The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

I have traveled England and Scotland-- one castle starts to look like another; and the cathedrals start to look like stacked stones. I prefer the shows on TV that have dug up all the details and stories and use great photography to convey that story. In a group I am too worried about where I am standing to get a good view or avoid stepping on someones toes or bumping into people. THen it is time to go and I hardly saw anything. I do remember climbing to the top of a tor and looking out over the green grenn pasturland for as far as the eye could see, and Loch WIndemere: grey and somber and yet beautiful. Love pasties. Would like to try a few local delicacies.

Took a long trip into Holland 14 years ago-- I can remember it like yesterday. Traveling in a small group of fellow horse lovers talking horse for 12 days, farm to farm and training centers , meeting famous horses and famous farms. Watching 4 days of horses going thru testing and drinking caoffee from 8 am to 10 pm . and THe colusseem filling up with cigarette smoke! And arriving back into BOston, to walk single file as drug sniffing dogs patroled each passenger. HOly crap-- I didn't know AMsterdam is the queen of many illicite activites!! lol At least by AMerican laws.

I had my kids late in life. WHen I was ready to give them all of my time and experience, and apparently all my money too! lol I married a guy that is service oriented. He has volunteered to be a Boy Scout committee member in my place when the scoutmaster asked me to serve. SOmetimes all it takes is asking . . .

Our community is not a community if we do not serve it and others.

The travel chanel can never fulfil the memory and smell of those pasties.

I am glad for you to have that.

 

[blythspirit]

I love the area around the Scottish/English border! I traveled there with my parents years ago. We had a rental car and went pretty much wherever we wanted. I still recall following a local down some of the local, one-lane roads through various farmyards to get to the local pub where the son of a family friend was having a few drinks. Most of that trip involved a lot of delving into the history of the area and the sights that we saw.

I have never been there, but I watched the movie PS I Love You..and the scenery was sooo beautiful, it was in Ireland though. I just imagine they are similar climate wise though.

 

[Bunnylady]

Canoe - I understand about not liking to use "OMG" or "LOL" but I see them the same as smileys. They help to relay the message you want to convey and an attempt to avoid misunderstanding. While I agree with Ron that we use "OMG" in the place of "!" I think that

says it much better. As hard as it is sometimes to get across the true meaning of what you type, we need all the resources available to help. Too many times, people are offended or hurt when that was not the intention at all. Text speak, smileys, and punctuation are all tools that are helpful in written communication.


Canuck - You are not the only one to make that (or a similar) analogy. I got a PM from a dear friend here making the same point. I started to defend my position with you both, but it doesn't matter why I think he is not ready to grow up, it is just justification for keeping a tight grip on my "baby." He and I have been like "peas and carrots" since the day he was born, and I didn't like it when the stay-in-my-room-all-the-time stage hit, but I understood because I remember it well from my own youth. I wanted him to have a girlfriend for a while before he actually did, but now that he does, have been worried about this first girlfriend because he has fallen head over heels for her. She is high manintenance and high drama, and takes away way too much of our mother/son time.

I think you both are right............

Oh, geez.

Head over heels about high maintenance?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Heads up!
This may only be at my Lowe's store but could be corporate wide. I just went up to get 2 small $2 hinges for a project in a coop and as I was selecting my chosen items, I noticed a bunch of yellow tags on the shelf below. Apparently they're clearing out all of their Stanley commercial grade hinges. They had 6 to 8+ dollar hinges for from 24-78 cents. I bought $60 worth of hinges for under $4. The smallest are a little overkill for my project but I'll make them work. Then I'll have enough for the next year's projects for less than I was planning on spending in the first place.
I love Lowe's yellow tags. Sometimes they're 3 cents off, sometimes they're 90% off.

 

[blythspirit]

Heads up!
This may only be at my Lowe's store but could be corporate wide. I just went up to get 2 small $2 hinges for a project in a coop and as I was selecting my chosen items, I noticed a bunch of yellow tags on the shelf below. Apparently they're clearing out all of their Stanley commercial grade hinges. They had 6 to 8+ dollar hinges for from 24-78 cents. I bought $60 worth of hinges for under $4. The smallest are a little overkill for my project but I'll make them work. Then I'll have enough for the next year's projects for less than I was planning on spending in the first place.
I love Lowe's yellow tags. Sometimes they're 3 cents off, sometimes they're 90% off.

thank you, I will have hubby stop by on the way home..He works right next door to one. We have a project we are working on too and need some hinges, I love the yellow tags too. Thanks again..

 

[ozexpat]

Heads up!
This may only be at my Lowe's store but could be corporate wide. I just went up to get 2 small $2 hinges for a project in a coop and as I was selecting my chosen items, I noticed a bunch of yellow tags on the shelf below. Apparently they're clearing out all of their Stanley commercial grade hinges. They had 6 to 8+ dollar hinges for from 24-78 cents. I bought $60 worth of hinges for under $4. The smallest are a little overkill for my project but I'll make them work. Then I'll have enough for the next year's projects for less than I was planning on spending in the first place.
I love Lowe's yellow tags. Sometimes they're 3 cents off, sometimes they're 90% off.

i just dropped that on stanley 6 brass hinges for the beach house front doors


well done!!

 

[chickadoodles]

Heads up!
This may only be at my Lowe's store but could be corporate wide. I just went up to get 2 small $2 hinges for a project in a coop and as I was selecting my chosen items, I noticed a bunch of yellow tags on the shelf below. Apparently they're clearing out all of their Stanley commercial grade hinges. They had 6 to 8+ dollar hinges for from 24-78 cents. I bought $60 worth of hinges for under $4. The smallest are a little overkill for my project but I'll make them work. Then I'll have enough for the next year's projects for less than I was planning on spending in the first place.
I love Lowe's yellow tags. Sometimes they're 3 cents off, sometimes they're 90% off.

Oh that kills me... We just bought 15 hinges last weekend for our brooder 3.97 each!

 

[chickadoodles]

I have never been to Ireland and probably will never be able to go, but I love to watch all the shows I can about Ireland as that is where so much of my family came from.
From what I have seen it is a beautiful place

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If they're still in the packs, try to take them back.

 

[ozexpat]

If they're still in the packs, try to take them back.

they are on the ocean in a container ship belly