The Coffee House

[SquarePeg37 7]

Gary is now scouring Amazon making sure there isn't anything 'more' Gary-like in dinnerware.

Best deals are at Kohls and Macys when they are having a sale - I'm sure I'll be buying at least one set on Black Friday!

I've been grounded from Amazon after some recent indiscretions.

Now that's a shame at this time of year...

Chapter 1:
Gary’s and Mary Lou’s first set of non-safe dinnerware. (Mary Lou feels that white is safe.) Gary likes the bold colors.

I like the multi colored a lot. Nothing wrong with plastic, especially if you're eating on the patio or have young guests! I only have one set of white dishes but they are Winter/Christmas pattern so don't really count. I do sometimes run into situations where some plain white would be perfect but not often enough. China cabinet space is at a premium so at this point in order to add I have to subtract first!

I'll post a few pics of the current favorites.

 

[snowbear115 46]

View attachment 149820 Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... nobody make a peep .... Gary thinks Miss Maggie may be out for the count.

Fert imitation.

 

[snowbear115 46]

I went to the beach a while ago; shot a panorama and a couple distant gulls. The internet connection is spotty, here, so I'll have to go into town and find a Starbucks or something - I need to send an email from the County VPN.

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

My all time faves - have had them since I bought my first house. Crate and Barrel.

Current Fall dishes. May be headed for the donation pile because they are too heavy and the bowls don’t stack well in the dishwasher. Kohl’s

Casual holiday plates. Christmas Tree Shop.

Cup a soup. BBB.

I’ll spare you the rest. Well... one more. Noodle bowls. Kohl’s.

 

[limr30 3]

I just bought some dishes, too. Handmade Portuguese ceramics from a place called Casa Fina that has periodic warehouse sales. These are the bowls. The dinner plates match, and the dessert plates are cream without the raised crest.

 

[jcdeboever]

Y'all got some groovy dinnerware. I ain't taking no pics of mine. They're probably Coachware from Macy's not bought on sale. When I was single, I bought mine at the Goodwill. One of the first things that disappeared when I got remarried was my thrifty crockery, POOF! GONE! I was wise enough not to ask.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Geez, I guess it depends on where you live/work... I always had to have daily lesson plans, and a sub notebook with schedules, info. on the kids, etc. Even in EI with the toddler classes. I do remember teaching in public school many years ago on occasion covering someone's class and they may have just done homework. Or maybe I'm thinking of study hall duty... lunchroom duty was much more exciting! (yeah, right)

Hall duty, now that was really entertaining. Why are you at this end of the building? (because the hall pass says something clear at the other end...) Um, I had to get this thing out of my friend's locker and um, their locker is by the gym and then, um, had to get my whatever and my locker's over here, and then um... (Giving them the teacher look) never mind just go, get to class... while I'd keep one eye on them the rest of the way down the hall... Could jr. high kids ever come up with great reasons to be anyplace but where they were! lol

Boy does Jon need a break.

(See what memories his post brought back?)

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

Thanks @Gary A. ! Now I am cruising the Black Friday sales ads for new dishes! Will definitely have to donate that fall colored set. I saw a post on our community Facebook page the other day about a single mom family that was moving from a shelter to a new apartment and needed just about everything. I was going to just give a Target gift card but maybe I'll donate the dishes too.

 

[davidharmier60]

This is the long short legged dog named Lance(alot).

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[limr30 3]

Geez, I guess it depends on where you live/work... I always had to have daily lesson plans, and a sub notebook with schedules, info. on the kids, etc. Even in EI with the toddler classes. I do remember teaching in public school many years ago on occasion covering someone's class and they may have just done homework. Or maybe I'm thinking of study hall duty... lunchroom duty was much more exciting! (yeah, right)

Hall duty, now that was really entertaining. Why are you at this end of the building? (because the hall pass says something clear at the other end...) Um, I had to get this thing out of my friend's locker and um, their locker is by the gym and then, um, had to get my whatever and my locker's over here, and then um... (Giving them the teacher look) never mind just go, get to class... while I'd keep one eye on them the rest of the way down the hall... Could jr. high kids ever come up with great reasons to be anyplace but where they were! lol

Boy does Jon need a break.

In 10th grade biology class, we had to do experiments with fruit flies to study genetics. We had to keep careful watch after the mating pairs were introduced to see when the first eggs were laid (based on the timing of the eggs, you could determine the fathers whereas later eggs could have been mixed...or something like that.)

My friend and I had to go check our flies in the bio lab during a lunch period one day. The hall monitor stopped us to ask where we were going, and we deadpanned in response, "To check if our flies are still virgins." We got past.

True story: one day, I actually caught two of the flies in the act. I am now able to cross "Witness sex between fruit flies" off my bucket list

And yes, after months and months of experiments in both 10th grade bio and 12th grade AP bio, I still remember the Latin name: Drosophila melanogaster.

 

[davidharmier60]

This is cranky Pepe the part pit bull

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[vintagesnaps]

I have some Pfaltzgraff Heritage which is white, slightly, octagonal square edgy-ish... and no I'm not bothering to take pictures! lol And some Russel Wright Modern in light gray. I like modern streamlined styles.

I got plastic/melamine after the stroke because of difficulty gripping things and having enough things hit the floor, but the problem is you can't microwave it (well you can try, but boy does it get hot!! lol) Now I use mostly cheapo odds and ends so I can just fling those on the floor and not worry about breaking anything good.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Now you got me thinking about chemistry in high school. My lab partner and I couldn't seem to ever get done by the end of class so would stash whatever still hardened in the beaker. At the end of the semester we had to um, discretely get them into the round 'file cabinet' because we didn't have time to re-melt everything.

Or there was biology class, a bunch of the boys took some of those pickled frogs to math class and I don't know how I got in on it but for some odd reason I had thread with me so was giving them thread and they tossed them up over the light fixtures. And we actually liked the math teacher! Had a sense of humor so he came in and the frogs on strings were bobbing up and down from the light fixtures.

 

[limr30 3]

Y'all got some groovy dinnerware. I ain't taking no pics of mine. They're probably Coachware from Macy's not bought on sale. When I was single, I bought mine at the Goodwill. One of the first things that disappeared when I got remarried was my thrifty crockery, POOF! GONE! I was wise enough not to ask.

I am 46 years old and this is the first set of good dishes that I have ever chosen and bought for myself. I always had crappy hand-me-downs before this. A little while back, I did inherit a set of really good bone china from Germany from a woman who was my sort of de facto "Grandma" when I was a child, but they are in storage because I've never had a place to keep them or use them.

I'm finally getting to the point when I can have my own things, so I wanted to buy something that I would love and have for a long time. I figure I earned that much

 

[limr30 3]

This is cranky Pepe the part pit bull
View attachment 149845

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

I love cranky Pepe's colors. And name