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20193. judithathome - 9/15/2006 6:04:15 PM He's offering you his most treasured item, something that makes HIM happy, to show how happy he is that YOU are back.
I think it's adorable...but I wouldn't accept it, either...just lavish praise and attention on him.
Also, he might want you to play with him...toss the ball (bone) because he's been bored and cooped up with nothing to do. 20194. alistairConnor - 9/15/2006 10:12:20 PM Yes, the climate in Ireland just suited me perfectly, I felt instinctively at home there.
Then again, my first ever visit was this July, in the middle of an Irish heat wave.
Can you grow citrus trees in Ireland, Mac?
I was quite struck by the cabbage trees -- I don't know what you call them, they are those vaguely palm-tree-like things that aren't palm trees, they have a ball of long spiky leaves on top, and I saw them everywhere we went. We have them in NZ, but I didn't know they had them anywhere else. Do you know if they were introduced from there? One of the world's most ancient and primitive trees, as I remember, not strictly speaking a tree at all. 20195. alistairConnor - 9/15/2006 10:19:19 PM Ah. I looked it up.
Cabbage tree
It is indeed endemic to New Zealand only.
It is also widely planted as an ornamental tree, in New Zealand and also in western Europe (including the British Isles) [...] (it is occasionally even mis-named "Cornish palm", "Torbay palm" or "Manx palm" in the British Isles due to its extensive use within Torbay and as the official symbol of that area under its alternative identity, the English Riviera).
That's funny (well, "English Riviera" is funny in itself, it's Basil Fawlty country) -- we were in Torbay a couple of years ago and I didn't notice them. But I noticed them in Ireland and they added to the homey feeling. 20196. arkymalarky - 9/16/2006 2:57:31 PM I think this is the first internet forum I've seen advertised on TV: 20197. arkymalarky - 9/16/2006 2:59:11 PM Hmm. What did I do wrong? 20198. arkymalarky - 9/16/2006 2:59:36 PM Sorry. 20199. Magoseph - 9/16/2006 3:32:28 PM If you wanted to link "gather.com" you did nothing wrong. 20200. arkymalarky - 9/16/2006 3:36:14 PM Hi Mags.
I evidently didn't close my tag in the first post so it continued in the second, but it works okay. Just looks a little confusing. 20201. judithathome - 9/16/2006 7:19:24 PM Well, I just hate it when Saturdays start off on the wrong foot.
In the middle of being insulted by some woman who posts in purple at RI, the site goes down...for me, at least. It may be working for others. That is the sorriest server in the internet-sphere. I guess it's a blessing for me, however, because I can't respond to her.
Then, after feeling like hell for three days, I finally decide to check the boxed fresh spinach in my fridge after reading in the newpaper about all the brands that have been recalled only to find MINE is one of the ones that may have E.coli contamination.
We ate spinach salads on Sunday and Monday...on Thursday, I started running a fever and having stomach cramps and other unsavory symptoms and while I don't think it is E. coli, I really got a scare when I checked that box of baby spinach from CostCo. 20202. judithathome - 9/16/2006 7:20:18 PM Oh joy...the fun just continues...now I find out we have to go eat Thai food tonight. 20203. arkymalarky - 9/16/2006 8:40:35 PM Sorry you're having a sucky Saturday, Judith. 20204. Magoseph - 9/16/2006 10:13:33 PM Drink a lot of Rice Wine with your food tonight, Judith. 20205. Ulgine Barrows - 9/17/2006 7:38:26 AM Rice wine? eh?
Thai food is sucky?
Guess it depends where you live, lady day, it sounds the bomb to me! 20206. Ulgine Barrows - 9/17/2006 7:43:15 AM I am totally in love with iTunes v7 and the cover smash....or whatever they're calling it
ooopsie - cover flow 20207. judithathome - 9/17/2006 6:23:23 PM It's good Thai food but I don't care for Thai food...better?
I had some soup that WAS good, though...I like the Thai soup.
It was sad seeing our little friend for the last time...however, we're going to go visit her in her new home next year.
She was really in an emotional blender last night...sad to be leaving but excited to be going to a new house and town. 20208. judithathome - 9/17/2006 6:25:14 PM So, is WC down for anyone else? You'd think on a Sunday, with hugely reduced traffic, it would be up. They claim it's the traffic during the week that makes it slow, slower, slowed to a crawl, and then completely down. 20209. Macnas - 9/18/2006 10:34:38 AM Hello youse 'uns.
Ms.no, glad your mother and co had a nice time.
The weather we had this summer, harkens back to the 70's and is not typical (so far) of our weather. It's usually not as warm, and it's not as dry either. At this very moment it is coming down in buckets, I reckon 3 inches have fell this morning already.
Alistair, you can grow citrus trees here, in the right location, but you will not get much, if anything, in the way of fruit. There are some that grow citrus fruit in double poly tunnels, but you'd really want to like your homegrown fruit to go to that much bother.
Those cabbage trees are often used for ornament, but I am not a fan of them. 20210. Macnas - 9/18/2006 10:38:12 AM Make that another 3 inches fallen in the last 15 mins.
20211. judithathome - 9/19/2006 12:48:50 AM Nearly choked to death last night due to neighbor's brisket and my hunger...luckily, I didn't panic and the threat passed. Literally.
Arky, this brisket was nowhere NEAR as tender...or good...as Ronnie's! 20212. arkymalarky - 9/19/2006 4:11:12 AM That was the best brisket I recall ever having. I can't imagine it sticking anywhere on the way down. I still haven't tried that marinade.
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