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The Coffee Shop / Bye for now

« on: June 02, 2012, 01:49:09 am »

Ok guys, we leave tomorrow on our long awaited holiday, so I'll say bye for now and I'll see you in September.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Sad time

« on: May 28, 2012, 11:12:16 pm »

Hope you don't mind me telling you this.  My daughter and her husband have finally decided to separate.  They have been together for about 11years.  I am sad for my daughter but not sad that it is over it was inevitable. I think it was on the cards after their 2nd year together, it has been a very rocky marriage considering his obsession with money and always being moody.  Still it means I have a house sitter for the 3 months that I am away and it is still close to the kids school.  Sorry I just had to tell someone, I don't mean to depress you all, I'm trying very hard to smile at the moment and thats not like me. 

Marg
 

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Happy Birthday Grampa

« on: May 28, 2012, 01:56:08 am »

I understand that it is Paul's Birthday, so Happy birthday Paul I hope you have/had a good one.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Senior Thoughts

« on: May 27, 2012, 01:28:35 am »

  Some Senior Thoughts
 
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do... and the eyesight to tell the difference.
 
Now that I'm older (but refuse to grow up) here's what I've discovered:
 
1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

2. My wild oats have turned into prunes and all-bran.

3. I finally got my head together, and now my body is falling apart.

4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

5. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

6. If all is not lost, where is it?

7. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

8. Some days, you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

9. I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few.

10. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.

11. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.

12. It's hard to make a comeback when you really haven't been anywhere.

13. The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.

14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.

15. When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone want to play chess?

16. It?s not hard to meet expenses . . .they're everywhere.

17.The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

18.These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter . . .
I go somewhere to get something, and then wonder what I'm hereafter?
 
19. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.

20. I'M UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHETHER I'VE SENT YOU THIS BEFORE.........



Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Names

« on: May 22, 2012, 02:38:22 am »

I am just curios where did your user names come from?  There are some very interesting ones out there.  Mine is easy I'm mad about Wombats so a friend started to call me Wombatie because I have a large collection of them.  Now lets hear yours.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Over 36 crowd

« on: May 16, 2012, 12:02:38 am »

I found this on face book and I love it hope you do too.


If u r 36, or older,u might think this is hilarious!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of 36, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! (how many of you know the Dewey Decimal System???)

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way up the street & put it in the mailbox,& it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If u wanted to steal music, you had to save your penny's (which took forever)& walk to the record store & buy it yourself.

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favourite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brats!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in the 1970's or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 36 Crowd


Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Dissappointed Preacher

« on: May 11, 2012, 02:47:07 am »

The rain kept coming and the flood waters were rising.
The preacher watched the water come up to his porch. A boat
came by and the fellow in it hollered 'Get in preacher, it's gonna
get your house'. The preacher responded 'no thanks friend, the
Lord will rescue me'. In a while the water was up to the roof and
another boat came by and the fellow hollered 'get in preacher or
you're gonna wash away'. The preachers response was the same,
'no thanks friend, the Lord will rescue me'. The preacher was sitting
on the top of the chimney when the helicopter hovered over head
with the same result. 'I am waiting for the Lord, he will rescue me.
The water rose and the preacher was washed away and drowned.
He met the Lord in heaven and he said 'Lord I was kinda disappointed
down there. You let me drown.' The Lord said 'preacher I sent you
two boats and a helicopter. What in the world did you want?'


Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Happy birthday MRSN

« on: May 06, 2012, 03:32:49 am »

Happy birthday Katie, hope you have a great day and lots of cake.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Marg's Hand Part 2.

« on: April 27, 2012, 02:55:04 am »

I saw the specialist today and got some good news.  I will only be in a hand brace for 6 weeks instead of the 3 months that I was originally told and because the 2 brakes are clean and not displaced there will be no need for surgery. Plus because it is a hand brace with velcro I will not have to attend a hospital in the UK to have it taken off.  So all good news, I just wish it didn't hurt so much.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / Bad Days

« on: April 22, 2012, 02:19:15 am »

I've had a terrible 2 or 3 days.  Firstly I had to drive my youngest daughter to Hospital on Thursday night because her husband and hospitals just don't mix.  Left there at 2.00am in the morning, had to leave my daughter there.  My husband collected the grandchildren at 6.30 the next day so that I could look after them because they had a day off school.  I was busy running around getting something for one of them when I fell over a cord and hurt my hand.  I decided that nothing was broken and even though it hurt quite a bit I carried on as usual.  Took the kids to see their mum and had to leave her there another night.  Got up yesterday and I had this big fat swollen hand that I can't do much with.  Daughters out of hospital now and I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. I really hope I have not done to much damage and that it IS just swollen.

Marg

 

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General Scroll Saw Talk / EX21 again

« on: April 12, 2012, 02:33:41 am »

When I first got my EX21 and I would put the blade in and clamp it up it stayed straight now it hooks like a hockey stick.  I don't fasten it too tight.  I noticed today with a new blade that when I just put it in the top clamp the whole blade kinked to one side dramatically, you had to pull it back to attach it to the bottom clamps.  Has anyone else had this problem and if so how did you fix it?

Marg 

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The Coffee Shop / Quite

« on: April 11, 2012, 02:01:07 am »

It seems a bit quite at the moment anyone know why?  I know there's a few regulars that haven't been around for a while but there's normally alot more activity than this?  Anyone know any jokes?   I can't think of any at the moment.

Marg

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The Coffee Shop / True Story

« on: February 02, 2012, 12:48:55 am »

A Mr Grenda sold his bus company that he started about 50 years ago and decided to give his workers a bonus so he shared $15million between them.  Depending on the length of time they had been there it went from $30,000 down to $850 to the guy that had been with him for just 3 months.  My daughter know this family personally because her boy friend goes on weekend jaunts with his sons and they also play gold together. A few years ago my daughters footy team were to play in the grand final and she could not afford to go so he sent her 2 free tickets.  What a fantastic guy he is, I would say the best.

Marg

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General Scroll Saw Talk / What blade?

« on: February 02, 2012, 12:16:15 am »

I am trying to cut a piece of wood about an inch thick and it's pretty hard, (not sure what it is) could you recommend what blade to use?  I have tried #9 Skip Tooth which is working but at the rate we are going I should be finished this time next year.

Marg

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Intarsia / Thickness

« on: January 31, 2012, 12:41:29 am »

What is the thinnest size of wood you can go to for intarsia?

Marg