Re: Garden decor was Re: [gardeners] 'Bright Lights'
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 06 Jan 1998 14:34:56
At 02:23 PM 1/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:25 AM 06-01-98, George Shirley wrote:
>>At 09:06 AM 1/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>>At 10:47 AM 1/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>I was looking for an old bathtub, one with legs. Think it would
>>>>>make a nice raised bed, besides being "art."
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not into a "beautiful" garden. I think the more fun one has
>>>>>in the garden, the more fun it is.
>>>>>
>>>>>Lillian
>>>>
>>>>We've actually got one of those bathtubs and are planning to use it as a
>>>>bog garden...someday. There isn't enough time!!
>>>>
>>>>Cheryl Schaefer
>>>>schaefer @epix.net
>>>>Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY
>>>I have some friends who recently remodeled/restored an old house, and
>>>they're using the old claw foot bathtubs. I'm glad I don't have to take a
>>>shower or bath in one. They're much higher than modern tubs, so you hit
>>>one shin and the other foot catches as you step out. In a Princeton, N.J.
>>>hotel, I so emerged from their shower in a claw tub, stepped out and down a
>>>step (step built in to hold plumbing pipes, since the hotel originally
>>>didn't have such things), and as I fell, I grabbed a pipe to break my fall.
>>> The pipe was a hot water pipe, and I was one mad wet hen. Margaret, who
>>>is not sentimental about those damned bathtubs. Nor the old square
>>>galvanized ones which, when you were sitting in hot water, and leaned your
>>>back against it, was still icy cold, confounding all ideas of heat
>>>conductivity.
>>>
>>My Gawd, you're really old!! Reckon you had "thunder mugs" back in olden
>>times too? ;-))
>>
>>George
>
>George! Ladies use honey-buckets! And they came with little crochet lace
>covers on the undersides of the lids so no one would hear them clink in the
>middle of the night. Lucinda
>
Most of the ladies I know who used them made them "thunder" not clink. <VBG>
George