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Sorry, I know that has nothing to do with caregiving, I don't even have the excuse that I am stressed from caregiving and can't deal with it. My stress filled days are mostly over, now I just haunt the forum because since mom is in the NH I have nothing better to do.
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CW, no worries here. Post what you like. (((((Hugs)))))))
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Oh, I see that now Cwillie. A row of a tuft of grass.
Hey, don't get down on yourself, this is, after all "General Topics" thread, created by Gershun for times such as these!
Of course you are still a caregiver, Cwillie! This just happens to be "Caregiver Recovery Time" for you! Like visiting your baby niece, meeting up with old friends, visiting the town mascot, you know, a break from the intensive hands-on caregiving part.
But I think I know what you mean. Feeling unappreciated?, a ghost of a person after what you went through? But still with some of the most valuable caregiver-to-caregiver answers around. But loved by your fellow caregivers as always. Still vigilant and watchful after your mother's care. Darn it! She's still a caregiver!

There is no escaping it, sorry.
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{{{{hugs for Cwillie, and Barb!}}}}}
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Thanks Barb and Send.... (bows and blushes)
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Oh dear, reading back....just the title: "Family Christmas Dinner" has me anxious.
Reeling. Kinda dizzy, like when I came out from under that sink.

Looking across my yard, there is the neighbor, putting up Christmas lights!
Feeling nauseous, why can't she trim the hedges so I can see to leave my driveway?  Or so people can actually see the decorations?

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So what was it doing stuck all day at Heathrow? Probably being interrogated by MI5. What is the purpose of your visit? (providing emergency assistance with Fair Isle pattern) Are you a member of any proscribed organisation? (um, is Etsy proscribed..?)
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CM, I get the feeling you're really anxious to get that parcel....
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I am. Granddaughter's (supplementary) Christmas present depends on it and I don't knit that fast. C'monc'monc'mon - !
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Ah, grasshopper say, knit slower, spend more time knitting.
This for granddaughter, cancel everyhing else.
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It is going to hold the yarn nicely for me so that I do not go to pieces over the tension like I did last time and have to unravel the whole dang thing again; once I get going it shouldn't take more than a day or two thanks to that unintended rehearsal. With this little gizmo it will be like having the five hands that I have always secretly suspected those clever Scottish ladies of having...
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What is it CM please share?
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It is a set of three mini yarn-holders cleverly carved by a chap in Ohio, who appears to be the only person in the world who understands the overlapping requirements of wood-turning and multi-strand knitting.

Though now I come to think of it I could probably have bodged something together using kitchen paper towel holders, superglue and a small plank. But this will be much smoother and prettier. And anyway I've bought it now.
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This I must see. See you later after I have probed the internet
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Deliveries on Sundays now, expected for the holidays!
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I'm intrigued as well. I rarely knitted with more than one strand except for multi-colors, but it sounds as if you're making something that's much thicker, maybe something like a double knit? Or do the devices keep 3 strands separate and from twisting while you're knitting a multi-color piece?

I'm puzzled by the wood-turning relationship. What is this object called? I too will hit the search button - I need to find out about this.
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Reading back posts, I see you're making a Fair Isle knit. So you're using multiple colors and the device keeps them from tangling? I understand now. I think. At one time I was captivated by Fisherman's knit patterns and made them into sweaters, pillows and a few throws which I can't seem to find now.

Those Fair Isle and Fisherman's knit patterns can be complicated, but they are so lovely.

CM, BTW, do you have access to any of the Mon Tricot knitting patterns? I used to buy them during the 1980s but haven't seen them in years. They had the most stunning patterns.
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On the subject of needlework, is anyone crocheting holiday snowflakes? Bells?
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Send, thanks for the alert on the scam private message.

CWillie, I hate it when neighbors play such juvenile games over property lines. Most of them don't even understand what platted property is or that surveys delineate the property lines. One who fortunately died (he was a junkie and I believe was the one burglarized my house) thought the location of the trees marked property lines.
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GA I have had survey with such language as "The south west corner of the property is marked by the big oak tree by the stream" or "Measuring from the Great lot line............."
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Veronica, do you have real estate background? I read surveys and title work with property descriptions written in similar fashions, typically large tracts of land in the West or SW that had never been platted. It was always kind of amusing - it momentarily took me from a busy suburb to a large tract of undeveloped land with 4 legged furry residents being the primary inhabitants.
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Oh goodness, the crazy neighbors.. We live in a rural area and our back neighbors have a large farm.. which many hunt on. My hubs had written permission to hunt there for years ( no anti hunting rants please) but a few years ago stopped . He began hunting on another friends farm. The back yard neighbors have a history of "going off the rails" and one other neighbor has listed their home 3 times in the past due to harassment. Well a few years ago the wife one night placed several huge hay rolls along part of our back property line, and posted the trees on our property.. facing Her property. So effectively she posted OUR property, and trespassed to do it! LOL Then as hubs stored his stands in the back,, she called the sheriff.. who had to come but found the entire thing amusing ( and yes,, he knows her and her ways!) We are still allowed to store things on our own property.. In the interest of peace in the valley we moved them,,
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If I knew this neighbour had a history then I don't think I would mind so much, I keep wondering what I did to cause offence in the first place. And I really can't imagine the previous owner (a man) putting up with having to sweep up grass every 5 days, which I did for THREE years before I mentioned it. (politely, even though I was thoroughly p*ssed)
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And our next door neighbor shot one of our cats because he thought it was a groundhog.. after 800$ of vet bills he has not shot anything else ( was shooting towards our house,, illegal) We have since become friends..LOL. His wife did suggest we get pet insurance.. I mentioned I was pretty sure it did not cover your neighbor shooting your pet,,, in the pets own yard..
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Wow Pam! Just Wow!
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A horrible thing happened here. If you are squeamish don't read.

There was this girl getting bullied and her cat went missing. Apparently, the bullies got her cat, gave it a bleach bath among other things, then threw it out their car window.
Then, sent her video of the whole incident.

Miraculously, the cat survived and is being cared for at the vet and they caught the scum that did it and even posted his stupid face on the news. Good! I hope karma bites him in the a**.
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Birching is still legal in the Isle of Man, Gershun. Pity they don't live there. Words fail me.
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GA, there's a Mon Tricot stitch directory going on Amazon for $54.98 - cor! Brilliant! "1030 Stitches and Patterns" it's called.

The name rang a bell but it looks as if it, along with others, has gone west alas. I also mourn the loss of Pingouin (there are still a few yarns being made under the brand name but it's a shadow of its former self and nobody's publishing its wonderful patterns) and Jaeger.

I had a ransom note this morning. Yarn holder has been arrested and is in custody at the Post Office's secret dungeon behind the railway station. They are demanding £27.74 with menaces that if I don't pay up within 21 calendar days it will be deported.

Which is a bit much, actually! Humph. I've already paid that much for international postage and at this rate the shipping will cost more than the item. I wonder if someone forgot to stick the right sticker on it in Chicago..?
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Ugh. It's tax, isn't it? Just worked it out.

Goods for export not taxed in US; VAT levied the second they set foot in the UK instead.

Bastards!!!
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Shipping costs and hidden taxes and duties are some of the things that make me leery of jumping onto the virtual shopping bandwagon. Plus call me old fashioned, but I want to actually see and feel something before I buy it, it was evident even back in the catalogue days that a picture is not necessarily a true representation of quality or what something looks like, and we all should know by now that online reviews can't be trusted either.
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