The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

Not to be gross but how would she do her bathroom business and does she have to sleep like a mummy?

Hahaaa...!
No clue, and really don't want to know...!
I just don't get it...at all.....

 

[Gabe1]

Thanks. Great idea, hubby suggested that too. Go to a room, and clean off all the pollens, and dust. Go to the campfire program. And then sleep on a nice, clean soft bed.

All in favor say "aye!"

 

[Gabe1]

I use Correll, hard to break!

My Mom had Correll while I was growing up and my MIL also had it. My Mom donated it long ago, I believe my MIL still has hers. MIL really needed it more. She did not have a dishwasher, dinnerware tends to get broken and chipped quicker handwashing.

 

[Gabe1]

We have billboards all over the state about moving firewood to stop the spread of ash borers.

Yeah we did too. But the whole state found that once the little buggers are 'here' they don't leave. Everything was to be chipped after a deep frost when the trees were removed. The chips had to be so tiny, most machinery did chop it that small. Then those trucks go to the next sight to chop storm damage or another kind a tree and likely some of the bugs stayed with the hull of the truck. Town vacinated the healthy trees, it has slowed it down but but I can look at them and see what ones will be dead by spring, been a slow death of them all and we had a great deal of them.

Now we are seeing something happen to one variety of Maple Trees. Before all this it was the Dutch Elm. As our town replaces trees they are doing it differently. They are using so many different varieties so hopefully this will not happen again for the future generations, never loosing a huge percentage at once.

 

[BAChicagoGal]

I've seen a garden grown in a wagon. So pretty with flowers and green onions.

If I didn't use that wagon for so many things, I'd park it in the yard someplace, and plant nasturtiums in it. I always have really good luck growing nasturtiums. However, that's my go to the store wagon. Those upright grocery carts always fall apart, and lose their wheels when you overload them. My grandson's wagon has never let me down. It's dependable.

 

[MinnieM123]

My Mom had Correll while I was growing up and my MIL also had it. My Mom donated it long ago, I believe my MIL still has hers. MIL really needed it more. She did not have a dishwasher, dinnerware tends to get broken and chipped quicker handwashing.

Correlle -- a challenge for some to do stupid people tricks. You see, some guys just have to prove that they can break something that is marketed as unbreakable.

Years before I met him, hubs and his buddies had some Correlle in their apartment kitchen. Well, of course . . . a competition ensued one afternoon, and they took a bunch of pieces and threw them against a wall in the parking lot outside! Correlle was amazingly durable. However, hubs was the genius? that afternoon, when he managed to throw and smash a coffee cup against the wall. Challenge over. Grand Poobah crowned . . .

 

[MinnieM123]

How was the Pow Wow? Did you make it without the rain?

Hi Bets, and also @ajrwdwgirl (who also expressed interest about the pow wow, when I first brought it up the other day), and anyone else, too, who might be interested.

This was an inter-tribal pow wow yesterday with a number of tribal nations including the Mic Macs from southern Canada and Aroostook, Maine, the Mashpee Wampanoags from the Cape, (MA), and others as well (I regret I didn't hear all the names announced, as we were not near enough to the speakers when we first got there).

We always enjoy the opening circle with the dancers and their colorful regalia. We watched for quite a while. Hubs took a few pix with his phone, but they're not great, and don't show how many people were there yesterday--a large crowd. Love the sound of the drummers and native singers, too. Along with all the above, they also had plenty of artisans displaying and selling their creations (we enjoy talking to them), story-telling for the children, and demonstrations on how to make a corn husk doll and also, an antler tip necklace.

Just a few pix below (wish we had more--there were so many dancers and we only had a few pictures of just a sampling of the larger, entire group):

Women dancers -- The woman in yellow had on a gorgeous yellow regalia--I wish the picture was clearer. The little girl on the far right was so cute, and the silver adornment on her colorful red regalia, really caught the sunlight when she was dancing.




Here's just a "few" of the male dancers; I wish that hubby took more pictures as the men also had some very ornate regalia.

 

[Figgy1]

All in favor say "aye!"

AYE!!!!!!!!!!! Like I said my dh wants to take the boys tent camping next summer, I'm going to rough it with hot and cold running room service

 

[Figgy1]

My Mom had Correll while I was growing up and my MIL also had it. My Mom donated it long ago, I believe my MIL still has hers. MIL really needed it more. She did not have a dishwasher, dinnerware tends to get broken and chipped quicker handwashing.

My boys can even chip and break Corelle using the dishwasher No fancy Disney dishes in my house until they leave home and move 3 states over!

 

[Figgy1]

If I didn't use that wagon for some many things, I'd park it in the yard someplace, and plant nasturtiums in it. I always have really good luck growing nasturtiums. However, that's my go to the store wagon. Those upright grocery carts always fall apart, and lose their wheels when you overload them. My grandson's wagon has never let me down. It's dependable.

Every year I grow a bunch of them. Easy and

 

[Figgy1]

Hi Bets, and also @ajrwdwgirl (who also expressed interest about the pow wow, when I first brought it up the other day), and anyone else, too, who might be interested.

This was an inter-tribal pow wow yesterday with a number of tribal nations including the Mic Macs from southern Canada and Aroostook, Maine, the Mashpee Wampanoags from the Cape, (MA), and others as well (I regret I didn't hear all the names announced, as we were not near enough to the speakers when we first got there).

We always enjoy the opening circle with the dancers and their colorful regalia. We watched for quite a while. Hubs took a few pix with his phone, but they're not great, and don't show how many people were there yesterday--a large crowd. Love the sound of the drummers and native singers, too. Along with all the above, they also had plenty of artisans displaying and selling their creations (we enjoy talking to them), story-telling for the children, and demonstrations on how to make a corn husk doll and also, an antler tip necklace.

Just a few pix below (wish we had more--there were so many dancers and we only had a few pictures of just a sampling of the larger, entire group):

Women dancers -- The woman in yellow had on a gorgeous yellow regalia--I wish the picture was clearer. The little girl on the far right was so cute, and the silver adornment on her colorful red regalia, really caught the sunlight when she was dancing.


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Here's just a "few" of the male dancers; I wish that hubby took more pictures as the men also had some very ornate regalia.

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Thank you for sharing, I'm going to have to show my dh we he gets home.

 

[MinnieM123]

I just love being on vacation this week!!

 

[Figgy1]

I just love being on vacation this week!!

I hope every day is more fun than the last one was. Have a great vacation

 

[MOXOMUMD]

All I can say is Wow! I love this, is it lake Las Vegas?

Yes, yes it is.

 

[Figgy1]

Tie dye should be outlawed. The boys are in today and it seems to be my little guy's new favorite hobby. My poor kitchen sink Thank goodness for bleach but............................

 

[Cesar R M]

with food pics?

that too!

 

[Cesar R M]

By the way, just returned from finding dory. Less heartbreaking moments, but dear god.. poor dory
The parts about the marine friends in the rescue marine center was hilarious.

 

[FutureCEO]

Before I forget are there any drink pics I should try and get?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Correlle -- a challenge for some to do stupid people tricks. You see, some guys just have to prove that they can break something that is marketed as unbreakable.

Years before I met him, hubs and his buddies had some Correlle in their apartment kitchen. Well, of course . . . a competition ensued one afternoon, and they took a bunch of pieces and threw them against a wall in the parking lot outside! Correlle was amazingly durable. However, hubs was the genius? that afternoon, when he managed to throw and smash a coffee cup against the wall. Challenge over. Grand Poobah crowned . . .

Hi Bets, and also @ajrwdwgirl (who also expressed interest about the pow wow, when I first brought it up the other day), and anyone else, too, who might be interested.

This was an inter-tribal pow wow yesterday with a number of tribal nations including the Mic Macs from southern Canada and Aroostook, Maine, the Mashpee Wampanoags from the Cape, (MA), and others as well (I regret I didn't hear all the names announced, as we were not near enough to the speakers when we first got there).

We always enjoy the opening circle with the dancers and their colorful regalia. We watched for quite a while. Hubs took a few pix with his phone, but they're not great, and don't show how many people were there yesterday--a large crowd. Love the sound of the drummers and native singers, too. Along with all the above, they also had plenty of artisans displaying and selling their creations (we enjoy talking to them), story-telling for the children, and demonstrations on how to make a corn husk doll and also, an antler tip necklace.

Just a few pix below (wish we had more--there were so many dancers and we only had a few pictures of just a sampling of the larger, entire group):

Women dancers -- The woman in yellow had on a gorgeous yellow regalia--I wish the picture was clearer. The little girl on the far right was so cute, and the silver adornment on her colorful red regalia, really caught the sunlight when she was dancing.


View attachment 151706

Here's just a "few" of the male dancers; I wish that hubby took more pictures as the men also had some very ornate regalia.

View attachment 151707

I too have managed to break some Corelle dishes, although I didn't try. I used to have a nice platter but as I went to put it in the cabinet from the dishwasher it slipped out of my hand and hit the counter just right and cracked in half. I would like to get some new dishes but the Corelle ones just keep going and going, and I can't justify buy new ones (I'd rather put my $$ into Disney trips).

Thanks for sharing the information and pictures about the Pow Wow. It sounds like it was fun. I have seen Native American clothes in museums and they are truly a work of art with the beading and attention to detail. It would be nice to see that actually in action.