Hi Ruth,

 RH> >  RH> > Sometimes they come as part of sets of Corelle Ware but that
 RH> >  RH> doesn't count. (G) What counts are the one gluwein came in at
 RH> >  Christmas market

 RH> >  RH> I find those here once in a while.

 RH> > I've only got one of those.

 RH> I only have one at the moment, but they do turn up; there's just no
 RH> reason for me to grab them.

I'm hanging on to mine--memories of Christmas/Christmas markets in
Germany for me. IIRC, the one I have came from a neighborhood (district)
market in Berlin, probably in 1990 or 1991.

 RH> >  RH> various freebies from assorted other places, etc, etc.

 RH> >  RH> I have one my sister had made with my cat's picture on it. The
 RH> one I'm using at the moment was hand made; I liked the colors.
 Others are souvenirs of Disney, gifts, etc.

 RH> > We've given away some from time to time, wouldn't have the storage
 RH> space if we'd kept all we'd acquired.

 RH> Me either. Some get chipped, broken, dishwasher-crazed, etc too.
 RH> Waechtersbach is a prime candidate for the last one, and they're
 RH> brutal in a microwave too. They get broiling hot including the

Thanks for the warning--I've got a couple of the red Christmas ones I
picked up at their factory outlet when we were in Germany.

 RH> handle, and one white-glazed one tends to boil liquids faster than
 RH> any other mug I own.

Probably safer to boil water in a tea kettle to use with those mugs.


 RH> >  RH> younger daughter planted some seeds from a piece of watermelon
 RH> she had on July 4. IIRC, she harvested one melon, some time in
 October.

 RH> >  RH> In Arizona, they ought to grow with irrigation.  My growing
 RH> season has been over for a while now; we've already had frost
 once.

We were down to 41 (maybe a bit lower) Saturday morning, going to have
more cold nights later this week but probably no frost yet. Hope not for
a while, we've got 2 pots of mums decorating our front steps.


 RH> > This one was in a narrow strip of dirt between the fence and front
 RH> > patio. Over the years we grew tomatoes and peppers in it, made
 RH> salsa, chili sauce, green tomato relish.............. all from a
 small area of dirt that had no sort of "enhancement".

 RH> We used to have a garden in the back yard, but a lot of things
 RH> wouldn't grow back there. Too much shade, a problem Arizona generally
 RH> doesn't have.

Parts of AZ do have shade--if you know where to look. (G)


---
Catch you later,
Ruth
rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net  FIDO 1:396/45.28


... Gone crazy, be back later. leave a message at the Beep!

--- PPoint 3.01