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Date Posted: 17:57:15 08/29/02 Thu
Author: LisaE
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Hello All! Just checking in..

Hi everybody!

Hope you all had a great summer! Judging by our board we've all been pretty busy:)

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Re: Hello All! Just checking in.. -- Laura, 05:34:41 08/30/02 Fri

Yep, I've been beavering away on my dissertation all summer. Now in the writing up stage with a month to go before it's due in.... Help!

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[> Re: Hello All! Just checking in.. -- Jennifer, 10:18:48 08/30/02 Fri

Hey! I was thinking about this board last night. Where has everyone GONE?! Doesn't anyone have anything at ALL to talk about??? LOL!!!

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[> Nice to see you! -- delilah, 23:11:26 08/30/02 Fri

Yeah, I think a lot of people are busy. Even Ann and Cindy have made theirselves scarce. I only wish I could live at the computer like I used to. :)

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[> Re: Hello All! Just checking in.. -- Ann, 11:19:25 08/31/02 Sat

My mother is getting up there in years, no longer drives, I've taken over several tasks, such as check writing, I drive her everywhere, so I've been pretty busy helping her.
On a more fun note, football season starts today, so I'll be involved in that. Go Ducks!
But it's good to see a few folks at the board. Maybe as fall and winter weather set in we can get going here again. :)

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Re: Hello All! Just checking in.. -- Valerie, 15:19:42 09/04/02 Wed

I've still been checking the board each week, hope everyone has had a good summer?, it certainly has flown by again!! My daughter went back to school yesterday, so I'll get more time to myself-hopefully! I try to get on the computer when I can, as my husband has been on it a lot lately. Has anyone been away?? We've just been out for day's here and there. I enjoyed watching the programme "Frontier House" and have just received the book this week.

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[> [> Re: Hello All! Just checking in.. -- Shell, 15:34:42 09/04/02 Wed

I've been busy. Started back to work today. Tommorow is Kindergarten orientation in my town and my oldest is starting.(a little sad) so I'm already taking a day off of work(only the second day of school, oh well) We didn't do much this summer. My in-laws took the kids a few weekends(they have a trailer in Maine) My husband recently started back to work(after being out of work for 6 weeks)so we didn't have money to go anywhere.
I did recently order books from LIW Memorial Society(I had to buy myself something after so long) Iwas all excited, thaey came in yesterday(my son was excited too, we got a package). All of it was wrong. It was he Marth and Caroline books and a bracelet. $80.00 worth of stuff i didn't order. I was so disappointed. I called them and their sending out the right order. They said someone else will be calling too then. Oops.

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[> [> [> Ann -- Valerie, 12:15:15 09/09/02 Mon

Yes it looks good, I've only skimmed through it so far,but it looks interesting. I really enjoyed watching the programme, but didn't like all the nastiness. It was interesting to find out that the man who made it was the same one who made the programmes that we've had here in the UK for Channel 4, The 1900 house, 1940's house and the Edwardian Country House, I didn't realise it was the same person.

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[> [> FH book -- Ann, 16:40:31 09/04/02 Wed

You should enjoy the FH book, Valerie. There are things in the book about the show that weren't on TV, and there is a lot of interesting true-life historical stories about real frontier life.

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[> [> [> Ann -- Valerie, 12:30:26 09/09/02 Mon

Yes Ann, it looks interesting, I have only skimmed through it so far. I didn't realise that the man who go the programmes together was the same one who did the programmes over here in the UK for our Channel 4, The 1900 House,1940's House and The Edwardian country house.

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[> [> [> [> Houses -- Ann, 18:50:03 09/09/02 Mon

I'd love to have seen the other House shows. FH is the only one I've seen.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Houses -- Valerie, 07:24:48 09/10/02 Tue

I watched the series about the 1900 house, and really enjoyed it, glad I didn't live back then, cleaning seemed never ending in the Vicotian house with all the dust amongst all their clutter, you'd find that all the dust had returned the next day! A woman's life was certainly hard back then. In the show they had a cleaner, so it was a bit easier for the mother of the house.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Houses -- Ann, 11:17:38 09/10/02 Tue

Dust is definitely one of those "If they can put a man on the moon, why can't they" eliminate dust type things! But I can imagine how bad it was trying to dust all those Victorian knicknacks. And in Frontier House they must have had to dust constantly. Those houses were not sealed up that tightly, and in the summer they had the doors and windows open most of the day, with not even screens to keep dust (or bugs) out.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Houses -- Valerie, 15:23:09 09/11/02 Wed

Yes ,dust certainly has always been a problem especially back then and do you know what-I'm allergic to it, I didn't find out this until about 4 years ago! After I had my daughter I noticed that I kept coughing a lot, nearly every day I'd have an attack, but didn't know what it was down to. So they tested me as I had, had problems with one of my ears as well. So now I know what it is when I'm cleaning and I don't use dusters anymore, I have to wet wipe everything first which has helped a lot. It's worse with all the soft furnishing's we have, the carpets don't help but I prefer them. So i don't think I would have been much good back in those day's!

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