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Good morning Mrs.M I'll be outside this morning taking the straw mulch off of my iris beds YIPPPPEEEEEE We are supposed to be in the 60's all week.
BUT....tomorrow I have to take my son to the airport to head back to Iraq. bummer.
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
BUT....tomorrow I have to take my son to the airport to head back to Iraq. bummer.
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
How much longer does he have there, MG?
MG,Really nice article...see, Mom, he has been doing something besides running with his friends! He just must be a great kid...well, man now.
I know everyone will pray for his safe and quick return.
I know everyone will pray for his safe and quick return.
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MG: very nice that Derek went back to his school - it puts a face on the war for the children that is not all death and killing.
Please Thank Him for this noble task. It will be a comfort to him - as return to the zone - is unbearable by any standard.
How very proud you must be - and rightly so.
As the years keep coming and going
Young men will arise and depart
Only one thing is surely imortal
The love that is in your heart....
We will all pray for his safe return home..
mory
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Please Thank Him for this noble task. It will be a comfort to him - as return to the zone - is unbearable by any standard.
How very proud you must be - and rightly so.
As the years keep coming and going
Young men will arise and depart
Only one thing is surely imortal
The love that is in your heart....
We will all pray for his safe return home..
mory
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Mory, how did things go for you yesterday?
Mrs M: Thanks for the Pancake breakfast
is was wonderful..
I'm saving that one for the E-mail announcement of our Pancake Breakfast fundraiser...
Sent $20 to photobucket - It's going to get used for sure.
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is was wonderful..
I'm saving that one for the E-mail announcement of our Pancake Breakfast fundraiser...
Sent $20 to photobucket - It's going to get used for sure.
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Hmmm, well you gonna tell me if you lost those last two lbs.?
Yes I lost 4 as did not eat before the weigh -in. So was able to start my testing.
It was a very stress filled day - the Van Driver lost the Gas card so had to advance money to get us home. So he was grumpy.
The nurse was grumpy. Then I got home and my furnace died (the fuel pump died) I only had it 11 years they are suppose to run for 30 yrs. ( they just don't make them like they used to) so I know when to quite - I turned on the electric blanket and slept 11 hours so you know how tired I was. Today I hired a friend to fix the
furnace and I made a couple trays of Lasagna and French Bread. Now I'm done
for the day. It's cool about 40 but the furnace will be running by dinner. Sorry I couldn't answer sooner I was stuck in the kitchen for 4 hours. mory
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It was a very stress filled day - the Van Driver lost the Gas card so had to advance money to get us home. So he was grumpy.
The nurse was grumpy. Then I got home and my furnace died (the fuel pump died) I only had it 11 years they are suppose to run for 30 yrs. ( they just don't make them like they used to) so I know when to quite - I turned on the electric blanket and slept 11 hours so you know how tired I was. Today I hired a friend to fix the
furnace and I made a couple trays of Lasagna and French Bread. Now I'm done
for the day. It's cool about 40 but the furnace will be running by dinner. Sorry I couldn't answer sooner I was stuck in the kitchen for 4 hours. mory
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Glad you were able to do your MRI. Hope it isn't anything serious, Mory!
Furnaces may last 30 years, if it has a lined chamber, Mory, but pumps and switches are a different ball of wax! they can go out in one, two, five, hard to say how many years.
Furnaces may last 30 years, if it has a lined chamber, Mory, but pumps and switches are a different ball of wax! they can go out in one, two, five, hard to say how many years.
I won't get the MRI until April - they wouldn't even give me a date until I was under the machine weight. But I did get the procto (3 hrs) with the Fiber camera so now I have
a CD of my intestine to take to another DR to have read. Everybody is going to get in on the act. The testing is about 16M I only will have to pay $320 of it - but now have met my deductibles for the year.
Armond finished the furnace and he is on the way home with his dinner and cash for gas. He won't let me pay him as I gave him
my Datsun P/u and old back/hoe. He also has my new car dolly and is waiting to see if I say he can have it. He has worked 50 years cutting & splitting wood.
Has the highest mechanical aptitude of anyone I ever met. So instead of messing things up I just call him. I'll go on line later and have a couple new pipes sent to him.
I have never seen him without a pipe.
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a CD of my intestine to take to another DR to have read. Everybody is going to get in on the act. The testing is about 16M I only will have to pay $320 of it - but now have met my deductibles for the year.
Armond finished the furnace and he is on the way home with his dinner and cash for gas. He won't let me pay him as I gave him
my Datsun P/u and old back/hoe. He also has my new car dolly and is waiting to see if I say he can have it. He has worked 50 years cutting & splitting wood.
Has the highest mechanical aptitude of anyone I ever met. So instead of messing things up I just call him. I'll go on line later and have a couple new pipes sent to him.
I have never seen him without a pipe.
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I think the ability to repair things like that is a born with art. No amount of schools can hone those skills if you don't have the God given talent for it. I have met many, many, men that went through schools and schools that my husband would not have given them time sweeping our store floors!
YAY ME!! I just booked and paid for my airline tickets.
4 days in sunny Hawaii then on to LA, then to Kansas City.
Soooo, you guys will be Lexie-less for awhile (dont jump for joy UNTIL my back is turned plz ).
Lexie
4 days in sunny Hawaii then on to LA, then to Kansas City.
Soooo, you guys will be Lexie-less for awhile (dont jump for joy UNTIL my back is turned plz ).
Lexie
I am so happy for the three of you Lexie! Glad you got it done!!
Well, I havent quite booked the LA to Kansas City yet thats proving to be a little difficult AND expensive
Lexie
Lexie
Oh, yes, anything from the Island is expensive. Can you go from there to LA or San Fransisco, then to Kansas City?
Either you got it, or you don't! I always cringe when I see employment ads where they require degrees. Why not just give the applicant a small 'real world' test and see how they do? 'Knowing' and 'doing' are totally different things. I'm one of those people that could go to school forever and would still find it difficult to apply my education to tangible problems. Show me how to do it once or twice however, and I'm usually able to work my way backwards to the underlying reasons why I'm doing what I'm doing.
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Lexie -
No Seatte visit? I'm hurt
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
No Seatte visit? I'm hurt
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
I have a lot of education, Bj, so when I first told my Mother I wanted to marry Bob, who did not, she had a few choice words. She just didn't understand. To me, who can do next to nothing (including type ) with my hands, he was a genious! He could do absolutely
anything and I mean that, anything with his brains and hands, together. I would trade him that for my education in a minute!
anything and I mean that, anything with his brains and hands, together. I would trade him that for my education in a minute!
BJ just found your mention of Greenpoint - Its also much safer there. You used to have to appear there to stay but now see they have reservations on the net. The key is having a home Y card - then getting in is easier. I may go down to the city this summer and see a few shows. I can take an express bus and be there in 4 Hrs. A Lot easier than driving.
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Mrs M - on the deal that we got, we had to fly to LA then make our own way to MO.
BJ - we might come visit if you promise us a free feed
Lexie
BJ - we might come visit if you promise us a free feed
Lexie
Mory -
Yep, I do the reservations over the internet, then I call them and confirm a few days later I was a member of my local YMCA for about 3 years. Used the exercise equip for a couple of months, then just considered my dues a 'donation' I donate to the zoo now ... might switch back to the Y in a few years
Lexie - I'd feed you .... and you could prbably camp out in the yard under the field of dandelions that popped up!
Mrs. M.... my mind is going in adult areas today ... I was LMAO about your 'do anything with his brain and hands' comment
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Yep, I do the reservations over the internet, then I call them and confirm a few days later I was a member of my local YMCA for about 3 years. Used the exercise equip for a couple of months, then just considered my dues a 'donation' I donate to the zoo now ... might switch back to the Y in a few years
Lexie - I'd feed you .... and you could prbably camp out in the yard under the field of dandelions that popped up!
Mrs. M.... my mind is going in adult areas today ... I was LMAO about your 'do anything with his brain and hands' comment
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Lol, BJ! Shamey on you!!
Lexi: You can give us a shout - all the hotels have Coffee Bars with Internet - just fighting your way to one is the problem.
And all the new rooms are wired to connect a laptop. The ones using the telephone are VERY expensive though. The good thing is you can check all the facilities out on the net before you go.
I always go with near Empty Luggage as come back with too much. I realize you can't do that with a child. Have a great time - will miss your posts.
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And all the new rooms are wired to connect a laptop. The ones using the telephone are VERY expensive though. The good thing is you can check all the facilities out on the net before you go.
I always go with near Empty Luggage as come back with too much. I realize you can't do that with a child. Have a great time - will miss your posts.
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MG
This was sent to me from a friend that I mentioned your son to. She wanted me to forward it to you.
This was sent to me from a friend that I mentioned your son to. She wanted me to forward it to you.
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A Lot easier than driving.
You would even consider driving?????
When I moved to NYC (82/83) I stayed at the Vanderbilt for a couple of weeks until I found a job and an apt. Saved me quite a bit of $$$. Now, if I'm going to NYC for a couple of days I stay at a little B&B in Chelsea if I have the $99 a nite to spend. If I'm staying a week I do the Greenpoint YMCA.
Re: internet and NYC ... I even pre-purchase my show tickets online. Last time I was able to get 2nd row center seats to Chicago. It was stunning! I still want that time machine from eBay so I can go back to the 70's and see it with Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera
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My favorite was Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees
My brother Harvey did the Mambo number with her on Broadway. Last month I found a picture of Harvey Honecker Gwen and my Brother Harvey Jung performing The Sunshine Girl in New Girl In Town. on theatredance.com. Harvey danced with her for over 15 years. She was also great as Richard Gere's mother in Cotton Club.
And Mia Farrows Mom in Alice. She went back to acting when her legs gave out. I have her Teak coffee table in my den she gave to my brother.
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My brother Harvey did the Mambo number with her on Broadway. Last month I found a picture of Harvey Honecker Gwen and my Brother Harvey Jung performing The Sunshine Girl in New Girl In Town. on theatredance.com. Harvey danced with her for over 15 years. She was also great as Richard Gere's mother in Cotton Club.
And Mia Farrows Mom in Alice. She went back to acting when her legs gave out. I have her Teak coffee table in my den she gave to my brother.
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Last month I found a picture of Harvey Honecker Gwen and my Brother Harvey Jung
I see your brother also appeared with Ray Walston (another of my favorites .... yes, because of 'My Favorite Martian'!). He must be/have been a very talented person!
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Yes, when not in NY he was in Vegas. The two Harvey's - When they didn't have a Broadway show Gwen would loan them to a girlfriend for a Vegas appearance. Ray also was a good friend and helped him keep working. Harvey was also an amazing speaker - He got into EST and taught for them for years in San Francisco. There all gone now - I am just sorting trunks of pictures and shredding them.
I am saving one box for his daughter who was in a Canadian Ballet Company. Since she hasn't written in four years she may not get it and I'll mail the box to one of the dance websites. or the Library of Congress.
Oh well, time to move on.
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I am saving one box for his daughter who was in a Canadian Ballet Company. Since she hasn't written in four years she may not get it and I'll mail the box to one of the dance websites. or the Library of Congress.
Oh well, time to move on.
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You know you might be able to sell some of those pics on eBay
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Harvey Hohnecker, Verdon and Harvey Jung
perform "The Sunshine Girl" in New Girl in Town
Mrs M: The flag and yellow ribbon are beautiful and very appropriate. Kudos to
your friend.
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your friend.
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Thank You Mrs M: That's the picture they used in the Playbill. Every finger movement was choreographed if a hat was turned back on a given beat all hell broke out - That's why all dancers revered Bob Fosse. It was tight as a high wire act.
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In my next life I'm going to be a nightclub piano player/singer in the village in the 1920's or 1930's I'm a firm believer that if there is reincarnation, it wouldn't be stuck to a linear time frame It's going to be my 'vacation' life where I get to party hard and die young! Oh, I'm forgetting the rich parents that don't understand me, but send me checks monthly
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Bj, you are ....having a silly moment! LMAO!!....The piano, I accept because I know you love music...the rest...naaa
Yeaaah! It'll be the 'everything I'm not' in this life!!! It'll be nice to be vacuous but entertaining for a few years.
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Well, if I ever came back..and I am not sure I would care to...I don't know as I would do a whole lot different. I have been lucky to have done so much in my short life! Maybe, if i could remember treating some people shabbily , I would not...I hope I would not repeat that! Kinder is better! I have danced the dance!
I want to come back as one of my spoiled house cats! Now that's the life!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
I wouldn't sell them BJ but I thought of putting them on a website with some of his letters to children who want to dance but aren't good enough or just weren't born with the right bone structure or feet.
When I come back I want to be a Mountain - friendly to Hikers - Skiers and Bears - My snow will melt into clear water and fill the creeks with nourishment for the trout and find its way to the Sea. Tall sheep will tickle my funnybone and I will have millions of pictures
taken of my majestic slopes and the forest below. - and millions of wildflowers will awaken each Spring to greet my friends,
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When I come back I want to be a Mountain - friendly to Hikers - Skiers and Bears - My snow will melt into clear water and fill the creeks with nourishment for the trout and find its way to the Sea. Tall sheep will tickle my funnybone and I will have millions of pictures
taken of my majestic slopes and the forest below. - and millions of wildflowers will awaken each Spring to greet my friends,
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How poetical you are, Mory! Very pretty!
There would be a change in my life..I think I would not marry. My husband would like to have been born in the mid 1800s...and since I would not care to be there, we have a problem!
Oh No, those were tough times, and BDS before Dial Soap... and people only lived to 50 if lucky. I want to go to Mars and open a Subway Franchise.
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I remember when you could buy one for twenty-five thousand!
That's what Ive Heard - hard to believe they have now gone national and are going inside all new Mobil Stations
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Not just mobile stations here!
Mory -
Let me know if you want to do the website ... I'll donate my time scanning/designing. My mother always dreamed of being a dancer. She went out dancing at least once a week until about 9 months before her death. She was quite the swing dancer in her day
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Let me know if you want to do the website ... I'll donate my time scanning/designing. My mother always dreamed of being a dancer. She went out dancing at least once a week until about 9 months before her death. She was quite the swing dancer in her day
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BJ, that must be where you got your love of music!
Mory, I wanted to be a dancer all my childhood. I asked my aunt from LosAngeles to take me back with her when I was 12, but she didn't. I still get goosebumps when I see a group of dancers. I wouln't have been good for long with my rotten feet. Maybe next time........
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
Mg, were you enrolled in any kind of dancing? i had about 12 years of ballet and 4 of tap. Never was very good, but it was good for me!
Mory - aren't you glad you use dial? Don't you wish everyone did?
Mrs. M - Yes, although strangely enough, we never had music in the house. Well, not after I was about 5 ... my mother said my father said something nasty to her about her piano skills and she never played after that, nor did she play the radio or watch the variety shows. My mother was the typical taurus - once you said the wrong thing to her she never forgot!
Tap - the one dance I have never been able to find the rhythm for! I can watch it and tell that it 'fits' the song, but I just don't hear that beat
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mrs. M - Yes, although strangely enough, we never had music in the house. Well, not after I was about 5 ... my mother said my father said something nasty to her about her piano skills and she never played after that, nor did she play the radio or watch the variety shows. My mother was the typical taurus - once you said the wrong thing to her she never forgot!
Tap - the one dance I have never been able to find the rhythm for! I can watch it and tell that it 'fits' the song, but I just don't hear that beat
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
No, there was nothing here. I was really into fast dancing like in Dirty Dancing. Ohhhh, what I would do to be able to be one of those dancers. I married a rock and roller who played bass in a popular band. I danced and he played for 10 years after I met him. Then he retired and now I don't get to dance at all He won't. My dad is swiss and he taught me to polka by standing on his feet.
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The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
If I ever come back I want to be a duck on Mory's mountain swimming in one of those creeks.
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Thanks BJ you never know: - I better stop shredding..
Harvey used to write letters and when he came to a certain word he would draw a picture. Like I'm eating an Apple. The word Apple would be a drawing. (what's the word for that Mrs M?) I wish I had the letters to his daughter for her first three years. I'd publish them. A book for young girls who have seen the Red Shoes and want to be dancers...with lots of crazy fold outs - he did that in letters...
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Harvey used to write letters and when he came to a certain word he would draw a picture. Like I'm eating an Apple. The word Apple would be a drawing. (what's the word for that Mrs M?) I wish I had the letters to his daughter for her first three years. I'd publish them. A book for young girls who have seen the Red Shoes and want to be dancers...with lots of crazy fold outs - he did that in letters...
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There is a big glacial lake at the bottom Jake you will really enjoy...
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I have to pick up the tools from the furnace repair and then recline a few hours - thanks for the good visit everyone - goodnight..
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MG - ...taught me to polka.... I have visions of blonde pig-tails flying while Myron Floren plays his accordion on Lawrence Welk
I'm also partial to 'dirty' dancing ... I try to catch all the ballroom dancing shows on PBS - there are some fantastic salsa/tango dancers out there! Have you seen 'Strictly Ballroom'? The woman who plays the lead (Tara Morice) looks exactly like my mother at that age. It's uncanny! I grew up in the disco era ... a little salsa, a lot of swing, and then there's the 'shake your booty' part Even more fun when you get a bunch of friends together and arrange a few short numbers - even simple steps look amazing when you've got a group doing them
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
I'm also partial to 'dirty' dancing ... I try to catch all the ballroom dancing shows on PBS - there are some fantastic salsa/tango dancers out there! Have you seen 'Strictly Ballroom'? The woman who plays the lead (Tara Morice) looks exactly like my mother at that age. It's uncanny! I grew up in the disco era ... a little salsa, a lot of swing, and then there's the 'shake your booty' part Even more fun when you get a bunch of friends together and arrange a few short numbers - even simple steps look amazing when you've got a group doing them
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Nite Mory. Let me know if you want to do the website ... I think people would enjoy it.
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
MG: That's the heartbeat of every dancer - the longing to dance. You could have done it - i'm sure.
I watched Cotton Club 20 times - I could see my brother in Gregory Hines - he was incredible...The steps were like music - privately passed along/ down to friends..
Harvey spent years dancing in Harlem getting steps. He would say, This I got from Gregory and then do it and then this I got from Charlie and do it - He was always ready if a role came along.
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I watched Cotton Club 20 times - I could see my brother in Gregory Hines - he was incredible...The steps were like music - privately passed along/ down to friends..
Harvey spent years dancing in Harlem getting steps. He would say, This I got from Gregory and then do it and then this I got from Charlie and do it - He was always ready if a role came along.
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I'll be a wolf leading a pack across Mory's mountainside. I can't promise to avoid the duck reserve on hunting trips, but I'll do my best!
SS
"Run, Squeaky, Run!"
SS
"Run, Squeaky, Run!"
Bj...Yep! Blond pigtails flying! You got that right We were fast too! Mom says dad wanted to go out dancing every weekend. *sigh* Wish my hubby was like that. You'd think a musician would be a wonderful dancer. Of all the band memebers thru the years with him tho, only one of them could/would dance. And he was a total jerk!
Mory, thanks, I know I could have been good for a while. Unfortunatley I have osteoarthritis in my feet/ankles and they aren't much good for anything.They don't even like to garden. I do ask Santa for new feet every year, but nothing yet. I was a good dancer for a few years tho.....oh, the good old days I should get some of those movies and get goosebumps!! Maybe in my next life......
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Mory, thanks, I know I could have been good for a while. Unfortunatley I have osteoarthritis in my feet/ankles and they aren't much good for anything.They don't even like to garden. I do ask Santa for new feet every year, but nothing yet. I was a good dancer for a few years tho.....oh, the good old days I should get some of those movies and get goosebumps!! Maybe in my next life......
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Bj, so sad that your Mother turned the music off! We always had music and we taught to appreciate all types. I can't carry a tune, but I sing to my grandchildren and we listen to everything from classical to jazz to ...well not to rap!
Squeaky wrote
When I come back my kitty is coming with me. If you come for a visit welcome, if your coming to snack, beware.
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When I come back my kitty is coming with me. If you come for a visit welcome, if your coming to snack, beware.
Squeaky, here is another..
and..
It's hard to go to sleep when your having fun.. Well, I got all the tools put away and Armand called to ask if the furnace was working OK last night I said fine, warm as toasty in here - the furnace rumbles a little maybe breaking in the new pump. No, he said turn it off I'll be right over to re-adjust the intake air sleeve - It's not getting enough fresh air so there is an incomplete burn and the plenum shudders., gasping for air. So he's on the way
back to do some fine tuning. I'm giving him my two Stihl Chain saws today - My wood cutting days are over and he will have them purring again in no time.
Going to make a deal with him - The saws and my chain sharpener if he will remove my
motorhome from the 2nd floor of the barn so it can be sold. I haven't even started it for 8 years. I drove it in but its at an angle and I would surely collapse the barn getting it out. I have the big batteries all charged ready to go. so he will apply some Marvel Mystery Oil and have the big Dodge Humming again soon.
It's like you all said you Got it or you don't and Armonds's got it - Hi's wife's a pisser she had 8 kids - were great friends.
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back to do some fine tuning. I'm giving him my two Stihl Chain saws today - My wood cutting days are over and he will have them purring again in no time.
Going to make a deal with him - The saws and my chain sharpener if he will remove my
motorhome from the 2nd floor of the barn so it can be sold. I haven't even started it for 8 years. I drove it in but its at an angle and I would surely collapse the barn getting it out. I have the big batteries all charged ready to go. so he will apply some Marvel Mystery Oil and have the big Dodge Humming again soon.
It's like you all said you Got it or you don't and Armonds's got it - Hi's wife's a pisser she had 8 kids - were great friends.
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I sing to my grandchildren and we listen to everything from classical to jazz to ...well not to rap!
My rule is: No rap, no twangy country (unless it's Dolly) and preferably no acid rock.
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Yes, no acid rock!! Some country I like such as Patsy Cline. I leave that to them. Even though there are lots I don't like, I don't object. I don't find it damaging to them. ( Don't think they listen to whiney, twangy types ) Since each of them, including my children were tiny, they were subjected to all kinds. I believe what you see...what you hear.. daily, becomes the norm.
If you can teach your children to be able to interact with people at any level..that is talk corn bread and beans or talk steak, they'll be a sucess in life!
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If you can teach your children to be able to interact with people at any level..that is talk corn bread and beans or talk steak, they'll be a sucess in life!
Personally I prefer johnny cakes to corn bread ...
Don't forget teaching them to be good listeners too. Nothing makes someone feel important more than another person listening to them. Of course, it (as you pointed out) really helps knowing what to say when they stop talking
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Bj, yes, you are right and nothing more annoying than trying to say something and no one listens, but talks over you! If what someone is saying wasn't important to them, they wouldn't say it. Being able to listen is an art in itself. We are such self-centered creatures!
I've wondered what corn bread is like since I read "Misty of Chincoteague" as a child and was entranced by the descriptions of the yearly feast they have there, involving what seemed to me very exotic foods - oyster pie, pumpkin pie and corn bread. I also remember some sort of chicken dish.
The photos you posted for me didn't appear, Mrs M. What were they of?
SS
"Run, Squeaky, Run!"
The photos you posted for me didn't appear, Mrs M. What were they of?
SS
"Run, Squeaky, Run!"
Mornin all. Looks like another warm but cloudy day here. I need sunshine!! I must be emotionally exausted because I feel like I could go right back to bed! I think I'll try to get some seeds started and pick up around here. What a mess!!!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
MG: Sun was here Yesterday and today a light warm drizzle so the snow is going fast - Only former big piles are around.But today the crocus & Daffs are pushing up the topsoil in my big driveway planters. by tomorrow they will stick their noses up and welcome Spring. I can Hardley wait.
Every year I say I am going to devide them but they are so spectacular I just heavily fertilize and watch the explosion
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Every year I say I am going to devide them but they are so spectacular I just heavily fertilize and watch the explosion
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BJ: I am trying to remember: is a Johnny cake a corn meal skillet bread?
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Mory,
Johnny Cakes
1/2 cup flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup hot water or milk
1 tablespoon shortening
Mix the dry ingredients, then stir in the rest. Drop or pour on the hot, greased griddle or iron skillet and fry to a golden brown on both sides. Serve with butter as a bread or with molasses as pancakes.
Johnny Cakes
1/2 cup flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup hot water or milk
1 tablespoon shortening
Mix the dry ingredients, then stir in the rest. Drop or pour on the hot, greased griddle or iron skillet and fry to a golden brown on both sides. Serve with butter as a bread or with molasses as pancakes.
As you can see, I am back from delivering my truck to the gentleman at the airport. Traffic was terrible as was Lexie!! Bob kept waundering off. I am glad to be home!
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BJ: I am trying to remember: is a Johnny cake a corn meal skillet bread?
There's only one difference (according to my southern relatives) between cornbread and johnny cakes .... sugar. Johnny cakes has it, corn bread doesn't. And they always make it in a cast iron skillet I like *most* southern cooking ... but you can have the pig feet, chitlins and grits
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mrs. M ... not enough sugar!!! I use 1/4 cup! Mmmmmm.... tasty! Uh-oh ... all this talk about cornbread and now I want some hush-puppies! Durn! No Long John Silvers up here
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Long John Silver.....yuck!! too greasy!! they are all gone here too, I wonder why!!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
SS -
If you want to try cornbread use Mrs. M's recipe without the sugar (and with soda? I'll look around for my recipe). If you make the johnny cakes, try it with the 1/3 cup sugar ... it comes out more like a dessert bread And hush-puppies are deep fried cornbread balls, usually with green onion (and misc bits stuff if you want - bacon, sausage, ham....). I like the hush-puppies with either ketchup or maple syrup - depending on my mood
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If you want to try cornbread use Mrs. M's recipe without the sugar (and with soda? I'll look around for my recipe). If you make the johnny cakes, try it with the 1/3 cup sugar ... it comes out more like a dessert bread And hush-puppies are deep fried cornbread balls, usually with green onion (and misc bits stuff if you want - bacon, sausage, ham....). I like the hush-puppies with either ketchup or maple syrup - depending on my mood
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MG - there *was* one here, but it's gone too. Didn't care much for their other items, but the hush-puppies were good
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Seattle is a strange place for restaurants ... usually the only 'chain' type places that do well are the steak & potato ones. It's hard to compete when you have a population made up of many minorities - we can get real mexican food every mile or so; there are still quite a few good italian places (most of our italian population came here in the 30's and 40's); there's a swedish section of town where I can satisfy my pickled herring cravings; tai, korean and other asian restaurants (good ones) are everywhere! And we're very picky about our seafood ... if you can't do it right, don't do it here! The beach I go to with the dog has dungeness crab everywhere. I could collect dinner just by wading around for a few minutes
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mrs. M.... Seems to me I put some baking soda in there too ... I'll have to find my recipe
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
BJ
How about this?
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup shortening or oleo
Put baking soda in buttermilk and stir. Sift dry ingredients together. Add egg, buttermilk, and shortening to dry ingredients and beat 1 minute.
How about this?
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup shortening or oleo
Put baking soda in buttermilk and stir. Sift dry ingredients together. Add egg, buttermilk, and shortening to dry ingredients and beat 1 minute.
Here is a very old recipe from the South!
Southern Johnny Cake
3 cup Indian corn meal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup molasses
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon soda
Buttermilk
Mix corn meal, flour, and salt. Mix soda with 1 cup buttermilk; add to dry ingredients along with the molasses. Mix well. Add more buttermilk if necessary to make a batter for pouring. Pour into a greased iron skillet and bake in a hot oven.
Southern Johnny Cake
3 cup Indian corn meal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup molasses
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon soda
Buttermilk
Mix corn meal, flour, and salt. Mix soda with 1 cup buttermilk; add to dry ingredients along with the molasses. Mix well. Add more buttermilk if necessary to make a batter for pouring. Pour into a greased iron skillet and bake in a hot oven.
Being from Montana and raised on Corn Bread - Mrs M gets the prize. First Mrs M thanks for confirming the Johnny.
So, Some Cook Notes
I have done years of collecting on Corn Bread because I wanted to use my original Cast Iron ware. Anyone can bake it in a Teflon Ring Pan.
But put the batter in Cast Iron for the toasted corn taste needs some tender care - and putting the batter in a corn stick pan is the test. If you can Bake.
There are extreamly few recipes that mix both baking powder and Soda. If using the above and delete salt or reduce the oil for diet reasons bake it in a Teflon Ring Pan. Any recipe that has both leavening agents Soda & Powder let the batter sit a minute after mixing then gently mix out the first gas. The batter should be smooth use a wisk - don't beat it just incorporate it. Bake at 425 for 18 to twenty minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. If above 3500 ft reduce the powder a tsp.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
When Soda is more than six months old put it in the frigerator to collect odors overnight then dump it. Put the new box in a ziplock bag after opening.
Baking powder causes more baking failures than anything - It only has a shelf life of six to 8 months. Always check the new can expiration date on this item - it's critical.
If doubtful, test it - In 1/3 cup of Hot Tap water in a clear glass stir in one tea
spoon of
your baking powder it should flume and bubble. If not, trash it.
If making the cornbread Texas or Mexican, add another egg and 2 oz or 1/2 cup grated cheddar and 1/4 cup chopped green chiles and 1/4 chopped Onion. I like it( not Hot) with red & Green Pepper. I do make it Hot when served with Beans -
If you use Parmesan Cheese
use a little dill - but have fun...
PS: use the buttermilk recipe from Mrs M:
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Mory, you know me..check the forum..see a need for recipe..run to kitchen!
When I enlisted in the Army they said what can you do: I said I' can Bake.. He opens the book on Military Occupational Specialties MOS
and ask me the ingrediants in Corn bread, When I would use Soda not baking powder
and if I was sent to the locker to get a can of frosted Icing - what would it look like?
He put down I was a Baker...So while others were taking 10 mile Hikes at Camp Cook I was
Making Pies for dinner or frying raised Potato Doughnuts. We had a Hq Command Inspection and I put on a display like Dunkin Doughnuts.
As a reward, My Captain pinned a Sharpshooter Medal on me and gave me a weeks leave. It also got me a bunk onboard ship the 17 day
cruise to Japan (around a huricane) that was supposed to be a week. I was baking in the crew Mess. The same happened when I got to the Tokyo Reple Depot my records conveniently got lost. In the 40th Infantry that shipped to
Korea there were only 8 Cook - Bakers. I never cooked except Breakfast -Sometimes I made Pancakes 24 hrs a day until my arms
were screaming - I took up smoking (faking) to get off the griddle. ...That's Just the way it was..
Baking got me my first Job at AT&T and 30 years later I was Advertising Manager..
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and ask me the ingrediants in Corn bread, When I would use Soda not baking powder
and if I was sent to the locker to get a can of frosted Icing - what would it look like?
He put down I was a Baker...So while others were taking 10 mile Hikes at Camp Cook I was
Making Pies for dinner or frying raised Potato Doughnuts. We had a Hq Command Inspection and I put on a display like Dunkin Doughnuts.
As a reward, My Captain pinned a Sharpshooter Medal on me and gave me a weeks leave. It also got me a bunk onboard ship the 17 day
cruise to Japan (around a huricane) that was supposed to be a week. I was baking in the crew Mess. The same happened when I got to the Tokyo Reple Depot my records conveniently got lost. In the 40th Infantry that shipped to
Korea there were only 8 Cook - Bakers. I never cooked except Breakfast -Sometimes I made Pancakes 24 hrs a day until my arms
were screaming - I took up smoking (faking) to get off the griddle. ...That's Just the way it was..
Baking got me my first Job at AT&T and 30 years later I was Advertising Manager..
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Mory, my husband was a cook in the Army. He said that he was treated with more respect than any other occupation there because he fill their stomachs!
Yes, we not only had respect but protection.
My wound's were mental. Most All of the high school friends I enlisted with were killed.
You don't get over the guilt you just live with it.
I got a after school job washing pots in a local bakery - Summers I worked full time decoratinmg cakes & making doughnuts. When I finished my shift I use to carry 100lb sacks of flower up from the basement - for every 10 bags the head baker showed me a secret.
When the head bread baker got married I made his 4 tier wedding cake - I was 16. The next year I made Pastry and the next bread.
This is how it began...
My father rebuilt the Bakery Truck engine . In payment I started as bakery apprentice washing pots. My father was from Berlin since I didn't want to learn HIS trade (shameful) I would become a baker. " Bakers always have bread on the table"
He would scream at me...
-OMG it kills me to say he was right...
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My wound's were mental. Most All of the high school friends I enlisted with were killed.
You don't get over the guilt you just live with it.
I got a after school job washing pots in a local bakery - Summers I worked full time decoratinmg cakes & making doughnuts. When I finished my shift I use to carry 100lb sacks of flower up from the basement - for every 10 bags the head baker showed me a secret.
When the head bread baker got married I made his 4 tier wedding cake - I was 16. The next year I made Pastry and the next bread.
This is how it began...
My father rebuilt the Bakery Truck engine . In payment I started as bakery apprentice washing pots. My father was from Berlin since I didn't want to learn HIS trade (shameful) I would become a baker. " Bakers always have bread on the table"
He would scream at me...
-OMG it kills me to say he was right...
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Beautifully put, Mory. I just wish Bob was able to read it. I know he would agree and salute you!
MG: see if you can reserve the Rolling Stone issue "50 YEARS OF ROCK & ROLL... Just Out AT YOUR NEWS DEALER - the cover is being framed and are already going for $200 US...
I called the Library today and ask them to lock it up and put in the display case for research Only. Or it will be lifted and knowone will get to read it.
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I called the Library today and ask them to lock it up and put in the display case for research Only. Or it will be lifted and knowone will get to read it.
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Strange world we live in, Mory!
MS M: No salutes - everybody did what they could - just to make it home - all else are lies. I baked for two Commanding Generals - Mark Clark and Mathew B Ridgeway = Autographed pictures are in My Hall - There going in the shredder too.
My best and prayers for Bob..
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My best and prayers for Bob..
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Thank you Mory.
Got it!
Watch out Mrs. M ... you could poke an eye out with that thing!
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
LMAO! I've been considering getting another kitty for a while .... now I'm not sure
I wish I had a copy of that commercial where the woman keeps scolding the dog for doing bad things ... and it ends up being the cat (I think it's a polaroid commercial)
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
I wish I had a copy of that commercial where the woman keeps scolding the dog for doing bad things ... and it ends up being the cat (I think it's a polaroid commercial)
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
LOL, don't remember that!
I think I'm on a bathroom "kick"!
Mrs.M, do they make one of those toilets with the arms for a dog?
I'd be willing to install it outside if they do...
Reminds me of a show on 'Golden Girls'. They decided they could install one themselves, so the plumber set it down on the livingroom floor and left... The old lady came home, and said... 'Great, I won't have to miss any of my programs now.'
I'd be willing to install it outside if they do...
Reminds me of a show on 'Golden Girls'. They decided they could install one themselves, so the plumber set it down on the livingroom floor and left... The old lady came home, and said... 'Great, I won't have to miss any of my programs now.'
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Reminds me of a show on 'Golden Girls'. They decided they could install one themselves, so the plumber set it down on the livingroom floor and left... The old lady came home, and said... 'Great, I won't have to miss any of my programs now.'
LMAO!!! I find that probably from true life..being a plumbing contractor's wife!
Mrs.M, those are so funny Those kitties in the bathroom must be from the same family as the kitty you gave me earlier. They all have nervous paws!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
Inbreed, maybe?
Mory, heh, my "local" news dealer ? Well, I have to go into town tomorrow for therapy on my arm, I could look there. But there isn't anything here. I live 2 miles outside of a "big" town. Almost 2000 people!! whoopie!!!
It's so big we don't even have one traffic light.
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
It's so big we don't even have one traffic light.
The best things in life are furry....and flowers!
Lol, MG, I'm trying to get excited over the Rolling Stones.
My Friend Armond & Wife Sharron have six cats. One tiny Grey is 14. Anyway they are usually asleep under the wood stove - I'll have to dig out a pucture. One of them uses the toilet - but forgets to flush.
Think what you could get for cats cloned to flush Or even just use the potty..
I haven't seen it yet but with 18 million video cameras out there I bet it makes it on TV.
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Think what you could get for cats cloned to flush Or even just use the potty..
I haven't seen it yet but with 18 million video cameras out there I bet it makes it on TV.
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Mory, actually they will use a toilet and they make a seat for that purpose!!
Sometimes you might not have Buttermilk but you can use a tablespoon of Lemon Juice or Vinegar and milk to make up the cup of
Buttermilk.
If your Baking Powder is out or bad use 1/2 tsp of soda & 1/2 tsp cream of tarter.
I always put a little soda in chocolate cake even box mixes it turns the chocolate red and sweet (actually a Devils Food) or Brownie mix that may be old.
If biscuits or dumplings ask for self rising flour then for each cup of flour just add
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder and 1/2 tsp of Salt.
Think I'll start a new Thread "Oldies But Goodies" (Only personally tested Recipes)
What does everyone think about that?
Good Night Everyone... mory
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Buttermilk.
If your Baking Powder is out or bad use 1/2 tsp of soda & 1/2 tsp cream of tarter.
I always put a little soda in chocolate cake even box mixes it turns the chocolate red and sweet (actually a Devils Food) or Brownie mix that may be old.
If biscuits or dumplings ask for self rising flour then for each cup of flour just add
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder and 1/2 tsp of Salt.
Think I'll start a new Thread "Oldies But Goodies" (Only personally tested Recipes)
What does everyone think about that?
Good Night Everyone... mory
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MG: My town is so small they took away our slow down to 45 sign - The Trucks just fly by at 65 and I wave goodbye.
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Oh, I deleted a post, so this one is just to get it going again!!
Good Morning Everyone well Its after lunch but morning for me...my new camera arrived and I got hooked setting the date and reading the instruction manual. I'm seeing spots from reading all that all night on recycled paper. I think everything that is advertising or registration should be on recycled paper and the customers book should be on snow white clean paper- but that will never happen. The sun is out and its 45 degrees - oh this heat wave really knocks you out
Just downloaded Smiley Central to see if there are any larger Smiley's - Thanks for the Big One Mrs M:
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Just downloaded Smiley Central to see if there are any larger Smiley's - Thanks for the Big One Mrs M:
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Wow! A whole new face!!!!
Oh Crap!! They changed everything
Lexie and everybody - apologies and sackcloth & ashes time!
I thought, oh I'll try that and people can click on a link and see photos - I didn't think it would be plastered all over the front pages.
I haven't even got the best photos up and as for that sideways one. Furthermore its got nothing to do with ebay.
More to the point, I can't edit it - the only thing I can do is delete the first picture! I can't touch anything else as I have a fixed editing window with no scroll bars. Help!
I thought, oh I'll try that and people can click on a link and see photos - I didn't think it would be plastered all over the front pages.
I haven't even got the best photos up and as for that sideways one. Furthermore its got nothing to do with ebay.
More to the point, I can't edit it - the only thing I can do is delete the first picture! I can't touch anything else as I have a fixed editing window with no scroll bars. Help!
Its all good Camera, I enjoyed looking at them.
Just kinda blew away my beliefs that the sun doesnt shine in the UK very often
Just kinda blew away my beliefs that the sun doesnt shine in the UK very often
How interesting to see who is here lurking!!
Just testing!
Ahhh Mrs M - but there may be others lurking that you just cant see
YICK - Purple is yucky
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Where ARE those Isaac Mizrahi glasses when we need them???
I think you need better glasses than that BJ
Can we transfer our voyages of discovery to BJ's OOhh! thread - its a better title for one and its not seven pages long - yet!
I may stay and discover in here, just to spite you Camera
Why are Aussies always so Bloody Stroppy!
Coz we can be!! Wanna make something of it Camera?
Thought you were going to bed?
AS a nine year old, I had the misfortune to travel out on the P & O Chusan to Ceylon with a whole lot of Aussie kids en route home.
Do you know they would fight their way to the head of the morning free Ice Cream queue!
Never forgot that!!
Were you one? Probably not, as you sound considerably younger than me!
Do you know they would fight their way to the head of the morning free Ice Cream queue!
Never forgot that!!
Were you one? Probably not, as you sound considerably younger than me!
I cant see me being one Camera.
Us Aussies LURRRVE our Ice Ceam.
How old do I sound?
Us Aussies LURRRVE our Ice Ceam.
How old do I sound?
Good Morning everyone! Hope you all have a fun day figuring out this new forum! I like it pretty well.
Morning!
Yea, I'll give it the thumbs up.
...will take a little getting used to though.
Yea, I'll give it the thumbs up.
...will take a little getting used to though.
Oh well, Puppy, it keeps our minds uhhhh..well, anyway, I'm sure we'll learn! Did you take the survey on My Snipes yet?
Survey... Yes.
... didn't see it till just now though.
... didn't see it till just now though.
Now you can express any frustrations you might be harboring!
Can't believe you can go back and edit old posts!!
Can't believe you can go back and edit old posts!!
Now is the time ........
Somebody doubtless will slap me in the face for saying this but now we have a new look, can we not bring a bit of order to the proceedings!
My first proposal is simple, each morning somebody starts a "Good Morning" thread.
If you start it today, you can't start it for a few days (else Lexie by virtue of geography would do it each morning) This would then be the chat thread. It doesn't stop yesterday's Good Morning from being added to if something was in mid flow, but it would make for a snappier & fresher approach.
Secondly and more controversially, I would like to see the abandonment of the "mixed" topic where a serious subject then becomes the repository for "chit chat" about other things.
For example, "the gathering storm" is finished as a topic, but because you all want to chat, it comes to the top of the list again - let it die say I!
Somebody doubtless will slap me in the face for saying this but now we have a new look, can we not bring a bit of order to the proceedings!
My first proposal is simple, each morning somebody starts a "Good Morning" thread.
If you start it today, you can't start it for a few days (else Lexie by virtue of geography would do it each morning) This would then be the chat thread. It doesn't stop yesterday's Good Morning from being added to if something was in mid flow, but it would make for a snappier & fresher approach.
Secondly and more controversially, I would like to see the abandonment of the "mixed" topic where a serious subject then becomes the repository for "chit chat" about other things.
For example, "the gathering storm" is finished as a topic, but because you all want to chat, it comes to the top of the list again - let it die say I!
Oh Camera - stop being so bloody anal.
I like the mix n match of topics.
And because of timezones old topics will always get resurfaced.
We *used* to start a new thread everymorning, but just means that we clutter up the whole ebay thread with numerous good mornings and it gets confusing!
Stop trying to be so controlling and let your Pommie hair down a little.
I like the mix n match of topics.
And because of timezones old topics will always get resurfaced.
We *used* to start a new thread everymorning, but just means that we clutter up the whole ebay thread with numerous good mornings and it gets confusing!
Stop trying to be so controlling and let your Pommie hair down a little.
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Somebody doubtless will slap me in the face for saying this but now we have a new look, can we not bring a bit of order to the proceedings!
Oh whoops. Look like I stepped up to the plate for that one
Re my previous comment about your age - you are now beginning to sound very like an elderly fishwife!
It was just an idea .... sob..... if I can't organise you lot, who can I organise? That's the trouble being an incomer ... all the natives gang up on you! Note the date on my joining AS ........ I just chose to remain silent and watching you lot rant on. Now I join in, all I get is abuse!! (more background sobbing)
Actually the second point was my main complaint - three of my "dead & dusted" topics were being revived by your inconsequental chit chat!*
And by the way, what the hell is Vegamite? Is that another adulteration by Australians of a high quality, pure British product - Marmite?
(according to my son, providing you don't stick the butter knife in, it will last for ever)
*this hectoring tone might just be the result of not believing that a US seller really did mean "parts only" and paying $65 to find out that he meant it! Then to cap it all, my wife muttering to my daughter that "if any more little boxes`arrive that put him in a bad humour" that she will dump the lot in the nearest skip. What with that and her applying for planning permission (true, its been sent off) for a office/shed to get my my 3000+ books, magazines and car catalogues and cameras out of the house! Women!
It was just an idea .... sob..... if I can't organise you lot, who can I organise? That's the trouble being an incomer ... all the natives gang up on you! Note the date on my joining AS ........ I just chose to remain silent and watching you lot rant on. Now I join in, all I get is abuse!! (more background sobbing)
Actually the second point was my main complaint - three of my "dead & dusted" topics were being revived by your inconsequental chit chat!*
And by the way, what the hell is Vegamite? Is that another adulteration by Australians of a high quality, pure British product - Marmite?
(according to my son, providing you don't stick the butter knife in, it will last for ever)
*this hectoring tone might just be the result of not believing that a US seller really did mean "parts only" and paying $65 to find out that he meant it! Then to cap it all, my wife muttering to my daughter that "if any more little boxes`arrive that put him in a bad humour" that she will dump the lot in the nearest skip. What with that and her applying for planning permission (true, its been sent off) for a office/shed to get my my 3000+ books, magazines and car catalogues and cameras out of the house! Women!
Oh you typical Pom you!!
No wonder the Aussie comment that usually accompanies *pom* is *whinging*.
LOL @ me being an elderly fishwife.
You will soon learn (unless you are a slow learner) that all my posts are inconsequential and of the chit chat variety.
Why does it bother you so that your threads are still gererating interest? even if its only my interest? Maybe I have a gynormous crush on you and cant help but be drawn to your posts?
Oh and Marmite sucks big time, we have that here. It doesnt hold a candle VegEmite.
I think your wife is spot on and you should be banished from the house with your ill humour and dusty ole camera's.
No wonder the Aussie comment that usually accompanies *pom* is *whinging*.
LOL @ me being an elderly fishwife.
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Actually the second point was my main complaint - three of my "dead & dusted" topics were being revived by your by inconsequental chit chat!*
You will soon learn (unless you are a slow learner) that all my posts are inconsequential and of the chit chat variety.
Why does it bother you so that your threads are still gererating interest? even if its only my interest? Maybe I have a gynormous crush on you and cant help but be drawn to your posts?
Oh and Marmite sucks big time, we have that here. It doesnt hold a candle VegEmite.
I think your wife is spot on and you should be banished from the house with your ill humour and dusty ole camera's.
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Maybe I have a gynormous crush on you and cant help but be drawn to your posts?
Perhaps we should meet - "her indoors" has been trying, with little success, to get rid of me for years as there have been no offers. Perhaps my luck is changing! (I take it you are young & nubile?)
I have said that on retirement she can have a nice bijou bungalette with all mod cons and I will have a caravan in a field where I can peacefully dismantle old cars.
Now isn't that an enticing prospect?
Camera, you make me moan, groan! I agree with Lexie 100%! Loosen up and enjoy our fun unorganized forum! There are plenty of stuffy ones if you care to join them!
How could I resist?
As long as you were able to keep me in the lap of luxury I have become accustomed to.
My family would disown me if I were to shack up with a Pom, they had enough to say about shacking up with a Yank.
Are you an only nephew with a wealthy Uncle?
As long as you were able to keep me in the lap of luxury I have become accustomed to.
My family would disown me if I were to shack up with a Pom, they had enough to say about shacking up with a Yank.
Are you an only nephew with a wealthy Uncle?
Lexie, I think he is an uncle with a wealthy nephew!
Ahh well Mrs M - you know when it comes to gold digging, I am not that fussy
Well, true, Lexie, but I must warn you his nephew is still in diapers!
I am dead tired tonight. Saw an R V this morning on the puter for sale near Ft Lauderdale and went over, bought it, and brought it back. Must have seen 1000 gators on the way back home!
LOL - do they cross the road?
No, Lexie because the road has high fences that keep them in the swamp. That stretch of road is called Alligator Alley because there are so many here.
Sounds like a great place for a horror movie.
Lol, why do you think that, Lexie? I've had them in my yard. They are a lazy crew!
Its just a cool name for the scene of a horror movie.
"Dont walk down Alligator Alley" (said in a scary over voice).
We have Crocodiles over here. They are nasty nasty nasty and not lazy. Them and Great White Sharks make a meal of a fair few tourists every year.
Why they dont read the signs that say "Crocodile Infested Waters" and take a moonlight dip is beyond me.
Then the poor bloody Croc gets turned into a pair of shoes, a purse and some mighty tasty steaks.
"Dont walk down Alligator Alley" (said in a scary over voice).
We have Crocodiles over here. They are nasty nasty nasty and not lazy. Them and Great White Sharks make a meal of a fair few tourists every year.
Why they dont read the signs that say "Crocodile Infested Waters" and take a moonlight dip is beyond me.
Then the poor bloody Croc gets turned into a pair of shoes, a purse and some mighty tasty steaks.
We also have both here too, Lexie. There are a fair amount of shark attacks eack year. Lol, if you ever flew over the ocen and saw the sharks near shore, you'd probably never go in!
I dont go in.
I have seen first hand what they do.
I will dive with them, but I wont swim with the buggers underneath me.
I have seen first hand what they do.
I will dive with them, but I wont swim with the buggers underneath me.
I will dive with them, but I wont swim with the buggers underneath me.
Could you clarify that statement, Lexie?
Could you clarify that statement, Lexie?
I dont mind reef diving with sharks, so long as I can see them, I dont mind them.
I wont swim on the surface of the water, as the silly things like to think we look like Turtles or seals and have a taste.
I wont swim on the surface of the water, as the silly things like to think we look like Turtles or seals and have a taste.
Oh, ok. My friend and I used to skin dive in the inlets where they were when we were kids in Ft. Lauderdale. Don't know as I would do it now however.
I watched a Doco the other week about the guy (Benchley I think his name was) who was the creator of the JAWS movies. He said he now feels great remorse for what his movies did to the reputation of Sharks.
He actually now spends his time saving them from Shark Hunters and trying to educate people to co-exist with them.
Its weird that the first JAWS had such a big impact on such a lot of people.
He actually now spends his time saving them from Shark Hunters and trying to educate people to co-exist with them.
Its weird that the first JAWS had such a big impact on such a lot of people.
I cannot watch movies like that! They really upset me.
Scared the absolute bejesus outta me. I wouldnt go near the water for months.
I was only little when I watched it, watching something similar in real life is alot scary and you have no choice.
I was only little when I watched it, watching something similar in real life is alot scary and you have no choice.
I watched Jaws the over day and it seemed quite tame. I remember watching it when it came out - such was the effect on me I can remember exactly where I watched it - cannot say the same for 99.9% of the other films. Going to watch Starsky & Hutch tonight - I wonder if that'll be as memorable!
One of my favourite films is 'As good as it gets' - guess which character I can identify with!? [No Lexie, not the dog! Nor the Gay bloke. No, not the woman either...]
Got a sound card? Play [_ this _] - brilliant in my opinion!
R2
One of my favourite films is 'As good as it gets' - guess which character I can identify with!? [No Lexie, not the dog! Nor the Gay bloke. No, not the woman either...]
Got a sound card? Play [_ this _] - brilliant in my opinion!
R2
Lexie is going to have fun with you tomorrow, oops it is tomorrow, I need to go to bed. I guess Verdell the dog even though you said "not the dog". Verdell was a rare breed as I think you are.
Good Morning everyone! Have a great day!
R2, "As Good as it Gets "was a really good movie! And, yes, I can make a pretty accurate guess as to whom you identify with!
I played the Johnny Cash song you posted. I am not a fan of his music, but this was touching as it was written to his wife that had died not long ago.
I played the Johnny Cash song you posted. I am not a fan of his music, but this was touching as it was written to his wife that had died not long ago.
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One of my favourite films is 'As good as it gets' - guess which character I can identify with!? [No Lexie, not the dog! Nor the Gay bloke. No, not the woman either...]
Go on R2 admit it.....you would have done what that little doggie did to that wall a few too many time.
Do you have those wicked sideburns too? I love lambchops!
And Starsky & Hutch was excellent - the cameos by the original stars had 'me bird' blubbing beside me!
R2 [who also drives a SAAB convertible...]
R2 [who also drives a SAAB convertible...]
OK, am changing gears here..I am looking at new convertibles. How do you like your SAAB, R2?
No no no no nono noooooooooooooooooooo
You gotta get a BMW Z3. I love mine! It's soooo fun to drive. Brrrrrrooooooooooommmmmmmmmm...........
You gotta get a BMW Z3. I love mine! It's soooo fun to drive. Brrrrrrooooooooooommmmmmmmmm...........
I have looked at too many, I think! I did see a Jag I really liked, but I am still looking. And then, I looked at a Hummer...oh dear, that is at the other range of the spectrum!! LOL! Bmw are nice. They just came out with a new series.
Have you heard from your son, MG, since he got back over there?
Yes, just yesterday. He made it back there safe. Haven't heard from him since tho. I'm sure he has major jet lag.
SAABs are querky!
Mine's a 1992 Classic Shape with all the mods and some extra power. Getting a bit long in the tooth now so might go for the new 9-3 as it's much better than the 900 (Vauxhall/GM based) one as seen in As Good As It Gets...). Came out well on Top Gear (BBC program!) and much better than a hairdresser's Z3... Mind you, I do like the Z4 BMW. Decisions, decisions!
R2
Mine's a 1992 Classic Shape with all the mods and some extra power. Getting a bit long in the tooth now so might go for the new 9-3 as it's much better than the 900 (Vauxhall/GM based) one as seen in As Good As It Gets...). Came out well on Top Gear (BBC program!) and much better than a hairdresser's Z3... Mind you, I do like the Z4 BMW. Decisions, decisions!
R2
Good Morning All - See your looking at new cars - They are all getting so good - If I had the money I would just lok at the safety records. It' not how you drive but the drunk that may hit you. But good luck.
and for that drunk... .. ..
I've been looking for about a month and not in any hurry. I do like to get feedback from you people that might have somerthing you really like.
R2, I haven't looked at the SAAb, but just might do that!
Puppy, I'll go for that!!
R2, I haven't looked at the SAAb, but just might do that!
Puppy, I'll go for that!!
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