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Dwight, we me being hearing impaired, orders like that would NOT be taken over the phone. An e-mail or letter would have to be involved! Then the customer has no one to blame but him/herself!

And us Canadians use the British spelling!

I was very fortunate the dye missed my clothing in this particular case. I keep a box of gloves on a shelf above my bench, and a roll of paper towels is always in a nearby holder. And I use glass shot glasses for large dye projects, and Tandy's little plastic painter's pallet for smaller ones. Maybe I need to make a holder for the shot glasses and/or my dye bottles. Have yet to spill a shot glass, though, as they are bottom heavy. Oh, and I have a box of 1 ml. syringes for measuring dye, plus some larger 3 and 10 ml syringes for larger amounts. Once the dye is measured out, the neck of the dye bottle and the cap are carefully wiped down before recapping to make sure I get a good seal, and to make sure I can get the cap off the next time I need that particular dye!

Okay, pet peeve time... we work with dye when colouring leather. That means we are DYEING it. The other spelling (dying) means you're about to leave this world!

Let's not forget your work table, the floor and in this particular case, one of my sneakers...

Yeah, it was, especially when some close family members decided the vaccines were killing people and masks were useless in preventing transmission. I just had a bad scare with the breast swelling up and getting hard, but after a round of very comprehensive tests, my oncologist says it's just due to scarring causing an increase in lymph-edema. I'm coming up for 4 years cancer free in November!

Hang in there! I was going through chemo during the COVID lockdown. And the chemo caused breathing problems - I was on oxygen for awhile! You can bet I kept my distance from anyone not wearing a mask!! It was a scary time.

You decide you need to do this one little touch-up on your nearly completed project, and can't be bothered taking your usual precautions with the leather dye... You can guess what comes next, I'm sure!

The only possible way I can think of to fix this is to try trimming a bit off the cover of the notebook itself. Covers always extend a bit beyond the pages inside them, and since the notebook is going to fit inside the leather cover, no one is ever going to notice, until they need to replace the notebook with a new one! The only OTHER alternative would be to throw the cover in the trash bin and start over... Tooling errors can often be fixed. Same with dyeing. But for measurement errors, it's measure twice, cut once. And if you're at all unsure, leave a margin for error. You can always cut something smaller if you have to!

Wow, if I lived close by, I'd be there for sure! Both to help the horses, and to dig for fossils!

Two of my favourite smells go together - leather and horses!

SUP, I really doubt that, as the initial small amount the tracker took out was on the same day I attended the luncheon. The only other place i visited that day was the grocery store, and as I said, opportunities for hacking my card there are very limited because I stick extremely close to my cart, and would notice someone trying to get close to me.

I think the card was hacked either when I paid or when I left it lying on the table for quite some time. Not going to do that again! I believe the tap feature is disabled for amounts over $100. I know when I use my debit card, that's the case. Should check and see if it's the same with my Master Card.

Master Card suspended my card when the hacker tried to make that cash advance, which was over my credit limit. And here was poor me, wondering why they wouldn't let me activate the NEW card I'd just received in the mail! By sheer coincidence, my old card's expiry date was just days after it was hacked. I've spoken with MC twice, and it's all sorted out, and a new card is on its way. I have also warned the Friday lunch group at my church about what happened. I'm sure the hacking happened at the Legion, as the only other place I used the card that day was at my usual grocery store. It would be pretty difficult for someone to hack the card there, as I never let anyone get near my buggy. Most people seem to still observe the COVID 6 feet apart rules in the grocery store.

Today I found out my credit card was hacked. After somehow stealing my information, the hackee ran a small payment of just over a dollar through the card, and when that was successful, tried to take a large cash advance from the account. Fortunately, this didn't go through as it exceeded my credit limit, which I deliberately keep low for just that reason. I got my statement today, and the last place I used the card prior to this was at the local legion. My Anglican church meets for lunch at the Legion every Friday, and we all sit together at the same table. On this occasion, I decided to pay by credit card, and had the card sitting out on the table for quite some time before paying. To pay, you have to go into another room, where someone had a terminal. I don't recall if I paid by tapping, or if I had to enter my pin, but the amount was only $8.00. I'm wondering if someone possibly scanned my card while it was lying on the table. I certainly don't suspect anyone in our group - the person immediately on my left was our priest, and the one across from me was a member of the Altar Guild, and someone I know quite well compared to some of the other people in the church. So, since credit and debit cards allowed tap and go, how close do you have to be to the card to steal someone's information? And do I need to warn others about this?

Had to Google that. They are an extinct form of sea creature, distantly related to the octopus: https://www.google.com/search?q=Baculites&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Cool!

Let's hope so! They have enough troubles with Burmese pythons! https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/08/03/florida-python-hunt-amy-siewe-competes/70476867007/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Gainesville_Sun&fbclid=IwAR1HyG4yFjXOqtn6_Vl_mJ-zNI0ZTzkxYJCZv-kyMlM5O0OG-lOs76D9Ar4

Yeah, kind of hard to date them accurately, unless you know exactly where they were found, and can search the site for something that can be radio-carbon dated. It's pretty big, too, about 2 inches long, which I think is rather big for an arrowhead. Might have been a spearhead. AAaaand of course, now that i want to actually measure it, I can't find where I put the darn thing!! Fred, wow, that is interesting! I'm a horse person, and I never knew that about the origin of the term! I live in a small town, which has a variety store, a restaurant, a drug store and a post office. Anything else I need, I have to drive to the largest nearby town, which is only about 15 minutes away. I like it here. Everyone is on a septic systems, so the lots have to be quite large. It's nice to be surrounded by farmer's fields...well, maybe not so much during spreading season... The farmers have just harvested their grain, and are fertilizing and plowing the fields. Between that and the smoke from the forest fires, I've been keeping my windows closed a lot!

Oh dear! Let's hope this is not true!! https://abc-7.com/news/2023/07/31/officials-investigating-presence-of-green-anacondas-in-collier-county/?fbclid=IwAR04f4jseR7y93miTBtUVW8if0WR3ncj73vEA4mRGt4-StBUTU94KZ5nI_I

My dad found this arrowhead not far from the farm where he grew up, near Bradford, Ontario. I've been told it's from the archaic period and may be about 2000 old. It's made out of chert, not flint. My parents had a property that had been a Presbyterian church in the pioneer days. My dad/ found an old harness bell when digging fence post holes near where the drive shed had been located. I still have it - it's a real beauty! Solid brass, and about 3 1/2" in diameter. Except for one quarter of it being bent in it was in excellent shape. I pried out the bent part with a screwdriver, polished it up, and it's good as new! The big sleigh bells were called chimes, and there would be 4 of them in a row across the horses' withers. You had to be fairly well-heeled to afford a set! The smaller bells were much more common. One of my uncles went over the site with a metal detector, but found nothing else of interest. I did find an inkwell with the cork still in it, and an old sugar bowl that had been smashed. It was Meakin pottery, probably the most common brand name for early Canadian pottery. It was a British firm that catered mostly to the export market. The inkwell probably belonged beside the guest book in the church entrance. Nice little piece of history! I use it to display my feather collection.

AlZilla, Now, now, I doubt Frodo is THAT old! Yeah, that's going to need a pretty robust belt...or belt AND suspenders!

Sounds like a good way of doing it! Those trowels get pretty sharp with use!

Fred, having taken part in a dig or two myself, where has your daughter been digging? I've also watched Digging For Britain, and found it very interesting! And did you know that the Drumheller dinosaur museum will allow you to take part in a dinosaur dig? That was one of the two digs - the other was part of a credit course I took at University. Profs love to use students as unpaid labour to do their digging for them...lol! The dinosaur dig took place on our honeymoon, and was very much enjoyed by both of us. I was excavating a dinosaur vertebrae. The central part of the vertebrae was the size of a dinner plate! I can tell you the exact date - as I was soaking my weary sunburnt bones in the jacuzzi of our B&B afterwards, my husband came into the bathroom to tell me Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash. Speaking of pony tails - love the tail lights on these mustangs!

Yep, I noticed that too!

Klara, you mean like this?? This was in Norway.