<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />, Pio. Those are nothing but sissy haole feet with a little bit of Kaneohe dirt on the bottoms. When I was a kid growing up in Honolulu, we didn't even have to wear shoes at school until we were in 7th grade. Even then, we took them off for the walk to school and the walk home. I could've walked on almost anything but molten lava or cut glass back in those days! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Now I can't even handle the gravel in the driveway. Sissy haole feet. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Clarification: only the "Stupid" part retired. The OtherSusan part is still gainfully over-employed.

And tired. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

But not retired. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. Hi, Kimmy. Glad your own Saga seems to be taking a turn for the better these days. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I, the computer whiz, have downloaded the memory disc into my computer, and then into Yahoo photos, and from there to this thread...all by myself!!!!!!!!!! (There was nothing to it at all. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I just kept sticking the disc into holes until it fit, and clicking the mouse until something worked...<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />) It's not so hard after all, being an expert. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />


Here's a picture of the Dervish on Sunday morning...a little less chipper than when he started out. For which Aunty and I were profoundly grateful!



It's Not EASY Being a Dervish


t&l

P.S. Sorry it's sidewise. Even MY great expertise didn't extend to turning it right side up. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

I figured out how to rotate it. Whooee!

The Dervish is just in rewind mode thats all! He was waiting for breaky to get refueled. I think hes just wonderful .... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I think I have one in development here already.... 4.00am wake ups are just getting too common!!

I think life from the Dervishes point of view must be so much fun ... every moment a new adventure ... Huckleberry Finn syndrome is still alive and well!! lol

Well time to do my Sunday walk around the estate <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Talking about breakfast, well I was, I had to cook a half kilo of bacon and 6 eggs for Aussie this morning before I went to church.. blarrrg I just about puked by the end of it. How can you eat so much grease that time of the morning, well ANYTIME ?????
Well at least he's adjusting to 'normal' life a bit better this time so I should just accept ... uck ... these odd food wants I guess!! lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Mum said hi by the way! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> she's busy with little brother and his estranged wife and their kids right now. I think he may agree to at least discuss reconciliation just to get some peace. Ooops ..did I say that aloud? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

You will notice they post photos of what the Dervish looked like when they got through with him, but none of what they looked like after the Dervish got through with them. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Hi to Mum, and double-blarggggg to all the grease. The human stomach is an amazing organ.

Before I forget, in Shaniko they had posted newspaper clippings from when the town was in its prime. Things like "second only to Portland in its size and importance to Oregon". <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> You'd never know it.

The other thing is I OPENED THE SAFE!!!!! They had the old safe from the saloon - you could see it was positively antique, but just as sturdy as the day they installed it. The combination was posted above the safe so anyone could try to open it, but what a combo. It had five parts, each one something like "Turn 3 times left past 53, then stop on 21". Then back 2 or three times to the right, going past and stopping on another number, then back, and back. It was obvious they didn't want to take any chances of the saloon's stash being stolen.

It's too bad I didn't have my stethoscope with me, or next I could have tried cracking it the old-fashioned way. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Most of the day the bus was very quiet and peaceful. Part-way through the afternoon, this long-winded trucker started telling road tales to an adoring audience. (With AJ & I rolling our eyes at each other when he got too full of himself.)

The man had a carrying voice that would cover any quiet conversation. AJ took advantage of that to occasionally say something naughty. After all, he had been gone all week and all our time on the train had been spent sleeping and eating.

Well, his voice was a wee bit too loud, and the young man sitting two rows ahead of us might have heard him even over the trucker person. Except there was a lapse in the conversation.

Just as AJ announced portentiously, "See these lips? I'm gonna chap these lips!"

There was dead silence on the bus. Except for the muffled sniggering as I collapsed farther down into my seat.

Mom pointed out that the lip chapping could be taken several ways, and they didn't automatically know which one of them he meant. True, but only naughty meanings would have been considered. He could have said anything, "pass the potatoes" or "we're getting off at the next stop" or "look at that beautiful scenery", and it would have sounded just as bad. Ok, maybe not quite as bad, but almost.

<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="" />

The lovely station in Pasco was only open from 8pm to 5am. We finally had a chance to warm up our soups for supper. AJ knocked his hot chocolate all over the floor, and the lady said there was no one who could clean it up for about another hour, after the train got there. She offered to put out a wet floor sign. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> So he spread Spanish newspaper over it so no one would slip, since there were no paper towels in the womens' bathroom, and the mens' had actually been ripped off the wall.

The pay phones were only .50, but they wouldn't let us call pay phones. Finally I thought to call Dad on the 800#, got through, and he succeeded in 3-waying me to Mom. The train was almost there by this time, but I succeeded in telling her about our problem with the cell phones, and said we would try and get something when we got there.

At long last we got onto our train, and this time had an actual little bedroom, since we (fortunately) had not been able to downgrade to a roomette.

Having just missed dinner, we got some snacks and settle in to watch Flight 93 on our little tiny screen. It was just getting into the movie when the battery went dead, and the plug in our room wasn't working. We pushed the button several times for the porter guy, but he never came.

He didn't come when we called the next morning, either. Apparently he did bring a newspaper by early in the morning while I was showering, but we never saw him otherwise. On our way to breakfast, AJ found him (flirting upstairs with a female passenger), and informed him we would be at breakfast, (so fold up our beds hint hint) but when we got back nothing had been done. We pushed the call button several more times and waited a while, but finally had to figure out how to change it around ourselves.

We met some very interesting people at breakfast, but speaking of breakfast, the kids are hungry and so am I. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Famous Oriental Proverb:

She who wieldeth the camera need not be photographed.

Didn't you ever hear that one, Neak? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

t&l

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

And guess what, Neak darling? Just 10 minutes ago, while getting ready to leave for work, I turned on my cell phone and it rang to tell me that I had some voice mail. When I listened to it--JUST 10 MINUTES AGO--I heard for the very first time the above message about your phone trouble. Only a week late, but hey! Who's counting?

I wondered why that part of your story didn't sound familiar to me...<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Lesson for the week: Don't leave messages on the cell phone. Especially the ones you want to get through! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Well, I think it's time for bed.

Anyone know how to get rid of fruit flies? I can't kill enough of them. Yuck.....

I'm frum Arkinsaw and I didn't even own shoes till I dun gradiated hi skool and gon off ta college (IOW when I beed 34 yeers old). Didn't walk on no lava but I did step on a few charred up revenuers cawt tryin to snif out the still.

OK, I concede, Pio. Your feet were dirtier and tougher than mine ever thought of being. But you're the one worried about exfoliation now and all mine have to do is carry me around! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I was the mission teachers' daughter. I had to have shoes. Although not necessarily on my feet. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Officially, I wasn't allowed to talk pidgin, either. Not too many revenuers, charred or otherwise, on the school campus, though! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Mom -

http://www.redlightcameraticket.com/

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

hehehehehhe

thats funny Neak! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

We have those camera's here too!! but they actually changed the laws so you can't challenge them!
its all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

well first day back at work and its so sucky lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I want to stay home with Aussie & Mikey <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

At least I have DD home to watch over Aussie & Mikey or who knows WHAT those two would get up too! DD's only error was going out for a coffee with a girlfriend at lunch time.
His idea of toddler food today apparently was a tin of cold baked beans and a block of chocolate!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Food face painting was very evident and just guess what was being processed by that toddler body when I got home? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> EEEwwwwwwwwwwwww !

"But I thought he'd like it. I had it & I liked it. He seemed to have fun"

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

oh yes, the disposable nappy was on ... BACKWARDS .. I mean the shiny inside out backwards !! I mean they come out of the pack, there are isntructions an inch high .. you have to, I mean can't ??? well ??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

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

Here's another famous proverb for you, Ms. Neak:

Laugh and the world laughs with you, annoy your mother and you laugh alo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-one.

Except for AW, who apparently is laughing, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

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

tl went by so fast she didn't have time to clip anyone under the ears ... safe as houses Neak ... but you may want to stay in yours for a while <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Besides, let's look at this little episode of lawbreaking from a Christian point of view... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I knew when I headed for the intersection that the light would turn red before I made it all the way through. What I didn't know was that there was a camera. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Makes it kind of hard for me to fight a citation with technicalities, or loopholes, or any other kind of flimsy excuse when what I did was deliberate...and got caught. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. That being said, I'm certainly going to wait till the very last day to pay the fine! In this case, the fool and her money won't be parted a moment before they have to be.

Pio, I just read your "World Premiere." You whistle in the dark, too, don't you? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I hope you can face your coming reality with the grace and determined good humor you've brought to your uncertainty so far. It can't have been easy. I can hear you grit your teeth from here. And it's probably not going to improve any time in the immediate future. I hope your hatches are battened. You're in our prayers, dear sir.

t&l

If you entered the intersection on yellow, you still technically had the right of way. (The police don't have a sense of humor, and don't always see it that way.)

My best advice is be going so fast your license plate is only a blur in their picture.

Beans and chocolate. Yum. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

won't Aussie be surprised to learn he has got 3 speeding tickets!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
me:
um honey I have something to tell you.
him:
how much is it going to cost me?
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

whats annoying though is that even the Police know its revenue raising! One officer told me "Sorry love got to fill my quota for the day!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> well I WAS speeding by 10km but it was on a empty straight country road

I blame it on the timing mechanism in the lights TL ... they are just so out of whack! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I just remembered I hadn't had any dinner ... NOW that Mikey is settled and the kitchen FINALLY cleaned .,.. I want food... oh well .. midnight snack. Aussie didn't eat either, but after 3 cans of beans .. well I think the gas is still happily keeping him full .. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />