Has anyone read Eats Shoots & Leaves?

Great family favorite!

On the way to take the kids to school, there is a sign at a store that says, "Yes were open".

IT DRIVES ME STARK RAVING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!

One of these days, Neaksis is going to take her turn driving past, and see that SOME anonymous person has permanent inked in a '.

In other news, it is beginning to smell like dead mouse here at my desk. Why me??? And then came the locusts........

Have you seen the picture book by the same title?

No, but it sounds good. Is it pictures of signs?

Cartoons - single panel ones - the one on the left page illustrates a sentence punctuated one way and the page on the left illustrates the same sentence punctuated differently.

Example (not shown but playing off the title):

A panda eats, shoots and leaves. (3 verbs)

A panda eats shoots and leaves. (one verb & two predicate nominatives, direct objects, or something like that)

A local quick stop gas station had a new sign put up:
Eat our food, and get gas too!

We laughed, and laughed. It took them a while to replace it - You can just never tell about some food. At least they warned us.


Yes T&L, my spelling is less than perfect quite often.
I laughed too, so feel free. I would have never seen that one if you hadn't pointed it out.

My grandmother was an English teacher. Quite well known in the town I grew up in. She was STRICT but also very good at what she did.

She helped me with spelling for quite a while. Finally she said I might never be good at it, but she loved me anyway.
We left it at that.

I think I agree with Mark Twain about spelling. I can spell most words many different ways, and I often do.

AWM,
You sound happy these days. I'll take that as being a good thing.

Cinders,
I'm glad you are willing to help, even when things are difficult. Isn't helping each other what religion is all about? I think when we serve each other, we are serving God.

When Neaksis got home, was she happy to be home, or did she wish for a longer trip? That's always an indicator.


How's the boy with the really short hair?
Does he have his own bottle of sunscreen yet?
Wear a hat?

Love weekends.
Taking W to see the movie "Cars" tonight. Figured I can handle a G rating.
Dates can be so fun.

THINGS are difficult.

LIFE is good.

This take on life is brought to you by my grandmother, who was pretty much happy all the time, even if she was not.

SS

Think I am headed to the Walking Horse Celebration tomorrow night. Supposed to take d. Anyone want to come with us?

neener neener neener
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I am the lucky one today.

I've got my reclusive black cat in my lap.

She's so pretty (even if the did have to amputate part of her tail when she was a kitten because it was broken when she arrived at to the humane shelter) and so silky. And it is a privilege to hold her.

Anyone want to help me with that too big presentation?

I am so glad I agreed to do it for only 2 months.

I have 60 more images to format. Each image then has to be repositioned on the powerpoint slide - horizontally and vertically. Background to set for 95 slides. 6 graphics slides to do. Save the songs in my archives - seperate file in my folder for each one. (You don't think I want to search through CDs for these things when I could copy and paste from my own archive, do you?) Then it has to be emailed out.

It is emailed.

The waterpark was roasting hot.

The horses were BEAUTIFUL!! You should see those babies walk!

And that mean ol' Pepperband has started another thread that has 3 stars. Do you know how confusing that is?

If you can't get cool in a waterpark, where can you???

Congrats on getting your presentation sent off. That must be such a relief!

Actually, the lines were so long and the place was infested w/ teenagers and I just didn't feel like playing by myself.

Infested <---- Good description, lol. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just had a rofl moment listening to the Channel 3 news.

She was talking about the pro-Nazi demonstration yesterday, where only a handful of Nazi sympathizers showed up, and about 800 counter-protesters.

"The counter-protesters would cheer, I mean JEER, and checkle, ...............I mean HECKLE............" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />


Bwaaaaaa, that is why I will never make it as a cewsnaster.

its funny to watch new readers when its live... they usually get it wrong at least once a week ..lol

makes the news not so depressing... interest rates up, petrol up, food up ..better not keep going or I'll have to go cool down and its winter here hehe hehe hehhe lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

ROFL - food is up here sometimes, too.

Mom, AJ made you some special (eastern) Indian food to take to work with you. He said not to tell you, but it's a little spicy, though I think you will do fine if you also drink some of the A&W root beer straight from A&W that he also got.

Dervishism: I was explaining to him about tithe, since AJ had just given him $1, and saying that for every $1 we gave God $.10, for every $10 we gave God $1, etc. He frowned, puzzled. "Do we hafta burn the dollar to give it to God?"

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Minister called me at 8:45 this morning. Church starts at 9. I was still in bed. I hadn't emailed presentation to his church email and he needed that for printouts. I emailed it. Ambled across town to pick up s from bd party. Went out to brunch. Came home and went to bed again. Woke up to go pick up d whom I had left at her dad's to work on German project. I think I am coming down w/ sinus infection. I want to crawl in a hole and pull it in around me for a few days.

hi guys!

had a rushed day today. Day off work and had to get up and take DD to Uni as she slept in & as Jonnie is living at the barracks right now while hes training .. I guess like your SEALS with boats and subs and things so we dont see much of him right now.

So mowed the front lawn and did the edging and thinking about starting on the external walls for the patio but my darn cordless drill is flat and takes 3 hours to charge up so I pinched Aussies new one and found it required charging too ... so instead went to the salvage yard to look at french doors and concertina doors to go in the bay window entry to the new patio. Couldn't make up my mind.
Mum just keep quiet! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I ended up picking up some metal stud frames and also some fluro fittings to install the lights ... now lets see .... is this live ?? wet the finger touch the wire ......... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

The hardest thing is keeping an eye on Mikey at the same time. Some years ago ... you dont need to know how many <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> ... I climbed on the roof of our then house to check for a cracked tile. I had two kids at the time DD & the oldest son who was about 20 months old and into everything. So I took them outside, made sure the pool gate was locked, the house door closed, the side gate locked.. gave them toys and drinks and some good healthy munchies and up the ladder I climbed. Well I looked for this tile over and over and over ..no luck. Then I stated back to the ladder and found sitting on top of the roof edge 20 ft from the ground happily playing with a toy car guess who .. DS. just about freaked out.
Then I had to very NORMALLY say to him "time to get down sweetie" so he happily got up waddled over to the ladder and after I put him on it with me below him because there was no way to climb down holding him properly, he climbed down. Never did THAT again without someone around to watch him. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> Parenting 101 - FAIL!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

There, there, it'x not your fault you had a dervish of your own. There are just some children where you do everything you can, and rely on divine protection for the rest. Sounds like he was one of those.

young neak you have hit it on the head. Except for Daddy's princess <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
all of the boys have been little dervishes of our own and we are awaiting Mikeys thoughts on the matter <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Of course the princess has a number of secrets which I'll keep until its useful <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Just wait until you get to the dating days and see the trouble these boys get into lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
I think AW had a easier time with the princess than with the GS. I of course after her - AW's - little foray with Aussie years back I thought of it as karma - I was unperturbed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

And I certainly wasn't going to comment on AW's decision making skills in regard to doors. That wouldn't be very mothering would it. I'm sure there must of been at least - oh 2 options - at the very least. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />