Ken,  I understood two sentences in that whole message; tapping Maple
trees, and Bantam chickens.  Clothing is NOT something I understand, in
summer I wear enough to be able to go to town without being arrested and in
winter I wear enough to keep warm.  Who made it or what style is totally
irrelevant to me.  When Ames, a cut-rate dept. store chain, went out of
business I went to the local stores and bought every pair of pants they had
in my size with the result that all my pants are now wearing out at the
same time and I'm going to have to buy some new ones.  Oh horrors!!!!!!
I'm going to have to SHOP for CLOTHES!  Nothing makes me any grouchier than
having to go SHOPPING.  Maybe I'll just spring for some pants in LL Bean if
I can find any short enough.  Ruth

PS:  The menfolks did tap the Maple trees last weekend and have had a good
run, have boiled twice so far and making good quality syrup.  Come on up
and see how it's done.

At 5:59 AM -0500 3/7/08, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
I made sure Runway was on for Kathy to view. That meant I had to finish
watching The Riches DVD just-in-time. We got there to Bravo in time for the
starter's gate warm-up. Kathy asked me to place a bet. I refused. The
Kentucky Derby is one thing, we have a more-or-less equal chance and one of
these centuries I will figure out what a good horse looks like. They all
look good to me.

The clothing designers all look good to me. Their clothes all look like
clothes to me though you won't catch me in any but those high-heel ankle
lace-ups on a very early Sunday morning. Who this Spice person is I don't
know. I watched through the entire finale.

There are a whole lot of things in the world that don't do all that much
for me, couture fashion is one of them. I fair much better if the show is
about the manufacture of bricks. Or Billy Bob hauling largemouth bass out
of a Georgia bathtub. Or cutting-edge techniques for tapping sugar
Maples... now, that is the juice! Rami's woven technique interested me,
reminded me of apple pie crust. I agreed that his colors were odd.

I thought Jillian's up and down issues were riveting and I liked the way
that she expressed that with her hands going up and down with a little bob
of her knees. Her hats were curious and seemed distantly military, I
thought Prussian.

Obviously Christian was stressed out. Black is like, wow, lot's of black.
That neck fluff thing reminded me of a Bearded Silkie Bantam (that is a
chicken).

I watched all the way through with an idea that I had better pay attention.

When it was over I turned and saw that Kathy had fallen asleep. Um. Seems
she made it as far as the end of Jillian's run then zonked. So I got the
pleasure to watch the whole show all over again only this time I had to
yell and scream the contestant's on as if I had no clue the outcome so that
Kathy would not fink out on the show that she wanted to see.

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