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I'm not sure where I got the name from. Seems to tickle a literature memory. A character in a book maybe?

Yippee ! Velvett has a avatar, a nice big chipmunk!!!!
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Sounds like you are from my family! I had a slumber party when I was in 7th grade and one of my friend's mom's told my mother why her daughter wouldn't be swimming. Mom announced it at the BBQ we had that evening, and of course my older brother was there with some of his friends who were over to check out some of my friends! I made up my mind right then that I woulf NEVER tell my mother when that time came for me, and I never have! Of course mom left me in the dark about the entire thing anyways. I remember the nurse in 5th grade, after "The Talk" with boys in one room and girls in another. After a week of special classes she asked if anyone had started. I raised my hand and shouted out that when I was 5 I borrowed my brothers bicycle and fell really hard against the bar. I can still see the look on the poor nurse's face!

....and the bra. I asked my mom for one in 7th grade because I was embarassed to be the only girl in the locker room without one. Mom announced that at the dinner table as well "You know what she asked me for last night? A BRA!!! I mean whatever for? She's as flat as the Great Plateau!" I was mortified. My best friend was having dinner with us then, and felt so bad for me she gave me her bras she'd outgrown. This gal could smother herself doing a hand-stand in the 5th grade, even now I doubt they'd fit!

Since we are sharing our moments.....My mother took me to buy a bra at our local JC Penney's. It used to be a small and crowded store in downtown Omak. We were with one of my mother's friends. We went to look for bras. Jan (the friend) asked - loudly - what did I need a bra for I was flat as a board...then she proceeded to "feel me up" (for lack of better verbage) to see if I really had anything or not.
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The one very outloud thing my mother did was ask if I had remember my rubbers - meaning rubber bands - for my braces. She asked this in the middle of the Wenatchee Mall - lots of teenagers running around. Very mortified. Sounded like she yelled this (she of course did not but to my teenage brain it sounded like it).

these are my two memorable/horrifying moments in childhood that are burned into my brain.

Those are pretty bad!

My mother is from Holland, and she is quite naieve on certain topics. He co-workers often took advantage of this. She's an occupational therapist and traveled to various nursing homes and patient houses. One of her co-worker gave her a massaging instrument of the type they may sell at an adult shop and told her it was a great new tool for deep tissue massage on some of her patients. So for 2 weeks, mom borrowed this thing and was massaging patients with it. She showed it to my brother and I after one old man was particularly amused by it and kept asking for that "new massager." My brother and I knew what it was, but didn't tell her. After 2 weeks, her co-worker took it back and told her she would need to buy her own. She looked in the OT supply catalogs, but could not find it. A few weeks later we were at Oakridge Mall in San Jose (where I grew up), and she saw the Radio Shack, and told me we needed to stop in and look for something. I'm thinking another short-wave radio so she can listen to her "Radio Nederland" station. Boy do I wish I would have known what she was looking for, I wouldn't have gone in! Those two sales guys tried hard to keep a straight face when she asked if they sold massagers and proceeded to describe it. As soon as we walked out the door, they were leaning over the counter in fits of laughter! She had no idea what amused them so much. I don't think to this day she knows what that instrument was!
 
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Wheaton what? I have Blue Wheaton Marans and Ameraucana. The Marans won't be available for a while but I have 2 Blue Wheaton Ams. breeding age. Need to ask Cheryl if she wants one but both might be available. We aren't very close to you though.

That tid bit would help wouldn't it? DUH! Marans.
I did find one in Tenino... I'm waiting to see pics and get info on.

Last time I was at Illia's, she had at least 1 BW Marans Cock bird, full grown.
She probably has chicks now too.
I have her # if you want to call her, it is a far drive though...but a nice drive.
 
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I like that name! Poor Olivia, I think I scared her about it before going to Camp Orkila for a week last summer. I got a phone call that she got it; she didn't It was a rust stain in the toilet bowl! I sure hope she has a couple more years to go.
 
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I'm sure we had that conversation a few weeks back about what the "dragon" is! Could you imagine all the different little pictures that would be playing in each of our minds?
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My dog eats spiders, but I don't intentionally feed them to her!
 
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Brightest, prettiest blue out here... but BRRRRR! a whopping 45*?

Nice and grey 51*

Sounds like a lovely summer day! Will you be going out for a picnic? I think the lawn will only be a little bit wet.

I just looked at my bog thermometer, it now reads 70, but I just got out of my car, and it says 52. I believe the car, but there are some faint shadows out there.
 
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