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[mikeyb]

Quote: machine.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: My oldest son has had some facial tics and used to make a weird noise in his throat kind of like he was clearing his ears or something. He now does the moving the mouth to one side like your son. Took him to the Dr. and they said if it gets worse come back. I have to say, it took a few years but they got much better and he only has the one now. It gets worse when he is tired and stressed. He made it through Jr high ok, but High School is much better. Nobody has ever said anything about his tics. I have tried to let him know when he is doing it a lot. Because it's distracting for the person he is talking to. He has done a great job of trying to be aware of it now. But I had to be careful not to make him self conscious about it. A fine line to walk. I think when I let him know that it's not a big deal, just a little distracting for the other person, he didn't take it personally. But he may be a bit young yet for that. Keep doing what you are doing and try to keep him as calm and rested as possible. I know, easier said than done. I will say that I worried about things that my son never did during Jr. high and high school. I made them a bigger issue than anyone else. Just be careful you are not making a big deal out of something that isn't to your son. It was very hard for me to stay out of things once he went to Jr High. Kids begin to not want mommy fighting their battles. It makes things worse for them. Again, another fine line. So hard to raise kids! You are doing a great job! I believe as long as he has a wonderful home environment with loving parents(which he has) to come home to every day he will be just fine. He will find a niche. I am just letting you know what my experience was. And kids are mean! I hated Jr High! And that had some impact on how I reacted to things that happened to him.

 

[pbjls]

I want to have some meaties, but no room to grow them, so if this is on a Saturday morning, or a Sunday I'm in, but no bird to process.

walady944 +1
honeysu
tacomafarms
firewifejess
kmhunter
bikerchick
is the list of interested people for the class

I am really exicted and looking forward to this.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Before I get more distracted by bantams, I have a technical question: how would y'all go about cutting an eight-foot piece of two-inch PVC pipe into two symetrical, flat, length-wise halves? I want to put skids on the kennel we put together yesterday, and my first impulse is "have somebody else do it, but that ould be WRONG and also would still need direction as to clamping it so it doesn't go all spiral on me (I've done this wrong before, you see). If you could find plain old symetrical U shaped plastic gutter anymore, I'd use that (although it's really too wide), but I haven't seen anything except the asymetrical stuff lately


Dragged the Shopvac up to the Wyandotte coop, and will go string the extension cord in another half-glass of water (there was a bunch of other stuff in the past four hours, including checking cows and checking feeders and putting the sheep and the Bd'A in their daytime positions and getting a 3X50 foot roll of 1" mesh chicken wire where I need it.).


So anyway: any brilliant ideas about cutting that pipe? I'll probably be using one of those quick-cut handsaws and I have four clamps I can use although there's an open question as to what I'll clamp it to.

Table saw or skill saw with a fine tooth blade. Works great also works very well for cutting foam insulation.

I'm not supposed to use saws of power; I tend to have the link between my brain and my eyes shut down at inconvenient moments. And the nearest table saw is owned by the same person who is not currently answering phone calls about helping move the upper watering trough before his fence falls down.

Andrew said "take it to the shop at school" but somehow I can't see taking the 62-A bus with an eight foot piece of 2" PVC pipe.

 

[pbjls]

Before I get more distracted by bantams, I have a technical question: how would y'all go about cutting an eight-foot piece of two-inch PVC pipe into two symetrical, flat, length-wise halves? I want to put skids on the kennel we put together yesterday, and my first impulse is "have somebody else do it, but that ould be WRONG and also would still need direction as to clamping it so it doesn't go all spiral on me (I've done this wrong before, you see). If you could find plain old symetrical U shaped plastic gutter anymore, I'd use that (although it's really too wide), but I haven't seen anything except the asymetrical stuff lately

Dragged the Shopvac up to the Wyandotte coop, and will go string the extension cord in another half-glass of water (there was a bunch of other stuff in the past four hours, including checking cows and checking feeders and putting the sheep and the Bd'A in their daytime positions and getting a 3X50 foot roll of 1" mesh chicken wire where I need it.).

So anyway: any brilliant ideas about cutting that pipe? I'll probably be using one of those quick-cut handsaws and I have four clamps I can use although there's an open question as to what I'll clamp it to.

I can do it on a table saw if you are any where near snohomish

 

[bikerchicky]

Odd -- I've been wearing big girl underwear for ...errr.. wait.

SCARY THOUGHTS............SCARY THOUGHTS

 

[Totalcolour]

 

[CarolynF]

There are some things I measure with great precision. There are others that I "wing it" and just go with what looks right.

I'm a quilter now and with my tendancy towards OCD (or CDO for those really precise) I can't imagine doing quilts by hand with hand cut fabric and always wonder if it will come out the right size.

What do you do them with then? I only ever made one quilt, all by hand. I found it a lot of work and even though it came out fine, it took a long time so I decided not to do it again.

If not by hand, by what . . . ?

Kate... most quilters now use rotary cutters rather than cutting with scissors. It's much faster and far more accurate. And very few of us quilt by hand any more. Most people will use their home machine or either a medium- or long-arm quilter. And a whole lot of people send their quilt tops to professional quilters, mostly long-arm and a few hand quilters.

 

[pbjls]

SCARY THOUGHTS............SCARY THOUGHTS

I am just glad he beat me to it.

but since we are being a little out there

left nut
right nut

sorry for that

 

[robj]

Well it wouldn't be a birthday without being up all night huh? Only I used to be up all night partying and this time I was up all night with a tantrum throwing boy in my bed, kicking me in the back and crying if I moved. Ah the joys of motherhood! Sweet littlest baby will turn 3 and mamas heart will break a little more on Friday. Today were all headed to the chiropractor at 11, then DH is taking me out for my birthday this evening.

Happy Birthday Jess!!!!!!!! Hope you have a Great Dinner!!!

What time should we be there for the PAR-TAY??

What???