"Arch" wrote in message
...
George inquired, "Isn't she worth it?"

.. Yep and much, much more, but I don't hear "I love it because you
made it, Arch" said quite as sincerely and heartfelt as in years past.
She's beginning to prefer an evening in a nice restaurant to another
of my turnings, altho she has seized on and kept a zillion of them.

Well, if that isn't her thing, do as I have done and make an additional
diamond shape out of cherry, then a club and spade out of black-dyed black
ash.

Makes a nice set of dishes to pass the chocolate-covered peanuts and granola
in between bids....