have money coming.  Then I got to thinking about the amount of reimbursement that I had expected.  It equaled about one-half of the amount that I had spent at the quilting fabric sale last Saturday.  This means that, if I skip just two shopping trips to fabric stores [Bad math, bad math--one trip!], I can totally pay for my prescription medication for the year.  That rather puts things into perspective, doesn't it?  Put that way, I don't mind at all.

July 28, 2005 at 07:35 PM

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I don't know...... Skipping TWO trips to the fabric store could cause serious health problems....

Posted by: buffy | July 29, 2005 at 07:09 PM

You might check to see if you can get the insurance info on-line. I know that our dental insurance has the deductible and insurance payment schedule on-line.

It is amazing how different circumstances will look under different lighting!

Posted by: bogie | July 31, 2005 at 05:49 AM

Bogie--Thanks for the idea. I no longer try to get into websites connected with your dad. He has to input a password for me and it just isn't worth the hassle. I took/take care of everything having to do with the Little Airplane Company, but he'll just have to worry about anything to do with the Big Bomber Store. (You don't have a problem because WS isn't online!)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 31, 2005 at 09:55 AM

The other day, it occurred to me that I had not yet heard from the insurance company to whom I had eight weeks previously submitted a claim for reimbursement of prescription medication expenses.  The claim covered the last six months of 2004, and I had expected to be reimbursed for one-half of my expenses.  The first thing that I did was to dig out the photocopy of the form that I had sent in.  On the form is an 800 telephone number, which I called.  I got an automatic response menu.  Amazingly enough (and I'm not sure that Hunky Husband believed my story), the menu was short, concise, and understandable.  In under two minutes, I was off of the telephone knowing that I would not be receiving a refund--the amount that I had expected them to pay me (and the automated voice gave the amount) had been applied to my deductible for 2004. 

My prescription insurance coverage is part of the Medigap insurance that I took out when I retired--through Hunky Husband's former employer (I think that we pay $200/month for MediGap insurance for the two of us--and it includes prescription medication.) When I asked to see the information on his policy, Hunky Husband didn't know where it was; thus, I hadn't been able to learn just what coverage I have. I guess I'll just have to assume that the insurance company knows the amount of deductible that I am required to pay.  I was a bit downcast at not getting the reimbursement--it's always nice to think that I have money coming.  Then I got to thinking about the amount of reimbursement that I had expected.  It equaled about one-half of the amount that I had spent at the quilting fabric sale last Saturday.  This means that, if I skip just two shopping trips to fabric stores [Bad math, bad math--one trip!], I can totally pay for my prescription medication for the year.  That rather puts things into perspective, doesn't it?  Put that way, I don't mind at all.

Misuse of the Day 2 (Pet Peeve #0.1)

The following text appeared in yesterday's local newspaper (I've lifted from their web site and added italics):

BY RYAN DOOM / Eagle correspondent
Event mixes classic, new rock with country Beneath the basking sun and in sweltering temperatures, fans from around the state gathered for the 2005 Wheatland Jam on Friday. The second day of the three-day event at Lake Afton Park brought crisp blue skies, gentle winds and thousands yearning for rock.
Saturday, July 23, 2005 (Kansas.com)

Would someone please tell me in what it is that the sun basks?  I have sent the newspaper an email with the suggestion that, "Use of a verb as an adjective is to be discouraged."  (Perhaps I should have noted that, in this case, "basking" is not part of a gerund.)

July 24, 2005 at 11:07 AM

 

 

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Ha! Makes the sun sound benevolent, which is certainly not the case here in Texas in July.

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 24, 2005 at 02:56 PM

There are basking sharks, why not basking suns?

Of course basking sharks are probably called that for their habit of cruising at the top of the water, on their backs, like they are basking in the sun.

Posted by: bogie | July 26, 2005 at 03:08 AM

Bogie--Oh, fine...now you are twitting your mother! Gee. I never heard of a "basking shark". However, "basking shark" is listed in my dictionary--the two words forming a compound noun. Thus, even though it looks like one, "basking" is not an adjective in this use. (And, I still want to know what the sun is basking in!!!)

Now, I don't know about you; but, when I was in school, I don't recall being taught about compound nouns. They are something that I learned about at the Little Airplane Company (LAC), as a member of the "Word Committee". In order to assure proper interpretation of aircraft operation and maintenance instructions, the LAC uses a structured language called "Simplified English" that was promulgated by an international aerospace consortium. The consortium puts out a basic dictionary of Simplified English and the LAC "Word Committee" is charged with constructing and maintaining an adjunct to the dictionary that addresses terms peculiar to the LAC's needs.

In Simplified English, only words that are in the Simplified English dictionary are approved for use in LAC technical publications that go to the customer/airplane operator. (For instance, "may" can not be used in any sense!) Furthermore, each word that is listed can only be used as the part(s) of speech given and to mean only that which is defined.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 26, 2005 at 07:24 PM

Remind me to ban you from reading my blog. I no longer remember the rules of grammer and cringe at the idea of having someone who KNOWS them read what I write!

Posted by: buffy | July 29, 2005 at 07:16 PM

I didn't say that I know the rules of grammar, Buffy; but, I know how to fake it!!! (And I am fearless. Someday, someone who really does know the rules of grammar will bash, thrash, and destroy me. Which fate I shall abundantly deserve.)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 29, 2005 at 07:28 PM

The following text appeared in yesterday's local newspaper (I've lifted from their web site and added italics):

BY RYAN DOOM / Eagle correspondent
Event mixes classic, new rock with country Beneath the basking sun and in sweltering temperatures, fans from around the state gathered for the 2005 Wheatland Jam on Friday. The second day of the three-day event at Lake Afton Park brought crisp blue skies, gentle winds and thousands yearning for rock.
Saturday, July 23, 2005 (Kansas.com)

Would someone please tell me in what it is that the sun basks?  I have sent the newspaper an email with the suggestion that, "Use of a verb as an adjective is to be discouraged."  (Perhaps I should have noted that, in this case, "basking" is not part of a gerund.)

The Week is Nearly Over!

The week has been a hectic one, for me.  Hunky Husband is in Texas.

It is getting to the point where 10-15 of the residents at the nursing home recognize me.  This means that they want me to spend a little time with them, for which I don't blame them, but it adds to my duty cycle.  Tuesday, I arranged to have lunch with the residents.  As it happened, one of the residents who normally sits at the table with some of the most functional residents, went out for lunch, so I was able to sit in her usual place.  Of the five other women at the table, I knew three from previous interactions.  They discussed politics and political issues and were really knowledgable of current affairs (more so than the younger people with whom I had worked at the Little Airplane Company).  The dietitian/food services director, who had been the one who encouraged me to have meals at the home, caught me as I was leaving the dining area.  She was a bit anxious about my opinion of the meal--saying that I had chosen to eat on one of their less-favorable days.  We had (home grown) fresh, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers before the meal of Salisbury steak with gravy, baked potato (with separate container of sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese), stewed tomatoes, milk, and fresh strawberry shortcake.  The meal was tasty, healthful (low salt), and abundant (driven by government requirements as to servings of protein that must be provided, et cetera).  I plan to eat dinner and breakfast with the residents, as well as, to try lunch (their largest meal of the day) on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday when they normally include a salad bar.  I plan to take a meal with the residents at least once each month.

The embroidery on the quilt block for Cowtown Pattie is nearing completion.  I am to the stage where I'm just making French knot after French knot--the brown center of the sunflower.  That is a good thing.  I'm anxious to see how the completed block looks--and--Pattie should be even more anxious (or, perhaps concerned is the operative word).  Poor Pattie is dependent upon the abilities and judgments of her blog friends in making her quilt.  Pattie did, at least, set a standard by posting her first two blocks.  They are beautiful!  Just remember that some of us aren't that talented, Pattie!!

I broke a vow, today.  I had vowed not to purchase quilting fabrics until I had a project in mind on which to use them.  Our local quilting shop had a sale on their Christmas fabrics, today.  Don't ask how much I spent!!

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It'a sin not to take advantage of a sale, so don't feel quilty.

Posted by: Susan | July 23, 2005 at 05:25 PM

I can't wait for the sunflower block! I am sure it will be lovely. Best part is someone cared enough to hand stitch something for me!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 23, 2005 at 08:27 PM

Received the box of fabric on Friday. I was puzzled at first, then my memory kicked in. Karen came by yesterday afternoon and was thrilled to get it!

Posted by: bogie | July 24, 2005 at 04:51 AM

Sorry, Bogie. I kept intending to send you a "heads up" email. It eventually slipped my mind, entirely. Hope Karen can make good use of those fabrics.

Most of the fabrics came from the estate sale of a friend who died 12-18 months ago. We had worked together back in the period 1975-1981. I meant to include a note that most (all?) of the fabrics had been washed. Not sure that I did.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 24, 2005 at 10:47 AM

Well, Pattie, I'm a bit disappointed in the way the quilt block is turning out (for reasons that I shan't go into, here). However, you can rest assured that, in this case, it's the thought that counts! BTW: I don't know how to embroider by machine. Heck! I don't know how to embroider, at all; but I'm trying. This is only the third embroidered item that I've ever finished (if I finish the kitty cat tea towel for our granddaughter, it will be Item 4.) I did a couple of tea towels a few months ago--butterflies that turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself! (Perhaps I should have pretended that Kansas is the butterfly state instead of the sunflower state--lol.)

Please understand that I didn't do any "fancy work" (as my mother called it) until after I retired, a year ago. Buffy has been a horrid influence on me. She has infected me with a quilting bug! (I denounce Buffy--with great affection!) In addition, I seem to be doing the things that my mother enjoyed doing--including embroidering. This does not betide good things for Bogie and Dudette, does it?

Posted by: Cop Car | July 24, 2005 at 06:24 PM

Thanks for the nice comments about Pattie's first two quilt blocks. Let me point out that Tricia did both mine and hers. You probably guessed that but I want to make sure credit gets applied where it is due. Also it is only fair for me to tell you that she does them on a machine.

Posted by: bill | July 24, 2005 at 06:36 PM

Thanks for checking in, Bill. I've known so many men who do needlework that I don't normally jump to conclusions concerning who did what. (I still have an embroidered scene of a farm that my elder brother did as a pre-teen!) The designs of your and Tricia's blocks are wonderful and I should probably do my embroidery by machine, if I knew how!

Posted by: Cop Car | July 24, 2005 at 07:19 PM

It is a good thing that you are only eating at the home once a month. With that kind of food you could easily put on weight!

Strwberry Shortcake, yum.

Millie

Posted by: Millie Garfield | July 24, 2005 at 10:31 PM

I stand denounced, and am delighted that you couldn't resist that sale! *G*

It sounds like you're doing a great job with the long term care ombudsman work.

Posted by: buffy | July 29, 2005 at 07:23 PM

The week has been a hectic one, for me.  Hunky Husband is in Texas.

It is getting to the point where 10-15 of the residents at the nursing home recognize me.  This means that they want me to spend a little time with them, for which I don't blame them, but it adds to my duty cycle.  Tuesday, I arranged to have lunch with the residents.  As it happened, one of the residents who normally sits at the table with some of the most functional residents, went out for lunch, so I was able to sit in her usual place.  Of the five other women at the table, I knew three from previous interactions.  They discussed politics and political issues and were really knowledgable of current affairs (more so than the younger people with whom I had worked at the Little Airplane Company).  The dietitian/food services director, who had been the one who encouraged me to have meals at the home, caught me as I was leaving the dining area.  She was a bit anxious about my opinion of the meal--saying that I had chosen to eat on one of their less-favorable days.  We had (home grown) fresh, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers before the meal of Salisbury steak with gravy, baked potato (with separate container of sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese), stewed tomatoes, milk, and fresh strawberry shortcake.  The meal was tasty, healthful (low salt), and abundant (driven by government requirements as to servings of protein that must be provided, et cetera).  I plan to eat dinner and breakfast with the residents, as well as, to try lunch (their largest meal of the day) on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday when they normally include a salad bar.  I plan to take a meal with the residents at least once each month.

The embroidery on the quilt block for Cowtown Pattie is nearing completion.  I am to the stage where I'm just making French knot after French knot--the brown center of the sunflower.  That is a good thing.  I'm anxious to see how the completed block looks--and--Pattie should be even more anxious (or, perhaps concerned is the operative word).  Poor Pattie is dependent upon the abilities and judgments of her blog friends in making her quilt.  Pattie did, at least, set a standard by posting her first two blocks.  They are beautiful!  Just remember that some of us aren't that talented, Pattie!!

I broke a vow, today.  I had vowed not to purchase quilting fabrics until I had a project in mind on which to use them.  Our local quilting shop had a sale on their Christmas fabrics, today.  Don't ask how much I spent!!

Link and Stitch

Adele had asked about memes, and I answered her in a comment--which doesn't allow insertion of links; thus, I insert the link, here.  Wikipedia entry on memes

Stitchery abounds, around here.  If I raise my eyes from the screen, I see four projects in various stages of completion.  1)  My Beginning Piece of quilting lays there with the last square that is to be hand quilted encircled by a quilting hoop.  Another 30 minutes of hand stitching will complete the last of the four 9-inch squares that are hand quilted in the double nine-patch design.  As my right hand suffers in doing hand stitching, I am quilting the outline of a butterfly's wings--omitting the thorax, head, antennae, and detail of the wings.  [Completed hand quilting 7/18/2005]

2)  The center of the square that I am making for Cowtown Pattie's Blogger Friends Quilt lays there, held taut by a small embroidery hoop.  The fabric is Moda's Heart and Soul (white, swirling hearts on a cream background).  The design that I am embroidering on it is a large sunflower head (I am in Kansas, am I not?), with three leaves and a stem.  There are a couple of shades of green and a couple of shades of yellow embroidery floss that I need to pick up in order to provide appropriate shading.  [Picked up embroidery floss 7/18/2005] The petals and leaves will be in long-and-short stitches, the seeds will be French knots (if I can figure out how to make them--again!), and the stem will be satin stitch.  I have done some portions of the leaves in a muted green.  There are probably 10 hours of work left. 

3)  A tea towel for Wonderful Granddaughter is laying there with the kitty's head design encircled by a small embroidery hoop.  Having started this several months ago, not much progress is being made.  It isn't looking as good as I wanted by using outline stitching, so I shall probably end up doing the kitty's head in long-and-short stitching.  It will probably require 5-10 hours of work to make it please me.

4)  A knitted poncho is laying there on the circular needle.  This, I've been actively working on for at least two or three months.  I think that it will be finished within another 10 days.  It takes a long time because I can only do 1/2-circle of knitting at a time.  The poncho will be too small for me (I have a gage problem), but it should fit somebody! 

Because of my hand, I work on one of these projects for 10-20 minutes, then do something else for at least an hour before picking the project (or another project) up, again.  Soon, I shall have Project Pop in process.  I am ready to start cutting strips to make Dad S a lap quilt, for when he sits in his wheelchair.  I'm still twiddling about with the design, but the quilt will look something like this.  (First, the obverse, then the reverse.)  I am intentionally making the quilt quite bright (it didn't start out to be quite this bright!)  As we age, we must guard against depression, and colors can be a big help!

[Updated Reverse design 7/18/2005]

July 17, 2005 at 03:28 PM

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The square sounds very pretty - the sunflower is one of my favorite flowers, too!

Thank you so much for being a part of my project.

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 17, 2005 at 09:52 PM

Pattie--'Tis my pleasure to participate. I hope that my block comes out nearly as well in person as it looks in my mind. After seeing your first two blocks, I re-thought my approach--and--I think that the sunflower is a better idea than what I had had in mind. We shall see.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 17, 2005 at 10:13 PM

Adele had asked about memes, and I answered her in a comment--which doesn't allow insertion of links; thus, I insert the link, here.  Wikipedia entry on memes

Stitchery abounds, around here.  If I raise my eyes from the screen, I see four projects in various stages of completion.  1)  My Beginning Piece of quilting lays there with the last square that is to be hand quilted encircled by a quilting hoop.  Another 30 minutes of hand stitching will complete the last of the four 9-inch squares that are hand quilted in the double nine-patch design.  As my right hand suffers in doing hand stitching, I am quilting the outline of a butterfly's wings--omitting the thorax, head, antennae, and detail of the wings.  [Completed hand quilting 7/18/2005]

2)  The center of the square that I am making for Cowtown Pattie's Blogger Friends Quilt lays there, held taut by a small embroidery hoop.  The fabric is Moda's Heart and Soul (white, swirling hearts on a cream background).  The design that I am embroidering on it is a large sunflower head (I am in Kansas, am I not?), with three leaves and a stem.  There are a couple of shades of green and a couple of shades of yellow embroidery floss that I need to pick up in order to provide appropriate shading.  [Picked up embroidery floss 7/18/2005] The petals and leaves will be in long-and-short stitches, the seeds will be French knots (if I can figure out how to make them--again!), and the stem will be satin stitch.  I have done some portions of the leaves in a muted green.  There are probably 10 hours of work left. 

3)  A tea towel for Wonderful Granddaughter is laying there with the kitty's head design encircled by a small embroidery hoop.  Having started this several months ago, not much progress is being made.  It isn't looking as good as I wanted by using outline stitching, so I shall probably end up doing the kitty's head in long-and-short stitching.  It will probably require 5-10 hours of work to make it please me.

4)  A knitted poncho is laying there on the circular needle.  This, I've been actively working on for at least two or three months.  I think that it will be finished within another 10 days.  It takes a long time because I can only do 1/2-circle of knitting at a time.  The poncho will be too small for me (I have a gage problem), but it should fit somebody! 

Because of my hand, I work on one of these projects for 10-20 minutes, then do something else for at least an hour before picking the project (or another project) up, again.  Soon, I shall have Project Pop in process.  I am ready to start cutting strips to make Dad S a lap quilt, for when he sits in his wheelchair.  I'm still twiddling about with the design, but the quilt will look something like this.  (First, the obverse, then the reverse.)  I am intentionally making the quilt quite bright (it didn't start out to be quite this bright!)  As we age, we must guard against depression, and colors can be a big help!

[Updated Reverse design 7/18/2005]

Crazy Meme

From Bogie, this is a fill-in-the-blank meme. The form can be found here for anyone who is interested.

"Have you ever had one of those days? You know where you just want to wash a kitten? Sometimes, you just want to grab your briefcase and just run? I had one of those day some time ago. See, I was just talking to Hunky Husband on the computer when I got a knock on the door. It turned out to be a sliderule. I really wasn't in the mood to be bothered. I asked them what they wanted, when they said, "Easy come, easy go." I looked at them and said, "What am I doing here?" Well, you should have seen the look on their face! They got really quilting and tried to grab me by my elbow. The Kid wasn't havin' that, though! I grabbed their waist, then I proceeded to put my freckle in their hair! While I was doing that, Maria showed up and asked was everything ok. I said that I was trying to handle this. Pattie asked could they join in and I said, "heck yeah!" Soon, they pulled out a egg beater and began to bake the bad guy over the head! Then, Millie, and nobody else showed up and they began to drown the guy! After twenty minutes of that, we got bored with the whole thing and had a nice, tall glass of waltz. (Which is enough to drive one to drink!) You know, when you have bad days, it's good to know that you have friends who stick by you."

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What you get when you don't start reading from the top...

I was momentarily panicked...my friend had lost it, totally lost it. Then, I see. It's a meme!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 16, 2005 at 08:42 AM

Pattie--Did you notice that you got tagged in this meme?

BTW: I totally lost it years and years ago. Just ask anyone in my family.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 16, 2005 at 09:50 PM

Err... exactly what IS a Meme? When I nicked the one on Buffy's blog I just did a Copy and Paste job and then changed it to what I had to say. Do I assume that there was another way of doing it?

Posted by: Adele | July 17, 2005 at 02:04 PM

Adele--I think it was Ronni Bennett who explained in her blog about memes (rhymes with genes).

Wikipedia addresses the term at this address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memes.

There is an old party game in which each participant is provided a piece of paper. Without being told that a story will emerge from use of the words being written, each person is instructed to write a certain type of word or phrase on the paper. S/he folds the paper (to obscure what s/he has written), and passes the paper to the next participant. The process is repeated. After enough words have accumulated on each piece of paper, the host/hostess reads the "story", and the words that have accumulated on one piece of paper are used to fill in the blanks. The instructions that lead to the words and phrases are engineered to produce hilarious stories and the stories that emerge from the various accumulations of words are usually wildly divergent.

And, yes, had you clicked on the link at the top of the posting, you would have gone to a site where you would have been given instructions consistent with the old party game. When you had finished inserting words into the blanks, the software would have assembled the story, using your words, and would have provided the story in HTML. You might then have copied the HTML of the story to paste into your own blog.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 17, 2005 at 03:03 PM

From Bogie, this is a fill-in-the-blank meme. The form can be found here for anyone who is interested.

"Have you ever had one of those days? You know where you just want to wash a kitten? Sometimes, you just want to grab your briefcase and just run? I had one of those day some time ago. See, I was just talking to Hunky Husband on the computer when I got a knock on the door. It turned out to be a sliderule. I really wasn't in the mood to be bothered. I asked them what they wanted, when they said, "Easy come, easy go." I looked at them and said, "What am I doing here?" Well, you should have seen the look on their face! They got really quilting and tried to grab me by my elbow. The Kid wasn't havin' that, though! I grabbed their waist, then I proceeded to put my freckle in their hair! While I was doing that, Maria showed up and asked was everything ok. I said that I was trying to handle this. Pattie asked could they join in and I said, "heck yeah!" Soon, they pulled out a egg beater and began to bake the bad guy over the head! Then, Millie, and nobody else showed up and they began to drown the guy! After twenty minutes of that, we got bored with the whole thing and had a nice, tall glass of waltz. (Which is enough to drive one to drink!) You know, when you have bad days, it's good to know that you have friends who stick by you."

Emergency Contact Number(s)

Because it makes such good sense, and because it might help some of us in in emergency, I am lifting a posting from Val on an important initiative.  Although her important message is all here, I urge you to visit Val's blog.  I enjoy reading her postings, very much!  (She and Billy provide me my English connections.)  All that follows is Val's.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I.C.E.

I have seen the following several times on the Net and think it could be a sensible thing to do. Just doing my bit to disseminate the information:

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign withthe support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston.The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted"In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

posted by Val @ Wednesday, July 13, 2005   1 comments

July 13, 2005 at 08:23 AM

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Just to say that after I added that message to my blog I added an I C E to my own mobile phone. It took one minute. And it could help if there is an emergency.

from Val

Posted by: Val | July 13, 2005 at 11:02 AM

What a GREAT suggestion! I carry a cell phone when I travel. If there was an emergency, it would be a great way to let them know who to call.

Just in case the invasion of privacy issue should arise, I may tape the number to the back of the phone, too!

Posted by: buffy | July 13, 2005 at 04:05 PM

Since I don't use a mobile/cell phone, I input four ICEs in my iPAQ--as Contacts. I guess that I should tattoo a number on my forehead since people are reluctant to look into one's handbag. (I learned that by leaving my handbag at breakfast one morning. The friend who had sat next to me, eventually, noticed that the handbag was hanging on the chair--but--he wouldn't open it to see whose it was. He had the cashier check inside the handbag for its owner, for him!)

Buffy: Please click on the Hints for the Reader that is listed in the Other Links--in the right hand sidebar. Then, please see Cop Car's Statue #4.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 13, 2005 at 05:09 PM

Because it makes such good sense, and because it might help some of us in in emergency, I am lifting a posting from Val on an important initiative.  Although her important message is all here, I urge you to visit Val's blog.  I enjoy reading her postings, very much!  (She and Billy provide me my English connections.)  All that follows is Val's.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I.C.E.

I have seen the following several times on the Net and think it could be a sensible thing to do. Just doing my bit to disseminate the information:

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign withthe support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston.The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted"In Case of Emergency". In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

posted by Val @ Wednesday, July 13, 2005   1 comments

Randy (Proper Noun)

Over at Silver Fox Whispers, Maria has a piece Time Out for  a Smile or Laugh in which she regales us with tales from her teaching days.  (It's well worth the time to go read the posting!)  One of her tales reminded me of the early 1980s, when I lived in Florida and worked on the Rapid Runway Repair Program as an employee of a contractor to USAF.  There was much travel involved.  Any two weeks during which I did no traveling was unusual.  Most of my travels included fellow-travelers from USAF--usually one or the other of two young USAF Captains.  Each Captain was a good person with whom to work, and they were about 10 years my junior, so they treated me (at least during working hours) with a certain amount of decorum--as befits any gentleman in the South.  One of the Captains, however, delighted in seeing how he could discomfit me during our travels.  Randy's attempts at discomfiting me sometimes leaned toward the naughty--his attempts being aided by his being a 6' 3", golden-haired, blue-eyed Adonis, with dimpled smile.

On one trip to Edwards AFB, as we were checking into the motel, Randy put on a show for the desk clerk by turning to me to complain that he, "...thought we were getting just one room, as usual!" We drove up to the Stallion Springs Lodge, near Tehachapi, for dinner-- during which he put on a show for the waiter.  As the waiter approached our table during the meal, Randy looked at me with shock on his face and said, "This is a bad time to be talking about your husband!"  The only "correct" reply to such prompting is, "But...he is your father!"  Unfortunately, the correct reply didn't occur to me in time to be of use.  Drat! 

BTW:  on a trip to (then) McDonald-Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis, Randy charmed the socks off of HH's Sister when we all got together for dinner at a restaurant.  HH's Sister charmed the other Captain, David.  During one of our trips to St. Louis, she fed us all dinner at her house!  David was particularly impressed with the classical music that played during the meal, and her choice of wines.  (Obviously, HH's Sister's family is a lot classier than ours!  HH and I depend upon Dudette for the wine lore.  Dudette works in the industry.)

July 11, 2005 at 10:09 AM

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So, what happened to Adonis? You can't just leave us hangin' like that!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | July 11, 2005 at 08:15 PM

Thanks for the comment about my teaching tale. I loved your story. Traveling with that guy must have kept you on your toes. Again thanks for mentioning my post and site.

Posted by: Maria | July 11, 2005 at 08:35 PM

Pattie--When I left that assignment (1983--moved to Albuquerque), Randy and David were still assigned to the Engineering and Services Center at Tyndall AFB, and were still single. I don't recall hearing anything about either of them after I left. We didn't have email in those days, I don't "do" telephone calls, and I don't write letters. Maybe I'll Google the guys.

Maria--Yes, all of the USAF people (including the Civil Service folks), not to mention the "kids" on my staff (the eldest was 26--until I hired a retired USAF Colonel to take over the non-technical management functions of my job when I left, that is), kept me on my toes. They were all a super bunch. Had the job been located outside the hot, muggy south, I would have stayed longer; but, two years had been my commitment to staying in Florida, and I left on schedule.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 12, 2005 at 09:28 AM

I have spent a lifetime not coming up with the "correct reply" until the next day...

Posted by: Ronni Bennett | July 13, 2005 at 06:07 AM

I am like Ronnie, never remembering the apposite comment until too late. Nice to know I'm not the only person that happens to ~grin~

Posted by: Adele | July 13, 2005 at 10:44 AM

That would have been a great comeback!

Posted by: bogie | July 15, 2005 at 08:31 AM

Over at Silver Fox Whispers, Maria has a piece Time Out for  a Smile or Laugh in which she regales us with tales from her teaching days.  (It's well worth the time to go read the posting!)  One of her tales reminded me of the early 1980s, when I lived in Florida and worked on the Rapid Runway Repair Program as an employee of a contractor to USAF.  There was much travel involved.  Any two weeks during which I did no traveling was unusual.  Most of my travels included fellow-travelers from USAF--usually one or the other of two young USAF Captains.  Each Captain was a good person with whom to work, and they were about 10 years my junior, so they treated me (at least during working hours) with a certain amount of decorum--as befits any gentleman in the South.  One of the Captains, however, delighted in seeing how he could discomfit me during our travels.  Randy's attempts at discomfiting me sometimes leaned toward the naughty--his attempts being aided by his being a 6' 3", golden-haired, blue-eyed Adonis, with dimpled smile.

On one trip to Edwards AFB, as we were checking into the motel, Randy put on a show for the desk clerk by turning to me to complain that he, "...thought we were getting just one room, as usual!" We drove up to the Stallion Springs Lodge, near Tehachapi, for dinner-- during which he put on a show for the waiter.  As the waiter approached our table during the meal, Randy looked at me with shock on his face and said, "This is a bad time to be talking about your husband!"  The only "correct" reply to such prompting is, "But...he is your father!"  Unfortunately, the correct reply didn't occur to me in time to be of use.  Drat! 

BTW:  on a trip to (then) McDonald-Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis, Randy charmed the socks off of HH's Sister when we all got together for dinner at a restaurant.  HH's Sister charmed the other Captain, David.  During one of our trips to St. Louis, she fed us all dinner at her house!  David was particularly impressed with the classical music that played during the meal, and her choice of wines.  (Obviously, HH's Sister's family is a lot classier than ours!  HH and I depend upon Dudette for the wine lore.  Dudette works in the industry.)

What Annette Got

In my comment to Buffy (see the meme, below), I tried to explain how our quilting instructor had wanted us to quilt our project and how I actually did it.  Reading over it, I see that my explanation isn't clear.  Pictures:  Annette's Desired Pattern and What Annette Got (from me).  It's much easier to see what I'm writing about on the enlarged images.

   

July 10, 2005 at 10:08 AM

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Ahhhhhhhh....I understand! Did you quilt those two long diagonals, and then go back and add the quilting to each patch, or did you do each patch, in the hope that the diagonal would pop out? I like what you did. More quilting is always a good thing!

I can sympathize. I've done some of that "eye-balling" machine quilting, and I don't care for it at all. I'm anal enough that I'd prefer to mark the diagonal before quilting. There will still be some wobble, but not quite as much.

Did you quilt that square "in the ditch" inside and outside the green/teal border first, or did you do that after you had secured the center with quilting?

Bravo for making the effort. Keep in mind that ALL of this gets better with practice. :-)

Posted by: buffy | July 10, 2005 at 10:25 PM

1) Stitched the two long diagonals, 2) stitched the four shorter diagonals, 3) stitched the leftover individual diagonals, 4) stitched edge-to-edge in the ditch along the inner seam of the outer boarder on one edge, then another, and another, and the last. I started doing the in-the-ditch thing along inner seam of the inner border; but, for some reason that was just so difficult that I gave up and took out what I had done. If I decide, later, to do that, I'll try it with the normal presser foot.

The jade fabric is a tighter weave than the pink fabrics, thus making it difficult to keep the seam open enough to stitch in it--unless the seam was pressed away from the jade (meaning that the jade fabric is, actually, just laying flat). The problem with the tighter weave is that when it is folded, it can't make a sharp fold. Thus, except for the corner pieces, the stitching that I had done in the inner seam of the outer border was OK because that seam was pressed toward the butterfly fabric. (I just stitch very close to the edge of the jade fabric on the portion of the stitching that traversed the jade square at each corner of the quilt.)

I'd like to stitch in the the long horizontal and vertical seams that form the large 9-patch. I hate that on the back side the little Xs end out in the middle of nowhere. Stitching the horizontal and vertical seams would give it closure. (On the Xs, I used jade thread on the front side and a mid-value neutral thread on the back side, so the quilting hardly shows on the back.)

Especially when using the walking foot, I shall need to lay a tape line along which to stitch.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2005 at 11:02 PM

Lesson learned from the Beginner Piece, that I didn't pick up from my Trial Piece: If I intend to stitch in-the-ditch, all fabrics must be of compatible weight and weave. (I didn't realize that we would be stitching in-the-ditch; but, it wouldn't have occurred to me to worry about it had I known! Just as in sheet metal for an airplane, thicker material for a quilt has a larger minimum bend radius!) Since my fabrics were compatible in the Trial Piece, it hadn't a problem!

Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2005 at 11:14 PM

Hmm, I'm still baffled - I don't see any difference. Happily, that doesn't matter since I'm not a quilter and will never be a quilter!

Posted by: bogie | July 11, 2005 at 03:03 AM

(Yeah, Bogie, I know that you don't care...but....)
If you look at the large version of what Annette wanted, you will see (perhaps--don't know if the resolution is good for you) that some of the smallest teal squares have one line diagonally through them while others (those on the major diagonals) have lines on the diagonals to form an X. In what I gave Annette, each of those smallest teal squares has an X. Oh...this is important stuff!!

BTW: I nearly left a butt kick for Heathen on WD's blog, just now. Sometimes we need that! (OK. Give me mine--lol.)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 11, 2005 at 08:16 AM

I decided to play nice with Heathen since it isn't my blog - but I was certainly thinking a few things I would like to have said to her!

Posted by: bogie | July 12, 2005 at 03:15 AM

Ah, I see the difference now!

Posted by: bogie | July 12, 2005 at 03:17 AM

In my comment to Buffy (see the meme, below), I tried to explain how our quilting instructor had wanted us to quilt our project and how I actually did it.  Reading over it, I see that my explanation isn't clear.  Pictures:  Annette's Desired Pattern and What Annette Got (from me).  It's much easier to see what I'm writing about on the enlarged images.

   

Meme Saves the Day

This is from BogieBlog  who got it from Jim at Parkway Rest Stop.  Fortunately for me, Bogie had some answers and some verbiage that fit me well enough to copy into my version of this meme.  (I added the What I was doings that are longer than ten years ago.)  I've tried to identify words that are stolen from Bogie by putting them in blue.  Bogie, if I didn't do a good job, please forgive my not setting apart or identifying which words I stole from you.  Our joint readers will know!

What I was doing fifty years ago:  Graduating from high school, running Graph-O-Type and Address-O-Graph equipment for Goldblatt Tool Company in Kansas City MO (70 cents/hour--woo hoo!), making clothes to take to college in the fall

What I was doing twenty-five years ago:  Working at the Little Airplane Company, working on my instrument rating (single-engine land), attending Dudette's high school graduation, and re-modeling the bathroom and concrete work (garage floor, driveway, sidewalk) of my house

What I was doing twenty years ago:  Working for the Little Science & Engineering Company, Living in Albuquerque, getting ready to go to Seattle to finish a major proposal.  (The LS&EC teamed with the Big Airplane Company on the proposal for a computer system for depot-level maintenance facilities for the USAF (think MRP).  I wrote the engineering management volume of the six-volume proposal.)

What I was doing fifteen years ago:  Working at the Little Airplane Company, having just returned to Kansas a few months prior.

What I was doing ten years ago: Working at the Little Airplane Company.

5 years ago: Working at the Little Airplane Company.

1 year ago: Retiring from the Little Airplane Company, reading about five books each week

Yesterday: Spading, making four trips to buy 10 bags (at a time--loading into the car and unloading them, myself) of cypress mulch, carrying 10 bags of the mulch into Elegant Friend's back yard where she spread them under her deck, attending quilting class where I did most of the machine quilting on my beginner project, returning books to the library, having pizza for dinner.

5 snacks I enjoy:
Peanuts, popcorn, pecans, raisins, fresh fruit  (I'd give up all five for snow ice cream!)

5 songs I know all the words to: The Wild West is Where I Want to Be, (Once I Had A) Secret Love, Be Prepared, Let It Be Me, Take a Message to Mary, Jezabel, St Louis Blues, (Goin' to) Kansas City, Take Me Back to Tulsa, Play Mate, Strawberry Roan, Summer Time, Autumn Leaves, This Old House, Gone, Godiva, Her Mother Never Told Her....

5 Things I would do with $100 million:
Set up trusts that would allow all of our family to live in relative comfort (This would only take about $15M.) then set up trusts to benefit my favorite charities and schools (Planned Parenthood, YWCA Women's Shelter, Campfires, Cottey College, University of Missouri at Rolla, Wichita State University

5 locations I would like to run away to:
New Mexico

5 bad habits I have:
Swearing, ignoring built-up dust, procrastinating, snacking, loafing

5 things I like doing:
Reading, bird watching, seeing relatives and friends, designing quilts, being useful

5 things I would never wear:
Pants or shirts that button the wrong way (like a man's), sleeveless top, bottom that doesn't come (at least) to my knees, shoes with more than a 2" heel, rhinestone-encrusted eye glasses

5 TV shows I like:
West Wing

5 Biggest joys of the moment:
Hunky Husband, family, books, pets, birds that nest on our property (hummingbirds, bluebirds, barn swallows, house wrens, chickadees), that I get days and weekends off of work

5 Favorite toys:
Computer, iPaq, hand tools, garden tools

I'm supposed to pass this on to 5 people. First off, I don't think 5 people read this on a regular basis, so that's no good. Second off, it's so long that people would hate me if I pressured them to do it. So, I will just let anyone who wants to pick it up, run with it on their own.

 

July 09, 2005 at 12:58 PM

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25 years ago would have been, lets see, 2005-25, [using all my fingers and toes plus the cats' and dogs' tails] carry the one (because they always say that) = 1980. That would have been my graduation not Dudettes.

Posted by: bogie | July 10, 2005 at 05:12 AM

WoooooooooHoooooooooo!!!! You've machine quilted! YES!!! (doing the happy dance) How did you like it??

(snickering about the rhinestone-encrusted glasses)

If I can make the time, I'll give your meme a try, but I plan to borrow some of your answers. If I can figure out how to do it....they'll be in red.

Posted by: buffy | July 10, 2005 at 09:07 AM

Bogie--If you insist upon my keeping you daughters straight, you're gonna end up very, very frustrated. I've been practicing since 1962 and don't have it right, yet. Mea culpa (maxima). Apologies to you and Dudette.

Buffy--You never saw anything so pathetic in your whole life. Annette had us free-eye diagonal machine stitch through the Irish Chain squares. (It turned out that she meant for us to only stitch on the major axes of each 9-patch; but, I did each diagonal axis of each of the Irish Chain squares. Each now has a wobbly X through it.) My eye-hand coordination is awful so my lines bow and turn. The fact that I had to use a walking foot didn't help. Since I did extra work, I had to finish at home--the stitch-in-the-ditch along the inner seam of the outer boarder. Didn't do much better on that.

Now, I'm making templates for the butterfly that I shall hand quilt in each of the four setting pieces. Annette encouraged me to go ahead and use a butterfly pattern that is in my Native American Designs for Quilting book by Joyce Mori, PhD--but, take out some of the detail that Dr. Mori's design includes.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2005 at 09:33 AM

Cop Car, I'm impressed! You know ALL the verses to Strawberry Roan -? My grandfather's favorite song and he was quite proudful of the fact he knew all the words, his claim to fame in his little birth town of Hall, Texas.

You gals have gotten me into deep doo-doo now. Went to the flea market today at the cattle barns over at Will Rogers and bought an old quilt book (well, 1970's book) and it has the most wonderful pictures of quilts. No patterns, but with Artiste Hubby, I think I might be able to recreate some. When I learn how, that is. Kman shook his head, "Now, how are you going to have time to quilt?"

"Stay up later, I guess" was my response which earned me a gigantic snort from his direction... Oh, and he says, "thanks". Uh huh!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie aka Nancy, who calls herself to dinner every night | July 10, 2005 at 02:21 PM

Are you still wasting time sleeping at night, Pattie? Tsk, tsk. Some of the older quilting books have wonderful pictures of quilts in them (I have my mother's books/magazines.)
When I was a child, we had no car radio--so we sang. As we traveled a lot, we sang a lot. Strawberry Roan was one of our favorites. (I'll bet my lunch money that my Elder Brother knows all of the words, too. Not too sure about Younger Brother as he missed much of our travels.)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2005 at 04:53 PM

Wouldn't it be amazing if the town of your grandfather's birth was named after one of my progenitors? My dad was a Hall. I believe that his dad came from Pennsylvania (Dad was born in Oklahoma). It is unlikely that there is any meaningful link.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 10, 2005 at 11:25 PM

Well, I recognise some of the songs you mention - Secret Love (the musical Calamity Jane I think), St Louis Blues, Autumn Leaves and This Old House (the '60s song). Not the others - are they Country & Western?

What is Snow Ice Cream? Don't recognise it by that name.

I'd love to have lots of birds where I live (well the English equivalent of humming birds, etc) but I have Cats. I think that you can one, or the other but not both.

Posted by: Adele | July 13, 2005 at 10:57 AM

Satirical Songs written and performed by Tom Lehrer (at one time a mathematics instructor at Harvard): The Wild West is Where I Want to Be which parodied concerns about nuclear bombs and Be Prepared which parodied the Boy Scouts's motto. Lehrer's (vinyl) recordings were popular where/when I was attending college (late 1950s).

Early Rock & Roll Songs (late 1950s-early 1960s):
Don & Phil Everly performed Let It Be Me and Take a Message to Mary

Can't remember who recorded Jezabel, but it was a popular/country & western (C&W) cross-over.

Wilbert Harrison recorded (Goin' to) Kansas City.

Take Me Back to Tulsa was recorded by a C&W Band led by one of the Wills brothers--1940s,

Play Mate is just a little children's ditty that I remember being forced to perform in public at age 3--1941,

Strawberry Roan is C&W--but I don't recall who recorded it. We liked to sing it, though,

Summer Time is from George Gershwin's opera, Porgy & Bess--in the 1940s. We (the orchestra) played it when I was in 8th grade.

This Old House was recorded by Stuart Hamlin, who wrote it, but Rosemary Clooney sang it, too. I recall a disc jockey in Kansas City MO playing Hamlin's version over and over for at least 8 or 10 hours in 1954 or 1955.

Ferlin Husky, mostly a C&W singer, but also a cross-over popular singer recorded Gone--a lovesick ballad that starts, "Since you've g-o-n-e...my heart, my lips, my tear-dimmed eyes...know the reason why I cry...I acted smart...broke your heart...now you've g-o-n-e."

Godiva was a bawdy song that we sang when I was in college (engineering school--1200 men and 12 women) in 1955-1959: To the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic, it is sung Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride...to show to all the villagers her pretty, little white hide...the most intent observor was an engineer, of course...he was the only man who noticed that Godiva rode a horse! I shan't go into the chorus. Another college song (can't think what the tune is from): Her Mother Never Told Her...the things a young girl should know...about the ways of college men...and how they come and go (mostly go)...now age has taken her beauty...and sin has left its sad scar...so remember your mother and sisters, boys...let Nellie sleep under the bar (next to the beer...all by herself!)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 13, 2005 at 06:05 PM

Oh, of course. I do know some of the other songs. Tom Lehrer I used to really enjoy - although I can't remember hearing any of his songs played over here for years. Jezebel - wasn't that one of Frankie Lane's songs? oh, and Summertime, of course. I love Gershwin's music. I obvously wasn't working on all six cylinders the last time I posted.

Posted by: Adele | July 15, 2005 at 11:36 AM

I think that you are correct, Adele, about Frankie Lane's having sung Jezabel. Good going! (You must have posted after you came back from your medical/art gallery tour!)

Posted by: Cop Car | July 15, 2005 at 03:16 PM

This is from BogieBlog  who got it from Jim at Parkway Rest Stop.  Fortunately for me, Bogie had some answers and some verbiage that fit me well enough to copy into my version of this meme.  (I added the What I was doings that are longer than ten years ago.)  I've tried to identify words that are stolen from Bogie by putting them in blue.  Bogie, if I didn't do a good job, please forgive my not setting apart or identifying which words I stole from you.  Our joint readers will know!

What I was doing fifty years ago:  Graduating from high school, running Graph-O-Type and Address-O-Graph equipment for Goldblatt Tool Company in Kansas City MO (70 cents/hour--woo hoo!), making clothes to take to college in the fall

What I was doing twenty-five years ago:  Working at the Little Airplane Company, working on my instrument rating (single-engine land), attending Dudette's high school graduation, and re-modeling the bathroom and concrete work (garage floor, driveway, sidewalk) of my house

What I was doing twenty years ago:  Working for the Little Science & Engineering Company, Living in Albuquerque, getting ready to go to Seattle to finish a major proposal.  (The LS&EC teamed with the Big Airplane Company on the proposal for a computer system for depot-level maintenance facilities for the USAF (think MRP).  I wrote the engineering management volume of the six-volume proposal.)

What I was doing fifteen years ago:  Working at the Little Airplane Company, having just returned to Kansas a few months prior.

What I was doing ten years ago: Working at the Little Airplane Company.

5 years ago: Working at the Little Airplane Company.

1 year ago: Retiring from the Little Airplane Company, reading about five books each week

Yesterday: Spading, making four trips to buy 10 bags (at a time--loading into the car and unloading them, myself) of cypress mulch, carrying 10 bags of the mulch into Elegant Friend's back yard where she spread them under her deck, attending quilting class where I did most of the machine quilting on my beginner project, returning books to the library, having pizza for dinner.

5 snacks I enjoy:
Peanuts, popcorn, pecans, raisins, fresh fruit  (I'd give up all five for snow ice cream!)

5 songs I know all the words to: The Wild West is Where I Want to Be, (Once I Had A) Secret Love, Be Prepared, Let It Be Me, Take a Message to Mary, Jezabel, St Louis Blues, (Goin' to) Kansas City, Take Me Back to Tulsa, Play Mate, Strawberry Roan, Summer Time, Autumn Leaves, This Old House, Gone, Godiva, Her Mother Never Told Her....

5 Things I would do with $100 million:
Set up trusts that would allow all of our family to live in relative comfort (This would only take about $15M.) then set up trusts to benefit my favorite charities and schools (Planned Parenthood, YWCA Women's Shelter, Campfires, Cottey College, University of Missouri at Rolla, Wichita State University

5 locations I would like to run away to:
New Mexico

5 bad habits I have:
Swearing, ignoring built-up dust, procrastinating, snacking, loafing

5 things I like doing:
Reading, bird watching, seeing relatives and friends, designing quilts, being useful

5 things I would never wear:
Pants or shirts that button the wrong way (like a man's), sleeveless top, bottom that doesn't come (at least) to my knees, shoes with more than a 2" heel, rhinestone-encrusted eye glasses

5 TV shows I like:
West Wing

5 Biggest joys of the moment:
Hunky Husband, family, books, pets, birds that nest on our property (hummingbirds, bluebirds, barn swallows, house wrens, chickadees), that I get days and weekends off of work

5 Favorite toys:
Computer, iPaq, hand tools, garden tools

I'm supposed to pass this on to 5 people. First off, I don't think 5 people read this on a regular basis, so that's no good. Second off, it's so long that people would hate me if I pressured them to do it. So, I will just let anyone who wants to pick it up, run with it on their own.

 

Comments

[Cowtown Pattie]

I can't wait! This weekend Kman and I went to Santa Anna to pick up some furniture from his late uncle's house, and one thing big on my wishlist was the late aunt's Singer Slant-O-Matic sewing machine. I know it is old but it does amazing stuff, or it will when I figure out all the gizmos on it. Just the ticket for my quilt!

[Cop Car]

It's great that you're getting a machine that pleases you, Pattie, but I don't know what a Slant-O-Matic is. Would you care to educate me a bit, please? (The block is packaged and ready for mailing. I'll run it to the P.O. in the morning.)

[Adele]

Cop Car, I don't think that 5 ft 5" is short at all. I'm 5 ft 4 an average height for women. However it is odd how many shops seem to cater for tall men not average height women. Supermarkets, bookshops... don't get me on the subject.

[Cop Car]

I suspect that most store merchandise displays are designed by men--who do it for men (or, at least, from their own perspectives). For my generation of American women, my height is exactly average--as was my mother's height of 5' 2" for her generation. Dudette and Bogie are about average for their generation (I believe that they are about 5' 7.5" and 5' 6.5"). I think that Wonderful Granddaughter is a bit above average height for her generation (think she is 5' 9" or 5' 10".)

Hunky Husband loves to tease me about being short, but I towered over the women in his family. His mother and one sister were under 5' tall and the other sister was only 5' 2" (she told everyone that she was 5' 3", because that was the minimum height for an airline stewardess of the day and that was what she became--flying on flights between the USA and Europe.)

[Adele]

Cop Car, At 5 ft 3 ins I tower over virtually every member of my parent's generation I can't remember how tall my father was but he couldn't have been much taller than 5 ft 7 ins. I was certainly taller than all my (now deceased) aunt and uncles. I have no birth offspring to compare heights with now, though.

[Adele]

Err - I'm between 5 st 4 3 ins and 5 ft 4 - if you wondered what the discrepancy was.

[Cop Car]

Adele--I'm assuming that, without typo, you are between 5' 3" and 5' 4" tall. As to the men, Hunky Husband, at 5' 11.5" tall is shorter than any of the men in my family--except for an uncle who had been affected by the measles that my grandmother had while pregnant with him. (I think that he was 5' 2" tall--but his height was the least of his problems!) While I towered over HH's sisters, my brothers tower over HH--by all of 2 or 3 inches!

All of the women in our family were taller than my mother--and her sisters were taller than I am (about the same as Bogie and Dudette). Mom's and Dad's siblings were also thin (Mom's surviving sister weighs about 100-110#, when she's well.)

[buffy]

I don't know...... Skipping TWO trips to the fabric store could cause serious health problems....

[bogie]

You might check to see if you can get the insurance info on-line. I know that our dental insurance has the deductible and insurance payment schedule on-line.

It is amazing how different circumstances will look under different lighting!

[Cop Car]

Bogie--Thanks for the idea. I no longer try to get into websites connected with your dad. He has to input a password for me and it just isn't worth the hassle. I took/take care of everything having to do with the Little Airplane Company, but he'll just have to worry about anything to do with the Big Bomber Store. (You don't have a problem because WS isn't online!)

[Cowtown Pattie]

Ha! Makes the sun sound benevolent, which is certainly not the case here in Texas in July.

[bogie]

There are basking sharks, why not basking suns?

Of course basking sharks are probably called that for their habit of cruising at the top of the water, on their backs, like they are basking in the sun.

[Cop Car]

Bogie--Oh, fine...now you are twitting your mother! Gee. I never heard of a "basking shark". However, "basking shark" is listed in my dictionary--the two words forming a compound noun. Thus, even though it looks like one, "basking" is not an adjective in this use. (And, I still want to know what the sun is basking in!!!)

Now, I don't know about you; but, when I was in school, I don't recall being taught about compound nouns. They are something that I learned about at the Little Airplane Company (LAC), as a member of the "Word Committee". In order to assure proper interpretation of aircraft operation and maintenance instructions, the LAC uses a structured language called "Simplified English" that was promulgated by an international aerospace consortium. The consortium puts out a basic dictionary of Simplified English and the LAC "Word Committee" is charged with constructing and maintaining an adjunct to the dictionary that addresses terms peculiar to the LAC's needs.

In Simplified English, only words that are in the Simplified English dictionary are approved for use in LAC technical publications that go to the customer/airplane operator. (For instance, "may" can not be used in any sense!) Furthermore, each word that is listed can only be used as the part(s) of speech given and to mean only that which is defined.

[buffy]

Remind me to ban you from reading my blog. I no longer remember the rules of grammer and cringe at the idea of having someone who KNOWS them read what I write!

[Cop Car]

I didn't say that I know the rules of grammar, Buffy; but, I know how to fake it!!! (And I am fearless. Someday, someone who really does know the rules of grammar will bash, thrash, and destroy me. Which fate I shall abundantly deserve.)

[Susan]

It'a sin not to take advantage of a sale, so don't feel quilty.

[Cowtown Pattie]

I can't wait for the sunflower block! I am sure it will be lovely. Best part is someone cared enough to hand stitch something for me!

[bogie]

Received the box of fabric on Friday. I was puzzled at first, then my memory kicked in. Karen came by yesterday afternoon and was thrilled to get it!

[Cop Car]

Sorry, Bogie. I kept intending to send you a "heads up" email. It eventually slipped my mind, entirely. Hope Karen can make good use of those fabrics.

Most of the fabrics came from the estate sale of a friend who died 12-18 months ago. We had worked together back in the period 1975-1981. I meant to include a note that most (all?) of the fabrics had been washed. Not sure that I did.

[Cop Car]

Well, Pattie, I'm a bit disappointed in the way the quilt block is turning out (for reasons that I shan't go into, here). However, you can rest assured that, in this case, it's the thought that counts! BTW: I don't know how to embroider by machine. Heck! I don't know how to embroider, at all; but I'm trying. This is only the third embroidered item that I've ever finished (if I finish the kitty cat tea towel for our granddaughter, it will be Item 4.) I did a couple of tea towels a few months ago--butterflies that turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself! (Perhaps I should have pretended that Kansas is the butterfly state instead of the sunflower state--lol.)

Please understand that I didn't do any "fancy work" (as my mother called it) until after I retired, a year ago. Buffy has been a horrid influence on me. She has infected me with a quilting bug! (I denounce Buffy--with great affection!) In addition, I seem to be doing the things that my mother enjoyed doing--including embroidering. This does not betide good things for Bogie and Dudette, does it?

[bill]

Thanks for the nice comments about Pattie's first two quilt blocks. Let me point out that Tricia did both mine and hers. You probably guessed that but I want to make sure credit gets applied where it is due. Also it is only fair for me to tell you that she does them on a machine.

[Cop Car]

Thanks for checking in, Bill. I've known so many men who do needlework that I don't normally jump to conclusions concerning who did what. (I still have an embroidered scene of a farm that my elder brother did as a pre-teen!) The designs of your and Tricia's blocks are wonderful and I should probably do my embroidery by machine, if I knew how!

[Millie Garfield]

It is a good thing that you are only eating at the home once a month. With that kind of food you could easily put on weight!

Strwberry Shortcake, yum.

Millie

[buffy]

I stand denounced, and am delighted that you couldn't resist that sale! *G*

It sounds like you're doing a great job with the long term care ombudsman work.

[Cowtown Pattie]

The square sounds very pretty - the sunflower is one of my favorite flowers, too!

Thank you so much for being a part of my project.

[Cop Car]

Pattie--'Tis my pleasure to participate. I hope that my block comes out nearly as well in person as it looks in my mind. After seeing your first two blocks, I re-thought my approach--and--I think that the sunflower is a better idea than what I had had in mind. We shall see.

[Cowtown Pattie]

What you get when you don't start reading from the top...

I was momentarily panicked...my friend had lost it, totally lost it. Then, I see. It's a meme!

[Cop Car]

Pattie--Did you notice that you got tagged in this meme?

BTW: I totally lost it years and years ago. Just ask anyone in my family.

[Adele]

Err... exactly what IS a Meme? When I nicked the one on Buffy's blog I just did a Copy and Paste job and then changed it to what I had to say. Do I assume that there was another way of doing it?

[Cop Car]

Adele--I think it was Ronni Bennett who explained in her blog about memes (rhymes with genes).

Wikipedia addresses the term at this address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memes.

There is an old party game in which each participant is provided a piece of paper. Without being told that a story will emerge from use of the words being written, each person is instructed to write a certain type of word or phrase on the paper. S/he folds the paper (to obscure what s/he has written), and passes the paper to the next participant. The process is repeated. After enough words have accumulated on each piece of paper, the host/hostess reads the "story", and the words that have accumulated on one piece of paper are used to fill in the blanks. The instructions that lead to the words and phrases are engineered to produce hilarious stories and the stories that emerge from the various accumulations of words are usually wildly divergent.

And, yes, had you clicked on the link at the top of the posting, you would have gone to a site where you would have been given instructions consistent with the old party game. When you had finished inserting words into the blanks, the software would have assembled the story, using your words, and would have provided the story in HTML. You might then have copied the HTML of the story to paste into your own blog.

[Val]

Just to say that after I added that message to my blog I added an I C E to my own mobile phone. It took one minute. And it could help if there is an emergency.

from Val

[buffy]

What a GREAT suggestion! I carry a cell phone when I travel. If there was an emergency, it would be a great way to let them know who to call.

Just in case the invasion of privacy issue should arise, I may tape the number to the back of the phone, too!

[Cop Car]

Since I don't use a mobile/cell phone, I input four ICEs in my iPAQ--as Contacts. I guess that I should tattoo a number on my forehead since people are reluctant to look into one's handbag. (I learned that by leaving my handbag at breakfast one morning. The friend who had sat next to me, eventually, noticed that the handbag was hanging on the chair--but--he wouldn't open it to see whose it was. He had the cashier check inside the handbag for its owner, for him!)

Buffy: Please click on the Hints for the Reader that is listed in the Other Links--in the right hand sidebar. Then, please see Cop Car's Statue #4.

[Cowtown Pattie]

So, what happened to Adonis? You can't just leave us hangin' like that!

[Maria]

Thanks for the comment about my teaching tale. I loved your story. Traveling with that guy must have kept you on your toes. Again thanks for mentioning my post and site.

[Cop Car]

Pattie--When I left that assignment (1983--moved to Albuquerque), Randy and David were still assigned to the Engineering and Services Center at Tyndall AFB, and were still single. I don't recall hearing anything about either of them after I left. We didn't have email in those days, I don't "do" telephone calls, and I don't write letters. Maybe I'll Google the guys.

Maria--Yes, all of the USAF people (including the Civil Service folks), not to mention the "kids" on my staff (the eldest was 26--until I hired a retired USAF Colonel to take over the non-technical management functions of my job when I left, that is), kept me on my toes. They were all a super bunch. Had the job been located outside the hot, muggy south, I would have stayed longer; but, two years had been my commitment to staying in Florida, and I left on schedule.

[Ronni Bennett]

I have spent a lifetime not coming up with the "correct reply" until the next day...

[Adele]

I am like Ronnie, never remembering the apposite comment until too late. Nice to know I'm not the only person that happens to ~grin~

[bogie]

That would have been a great comeback!

[buffy]

Ahhhhhhhh....I understand! Did you quilt those two long diagonals, and then go back and add the quilting to each patch, or did you do each patch, in the hope that the diagonal would pop out? I like what you did. More quilting is always a good thing!

I can sympathize. I've done some of that "eye-balling" machine quilting, and I don't care for it at all. I'm anal enough that I'd prefer to mark the diagonal before quilting. There will still be some wobble, but not quite as much.

Did you quilt that square "in the ditch" inside and outside the green/teal border first, or did you do that after you had secured the center with quilting?

Bravo for making the effort. Keep in mind that ALL of this gets better with practice. :-)

[Cop Car]

1) Stitched the two long diagonals, 2) stitched the four shorter diagonals, 3) stitched the leftover individual diagonals, 4) stitched edge-to-edge in the ditch along the inner seam of the outer boarder on one edge, then another, and another, and the last. I started doing the in-the-ditch thing along inner seam of the inner border; but, for some reason that was just so difficult that I gave up and took out what I had done. If I decide, later, to do that, I'll try it with the normal presser foot.

The jade fabric is a tighter weave than the pink fabrics, thus making it difficult to keep the seam open enough to stitch in it--unless the seam was pressed away from the jade (meaning that the jade fabric is, actually, just laying flat). The problem with the tighter weave is that when it is folded, it can't make a sharp fold. Thus, except for the corner pieces, the stitching that I had done in the inner seam of the outer border was OK because that seam was pressed toward the butterfly fabric. (I just stitch very close to the edge of the jade fabric on the portion of the stitching that traversed the jade square at each corner of the quilt.)

I'd like to stitch in the the long horizontal and vertical seams that form the large 9-patch. I hate that on the back side the little Xs end out in the middle of nowhere. Stitching the horizontal and vertical seams would give it closure. (On the Xs, I used jade thread on the front side and a mid-value neutral thread on the back side, so the quilting hardly shows on the back.)

Especially when using the walking foot, I shall need to lay a tape line along which to stitch.

[Cop Car]

Lesson learned from the Beginner Piece, that I didn't pick up from my Trial Piece: If I intend to stitch in-the-ditch, all fabrics must be of compatible weight and weave. (I didn't realize that we would be stitching in-the-ditch; but, it wouldn't have occurred to me to worry about it had I known! Just as in sheet metal for an airplane, thicker material for a quilt has a larger minimum bend radius!) Since my fabrics were compatible in the Trial Piece, it hadn't a problem!

[bogie]

Hmm, I'm still baffled - I don't see any difference. Happily, that doesn't matter since I'm not a quilter and will never be a quilter!

[Cop Car]

(Yeah, Bogie, I know that you don't care...but....)
If you look at the large version of what Annette wanted, you will see (perhaps--don't know if the resolution is good for you) that some of the smallest teal squares have one line diagonally through them while others (those on the major diagonals) have lines on the diagonals to form an X. In what I gave Annette, each of those smallest teal squares has an X. Oh...this is important stuff!!

BTW: I nearly left a butt kick for Heathen on WD's blog, just now. Sometimes we need that! (OK. Give me mine--lol.)

[bogie]

I decided to play nice with Heathen since it isn't my blog - but I was certainly thinking a few things I would like to have said to her!

[bogie]

Ah, I see the difference now!

[bogie]

25 years ago would have been, lets see, 2005-25, [using all my fingers and toes plus the cats' and dogs' tails] carry the one (because they always say that) = 1980. That would have been my graduation not Dudettes.

[buffy]

WoooooooooHoooooooooo!!!! You've machine quilted! YES!!! (doing the happy dance) How did you like it??

(snickering about the rhinestone-encrusted glasses)

If I can make the time, I'll give your meme a try, but I plan to borrow some of your answers. If I can figure out how to do it....they'll be in red.

[Cop Car]

Bogie--If you insist upon my keeping you daughters straight, you're gonna end up very, very frustrated. I've been practicing since 1962 and don't have it right, yet. Mea culpa (maxima). Apologies to you and Dudette.

Buffy--You never saw anything so pathetic in your whole life. Annette had us free-eye diagonal machine stitch through the Irish Chain squares. (It turned out that she meant for us to only stitch on the major axes of each 9-patch; but, I did each diagonal axis of each of the Irish Chain squares. Each now has a wobbly X through it.) My eye-hand coordination is awful so my lines bow and turn. The fact that I had to use a walking foot didn't help. Since I did extra work, I had to finish at home--the stitch-in-the-ditch along the inner seam of the outer boarder. Didn't do much better on that.

Now, I'm making templates for the butterfly that I shall hand quilt in each of the four setting pieces. Annette encouraged me to go ahead and use a butterfly pattern that is in my Native American Designs for Quilting book by Joyce Mori, PhD--but, take out some of the detail that Dr. Mori's design includes.

[Cowtown Pattie aka Nancy, who calls herself to dinner every night]

Cop Car, I'm impressed! You know ALL the verses to Strawberry Roan -? My grandfather's favorite song and he was quite proudful of the fact he knew all the words, his claim to fame in his little birth town of Hall, Texas.

You gals have gotten me into deep doo-doo now. Went to the flea market today at the cattle barns over at Will Rogers and bought an old quilt book (well, 1970's book) and it has the most wonderful pictures of quilts. No patterns, but with Artiste Hubby, I think I might be able to recreate some. When I learn how, that is. Kman shook his head, "Now, how are you going to have time to quilt?"

"Stay up later, I guess" was my response which earned me a gigantic snort from his direction... Oh, and he says, "thanks". Uh huh!

[Cop Car]

Are you still wasting time sleeping at night, Pattie? Tsk, tsk. Some of the older quilting books have wonderful pictures of quilts in them (I have my mother's books/magazines.)
When I was a child, we had no car radio--so we sang. As we traveled a lot, we sang a lot. Strawberry Roan was one of our favorites. (I'll bet my lunch money that my Elder Brother knows all of the words, too. Not too sure about Younger Brother as he missed much of our travels.)

[Cop Car]

Wouldn't it be amazing if the town of your grandfather's birth was named after one of my progenitors? My dad was a Hall. I believe that his dad came from Pennsylvania (Dad was born in Oklahoma). It is unlikely that there is any meaningful link.

[Adele]

Well, I recognise some of the songs you mention - Secret Love (the musical Calamity Jane I think), St Louis Blues, Autumn Leaves and This Old House (the '60s song). Not the others - are they Country & Western?

What is Snow Ice Cream? Don't recognise it by that name.

I'd love to have lots of birds where I live (well the English equivalent of humming birds, etc) but I have Cats. I think that you can one, or the other but not both.

[Cop Car]

Satirical Songs written and performed by Tom Lehrer (at one time a mathematics instructor at Harvard): The Wild West is Where I Want to Be which parodied concerns about nuclear bombs and Be Prepared which parodied the Boy Scouts's motto. Lehrer's (vinyl) recordings were popular where/when I was attending college (late 1950s).

Early Rock & Roll Songs (late 1950s-early 1960s):
Don & Phil Everly performed Let It Be Me and Take a Message to Mary

Can't remember who recorded Jezabel, but it was a popular/country & western (C&W) cross-over.

Wilbert Harrison recorded (Goin' to) Kansas City.

Take Me Back to Tulsa was recorded by a C&W Band led by one of the Wills brothers--1940s,

Play Mate is just a little children's ditty that I remember being forced to perform in public at age 3--1941,

Strawberry Roan is C&W--but I don't recall who recorded it. We liked to sing it, though,

Summer Time is from George Gershwin's opera, Porgy & Bess--in the 1940s. We (the orchestra) played it when I was in 8th grade.

This Old House was recorded by Stuart Hamlin, who wrote it, but Rosemary Clooney sang it, too. I recall a disc jockey in Kansas City MO playing Hamlin's version over and over for at least 8 or 10 hours in 1954 or 1955.

Ferlin Husky, mostly a C&W singer, but also a cross-over popular singer recorded Gone--a lovesick ballad that starts, "Since you've g-o-n-e...my heart, my lips, my tear-dimmed eyes...know the reason why I cry...I acted smart...broke your heart...now you've g-o-n-e."

Godiva was a bawdy song that we sang when I was in college (engineering school--1200 men and 12 women) in 1955-1959: To the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic, it is sung Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride...to show to all the villagers her pretty, little white hide...the most intent observor was an engineer, of course...he was the only man who noticed that Godiva rode a horse! I shan't go into the chorus. Another college song (can't think what the tune is from): Her Mother Never Told Her...the things a young girl should know...about the ways of college men...and how they come and go (mostly go)...now age has taken her beauty...and sin has left its sad scar...so remember your mother and sisters, boys...let Nellie sleep under the bar (next to the beer...all by herself!)

[Adele]

Oh, of course. I do know some of the other songs. Tom Lehrer I used to really enjoy - although I can't remember hearing any of his songs played over here for years. Jezebel - wasn't that one of Frankie Lane's songs? oh, and Summertime, of course. I love Gershwin's music. I obvously wasn't working on all six cylinders the last time I posted.

[Cop Car]

I think that you are correct, Adele, about Frankie Lane's having sung Jezabel. Good going! (You must have posted after you came back from your medical/art gallery tour!)