tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post2941773124546591266..comments2024-03-25T14:36:16.797-04:00Comments on The Crime Writers' Chronicle: Everything Comes in Pieces NowadaysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-47182391693032285072014-11-22T05:24:06.055-05:002014-11-22T05:24:06.055-05:00Yes, a new member of the Mendel family. Thank you ...Yes, a new member of the Mendel family. Thank you Thelma for the mention because Dalia's entrance into the world will begin with a dresser and crib newly assembled by my son-in-law. What with both parents working and the way things just get put off, these pieces of furniture were ordered at the last hour and now sit in the hallway of their home, waiting to be assembled some time after Sunday when everyone comes home from the hospital. It's hard to tell from the cardboard box, but it is a handsome baby crib. Kate I love the style of both you new desk and that fantastic kitchen island. Perfect.margaret mendelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740288445705959918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-31347398724146401302014-11-21T18:10:03.940-05:002014-11-21T18:10:03.940-05:00Hurray for your delivery man! Hope you gave him a ...Hurray for your delivery man! Hope you gave him a cookie! tjs<br />P.S. We're all coming to your house for dinner Thursday!!!! Ha1 Ha! Just joking1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-91028553617529404522014-11-21T17:24:41.462-05:002014-11-21T17:24:41.462-05:00Grandchildren are the best. Congratulations to Mar...Grandchildren are the best. Congratulations to Margaret. Congratulations to me, too, because the delivery man found a place to park his huge truck and carried my kitchen island on a hand truck to the front door. It was in pieces. Harold put it together. It's great. Now I remember why the low table used to be good in the kitchen: the granddaughters gathered around it to make cookies. They're all grown up now and do their cooking in their own homes, but Margaret will be making cookies with little Dalia before long.<br />Kate Gallisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107289413804236810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-84718468814196548882014-11-21T16:39:59.088-05:002014-11-21T16:39:59.088-05:00SOS!!! NB! Hi Everyone!!!! Since we are a family o...SOS!!! NB! Hi Everyone!!!! Since we are a family or a writerly tribe - I want to share the news!!! Just got the email from our colleague Margaret Mendel - her daughter has a lovely healthy little girl named Dalia... we all rejoice with the Mendel family - what a time to bring new life on to this world!!! Thelma Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-4726040319148058352014-11-21T15:15:43.685-05:002014-11-21T15:15:43.685-05:00Although the John Boos kitchen island is all put t...Although the John Boos kitchen island is all put together, we have hit a snag with it. They delivered it in a huge semi that won't fit on the little streets of Lambertville. The driver just called and said he was at the corner of Bridge Street and Lambert Lane, where he just now checked his map and realized that these small streets would not accommodate his eighteen wheeler. So near and yet so far. When I declined to pick it up and carry it home, a distance of some four blocks, he said he would have to come back Monday with a smaller truck. Meanwhile I took the kitchen table apart. He'd better be here before Thanksgiving, is all I can say.Kate Gallisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107289413804236810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-46262228186894226492014-11-21T09:07:48.324-05:002014-11-21T09:07:48.324-05:00Whew, Miss Kate, I'm totally exhausted from re...Whew, Miss Kate, I'm totally exhausted from reading all this hard labor! And I haven't even had my morning tea yet!!!!! What we all need is the servants from Downton Abbey or maybe what Q E 2 and His Lordhip Phil have! I bet Kate knows how to do this stuff!! tjstrawAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-39993653075475154992014-11-21T09:02:14.110-05:002014-11-21T09:02:14.110-05:00This reminds me of furnishing my efficiency in Cen...This reminds me of furnishing my efficiency in Center City Philadelphia. I had some things delivered from Strawbridge's, but I got a dresser from a catalog. The apartment building staff put the box in my apartment but when I opened the box and saw I had to put it together, I burst into tears. I'm little and not agile. It was big and immovable. Luckily I had a friend who put it together for me. I treated her to a nice dinner and so did not feel like such an incompetent nincompoop.<br />StephAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com