A Day at the Races

[rinue]

A damp rag and baking soda will remove tea stains from china.

If a candle is overly smoky, the wick is in need of a trim.

Pearls and opals dissolve in water; other jewelry may safely be worn while bathing.

I know a great many useful things that make the small tasks of life more pleasant; how useless they all are to the people I would help. My friends are in pain, but my hands are empty.

Comments

[rhys-k.livejournal.com]

These are all things I am better off knowing. Thank you Romie. Can't wait to see you later today. Actually off to use the pay phone at the mall, because my phone is not working... making weird beeps... but internet is fine, for some reson.

SMILES!

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, you won't just get a busy signal, what with me being online. Patrick is napping at the moment, but will wake up soon . . . I imagine around 4 or 4:30. We'll give you a call, just in case your phone is accepting incoming and just futzing about with outgoing. If we don't reach you, we'll head over anyway; I hate to give really vague estimates of time, but traffic is crazy this time of day, so I'd say we'll show up anytime between 5 and 6.

love,
Romie

[rhys-k.livejournal.com]

sounds like a plan... I'll be here.

And phone rings and rings when you call here, but we don't hear it.

Odd.

But you are coming... YEA!!!!!!

phone problems

[swimcoyote.livejournal.com]

that's what happened to us when some critter chewed through our phone line. People calling us would say they let the phone ring for 10 minutes or more, and it would never ring in our house.

Granted, this only helps if you're using a land line.

Re: phone problems

[rhys-k.livejournal.com]

Well... In our case, it wasn't a critter... at least not the four-legged kind. The phone company "updated their computers" and "oops!".

Needless to say I wasn't thrilled. But they did make up for it by sending out an amazingly cute repairman.

And the phone is back on, now. So on to more pressing drama. LOL