Aussie - Hello. Many prayers to you and your mates. AW was just here talking about you!!!!! I can't believe you are here.

Welllll where are you? Honey? Are you in? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

G'day believer

how are you youngster? Hope you doing ok and things are well on track for you.

Dark here but not bad, not too cold yet - how in Gods name you folk live with snow all the time is beyond me. hate the stuff.

Vodha's warming me up though ..oops cuse now where is her ladyship ? Crikey does she write books or what? I think shes explained every move Mike man has done since I left!

Hey hes sitting up now... what a little bewdy hey?

oh shes popped up on the monitor now ..now wheres &#1087;&#1077;&#1088;&#1077;&#1089;&#1099;&#1083;&#1072;&#1090;&#1100; on this damn thing .ah there

Hi sweetheart

now dont go panic we are all on a rest for a few days thats all.


hows Mike & my girl going tonoight? What about the other two? all ok?

Can you jump over to the net for a few need you to do something love while I remember. R's wife has a new baby like us and no family htere. Hes just been riffed for here so had to leave with 6 hrs notice. She's just a kid so if you could take her under your wing untl she decides whats she is going to do - may go back to family in the east not sure...anyway details on the net -phone etc.

I better stop hijackin this thread ..see ya on the net <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

YAY!!!!!!! You're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no highjacking this thread - it is multitasking. Stop by anytime.....

So glad you are back for a bit. Forced R&R will be good for you. Keep telling yourself that while you're climbing the walls.



It just started raining here a few hours ago. It had been getting well into the 70s every day, very springlike.

AW, I had to smile a big, cheesy smile when I saw the above. Yet another weird similarity, AJ calls me sweet cheeks, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Mom, was the poor little baby alive when it was born?

Aussie!! How very exciting to hear from you! We're just trying to keep your wife entertained and distracted while you're gone, so that when you get home she'll still have some hair left on her head. And it won't all be white. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

No, Neak, the baby was not alive when he was born. He had a cord accident also, but a critical, acute event where the bag slipped through the cervical opening with the cord inside it, so that he died suddenly from the pressure of his own body on his oxygen line.This was not a chronic, weeks'-long thing like Dillon's, so he was pretty much the appropriate size for a baby of his gestational age. Not that he was any less dead for being the "right" size. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Sometimes I get tired of OB, you know?

2 hrs. till sundown. I just got up, and when it's Sabbath I'm going back to bed for the night. I'm so tired after sleeping so little all week. Y'all have fun without me. And Aussie, you be careful, you hear? Otherwise, by next December, we'll ALL have nearly-bald, snowy-white heads from helping your wife worry about you!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

{{t&l}} God bless you for the work you do.

Pretty exciting day here. Our soldier in Afganistan talking to his wife in Australia, witnessed by us in California.

Thanks, FF. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Today is a down day, sort of. Fatigue never brings out my "sunny" side, anyway, and even if I'd been able to sleep without the monster chases the past few days (which I haven't! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />), this is still the first week in ages I've worked the whole 72 hrs. I think I must be getting soft! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

It's a small world, after all;
It's a small world, after all;
It's a small world, after all;
It's a small, small world.

It's a world of laughter, a world of.............

Did you notice AW hasn't been online here today? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> How odd. Hm-m-m-m-m-m. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> What could possibly be more important than her MB friends?

Oh. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

A couple more photos from the trip. Boy, does it take a long time to load them when you've got dial-up! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />


Virgin Lava Flow

OK, that was the tastiest drink. Be sure you have one if you're in Hawaii, and happen to like pineapple, coconut, and strawberry. If you must befoul it with liquor, I can't stop you, but it tasted great with just the fruit flavors in it. Trust me. And I wasn't even the driver!


You are the wind beneath my, um, muu-muu

No snarky remarks from the juvenile set about all I ate on my trip, please. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> There was a very brisk sea breeze on that dinner cruise, and the fact that I'd just finished eating has nothing to do with the size of the outfit. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Although when I sewed it, I DID make it with plenty of room...just in case! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

It's so nice that Aussie and AW got to communicate today. I know it will really cheer her up.

T&L - I have pictures of my trip to Tehuantepec, if I can ever figure out how to post them, I will. I'm very technically challenged. Usually I just get one of my sons to do it.

You can add them into Yahoo photos by just following the directions (I can do instructions step by step if you have trouble). Once that is done, you just post the link here. (Again, I can help with that if you want.)

In Hawaii, as in many other cultures, the more rotund the woman, the more valuable.

"Mom! You look like a million bucks!"

morning & evening to everyone!!

happy smiley face <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> is here

Aussie & I were on the net for ages, until he got a bit incoherent for 'some' reason : <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
He is 'out country' somewhere just resting up & sleeping and drinking a lot from what I can make out.
Thats ok though.

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

its so good to know he's safe!!!

Talk about ESP..I was thinking about him just an hour before he emailed looking for me!!
Kept everything light and happy how much we all miss him, updated whats going on with family, DS sailing 'adventure' coming up...my invitation to have morning tea & lunch while DS is climbing the mainsails .oooohh I hate heights.
DD & jonnie, and Mikey of course!
Promised I would get a photo of Mikey for him with Santa so I'll go to Carousel centre today and get one.

Brought up things he's missing <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="" />

Aussie said he may drop in today some time depends on 'things' - things being exactly what I dont know but probably drinking,sleeping or communications I suppose.

Told me he met our PM a few days ago and ..fell asleep hehehehehe <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


now , how are you all? A peaceful Friday night? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

AW, you must be flying high after "talking" to your man. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Made my day too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I've been smiling all day, I'm so happy for you.

My Friday night got really peaceful just a little bit ago when the kids went to bed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />