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<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> AND they took pictures <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.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="" />

t&l

I'd take a few minutes to post but HP's supply of weekend good humor turned out to be about 2 bricks short of a load, running out about 4PM this afternoon, and fully 6-1/2 hrs. before we arrived home. After a lovely<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />-yet-interminable trip back, I'm going to bed immediately, purely in self-defense. That, and the fact that it's almost 11PM! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Wanna see the pictures!! hahahaha


I'm having a day off,,,I've got bad sinus or some cold thingy

slept for 3 hours ..varies between drippy nose and blocked and a gassy tum ...oh well Mikey is ok & hungry as ... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


How are you guys? Camping went well then ?

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

I spent the weekend with sniffles due to whatever it is and eating some choc's, going to a fair, having sisters kids run riot through the house while we grown ups played passed the baby - except the 'winner' got to change nappies heh heh - and reading poetry and listening to music...... very hard to cope with ..lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

but feel tired though..I need some multivitamens.

Please bear in mind that personally I consider chocolate to be the cure for almost any disease to which a woman might fall prey...BUT (you knew there was going to be a butt in there somewhere, didn't you, and if it's from eating chocolate, quite a substantial one, too!)

If you are getting sick, sugar is very very bad for you. I can't remember the way the formula correlates the exact amounts ingested and the times of ingestion, but x# tsps. of sugar reduce the infection-fighting capacity and efficiency of the immune system for x# of hrs. I think it was 8 hrs. So if every 8 hrs. or so, a person teetering on the edge of getting sick has something sweet to eat, his (because no woman would be this dumb! Except Neaksis, of course, who felt like she was coming down with a cold all weekend and worried out loud about the effects of the sugar she was ingesting, as she steadily gnawed her way through all the camping treats! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />)I say, his body would basically find his immune system neutralized in its ability to fight off infection.

I had a runny nose this afternoon on the way home. Wondered if I might be coming down with a cold. So I had a double-dip Baskin-Robins ice cream cone for a "cure". Why are you all looking at me that way? I always GIVE good advice.!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Occasionally I actually follow it myself! But this was BASKIN-ROBBINS!!!!!!!!!! I was yawning incessantly and making my nose run, according to my nursing diagnosis; therefore I didn't need to worry that sugar might make me sick. So I didn't. Gonna be buying a bigger muumuu for this trip to Hawaii, though, if I don't watch out.

Will get pictures as soon as possible. The girls might have better luck prying them out of their dad's grim clutches than I would, since I am being punished for something I did wrong today. Don't know what. Didn't do it on purpose. Didn't actually do anything wrong, except maybe when we went to play at the ocean and he wanted to go home and we ran in the waves instead. However, just as a brief note of rationality; if that WAS the identity of our sin, there were 2 possible solutions. (1) Leave me with them and go on ahead home by yourself. I could've ridden in one ot the other cars. Neaksis would've been glad to have me drive for her. (2) Get your personal butt off the seat of your personal vehicle and walk your personal body down to where everybody's playing and actually tell us you are ready to go home now and we need to quit playing and come back to the cars. Pouting in your truck a half a mile away doesn't have the same motivational impact towards facilitating the ending of a play session that a growl and a snarl near by the frolicers does! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l--human thorn in the flesh of an innocent man <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Oh I remember that one by Billy Joel... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

"Some people stay far away from the door If there's a chance of it opening up
They hear a voice in the hall outside And hope that it just passes by
something something something
Because I am an innocent man I am an innocent man Oh yes I am"

heh heh not bad for memory after ALL these years <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Hi all!

I'm still having computer problems, but hopefully I'll be back tomorrow!

I know I have some reading to catch up on. And Neak I saw you posted a timeline for me...as you know you've been on my mind - so that helps my perspective! I have some thoughts, but hope they won't be lost when I can finally spend some time here.

t&l, glad you survived camping. I'm going to back up and see if I can catch up with this thread, before being tossed off again!

Oh, shush. Bragging is VERY unbecoming, I'll have you know! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I'm sitting in MY comfy home today, too.You want to know why I'm sitting here? Because it hurts too much to move, that's why. Somewhere between all that endless trudging through the sand, the 308 steps down to the Point Reyes lighthouse, plus the VERY SAME 308 steps back up again, and the childish frolic in the frigid waves (it ain't Waikiki, let me tell you <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />!) my muscles seem to have realized that they were being asked to perform above and beyond the normal call of duty. And today they're annoyed with me. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I live in a 2-story house, too, and all those trips up and down the stairs to the laundry room and kitchen aren't making my legs any happier, either. Soon Neak will be here, and HP has left instructions that we need to set up the tent out in the yard so that it can dry out (rain and tent sweat!) enough to be folded and put away. Anybody interested in seeing the blind lead the blind? Right over here.......... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

As long as it's your own computer doing the tossing.For myself, I think of this thread as being something like spandex...it just effortlessly stretches to accomodate everything and everybody. The only things complaining are the seams. And who cares about them? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> What is there to see that we haven't already looked at? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I am going to finish editing Neak's book today. I think I've got about 50 pages left, and am logging off immediately to complete my task. I only logged on to go to her email and download a page from the first book so that it could be quoted exactly in this one. And then, of course, it was necessary to stop by MB BRIEFLY on my way towards the LogOut icon! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Neak was going to try and pry the memory sticks out of her dad's clutches so we can have the pictures to post. Haven't heard if she was successful or not, but since she was in town to take her grandpa to the hospital to have his esophagus dilated (doesn't THAT sound like fun?!), I told her to ask. Let him tell HER no for a change! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />


t&l

Hi !
Glad no one was killed or maimed.
Well, maybe you were maimed, but you will probably recover.
Hopefuly?
Mostly?

Was it all bad, or did you enjoy some of it?
Would you admit it if you did?

Can you smile and type at the same time?

SS

Hi CSue,
We expect a full report.

SS

Looks like your position had just been shelled.
Glad it didn't hit you personally.

SS

Yeah, but it pretty much wiped out the rest of my platoon! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Ok,
So tell us about the trip.
Play by play, not just the high lights.

And show us ALL the pics.

I want to see you and HP putting up the tent.

SS

***neak sneaks onto t&l's computer while she (t&l) is in the shower.***

As you can see, Mom would not have made it alive and intact through the whole weekend without considerable help from her friend, Ty.

Some of you may know him...last name of Lenol..

Bwaaahhhhhhhhaaaaa .........

Did the rest of you have a good time?

SS

Neak's got all the pix on a disc. She'll have to post some of them, since my dial-up takes too long...as we discovered this afternoon. However, here's a very interesting little postscript. I found some nettle-eating caterpillars near the campsite. Not sure if they're painted ladies or something else, but since we've got no easily-accessible nettle supply around here, I picked a few branches (and my fingers tingled for 24 hrs. afterwards, too) and put them into a baggie so I could keep them in the fridge until they were needed. Or until the caterpillars were done eating, which ever came first. Well, just at suppertime today, Neak went to the refigerator at Neaksis' house to get some lettuce for her sandwich. Spying a bag of bright green leaves on the shelf, she pulled it out for her garnish...fortunately recognizing its identity before the nettles actually made contact with her personal lips! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Not as bad as the time my caterpillar died in the peanut butter jar, but nettle sandwiches still have potential for humorous possibilities. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

the 3rd <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> (He works in the APAP Coding Dept.)

t&l

One of my worst (and there were many, many) experiences camping was when we camped at a KOA in Coeur d'leine Idaho. The place was beautiful, with a swimming pool.

Well, in the middle of the night, they drained the pool, and we were located downhill from it. I woke up at 2:00AM soaking wet, and freezing. All of our stuff was soaked. We packed up, and left.

Boy, if that isn't the best description I've ever heard, of the good-sport attitude that women need bring to marriage and motherhood, if they want to succeed...and just plain survive!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> You've got the wisdom of experience, Believer. And nobody can say you're wet behind the ears any more, either, unless it's with KOA camp pool water! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

t&l