Re: Cheered up
or go to the hardware store and buy a surveyors tape measurer
Greg Sanchez wrote:
>
> To solve this problem before it starts, you could just go out to a fabric
> store and buy your own cloth tape measure in any size you want.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Mark K." <korney19@adelphia.net>
> Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
> To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Subject: RE: Cheered up
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:06:27 -0400
>
> Dennis, sorry to hear about the crack, see my reply earlier to Bernie. I
> understand your frustration about the tape measure, however it could just be
> USPS. I sent heirloom tomato seeds in a bubblepack First Class from Buffalo
> to Florida on 4/18 (went to the customer counter, have a receipt) and the
> customer didn't get them 'til almost a month later! (After numerous e-mails
> including a scanned pic of the receipt with his zipcode visible, he left
> ebay feedback on 5/17, "Great communication. Quality product, shipping slow,
> but probably due to USPS" and I sent out w/in 24hrs of payment.) Even
> Priority Mail isn't guaranteed, only Express Mail, which costs more than the
> product being sent. I would think Don sent it First Class, which is even
> cheaper than Media Mail (only allowed for books & paper matter I think.)
> Soooo, cheer up--you may get it before you get one 192" circumference! You
> can always tape together 2 Singer 8ft tailor tapes in the meantime & use the
> charts for weight info. Sorry again.
>
> Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf
> Of
> Dennis
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:50 AM
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: Cheered up
>
> List
>
> I must apologize again, I just realized I call you guy
> insensitive. Pumpkin growers would not be happy to here that a big one went
> down as my Emmons did at around 360 pounds. I am sorry I would even think
> this for a second, but I had the worst day yesterday. I chipped a bone in my
> wrist 2 days before I go on a vacation where the first 3 days were for
> golfing before I left for Washington. Not now. I come home to find out I did
> something stupid to the list and got a few very depressing emails and then I
> went out to find a 1 inch crack in the blossom end for the Emmons that I can
> see the inside of now. So it just wasn't my day
>
> Dennis
>
> d*@attbi.com
>
> http://home.attbi.com/~dhouser/photos.htm
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