Hi everyone, and Happy Friday! We made it to the end of the week and am I ever glad! It’s been busy for me, but at least I am getting some things done.
Today we’re talking about shoes, shorts, sergers and sorting…
First up, SHOES…
Well, they aren’t exactly shoes, but “flip flops” didn’t work… :o)
I managed to get one pair of navy and white checked flip flops finished…The sole is navy, not black.
I have 2 pair of pink trim flip flops in the works… but they aren’t finished yet…
These are “almost” finished.
I thought I’d show you a bit of the process for making the flip flops.
Here is the back of my leather showing where I’ve traced around my pattern for the flip flops. It takes 6 pieces to make a pair of them. (3 layers for each shoe.) One for the suede sole where the foot rests. The middle layer that hides the elastic cording which goes between the toes, and the bottom layer which hides the ends of the ribbon that meets on the bottom of the second layer. So, if I make 5 pair of flip flops I have to cut out THIRTY pieces of leather to stack for them. I do have a pair of leather scissors that cuts through the leather pretty well, but after a while my hand gets cramps in it. It takes lots of gluing and clamping to get a pair just right.
Okay, now we are ready for SHORTS!
I had a little boys shirt with sharks all over it and thought it would make cute “board shorts.” I have to remind myself what they are called every time I try to say it or type it. I only got the shorts cut out but I thought I’d show you the fabric and you’ll have to imagine how they will look.
Next up is SERGERS!
My serger has been giving me fits and today was the day to try and figure out what was making it gather up as it stitched. I had to get out my manual for this job. I love the serger, but not so much when it acts up. I rethreaded it and changed the tension on a few of the loopers. I was going to show how many strips of serged edges I tried before I ever got it to be close to normal. I had a trash can full.
2 hours later I finally had it pretty decent. I found a terry cloth aqua and white striped little girls swimsuit coverup and thought I might try making a few towels to go with the swimwear. We’ll see how it goes…
Last up is an answer to a question from Rosemary who commented on the day I showed my Sewing room.
This is about SORTING!
Rosemary mentioned when her kids were little, they used to have ten-minute Tidy Up sessions. This is what I used to do with my kids when they were little. (They shared the same room for a while.) Their room would be an absolute disaster with toys and clothes everywhere. They were kind of at a loss as to how to clean it all up. It was overwhelming to them. So, I decided to do it this way…We put a sheet over the top of their beds and I had them pick up anything that was theirs and put it on the bed… when they had everything off the floor and onto the bed, (and you could actually see the floor) it was remarkable how much better the room looked when you could see the floor.
Then I had them start putting things away… they knew how to do it and sort of raced against each other to see who could get their bed cleaned off first. It REALLY worked and then when everything was put away, we took the sheet off and made the bed to look nice. It was the best way for them to clean their room.
As an adult, I have actually been known to use that same method of putting everything out of place on the bed and THEN all you have to do is clear off the bed and you have a nice clean room. It works! :o)
Well, I have the Food Pantry today and I bet you have something going on too!
I’ll see you Monday,
Blessings, Jeanne
Thanks for sharing some of how you make the thongs, Jeanne. I guess I didn’t realize there were three layers of leather in each sole, but when you explain what hides what, it makes sense. That’s a lot of work, really! And we do appreciate it.
That will be a cute pair of board shorts, with the shark print. I haven’t gone “fabric” shopping in the clothing dept. of the local thrift stores in a long time, and you have really found some great stuff to use!
I’m glad you were able to get your serger to cooperate again, and make a nice stitch. Sergers are great! Except for when they’re not….
I don’t think I’d ever heard of doing a clean-up that way before, with a sheet on the bed. Hey, if it works, it works!
Thanks, everyone, for the welcomes! I really missed my regular check-in with the blog while my internet was down. Unlike some of you, I still do use my landline quite a lot, and always tell people to call it first, because if I’m home, my cell phone is likely turned off!
Dorothy, your Charlotte Noelle certainly has a mind of her own! And how funny, to read about Barbara’s daughter doing something so similar when she was little! Those days of our Little Darling group were certainly fun, and I think 2 or 3 others had dolls with distinctive personalities, too, as I recall!
Linda, my computers have all had touch pads, and I have gotten so used to using them, using a mouse feels “funny”! But my little netbook had SUCH a sensitive touchpad, I not only had to set the “touch” of it Way down, I also had to use a plug-in mouse, to keep it still.
Rosemary, this past 2-3 weeks both my neighbor to the north and the one to the east have replaced their fences that border on my lot, so I have pretty new fences to look at! I remember when the original owner put the fence in to my north–that was over 50 years ago! I was able to give them a little of that history, too.
Marilyn, even though we had a very rainy March in the Seattle area, the snowpack in the mountains is quite low, and they are talking about “drought” for some areas of this state, come summer. To me, that seems almost ludicrous, because Seattle is often referred to as “rain city”!! But….if the mountains don’t get enough snow, there’s not the melt that they need.
Anne, I’m close to you in age, and I remember when a “long distance” call (I think it’s called a trunk call in the UK) was also quite rare and expensive, and a very big deal if it happened. It usually meant some family member had died, or something,if you got a long-distance call!
I am praying for North Island, too, Anne.
Dear Charlotte, I am with you and telephones. I use my landline all of the time. I have a speaker in it so I can talk at my desk and do other things at the same time. I only use my cell phone when I am out. It’s an old phone with no internet and no texting. I am the only one of my friends and family who doesn’t text (smile).
I too, didn’t realize that there were three layers to those flip flops! You do a great job of cutting them, Jeanne, and it takes concentration to have them look so smooth around the edges. Oh, those pink ones are darling! Sara is looking at them so longingly!
Somebody else mentioned not liking to wear flip flops or thongs because of not liking the feeling of the strap between the toes! Me too! In fact, I would get a blister from them, so never could wear that type of shoe. Just looking at someone wearing them looks so painful to me!
Charlotte, you can set a computer or netbook down for touch? How do you do that?
We too use a landline, and never the cell unless it is an emergency. And I remember waiting to call anyone after 7 because it was cheaper for long distance calls.
As far as cleaning up, since my two had their own rooms, and they weren’t huge rooms, they didn’t have a lot of stuff to clean up. Not that they were perfect, but I don’t recall them having terribly messy rooms. By the time they were in first grade, they had to make their beds every morning before school, put their dirty clothes in the hamper, and toys on the shelves. But then, I had to do the same things as a child!
Dear Linda, I also remember waiting until after 7 pm to make long distance phone calls. I remember “party lines!” and that is going back a long way (laugh). I remember when people had only one phone and usually a special table on which it sat.
Oh yes, party lines! And my childhood house had a little cubby hole in the hall for the phone!
Like Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet) in “Keeping Up Appearances”.
Yes, Linda, you can adjust the sensitivity of your touch pad. I think you look for it in “settings” (which has a sort of snowflake-looking icon beside the word). You may have to search for it, but I think it’s there. Or it might be under tools, but I’d try settings first. I haven’t had to adjust it on either of my large laptops; it’s been fine on those. But that little netbook–I would barely breathe on the thing and the cursor would swing madly around the screen!! Most annoying!!
About phones: when we moved to Michigan in Nov., 1952, our phone system was the old-fashioned magneto system (the last one in the entire state, outside of a museum!). The phone was on the desk but there was a box on the wall, and you had to turn the crank to call the operator and tell her who you wanted to reach! Then in about 1956 or 57, we went from that to a dial system. I remember a lady from the phone company coming to our school to teach us how to use dial telephones!
Our house had one of the few private lines in the town, because our house was the parsonage for the Lutheran church, and it was considered a priority condition for having a private line (as would, say, a doctor’s office). Pastors often get and make calls of a confidential nature. My friends who lived in the country all had party lines, and it was a great novelty to pick up the phone and see if someone was on it and what they were saying!
I checked last night, and it is indeed in settings. On mine, it was under “devices” and then “touchpad.”
Dear Jeanne, I love your organizing idea! I think I would need about 5 beds to accomplish that here though (laugh). I need Shirley Booth from the old TV show Hazel. She would get things in order for me (smile).
You are not alone Dorothy. Sometimes I will spend over an hour putting stuff away and really…. honestly, I do not see much of a difference.
…. oh well. It is not worth stressing about hahahah I would love for Shirley Booth to come for a visit.
Or maybe Mary Poppins. She knew how to get a nursery cleaned in jig time using just a spoonful of sugar, figuratively speaking.
Bonjour. Ah , le téléphonne;moi aussi j’aime encore le fixe et beaucoup moins le mobile. Nous venons,mon mari et moi ,de fêter 58 ans de mariage .Il était en Sicile et moi à Paris et je me souviens bien des appels internationaux ; c’était cher avec une très longue attente et cela ne durait que 3 minutes..! Le rangement des chambres des enfants, était à peu près le même; mais le tas de jouets était au milieu de la pièce et c’était plus simple à ranger. Ces tongs,sont vraiment adorables,j’ai bien envie d’essayer…!Mais je ne suis pas aussi qualifiée que vous . Belle journée à vous toutes.
Félicitations pour vos 58 ans de mariage. Je suis sûr que vous avez tous les deux énormément de bons souvenirs.
Wow, Georgina! Congratulations on 58 years of wedded bliss. And may you have many more.
Congratulations, Georgina, on 58 years! We have been married a year more, and will have our 50th this December. Those were the days!
My “correction” didn’t seem to take! I meant 60 years!
Congratulations on your 58th wedding anniversary! That is quite an accomplishment. My husband and I made it to our 50th a few months before he died almost 2 years ago. Since he was 13 years older than I, I didn’t know if we would make it that long, but we did!
Un grand merci à vous toutes,pour vos félicitations. Je me souviens ,d’avoir fêté les 60 ans de mariage de mes parents,mais je n’imaginais pas ,que le temps passerait aussi vite..! Les enfants ( 3 )ont grandit ,puis les petits enfants ( 5 ).Tout cela fait une belle famille…
Good morning loved ones!
Friday again! I can’t believe it!
Jeanne, your little shop is buzzing with flip flops. They are beautiful. Looking at those cutout leather soles makes my right hand ache a bit. We have to take it easy these days. I know that was a lot of careful cutting. I love the new shorts fabric. Your warmer days, summer attire diversion is great! I love how it is all coming together with great options and fabrics!
Yesss, the sorting and tidy ups. What ever works. In some areas of our house, it is easy to put stuff away. My sewing space upstairs is still a bit chaotic but I am not ashamed.
My sister came to visit last month and she is very quick to judge and shame, it is just her outspoken manner and I never pay attention to it haha
I do not have a serger. I would like to buy a serger for my oldest daughter.
Thank you Anne for the encouraging words, yes, moving ahead on the old house is a great feeling. I have kept North Island in my prayers, you are indeed getting some wild weather. The rain is overwhelming! I am looking forward to seeing any photos of Charteris Bay.
Anne, I am also interested in your Alice’s Wonderland quilt class!!!!!
We live on such a huge planet. All of us are so far apart! but it is such a great thing that we are close on Jeanne’s blog!
Hubbs is going to the old house today to meet with a fence guy.
I am staying home and doing chores all day – I am going to try to at least make this place look like normal people live here. Every one’s house I go to lately, the house is so neat and tidy, kind of like a model home! Hubbs and I must be messy. We need some better habits.
Today is going to be a pretty day here in Northern Virginia.
Rosemary, go to YouTube and search for Alice’s Wonderland Quilt, there are a few people who are doing/have done the quilt. It is meant to be done with Liberty fabrics, 110 fat 1/8ths but apart from not having the money to spend on all those fabrics (USD500) I didn’t want my quilt to look exactly like everyone else’s, and I have more fabric than I can use in 2 lifetimes so didn’t want to buy any for it. Sam and I are both making the quilt and our scrap pile isn’t noticeably smaller. I swear scrap fabrics breed in the box!
Barbara, I have 3 sons and one daughter. All but the second son were peas out of a pod. Very untidy as children. Darren didn’t look like the others, they were all like their father but he looked like my maternal grandmother. He was always the tidiest. The youngest (son) is a mixture of both. Now he has his own home he is very tidy, he has the dark hair but is the only one to have brown eyes the others have blue or grey. Sam, as I have often said on here, is NOT tidy, neither are her two oldest. Asher is a complete neat freak. Everything in her room has a place and if it is not back in that place it stresses her out. She prefers to eat in her room and her dishes come out every night. I wish she was as concerned about the rest of the house as she is about her room! Her father is the same and even though he has been undiagnosed it is obvious now that he is autistic and Asher is being assessed for that at the moment. Jono is the really odd one. He won’t dry his hands on a hand towel that someone else has used (Tesla was like that as well I learned lol), his job is to empty the dishwasher and he has to wash his hands before and after doing the job. He has a cat but she is not allowed in his room and when he picks her up he holds her away from his body, though when she went missing he was the one who spent the longest looking for her and realised she had fallen into the wall cavity of the workroom! His room!!! He rarely cleans it and when it is done the rubbish bins are filled with drink cans, juice bottles and chocolate milk bottles (which, if washed right away could go in the recycling bin but by the time they exit his room they are past that), He and Kai both eat in their rooms but only bring in their dishes when we run out in the house!
My but you do have so many personalities in your domain. The one thing my son did do that was a little strange because he was so neat is he would have a glass of milk every night before bed and then line the glasses up on the top of his fish tank until he decided to bring them to the kitchen. Needless to say they would have to soak a bit before putting them in the dishwasher.
Well, Jeanne, has been busy again. Lots of new footgear, shorts, and fixing a serger. I had to laugh, as I don’t have a serger and it isn’t on my want list. I don’t even use that stitch with my machine. I still use my pinking shears to finish seams. Crazy, I know, but it works for me. 🙂
I’m so glad that I was able to get some pics yesterday of the yard and blooms because the storm showed up around four this morning and began with a big bang! Well, lightning flash and lots of rain. I looked this morning and Callie Cat is nowhere to be seen. Maybe she was scared or trapped somewhere. Don’t know. As to the weeds, they look amazingly green out there and will be a lot easier to pull when the rains are over. Supposed to rain all day today I think. I’m already getting cabin fever and can’t wait until it starts drying out and that I can get back outside. 🙂
Lots to talk about today!! Of course, Jeanne’s darling flip flops and shark suit. I didn’t know you had to make so many leather pieces for each one!! No wonder they are a lot of work, but they come out sooooo, cute!
Barbara, I am so glad your problem with the city went well, those things can be such a big problem.
Rosemary, I am sure that tearing down the fence is quite a chore. I just hope that when the new one is made be sure that it won’t “Fence you in”!! Ha ha, I could not resist!!
Dorothy, We love the funny stories from your Charlotte Noel, keep um coming!
Anne, I am praying for the North Island. I remember when my sons went there and how beautiful they told me it is. I am looking forward to your photos of the bay!
Party Lines? oh yes, I grew up with one! When my parents married and moved to St. Simon’s there wasn’t even a phone! When they got one they had that party line for YEARS! When I moved to FL we had one then for years as well. I had a neighbor there who would call me and talk and talk and talk! I finally learned to rattle the phone and tell her I had to hang up because the other neighbor wanted the phone!
As for organizing, I have never been good at it. As a child I had doll stuff all over the bed room and would throw it in the closet when the floor had to be swept. Now I am still trying to get all this stuff I collected when I was collecting dolls and doll clothes, getting stuff for the work shops I gave at conventions, and sewing stuff from all the outfits I made and sold. I am still trying to get out so much stuff. I am trying to sell on face book lately, because I hate to throw all that to Goodwill.
Thanks Sissy. The deal with the city has been going on in one way or another for the better part of a year. Ever since the woman was hired as Code Enforcer and decided that the non-compliance parks needed incentive to come into compliance. Problem is we have been grandfathered from the ordinance created after the beginning of Home Rule for thirty years. Hopefully she finally has the picture and will be leaving us alone in the future.
I so enjoyed reading about your experiences with land line phones! My family had a kitchen wall-phone with a very long stretchy cord and when I was a teenager in the 60’s, my folks said I could have my own phone in my room….and I chose a red one! My bedroom had a white/gray/and red theme…the carpet was light gray, walls were white and my two twin beds had deep-red corduroy fitted bedspreads with bolsters to match to create a sitting place, plus red corduroy drapes at the windows! My mother took me shopping for a new dresser and I chose a contemporary one with a white marble top…so very grown-up! But I loved the red, regular size, rotary dial, land line phone!
I kept that phone (it still worked!) until I moved to Texas a few years ago and that was the phone I used. My daughters used to tease me and call it my “hot line to the white house!” But then one of my daughters purchased a cell phone for me and I still paid a phone bill to have my land line connection….just in case the cell wasn’t working I would still have a way to call for emergency help if it was needed.
After awhile, I became comfortable with the cell phone and its capabilities: camera/news/texting/research/game apps/calculator, and decided to not keep paying for the land line connection since I wasn’t really using it. Plus the scam calls that were coming in daily were too numerous for words. Life was more peaceful without the land line!
Interesting tidbit….does anyone still remember their family’s 7-digit phone number? I have never forgotten our old family number, and before the 7-digits were used, the number started with CE followed by 5-digits!! And now phone numbers usually have 10 digits, since often the area code is included before the number….times have changed!
Guess what? I still have a red rotary dial phone in the garage. No longer connected though. It used to be great to be able to run in there and answer the phone if I was down in the backyard. And of course, I remember our old phone number from the 50’s. 🙂
UN(iversity)8-6789 and then 868-6789. that was before we had area codes. I even remember my mother’s phone number 302-994-2992 That was a landline. We never could convince her to get a cell phone. David and I have cell phones but we still have our old landline. We had to have a phone line for the mobile home park sign and neither of us wanted to give out our cell phone number so we decided to keep that to put on the sign.
Dear Elizabeth, I still remember my childhood phone number! I think it was on the dialing plate of the phone.
I don’t remember my high school locker lock number. I do remember my junior high sections – 7-10, 8-12, 9-5. These were all for the band kids.
just a quick check-in as a storm is coming and we have to secure some things in the yard.
The flip slops and shorts are cute
I also had a phone in my room as a teen. A lovely ivory/cream Victorian style with gold accents. It was a push button style compared to the rotary ones we had before. I still have that phone along with one of our rotary ones from childhood.
Yes, I not only remember my childhood phone number, but also my grandparent’s phone number. The addresses are clear in my head as well.
I also know of party lines from my mom and I personally recall waiting for the special long distance phone calls from Germany at Christmastime.
Hope all goes well with your upcoming storm. We’ve got some serious storm clouds here at the moment. Looks like it could rain at any minute.
Elizabeth, your childhood room reminds me of Molly’s, which I have. She has red and white color scheme. Red corduroy bedspread, white furniture, and a dressing table with a skirt in red flowers on a white background. White walls too! I always thought it looked so cheery! We used to have a yellow rotary wall phone, and I remember that so well!
Yes, I do remember my childhood phone number too! Sweetbriar 2922! We love our landlines, no problem with scam calls, since we have caller ID and don’t answer the phone if we don’t recognize the caller number. I have a phone for the hearing impaired which is also a landline. We have internet, phone and tv under ATT so one bill for all of it.
I have a camera on my iPad, plus a real camera, so don’t need a phone camera, but I will say cell phone cameras are very good, just all the rest doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t play games. No time!
I rarely use the camera on my phone unless something comes up when I don’t have my Nikon Coolpix (I love that camera). I find it easier to take the card out of my camera and into the slot on my computer when I want to upload pictures than to transfer it from my phone. And I’m more comfortable being able to focus and manipulate things with it.
Barbara, I have a Nikon Coolpix camera, too! Mine is red (I think there was a choice of red or black). Ron got it for me for Christmas some years ago. He had a very fancy digital camera with interchangeable lenses, filters, and whatnot, and although I took a few pictures with it, he had to get it set up for me. I just wasn’t interested in learning all about various settings and all that. I like point and shoot! The Coolpix does have the zoom lens, of course, and Some settings, but it’s much easier to use. Ron wanted our pastor, who is a very good amateur photographer, to have all his camera equipment, so shortly after Ron died, I did give it all to Pastor.
Thanks for the flip-flop mini tutorial. I really need to try some of them since I have lots of things to make doll shoes but have never gotten around to doing any. The shorts fabric is really cute. As for the serger, well I had one I had to manually thread and it seemed it always had problems. I rarely used it. I was glad when I had the opportunity to buy an air threader. Now I use my serger all the time.
I love your idea for tidying up a room. My kids had their own rooms, thankfully. Sean was and still is my neat freak. I always joked that I could take the clothes out of his hamper, fold them and put them back in the drawer and no one would ever know. Trust me I never did that. But Andrea, well I needed to wash hers twice. Well maybe not but at least once. I do not understand how one child can be so tidy and the other the direct opposite. Sean’s room was always immaculate, Andi’s not so much. After she left for college I decided to give her room a thorough cleaning. I started on one side and went around the room clearing tons of stuff off the top of dressers and desks. Things were looking pretty good, then I went to move one of the dressers and found a ton of stuff that had fallen behind it. So I cleaned that up. Then I looked behind her other dresser and found the same thing. If the top of the dresser got to cluttered she just let the stuff fall behind. And she had this thing for putting stuff in paper bags if she didn’t want to find a place for it. I helped her move her apartment once and found the same thing with the paper bags. I just told myself no child is perfect and she was very good in other ways. She always looked nice and did take care of her clothes once she got older. And she was an excellent student and we never had to worry about her using good judgment. She just didn’t stress over a mess. But now she lives in a tiny house and has to keep that picked up or you wouldn’t be able to move around.
I’m so glad to hear that the homes are a go and will be cute too! I so wish that kind of building was going on here. We need affordable small starter homes and condos that people can own, not high rise apartments, and in some cases very expensive, apartments without enough parking.
So, are you working on summer outfits for your dolly group? Always enjoy seeing your wonderful creations. 🙂
Now that the stress of the city problem is over I’m hoping to get in my sewing room and do some summer clothes creating. I have already cut out the dress to go with the sweater I won from Anne/Jeanne so I need to get that done. For some reason when I’m upset about something I can’t settle down to creating. That used to be my happy place when I was worried about something. Hopefully I can get that sense of peace I used to get from my sewing room back again. David and the boys will be heading out of town during the week for a month-long job in early May so I will be here all week by myself so I’m hoping to spend a lot of time in my sewing room. I’m hoping at that time that I will also have a diagnosis of what my mobility problem is and maybe get some PT and be more comfortable doing things in my sewing room.
Barbara, my comment to you ended up under Rosemary’s post sorry. I have a brother who lives near San Antone, I don’t think they have had too much of a problem with the weather there.
Jeanne your flipflops are amazing, they obviously use a LOT of leather.
Sam and I were supposed to be going to our Quilt class today but it has been changed to the 3rd Saturday which is next week. The trip to Charteris Bay was lovely, frustratingly if we had read our newsletter properly we would have been able to go today. I did try to take some photos from the car as we were travelling over (it takes about 45 mins from Christchurch going through the tunnel but it was quicker coming home over Gebbies Pass}. I took some amazing photos of the view from her balconies and of her garden which is a hillside garden and they have done it all, it was just tussock 2 1/2 years ago when she bought it. She has offered us a weekend holiday there whenever we want to go which was very kind (they do rent it out as a holiday let when they aren’t using it). I will send the photos later to Jeanne. There are two harbours on Banks Peninsular this was Lyttelton Harbour and the other is Akaroa. We will have to take a trip there before the winter because the views are stunning on the way there as well.
Cyclone Vaianu hasn’t changed course so far. Northland, Auckland, Coromandel and Great Barrier Island are on red alert and the rest of the North Island and top of the South Island are orange. The worry is that people will be complacent because the weather yesterday and today is fine and sunny. It will be late tonight (Saturday) and early tomorrow morning before it hits. It won’t be a problem here in Christchurch because it is heading S East and if you look at a map, NZ sits at about a 60-degree angle to the S. Pole so it will miss us. We might get some wind and rain but nothing too serious. The N Island is the one that cops all the tropical storms and cyclones.
I will keep you updated though if you want to track what is happening, you can google Cyclone Vaianu and you will get a lot of up to the minute information.
Have a lovely day everyone
Not only do I remember my family’s first phone number, I still have it. I inherited it. I also had a friend about my mother’s age. She died in 2002 and I can still recite her phone number without a second’s thought.
She was very reliable and very helpful. On bad days, as my bus came down the hill into town, I’d think, “Ricky will be there to drive me home from the bus stop.” I was seldom wrong. When I ended up in the hospital unexpectedly, she came to see me. “You have no books!” she said. “I have a meeting now, but I’ll be back this afternoon.” Thereafter she showed up every 3 days with 3 more Brother Cadfael books.
Ricky was so reliable that when she failed to meet me at our favorite fabric store and failed to answer the phone when the store owner called that I called the hospital when I got home. She was there, having been in an accident that finished off her beloved car and broke her arm. That’s reliable.
In college, I worked as a university switchboard operator. We placed long distance calls calls for faculty so they would be billed properly. All of us memorized the proper format. When my family wanted to make a long distance call, I placed those. On one call, the responding operator, recognizing my format and tone, said, “Thank you, operator.” I was quite pleased to be recognized as a co-operator.
Operators say ni-yun for 9 and op-pitter for “operator.” My co-workers also said youn-vers-tee for “university.” I said those words as generally pronounced., but I was part time and didn’t say them a hundred times a day.
All of you being rained out, send rain this way. We’ll also take snow.