Re: bathtubs, shrines, etc.

Just make sure you get one more bathtub big enough for you ;-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] bathtubs, shrines, etc.


> Thanks, Fran. Marvelous idea. You really want me to get smacked, right?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 05:40 PM, F M Ferrari wrote:
> 
> > Can't resist . . . Maybe you could do a shrine for Our Lady of 
> > Fatma!!!!!
> >
> > Ohhhhh, I now must go to confession!!!!  Fran
> >
> > james singer <jsinger@igc.org> wrote:
> > Okay, I'm convinced. Tomorrow I will start my quest for a discarded
> > bathtub. And I will visit one [two, if necessary] of our concrete
> > statuary merchants to find a virgin Mary that fits inside the bath tub.
> > And I will create an Italian shrine somewhere here at the plantation.
> >
> > Meantime, please remember that Ms. Fatma is Muslim ["not a terrorist,"
> > I tell people at work while not making eye contact, but occasionally a
> > Holy Terror] so we may end up with a second bathtub [somehow I don't
> > think Muslims do this, but I'll ask first--would be really, really
> > funny if they did; I mean REALLY, REALLY FUNNY] with a statue of
> > Ali--if the concrete statuary merchants have such [probably not,
> > because they are mostly Italians, cranking out Marys and like most
> > Italians and/or Americans, have no idea who Ali was].
> >
> > On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 04:43 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >
> >>> a bathtub
> >>> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in
> >>> the
> >>> enclosure! Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like
> >>> it!
> >>> Mardi
> >>
> >> Mardi !!!!! I grew up in Chicago and believe me Chicago has plenty of
> >> Our
> >> Lady of the Bathtub shrines! You must have just been in the wrong
> >> neighborhoods!
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From:
> >> To:
> >> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:18 PM
> >> Subject: [CHAT] clay pots/Dillon Seed Co
> >>
> >>
> >>>> it's right up there with my desire to get an old,
> >>> footed cast iron bath tub & making a water feature/water garden out
> >>> of it.
> >>>
> >>> Eva, in some small towns in Iowa it is not unusual to see a bathtub
> >>> half-buried horizontally in front of a house with the Virgin Mary in
> >>> the
> >>> enclosure! Having grown up in Chicago, I'd never seen anything like
> >>> it!
> >>> Mardi
> >>>
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