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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> This could actually be a new thread:
> What's on your kitchen table??

An empty vase (used to have flowers in it...I get an impulse to be 
'domestic' once in a while...it never lasts long), a battery-powered drill 
( from recent project), a bunch of change I started wrapping but ran out of 
wrappers, a bottle of alcohol (don't have a clue why that is there), a bag 
of bananas that were on special at the store this morning, an exploded 
diagram of my wood stove (which I'm refurbishing this summer), a tube of 
Neosporin (someone is always bleeding), a pile of books that need to be put 
away, and library books that I need to return soon. And a few misc. screws 
and nuts and things that people find and don't know what they belong to; 
they eventually get put in the junk drawer.

Sad to say, some of that junk has been there for a long time, and just gets 
pushed aside when we eat. There's also a fly paper hanging over the table 
which I DO move when we eat (fly paper is just TOO gross to look at while 
we're eating,, but it's cheap, effective and non-toxic). Yeah, like the rest 
of my house, my table is functional, not beautiful. I need a maid or a 
housewife or someone who cares what the place looks like...I lack that 
'feminine touch'.

Lynn Wigglerworth
Tioga Co. PA