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[DirtDiva]

Just a tad.

Confectionary and other processed, pre-packaged stuff tends to be alright, but raw foods are a big no-no. If you fly into NZ and forget you have an apple or whatever in your backpack it's an instant fine of the order of NZ$200 for a first time offender (so to speak). They're not the least bit interested that it was just an innocent mistake. (They do at least provide special bins to toss that kind of stuff in before you get to customs.)

[crazycanuck]

Dirtdiva,

Are you back in the UK or in NZ visiting? How is/was your trip? I missed you dear...so nice to see you again.

MAF is pretty ******** serious about the fine...some famous model was fined the $200 and couldn't get out of it...haha freak!

This reminds me of the show on tv here "Border Security"...interesting what folks try to do at customs....



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[DrBee]

is Dillbird a snake too?

my cats are a bit alarmed because i just pulled a buddliea with a 5" diameter trunk out of my front yard.
I will put a fig tree there instead. I can eat figs.

Just don't cut the fig tree once you plant it - especially with a chainsaw!

[DrBee]

Okay - here's the interview report. Da da da daaaaaaa...... It went great!!!!!!!

Long breakfast with 3 of the scientists (search committee members) and a french bakery. Ah, real food. Then came the seminar. I kicked butt on my seminar - got a great response! Then lunch (with 4 comm. members now) at a Thai restaurant - yummmmm. Again - ah, real food. Then a tour of the facilities. Then the formal interview (with a panel of 5) felt a bit like my orals when qualifying for Ph.D. candidacy, but I nailed the questions - for 1 1/2 hours. They told me I answered some of them exactly how they would have. Then I met with the rest of the scientists in the Unit and then home. They told me they are bringing in 2 other candidates this week to make sure everything is equitable.My feeling is that I should get it, based on comments that were made. And, to top it all off - I liked the facilities and the people were great! They think of their technicians as colleagues, not employees - which is very different from where I am now and is a much better way to work! They indicated they would like to have me there as soon as possible - like October! I should hear something official next week! So ... uh... it looks good!

Now - I go to work. This should be an interesting day.

[Nanci]

So that means you got the job????????????????

Were the questions specifically about bees??

[Brina]

Goats are pretty awesome for milk, lawn-mowing and fertilizer, too. =D

considering what Whole Foods charges for goat milk ($6.99 per half gallon) it is sounding very tempting to just invest in one.

[betagirl]

So I hopefully got my stupid insurance hashed out. I have to do the med mail order. I sent in the script, so we'll see. I'm skeptically optimistic.

[betagirl]

considering what Whole Foods charges for goat milk ($6.99 per half gallon) it is sounding very tempting to just invest in one.

Is anything cheap at whole foods? Whenever I go there I walk out with 1 bag and $50 poorer

[Brina]

good luck, beta

fish, sounds like an awesome interview.

[mimitabby]

Mimi, my box turtle Fagalo eats slugs- 20-30 at a time. I have to catch them for him, though. I'm sure he would eat snails. Well, baby snails. He also loves those giant flying roaches, and anything else like that. Nightcrawlers. Pillbugs.

omigod! Why don't we have boxturtles? we have a plethora of snails,sllugs
and pillbugs!! you would not believe the pillbugs we have here!!
(i have no idea what they are eating)


Nanci, thanks for the link to your website. Your pigeon stories are great!

[mimitabby]

Mimi- *I'm* always the one who hunts out the mouse holes in the garden... well, me and the 3+ feral cats who prowl about at night, invisible to all, but their pawprints are all over my filthy car... The rats are watched pretty carefully (not too hard, they're black and white and darned-near squirrel-sized in a pretty small raised-bed garden) and actually come running back to 'momma' to show whatever nifty crawly thing they've found. They're like kids. Filthy, sorta smelly, naked-tailed kids. ...ok, not like kids.

My kids are sorta smelly and they both have front tails... uh..
Sounds like they are like MY kids... mine are slobs too, are rats slobs?

actually, it sounds like i might enjoy having a rat for a pet.. I think my husband would blow a gasket. when we got married, he told me he didn't like animals (non human) in the house.
my response was, love me, love my cats... and he came around. but i don't think i could
sneak in a rat..

[KnottedYet]

My mom goes to another city (eh-hem) to get her meds. The pharmasist usually apologizes to her that they are so expensive since she isn't a citizen (eh-hem, I mean resident) of that "city". But even paying full price for what the residents of that city get for free, it's still cheaper than her copay for them in her home city. And it's the exact same stuff, made in the same place.

[mimitabby]

My mom goes to that same city; KnottedYet! what a co-in-kidink!

[snapdragen]

Is anything cheap at whole foods? Whenever I go there I walk out with 1 bag and $50 poorer

That's why it's called Whole Paycheck......

I stopped shopping there after ending up with rotten fruit 3 different times.

[betagirl]

Heh, unfortunately those cities are too far for me to get to easily

I thought the whole premise of mail order was to get 3 month supplies so you can get a discount. Because this stuff is $1500 a box, they can only do 1 month's supply at a time. So there's no volume discount. I think they're just trying to increase the PITA factor to try to discourage its use personally.