morning all you folks! how are you?


Did you like the eggplant t&l? hehehehe lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

LOVE those girls sense of humour...as long as its NOT me on the receiving end ..hahahaha <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well as half the people on MB have seen this ..what the heck..HE SAYS HE LOVES ME !! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


My very dearest love

It would seem that in the very near future that I shall be way into the mountains and be unable to contact you for sometime.
Do not worry if you do not hear from me for some time it will simply mean I am unable to be near any R & R area to be able to drop a line. I’m writing this a bit at a time when we have a rest break. Don’t worry if I don’t make sense just had a feeling I wanted to write you so I am.

I do not write as well as many nor express myself as others can with ease, I own up to it that I am most times uncomfortable at saying those things you deserve to hear. If I steal a word or two I guess you wont mind will you?

AW I want you to know that my love for you is deathless, it has never faulted or faded in any way even if I may have. Remember that always.

The memories of all the wonderful moments I have spent with you, the birth of our kids, watching with pride as they ran up to you to show you some drawing they made or show us how they could ride their bikes without trainors, it all comes flowing over me, and I feel most grateful to you that I have enjoyed them so long.

You have been the glue of our family for so long that I forgot you had your own losses and pain and for that I am truly sorry. I wish I could have done better.
When I see DS I see a young man full of quiet pride and gentleness, someone who would give a stranger the shirt off his back and laugh at himself, DD who has learned to love so well and think so clearly and give with passion to those she loves, even her grumpy old man, and Michael who has come to us as Bazza says ‘like manna from heaven’.
And Peter. Every moment I see that happy little face, and even now dream of what could be. It will haunt me until I die.
But don’t you see? You more than I made them what they are love. You give so much that at times I wonder what’s left for you. I’m afraid you’re stuck with this old soldier, at least I feel pretty old these days, greying hair and all.

I’ll say this once AW. Your affair did hurt, big time, but I understand the pain that drove you, the choices etc but it’s been gone over so many times lets not do it again. I’m at peace with it most times. But its over and I at least have forgiven you, have you forgiven you yet? I can’t promise I wont get angry at times, probably will, but I will try like ****** not to throw it at you. Mikey needs you and I want you, just remember that and ease off on yourself. Enough said.

Honey time is short we need to move soon to remain unseen.

My love I ask that you forgive me also.
I have many faults and I know I there are many times I have caused you pain. How many times I have been thoughtless and a real pain in the [censored]!
Most of all I regret failing you with Peter. If I had been there maybe I could have done something. But the past is the past no use dwelling on it.
What we have is pretty damn good.

Got to move love.

I’d kiss you if I could, hug the two ‘terrors’ for me and tell them I love them and Mikey,

Love



P.S. kiss Mikey for me.


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So I AM going to work on forgiving myself just as he told me and ............. HE LOVES ME!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You brought tears to my eyes. How lovely for you both.

t&l

Proper Use of Tools, very misleading!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Psst.... A-dub, he loves you!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Not if they're the devil's tools, which is what I was talking about. If, on the other hand, you were hoping for home improvement advice, I've got NOTHING to offer anybody! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Ever.

t&l

P.S. Now you've got me curious. What kind of tools did you think we were speaking of? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Don't know why this came to my mind. Maybe just because I screwed up my post and can't "do" it over. Maybe just because there are so many things I'd fix, if only I could! So I Googled it, and there it was...

THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN


I wish that there were some wonderful place

Called the Land of Beginning Again

Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches

And all of our selfish grief

Could be dropped like a shabby old coat by the door

And never be put on again.



I wish we could come on it all unaware

Like the hunter who finds a lost trail

And I wish that the one whom our blindness has done

The greatest injustice of all

Could be at the gates like an old friend that waits

For the comrade he’s gladdest to hail.



We would find all the things we intended to do

But forgot, and remembered too late;

Little praises unspoken, little promises broken

And all of the thousand and one

Little duties neglected that might have perfected

The day for one less fortunate.



It wouldn’t be possible not to be kind

In the Land of Beginning Again

And the ones we misjudged and the ones whom we grudged

Their moments of victory then

Would find in the grasp of our loving handclasp

More than penitent lips could explain.



For what had been hardest we’d know had been best

And what had seemed loss would be gain

For there isn’t a sting that will not take a wing

When we’ve faced it and laughed it away,

And I think that the laughter is most what we’re after

In the Land of Beginning Again.



So I wish that there were some wondered place

Called the Land of Beginning Again

Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches

And all of our selfish grief

Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door

And never be put on again.



Louise Fletcher


I'm looking forward to the Land of Beginning Again. Aren't you?

t&l

oh YES PLEASE

Can I have the ticketing concession please please please ????

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Mom - we are having difficulty locating someone who knows about GP's appt. Call please!

Neak <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I have displeased the Queen. Please tell me your realm doesn't use decapitation!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I'm already short enough.

t&l <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Well, under those circumstances it turned out to be a mistake to contact ME, didn't it?! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

You certainly may. And may I purchase the first ticket from you, please? One-way, too......'Cuz I ain't comin' back! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

t&l

AW--I re-read your posting of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," and I've got a question for you. What are "abos"? I always misheard it as "apples" and wondered why the stockman wanted to turn them loose anyway? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Aborigines, perhaps? And if that's so, wouldn't that be, in today's more politically correct world, somewhat of a perjorative label?

t&l

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> funny you say that ..when I posted it I saw that and thought thats really not a nice word ..... but didn't know what to replace it with so I left the original words. Of course you HAD to pick it out didn't you .. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I actually found out since its been replaced with Let me 'Dingo's go mate " in some versions and in others deleted.

We don't use that word anymore, in fact haven't heard it used much since I was a teenager - keep quiet Mr Mayor-
My Noongar women friends - they adopted me as they think I need looking after <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> - reckon you 'white fellas are too sensitive & you should get over it' ..... but I still dont like the word so I don't use it, its pretty insulting in every day speech if you ask me & made sure my kids didn't use it either.

The song refers to the ..well .. lets face it ...land stealing rich squatters using the local tribes people as cheap labour with little or no rights. You know like the big multinationals do today to most employees ...Ooops left wing leanings are showing lol

Well, I wouldn't have picked it out if I hadn't wondered about it for over 40 years!! There were lots of things said back then that are considered completely inappropriate today. Of course, there are a lot of things said today that were considered completely inappropriate back then, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I'm reminded of a trip we took from HI back to WI sometime in the late 50s, and a couple of the Japanese aunties went along with us. I was probably about 10 and they would've been in their teens. We were at some kind of reunion get-together and one of the farmers was intrigued by them. He kept talking my dad (loudly) about "them little Jap girls of yours," until finally my dad had to ask him to stop. In his case, he really meant no offense, but it was still close to WWII and that's what he was used to hearing them called, and calling them himself. My dad may not remember it any more, but he was intermittently indignant about it for years! So it's not too surprising that other people in other countries would have once been been given names that are now considered unacceptably rude.

I bought my son Flard a didgeridoo for Christmas a couple of years back, since he likes unusual musical instruments...and Australia. Then he moved away, so I'm not sure if he ever learned to play it or not. It didn't seem like a very versatile instrument to me, but he seemed to be having fun with it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

t&l

AW - That was such a nice, nice letter. My prayers are still with Aussie and you and your family.

Beliver,
How are you these days?
I don't read on enough threads to know.

SS

Well, being in Australia helps!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I wouldn't be able to guarantee you anything if you lived closer to them. If they were only 14 and 16 miles away, as they are from me, they could still get you. I'll arrange an adoption for you, if you want. Just never, EVER tell them what you don't like! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Is THAT who the "old Australian stockman" was? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I always thought he was just some old cowboy type disposing of his livestock before he died. How you have expanded my horizons in the last day or so! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> My poor romantic song!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" />

t&l

A long time ago, when the kids were little and we regularly went out foraging in nature, we liked to collect caterpillars, feed them, and watch them turn into butterflies. I gave a talk several times, using the caterpillars as my illustrations. I wish I'd kept pictures of everything, because I'd love to do it again--perhaps even as a magazine article, which I would call "The Gospel According to Caterpillars."

One of the points I made in my talk was that you can't always tell by looking at something (or someone) how they're going to turn out in the end. Not only do caterpillars not resemble the butterflies which they will become, but a single caterpillar often looks different at different stages of its caterpillarhood. One that I can think of right now is the Anise Swallowtail, which is a itty-bitty brownish caterpillar with a big white splotch on its back, when it's very small. After several skin sheddings, it suddenly emerges with a brilliant chartreuse color, and black, orangish, and white spots.

If you'd never seen it before, you couldn't anticipate the appearance of the later caterpillar by its earlier form; and you certainly couldn't tell by the size of the little crawling thing how very big the butterfly was going to be when its final metamorphosis was complete. I think people are like that, too, and that we run a very great risk of making mistakes when we try to predict and extrapolate outcomes based on what we see somebody doing at a particular moment. Living the Sad Saga of OtherSusan the Stupid has taught me this valuable lesson: With God's help, anybody can change if they want to.

God, who doesn't judge by the outward appearance, but by what is in the heart, sees great possibilities in some very unpromising, unlikely human specimens. Humans tend to see just the specimens. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I'd keep going, but my break is over and I've got to return to the battlefront. I guess the bottom line is that I don't think we should get discouraged by children, WSs, etc. who give every appearance of riding to CENSORED in a handbasket...and enjoying the ride, too, more's the pity. It may be necessary to separate ourselves from their personal drama, for safety, or sanity, or survival. But we never have to give up hope that when God is done working, the creature which emerges will be as beautiful as the butterfly which the lowly caterpillar becomes. The realization of this hope may be deferred on this earth. But having your dreams come true in heaven, regardless of what you have to go through to get there, ought to be more than enough reward for anybody. That's what I think.

t&l

t&l

yes most of the squatters were rich in the early days, however if we take out that abo reference, then he could just be a stockman on a smaller station - you know something like the size of Florida. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Then you can have all the romance you like... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> ..... jst take a look ...

Getting there
Whats there when you arrive
Home sweet home for a few weeks
Shark Bay days

getting away from it all

At Last ROMANCE

101 in the shade.
And the flies, don't forget the flies ...you wouldn't believe the flies <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Actually, AW, it was the circumstances in which I heard the song the first time, that made it romantic to me, not the alluring subject matter of the lyrics. Personally, I have no desire whatsoever to bond with a terminal cowboy on some farm, Florida-sized or not... surrounded by flies the size of small birds (the Great White Huntress HATES flies! Even little ones. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />), in temperatures that would melt the fat right off my body and leave nothing remaining of me but a grease spot on the dirt. Covered with flies, too, no doubt! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

After sober reconsideration of my decades-long attachment to kangaroos, koalas, platypi, and dying stockmen, I just looked at the 2 kangaroos I have on the computer monitor and went <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />.

5&l