At least the tennis player doesn't appear to have a wattle...
(My arms looked like that when I was shoeing horses!!)
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At least the tennis player doesn't appear to have a wattle...
(My arms looked like that when I was shoeing horses!!)
FISH!!!!! "Back on Track!" Are you a HipMama!?!?! (good lordy, are you MamaNoPajamas?)Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
I have been hearing serious unhappy rumblings from Houston (the city that absorbed the biggest piece of NO refugees). Their murder, suicide and crime rate is way up.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
It is very sad, but this kind of refugee has even more trouble starting over than normal ones; because their lives were messed up before.
I know that here in Seattle, we have a few, and from time to time they are featured in articles, mostly sunny I guess.
A recent article in the New york times suggests that the kids are still having trouble because their parents are too.
Here's one of the articles I recently found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/ma...=1&oref=slogin
Nanci
I love your pictures!
http://www.sersale.org/cats/agenza.jpg
here are my two former ferals, Aggie in the front and Enza behind.
I think tortoiseshell is the prettiest cat color.
Hello all. I'm back from a 5 day vacation, and it only took me 2.5 hours to catch up on TD. Have yet to catch up on "Open", but "Bike Maintenance" was minimal. Congrats to FishDr/BeeDr on the new job! I'm happy that Maizy is eating again, and I love Dill's new Swiss Army crate.
The vacation was spent in Missouri, with 3 days at Lake of the Ozarks. Not what I'd pick for a vacation, but the purpose was to spend time with family (parents, sister, and the German contingent). I waterskied a couple times and watched a water snake eating a fish (very slow process).
Other random notes:
Carving letters out of kiwi fruit is harder than one might think. I should have asked for advice from our NZ contingent. The fruit spelled "Baden" (the name of my brand-new nephew) and went on top of a pecan pie. I assume that Baden got a taste about a day after his mother ate the pie. Big brother Nolan ate 3 letters.
Dropped son at college last week. I'm officially an empty-nester now.
Fall is here. My morning commute started at 50F, and required a midway stop to remove the kneewarmers and wind vest.
it's the danged winter that comes after. Well, let's all put our fingers in our ears and pretend that won't happen this year! La-la-la! Everybody sing along! :p
Fish/Bee--you must be heading to Kalifohrnia soon, right?! I am so jealous that you get to meet all those TE gals and their guys and fry (thinking of the PP). Stories! Pictures! Eagerly awaited.
Nanci--great pictures of the beasts. I had no idea Maisey was so big. I wonder what it is about the sap that makes the snakes fall off the tree.
Deb--I'd think kiwi would be a very difficult carving medium. Congrats on the new baby in the family!
I caught a baby at ~1AM, got some sleep, but am about to confine the cats to the kitchen and catch some more zzzzs. See y'all later.
(PS Nanci, I heard that about the wattle! Let's see Mr. Lovely Tennis Player finish 25 Ironman tris, win 10 of them, and we'll check his lovely skin, eh?!? :p )
Knotted - uhhh...the project was called "Project Backpack" and no, I'm not the pajama person.
Lise - I head to SF on Saturday. I'm bringing my camera, but I'm sure some of the other ladies will have a camera and will post pics before I return. I can't wait! Especially now that I get to celebrate my new job!
Our weather is even good here! :eek: It's only supposed to get to 85 today! And then go into the low 60's tonight. That is way cooler than it was a week ago (upper 90's). We have the window's open in the house and the AC OFF!!!!! I'm taking tomorrow off to work on getting the house ready to show. We have a nibble - did I tell you? We're going to show it next week! Very cool, since it's not on the market yet.
DebW - welcome back and congrats on the new baby in the family!
Nanci - love the pics, as usual! And the video!
You know - everyone is complaining about this, that, or the other today at work and it is so nice to know that I don't have to worry about that crud anymore! Now I get to move to new crud! ;)
I've posted a thread in Open about moving FishJr up to K. If any of y'all have opinions on this, I'd really appreciate it. We're not sure what to do.
FishDr
welcome to the world of having school aged children. I found the most important thing was to be very proactive. Both my sons were handfuls, The principals always knew us by name.
Being in a big city is nice because more than once we took a boy out of a bad situation by transferring out of one school into another.
I found that teachers found the most ridiculous things to be serious problems
and I went round and round with them about who should punish..
example: 2nd grade son caught having peeing contest with other boys in boy's room. (no, we didn't punish him for that, how ridiculous)
example: son blew a cottonwood puff at a girl
(no we didn't punish him for that either)
it goes on and on. (they were already punished in school for these things)
i have had teachers put my son in a closet ! and deprive these active boys
of recess as a punishment for being too fidgety!
and no I never gave my kids drugs for being NORMAL.
now fast forward to now:
older son just graduated from college; has never been in trouble
younger son is a 4.0 math major in college, has never been in trouble.
They are both confident young men too.
Good luck with your daughter, I hear they are easier.
I think I actually prefer Peter Reid to Tennis Guy!
Both athletic, but so different. At least the Peter Reid shots weren't airbrushed. :p
See? He grows on you! I don't have the feeling I'd need to compete with Peter for mirror time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
At least Peter Reid is never mistaken for a woman :eek:
Noooo, that would never happen! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci