Taking the Name of Camels in Vain

I can't wait to buy this house so I can change all the carpet to wooden
floors (of some kind, bamboo, laminate, something other that all
absorbing carpet!). I don't want the baby crawling on old dirty carpet!
And we've cleaned it well a couple of times, but it looks better for a
while, then goes back to looking old an worn out.

Sofia has not made any big messes yet, it is mostly me with red wine
glasses, and tracking yucky stuff from the doorway. I've tried for a
long time to institute a rule of taking shoes off when you get in, which
I do every time, but DH forgets often, and sometimes I feel it would be
rude to make visitors do it as well...

Lizzy Taylor wrote:

Diana Curtis wrote:

Those seem to be two wise precautions. Seems all those colored drinks
for
kids are guarenteed to provide you with a life time reminder of the
folly of
allowing them to drink such things anywhere but outside.
The camel thing I cant help you with.


We could donate our carpet to Porton Down for biological weapons
research. I think it will come out in the next 12 months and be
replaced with either wood or laminate flooring that won't absorb "yuck"*
so easily. How ever fast I clean the spillages and how ever much I
vacuum it there is always some unidentified icky bit somewhere.

Lizzy

* Yuck = milk, juice, any liquids, play dough, blue tack and other
sticky stuff.


--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out before replying)

I banned anything that has the fake red color dye from the house.
That stuff is terrible. Clear uncolored are the best.

I had to take my shoes off at a woman's house for a boy scout meeting
once (just the adults). I was really mad. I never would have worn
dirty shoes on her floor and I was insulted that I wasn't at least
warned of house rules before I got there. I tend not to wear shoes
in the house but I was really insulted that day.
Taria

DrQuilter wrote:
I can't wait to buy this house so I can change all the carpet to wooden
floors (of some kind, bamboo, laminate, something other that all
absorbing carpet!). I don't want the baby crawling on old dirty carpet!
And we've cleaned it well a couple of times, but it looks better for a
while, then goes back to looking old an worn out.

Sofia has not made any big messes yet, it is mostly me with red wine
glasses, and tracking yucky stuff from the doorway. I've tried for a
long time to institute a rule of taking shoes off when you get in, which
I do every time, but DH forgets often, and sometimes I feel it would be
rude to make visitors do it as well...

Pati Cook wrote:

Kate, try dry baking soda on the oil stains. Just sprinkle it on heavily, let
sit overnight. Should absorb a lot of it.

I just sprayed it with 'Shout' - we call it yelling at the clothes!
Worked a treat! No-one would ever know the shirt had been oiled
liberally yesterday, and James wore it again today! It's a nice heavy
poly crepe type stuff that doesn't need ironing if you drip it dry.

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

In article H3I_c.2110$Va5.1928@trnddc01,
Taria wrote:

I banned anything that has the fake red color dye from the house.
That stuff is terrible. Clear uncolored are the best.

I had to take my shoes off at a woman's house for a boy scout meeting
once (just the adults). I was really mad. I never would have worn
dirty shoes on her floor and I was insulted that I wasn't at least
warned of house rules before I got there. I tend not to wear shoes
in the house but I was really insulted that day.
Taria

I'm with you. I think it's tacky to expect that of guests -
particularly guests who have not been warned. I really dislike showing
up at someones house and being imposed on that way. I am generally cold
and at times will be ok with shoes and no socks, but have been caught at
a no shoe house and frozen in my bare feet. Had I known, I would have
worn socks or brought slippers or something.

marcella
actually rarely wears shoes but always wears socks in the house and lets
guests do what makes them comfortable.

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:39:47 +0100, Lizzy Taylor
wrote:

Diana Curtis wrote:
Those seem to be two wise precautions. Seems all those colored drinks for
kids are guarenteed to provide you with a life time reminder of the folly of
allowing them to drink such things anywhere but outside.
The camel thing I cant help you with.

We could donate our carpet to Porton Down for biological weapons
research. I think it will come out in the next 12 months and be
replaced with either wood or laminate flooring that won't absorb "yuck"*
so easily. How ever fast I clean the spillages and how ever much I
vacuum it there is always some unidentified icky bit somewhere.

And they all thought I was mad! mad! mad! when I said I wanted the
carpets removed, the wood floors waxed, and linolieum put down in the
once-was-a-diningroom-now-is-Ash's-bedroom.
Assorted "yuck" as well as most varieties of "gundge" come up off of
hard floors with a far greater degree of success than they do out of
carpets!

After the three girls I thought I had seen every possible variety of
icky bit possible to get on the floor. Now we have a boy and I
realize that was all merely a training run for the really grody bits.


NightMist
imagining that some girls are as bad as our boy about grot, and vice
versa
--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

I know regular carbona stain remover does nothing on assorted kid
drink stains. Haven't tried the new stain specific ones yet.
I know I have a white velvet bouse around here somewhere that a
repulsively drunk jerk dumped red wine down the back of one New Years
eve. I have been planning on digging it out and dyeing it (yet
another reason I prefer organic fiber clothes!). Dye is usually my
answer to stubborn stains, but maybe I should try the stain stuff on
it just to see if it works.
So far as the muslin I generally buy that by the bolt, and since I
have plenty I will just wash that piece, cut out the stained part, and
toss it into the lot of scraps I use for foundation blocks, small
interfacing bits, shoulder pads, and what not. A bit of stain won't
make any difference there.

DH offered up the Three Kings as reasoning for the camels. I get it
for the cookie cutters, but that sent the convo into the realms of
geography, historical astronomy, and language. Always fun! (G)

NightMist

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 03:39:02 GMT, Pati Cook
wrote:

Camel-Christmas connection is fairly straightforward........ the Three Kings
came from "the East".

Carbona may make a spot remover that will take the stains out. Check the small
bottles in the display stand at Jo-Ann's.

Pati, in Phx

Diana Curtis wrote:

Those seem to be two wise precautions. Seems all those colored drinks for
kids are guarenteed to provide you with a life time reminder of the folly of
allowing them to drink such things anywhere but outside.
The camel thing I cant help you with.
Diana, with a koolaid, chocolate milk and unidentified stained carpet...

--
Heart and soul can make up for technical lacking in any form of art, but let
the heart be lacking and all the perfection means nothing.

"NightMist" wrote in message
...

OK, so last night I was showing a friend of DD1 how to design and
piece a double wedding ring.
We paused for supper, and then after we resumed and had just finished
sample layouts of the paper templates on the muslin background and
blocks of strip pieceing, when kiri came in with the things to make
ice cream floats for dessert. We were working in the kitchen because
of space limitations in my room, so I just set everything aside at the
end of the table. How long could it take to have a float after all?

So we are all settled down at the table, adults haveing root beer
kidlets with fruit flavors. Then it is discovered that we are short a
straw, kiri goes to get one out of the drawer and has to paw a bit
because they have rolled to the back. During the rummage she holds up
a cookie cutter and wonders aloud what it is. It was a camel, which
spawns a conversation about why camel shapes are so popular for
cookies during Christmas. DH says it is the whole manger thing, I
point out that camels were sort of the Lamborghini of those days and
it wouldn't be all that likely to find one parked at a Motel 6 in
Bethlehem. Thus the conversation went.
Meantime, Ash is sitting next to me with his grape float and being
very good with it. He carefully ate his ice cream and was useing his
straw correctly, all the best you could expect. Then he suddenly
picked up his cup and slammed it down (in an upright position) on the
table. For some reason I ended up splattered with milky grape soda
and ice cream bits while his mum on the other side of him stayed
clean. I also had a puddle in front of me. DD3 jumped up and got
some paper towels handing one to me, starting mop up in front of me
with one and dropping another on the table. Ash picked up the spare
and started trying to help clean. He managed to mop some onto my
until then dry lap and then started trying to wipe it off my lap with
his soggy bit of towel. DD immediately tried to stem the flow off of
the table. Meanwhile, a thin stream ran down the table and soaked
into my white muslin.

DH has informed me that this was all instant karma for taking the
name of camels in vain.

I have discovered today, that the staining power of cheap grape soda
when combined with Breyers creamy vanilla ice cream is really quite
impressive. I must say that I am very happy that it is muslin and not
a more premium fabric. One drop did manage to splash high and land on
top of the stack of quilting things, but it landed on my compass and
was easily cleaned off.

My new resolution is to get me a plastic box or tray that will fit
conviniently on the table when I have to work in the kitchen. All
stainable or fluid damageable etc. items will stay on it so long as
they are on that table!

NightMist
not quite sure she got all the ice cream out of her ear
--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell


--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message
...
I'm with you. I think it's tacky to expect that of guests -
particularly guests who have not been warned.

I have a couple of friends who insist on no shoes, and it's a big problem
for me, because I'm in severe pain the next day if I walk around barefoot
for a couple of hours (tendon problems). If I know in advance, I can bring
shoe covers, which usually satisfies most people.

Every once in a while I get someone who insists that even covered walking
shoes will damage their flooring -- I figure if their floor is more
important than my pain, I can find some excuse to leave pretty quickly.

--
Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
Queen of Fabric Tramps
http://www.kayneyquilting.com ,
remove the obvious to reply

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:57:23 +0100, Kate Dicey
wrote:

NightMist wrote:

-------------Gently mopped along with the tears...--------------

NightMist
not quite sure she got all the ice cream out of her ear

Sorry, but I couldn't help laughing, as James also did a great one today...

Thats OK, part of the reason Ash managed to soak my lap so thoroughly
while he was "cleaning" was I was laughing too hard to stop him.

We try hard not to laugh at such things because we don't want to
encourage him to be naughty. Sometimes though you just can't not
laugh no matter how hard you try. At least he was trying to do
something good while I was laughing myself to the point of
hyperventilation.

I was fixing lunch: just sandwiches and salad, but we though some
vinegrette dressing would be a nice addition. Put vinegar, oil, Dijon
mustard, salt, a little sugar, herbs in the shaker... Fixed the lid,
and James shook it nicely, over the sink. Then we tasted it, and it
needed a little adjusting, so we did that, popped the lid back on, and
he gave it another vigorous shake... Only he hadn't *QUITE* fixed the
lid, and sprayed himself with vinegrette - and a goodly part of the
kitchen! There he stood, dripping and licking vinegrette off hid face,
saying, 'Well, at least it TASTES good!'

Sounds like he can smile at himself. A good trait in anyone.


We mopped him, and the kitchen, and he changed his shirt...

It is a very good thing that God made people washable.


Now I need to get vinegrette dressing (a couple of tablespoonfuls!) out
of a poly shirt... Laundry spray, where are you...

Yes, I laughed, but I also told him about doing the same myself with a
pint of pancake batter, which went a LOT further! And at least I helped
to mop up, whereas his dear father had stood and laughed at me and the
re-decorated kitchen, and almost ended up murdered for not helping at all...

You know, those times when I have had a kitchen newly painted in
pancake batter it has almost always been because of a man.
There was the fellow who was attempting to show off how he could flip
a pancake by throwing it up in the air with the turner and the other
fellow who did the same thing by trying to throw it up in the air with
just the pan.
Then there was the fellow who tried showing me how to use a mixer and
pulled it up out of the bowl of batter while it was on high, and the
fellow who was going to show me how to mix batter in a plastic juice
pitcher and didn't hold the lid down whern he shook it.
The only time a woman ever splattered my kitchen with batter was the
time many moons ago when a particularly lovely redhead went to bed
angry, got up angry, started an argument and yanked away the bowl of
batter and threw it at me. While she was stunned at herself I put an
egg down her back, that settled her a bit and we both laughed about
it. She is the only one who helped clean the mess up, AND she took me
out for breakfast afterwards. (I cleaned her shirt, fair is fair)

NightMist

--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

I love to go barefoot or in just socks but in MY house. I don't like being
barefoot at someone else's place and I always figure if I'm tromping around
their house in just socks, I'll slip and drop/break/smash into something. I
have one friend who insists on guests taking shoes off (which I don't
understand because she has hardwood "barn" floors with multiple coats of
sealer on them) and keeps a big basket of slippers by the front door for her
guests. Personally I'm not too wild about wearing someone else's footwear
either (so I bring my own).

Nana



In article H3I_c.2110$Va5.1928@trnddc01,
Taria wrote:

I banned anything that has the fake red color dye from the house.
That stuff is terrible. Clear uncolored are the best.

I had to take my shoes off at a woman's house for a boy scout meeting
once (just the adults). I was really mad. I never would have worn
dirty shoes on her floor and I was insulted that I wasn't at least
warned of house rules before I got there. I tend not to wear shoes
in the house but I was really insulted that day.
Taria

DrQuilter wrote:
I've tried for a
long time to institute a rule of taking shoes off when you get in, which
I do every time, but DH forgets often, and sometimes I feel it would be
rude to make visitors do it as well...

How about French style slippers that can fit over a shoe?

Lizzy

--
Lizzy Taylor
Heywood, Lancashire, UK 53:36:00N 2:06:00E
http://www.thetaylorfamily.org.uk