BS: current non-music projects?

Subject: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Alice
Date: 30 May 05 - 03:09 PM

I'm getting work ready for a show that opens August 20. Here's a link to one of the most recent paintings.
Click here
I'm neglecting the yard/garden/house work while I have to spend time on painting, framing, photographing. I have my regular full time job to go back to tomorrow.... it helped to have this three day weekend to make more progress on art for the show.

What projects are Mudcatters working on now?

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 May 05 - 03:15 PM

Well, I wouldn't normally admit to this sort of thing, but I've been attempting to fabricate a Hillary Clinton inflatable doll, since I cannot find one to buy anywhere.

It's not that easy.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 30 May 05 - 05:09 PM

Well, Alice, since you ask, one of us is finishing up a cookbook which contains upwards of 300 pages of recipes collected from people associated with our local lighthouse. This includes two of the three wives of the first lighthouse keeper (late 1800s) down to the current government site manager and our local congresswoman who is helping to get funding to restore the lighthouse to its former glory.

The other one of us is continuing to work on the history of this lighthouse with the goal of collecting all that is known about it into a single book. The first draft (about 125 pages) was released a few months ago but more work is being done to determine the past property owners, completing the list of keepers, and documenting the history of the structures over the past 130 years.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Alice
Date: 30 May 05 - 05:47 PM

Cool. I'm curious about what the first three wives in the 1800's were cooking. Can you share?

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 30 May 05 - 07:46 PM

Alice,

The recipes I got from the handwritten cookbook of the first wives, that I started with, were mostly desserts. Yum!!! I suspect that they didn't feel the need to write down recipes for other things as those were ordinary and they knew how to do it.


Bev

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 May 05 - 08:20 PM

I'd be gardening if the rain would stop.....

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: number 6
Date: 30 May 05 - 08:25 PM

Like Sorcha I'll be gardening as soon as the rain stops. In fact the blue skies finally broke through late this afternoon after weeks of rain.

LH .... I'll buy one as soon as you succeed in your attmept :) !!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 May 05 - 02:43 AM

I'm working on the final draft of the Mudcat Just Desserts cookbook, but need more muffin recipes (just got the one for applesauce spice muffins and they're bloody marvellous); I'm having a few days with Limpit as it's school holidays this week, a day trip to the Tower of London coming up and I'm trying to find where my lawn used to be.

I'm also working on some arty farty pictures of the flowers in my garden, with a view to making more greetings cards for sale.

For the first time in several weeks, I'm not sewing anything (despite there being a pile of mending, and an even bigger pile of stuff started and not finished for one reason or another!).

I may even get to paint a wall next week.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,flamenco ted
Date: 31 May 05 - 06:35 AM

My current non musical project is - learning to play the banjo.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:42 AM

I am doing a drawing of two well known catters, which should be arriving by special delivery and will be hand-delivered!

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Bobert
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:13 AM

Well, the P-Vine and I are in the act of moving and getting our house ready to sell... I might add that I am a "recovering collector" and though I haven't been collecting since my stay at Betty Ford, I still have a lot of stuff... Mostly antiques, collectables, guitars, art, etc...

The P-Vine is a "non-recovering practicing collector" of plants so in addition to moving my stuff, we are also movin' a massive garden!!! At last count we had dug up, potted and transported over 200 plants to out new place outside of Luray, Va and still have 100 to go... The wierd thing is that yo look at the gardens here you can't tell anything has been taken out...

Anyone want to buy a nice garden? House included...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 31 May 05 - 09:18 AM

Well, when my neice finishes carving the stock, I'll go back to building a .54 caliber flintlock Jaeger rifle, something like this one.

And I'm walking more, trying to get back in shape. And gardening. And puttering.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 05 - 11:12 AM

I am trying to confront rewriting a 350-page book, and get a sleepy genius down the road to hire me.

I just finished oiling the whole patio cover and moving a couch and cleaning up the garage,

I am sending off a CD of the DT to a friend who can't DL it.

I have a list of things for today, also. Including a plumber for the kitchen sink.

A

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sooz
Date: 31 May 05 - 12:35 PM

I've made a dress today - the skirt has twenty panels made out of the ties Mike won't be needing again (since he retired and vowed never to wear one again!) The dress is fairly gruesome but quite unique and every panel tells a story.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Kim C
Date: 31 May 05 - 03:55 PM

Graduate school.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 May 05 - 04:38 PM

Small-group ministry (new Bible study groups) and rural sociology as applied in ministry.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 05 - 04:40 PM

getting married.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 May 05 - 04:58 PM

Sooz - I made a skirt like that years ago!! Mind you, I had to find all the ties in the jumble... got some howlers in there!

Might even still have it somewhere.......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 31 May 05 - 06:02 PM

Making my newly aquired Highland dancing sword look like pretty shiny thing I have somewhere about 100-120 years of dirt to remove.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: open mike
Date: 31 May 05 - 06:06 PM

environmental projects to comment on,
protect and preserve forest land. And
hugging trees.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:01 PM

I've been dabbling a bit towards solar power. It started off as wanting a pond pump on a bit of land we rent where I didn't want to take mains power out from our house but it has expanded a little from there. I now have some lights in 2 sheds, a couple of PIR outside lights and mains in one (our "BBQ" shed) so I can plug my laptop in and power a small B/W tv as well as the pump. I've still got the 80W panel to fit (waiting for a brother to help me - I won't even go 15ft up a ladder) but everything else is in place and working - I left it all running on the battery yesterday.

I've also got 4 "log lights" (I'm cutting holes in logs, chopping the end of LED torches and fitting them - I tried one and liked it so am ordering more torches) to make and possibly will play at making some other lights using LEDs.

Another thing I've got to do is get the Internet to the shed as my wireless setup doen't quite reach. I think I will settle for running a CAT5 cable outside for now - 30m of cable is about �7 - it will cost me more to do it wireless, plus, I'm not sure I really want a more powerful wireless signal to be picked up clearly from outside.

Also, I've decided to investigate the world of microcontrollers (which I've no doubt will mean learning some electronics) and intend ordering one of these next week. I don't know yet but it's possible that it may in some way may relate to my messing with the solar power - either LED lighting effects or possibly some dabbling with control systems.

A bit closer to music, I want to integrate my listing of Singing Together pamphlets with the rest of folkinfo, possibly doing in such a way that other books can be added and/or possibly (but less likely) work in with our abc projects such as the Hugill one which just take a plain abc file(s). I'm also wondering if at some point, I might be able to devise a simple Java abc play/applet, and have a few other ideas I may or may not get round to... Oh, and a few songs to add...

That should keep me going a while.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:09 PM

Okay, Jon, what will it take to run a pond pump.... I have a run off pond where I'm movin' and it needs to have the water recyled to keep it clean and good fir fish and palnts but it's 200 feet from the house....

You can PM me 'er just lay out the basics... I need to run 5000 GPH...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:10 PM

Not sure what happened to my pound sign (�) above.

Let's try a pound (£) this time from preview.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:21 PM

Current Projects?

Creating a data base of children's literature (my own collection) and matching it up with lessons for later use in the classroom.

Organizing my office.

Cleaning out my closet (3/4 of the way done!)

Emptying out an old house.

Planning a vacation. :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 31 May 05 - 07:56 PM

Wow Bobert, I'm only running the 1000LV (on this page). That is 1000 Litres per hour - 220UK GPH (which I think is somewhere in the region of 275US GPH). That unit uses about 24W.

I haven't gone into anything "scientifically". I just worked out my expected usages, eg. I'm going to run the pump for starters every other hour from about 9am to 8pm. That's 6hrs running so I need 144Wh. I did the same with the lights.

When I did my run off the batteries, my http://www.stecasolar.com/en/art/uid_kategorien/0000581/id_matchcode/up_solarladeregler/id_artikel/0000092/bop/0/chksum/4fb3b55e8148d5d3226210db61141597/beetools.html>charge controller reported 14Ah so at 12V, that is 168Wh for pump, lights, inverter, etc. (but not laptop/tv use). What the 80W panel will produce in practice is an unknown but even if I only got 5hrs at 40W, I'm in credit...

It really is just an experiment and learning to me and I've "overegineered" in some areas (eg. charge controller would allow me up to 20A at 24V in panels) to allow myself room for future expansion...

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:00 PM

Hmm....

charge controller

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:42 PM

me? I'm up to my butt in wood shavings getting ready for the craft show part of our annual FSGW Washington folk festival

here's some of what is left after the shavings are cut away.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 05 - 08:52 PM

Beautiful Bill. The black cherry looks real strokeable.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 05 - 09:05 PM

Jon...you gave me an idea! I have one of those LED 'torches' (flashlights over here) and I do hollowing of wood all the time...That might be fun to have one looking like wood.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 05 - 09:06 PM

The black cherry is VERY strokable! Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 May 05 - 11:45 PM

Bill-- that's all that's left of your butt?????

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Pauline L
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 01:26 AM

Beautiful pictures of beautiful crafts, Bill.

I'm looking forward to the time when I can do something other than look for a job. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sooz
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 03:41 AM

Some beautiful things Bill - Mr Sooz is also a woodturner "mike the woodturner"
Yesterday I made a dress. The skirt has twenty panels made from the ties Mike will no longer need now he is retired.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Metchosin
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 06:25 AM

Jon, great to see someone here other than me fiddling around with LEDs. I've got some white LED light strips that I bought at ebay a couple of years ago, that I am planning to use for under counter lighting in our kitchen. I'm going to configure it so I can run them with with a 12V transformer off our regular household power or switch them to run off our battery pack (similar to this but only 600 W) when the power is out. I'd also like to eventually have a solar panel or small windmill to charge the pack, but given my track record it may be some time.

I'm also in the process of replacing the LEDs in an outdoor string of dragonfly lights that my daughter gave me a couple of years ago, which quit working. I think there was a "small" manufacturing defect in it, because every single positive lead on every LED corroded away, but the negaive leads remained intact, so I suspect it wasn't a moisture problem. I've started to replace them with some new LEDs that I have, but got slowed down a bit cleaning some of the oxidation off positive lead wires in the string well enough to get it to tin properly. I think it probably would have been cheaper to get a new string, LOL, than to try to fix them and again its taking me longer than I originally anticipated, but hey, I'm learning stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 07:10 AM

Sounds like a good idea, Bill.

Metchosin, LEDs are great! I've only had one play with individual LEDs so far - just drilled 8 holes in a CD and mounted green ones - I can't say I like it but I can always take them off and try something else.

I used mains ones for the outside PIR lights and the sheds (mostly for price and availability of mains PIR units - you can get the carrage light type I fitted for little more than £10 from DIY places) . It says they give about the same as a 20W standard bulb - ideal for what I wanted and only use 1.3W but anything else will be 12V DC.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 11:46 AM

Sooz!..Mr. Sooz....or Mike, has some wonderful things there! I am in awe of that 26" Burr Elm platter. A friend brought me a smallish piece of burr Elm from a trip to the UK 3 years ago, and it was quite nice.

I will bookmark that page and keep an eye on it. I hope he puts up more pics. (although Angelfire is pretty sneaky about setting explotive cookies, I know how to deal with 'em..)

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 12:17 PM

Our four year old son Brendan is considered severly autistic. So teaching him to speak { he's nonverbal } takes up most of our time. We're having some success with sign language - it's a start at least.

I'm also about to set up an E-bay account so I can sell off four of my instruments so that I can spend a rather silly amount on a new mandolin. Finding the time to practice the mandolin is another matter entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Metchosin
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 12:39 PM

Jon, I haven't tried making anything that would work in a light fixture yet, nor have I seen what the super bright luxeon type LEDs will do, but about 4 or 5 years ago, when I first got on to the things, I made a 5 LED headlamp, using the housing of an old headlamp I got at the Sally Ann.

Because I was uncertain about resistors, I simply wired the LEDs in series and powered it, using some modifications, with 3 6V camera batteries (18V) of the same diameter as the 4 AA batteries which were in the original headlamp. The thing has been in constant use daily (nightly) when I feed the pony and I've yet to replace the batteries, so I'm pleased with my first step into DIY electronics.

I'm still looking for some small rectangular plastic boxes to house the LED strips in, for the undercounter lights. I think I might end up making the plastic housings myself though and I believe I may have to come up with some sort of heat sink also, if I'm going to enclose them.

Each strip or bar is about 230mm long, 25mm wide and has 9 LEDs per bar. They were the bargain of the century, I paid about $20.00 CDN for a lot of 12 strips and they all worked, so I can't let them got waste.

If anyone has any bright ideas about what to use as a housing, let me know, I've even considered the tiangular plastic box from Toberlone chocolate bars.

I've found the best bargains for LEDs are sometimes related to automotive stuff and here that is 12 volts, so I'm going to stick with that, when I eventually get a solar panel up and running.

You've given me inspiration regarding future lighting and stuff for the 3 goldfish water gardens that I have here in large wooden barrels.

My DIY projects initially inspired by LEDs could become endless.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: lady penelope
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 01:49 PM

That's some seriously gorgeous wood going on there guy's.

When I'm not continuing in my futile attempts to learn more songs and how to read music, I'm soldiering on with sewing a new wardrobe. Fat or thin I'm an awkward size and if I want anything to look nice I have to make it.

Other than that I'm about to start sewing a roll up board for "the celtic game" (sort of drafts meets go) having found some really nice stones for the counters. And I am endevouring to grow tomatoes and strawberries (I have one nearly ripe strawberry already!! I'm so excited........)

Looking at the list of projects above, I feel I must be easily amused/pleased. The list is quite daunting........

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 09:33 AM

yesterday I bought some more wool (10 balls of red 12ply mohair) & will be making a vest/waistcoat. I also bought 2 individual balls of wool to add to my large collection of single balls of exquisitely beautiful wool. I've been using them to make doll's clothes (pick a ball & appropriate needles & find a pattern, does not matter the finished size cos they are not meant to be worn by dolls). I've nearly finished a small mohair bolero, knit 1 ball, buy 2 or 3 or ...

2 years ago I had 5 or 6 balls of exquisite wool & they lived in a shoe box, now I have (lots) & they live in a boot box, & the shoe box & a photocopy paper box (20 balls of grey to make something for me one day) & several plastic bags & a few just sit around getting looked at & patted.

I'm also embroidering a bag to use as a glasses case to hang around my neck cos I've been known to be wearing my prescription sunglasses inside cos I forget to remove them & replace them with my glasses cos I put my glasses in my carrybag or somewhere safe (pause for breath). So in future they will be around my neck & I can easily swap them (I hope)

and I really must clear up some of the paperework around the place.

and scan all the pics that need scanning (when the scanner works properly)


sandra

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 10:10 AM

well - I'm knitting something I can't talk about - and several other things

but the main non-music project these days is trrying to get Spring cleanup done on our gardens. I have not successfully managed this in years. Partially this is because of weather - and partially it is because most years my B-i-l ADDS another garden or two - which makes the chore never-ending. (His philiosophy is that he creates gardens - other people maintain them)

Of the approximately 24 or so gardens I have managed to clear and mulch 7 so far.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,MMario -off topic
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 10:35 AM

Sandra - I have three balls of yarn that sit on my monitor at work, An orange "Martian flat cat" of Kidsilk Haze in marmalade, it's "mate" which is a blue-green eyelash yarn, and their offspring, which is a wee little ball of gray mohair and silk blend.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:25 PM

Oh and a follow up, just in case someone like metchosin did decide to venture into playing with microcontrollers to make LED lighting effects or whatever.

I got my board today and the demo program works. The board may even be a good reliable unit but don't get taken in by the other blurb for the kit where it says "The ABC Maxi Atmel AVR Starter Kit includes a BASIC compiler, which allows you to develop your code using the easy-to-learn BASIC programming language. You can program the AVR on-board device in-system with the ABCEdit programming software and connect to a PC's serial port (RS232), thanks to on-board RS232 level shifters and the AVR's built-in UART.

This user friendly software interfaces with ALL of the required tools on the ABC Atmel AVR Boards to enable you to get started quickly without a time consuming learning curve."

I thought that at least meant something educational. For my extra money (£13.50 with VAT) I got little more than one short paralell and serial leads. The software crashes everytime I use it and on at least one other site, I have found it described as useless. The printed documentation consists of one sheet of A4 that points to a couple of links for further info, at least one of which is dead and another means signing up to Yahoo groups, etc.

As I indicated above, the board itself may be good if you know what are doing but don't waste the extra expecteng user freiendliness, etc. It would probably suit someone who decided they wanted Linux and decided Debian was the way to go...

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:29 PM

The board will at least say hello to me though - I get that far before a crash,,,

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Scoville
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 10:01 PM

Studying for GRE's--which I'm taking on Saturday morning so everybody wish me luck--and trying to work up the nerve to apply to graduate school. Studying seems to be going OK--all that math is still in there somewhere, if I can just find it--but I'm still in a total panic, and I'm dismayed at the level of self-esteem it takes to even fill out grad school applications. (Recommendations? Ha ha. Who the Hell am I going to ask to write those? Yikes.)

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 06:22 AM

Here is a followup from my soar attempts. I made a few mistakes and am in the process or re-doing/ re thinking parts.

The first mistake concerned my estimate of the power output. This went wrong in 2 ways. I'd tried to estimate how many hours or light I'd get where the panel would produce output. I rekoned on about 8 at an average of 50% output (eg. at 8 am the panel would be producing some output but not max). I've bettered that but it falls way short on cloudy and misty days which we had a run of recently.

The second was the output of the panel. This is explained here. Suffice it to say here that although my panel will produce 80W, I'm rarely going to see more than 60W (and sometimes less) when it is running flat out. I'm not convinced the controller I've linked to would be much better with a higher level of battery charge BTW as I'm sure there must be some losses (DC-DC converters seem to work aroud 80%) in what it does although it is probably better on flatter batteries.

The third was my use of 230AC and the inverter. I hadn't thought beyond its consumption of 3-4W at idle and the effieciency (on my 300 one at any rate) is poor at lower levels of power. In particular, I had a problem known as "phantom power" - that is that devices such as an electronic timer and a PIR sensor which only draw milliamps set the inverter using 3 or 4 amps. I have an old 1600W inverter (I acquited cheaply) which believe it or slightly better under those conditions but still not acceptable.

My resolution is to move the pump and the lights onto DC and just use the 230VAC when I need it. I am part way through this projcet and have done one of the biggest parts...

...I mentioned a micro-controller board here too. I learned the snippets of electronic I needed and the board is now part of the solar panel system. I have programed it in such a way that I can set parameters for 4 output devices and have turn on/off acordingly. It will switch on combinations of time (including as I wanted for the pupm say do on 15/off 15 between say 10AM and 7PM) as well as light, battery voltage and for now for the pump which is still on AC will switch the inverter on if the system knows another device needs it, etc. I just have to plug it into my laptop to make changes from a menu.

I've still got to make a light sensor for the system but otherwise, it's been wired to the "real world" for about a week and is doing what I want.

One of the things I still need to make my mind up on is what to do with the second shed. It is about a 20M cable run and 12V is a bit of a pain over that distance - one calculator suggests 16mm cable if I wanted to allow for 100W for occasional tv, etc. (according to the same calculator, at 230V same cable could carry 15KW!). Maybe I run a second cable for lights, maybe next year I get a second panel and run on 24V, ...

Oh well, for a pond pump, lights, etc. this is all ridiculously expensive but at least I am enjoying it and learning some things.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 08:58 AM

MMario - I think Mudcat must have fallen over soon after you last posted cos I never saw your post.

A wool collection is very easy to make, tho mine has just let me down as it has no scraps of plain 8-ply wools to use for christmas decorations. Full balls of exquisite verigated wools are no use. However, I will now buy some plain utilitarian wools.

In the meantime I finished the doll's bolero, then I ironed the seams so well I almost felted it & it went out of shape, good thing it wasn't meant to be worn. But it does look pretty (purple/mauve handspun mohair with a gold filament).

I finished the glasses case & it works, I never have the wrong pair on & can always find the other pair, and it has inspired a friend to do something similar.

I gave up on the 12 ply vest as I kept losing the pattern (chicken!! all it needs is concentration) & am using a gold 1 ply mohair to make a scarf.

And, I just had a week off & did a marvellous job of clearing up & cleaning up (lots went to charity shops & a friend) & I even found a few shelves to use for some overflow stuff. I also did a good bit of deckchair moving.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 10:23 AM

Our parish website. They made me webmaster a long time ago, and I was able to make simple text corrections, but I had a few HTML questions to learn about before I wanted to wade in deeper. A 2-hour meeting with the orignal designer resolved enough of these questions that I went ahead and did some of the things I have wanted to do for a long time.

First I wnet through and adjusted coding to make all fonts, etc., uniform. Next, during this last week, I've added many new sub-pages, learned how to insert photos, and created a typographer's uniform "house style" page so that new pages can easily be created with all style coding in place to copy, and with all the necessary "boilerplate" in place. I've got a number of requests to parishioners circulating-- to submit copy, ideas, and pix to bring the site forward to really reflect what our parish life is like. Now I can expand the site for any event, project, or ministry that people want included.

And now I feel ready to move our band and hospitality websites from their free slots in MSN groups, to a unified paid site-- as soon as I find a domain/registry sponsor to pick up the tab. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 10:55 AM

I found an old cross stitch pattern that Morty started years ago, got stuck and threw out in disgust. I took it on and promptly lost it.

I've made great progress with it and have found the accoutrements to go with it (cushion pad, trim, etc), and made a huge discovery.

Morty - you are not mad! It was not your fault you went wrong. I can see WHERE you went astray and now I know WHY. When the pattern was printed in the magazine, it was printed with one column of stitches missing from one quarter of the pattern... it means there's a bare stripe down the centre and nothing matches up!

SOooooooooooo.... I'm working on it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 08:50 AM

Liz - there's nothing worse than faithfully following a pattern that is wrong. Been there, done that.

I was once working on a very complicated interlaced Greek/Turkish embroidery. The instructions were a veritable comic strip & it was not working till I eventually saw one panel had the thread going a different way to the proceeding panel. When I put my thread in the place it had in the previous panel, it finally worked. I only made a few inches of this embroidery & gave up cos it was so complicated.

enjoy!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 02:25 PM

Relationships that pass in the knight.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 02:56 PM

I've been tending to my container garden, having fun learning how to use a new electronic toy and teaching Vacation Bible School. :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 03:53 PM

Are we polite enough not to wonder what the electronic toy is?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 06:12 PM

Wesley S, good luck- and much joy in the trying.

These days I have gone back to writing on a futuristic novel. The problem is that it takes a LOT of research- and I haven't found nearly all the answers yet. But I too find joy in the tryin'.

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 07:12 PM

Well I'd be interested to know what the electronic toy is.

I bought an electronic toy for Pip's 70th BTW. I asked her what she wanted and she said an outdoor thermometer so I ordered her the BAA-898HG on ths page. I was late and missed her birthday but with luck she will get it tomorrow. Hope she likes it...

Subject: RE: BS: current non-music projects?
From: open mike
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 03:00 AM

I am working on estagblishing a nature preserve.

to find out more or to help you can see these web pages:

This has to do with a piece of forest that
some neighbors are hoping to establish as
a preserve and habitat protection zone.

Please go to this Forest And Watershed News web
page to see our newsletter, The Ring Tailed Cat.   
HTTP://GROUPS.YAHOO.COM/GROUP/F_A_W_N_
(YAHOO PASSWORD REQUIRED---PLEASE JOIN )

ALSO, TO HELP US TO ESTABLISH THIS RARE HABITAT
AS A SPECIMEN FOREST SANCTUARY FOR FUTURE
GENERATIONS PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION ONLINE AT:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/657393277

thanks for your support!! Laurel