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Hopalong

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« Reply #810 on: September 06, 2006, 07:47:08 AM »
Wow. Moon, you are a chip off THOSE blocks. Your Mom's side.

My grandma was named Rose too (my sweet Dad's mother)--I never knew her but I look like her and have a wonderful portrait of her. I always thought of her as a sort of "fairy grandmother."

Your grandparents sound like the salt of the earth and the sweetness of kindness and goodness.

Thank you for sharing this story of Rose and Johnny.

(And speaking of Portia, I miss her!)

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teartracks

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« Reply #811 on: September 06, 2006, 12:19:22 PM »



                                                               MISSING PORTIA TOO!
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moonlight52

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« Reply #812 on: September 07, 2006, 03:01:26 AM »
HEY PORTIA ............................WHAT'S HAPPENING.......................WE MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT YEAR IS IT 1968
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SELA....................I HAVE A STORY FOR YOU ON PAGE 55  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

LOVE,
MOON

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« Reply #813 on: September 07, 2006, 10:00:47 AM »
Hiya Moon:

Thanks for sharing the story re your Gramma Rose.  I'm so glad she was in your life and giving you such good feelings and memories.  I imagine she was a good influence, in your life, and helped you to feel worthy and valuable??  So sad for when she passed away.  That was a very hard time, I bet.  Sorry Moon. :(

lIt's good to remember the good stuff and the nice times though eh?  I appreciate that you bothered to do that Moon and to put it down here.  I feel happy when I read about it.  I'm so glad you had those simple but wonderful experiences with your loving grandmother!



Found this one today and I like it:


Reach For Your Star
 
 
Do not take anything as being forever, because forever is only as long as today.

Know that the people who are the richest are not those who have the most, but those who need the least.

That we are at our strongest when life is at it's worst, and at our weakest when life no longer offers a challenge.

That it is wiser not to expect, but to hope, for in expecting you ask for disappointment, whereas in hoping you invite surprise.

That unhappiness doesn't come from not having something you want, but from the lack of something inside that you need.

That there are things to hold and things to let go. and letting go doesn't mean you lose, but that you acquire that which has been waiting around the corner.

Most of all......
remember to use your dreams as a way of knowing yourself better, and as an inspiration to reach for Your Star!
 
  by: Nancye Sims, Source Unknown


moonlight52

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« Reply #814 on: September 07, 2006, 12:50:48 PM »
Sela  ,                   



                                  (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( SELA)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

                                     MoonLight reaching for a star   .......................................They are reachable

                                    your words of wisdom and light are so very lovely I think I FEEL happy  Tee Hee
                                        :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

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Sela

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« Reply #815 on: September 08, 2006, 10:28:57 AM »
Oh Moon!  Not my wisdom but that of Ms. Sims!
Wishing you a peaceful day Moon.

Here's more of her wisdom:



A Creed To Live By

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love. The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don't dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams is to be without hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you're going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

By Nancye Sims

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« Reply #816 on: September 10, 2006, 10:24:49 PM »

 :oops:
 :lol:

The Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by
adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new
definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation:
Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Bozone:
The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
bright ideas from penetrating.. The bozone layer, unfortunately,
shows little sign of
breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy:
Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting (bleeped)

5. Cashtration:
The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti:
Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm:
The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.

8.Inoculatte:
To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis:
Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis:
A degenerate disease. (extra credit)

11. Karmageddon:
It's like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and
it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon:
The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido:
All talk and no action.

14.. Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit:
The frantic dance performed just after you've
accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug:
Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor:
The color you turn after finding half a worm in the
fruit you're eating.

gratitude28

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« Reply #817 on: September 11, 2006, 11:02:49 PM »
Caterpallor reminded me of a trip my husband and I took to Bali...
The people are soooooooo kind there. And the island is gorgeous.
One evening, we went to a restaurant and I ordered a wonderful-looking salad with a delicious viniagrette. As I was eating, I noticed a green worm in the salad. I didn't want to make a fuss, but I had to tell the waiter, so I beckoned him over. He grabeed the salad and ran to the kitchen after I told him. He then returned from the kitchen with my salad in hand and said, "Don't worry, ma'am, it's not poisonous."
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable." Douglas Adams

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« Reply #818 on: September 12, 2006, 03:46:50 AM »
"not poisonous"

What a relief that must have been  :wink:  :lol: :lol: :lol: !

PP
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John Lennon

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« Reply #819 on: September 12, 2006, 04:11:24 PM »



Beth,


I had almost an identical thing happen to me in the good old US of A.  On a beautiful green salad, I  was served up a nice, big, juicy looking, green  worm about an inch and a half long.  It blended beautifully with the  salad.  I know it wouldn't have done me harm if I'd eaten it, but I'm very glad I spotted it.   The hostess/owner came back with another salad, and said, teartracks, of all the people here, no one would have handled it quite as calmly as you.  Somehow I didn't find that satisfying.  I wondered if it were not a practical joke of inventive, perhaps bored  kitchen help.  I guess it's better than being served a finger!  Yuck!

tt

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« Reply #820 on: September 12, 2006, 09:19:40 PM »
Yes, better than a finger. I got a spider in a salad in Italy and they shrugged it off like I was making a big deal out of nothing. (It was a GOOD_SIZED one).
Here on Okinawa, we go to the go-around sushi restaurants sometimes. They have some pretty strange things on the conveyor belt... everything from raw quail eggs atop meats to baby raw squid with all the parts on rice... When I first get there and I am hungry, I take the things I like (tuna, shrimp, crab) but as I get full, the sushi starts looking scarier and scarier.
TT, next time, you should start crying if you get a worm :) Or faint :) Or give a lecture to the other patrons about the worms' phyllum and genus, claiming that you are an entemologist. I bet it won't happen again.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable." Douglas Adams

moonlight52

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« Reply #821 on: September 15, 2006, 02:28:58 AM »
WOW  What a happy cool time on the board you guys are the best
moon

Hopalong

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« Reply #822 on: September 18, 2006, 12:27:15 AM »
About twenty years ago I was SO proud of my little garden patch.

My little D asked me with a somber face one night, Mommy, are we having broccoli 'n caterpillars again?

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Hops
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« Reply #823 on: September 19, 2006, 11:55:16 PM »
I was a Yankee once... but I don't take this one personally  :D

One morning, three Southerners and three Yankees were in a ticket counter line at a train station. The three Northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the three Southerners bought just one ticket.

"How are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asked one of the Yankees. "Watch and learn," answered one of the boys from the South.

All six boarded the train where the three Yankees sat down, but the three Southerners crammed into a toilet together and closed the door.

Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect tickets. He knocked on the toilet door and said, "Ticket, please." The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.

The conductor took it and moved on.

The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea.
Indeed, so clever they decided to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money.

That afternoon when they got back to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip and watched, while to their astonishment, the three Southerners didn't buy even one ticket!

"How are you going to travel with no ticket?'" asked a perplexed Yankee.

"Watch and learn," answered the three Southern boys in unison. When they boarded the train, the three Northerners crammed themselves into a toilet and the three Southerners crammed into another toilet just down the way.

Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their toilet and walked over to the toilet in which the Yankees were hiding.

The Southerner knocked on the door and said, "Ticket, please."

There's just no way on God's green earth to explain how the Yankees ever won the war.

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« Reply #824 on: September 20, 2006, 12:01:02 AM »
LOL Certain Hope LOL - GS