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Trish, our next-door neighbor and two other friends keep homing pigeons.
We hate the mess, but the lovely coos of the birds are great to have so near, very soothing as I sit and sew. ;- Merry Christmas to everyone! Karen Maslowski in Ohio Trish Brown wrote: Dad made a wire door for it and that was the beginning of my years as a pigeon fancier! My first pair had their first few clutches of eggs in that cage and I went on to acquire a whole entire flock of my own. But if it hadn't been for Terry Stair and his kindness in getting me that first cage, I'd never have known the exquisite satisfaction of owning a huge flock of homing pigeons! ;-D |
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"Karen Maslowski" wrote in message ... Trish, our next-door neighbor and two other friends keep homing pigeons. We hate the mess, but the lovely coos of the birds are great to have so near, very soothing as I sit and sew. ;- Merry Christmas to everyone! Karen Maslowski in Ohio Isn't it the loveliest sound? Even better, though, is the SWOOSH of two hundred wings as your flock swoops above you, just over the rooftops! There's something *so* satisfying about watching a flock of birds wheeling free against the sky - and then they drop out of the blue and come home to you! Wonderful! Merry Christmas to you too and to everyone here! I hope the New Year brings happiness and peace to everyone! ;-D |
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Oh, yes! The neighbor has almost all white birds, so it's so very pretty
to look up at a clear blue sky when you hear the swoosh, and see all those white wings flashing by. That has come to mean "summer day" to me! By the way, they've made a business of their birds. They rent them to weddings and funerals and other events, and do a white dove release for the event, then go home and collect them. It's really lovely. Karen Maslowski in Ohio Trish Brown wrote: Isn't it the loveliest sound? Even better, though, is the SWOOSH of two hundred wings as your flock swoops above you, just over the rooftops! There's something *so* satisfying about watching a flock of birds wheeling free against the sky - and then they drop out of the blue and come home to you! Wonderful! Merry Christmas to you too and to everyone here! I hope the New Year brings happiness and peace to everyone! ;-D |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:39:06 GMT, joy beeson
wrote: Maybe it was a subtle hint that they won't have a wood stove for warming flat irons. If you have a couople of flat irons still around, clean them up (very carefully on the base). They make excellent sewing weights to hold your fabric lays flat. -- Smert' spamionam |
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We were in SC at my sister's for supper a week ago. At twilight I needed to
go out to my car and there was this sound, almost like hard raindrops, definitely not a swoosh. Several buzzards had started roosting in her trees. It was an unusual sound! I wish yall Happy Holidays! Barbara in FL & SC |
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Barbara Raper wrote:
We were in SC at my sister's for supper a week ago. At twilight I needed to go out to my car and there was this sound, almost like hard raindrops, definitely not a swoosh. Several buzzards had started roosting in her trees. It was an unusual sound! I wish yall Happy Holidays! Barbara in FL & SC If it's buzzards come to visit, they might want to take a careful look around their place. IIRC, buzzards are similar to vultures -- carrion eaters. Of course, you didn't mention whether or not your sister was a good cook...... -- Joanne @ stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/ Life is about the journey, not about the destination. |
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Buzzards roost in the area where my sister lives near a lake. It's just
that the population has been expanding so she guesses they are having to expand their hunting area. Thanks! Barbara |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On to sewing. I picked up a foam wedge pillow (off Ebay for a neighbor) and it came naked! Are there specific patterns for doing a cover? This, of course, is a Christmas present she's giving to her father. Just measure each of the sides and add a half-inch or so seam allowance all around. To make it look better, you'll probably also want to put cording all around; I'd make my own using the same fabric that you use to cover the pillow. You can buy cording rope (I've no idea what the proper name for it is) at your local fabric store, or even use 3/16" or 1/4" rope from the local hardware. Sandwich the cord or rope inside a fold of scrap fabric to learn how wide a strip of fabric you'll need to cut in order to cover the cord and leave you a sewing allowance. Sew the cording to the edge of the front/top piece of fabric, rounding it around the corners (you can cut notches in the seam allowance to make it go around the corners with less bulk. You'll probably want to start at the middle bottom, so the join is less obtrusive. Leave the cording seam open and not attached to the pillow for several inches at the beginning, and the same thing at the end. Cut the cord (but not the fabric) so it exactly meets the other end, then cut the covering fabric ends at 45 degree angles, long enough so that you can sew them together. Finish sewing the cording to the pillow top after you've sewn together the ends of the cord covering. -- Kathy - help for new users at http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/ Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval at http://www.gnksa.org/ OE-quotefix can fix OE: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ |
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