my big adventure...

ok, ok, some folks think an 'adventure' is doing something such as jumping
out of a perfectly good airplane... but adventure is doing anything where
you're not sure of the outcome and you've never done it before... :))

so, today i decided to clean out my dresser drawers... yes, you're right.
it was an awesome challenge. four (4) drawers that have not been cleaned
out in god-knows-when...

amidst all the stuff, i happened to find 5 new pair of underwear, still
unwrapped... and a pair of flannel pajamas that i hadn't seen in years...
and three (3) pair of gloves that i don't think have ever been worn....
(btw, i just bought a pair of gloves last week 'cause i needed some...) two
(2) beautiful sweaters that i had forgotten... a shortwave radio, the
front page of the newspaper announcing the clinton impeachment (might be
valuable some day... ), two harmonicas, a telescope, plus 3 birthday
cards from dalin from somewhere in the mid 1980's...(that's my romantic,
but disorganized side showing.. )

i do not recommend this activity to any of you... too frightening and
physically and emotionally exhausting... certainly, i have no plans to
repeat this effort for at least another decade or two... :)

me...

ROTFL!!!!!! This is priceless !! :O)

**Dalin**...

Crusher...

One of my more pleasant winter chores growing up was sitting around a warm
stove with the family braiding rugs. We didn't exactly sew them together,
though, we used a blunt needle and ran the threads between the loops of
cloth. The trick was folding the cloth inward twice like two seams, then
making one more fold so that there were no raw edges and the strip was four
pieces thick. Made a very thick and durable rug with no raw edges and no
thread showing.

Jean B....

Hmmm. Is that as easy as it sounds? It might be fun--and

mj...

David, I am still (been at it for more than a month) little by little trying
to clean things out from various places such as dressers, desks, closets,
top shelf cupboards. It's insane. At the moment my project is making sure I
have all the addresses in one place, (address book, typed list) of all the
Christmas card envelopes I saved to make sure I had the persons latest
address, or in my book, or whatever. I'd be embarrassed to admit how many of
these envelopes (many duplicates over the years) I have. Now with all the
emphasis on identity theft I have to shred the darn things both for my
protection and theirs. So I understand how you feel.

different....

**Dalin**...

I can't exactly remember how she did it. I think she took each strip
and cut it in the same width and then rolled it and sewed it up the
back. Then she sewed strips together and started braiding keeping the
sewn side on the inside of the braid so the rug could reverse. Then
she had to tack the braid together every so many inches so the rug
would stay together.

My sister and I each had an oval braided rug next to our beds to step
on in the cold winter mornings.

Jane...

My great aunt had those beside all the beds and at all the doors in her
house.

A lot of hers were quite old, and were made from fabric left over from
sewing projects, so they were quite colourful, to put it politely.

You would think this would mean you couldn't see dirt on them easily, but in
spite of her 100-year-old eyes, she still could!

As soon as you do there will be something in it that you want.

NHunkele...

I did that once. I don't plan to do it again any time soon. Not only
is it tiring, but I ended up with a whole bunch of stuff and nowhere to
put it. It seemed like every time I removed something, the drawer
started to shrink a little. Certainly, none of stuff I took out would
fit back in.
Norma