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Across the Fence:  Dining Room Table  |
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sweetproserpina
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
meg
Vinemount
Ontario
Canada
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 Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 6:28:53 PM
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I try to keep my table clean, although when I'm in full sewing mode it's covered with all kinds of bits and bobs.
Right now I have a white linen table cloth, two black and white check place mats, one tall candle in a cut crystal holder, blue and white (delft look-a-likes) salt and pepper shakers (a steal at The Bombay Company for 5$!), a white milk glass vase - currently empty but previously filled with holly, an old camera that is waiting to be lent out, and today's newspaper.
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rhonda
USA
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Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 6:57:22 PM
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I'm afraid I can't compete! Our table is the very first thing you see when you come in the back door,so I usually keep it cleared off. I do fold laundry there sometimes but it gets put away as soon as it's folded. 
Right now it's covered with a runner, and an old enamel colander (that I supposed could be a centerpiece) filled with winter greens, a grubby candle & some carved wood birds. Boring!
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Edited by - abbasgurl on Jan 12 2007 6:58:49 PM |
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faithymom
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Faith
Sandpoint
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 8:58:57 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Ronna
Faith...are you sure we aren't related? Ronna
 perhaps we are...
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 11:12:13 PM
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Confession is good for the soul....I've actually put a few things away since the table top inventory and moved the snowmobile helmet to the owner's room. Maybe we should inventory the kitchen counters next.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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faithymom
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Faith
Sandpoint
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2007 : 3:52:47 PM
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Ronna... Do you wanna have a race to see who can get their table cleaned off first?
No stashing, though! The stuff needs to its home (or be found a new one)
Whaddya think?
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2007 : 8:01:41 PM
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You're on..but think it will be a slow motion race here. I just brought four big totes full of Christmas back from the storage, haven't opened them yet to see if it's gifts or decorations, think it's gifts...I buy for my family all year long when I see things they will like. I've already cleared off the doll/barbie clothes. Some will fit my Toni dolls, and the others are sorted by size into bags for parceling out to who ever. The aquarium filters are put away. The old food sections and other newspapers are gone. Now there's only about 100 things that don't belong. I'll post an update tomorrow. If I can wrap what needs wrapped, the paper can go back in the garage until next Christmas. Does the winner get to send something to the loser or are we both winners by getting it done? Mine has to be done before the 24th, when my spouse gets back from Alaska. 12 more bottles of Cabo Wabo tequila are here, but there not on the table and I'm trading 6 of them for a 3 liter for one of my kids and a couple more for other Sammy Hager stuff.
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Tabigirl
Farmgirl in Training
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Tabitha
Kent
WA
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2007 : 8:17:54 PM
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| I like Brenda, have a clear dining room table (most of the time :>) because clutter seems to end up in the mud room first! As my mother says "things are to be used" so whatever we use our dining room tables for...eating, crafting, sewing, sorting or accumulating...so be it! Blesings to all :>) Tabitha |
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lamamama
True Blue Farmgirl
255 Posts
Melanie
CA
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2007 : 8:24:44 PM
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Farmgirls, this is the funniest thread I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!! I practically fell off my chair LOL! I just knew I belonged here. ;)
To tell the truth, my dining room table is actually clear, unless someone is right in the middle of homework or a project. Like Catherine, I grew up in a household where the stuff piled on the dining room table was 6 feet deep. We used to call it the dining room archeological dig table.
HOWEVER......... you should see the big chair near my dining room table! No one has sat in that chair for many years - it always has too much stuff piled on it! Every once in a while it gets to me, & I excavate the pile. Approximately 2-3 days later, it starts all over again. I think it has it's own gravitational field, the way stuff just ends up there. And while I'm confessing, I also have one corner part of my kitchen counter (near the gravitational pull of the big chair in the dining room) that is always filled with mail, coupons, kids' school stuff, to-do lists still not completed, things to be taken somewhere, keys, receipts, photos, bills, etc; etc. A classic example of everything in it's place, & everything all over the place. Ronna & Faith, I think I might be a first cousin to you two!
Can't wait to read more of these........... |
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 13 2007 : 10:27:55 PM
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Pictures would be delightful:)
I don't know that delightful would be a good description. I should have taken one before I started peeling the layers of stuff, will tomorrow anyway, just to prove it wasn't clean all this time :) The day after my husband goes to work in Alaska, the mess starts. In the computer room too, and we hae a four peice two wall desk unit. Let's see, laptop I don't know how to use cause I don't have a book, papers for work, mail for my son, new calendar not on the wall yet, digital camera, husbands mail that I stack for him while he's gone, the Sourdough cookbooks I discussed last week, listing of bottle numbers for the Cabo Wabo tequila, last weeks grocery ads, bills, tax stuff for mothers estate, two checks for mother, one stale dated cause it was just found and I need to get reissued (she's been gone 15 months, but most accounts are still open and she gets mail daily), note pad full of addresses for mailing all the boxes I'm sending to farm girls first of the week, insurance papers for the Harley I have to fax back to AAA, 8 pieces of very vintage Wedgwood Jasperware my cousin sent me and I need to dust before putting it where it will live, the stack of paperwork my husband hasn't put into the file cabinet yet, books on selling my vintage/collectible stuff on eBay, the digital camera no one uses anymore and I should sell while it's still worth a few bucks. That doesn't include the usual stuff that is supposed to be here.....globe, task light, external computer speakers, electric stapler, phone, fax/copy machine, laminator. And I'm sure there are surprises hidden under what I can see.
I did open the four totes of Christmas I brought back from the storage and there are some wonderful gifts to send out when the ROAK addresses are available to me. Some things I'll keep until next year to give my kids and grandson, that won't matter if they are stored a year. The stuff for my son's fiance will go to her....she may not be around next year and it's all specific to her collections. Some wonderful Barbies that are new but no boxes I need to find homes for or eBay. And I'm going to bed, just thinking about all this makes me tired :) Goal tomorrow....dining room table....do or die.
Ronna
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faithymom
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Faith
Sandpoint
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USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 04:02:29 AM
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Ok, Ronna, we'll start tomorrow.
Here's my idea...The loser sends the winner something...that will go on a newly-clean table...
I have JUST the thing to send to you, should you win!!! Feel free to veto this idea if you don't like it.
And no need to worry...mine looks just as described the other day.
Shall we 'officially' begin at 9am?
Faith
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 1:48:39 PM
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I think Faith and I were twins separated at birth :) You've got a head start on me, it's nearly 2 pm and I'm just now starting. Will check in later with progresss...if any!
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faithymom
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Faith
Sandpoint
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 3:56:49 PM
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Uhhh....yeah....
About that 9am thing....
Someone stayed out pretty late and ...well, let's just say I started my whole day late...
It's almost 4 and I've been up for hours, but I haven't quite gotten to that table...
I will start soon...
Later, Sis!
Faith
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 6:16:57 PM
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I think Faith and I are incorrigible. I didn't stay up late, but didn't get out of bed until about 11; just read and dozed until the dogs insisted it was way past time for their breakfast. Now I only have until Desperate Housewives comes on tonite, have to get my laughs for the week.
I do have to get it done by the 24th, when Larry gets back from Alaska and it'll be here before I know it....as usual.
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
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Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 07:52:06 AM
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Okay you guys, I can understand mess. I can understand excavating tables, chairs, whole rooms even. But with your dining room tables all piled with stuff, I just have to ask: Where the heck do you eat your meals??? |
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 08:18:32 AM
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It's just the two of us and my other half works in Prudhoe Bay Alaska, so is gone 3 weeks out of 6. when he's home, it's pretty well cleared off, maybe that days mail or a couple magazines. He only eats his breafast there anyway, dinner is in his recliner watching TV..he's done it since the early 60's, not gonna change now. I always keep enough area clear so I can eat at the table. If we had kids at home, it would be different. Maybe :)
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faithymom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Faith
Sandpoint
ID
USA
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Posted - Jan 16 2007 : 11:10:04 PM
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I have enough space for the 3 kids to eat at the table, hubby and I eat at the couch.
Ronna...my table is technically cleared off, but I'm not declaring winner yet, because I just moved it all and haven't actually gotten it put where it lives...
So, I'm still in...
Faith
"All television is educational television. The only question is, what is it teaching?"-Fmr. FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson |
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