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[Bikingmomof3]

X, AG, and AG's little guy have been having quite the day. I just spoke with them and X was shopping in Trader Joe's-her first time ever! I was helping her choose the correct TJ foods.

But that is not all folks.

X purchased a brand spankin new bike!!! I will let her tell everyone about it tonight and she promised photos.

[DebW]

I spent some time today modifying my hammock by sewing buckles onto the straps near the hammock and loops in the strap ends. Now, instead of having 7 feet of strap attached to each end of the hammock, it has short pigtails with buckles. And instead of wrapping straps 3-4 times around the tree and tying a knot, I just girth hitch them and thread them through the buckles. Now I can adjust it easily without retying knots. Here's a picture. The green part is the hammock, the gray part is an overbag that I slide around the hammock after I'm inside to keep my bottomside warm.

[Bikingmomof3]

Awesome picture Deb! If I has an area like that I too would sleep outside.

[snapdragen]

It's official, I have a cold. Not a bad one, just one of those nagging "something in the back of my throat and stuffiness" things. Lots of water, juice and tea. And Chicken Noodle Soup with Tapatio hot sauce!

[Bikingmomof3]

It's official, I have a cold. Not a bad one, just one of those nagging "something in the back of my throat and stuffiness" things. Lots of water, juice and tea. And Chicken Noodle Soup with Tapatio hot sauce!

Snap,
I feel your pain. I have the same thing. My lymph nodes are all swollen. I am at the 'painful scratchy throat' part of my cold. I hope we both get to feeling better soon.

[DebW]

My hot water heater is not working. I absolutely WILL NOT take a cold shower. Good thing there is a shower at work. Not sure if I need to call a plumber or an electrician.

[AllezGirl]

psst...hey Dar, X's new bike is a MTB!

[KnottedYet]

DebW - very cool hammock!

X - can't wait to see the new bike!

I have seen Trek's dog slide down the kiddie slide, it's pretty funny!


*** Warning: Verizon Rant ***

Now SKnot's cell is "restricted" (turned off by Verizon). Verizon assured me that my balance shows "0" and that both lines are active. Uhhh, no.
Kids, DON'T get Verizon's "One Bill" service. Heck, DON'T get Verizon at all!

-Knot-Future-Qwest-and-Cingular-Customer

[Trek420]

Knott, where'd I put the FCC's e-mail address?

Yes, she's a funny dog.

[crazycanuck]

Hey KG- Did you hear the Canuck jr hockey team won gold? Also, did ya hear about the roof at BC place!!! didja..

Checked my km's for last year..darn it I can't join the race at bike journal..I ended up doing 4250km..aim this year 6000km...

My back is still bothering me but i don't want to bother anyone about it. The massage helped & perhaps the pilates session tonight might do the trick too. I think i'm sitting in this stupid chair properly...

The dear is back.. & we're discussing the household budget for 07-He knows I wanna go to Canuckland earlier than christmas 07..-we will need to sit down and work the finances out..It's a good thing we only visit North America every 3yrs or so with the airfare situation..

Mae & Stinky sound cool...a kangaroo hey..

have a good afternoon/evening whereever ya might beeee..

c

[kelownagirl]

Hey CC - just got back from Oiltown. I WATCHED the jr's beat those Russkies! Yeah! Also saw BC Place on the news - yikes! How are they gonna fix that?! And have they been having a LOT of wind on the coast or what?! More trees down in Stanley Park. Sorry your back is bummed - mine is only just starting to feel better after 6 weeks...

My new claim to fame - future BIL challenged me to take an open oreo, put it on my forehead white side down, and make it "work" it's way down my face to my mouth (usually face muscles only.) I did it! Ta da!

Don't think I can find time to actually read the 4 days of TD posts. Got to go back to work tomorrow... Sigh... See y'all...

PS Yay, BMO, back on bike!

[Trek420]

crazycanuck

When my parents lived in Santa Rosa their neigbors had a wallabee they had rescued (being neglected at a petting zoo I think). On visits we'd walk to the neighbors to see the wallabee. One day I took Mae and whadya know over the fence there was an inter species moment, the wallabee hopped over and the two touched noses through the fence.

Friends!

From then on whenever I visited all I needed to say is "want to see the kangaroo?" and Mae would lead us there, look through the fence and her friend would hop over.

I have some photos but they are not very clear of this because of the growth on the fence.

A few years ago I found out that this beautiful animal had been killed by a loose dog. I wrote the neighbors, sent them copies of the pictures and thanked them because their wallabee was one of Maes first friends and helped her. They sent back a very nice note.

[KnottedYet]

Trek - hah! I thought your new avatar title was "Peets, the redwoods, and bridge TROLLS." Remind me to take you to the Troll in Fremont while you're here. Unless you've seen it already...?

[Trek420]

No I don't think I've seen the troll, I looked in Norway and didn't see trolls underneath the bridges there.

[KnottedYet]

Well, us Scandahoovians in the PNW have this fellow to remind us of our ancestral homes...

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAtroll.html

Edit: BTW, there is a Peet's in Fremont.